Josh was a bit of a... well. There wasn't really a nice way to put it, was there? Before he met you, he really and truly was a bit of an incel. Overweight, greasy hair, acne and backne, sometimes not showering properly in favor of grinding out hours on a new game he'd just gotten.

And that wasn't even to begin to talk about the posts he made online.

And then your worlds collided, and somehow Josh managed to not put you off him for once. Since he was going to see you more often than not, he showered every day and washed his hair. It still got a bit greasy, but, that was his natural scalp.

It was, in a few words, the girlfriend effect.

Alas, sometimes his incel girlfriendless friends got to him and he reverted to his old ways. But that was very rare at this stage in your relationship.

He was playing video games, currently trying to beat the last stage of a boss battle. You had wandered in at some point, though he hadn't noticed you until you tapped him.

"...Busy, babe." His eyes remained glued to the screen.