headcanon billy is a goner for casual acts of intimacy. i know this because he mentioned it to me earlier, duhhhh.
but i mean, steve’s his first boyfriend, right? his first real, holding hands and not just sneaking around in questionable places to makeout kinda boyfriend. they freaking live together for christ’s sake and yet, every time he notices the silent ‘i love you’s that steve seems to leave him, he’s left a little shy and a little stripped bare. a little stupefied and blushing and head over heels.
like, steve’s always touching him?? in whatever way. if they’re out in public, he’s bumping his shoulder against billy’s and walking close enough that their arms brush. and when they’re with the party, he’s guiding billy into the space with a hand hidden at the small of his back or one beneath the diner’s table, on his thigh. his mouth is always just a touch too close to billy’s face when he leans forward and his lips, practically touching billy’s ear whenever he’s being snide or particularly funny in secret.
he packs billy’s lunch and pays for his gas and makes sure he gives him the heated towels that he likes so much. he washes his hair and buys his favorite cologne and shampoo and stuff just because ‘i noticed you were almost out’. and steve celebrates every single milestone in their relationship— monthsaries, anniversaries, first kisses, first time they held hands, first time they said i-love-you-saries and billy reciprocates it all; is floor by it all. he’s never known that he could be loved so deeply and so wholly.
I’m so good at my job, I’m like a second captain. Yeah, like a mini captain. Like a little, sweet, baby captain.
Ensign Beckett Mariner | Star Trek: Lower Decks
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There are like no Mariner gifs in a good discord pfp format so I just decided to make some myself. I was only planning on making one but I couldn’t decide on a scene so here we are 0_o
sorry babe i got to go hang out with my best friend who i’ve had an extremely emotionally intimate and indecipherable relationship with since we were six years old. yeah u met him a couple times… the one who knows my heart and i, his? yeah. yeah that one. yeah actually he’s going to avoid his own wife and kid as well, so we’re pretty booked today. yeah. yeah i promised him i’d take him to all his favorite restaurants and maybe we might run into some enemies along the way and i’ll go absolutely feral if anyone touches him. yeah. yeah anyway him and i are gonna hang out today hope that’s okay. don’t wait up.