I owed a friend a favor, also I think it can be cute and if it makes someone happy it helps the world improve so it's ethically and philosophically sound. In conclusion, catboy Hero.

Hero's tail flicked as he washed the dishes. Mari wasn't up yet, and he enjoyed the quite as he worked. He found it soothing, keeping the home clean in the wee hours, he always preferred doing the housekeeping work since they got married at 22 two years ago. Life was good since then. Great even. He was mostly the house keeper though he did work as a chef during the Summer. It's all he ever wanted and more. It's-

The tweeting of birds causes his ears to perk up. He instinctively chatters, making an odd rumbling sound in the back of his throat. A cat reflex to seeing prey. He continues to make this noise as he looks out the window and washes the dishes.

Being a cat boy is nice and all, being pet is great, he loves when Mari scratches behind his ear, and it's fun to jump in boxes and purr. He loves seeing Mari smile when he purrs, that sweet smile that melts his heart.

He hates chattering, he can't stop chattering, it's instinct, but the sound annoys him to no end. Usually Mari will make him purr to stop it but she isn't here right now so he makes that darn sound he despises so. He wishes he could purr instead, be purrs when he's happy. He purrs when Mari is with him, but she's rarely up at sunrise, sleeping in usually an hour after. She-

"Oh there's my fluffy boy!" A voice exclaims as Mari kisses Hero's cheek, "And in that cute dress you love! My little catboy!"

Hero is purring, his face red as the robins outside at the bird feeder. Mari hugs him tight, and his purring rises to a steady moderate drone. He close his eyes, consumed by the soothing warmth of his love's embrace around him and his comfy black dress.

Oh right. The dress. Now, Hero was, is, a man, as much a man as any man, but he loved wearing maid dresses. This makes him no less of a man than any other man. It's at the end of the day just a bit of fabric and he can be a man and wear a dress. If that's what's best for him there's no reason why not and that is what is best for him. He is a man in a dress.

Deal with it.

"Oh you may wanna change," Mari teases, "Maid boy. Sunny and Aubrey are coming to visit."

He's purring to much from Mari's sweet smile, his face red as the skyline in the sunrise, the others had never seen him in a dress but...

You know what? Morally it's fine. There's no reason to hide a man can wear a dress. Aubrey wears suits all the time, so, why not him in a dress? He has no reason to hide as he is in the right.

"You really don't wanna have your little catboy in his cute dress?" Hero teases, purring still.

Mari kisses him on the lips and chuckles, "I'm happy you're comfortable being you then. I love you."

"I love you too Mari," Hero replies before hugging her back, the warmth of the others embrace bringing them a peaceful bliss, added to by Hero's purrs giving soothing white noise to the bliss of their love.