AMA: "What was it like when you first found out you had a paw fetish?" (Patreon)

Alex scrolled through her Patreon page and tapped her feet against the floor excitedly. A few days ago, she posted an “Ask Me Anything” to her page, encouraging her subscribers to ask her any question they wanted. She got a bunch of questions and was reading through them to decide which one she would answer.

“Whatcha’ doing, Alex?” Chimed Lauré, Alex’s red panda friend, from behind her. The red panda peeked over the tigress’ shoulder and stared into the bright screen of Alex’s PC for a moment. Seeing all the different questions on what looked to be some sort of thread, she furrowed her brows and turned to the tigress for an explanation.

“Hm?” Alex’s ears perked up and she turned her head to the side to look at the red panda who was leaning on the back of her chair. “Oh, I did an AMA on my Patreon page, and I’m trying to pick the best question out of all of them. They’re all really good, so I can’t really choose.” She grumbled a little bit before she turned her head back to look at the list of questions again. Lauré leaned forward and brought her face a little closer to Alex’s monitor to have a look at the questions for herself. There were a lot of good ones, some were a bit not-safe-for-work and made the panda raise her brow. “Hm, I’m not even going to ask what you have going on, on this Patreon of yours. But you’re right, there are a lot of good questions here,” the red panda brought a hand up to scratch her chin as she scanned over the questions one-by-one. Alex did the same and furrowed her brow as she tossed around the questions in her head.

“These seem like really personal questions. I don’t think I can help you choose…” Lauré chuckled and pulled back from the monitor a bit and looked to her side at Alex. After a few more seconds of looking at the screen, Alex threw her head back in her chair and let out a groan. “I didn’t think it would be this hard!” She whined.

“Fine, fine, fine, I’ll pick one,” Lauré shook her head and chuckled. She leaned in closer to the screen again and pointed at the first one all the way at the top of the list of questions. “There, I pick that one.”

“ ’What was it like when you found out you had a paw fetish?’ That one?” Alex hovered her computer’s cursor over the question and wiggled it around.

“Yep! That one, I’ve always wondered that myself, why you’re so into smelly paws.” The red panda chuckled a little and turned to look at Alex, who she assumed was mad blushing at this point. “So, tell me, and your followers, what was it like?”

“They don’t have to be smelly.” Alex corrected the red panda, “Just paws are enough to do it for me, too.”

The tigress stood up from her desk and stretched her arms up above her head. She slid her chair up against her desk, formed her hand into a fist, and put it against her chin as she recounted what it was like when she first found out she was a paw fetishist.

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“Hey! You died! It’s my turn to play!” Alex nudged Lauré with her elbow after she saw that the red panda had died during a high-speed police chase in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The red panda almost threw the wired DualShock 2 controller onto the floor in anger; she almost got away from those cops, too, if only she had hit the brakes earlier then she wouldn’t have slammed into that wall and allowed the cops to catch up to her. Instead, she begrudgingly handed the controller over to Alex for her to start her share of chaos to the poor pedestrians of Los Santos. With the controller now in her hands, Alex played around as CJ, keyed in the cheat code for the Hydra fighter jet that she had memorized onto the controller (triangle, triangle, square, circle, X, L1, L1, down, up) and began her terror reign around the city.

Alex and Lauré were having a sleep-over at Alex’s, playing video games on the couch in nothing but their PJs. Despite Alex’s house being in the bottomless district, her mother and father insisted that she wear panties just to not make her friend who wasn’t from there uncomfortable. Lauré was far from uncomfortable, she often snuck from her parents’ house in the upper district to come down to the bottomless district just to hang out and see what it was like, that was how she met Alex, even, just hanging out in the park alone, and Alex went up to her to invite her to join the little picnic she had going with some of her friends. She tended to keep her pants on whenever she visited the bottomless district, though, there were only a few times where she went around without pants, but she wasn’t keen on having her pants off 24/7, at least not outside. It was different when she was behind closed doors, and especially around Alex. The poor red panda had a crush on the tigress, if only she had the guts to tell her how she felt.

The two took turns playing the game for a few hours, handing the controller over to the other once the “Wasted” or “Busted” title graphic appeared on the TV. After a while, Alex’s mother came around and told the girls that they should be getting some sleep as it was a few hours past midnight.

“Okay mom, we’ll go to sleep.” Alex smiled at her mother who then nodded and left the two girls to go to sleep herself. She turned back to face Lauré who was still playing her turn and grabbed one of the pillows from the couch and tossed it onto the floor. The living room was cool, but not too cool, it was a good enough temperature for them to just sleep without the need for any blankets. “You can sleep up here, I’ll sleep on the floor,” Alex cooed as she climbed off the couch and sat on the floor with her back against the couch as she waited for Lauré to die in-game in her usual spectacular fashion.

Lauré had managed to steal a tank and was terrorizing downtown Los Santos by blowing up any and all cars that she saw. The police and military eventually caught up to her when she got her tank stuck between two immovable game assets. Busted.

“Aw, that was a disappointing end for the ruthless red panda tank murderer of Los Santos,” Alex said with a chuckle as she pushed herself up onto her feet and walked over towards the PlayStation 2 and the TV to turn them both off. She then walked over to Lauré to take the controller from her and put it away neatly beside the console on the TV shelf.

Lauré then looked around to see the pillow on the floor and protested a bit. “It’s okay, Alex, I can sleep on the floor! It’s your house.”

Alex shook her head as she walked back from the TV and sat back down on the floor next to her pillow. “Nope! You are the guest! I’ll sleep on the floor.” She smiled at her.

“Why don’t you sleep in your room?” Lauré tilted her head to the side curiously.

“It’s too small for both of us, and I don’t want you to sleep alone.” Alex smiled some more and even squinted her eyes shut as her lips stretched into that wider smile. Lauré suddenly felt all warm inside and wasn’t able to muster up any sort of counterargument to what the tiger had said. “You’re way too nice to me,” she murmured and laid herself down on the couch and closed her eyes. With the lights already being off since they started gaming for a “more immersive” experience, once the TV was off, the room was only lit by the natural light that managed to leak in through the windows. Alex flopped down to the floor and put her head against her soft pillow. Her head was pointed the opposite direction of where Lauré’s was pointing for some reason, but now that she was down on the floor with her head against the pillow, she was too lazy to switch around. She closed her eyes and whispered softly, “Good night, Lauré.”

“Good night, Alex,” Lauré responded with a similarly soft whisper.

The two fell asleep in just a few minutes.

A few hours into her slumber, Lauré had moved around a bit on the couch in her sleep, her tail moved off to the side and one of her legs fell off the side of the couch and down to the floor where her friend was. The red panda’s paw hovered just a few inches from Alex’s muzzle for a few minutes before she moved around in her sleep again. The panda’s soft paw landed directly over Alex’s pink nose and gradually pressed more and more against her snoot. Alex didn’t wake up right away, but she did slowly wake up when she felt something bap and press gently against her face. She opened her eyes slowly and blinked rapidly a few times before she realized what was going on. Lauré had her right paw on her face. Her soft paw pads squished ever so gently against her, and her claws although sharp, only rested gently against her and didn’t scratch her. Alex took in a deep breath through her nose and took in the scent of Lauré’s paw. Her eyes widened, she moved her legs up a little bit, and she let out a soft little moan.

For some reason, she liked what was happening, she liked it a lot.

Lauré, sound asleep, continued to sleep peacefully as her paw rested against Alex’s sniffer all night long. Alex may or may not have also snuck in a lick or two, just to see if she’d like it.

The answer to that one is obvious.

***

“Alex?” Lauré tilted her head to the side slightly and waved a hand in front of the tigress’ face. She seemed lost in deep thought. “Are you there?”

Alex blinked and nodded a few times to shake herself out of the trail of thought she had in her head. “Yes! Yes! I’m here,” she chuckled. She still had her fist pressed up against her chin as she thought of how to answer that question for her curious patrons and the curious panda.

“Well? Are you going to tell me the origins of why you like smelly paws?” The red panda chuckled too and tugged on the ends of her leather jacket a little.

“Not exclusively smelly paws, just paws in general.” Alex corrected her again.

“Yeah, yeah, tell me!!! And then you can work on getting the answer to your fans,”

The tigress pondered for a bit once more before she spoke up. “Oh, it was definitely that time you slept over and your paws got all in my face.”

Lauré’s eyes widened and she let go of her leather jacket. Her cheeks flushed red and she raised her brows. “What, really?”

“Yep! I really liked how your paws felt against my face, and how…” she nodded and paused.

“And?”

“And how they smelled.” Alex stuck her tongue out at the red panda and chuckled. “Have I not told you this before? I’m sure I have.”

“N-No, never…” Lauré stared at the tiger with wide eyes and the blush at her cheek grew even redder. Her big and thick red panda tail waved around behind her.

“Well, now you know.” Alex shrugged her shoulders and turned back around to look at her PC. “So, any idea how I could answer that question for my patrons?” Alex asked the panda as she too tried to think of something.

Lauré stood there with her wide eyes for a moment longer before an idea popped into her head and she began to grin and giggle almost menacingly to herself.

“I’ve got a few ideas,” the red panda padded her way to the other chair in Alex’s room and kicked her paws up onto the detached leg rest.

Alex turned around when she heard Lauré making noises.

Now it was Alex who was looking at Lauré with wide eyes.

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Art by Jailbird

Question from Alice Talistar