The Maine Coon and His Calico Brother-in-Law-Cum-Sister-in-Law Cat

Little Brother Cat is a Maine Coon mix.

Abandoned at birth, he was wandering the streets, meowing as he crawled toward the roaring wheels of a car when Big Brother Cat, who had run away from home at a young age, rescued him. He carried him home and raised him, even sharing the territory he had worked so hard to claim.

So in Little Brother Cat's eyes, Big Brother Cat is the biggest, strongest, and best cat in the whole world!

There's no way he's a male calico with no merits whatsoever besides being pretty!!!

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Big Brother Cat is a male calico.

Unlike Little Brother Cat, he was adopted as a kitten and raised to catch mice. His father was a fearsome tabby, and his mother a stunning calico. When it came to him, he turned out to be a stunning calico... male cat.

But Big Brother never got discouraged. He trained hard from a young age, learning to fight and claim territory, and started running away from home at just two months old.

Unfortunately, on his first attempt, the other cats mocked him for being girly. Furious, Big Brother grabbed Little Brother, who hadn't even opened his eyes yet, and ran home to bide his time.

On his second attempt, Big Brother rolled around in a pile of charcoal to disguise himself as a fearsome tabby, and successfully claimed a territory of his own.

From then on, the street had a new legend: the fearsome tabby cat!

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Big Brother Cat had been missing for a long time, and Little Brother Cat was worried.

At last, now that he was a year old, Little Brother decided to run away from home too and look for the fearsome Big Brother Cat he hadn't seen in so long.

But after patrolling Big Brother's territory several times, Little Brother still hadn't spotted his familiar black-and-gray tattoo-like markings. Instead, he found a pretty calico acting suspiciously.

The calico really was beautiful, beautiful enough to leave any cat utterly smitten.

Little Brother was still thinking about finding his brother, but couldn't help approaching the calico to say hello.

Then the calico forcibly touched noses with him, and Little Brother caught a whiff of Big Brother's scent!

Is this my brother's husband?!

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That day, both Big Brother and Little Brother had their worldviews shattered.

Big Brother: I'm not! I didn't! Little Brother! I'm an orange-and-white tabby with a bit of black! I'm no stunning calico, meow!!!

Little Brother: My brother likes males! Males!!! Then maybe that cat could also...

P.S. Maine Coon mix Little Brother is the top, and the calico pretending to be a tabby, Big Brother, is the bottom. Fake brothers. Don't ask. The author was writing historical danmei until they had a mental breakdown, so they came to write a silly little cat short story to unwind.

Theme: What kind of cat you can become depends entirely on what you think of yourself. The same goes for people.