"Bet I'd get hard if you hooked me up to one of those machines and"-- slight blush-- "showed me makeup tutorial videos or something."

"I guess if being extremely self-conscious stopped guys from getting boners, the world would be a very different place."

Ack. 

"You wanted to go to the aquarium?"

Bruce is suddenly convinced that he said something super wrong, or something that came out super wrong, but isn't sure how to clarify that he meant that he would be self-conscious about having a scientific instrument on his dick without making everything three times weirder. "Uh, yeah, I did. Want to go to the aquarium. Let's do that."

Aquarium! Cuddling ✨her boyfriend ✨ on the way to the aquarium!

Train cuddles are excellent and so is the aquarium!

The aquarium is running an ad campaign.

"...Bruce do you want to fuck octopodes."

Bruce's face now matches the background of that sign. "So, uh, I told you about that quest to uplift an animal to sapience and thereby cause lots of people to stop eating animals, right? And I'm pretty sure it will only work if I precommit to--I mean, if the animal turns out to be down for it. Which they probably will. Anyway, it's a lot less weird than a chicken."

Also the suckers look like they have a really interesting texture, okay?

"It's cute! You get to know my weird and embarrassing fetishes!"

"Yeah okay I would probably fuck a sapient octopus even without fabulous bribes."

"Should I hope the Erogame gets me a tentacle clit."

Leia is just the absolute best. "Why limit your ambition? Hope for the ability to swap back and forth! Also have I mentioned that you're the absolute best."

"Maybe I can have an ovipositor and a cunt and wear whichever one I want today." 

"I know there's a perk for being able to put parts on and off once you have them, so probably."

"Aliens are good. I want to meet aliens. You have the best kinks."

"There is also a perk for meeting aliens and I am absolutely taking it as soon as my stats are high enough and things on Earth are a bit more stable. C'mon, let's go check out the aquarium." He's hoping there's going to be a convenient ad for some sort of octopus-related part-time job, but even if there isn't it'll be fun.

The aquarium is significantly more crowded than usual.

Well, it was a very eye-catching ad campaign. Also everyone just seems to be more excited about cool stuff in general, which is a very broad but relatively non-sketchy way of incentivizing more sex. But never mind that, look at those bioluminescent jellyfish! 

Bioluminescent jellyfish!!

Leia keeps elbowing him and telling him that that one looks cute.

They do look cute, except the ones that look pretty or elegant or fabulous instead. 

"I bet it would be really cool to be aquatic and neutrally bouyant. Like zero gravity, except instead of there being no down there's a down but it's equally easy to move any direction."

"I think if you're neutrally buoyant there's not a down, there's just a towards-Earth's-core."

"Hmm, maybe. Doesn't some of your sense of down come from the fluid in your ears and where your organs are in your abdomen and stuff?"

"Hm. Maybe. We should try it."

"We should! I bet we could do it in one of the swimming pools with the right weights and math."