Tony and Mary
"I'm trying to be a different person, it's not always easy. I've got people here on the ship with me that know things about me that I haven't even lived yet. There's expectations. It's annoying." Tony said, frowning.
Then he looked over at her, and actually reached over to put a hand on hers. That was a huge deal. Tony wasn't much for skin contact outside of the occasional tryst, he didn't even like it when people handed him things.
"But Princess, you can be whoever you want to be. You've literally got nothing holding you back. Here in a modern world where women like Tails have probably six degrees and are in charge of all kinds of stuff. You could learn anything, be anyone. The only thing you can't change is like... the root of you. That you inside there that you don't show to people. So don't force yourself to be okay with this if your deep inside you just isn't."