Yeah so, how do you calm down kids again? Maybe the little trembling lump needs a hug? Hugs and pats should definitely help. Hugs, pats, apologies and reassurances. Add in a small splash of truth and love and it should do wonders. Maybe also let’s reclaim some of that face that I think I just super lost.

It’s perfect right? I couldn’t stop myself from mumbling a little line about how the stupid god loves seeing struggles, but seeing as how much that’s turned into the pot calling the kettle black I should prolly shut up about that.

Crap, this kid notices everything. Keep smiling, keep smiling, don’t show anything but the smile, I need him to like me dammit! Stop screwing everything up! He won’t stop looking at me now, he must be so confused. He must think I’m doing a real crap job at being an angel, huh? Ah but his little surprised face looks so cute! I have to kiss him! He deserves kisses, at least on the forehead! Oh my goodness and he’s turning so red, I can’t take it! I’ll never get enough of his cute little faces, please keep me, Noth! I’ll be helpful! I’ll be soooo helpful! I’m sorry for scaring you, don’t think about it too much, I’ll try not to be bad in the future, so just keep me!

Look! I can make you food! Real food, not the slop you’ve been forced to eat ever since you got locked up. You’re so emaciated, please, eat! Eat, and then one day soon I can pinch and squish the chubby little cheeks you’ll get~.

Okay but don’t eat it too quickly, you look like a hamster.

Oh, but what a cute hamster! I have to pet him!

Pet, pet, pet.

Dear lord, this boy is just too precious.

I’ll always protect this precious little thing. Let me promise him that. I’ll always keep him safe and well fed. And I can grant him some powers! Wishes would be a great start! We could make a contract. We could assimilate. I could become a part of him. Let’s see him try returning me then, heheheh. Ok, keep a straight face, straight face, this has to go perfect. If I use that handy dandy bracelet of his this’ll all be even easier to do. Saves me the trouble of making my own artifact. Plus he loves it since it was his mother’s, so he’ll treasure it well, and not break it too early. It wouldn’t be good if it broke before he learned to use the powers and made… Well, let’s not think about it. He’s a smart and careful character, even if he is still a child right now. He’ll break it one day for sure, but I’ll make sure he’s nice and prepared first!

Besides, it’s nice having something physical that shows our bond together~.

When the tiny boy asked me if my promise would be forever I felt like I’d die. This is amazing, AMAZING! Forever! For-ever. F-o-r-e-v-e-r! Him and me. Noth and his angel. The two of us. And he looks like he really wants it, but he’s being shy about it! My favorite character wants me to be with him forever. I was grabbing his face and staring deep into his eyes before I even knew what I was doing, just to make sure I hadn’t misunderstood the look that I’d just seen.

Wait, was that too much? Let’s dial it back a little bit. Oh, but look at that brave little face of his! So cute! Precious! I love it! Oh my gosh and he’s practically begging me to do the contract and stay with him. Yes! Yeees! Yeeeesss~! It’s finally happening! Thank you God-dess!

Quick, I have to do it before he changes his mind! Yes! Alright, bracelet, check! Holiness, check! Amazingly cute little boy, check! This might hurt him just a little bit, but I’ll do my best to keep it minimal, so it’ll be okay, right? It’s always scary doing something for the first time. If I mess this up I’m gonna freaking cry I swear! A few brief moments of pain, some hand holding, and a healing kiss later and the contract was complete! I’d even fused the bracelet into his arm so he wouldn’t lose it. Now he’d never be caught without his powers and link to me. I did it completely for his benefit and not just because I always wanted him to wear it, I swear. Winkyface.

I feel like the God-dess is laughing at me.

Oh no, he’s scratching at it and he looks grossed out! Crap! Wait! Stop!

I kinda told him that it was necessary and that plenty of people do body mods like it all the time. And boy, I sure do feel bad for lying. Yup.

Look, it’d be a huge hassle to have to undo and dammit I want him to wear it!

JUST WEAR IT OKAY?!

Please!

It’s good, I promise!

It’ll be great! It looks great on you!

And like, now you can use my power! Cuz we’re bonded now!

We’re bonded now…

Oh my god… I feel like I’m gonna cry. This is amazing. It doesn’t feel real.

It’ll feel real if I feel him using my powers.

Quick, Noth, make a wish!

Woah ok his face had some stink on it when he asked what being bonded means. What the hell? What did I do wrong? Why does he look so put off??? Maybe he just doesn’t like the idea in general? Shouldn’t he want that the most though? I mean he literally just wished for it a little while ago, he should love the idea. So then it’s me?! He hates me?! Does he hate being bonded to me for some reason?! No he must just not like the idea of bonding in general, let’s go with that one. But it’s not so bad! He’ll learn to like it, I’m sure! We’ve only just started bonding, if he’s already freaked out about it now then how will he feel about it when it gets stronger? Damn damn damn. B-but look! Powers! He gets cool powers! Wishes! Anything he could wish for! Out loud, anyways!

Ok if I’m being completely honest, I’m lying to him a little bit. He doesn’t actually have to ‘wish’ for it at all, he just has to want it enough. But hey, why remove the training wheels if he still needs ‘em? Besides, it’s cute!

And hell, if he gets really good at it and we assimilate more he can even do it in his head! Isn’t that great? Please please PLEASE don’t worry about the whole bonding thing! Just assimilate with meeee.

Oh thank the God-dess he moved past it!

…Huh.

Okay this kid is really overcomplicating making a wish. You did just fine making wishes earlier, I mean you summoned me with one, why would making some random tester wish be so hard now? Maybe he wants the first one to be special? Or maybe he just wants to know the rules or something?

Wouldn’t this be like…a great time to play a trick on him? Ya know, get him back for this emotional rollercoaster he’s been putting me on since I arrived. Yes. Let’s mix a bit of a lie with a bit of a truth and spin it into maximum embarrassment and see what we can get. I wonder how silly he’ll feel while he does it?

I feel kind of warped right now like I’m drunk. Why is the idea of this making me so giddy?

Aaahh, I can’t wait to see the look on his face when he tries it!

Am I acting like all of these silly little wish rules are the God-dess’s fault and not mine? Yes.

Is this the pot calling the kettle black once again? Hell yeah.

Gotta take the stabs you can get.

I watched the little cutie get more and more excited as he thought through all the stuff he could possibly ask for for his first wish. Seemed like he decided on starting small and working his way up from there, the smart cookie. I had to hold myself back from cuddling him while he thought it all over. Noth’s cute little voice squeaked out his wish for new clothes, and the way he looked over at me to check that he did it right was melting my heart~! He must have felt the artifact that we were using as a connector react to the wish or something a moment later though, cuz he didn’t look my way for very long. My melting heart spit out a few teardrops at that, but I couldn’t blame the kid. You’d look away too when magic starts happening to you.

The problem is, that I could feel it happen too. It’s my power after all. It never felt like such a tingly little shock to the body like this when I use it, though. Should I be worried about this?

I’d forgotten how cute his clothes had been before this whole mess started. And they even fit him better, awww! Even with how little and shittily he’d been fed, he was still a growing boy, huh? Honestly, I was touched to notice such a change. Little dumb of him to wish for new clothes on his crazy dirty body though. My conscience wouldn’t let me put such nice clothes on such an unwashed frame, so I had to give the kid a freebie clean along with it, of course. Totally worth the sneaky power use in my opinion, especially with the face he was making. I absolutely loved it every time he made that awed and amazed face! Sooo precious~! I have to hold him, aaaah! I love you Noth, you’re so perfect and wonderful and cute and the clothes suit you so much and don’t pay attention to that bracelet just yet or you’ll get too worried to enjoy this! Don’t the clothes feel nice? That’s magic for ya! The kid’s excitement is contagious I swear, what’s he gonna wish for next?

I can see his thoughts plainly on his face. He wants to fix up his home next, doesn’t he? Yeah, it is real freaking dilapidated in here, I get it. Crazy how quickly this place went to hell, huh? Must be the rush job his dad ordered to make this place for his in-laws. That kinda wish is gonna be a bit higher tier than a simple wish for clothes though, considering we’re in a villa or whatever. I had to really stop myself from making an evil face when I noticed him getting embarrassed. He’s really gonna do it, isn’t he? Yeees. This is gonna be great. If I could record this right now, I totally would. Oooh, I feel a little warm. Sorry my love, but show all of this silliness to me.

Okay, he’s starting out strong with the usual church phrases…and now he’s lost it.

Oooh and he’s tripping over his words! I need popcorn for this.

Geez this kid is cute~.

He even said please at the end. My Noth is so perfectly sweet!

And the way he closed his eyes like he was mortified after, oh man I’m just eating all of this up. I could watch this scene forever.

I need to make sure things go well on this wish since he did such a great job! I’ll give the wish a little extra power, just for my Noth~.

The extra boost I gave it made the house a bit sturdier than it had been before. Shouldn’t be breaking on the kid anytime soon. Aaah, watching Noth gawk at and run his hands over all the furniture felt so crazy wholesome! This is definitely one of the things that makes this all worth it~. I gotta follow him and make sure I watch all of his cute little reactions.

Alright, yes, we’re in the kitchen!

What’re you gonna do in here, my love?

Are you still hungry? Looking for some food?

Wish for a feast then! I can’t wait to see it!

Oh…

Oh no. He did it wrong…

The picture was right, but he didn’t put enough power or focus into the wish at all.

Most of all, he’d communicated what he wanted to me very poorly.

That disconnect is gonna cost him... What a mess.

Well, it’s only the first day, he’ll learn.

Don’t look so confused, my poor little thing.

There, it’s over there, on the table.

At least he got something tasty, let’s think of it that way.

Oh no, and now he’s noticed the bracelet. What a freaking mess! NO, you can’t just wish it fixed, that’d be like wishing for more wishes to a genie or something. Geez, I better get over there and explain, what the heck am I gonna say so that he can understand what’s going on?! Calming a kid down is so HARD! I’m sooo not cut out for this! I’m definitely no teacher, either. Does what I’m saying even make sense to him? Keep the words simple, simple. It’s a learning experience, it’s ok, please stop freaking out!

Okay, phew, he’s calmed down and eating now, thank heaven. Yeeesss. Eat. Get some meat on this tiny little body. Grow. I’m no good with kids, no matter how cute you are. I miss my tortured-badass-emo-grownup-pitiful-villain Noth. But, I guess if he’s still tiny like this I have a free pass to hug him all I want, so it’s not all so bad, now is it? And I get to watch my favourite person grow up~! The idea that he’s still just a child is really going to make things hard on me, though. I promised I’d help him, and if he freaked out that much just from realizing his bracelet was breaking, how is he going to handle all the awful stuff I have to tell him? There’s so many terrible things I have to tell him, need to tell him, from now on… but I don’t know that my heart can take it, or even more importantly how he’ll feel about it all.

Do I have to tell him?

Maybe I can just hint at them instead.

I have a feeling I’ll just keep putting it all off until I absolutely have to tell him something…

But… You know?

…Wouldn’t that be much more fun?

Ah, I can’t wait to watch how he struggles through this next one!