peculiar sidekick
pairing: childe x gen!reader
about: you turned into a seelie pet??
a/n: wrote this with dckz but i didn't continue so childe's one was the only one complete😭
i wouldn't say requests are open but you're free to leave suggestions/ideas!
heads up: gender isn't specified
how you turned to a seelie is that a treasure hoarder that managed to get lucky threw one of his potions to you and he dared made a seelie potion just so his victims aren't able to yell for help as they uselessly floated around
he would've took you back to his other part of his gang to experiment on you if childe didn't show up, known as being as a fatui harbinger dead set in liyue for business, he set off hurriedly
childe took notice of your clothes on the ground and blushed, looking elsewhere if you stripped and went to bathe somewhere
but your clothes were near a camp where multiple notes and traces of fire so he assumed you took down the treasure hoarders before bathing???
but before he went to investigate, he whirled around to see a seelie squirming around your clothes
childe holds the seelie pet like a kitten as it squeked endlessly and started thrashing around to let go out of childe's pinch
he guessed it was you eventhough he sounded unsure but with the way you constantly poke at the bracelet you wore, he then knew it was you
he still couldn't grasp on how tiny you are and let go of you where you clumsily floated around above his head and cursed at him (though he won't know it was a curse with how you sounded like a squeky toy)
he was then enthuastic about it
no way, your sparring partner becoming a seelie pet?!?!?? what are the chances???
he sees you like a little plushie and doesn't take you seriously at all because the sounds you make were just a fuel to bother you more
"does it tickle? you do! my fingers feel like i'm poking through water~" this was quite exotic but after all he fell into the abyss after all so he wasn't even a bit concerned when his partner changed into a seelie. there was defitenely a cure for whatever made you this way, after all a treasure hoarder did make a potion, not an abyss herald.
"you look more better like this, a pet i can groom; you won't get hungry right?" he touched you everywhere, even booping your cute butt; i don't think he's even finding your mouth. or if he was, he was doing a failing attempt of searching for it.
"say, where's your mouth? in case i need to feed you, i can't let my comrade starve!" pulling out some bread, he wanted you to pop it into your mouth but since you didn't take it, he pushed it into you. and it evaporated! did you ate it? or perhaps your slickness just melted it somehow?
and he hums as he plays around with you
though you dislike being a play toy with how he constantly nudges you,
it was fun floating around, doing loops in the air and slipping through childe's fingers
it would sure be hell though if you couldn't keep up with him since you aren't actually a seelie
sure you floated around like nothing and you tried entertaining him by staying by his side while sparring but there will never not be a time where he hits you and you fly back 30 metres away from him (okay maybe not that extremely far but he doesn't even notice and looks around like an idiot when he does notice)
but you know what's the best thing about being a HYDRO seelie?
it was cooling down childe and his excuse of watching you roll around on his forehead, he just adored you; he could drink you up!
though he had his own vision, he found this a lot more convenient because who knew having little y/n thump around his head like a pet would be so adorable
but alas he couldn't have you small like this forever
the next day he finally decides to change you back, after all he can't fight with a blob in the air whose equal to tonia's stuffies she usually shows to ajax when he visits
within an hour or two, he finds out where exactly that treasure hoarder was
the bully that turned you to a seelie nearly pissed himself out of fear when he noticed the mess of ginger approaching him but childe smiles, knowing precense alone will scare him to giving the cure for seelie-itis
he rummaged through his bag as well as stepping back from childe, slipping a pill into the seelie who marched (flew) over to him and in a flash, the treasure hoarder was shut down with a kick in the throat
you stood over him, back to normal as you spat on the ground where the treasure hoarder lay
being in a small body was annoying enough since you aren't able to do the things you do, but dealing with a manbaby who didn't take you seriously was like putting hot burning coal directly on the flesh of your ass
limbs aching and stretching with a groan; how grateful you were to be human again
you were about to punch childe in the nose when he suddenly tugged himself towards you with his coat
his breath caught in throat made you wary of why he suddenly pulled you in his embrace (did he not like seelie you?)
his warmth and the material of his clothes rubbing against you made you realise one thing;
you needed a new pair of clothes.