I don’t know why, but I can’t get this image out of my head.
We all know that Shulk tends to get lost in his work. I am convinced that Shulk tends to forget to take care of himself 99% of the time (he does take care of himself, but his habit of forgetting is somewhat concerning).
This would include him not taking breaks when he should take one, not getting enough sleep, and the one I keep thinking about, forgetting to eat.
Fiora and Reyn will regularly check up on Shulk (either on their own or with each other) and notice that he hasn’t eaten. They can tell because Shulk keeps ignoring his growling stomach.
So they decide to take matters into their own hands.
One afternoon, they both go to the Weapons Development Lab to do their regular check-in on Shulk.
Except this is not an ordinary check-in.
As they usually do, they hear Shulk’s stomach growl. And that’s when they strike.
They’ll tickle Shulk all over his body, but they give his stomach the most attention. They figure that if Shulk wasn’t going to give it attention, they will.
They’ll tickle him until he promises to come out of the lab to ear.
This happens multiple times after this day. At some point, Shulk begins to notice a pattern. Fiora and Reyn will come in and tickle him at a specific time each day.
I think that Shulk would easily pick up on patterns, and this pattern becomes his daily reminder to go and eat.
Eventually, he no longer has to depend on Fiora and Reyn’s daily tickle attacks to remind himself to eat. He goes to eat on his own behalf.
While Shulk is kind of sad to miss out on these daily tickle-attacks, he knows that they’ll keep tickling him anyway, so nothing is really lost in the end.
I feel like continuing on from the post I made about Shulk being reminded to eat by Fiora and Reyn’s tickle attacks.
This time, let’s talk about how he is reminded to take breaks and get to sleep. Spoiler alert, Fiora and Reyn tickle him to get him to do both.
But first, obligatory click or tap on Read More to view the rest of this post.
When it comes to taking breaks, Shulk doesn’t seem to know what the phrase “take a break” means. He says that he’ll take a break soon upon being asked, but he’ll either forget to take a break, or he’ll lie about taking a break.
Interestingly enough, the lies once worked on Fiora, Reyn, and even Dunban. However, it didn’t take long for them to find out the truth.
As payback for lying to them, Fiora and Reyn would tickle Shulk regularly during the daily check-ins they have with him.
They will either wait until they know for sure that it is time for him to take a break, or they will immediately tickle him if he tries to lie about taking a break.
Just like with eating, Shulk begins to notice a pattern, and he uses it as a reminder for him to relax for a bit.
Side note, Fiora and Reyn will not tickle Shulk if he is currently building a weapon. If he’s just reading the blueprints, they will tickle him, but if he is, for example, attaching the sharp portion of a sword to a base, then Fiora and Reyn will leave him alone. They don’t want Shulk to overwork himself, but they don’t want him to injure himself while he works, either.
As for sleeping, Shulk also appears to not understand what “going to sleep” means. And once again, Shulk will try to lie about heading off to bed, when in fact, he’s going to keep working.
So Fiora and Reyn have to tickle him to get him to sleep, too. At this point, Fiora and Reyn are even more concerned about Shulk than they were before, as they realized that they had to tickle him for three different reasons at the same time everyday.
Luckily, their worries slowly begin to fade away, as Shulk once again picks up on a pattern, and uses it to remind himself to go to bed.
Overall, tickling has managed to improve Shulk’s self-care tendencies significantly. As I said before, Shulk does feel a little sad about losing these daily tickle-attacks, but that doesn’t matter. He’ll get tickled everyday anyway, regardless of the reason for the attacks.
A/N: This was meant to be a drabble, but apparently, drabbles are exactly 100 words long… This fic is not 100 words long. At all. Whoops.
Oh well, I should have known that I was going to write nearly 1000 words (counting this Author’s Note). I mean, come on, this is a lee!Shulk fic. I should have seen that coming.
I think you know the drill about romance and NSFW around here, so I’m not going to write it out here. If you don’t understand the NSFW part, look at my blog description and pinned post. As for the romance part… I’ll be honest, I don’t know how to write anything that is romantic in nature.
I suppose that’s it for now, so on to the first.. short story? Short short story? Whatever you want to call it, it’s a fic nonetheless!
It took all of her willpower to not giggle as she opened the door to Shulk’s room and snuck up on the sleeping Hom.
Normally, Fiora wouldn’t bother him while he was asleep. He was long overdue for a good night’s rest after everything that had happened in the old world, the world of Zanza. However, it was currently 8:00 in the morning, and he was still sleeping. She had to wake him up.
“Everyone’s wondering where he is, and if I don’t wake him up now, he might sleep through the whole day.”
Was that an exaggeration? Maybe.
She slowly lifted the blanket off of the former heir, revealing his shirtless form. He usually kept a shirt on at all times, but right now, it was the middle of summer, so he took it off every night when he went to bed.
“Perfect.” She couldn’t help the quiet giggle that emerged from deep within her chest, “His worst spots are wide open…”
She waited a bit to make sure that the younger blonde was still asleep, then crept her fingers towards his sides. As soon as they made contact with his skin, she slowly wiggled them.
Nothing. There was no reaction whatsoever… for two whole seconds.
“Is he dreaming, or is he feeling the tickles?” Her question was answered by a quiet, “Mmmhehehe…” from Shulk.
“He’s feeling the tickles!” She dragged her fingers up and down his sides, relishing in the sleepy giggles that poured out his mouth.
Eventually, she drifted her hands up to his ribcage, carefully tickling the skin that resided in the crevasses between his ribs. The resulting giggles were a bit louder than the previous ones, and he even tried to bat at her hands.
“Hehehehehehe… Ahahahahahalvihihihis…”
“Alvis?” Apparently, Shulk was dreaming about him.
“What’s going on in his head right now?” Fiora asked herself.
She was curious about the dream, but she had a goal, and she was not going to distract herself from it.
She gave him a quick scribble to the underarms, which made him squirm in response.
“Almost there…” she thought to herself as she rolled him onto his back. She was ready to go for the kill, but she wanted to make one last attempt at waking him up before she made her move.
“Shuuulk…” She whispered with a sing-song tone. She leaned down towards his face before she spoke again. “It’s time to wake uuuup~”
All she heard was a quiet, “Mmm…”.
“Come on… You need to get up!” She gently shook him, but his eyes didn’t open.
“Okay then, you asked for this~!” Time for the kill!
Fiora moved her head down to the scientist’s bare stomach, then took a deep breath. Using her hands to hold him down, she blew the biggest raspberry onto his belly.
His eyes shot open for a split second before he closed them again and fell into hysterics.
“I’m not Alvis, silly~!” Fiora said before she blew another raspberry.
“F-FIHIHIHIHIHIOHOHOHOHORAHAHAHAHAHAHA?” That was the only thing Shulk was able to say before he fell into another laughing fit.
It didn’t last long, however, as the former Mechon pulled herself away from the giggling boy.
“Good morning, sleepyhead~!” She teased, poking his belly button. “Sleep well?”
He let out a squeak and shot his legs up to protect his torso.
“Well, I was sleeping well… until you tickled me awake!” He finished the sentence with a slight pout on his face.
“Sorry~ If I didn’t do anything, you would have slept all morning!”
“Huh?” Shulk looked outside, but he couldn’t tell what time it was based on the position of the sun. “What time is it?”
“It’s nearly 8:15 in the morning!” Fiora told him as she went to find his shirt.
He nearly jumped in shock, “What?! Are you serious?!”
She nodded and handed him his sweater, “I am! Everyone’s been looking for you for the past hour!”
“Oh… sorry…” he said as he rose from the bed and put his sweater on.
“Don’t be. We know you’ve been super tired since the day Zanza fell. You deserve a good rest after everything that happened.” Fiora told him with a smile. Shulk reciprocated her smile with one of his own.
“I guess you’re right…”
He then looked towards the floor with a slight blush on his face, “But still, I’m sorry for sleeping in…”
His friend let out a giggle, “Didn’t I just tell you to not worry about it?” She then brought her hands up into the former heir’s line of sight, “Do I have to tickle you again~?”
She saw him stagger backwards, “N-no, no you don’t!”
“Aw~ That’s too bad…” She put her arms down to her sides. “Can you at least tell me about your dream?”
“Huh? My dream?”
“Yeah, your dream! I heard you say something about Alvis. What were you dreaming about, Shulk~?”
He blushed in response, knowing that if he told her, she’ll tickle him all over again.
I just thought of something that sounds super evil. Click or tap on “Keep Reading” to see it.
Before I get started, I want to give my personal headcanons on the birthdays of Reyn, Fiora, and Shulk. This will be important later.
So I think that Reyn’s birthday would be about 1 month before Fiora’s birthday, and about 2 months before Shulk’s birthday. They were all born in the same year. Given all of this information, Shulk would be the youngest of the three, and the youngest member of the main party.
Now on each of their birthdays. Shulk, Reyn, and Fiora have a tradition that involves them tickling one another. To be more specific about this, I’ll give an example of what they will do.
On Reyn’s birthday, Shulk and Fiora will tickle him first, and the amount of time they tickle him for depends on his age. If he just turned 18, he will be tickled for 18 minutes.
After that, Reyn will get to tickle Shulk and Fiora for that same amount of time. This is repeated on Fiora’s birthday, and on Shulk’s birthday.
There is one catch, though. Since Reyn and Fiora are the most evil tickle monsters known to Bionis, they do something different with Shulk.
They will take Reyn’s age (since he is the oldest) and divide it by 2. Whatever the quotient is is the amount of time that Reyn and Fiora will get to tickle him for on their birthdays. For example, if Reyn just turned 18, he will tickle Shulk for 9 minutes on his birthday, and Fiora will tickle Shulk for 9 minutes on her birthday. They will tickle each other for the same amount of time as their age (18 minutes for both Reyn’s birthday and Fiora’s birthday if they just turned 18).
It doesn’t matter if the number can’t be evenly divided by 2, they will still split it up into halves. For example, if Reyn turned 27, then he will tickle Shulk for 13 minutes and 30 seconds on his birthday. Fiora will get the same amount of time on her birthday.
What will happen when Shulk’s birthday comes around? Well, they’ll add their two halves together, and they will tickle Shulk for the sum of the two halves that they got for each of their birthdays, which will correspond to Shulk’s age. In the 18-year-old example, Shulk will get tickle for 18 minutes on his birthday.
So the purpose of all of this is to make Shulk anticipate a longer tickle session on his birthday by denying him the normal tickle sessions that Reyn and Fiora will have with each other on their birthdays.
P.S. Once Shulk’s birthday comes around, and there are only 5-10 minutes remaining until the end of his tickle session, it’s sweet spot time. Reyn and Fiora will purposefully avoid Shulk’s worst spots to build up anticipation for the final few minutes. When the times comes, they go all in. How Shulk is still alive after all of this is a mystery.
