Skull was very good at handling children.

It came somewhat as a surprise to the others. They never took him as particularly parental and yet here he was, easily entertaining the children at the orphanage.

It was a bizzare experience.

"Skull, you seem to get on well with the children," Fon remarked calmly as children climbed all over them. Skull looked up with a grin.

"Of course! Skull-sama used to look after his cousins a lot so now nothing can bring him down!" He crowed, just as a group of children threw themselves at him. Skull held his ground and then after a second fell down, pretending that they overpowered him.

A cheer rose from the children as they started to wrestle with Skull.

"Man down, man down!" He said loudly from the bottom pf the pile, the children around him giggling and shrieking.

It was after the children scattered off to dinner that Skull explained it in more detail to Fon.

"I'm a Cloud, yeah? And I think I've been active since a young age. So, I'm an active Cloud and I'm surrounded by my family, and there are a lot of children and we are in quite bad times and I can't fight whatever is making it all so terrible," he paused and slowed his words. "I think my Cloud nature latched onto all my younger cousins and just wanted them to be happy," here a slight frown crossed his face. "So, I did my best to keep them entertained and happy, at least for a while. It made me feel more… settled, I guess?" He finished off with a shrug.

Fon looked at him for a second, and then hummed with a small smile on his face.


A/N: I imagine that Skull would automatically be good with kids, but then his Cloud nature would make him more so and protective of any kids he considered 'pack' as well.