Video Game Reader Inserts

🎄 Minish!Vaati x Reader

"Unhand me this instant!" The tiny creature squeals, his teeny tail swishing as I carry him in my hand.

"Just a moment, Vaati-Waati."

"Not an acceptable nickname!"

"You said no to pipsqueak."

"That one too!"

"Fine, fine." I deposit him on the table. Vaati scurries to the empty little bottles-- each the size of my thumb, roughly as tall as Vaati-- an uninterested scowl on his face.

"What's all this?"

"Winter holiday ornaments! We celebrate the goddesses during this time to get us through the winter. I'll be making ornaments to hang around the house, and on the tree."

I pick up one of the bottles, and a vial of pottery fragments.

"And you had to drag me along because...?"

"Because leaving you unattended is a good way to invite trouble." I let a couple fragments fall into the bottle, and move on to other colourful, repurposed bits of rocks, gems, and cloth to fill the bottles.

The little Picori huffs, lounging on an empty pincushion. "You know," his shrill voice picks up a charismatic tone, "I could help you if I was in my Hylian-like form. You'd just need to-"

I give him a faux smile, already onto his game, "Get the hat, make a wish, and then I could make you tall again, and you'd be sooooo helpful. Right up until you try to off me for the hat."

"I wouldn't off you!" He immediately argues, crossing his wee little arms as I continue filling bottles. "I'd rough you up, sure, but once you were under my thumb and I had my hat--"

"What, you'd kidnap me? Like one of your maidens?"

He falls silent, instead opting for glaring at me.

"What's the deal with that, anyway? Do you actually like Hylians?"

"None of your business," is his curt reply.

I finish the next bottle, and decide to make one purple-themed. I fill it with little purple fragments, and teeny-tiny pieces of amethyst, as well as a couple beads and sprigs of dried lavender.

A small thud catches my attention, and I meet Vaati's beady red gaze, his ears twitching as he holds out a vial of glittering powder, the same shade of purple as his tunic.

"For the bottle," he grumbles.

A smile graces my face without my permission, and I pet the top of his head softly, making him pout and pretend to nip at my finger.

"Thanks, Vaati."

He shrugs, and I notice he'd pulled the pincushion closer, but I don't mention it.

Vaati sits down, his voice vaguely demanding. "You should put some red accents in that bottle."

"Make it a Vaati bottle?" I tease.

Nevertheless, I find my tweezers, adding a couple of red beads.

"Make this one all red," he points at the next bottle when I'm finished with the purple one. "With purple bits."

"Will do," I agree; it's almost cute how he's getting into this. He turns his head and sneezes, eyeing the glittering dust angrily. Nevermind, definitely cute.

"Good."

This goes on, him giving colour demands and micromanaging my placement of the pieces until I'm out of empty bottles.

"All done. Now we just need to cork them and place them around the house."

"We can't make more?" Vaati's mini Minish face scrunches up, his plumed tail sweeping across the desk.

I search around for more bottles, but turn up empty. "Nope, sorry. We'll have to think of a different type of ornament. First, let's place these."

He tugs on my sleeve before he climbs up to my shoulder. I reach down and pick up most of the bottles, corking each one and inserting screw-in hooks to hang them with.

"Alright, now you tell me where to put them."

Vaati points towards the tree. "Go that way!"

An insufferable, maiden-stealing, currently mouse-sized villain... But a cute one at least.