Skelly is at grocery store getting groceries (what else??). As they have one hand up looking at the selection, they suddenly feel a small hand grab the finger around their other hand.
Looking down, they see a little human kid they are not familiar with, holding their finger and staring at them with amazement. They hear a parent quickly walking up, apologizing. "Sorry, sorry! They just love skeletons" and then helps peel the kid off (kid is not fighting but is definitely not helping, lol)
Willow, Snipe, Mango, Red, Cash, Pop, Noir, Compass, Wine, Stitches.
Willow: he's melting. Willow has to briefly turn away as he feels tears start to form in his eye sockets cause gosh damn that was adorable. Plus something about this is just so precious to willow. He's always worried being an unnaturally large skeleton due to the famine, that he's creepy looking. This kid though proves that wrong. He'll give the mother a rather emotional reassurance that he didn't mind.
Snipe: Snipe is always alert when out in public. ALWAYS. So when this little kid approaches him, he is very much aware the whole time. He doesn't push the baby away when they grab his hand, hes a monster but he's not a monster you know! But he does stiffen up considerably. He'll roughly tell the mum/dad to watch her child better though when they collect the sweetie. And he takes the long alternate route home cause he's paranoid it was a set up somehow lol.
Mango: oh mango likes kids! Adult monsters she doesn't know will get the stink eye, but little kids are always nice to be around. So when the little toddler grabs her finger, she briefly startles before cooing at it asking where its parent is. Its a flattered mango who happily hands the kiddo back when the parent appears.
Red: this is a little-known fact, but reds special ability is being a child magnet. Babies and toddlers are just naturally interested in him. Red could be angrily cussing someone out and if a baby is near him, they'll just smile and coo most likely. So this is far from the first time a random toddler has grabbed his hand. Red literally just grumbles in annoyance and continues shopping with his one freehand. A parent always shows up soon enough.
Cash: He jumps a bit when the kid grabs his hand. Cash is immediately nervous. You see, cash has a face that just screams trouble. When people look at him, they assume he's up to no good, which to be fair is true like 75% of the time lol. So, if some worried parents saw him with their kid, he's scared hell be branded a kidnapper. So, to cover his *ss, cash picks the toddler up and starts asking every single person in the store if they lost a kid. Every. Single. One. The poor parent will be quite embarrassed when they catch up to cash as there's now a whole team of monsters looking for them.
Pop: When the kid holds his hand, he looks into their eyes. They stare back. Pop comes to a quick understanding. This child is also a true fan of the fruit by the foot, and they need his help in acquiring the delicious red fruit snack of the gods. Pop now has four boxes of the treat in his cart, and when the parent gets their kid back, they'll find later that four fruit by the foots are in the kid's pockets. a successful heist.
Noir: ok he's tall, and he doesn't really lean down for things if he can help it due to his hip, which means its quite impressive the child managed to grab his hand. They had to either jump for it or climb a box or something. Noir is so startled he doesn't even sass the parent when they rescue him from the athletic toddler lol. He goes home feeling rather off kilter. His scary fell image for the day has been shattered after all lol
Compass: He saw the kid coming but is still a little surprised when they grab his hand. Looking around compass leans down so he can softly ask the toddler if they need help. He's so relieved when the parent appears. Compass likes kids but doesn't have any experience with them so he was stressing.
Wine: wine also saw the child coming and actually chuckles when they grab his hand. Like a real chuckle. That was adorable and this child just made his day. Wine will pick the kid up and start walking around the store looking for the parent. And the whole time he searches, he's bantering with the toddler. It's quite funny cause wine never baby talks. He treats everything the kid says as if it's another adult talking to him. The kid will be all "my mommy likes cheese" and wine will reply in his completely normal deep voice "WELL CLEARLY YOUR MOTHER IS A MONSTER/HUMAN OF CLASS MY DEAR." He's secretly a little disappointed when he finds the parent, he was enjoying some finally decent intelligent conversation lol
Stitches: He's pretty cute and cuddly looking, so kids often like him, bit it's still strange to have a strange toddler grab his hand out of nowhere. If you didn't know, Stitches is the voice actor for the main character of a popular cartoon in ebott right now, so when he speaks, the baby's eyes grow wide, and they start repeating the characters name excitedly. The parent winds up leaving with their kid, a selfie of stiches holding the kid and an autograph. They can't wait to tell the story to all of their other parent friends about how their kid accidentally found (character name) at a mellowmart lol
