Author's Note: Eyyy! I have no time to write a tickle fic, but I thought I post something a little different than Sanders Sides. Blathers and Celeste are so easy to write for I've found. Much easier than I expected! If only a lot of other characters I enjoyed were like that. Well, don't know how often I will write for other fandoms, but the option is here now. Feel free to leave prompts for other fandoms if you wish. Doesn't necessarily mean I will write them, but it will give me a bit of a spark for trying out different characterizations in tickle fics. Again, I don't want to burn myself out, so I'll only upload once per weekend as of now if I'm able to at all. Thank for understanding! Hope you enjoy!

A Brother's Wish

Fandom: ACNH

Words: 1771

Warnings: None

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     "The stars are so beautiful tonight, hoot." Blathers monologued to himself. He had flown up to the roof of his museum to get a better look at the night sky dotted with little white orbs that lay millions of miles away. Normally, Blathers would just look at the sky from the ground, but tonight was special. Unlike ordinary nights on the Getaway Vacation Island Blathers was stationed at, the weather forecast had predicted a meteor shower.

     Now Blathers knew the difference between meteors, comets, and all celestial bodies, but he could not shake the childlike wonder he had retained since the very first shooting star he'd ever seen. He could recall the moment perfectly. A bright light zoomed through the sky, and those adorable, wide owl eyes of his followed the streak until it had vanished from sight. Like always when he discovered something new, he bothered his parents until they, but that's possibly why that moment meant so much to him. His family was able to share it with him, and thus his love for the unknown was born.

     How much more unknown was there to discover with a little sister by his side. He remembered when his parents gave him the task of naming her. He couldn't just name her anything, no. It had to be perfect. It had to be something...stellar. Looking up at that very same night sky, he wished to find a name for his baby sister. And Celeste is what he was given in return.

     "Wishes really do come true!!" He remembered blathering excitedly a year later to his little sister who gazed into his eyes with that same childlike wonder he used to have. "Here! I will show you!" And he showed her the very next meteor shower. Oh, how her eyes lit up like his did all those years ago. Watching someone discover the unknown was almost more exciting than discovering it for yourself. At that moment, he knew he wanted to be there to answer all her questions and watch her grow up.

     But now, she was all grown up. Blathers could not believe just how fast time had flown by. He was here, building a museum, and sadly away from all those he held dear. So, he sat and watched the stars, silently wishing that one day Celeste would come by and visit. It was nights like these that were always the hardest, because every star reminded him of those good times they had together. Blathers would have been lying to himself, if he had stated he wasn't homesick.

     He took his eyes off the sky for a second, feeling a bit misty-eyed from the memories he was replaying in his mind. Shuffling his talons, he solemnly waddled to the edge of the building and was about to hover to the ground, when a shadow flew behind him.

     "Hoot!?" He ruffled his feathers and turned around, but no one was there. "Perhaps it is my imagination, playing silly tricks on me once more..." He fluttered down to the ground but was quickly tackled before he could close the museum for the night.

      "Brother!!!!!"

     "Hoooooot!" Blathers quickly found himself belly up on the ground, with a pink owl expertly pinning him to the ground. His eyes widened first in disbelief, but then sheer joy as he saw who was in front him.

     "Celeste? Celeste!? By my beak!! Is that really you?!" The pink owl giggles, and releases him, standing back up on her own pair of talons.

      "Hootie-toot, brother! It is me!!" As she helped him up, he staggered but did not let that ruin his joyful mood.

     "Celeste! Oh ho!! Celeste!!" He spread his wings and wrapped her in the largest owl hug he could possibly muster. She promptly returned it. "I have missed you!"

     "I have missed you even more, big brother!" She quipped before they released. "I promised myself I would visit you on the very first meteor shower ever recorded on this island!"

     A realization struck Blathers as he remembered the wish he made. "Did you know I would be wishing for your presence tonight, Celeste!?"

      "Mayhaps..." She shyly looked in his direction. "It is quite easy to read you sometimes, hootie-toot." Blathers chuckled and rubbed the back of his feathered head in embarrassment. "I hope you weren't too lonely without me." Celeste continued.

     He laughed. "Me, hoot? Lonely? Bah! Absolutely not! I have made several friends since my time on this island."

     "That's not the type of lonely I was talking about, big brother." She winked at him, and he gulped. "Are you actually spending time with those friends you say you have? Or are you still cooping yourself up inside your museum?"

     "W-well...I did go out to get bread earlier, hoot..."

     "Blaaaaathers..." She clicked her beak. "That's not spending time with friends."

     "Well, it is if you meet someone along the way. I happened to say hello to five people during my trip to Nook's Cranny." Celeste giggled at how proud Blathers was of himself. Truth be told he wasn't expecting his little sister to visit him so soon. He had thought he had a little more time to make acquaintances.

     "Well, alright. I guess I commend you on that. You should still hang out with the island folk more often though! Promise me, you'll make an effort to hang out with everyone at least once before I come back to visit you again!"

     "Again?!" Blathers grew excited. "You will visit me again?!"

     Celeste smiled. "I will! IF...you tell me how your new friendships are coming along."

     "Oh fine." Blathers huffed out. "I will. And I am ever so grateful you will be visiting again after this! Hooty-Hoot!" 

     Celeste giggled. "I'm still here though! And I'll stay at the campsite for another three days!! That's three days I get to bother you!" Blathers was unable to wipe the smile from his face, until he heard Celeste utter that last word.

     "I'm...so very glad that you came to visit me Celeste-wait bother?! What do you mean by...bother?"

     Celeste gave that cute, little innocent head tilt like she always did when she was about to do something mischievous. "Oh you know, annoying little sister shenanigans! Quite frankly, it's been much too long since I've been able to put worms in between your toes."

     "EEK!" Blathers writhed in disgust. Oh, how he had forgotten that with Celeste came all of her devilish little pranks. And filthy bugs too. "Oh no! Please don't! Not again!"

     "Oh do not worry! We've only just begun to catch up! The worst I'd do is..." Blathers would recognize that smirk and those wiggling feathers anywhere.

     "Oh! Oh hoot! No! Not here!" He backed up a couple steps but tripped and fell onto his back. Celeste giggled and pinned him like she had done not a few minutes before.

     "-Tickles!" She finished as she caught his talons in her wings and grinned down at her older brother.

     "No! Not tickles! Anything but the tickles!" He flapped his wings in an attempt to get off the ground, but Celeste held him fast. She fluttered her feathers into the insides of his talons and carefully stroked her wing feathers in between each of his toes. Blathers was hysterical within seconds.

     "Ooohohohohoooohohoot! Ohoot nohoohohohooo!!" He cooed and hollered as the meteors continued to fly past them overhead.

     Celeste then dropped his feet and carefully ruffled his belly feathers playfully with one of her own talons. "You're still this ticklish even after all that growing up, hootie-hoo? Remember when mother would tease you for being so tickle tickle ticklish?" Her talons ruffled from side to side and every so often she would switch between them so she could continue to tower over her brother while he wriggled on the ground.

     "Nooooohoooohoooo! Please stohohohoop! I can't bear it!"

     "Of course you can't bear it! You are an owl! Not a bear!" She winks and begins to tickle under his wings with her feathers. "Tickle tickle tickle." She uttered gently then gently stilled her tickling feathers to a stop.

     "Hooooooooo..." Blathers sprawled upon the ground with his feathers stretched the length of his wingspan once the last tickle had been given. "Hooooo..." He exhaled once again in relief and was able to stand up from the ground with the help of his sister.

     "Are you alright, Blathers?" She was barely able to ask the question when she was pushed down to the ground. "EEK!" She giggled once she saw her brother smirking down at her.

     "As usual. This is how you greet me. With tickles." Blathers attempted to regain his breath. Perhaps he could humor his sister, just for this one night and fight fire with fire.

     "W-wait! Wait Blathers!" She giggled as he gently fluttered his feathers over her talons teasingly.

     "I think I've done enough waiting! Waiting for you to come see me, hoot. Two can play at your games." He scribbled his feathers along her toes and talons before reaching a feathered wing, ruffling her belly feathers. She squealed and kicked a bit, but let him take his revenge. He chuckled and sighed. Of all the things to discover in his lifetime, Celeste's love of tickling had always perplexed him. He quickly had mercy on her and she popped back up onto her talons.

     "Awww! Thank you big brother!! I just knew you had missed playing with me." Blathers looked to the side and gave her a shy look.

     "Mayhaps..."

     She giggled. "Like I said! Easy to read." Celeste winked at him again, before pushing him towards the museum. "Now show me this collection you keep Blathering about to me in your letters!" Blathers stumbled forward but quickly picked himself back up.

     "Really? What do you want to know, hoot?" Blathers looked at his little sister and saw that same bright sparkle in her eyes. It meant she wanted to learn, and she wanted to listen. If Blathers was being honest with himself, he could take a million ticklings if it meant he could have his little sister's attention in that way.

     "Everything! Tell me everything, hootie-hoo! We have all night, don't we?"

     "Yes! Yes of course!" As Blathers began his museum introductory speech, his little sister listened intently to what he had to say. He knew the meteor shower was still going on overhead as he guided her around to all the different exhibits. Normally he'd sit and keep wishing on each star as it passed, but tonight he didn't need to. Because his greatest wish, the wish that meant most to him, had already come true.

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