"Children are pure....."
From the moment he manifest into the material world he had always based his actions on that mindset.
Never kill a child because they are pure.
Never hurt a child because they are pure.
Never scare a child because they are pure.
Must protect children because they are pure.
Even as his brothern caused havoc during wrath rampage he never harmed a child.
He actively sort them and sheltered them until Wrath rage had been calmed.
Unlike Lust and envy he had no love for humanity but it's children.
He found the purity and naivety of children admirable and unquie something he, a creature of evil couldn't emulate.
So like a Moth to flames he found them comforting to be with.
In his early days he had even though of the possibility of building an orphan but he ended up finding out early in he had no knack for looking after them.
He could momentarily bring them joy using his concept but he could never become their guardian so he merely settled for traveling around the remining half of the world under the guise of Faust and grating the child their wish.
A grand adventure, making friends, trying to fit in and so much more. He even occasionally took on a child's appearance to related to them more.
It was during that phase in his life when he came into contact with Sloth and Envy.
They had recently joined the human side and where thrusted with many mission by the association to see if they truly meant their alliegences.
One of their many cases was to investigation an anomaly know as Faust, Who came into contact with kids and granted them their desires. With his stance as a devil he quickly got along with them and he even joined the association on the account he did not harm any of the kids nor went overboard when granting their desire.
He agreed without reserving after all whiles he goal was to bring about a childs happiness he also sort to maintain their purity. Their naivety made them extremely subjective to their worldly desires hence they where certain wish of theirs he didn't fulfill.
A desire built on pure selfishness was one of those.
Coming into terms with the agreement he contuined roaming the world occasionally fighting along side Envy and sloth.
This days where fun and he truly enjoyed them, so much that he had wished he had not seen what he had that day.
It happens a two years after the Constalia incident in Avalon. That incident has left multiple causilties to the city.
Many lives had been lost, the knight king of then had been killed.
Among the many life's lost where parents hence orphanages around Camelot had been filled to the brim with children but his story had nothing to do with the creul nature of orphanage and their dark side no it had to do with a child whom he met within Camelot.
Among the many unquie children he had met the child had been a case of her own.
She had been stoic, broody and listenless always in thought but never one to speak out said thoughts.
With Camlot being his base of operations back then, he had become a local legend and the child who had know of his legend frequent visited him.
Unlike most children she never asked for her desire to be fulfilled and ever time he asked why she simply give a brief answer.
"You can't!"
Ofcourse even he was neither omnipotent nor omniscient it had still hurted his pride to have those words said to him.
He occasionally asked her why he couldn't but the child extremely mature for her age only shook her head in refusal.
Fed up he decided to not brother with it anymore and just enjoyed her company.
Stoic as she was she had many aspirations, one to become a mystic holder. Her reason had been rather simple.
"To not make others like my mommy!"
Her vagueness always left him confused but he had the policy of not prying into the life's of the children of humanity.
He was merely a watcher who occasionally granted them wishes nothing more or less so he had always shrugged her words off and as usually but that had been his mistake.
As time went on, the girl grew more stoic, more broody. The light in her eye began to dim but she continuously preached on and on of wanting to become a mystic holder.
"They can't end up like mommy." She would said.
"The can't go through want she did." She will add.
Within a month the child began to look more like a corpse than the living, he would occasionally ask her if she was well but she just shock her head and when he tried questioning her she would simply run only returning a few days later.
With his policy to not pry into the lives of the children constrainting him there was nothing he could do but watch as the child grew thinner and sickly by the second.
Before long an uneasiness began to sip into his soul, he began to feel no- he knew something wasn't right so choosing for the first time to abandon his policy he actively search for the child.
It took a while but with Envy and Sloth's help he eventually found her but she was dead.