#⍩ a hunger that cannot be sated (liltotto)

[catnippp]

It never is a good idea to disturb a lioness during her slumber, lest they wish to become cat food to her wrath. While Candice doesn’t necessarily consider herself at the status of a lioness, she likes a nice comparison of power (aside from the obvious pun of her last name “Catnipp”. Regardless, to herself and to others, namely her girl gang, “they dare not wake her from her naps, or else there will be hell to pay” she would say every so often to the crew before a nap. Liltotto and Meninas generally don’t care, but Giselle is always but a wicked swine to toy with the napping Candice and disturb her often. This time around with another nap coming to sink Candice’s time, another disturbance comes.

Candice is on the couch of her living room in her renovated home in Wandenreich City. This renovated home isn’t exactly hers, but she likes to call it her own since it was her idea to even renovate it. 

After the war, when needing some place to stay, the femritters took to Hueco Mundo to reside temporarily with Queen of Hueco Mundo Tier Harribel and ex-tres Espada Neliel Tu Odelschwanck. What they called home was theirs for only a time before getting cozy, as Candice and Meninas decided they wanted something of the same thing. With their assistance in renovations and scouting of any residual means of Yhwach or any other wackjob Sternritters, the girls and Candice finally called home an empty and desolate Wandenreich City. Largely, it took a long time for that to be even relocated somewhere that wasn’t the dimension of the Soul King Palace; no they took to the Spirit World, way away from the Soul Society as to not cause anymore distraught to the people.

Regardless of where she was located, home was home, and travel to and from home was always easy due to her shadow. A little height never hurt nobody.

Speaking of hurting... Candice is quickly disturbed from her slumber by a drop of something solid on her head, causing her a jolt awake. She was temporarily blinded by darkness, only to remember her hat was over her eyes, fixing the position of it so that she could see what the hell just happened. Before she could bark out at someone, a can of soda rolled onto her thighs in her lap. To her surprise, Liltotto rounded the couch to pop a squat on the other side, sipping her own soda as if she had done nothing wrong. Candice could really beg to differ however, grabbing the soda and reeling it back to launch at the nearby Sternritter.

❝ The hell’s yer problem, crazy bitch, that fuckin’ hurt! ❞ At the finish of her sentence, she launched it at Lil with the full intent to bring her harm, but. Liltotto is a sternritter all the same, prepared for it. She only brought down her drink just a bit, using her other hand to catch the launched soda to protect herself. While not necessary, blut vene was used to make sure Candice wasn’t trying to murder her.

❝ Not very nice, y’know. That could’ve hurt me a lot. ❞ The irony is purely oozing out of her mouth, Lil softly tossing the drink back to Candice nonchalantly. Candice, contrast to Lil, is fuming, but only coming down once she caught the drink and gave it a once over.

It was a strawberry flavored soda, one that Lil always gets her whenever she leaves for snack runs. She can only imagine Meni got her apple, Gigi got her grape, and Lil was definitely sipping down her mango soda. While she didn’t wanna forgive her right away, she simply put it past her, as it wasn’t that big of a deal. 

Candice sucks her teeth in bitterness before listening to the ka-chk! noise the can gave when she popped the cap. She fixes her posture to sit up against the couch’s armrest a bit, lounging in her seat now while taking small sips. It was easing her anger just slightly, as she can’t get mad at strawberry flavored soda... Lil was a different story at least, she can get mad at her all she wants. But at least she got her something.

❝ What’d I tell you about snoozing on the couch. ❞ Lil says in between sips. ❝ You got a room, can’t get pissed at me when you sleep out here and get woken up. ❞ She’s being a little shit on purpose, just to further poke the beast and have fun through her stoic expression. A tiny belch sounds from the blonde-haired Sternritter before eyes glancing over to Candice to look at her. ❝ And don’t start bitching a storm either. ❞

Candice grits her teeth at just how uncaring and smug sounding she was. Lil knew every which way to push Candi’s buttons and it pissed her off to no end, even though she knows for a fact Lil will likely get under her skin on purpose. Candice huffed a breath through her nose before deciding to just bitterly chug the rest of the soda out of spite. Spite for Lil? Who knows, as that doesn’t really do anything to her. Slamming her empty cup down on the coffee table, Candice moves closer to Lil just to let out her own blech; right in her face. Liltotto expected this and just kind of took it. She couldn’t go around being a tyrant with no repercussions. Didn’t mean it wasn’t fun, though. ❝ Bite me, asshole. ❞ Candi barks, a bird flipped directly into her face. 

Liltotto stared blankly at Candice before the side of her mouth slowly began to pull of her face. ❝ So help me, you bite me literally again... ❞ She says through gritted teeth, Lil just obnoxiously chuckling to herself as her mouth returns to normal. 

The tension between them dies pretty quickly after that, Candice deciding to lie back down, this time using Lil’s lap at her pillow. Liltotto just looked down at green-haired brat preparing her next cat nap on her, just kind of having to deal with it in fear of dealing with multiple zaps. Candice brings hand behind her head to give it some more comfy leverage, the other fixing her hat to sit over her eyes again and then resting on her stomach. Lil is now paying for her actions, the consequence being used as a pillow for an indiscriminate amount of time. It’s happened before and it isn’t stopping now.

❝ Aw crud. ❞ She says quietly. Now that she’s stuck here she can’t really do anything else but ask Meni or Gigi to help her get her stuff. As easy as it would be to just shove her off, that only causes more issues and she just wants to relax now, which is possible if Candi naps. Fine by her... She’s just gonna sit back, relax, enjoy her mango soda til it was gone then harass the girls to get her the snacks she bought when she wanted them. For now, it was “quality time” with the house cat.