#lilynette

And they can't find them anywhere later on learning they were out for groceries?

Starrk

Waking up alone always sends an awful pang of loneliness through him, even when he knows there's nothing to worry about. Rationally, he doesn't doubt you're coming back from whatever it is that pulled you away from your shared nap, but that dread-like feeling that he's been abandoned still digs its claws in enough to leave Starrk feeling all kinds of pathetic as well. He'll be in an unpleasant mood until you get back, but calms down easily then.

Lilynette

There's a moment where, upon waking up to realize she's alone, Lilynette panics. She hates how needy it feels, but you're gone, and there's a part of her that's legitimately scared you'll never come back. There's nothing to take her mind off it until then, either— if she's with you and Starrk's not around, that's a sort of solitude that she's not used to at all. She stays antsy and tense until you return, and gets oddly clingy for a while afterward.

Halibel

Aside from the brief, startled moment when she first slips back to consciousness and realizes that you're not there, Halibel takes it pretty well. She can easily assume that you had something that needed to be attended to... even if there's a part of her that's still unsettled to have woken up alone. Still, she puts it out of her mind quickly enough, and finds something to occupy herself until you get back— at which point the last of the tension finally dissipates.

Ulquiorra

Loathe as he is to admit it, waking up alone doesn't sit well with him. If he'd fallen asleep with you, to begin with, Ulquiorra had been in an unusually vulnerable state of mind, and waking up to the lack of the presence he'd expected sends an instinctive bolt of panic through him. And as much as he bitterly tries to push that feeling out of his mind, he can't help but feel uneasy while you're gone... and then, oddly grouchy once you've returned.

Nnnoitra

The feeling that hits him when he realizes you're not curled up by his side anymore is one of the most shameful things Nnoitra has experienced. And no matter how hard he tries to smother the pathetic sense of loss churning in his head while you're gone, that feeling remains a perpetual irritant until you're back. When you're home again, you'll find Nnoitra in a truly rotten mood, but he only snaps at you when you try to ask what's bothering him.

Grimmjow

He's the one who can't stop pacing around the house looking for you. While he tells himself he's just annoyed with you for disappearing so suddenly, there's a sort of worry lingering in the back of his mind that he just can't shake. There's a reason why you were gone, obviously, but Grimmjow is still agitated and on edge until you're back— and at that point, he's all over you. Prepare for plenty of grouchy clinginess along with denial of any worry.

Szayel

Considering that he has to let his guard down a lot to sleep properly, waking up alone is a cause for stress. Szayel can hardly believe he didn't wake up while you left, and that's almost worrying him more than your disappearance. He finds something to occupy himself soon enough and refuses to show his lingering distress when you get back home... but he's hesitant to sleep again for a while, now that he knows how unguarded he ends up.

Aaroniero

Pairing: Coyote Starrk x G/N Human reader, Lilynette Gingerbuck x G/N human reader (both platonic)

Genre: Fluff, Headcanons, Platonic friendship.

CW: None

Requested by anon: Can you do headcanons for having starkk and lilynette as friends please 😌

A/N: OMG..MORE REQUEST?? yes babe

I envied the weak ones...

The most powerful always seemed to stand alone at the very top. In the world of Hollows, a trail of bodies usually led to the peak. Unlike others, who gladly took life to become stronger or did so out of pure survival, Starrk had no say. He didn’t know what it was like to talk to one besides himself, as anything that came near him died. Lilynette and him were always together, the only ones they had were each other. It spokes volumes that the only companion that could survive him was technically a part of himself, a result of a being splitting into two. It could almost say he was meant to be alone...a thought he loathed and lamented.

He didn’t ask to be powerful. He didn’t want to be powerful. Weakness meant death was a higher possibility, but there was the comfort of numbers. Companionship, as the weak bounded together to survive.

Of course, the Espada were not weak. It brought him joy even if he didn’t outright show it that he could be near others. He was in a group. Yet, at the end of everyday, he still found himself alone along with Lilynette. Perhaps he wasn’t drowning in solitude anymore, but he still didn’t have what he wanted deep down.

Still. He was not alone.

That’s why even as he fell to the ground below, he wasn’t sorrowful. He died along with his comrades, with the other Espada. It was something he wanted instead of being left alive with no one else. He couldn’t handle the feeling of being forsaken with the sting of his other half’s death.

I am not alone... A elbow in the ribs woke him up. He winced silently, eyes slowly opening to see Lilynette sprawled out sleeping beside him. As she flipped over in her slumber she seemed to have the innate instinct to cause him a little pain. No doubt it was a punishment for being lazy.

Starrk shook his head and moved to his side, hoping to draw the other warm body in the room closer to him. Instead he was greeted with a empty space. He sat up quickly, scratching the back of his head. His partner had been with him when he fell asleep, why wasn’t she here...?

It had been two year since the events of the Winter War. When he came to, he had been injured but alive. A woman had been at his side tending his wounds. Lilynette, much to his relief and disbelief, was at his side sleeping. She looked exhausted, but alive. 

His savior had quickly become someone more to him, and he couldn’t imagine losing her.

A soft hum brought him out of his thoughts. Perched on a cushion not far from his pile of pillows, she seemed to have been mediating. A faint glow from her reiatsu, which was gentle and not overpowering, emitted from her. She kept humming with closed eyes. From what she told him before, she had anxiety and tended to do this to ground herself when it happened.

After she started sleeping next to him, the attacks became less frequent but there were still times it did occur.

I am not alone...and neither is she. As long as she was with him and Lily, he made a promise to not let her deal with this alone.

“Hey.” He called out carefully as to not startle her. Her eyes opened and she jolted a little, blushing as she realized he caught her. 

“S-Sorry, I didn’t want to wake you two.”

“I won’t ever complain about seeing you.” He answered without hesitation. Her blush furthered up her cheeks and he opened up his arm. He relaxed when she came over, resting her cheek against his chest. He closed his arms around her and pressed his lips into the top of her head. “You want to talk about it?” His tone may have been sleepy but his attention was all hers.

“...can you just hold me?”

He pulled her in, sighing when Lilynette stirred but moved to sprawl over them. His love chuckled and didn’t even complain as the smaller Arrancar draped herself over their waists horizontally.

He didn’t let his eyes droop until she made herself comfortable against his chest. Until her breathing steadied and she slowly drifted off.