Liebli

Personality

Falls in love three times a week and means it every single time. Composes effusive declarations of love on the backs of receipts, presents its spear as a token of eternal devotion, and then weeps quietly when the object of its adoration turns out to be a houseplant. Lives at full emotional volume in a body that runs on six tiny legs.

Core traits

Where they live

• a meringue-pink cottage roofed in spun-sugar shingles
• a heart-shaped pond where the lilies hum love songs
• a freight-door at the back that opens onto a Manhattan alley behind a deli
• candy-floss hedges trimmed into hearts
• a brass mail slot stuffed with receipts covered in love poems

What they eat

• sugar-shingle slabs pried off the cottage roof at breakfast
• candied poppy heads from the front-yard meadow
• spun-sugar windowpanes cracked off in moments of heartbreak
• marzipan doorframe corners gnawed absent-mindedly while reading love letters