Gotta say, being a Licorice multishipper is a lot of fun canonically bc like. Pretty much every possible COD member x Lico ship has ended in him getting ditched lol. DarkLico? Dark Choco left as a traitor. RedLico? Red Velvet left to do his own thing. LicoRoll? Butter Roll left. Whatever Matcha x Licorice is called? Matcha left. I saw one person once shipping Mold x Licorice, now Mold's gone. If anyone shipped Venom Dough and Licorice? Venom dipped too. As it turns out, workplace relationships are pretty tough to keep long term when your boss is both evil, obsessed, and unhinged.
It's just Pomegranate and Brute who are with him now. And I personally like to think him and Pom have "we tried it once and never again" vibes but they still try to care for each other even if they hate each other's guts. Brute low-key being like, "yes, now's my chance" would be cute.
Side note, I had a hc that Licorice doesn't know where his tribe went bc he was gone when the village went down and most likely thinks everyone there just abandoned him without a word. So do with this info what you will.
And the best part of this? Black Sapphire would love the drama and be blasting it all over Earthbread as the most disastrous irl drama in existence.