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The Hanahaki Disease Meme

The Hanahaki Disease is an illness born from one-sided love, where the patient throws up and coughs up flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love. The infection can be removed through surgery, but the feelings disappear along with the petals...

1- Discovery:
There's the one person who makes your heart leap into your throat- but wait, that's not your heart. Where are all these flowers coming from? And why do they remind you of your beloved?

2- Concern:
Someone you know has been acting strange lately... Coughing a lot, hiding their hands all the time... It's enough to make anybody worry.

3- Sicker and Sicker:
Coughing up flower petals all the time isn't easy to hide. But it's getting harder to even breathe, now. You're going to have to make a decision, and soon...

4- Confession:
Everyone knows that there's two ways to get rid of Hanahaki: Surgery (the risk dependent on the time period), or confessing your feelings. Time to toe up and face your beloved and just tell them that you love them so much you're dying from it.

5- Post-Op:
The other option... You just couldn't tell them, but you weren't ready to die. Still, without those feelings the world seems a little less colorful. Can you still be friends with them now that you have to start all over? Do you want to?

6- Make your own!
There's flower petals coming out of somebody's mouth in some way for some reason- make this prompt your own.

Just as a note, due to the nature of the meme vivid descriptions of coughing/choking/gagging are probably going to happen. If you want it toned down, make sure to put that in your top-level.

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( hanahaki is like tailor-made for genesis's grand, tragic flair 🙏 some darkly poetic testament to unrequited love? deciding it’s “too beautiful” to cure right away?? the outcome depends on who he should confess to, but even if he was collapsing from the symptoms, genesis would find a way to avoid the surgery. interested in having someone have the disease vis-à-vis him, too. i would love castmates for this, shipping prefs are here )

[ after the "final" breakup. presumably going with aki has officially fallen in love w/ haruki and That is what causes the hanahaki in ugetsu. who of course won't tell anyone. ok with being found out by random stranger or assumed cr or of course canonmates. flexible on stage/ severity level. flower: white camellias.

cross-canon, cross-mediums, ocs: all fine. m/m only and 21+ for anything ship oriented, with exception for canonmates. + ]

[Ivan was usually the master of the Public Face. It wouldn't do for his business arrangement if anyone knew the truth of what was happening to him. In his opinion, it was negligible. What ever happened to him happened. He could hide it from the world and even his guardian, but hiding it from Till would have been more difficult if not for the fact Ivan was fairly certain Till just thought it was another one of his oddities.

For Ivan, he was much more concerned with Till and his situation. Till was far more important, and his feelings for Mizi were impossible to miss for anyone who paid attention to him even for a moment. He was looking out for signs of the disease in him and figuring out if he would have to find a way to do the impossible in order to save him.

His thoughts being on possibilities that may or may not have happened yet took his mind off his own situation, and how he found himself doubled over with a mass of flowers at his feet in the hallway on his way to see Till. Ivan's arm was crossed over his waist and a hand to his mouth, looking at the flowers with contempt. All he had to do was get it out before knocking on that door, and then he could act like it wasn't here.]

[Till had stopped dead in his tracks; the flowers at Ivan's feet confused him at first, the amount making it look as though a small bouquet had been dropped on the floor.]

...Ivan?

[When his gaze moved up, over Ivan's hunched form, hand pressed to his mouth, Till suspected. His stomach churned; he knew what this meant, if it was what it looked like.]

[Ivan turns his head, looking at Till the moment he hears his name. He moves slowly, standing back up to his full height with his hand still placed over his mouth. His gaze dulls and the flowers are forgotten, despite the taste of their perfume still thick in his mouth.]

I was coming to see you.

[Effortlessly, he walks closer, crushing the red anemone's without a second thought. Their connection to him didn't matter anymore now that he could approach and place himself in Till's personal space to look down at him.]

[Ivan walks closer; Till's head tilts up to watch him, a stricken expression on his face. Ivan is acting as though nothing is wrong, because of course he is. Till sees the crush of red in his hand.]

What is this?

[He sounds accusatory, with an undercurrent of concern. Fear, maybe. Till has seen this kind of thing before; they all have, at one point or another.]

It's nothing. Are you secretly into flowers?

[The subject of his health? Insignificant. The subject of Till's wellbeing? Far more important to him. The look on Till's face bloomed a new pain in his chest. One that tasted as delicate as flower petals. Gross.]

I actually came to check on you.

[The look pulled his own gaze down to his hand, giving the color a look of cold disappointment. Ivan pulled a gently used cloth out of his pocket to clean it away, paying it no more mind once the task was done. It's usually so much better than this. The coughing fits had been more frequent than he liked these days.]

[Into flowers? Flowers were fine, but- No, that's not the point. Ivan was trying to distract him.]

Checking on me? Why?

[Stubbornly, Till carried the image of petals in his mind, and his gaze fixed once again on Ivan's face.]

Don't change the topic.

What topic? Does it really interest you?

[Since Till mentioned it again, Ivan throws a glance over his shoulder at the pile of flowers he left behind. Turning his attention back to Till again, Ivan could only grin. He wasn't worried, why should Till be?]

I wanted to know if you were having problems like that.

[He didn't turn back to it again. Till should understand what 'that' was.]