you ever just cough up a whole ass bouquet for ur crush?

[anon_jigen]

(harmless) hanahaki meme

hanahaki (literally "vomiting flowers") is a fictional illness that began in japanese literature. most commonly, it happens in the case of unrequited love; flowers bloom in a person's lungs and their love suffocates them until it is either requited or they die.

that's pretty angsty. instead, consider a world where hanahaki is a normalised inconvenience and it's never hurt anyone. flowers grow in your chest from the cultivation of love — for your friends, your family, your dog. and it's a feeling that wants to be known, so maybe you can't help spilling petals sometimes when you laugh, or sigh, or shout at someone. everyone knows what it means and it's something to be celebrated. you love.

maybe you don't want to, though. maybe you chew on the petals and swallow them back, so that no one knows the feelings you're carrying around in your heart. but maybe that's not going to work forever, and sooner or later, you're going to cough those feelings up.

the short version
① hanahaki means your characters cough up flowers. plain and simple.
② it's caused by unspoken love, in any form, platonic or romantic; whether the love is requited has nothing to do with it.
③ the disease is not harmful in any way, and it's no more annoying than a persistent cough; it's treated as more symbolic magic realism here than concerned with the real life implications of coughing up flowers.
④ it's "cured" when a person expresses their love, whether the feeling is requited or not.
⑤ so basically, you can rp any everyday scenario... but now your character might have to deal with the minor nuisance of hacking up petals around the people they love. and those people are going to know what that means.

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Daiya Higashikata | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | ota

[fuwafuwan]

[The worst person to get hanahaki for; she can't see, and she declares love loudly and easily. Happy to do platonic or shippy, since she's 16.]

Sarah Williams | Return to Labyrinth

[notimefordreams]

[OTA for platonic love, 21+ F/M for shippy. AUs, assumed CR, canon and cross canon all welcome.]

akemi morishita | original | m/m

[cupidite]

( being in love with someone is the last thing he wants, considering 99% of the time akemi doesn't develop feelings for other people. on the other hand, he'd just make fun of anyone that's in love with him. )

Mami Tomoe | PMMM | OTA

[finaletea]

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia | OTA

[defendure]

[ Either side, though he has a lot of feelings. ]

Steven | Steven Universe | OTA

[musecontract]

{ platonic or romantic ; following the 16yo movie age. }

tauriel ( tolkien )

[taurohtar]

[ lbr this totally sounds like something the elves would have to deal with ]

Loki | MCU | ota

[coldsong]

[Not like he represses positive emotions or anything.

Open to platonic/fraternal or romantic. Castmates and cross-canon welcome.]

Jyn Erso | Rogue One | OTA

[wherehopegoes]

Illya Kuryakin | TMFU

[notsochillya]

[ Open to canonmates and/or characters that he talked to in previous threads. ]

richie tozier (it)

[rockshow]

m/m

yue qingyuan | svsss | ota

[qige]

[winepouring]

[ Huatu-bing. Really, there wasn't a more straightforward name for an illness in any of the three realms! The afflicted spit up flowers. The only deceptive part about it was the bing; this wasn't a disease, at least in the medical sense. While it did affect the body, the affliction itself was more like a curse one's heart creates. And the stronger one's spiritual power, the worse the affliction is.

Thankfully, the majority of the people who develop huatu-bing are relatively young, and the "disease" sorts itself out (as young love does), and it rarely lasts for so long that anyone but the most prideful would pray to the gods for assistance.

But someone had. A lot. Someone prayed a lot for their friend to be "cured" of the "disease," and, maybe because "wind" can mean many things both literally and poetically, this prayer ended up in the Lady Wind Master's hands.

Well. She always did like going to the mortal realm, and she can't pretend she isn't a little moved that someone would pray so ardently for their friend to be cured of their (admittedly silly) condition. Though she can certainly understand why: knowing just the general details of the person - from their name and title to their age and position - Shi Qingxuan admits, she's a little shocked! How does someone at his age and with his rank manage to remain afflicted with something that's generally associated with first love?!

Who knows what kind of tangle of brambles must be in his heart... There isn't a "cure" for huatu-bing so much as there are ways to try to coax the heart to solve itself and dissipate the "disease" on its own. Generally, this is by just admitting all the feelings being holed up inside, though she supposes there are other ways as well, possibly. Though confessing is surely the fastest and most straightforward.

Regardless, Lady Wind Master will descend herself to try to untangle what must be a mess of a heart. Dressed in pure white cultivation robes with her hair tied back simply, she lands on Qiong Ding Peak in a breeze, seemingly coming from nowhere at all.

And she respectfully cups her hands and bows. ]

Please excuse me. I was asked to come to assist you.

Nanno | Girl From Nowhere

[girlfromnowhere]

[ She coughs up pretty flowers of poisonous plants, perhaps? ]

prompto argentum / final fantasy xv ( ota )

[burstmodes]

[ open to either role, even the deadly version of this if someone wants some angst! ]

[bodyshopbelle]

[y/n?]

Lan Wangji | mdzs | OTA

[inquiryguqin]

[ota for gen, m/m for shipping. Can be AU'ed to fit the scenario so cross-canon is welcome. He hides his illness, coughing up flowers from orchids to peonies. Everyday. On most days.]

Shi Qingxuan | Tian Guan Ci Fu | OTA

[winepouring]

[ crosscanon, assumed cr, etc. are all okay! i'm fine with playing any role and any canonpoint. ]

mitsuhide akechi | ikemen sengoku | ota

[silverkitsune]

[god I've wanted to do hanahaki FOREVER. m/f or m/m, canon/cross-canon/au all welcome. he's probably the idiot coughing up flowers but happy to discuss options ♥]

dr julian devorak | arcana | ota

[doctor069]

[voicetesting, please be gentle-! m/any, canon/cross-canon/au all welcome]

:) Set at some nebulous time in Julian's route I guess <3

[arcanaspeak]

[It started as a tickle. The softest brush of petals against his throat. He'd run into this before - a flitting fancy in a tavern in the richer part of town, when he had been sleeping around to discover aspects of himself.

[The tickle of petals irritates him slightly - there's no polite way to cough right now while in a meeting with Nadia and a few of the courtiers. He chews and swallows them down repeatedly, and with a small helping of wine. Once he can get away and to the safety of his room, however, the bright red petals of a camellia flower flutter out of him and onto his palm when his lungs finally expel the blasted things.

[It hits him why it occurred then. A few bits of conversation had reminded him of Julian and... that was all it took for him to realize what he felt. There could be no getting around it.

[Falling in love with a fugitive set for the noose... how absurd. Cruel. Even though Minke had plenty reason to believe that Julian wasn't actually a murderer, the situation was what it was and still required more than just gut feelings.

[The even more hilarious bit is the similarity between the name of the flower and his street name, "Camille". Even the flower's meaning just brings to mind the vibrancy of Julian's hair more than anything. With a heavy sigh, he knows that tonight won't be productive if he coops himself up in the library looking for more clues, and decides to take the night off, heading out while it's still light out.

[He can't ignore things forever, but just for tonight, he still has time. On a whim, he heads back towards his shop to double-check the wards and perhaps gather another set of clothes he's been interested in wearing after being away, and ingredients for a potion to help suppress the effects of the formation of petals.

[With any luck, he'll find Julian along the way. Flowers or not, there's no use denying that Minke wants to see the charming doctor again, anyway. If only to make sure to check on him.]

persephone | greek mythology

[perses]

[ this could go either way tbh. ]

richie tozier / it - m/m for romance and ota ofc platonic is also a++

[sloppybitch]

get ready for so many stupid flowers.
it's not even funny.
he will be salty af.

Losers Club gonna start a damn garden.

Aramat Drawdes | Alabaster | OTA

[scalpedsociety]

Oscar | Lupin the 3rd | OTA

[riveres]

Loki | MCU | OTA

[cuttingremark]

Riku (Kingdom Hearts)

[equinoctials]

[ it's like this meme was made for Riku and every other CONCEAL, DON'T FEEL type ]

replica riku, kingdom hearts.

[replicates]

[ open to either, can also do the more harmful version if that's your jam. ]

[diffuses]

[ Riku is no stranger to hiding feelings. Keeping them inside, after all, had been the start of all his troubles. He can remember when it started happening, when he was still very small: the first little white petal he coughed up when he found the little drawing of Sora and Kairi in the secret place. It wasn't, he doesn't think, about what was or wasn't going on between them— but realizing what it meant to himself, on top of the way his jealousy grew like a water spout on the water... the slope was slippery.

It took him a long time to come to where he is now, and even then, he still can't always take the leap. But it's nothing at all like it used to be, when at his lowest point, he could barely talk around the black-stained flowers that would bubble up from his throat and spill from him just like the Darkness.

Dawn coughs into his fist and Riku turns his head to look at him, taking his eyes away from the two kids playing in Radiant Garden's grand square.

It could be nothing, but there's a pull between them forged by the time he spent in Riku's heart— so some part of him, even if he didn't see the evidence, would be aware of it. His replica hasn't even put his hand down yet before Riku is raising his own, taking the corner of the petal from the space between his thumb and finger to hold it in his own open palm.

His eyes are on it's pale shape, his lashes low, casting shadows over his eyes. It almost hides his expression, before he glances up from underneath them and tilts his head. ]

You still haven't told her?