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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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[ Alright, okay, hear me out: her, desperate and determined, trying to use her healing powers on someone she caused the disease in.

And she doesn't know. ]

[ Hi hello. Aira is almost always gonna be affected whether its for your character or not. I'm up for gen shenanigans with someone catching him coughing up petals or him meeting someone also afflicted and just talking about their options/condition. I love plotting stuff like this lmk ]

( pining is his middle name, honestly. m/m for shipping. )

( misery loves company? can play straight from canon or au him into something more human )

( good with either role. open to AUs. )

[ could go either way for hong lu. he's an airhead who would think he's dating someone mutually when it's only him who feels that way and happens to be throwing up the flowers, not understanding why. or he could not realize that your character has affections for him... hong lu can be a mess. ]