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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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( inhales deeply, I LOVE this trope; it's one of my favorites. I really enjoy Sephiroth being the one with the disease, and it's even juicier if it crops up while he's in the throes of madness. However, I'm also interested in:
- the other character having the Hanahaki disease for him
- commiserating with another Hanahaki disease sufferer over their affections for either the same or different people

Ship prefs are here at the bottom, but feel free to ask if you're not sure. )

[ Obviously no shipping intended here, but I think it would be cute to have a little guy checking on Sephiroth. Could be a dissidia-ish AU to gloss over why they're in the same place.

Vivi wouldn't have hanahaki as well, I think, but his entire situation puts him in a position to sympathize. He's empathetic enough he would be worried about the flowers even if he was previously told Sephiroth was dangerous.

Just thought I'd offer as someone who is also just feral for this concept in general. ]