Hanahaki Disease Meme

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HANAHAKI DISEASE

The Hanahaki Disease is an illness born from one-sided love, where the patient coughs up flowers or flower petals. The only cure is to have that love reciprocated, or to somehow wipe away all one’s memories of their beloved person. The infection can be removed through surgery, but the feelings disappear along with the petals.

1. Post your character with name, canon, and ship preferences in subject line. Also include whether you'd prefer your character to be the one suffering from the disease or not.
2. Tag other people.
3. Pain.
4. If you need help choosing specific flowers, this flower meaning chart might be a good starting point.

Comments

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ she wasn't just apologizing for putting him in this situation, however indirectly... but he doesn't need to know that. he doesn't need to know how badly a part of her wants to take advantage of this.

dry ]

I've been coughed on with worse. ...My mother had tuberculosis.

[goatsongs]

Oh.

...Hearing me cough isn't fun then.

[Probably not at all. But there's not much he can really do about it. He holds her a little tighter in apology.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ even if he's weak, that much is still somehow enough to shift her easily. she sighs out a nearly contented sort of sound— she'll take this while she can.

a little wry ]

There's a reason I panicked and broke in.

[goatsongs]

...Sorry. I didn't want you to see.

[If she didn't see, then it'd be easier for her, because she wouldn't find out why it was happening.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

...mm.



Thank you. For telling me.

[goatsongs]

I wish I didn't. It'd be easier if you didn't know why.

[People die all the time. That's just a fact of life. But when you blame yourself and wonder what you could have done, could have not done...

That's something he understands too well.]

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[ghostfromthemachine]

...

[ghostfromthemachine]

...it wouldn't. It really wouldn't. I would rather know.

[goatsongs]

Even though it's like this?

[Not her fault, but close enough to be interpreted that way without a leap in logic.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

It's a leap even for me at my worst to decide that you having the poor taste to fall in love with me is further proof that God is punishing me for existing.

[ ...that came out much, much more bitter than she'd intended. she grimaces. ]

[goatsongs]

[That's really bitter, and Chuuya can't help but wince.

It's also bullshit.]

I have fucking excellent taste, thank you.

[ghostfromthemachine]

...I really want to argue that...

[ unvoiced, but still implied: but once again, you're not wrong. when you want to give your friend shit and also continue to wallow in your own self-loathing, but objectively recognize both of those things are terrible ideas ]

[goatsongs]

The girl I'm in love with is cute as hell. She's got great taste in literature, has a good sense of humor and a cute laugh, she's smart and gives good advice... She likes messing with people but I've never seen her pick on somebody in a mean way, not somebody who didn't deserve it, she's too good for that. But she doesn't let people push her around either.

Once she punched a tentacle monster in the face. It was awesome.

[Like, who the fuck doesn't want a girl who can kick the ass of an eldritch being.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ...HELLO 911 I APPARENTLY NEED TO REPORT A MURDER? making a stepped-on squeaky toy sort of noise after several moments of just staring at him

(there's something desperate—nearly hungry—to the look in her eyes.) ]

I— that was— I was mostly joking, Chuuya?

...I've only ever let you see the best of me.

[ and that's not so much a protest as it is a regret. ]

[goatsongs]

[get wrecked

Chuuya doesn't seem bothered much by the admission.]

Putting your best foot forward is pretty human. If we'd had more time, maybe, but it is what it is.

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ making this unimpressed "ew" face at him in response to that comment and then poking him in the side ]

Don't lump me in as human, thank you very much... mm. Whose fault is it that we don't.

[goatsongs]

[Ow, rude?]

As opposed to when you get all 'I am a spirit of vengeance and not a person' et cetera. I still don't believe that shit. You're a person who happens to have a couple shrines.

[ghostfromthemachine]

I can be a person without being human. ...If I'm claiming not to be one at any point, that's less to do with vengeance and more to do with being in a bad enough mood I'm having trouble fighting off old habit.

[goatsongs]

...Well, I don't know what to do about bad moods except hug until they go away.

[Like he's doing now. He squeezes her a little.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ somehow manages to turn the boneless flop up another notch? is she just liquid or something ]

...I'm mostly not in that kind of bad mood, so it's fine.

[goatsongs]

[the ink monster event is a different one]

Does that mean you don't want me to hug you?

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ GIVES HIM A MILDLY PANICKED LOOK AND LATCHES ONTO HIS SHIRT ]

[goatsongs]

[God, that was cute. He coughs a little more over her shoulder, turning his head to the side so as not to cough directly onto her, but when that's done he's smiling, if weakly.]

That's what I thought.

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ flattens herself a little to stay out of the way and makes the whiniest grumbling noise, red-faced

congratulations, Chuuya, you are not actually the only tsundere in the room! ]

[goatsongs]

[Cute as actual fuck.]

You don't need to be anywhere anytime soon, right? Because you're comfortable, on top of being the cutest goddamn person.