Nonlethal Hanahaki Meme

[caughthell]

Hanahaki. Flower disease. A tragic symptom of unrequited love where the sufferer coughs up meaningful flower petals until they waste away and die or have their love returned...

...is not what this meme is about. This meme is about hanahaki as a disease roughly as serious as the common cold. Any excess of repressed feelings can lead to you coughing up flower petals. Sure, it won't kill you, but who wants to start hacking up daisies in front of their crush? That's so embarrassing.

A useful flower meaning chart!

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[doctorize]

[They are indeed fresh, but it's still embarrassing when instead of tulips or forget-me-nots that he could spin into his advantage here saying that they are in response to Rachel's eyes or some shit, instead they take the form of woodbine honeysuckles or cinquefoils, which totally clash with the color scheme of Rachel's floor, honestly.

It also doesn't help that they are the flowers apparently most recognized as a sign of having paternal feelings for someone (well actually cinquefoils is specifically maternal but I'm a sucker for keeping the 4koma jokes about him being a total mom alive) as opposed to Danny's typical obsessing and claiming he just cares about her eyes, which... is not a conversation he thinks he wants to have today, given that Rachel's dead parents are right there on the couch. Which, is why Rachel might catch him attempting to dispose of these particular flowers instead of placing them somewhere as a decoration like the other flowers he normally brings as gifts for her...]

[koroshite]

[He's awfully intent on putting those flowers just so though. Frankly Rachel's never seen him arranging something quite this hard and she seems to always be following him with her eyes at the very least like some sort of watchful ghost. Even when she is chilling between said corpses.

After a moment curiosity compels her though. What is he arranging? Why is he taking so long? Even the girl with the blank eyes can feel curiosity so while he's so meticulously working she does something she rarely ever does.

She approaches him with all the quiet of a spirit. And after a moment of trying to see around his body and getting nowhere with it she opts for reaching out and softly, faintly, giving his coat the gentlest of tugs.]

[doctorize]

[Danny actually startles a little when he feels his coat being tugged on, and so for a moment when he turns to look, he's genuinely surprised to see Rachel standing there.]

Rachel?

[Normally, she never approaches him on her own like this, so he can't help but be shocked, even if he does begin to quickly school his expression back to what is probably considered "normal" of him here, pleased to see her and his focus away from the flowers in his hands for now.]

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