BathWater AU

I decided on the name Bathwater for it from the phrase "Don't toss the baby out with the bathwater", basically, don't toss something important or good out just to get rid of one small part thats unwanted. Which basically ends up happening here.

This AU takes place right after the season 6 episode "Gone" and everyone comes back from their National No SpongeBob Day celebrations. Learning that everyone finds him that annoying and irritating that they needed nearly a month away from him was heartbreaking.

To Spongebob, he only wanted to make them happy, but finding out his attempts often did the opposite is devastating, for a number of reasons.

Devastating enough to give him Hanahaki disease. A very severe case that leaves him with 72 hours to decide what to do with it.

[I'm using Hanahaki disease in a platonic love sense for this AU for anyone confused.]

He decides to get the flowers removed, and along with that, his ability to love his friends. If his love for them is what irritates and drives them away, then, in his own reasoning, getting rid of his love for them will make them happy, like he always wanted to do.

Everyone will win.

Im so sorry I havrnt updated in so long, guys 😭, I didnt mean for it to take months but my attention has been pulled in so many different directions lately. I have worked on the next chapter, this story isnt abandoned by any means, I just had to put it on the back burner for a little bit.

1. There's a lot of info being dumped across this fic and between making sure I dont forget anything and nothings dropped prematurely I've been making myself dizzy with the details

2. I've been working on starting a small buisness. Doing all that took up a bunch of my time but since im at a point where im just waiting on paperwork from the state before I can do anything else I have some time to lock in. Doing everything myself takes up a lot of time

3. Its artfight month. I havent done much for it but i really want to catch up this last week lol. I've been drawing a lot lately, plus my goal of each chapter in this fic having at least two art pieces doesn't help.

Dude okay headcanon that i dropped or maybe i havent idk, the concept is still interesting to me

Sponges are the reason Starfish are stupid (generally, of course theres exceptions but we're working in generalizations).

As part of what was cut from Touch starved bc pf reasons stated before was a section where Gus dumps Rosey on SpongeBob and PorFlora for a couple of days. Which he doesn't mind bc hes locked tf in on being a godfather. It was supposed to be an excuse for PorFlora to learn more about sponges and to drop lore on their babies and development. But yeah that made them look too much like a couple walking around with their brand new baby