I’ve been reading through your hanahaki stuff (it’s really really good I love them btw) and I feel like I’ve uh. Greatly miscalculated how it works lol
Originally, when I knew only the broadest of strokes of hanahaki, I thought that, once the love was reciprocated, all of the flowers would come out at once. Like. All of flowers and leaves and stuff still in the person’s lungs would all get sort of. Uprooted at the same time? And be coughed up immediately?
Like I know that’s not very romantic or picturesque, but if nothing else it’d be either really funny or really stressful. If the hanahaki was bad enough, then throwing it all up at once might actually kill them, even if the love was reciprocated. Maybe it could even work as like. A final test or something. Like, “oh, you claim to love this person? Do you love them even as they’re almost literally coughing up a lung?”
Anyway I’m just saying all this to get it out of my mind and give you compliments at the same time, so again: You’re really good at writing! Never doubt yourself! Also don’t take this as criticism or a suggestion to change anything I just wanted to talk about my thoughts /genuine
Aw thank you !! I just got into a convo about hanahaki and then went way too in depth which then spiraled into the requests just bc it's such a fun concept
Honestly I never really thought about what comes after the whole "oh your love was reciprocated good for you" all that much. Most of the fics I have read don't talk about it either, the flowers just go away as quickly as they come. Both interpretations have their own merit honestly.
The usual method of just having the flowers disappear ties into their inherent magic and mysticism in my opinion. Hanahaki is, in all forms of the word, a physical manifestation of love. Hanahaki is weird, it's nonsensical, it's painful as much as it is beautiful, it is love. It treats love as this magical thing because emotions cannot often be reasoned with. So it would fit this strange magical occurrence to just, disappear like that. It gives you a happy ending because that's what curing hanahaki is, it is proof your love is reciprocated. It doesn't reassure you that things will end up perfect, but its the end of a love story.
To tie into hanahaki just being a literal magical plot device having it give the couple one more challenge to overcome is interesting !! Like to prove the love IS reciprocate the other person has to show their dedication by accepting the flower, the symbol of the person's love to them. In the worst cases (like so many characters are brought to for drama) they're forced to get their hands dirtied, perhaps stained in their lovers blood, because they inadvertently caused this, so they must fix it. They have to accept all the ugly parts just as much as the beautiful ones because that is love.
And of course this could be twisted for nefarious reasons, much like the rotted flowers I gave to Trapped Mice Hunted. Would it be worth it to accept such feelings? To be confronted with physical proof things can never be normal and accepting that.
But again thank you very much for the kind words and fun hanahaki ideas to chew on. I hope you'll also enjoy what's to come, when I write them. Have a good one !! <333
