> Cursed Blossoms AU 🌺 [E:TM AU]
• Introduction to the AU!
Cursed Blossoms is an AU I made taking old ideas from my other flowers AU from the cookie run and solarballs AU.
! Just So You Know :: This is not the Hanahaki Disease nor is even supposed to relate to it. I created a flower AU myself out of the blue without knowing about the fictional disease yet !
~ How did I come up with flowers AUs? What used to be the main plot?
• I first got my ideas of flower AU during June - July of 2022/2023! I was gonna make it like a normal AU where people got covered in flowers. The first ever fandom to get this AU from me is cookie run. It started as a normal civilization thing, but then I changed my mind and made it more of a virus or infection. Cookie run and Solarballs got the infection part of the flower AUs, how ever Epic: The Musical did not. I wanted to do something new with the flower related au I had so I switched up some things.
Let me list how the AU is like in 3 fandom::
Cookie run:: Infection / Virus like based. Spores fly around from flowers. After about 15 years, the infected faced death and can't be avoided. Unlike a zombie infection, the infected still have a mind of their own. Plucking out flowers leads to serious injuries.
Solarballs:: Same as Cookie run, no death occurs, infected are fragile and highly flammable, have two types of infected; Passive and Active. Human AU related.
Epic: The Musical:: More like a curse from Gaia herself. Everyone remained the same. Flowers only grows on gods and can be cursed onto mortals if one wishes. Plucking out / flowers dying leads to serious injuries or death. Nature based gods uses it as more of a blessing, they don't really need to maintain the plant.
In the AU; Gods are the only ones who had flowers growing on their faces, bodies or head. For a normal god, only 1-2 flower grows on their body, but for natured-based gods, 2 or nore grows.
Gods are able to curse mortals with the same exact curse they have aswell, except they can't remove their own curse. Attempting to will result in fails or injuries.
Plucking out / Flowers dying till the roots:: When one or two dies or plucked out. No effect occurs till about a few hundred years. Though if all flowers get plucked or dies, effect takes place in a few hours, wilting and slowly growing old as they have a very limited time to find the seeds of the flower and replant it.
Maintaining the flower:: The flower is also their strength, if the flower wilts, is damaged or is not gaining enough to make it grow normally, the host of the flowers follow suit. So it is very recommended to keep their flowers perfectly healthy.
[Will be written in soon.]
Flowers have different place depending in where they grow. Usually, it just happens. But here is how where they usually grow, where they rarely grow and where it can grow only on Nature-based/related gods.
Flowers commonly grew out on the hair, face, neck, chest and forearms.
Flowers sometimes can rarely grow as hair, on the shoulders and legs.
Thought, nature based gods have them grown on either their elbows, hands, knees and feet.
• Injuries / Side Effects
Injuries / Side effect can happen during the growth of the flowers. If you're lucky enough, you won't be able to get them.
• The injuries / side effects::
° Cracks, holes, damages and debris falling out.
° Growing on scars or causing scars during growth.
° Covers a side of the body/face/head with leaves, grass or moss.
Tugging on the flower yourself will not make you feel pain. But if someone else did, it can ! Ripping them out, killing the flowers, cutting it off, plucking it out will feel like your nervous system being exposed got damaged, cut off or pulled on.
• The gods and their flowers! [ will be updated over time ]
Hermes;; Snapdragons & moly
Circe;; Circaea Lutetianas
Hephaestus;; Volcano Flowers / metal flowers made by himself
Hera;; Peonies / Caca lilies
Ares;; Butterfly weed / Yarrows
Zeus;; Poppies / Alpine Flowers
Aeolus;; (unsure) Wind Orchids
Poseidon;; Sea Anemones and Lotuses
• Emotions and how it effects the flowers
The flower also reacts to emotion!
Lets say! If you cry, the flower's petal closes.
But if you laugh, it blooms!
When it sense negative emotions (sadness, anger, fear, embarrassment etc.) it closes up.
When it senses positive emotions (Happiness, love, laughter etc.) it blooms!
