whats hanahaki ?
Hello! Hanahaki disease is a very popular fictional disease mostly used in fanfiction tropes due to its very versatile use of angst so basically its a disease where someone coughs up flowers (usually with blood if it gets worse) from their lungs due to unrequited love and the flowers that they cough usually symbolizes the person that they love. The disease makes the character grow flowers in their lungs and it gets worse for the character if their object of affection is not mutually in love with them too so in the end the flowers grow as the feelings grow to the point that in some stories that has this trope a character dies from coughing too much flowers with blood as far as i can remember there’s only 2 cure the first one is that it will disappear if the love is mutual (which is not the case for some which leads to inevitable deaths) and the second one through surgery but there’s a catch once the flowers are surgically removed the romantic feeling that the mc have for the one that they love also disappears (worse case some made it so that when flowers are surgically removed so does their feelings and MEMORY of that loved one so basically amnesia)
Forgot to add that its impossible for the mc to fall in love with the same person when they got the flowers surgically removed, its a rule that when the flowers are removed they can’t fall in love with that person again EVER so yea that’s the hanahaki disease its also a great metaphorical representation of love in its purest and cruelest form since loving someone comes with the physical and emotional pain :’) i just love this trope sm
I really recommended A link between relationships if you like sweet but angsty and with a destiny-type of concept!!
oh my gosh TT now this is ANGST
I have read this one!! Thanks for the recc <3
SAMEEE, I LOVE HANAHAKI AUs, idk if this is true but i recently read somewhere that hanahaki concept is apparently copyrighted which is why it's hard to find them in stories (unless it's a dj i guess?)
Oh my gosh thank you kind angel
right?!? I wish it was more popularized in manhwa settings its my fave trope in fanfics akejkrjdje
OMG TWINNNN YESSSS hanahaki aus for life! Every fandom’s fanfiction aint complete without one
Oh my gosh I saw that it was on my “reading” list maybe i dropped it back then because it was ongoing TYSM I’ll pick it up
HANAHAKI DISEASE MENTIONED AHHHHHHHH FSDFGAGMGHGSDFSDNGDGDF I LOVE READING IT!!!!!!
Yall I freaking love high stakes compelling angst plot like this not just straight up abuse and violence then label it as angst NO this one feels like it has substance on it. Also the fact that this universe feels so similar to the hanahaki disease au trope now i’m wondering why authors aren’t taking advantage of the hanahaki disease concept it’ll be really cool to see more angsty plot like these also kudos to those who said this feels similar to solo for two coz i really enjoyed reading that too anyway this somehow feels like a lovechild between solo for two and a painter behind the curtain