#actually hm hm HM that first hanahaki strategy with luke/mc HM HM HM I AM INDEED LOOKING

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what do you think of the hanahaki au tho 👀 - 🌃

hi, NightStar!!!! :DDDDD

i'll be honest, im on the fence about this au, HAHA. i dont enjoy many hanahaki aus, ive only enjoyed very few fics ive seen using the premise.

i stray away from hanahaki au being true unrequited simply bc, yeah, unrequited makes me cry kJBKJSDF. i also stray away from hanahaki au where the hanahaki is LETHAL WHEN NOT CURED bc i dont enjoy major character death.

and lastly, i also also stray away from hanahaki au starting out unrequited, but then the one who is Loved learns about the afflicted character, and begins to love them back, thus curing the hanahaki. this is because im generally iffy at reciprocation after some kind of tragedy that is Directly Caused By The Person Who Did Not At First Reciprocate. theres something about that that personally rubs me the wrong way? like...kind of an emotional hostage situation, for the non-afflicted character? the afflicted character Literally Physically Suffering unless not loved back, what if the other person loves them back just to save them, it is...well, at the very least, my interpretation not nice to me, when i think about it deeply.

ofc no hate tho to ppl who do enjoy the above hanahakis!!! it's jus not for me

that leaves me with VERY LITTLE iterations of this au i enjoy HAHA. off the top of my head, here are two hanahaki au alternate strategies that i did enjoy!!!

hanahaki developing to the afflicted because they think they are not loved by the other, when in reality, they are. the cure is the afflicted character learning to open their heart to hope and trust. all the original "unrequited" angst but with a bright happy ending with the choice not made on the other party to love (bc theyve loved since the beginning), but made by the person themself to allow themself, to believe themself to be loved.

hanahaki not as a painful terminal illness but as a short term mildly annoying illness born from the start of crushes. like OOP, IVE GOT A CRUSH, AND I JUST COUGHED OUT A ROSE PETAL IN FRONT OF SAID CRUSH, ABORT, ABORT!!! VERY AWKWARD CUTE STUFF!!!

ANYWAY, YEAH!! i hope this makes sense this is TOO MANY WORDS JSBGKSJDK