Azalea's Bloom

𑁍 ꪖɀꪖꪶꫀꪖ- 𝒻𝓁ℴ𝓌ℯ𝓇 ❀

Hanahaki is a disease where a person of one-sided or unrequited love starts to cough up and vomit the petals and flowers of a plant that has grown deep in their lungs. If left untreated, the petals will begin to block the windpipe and make it impossible to breathe until they die.

Hanahaki can be cured when the victim's feelings are reciprocated or through surgical removal of the roots. But when the infection is removed, the patient's romantic feelings and memories of their love also disappear with no way to get them back.

Hanahaki disease trope first became popular in Japan, 2009 with the manga Hanahaki Otome, or The Girl Who Spit Flowers, by Naoko Matsuda. Since then, it has become popular worldwide, and many fanfictions and fan art have been made depicting Hanahaki Disease.

The world believed this to be a fictional disease that may have been loosely inspired by Sporotrichosis, more commonly known as rose gardener's disease. Until the day that I met Keaton Stromberg.