...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Hanahaki Disease
- 90 statements
- 15 feature instances
- 8 referencing feature instances
| Hanahaki Disease | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Hanahaki Disease | label |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease | page |
HanahakiDisease | |
| Hanahaki Disease | comment |
Hanahaki Disease is a fictional disease where someone begins coughing up flower petals because they have unrequited feelings for someone. The flowers can grow in the stomach, lungs, or heart, though it is traditionally in the lungs. Hanahaki Disease is a painful, slow disease that often develops over months, if not years, and begins with coughing up a few petals, and grows in intensity and pain until the victim is coughing up entire flowers, at which point the disease has reached its final stages. If not treated, the disease is fatal. It's primarily an online phenomenon that appears in Fan Works, but it has appeared in original works as well. Hanahaki Disease originates from Japanese works. The word hanahaki is a fusion of the Japanese words hana ("flower") and haku ("throw up"). The first usage of the trope is unclear, but it was popularized in Japanese Yaoi Genre fandoms before spreading to Korean fandoms and then other international fandoms. This trope is popular because it has a lot of melodramatic angst potential, while also being pretty. Death by Hanahaki Disease is tragic but beautiful - the victim is killed from within by something as beautiful as flowers. Haunted by their unrequited love, the person usually tries to cover up their illness. They'll leave behind trails of bloody flowers, which are both horrific and aesthetically pleasing. Flower Motifs are often used, which adds to the symbolism. The flowers are frequently associated with their unrequited love interest: it could be their favorite flower, their favorite color, a flower they're named after, or something along those lines. (So, for example, if Bob is in love with Sakura, he might cough up cherry blossoms.) Despite how deadly Hanahaki Disease is, it can be instantly cured if it turns out the other person likes the dying person back. It can also be cured by surgery, but this cure often means that the person will lose their feelings for the person they love (a double-edged sword that amps up the drama). Alternatively, the person being operated on will lose all memory of the person. If, for some reason, it can't be cured, it sometimes can be managed with medication (though this is not seen too often), but it never fully goes away. If the sick character witnesses the person they are pining for being lovey-dovey with someone else their symptoms may worsen. The trope carries some Unfortunate Implications, as the person being pined for is either forced to return the victim's feelings (something that cannot truly be forced from someone and that no one should feel obligated to do under any circumstances) or be responsible for their death. Alternate versions of the trope have been proposed to avoid these implications, either by making the disease an inconvenience rather than life-threatening or by shifting the disease's trigger to the victim not confessing their feelings without regard to whether the other person returns their feelings or not. Others have suggested widening the disease to things besides love, like bottled up emotions or trauma. Sub-trope to Incurable Cough of Death, Hopeless Suitor, Flowers of Romance, and All Love Is Unrequited. Related to Body Horror and Victorian Novel Disease. If an LGBT character coughs up relevant flowers, see Queer Flowers. |
|
| Hanahaki Disease | fetched |
2024-02-07T19:00:59Z | |
| Hanahaki Disease | parsed |
2024-02-07T19:00:59Z | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to Cheekface: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to DoingInTheWizard: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to GoodOmens: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to TropeCodifier: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingComment |
Dropped link to Vocaloid: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingUnknown |
Cheekface (Music) | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingUnknown |
GoodOmens | |
| Hanahaki Disease | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_1b021fcb | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_1b021fcb | comment |
The cover of chapter 45 of Tokyo Ghoul:re shows Kanae vomiting and choking on rose petals. This is two chapters after Eto tortures him with a manipulative Breaking Speech that exploits his unrequited love towards Tsukiyama. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_1b021fcb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_1b021fcb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_1b021fcb | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_332a877b | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_332a877b | comment |
Wonderlab: There is an Abnormality based on this concept, known as the "Staining Rose". The rose desires only one specific person that satisfies the conditions to manage it to "resonate" with it. If anyone besides that person manages it, or if that person neglects it for a certain period of time, the rose will inflict those outside of its Containment Unit with a contagious disease that makes the infected cough up red rose petals until they die. Word of God states that Staining Rose is not based on Hanahaki Disease, but the side effects from managing it improperly resemble this trope. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_332a877b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_332a877b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wonderlab (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_332a877b | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_49ff762 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_49ff762 | comment |
Played with in Torchwood "Small Worlds", where a man dies from what appears to be this (complete with Vomit Indiscretion Shot) but it later turns out to be The Fair Folk protecting a child from the unsavoury character. The feelings are obviously unrequited, but in this case that's definitely a good thing. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_49ff762 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_49ff762 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Torchwood | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_49ff762 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_6744d821 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_6744d821 | comment |
The long The Owl House oneshot if this is love, please don't break me has Amity suffering this illness after realizing she's in love with Luz, who tries to reciprocate the former's feelings throughout. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_6744d821 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_6744d821 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Owl House | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_6744d821 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8608d984 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8608d984 | comment |
Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Haruhi turns out to have the disease, requires medication to alleviate her symptoms, and as her condition worsens she coughs up more rose petals. Uniquely, there is no indication that unrequited love was the cause. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8608d984 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8608d984 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danganronpa: Memento Mori (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_8608d984 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8f25225c | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8f25225c | comment |
The Danganronpa fanfic Silver Bloom has this as the main plot as Kirumi Tojo is hired by Shuichi Saihara's family as a maid and ends up falling for the detective, despite her belief that maids should not hold an emotional attachment to their masters, thus catching the Hanahaki disease. As such, she does try and hide it to keep working, even willing to undergo a procedure that could render her unable to feel emotions ever again. Eventually, it is revealed that Shuichi had the disease as well. Thankfully, the two are finally able to confess to one another and become an Official Couple, overcoming the disease and surviving. The fic does also work to try Doing In the Wizard by giving a scientific explanation for how the disease occurs and gives a grim prognosis. The starting point of the disease is a strange imbalance in the brain, and suppressing emotions increases the likelihood that someone catches it. It also explains that the disease is far more dangerous, as flowers within the body will cause problems in breathing, digestion, and liver and kidney function. Additionally, there are ways to reduce the symptoms, namely by introducing microbes and larva that eat the flowers to keep the symptoms at bay. |
|
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8f25225c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_8f25225c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danganronpa (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_8f25225c | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_b4967d43 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_b4967d43 | comment |
Sonic the Hedgehog Slash Fic Hanahaki Disease is about Sonic coughing up pink rose petals because of his crush on Shadow. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_b4967d43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_b4967d43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_b4967d43 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bb1b8e8c | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bb1b8e8c | comment |
The Critical Role fanfiction The Mind and The Malady explains the affliction to be the result of pent-up magical energies manifesting physically, only seen in powerful mages who find themselves suffering from unrequited love. The disease is terminal if left untreated, though "confession and reciprocity" can cure it (as can a spell that will erase the sufferer's affections). The fic follows one such afflicted mage, Essek Thelyss, as he charts the progression of his illness and attempts to manage the symptoms, all while trying to keep the subject of his pining in the dark and helping the Mighty Nein save the world. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bb1b8e8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bb1b8e8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Critical Role (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_bb1b8e8c | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bdae670d | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bdae670d | comment |
In the Yuri!!! on Ice fic series a mess, it grows, Christophe, who has been in love with Victor (who is already in a relationship with Yuri K.), has gotten into the last stages of Hanahaki, so he resigns himself to die from that and as such he lets Pitchit accompany him on what he believes to be his last days, only to discover during a medical check that the flowers in his chest are dying, making Christophe realize that he has gotten over Victor and has now fallen for Pitchit. The implication is that if you manage to survive Hanahaki for long enough to fall out of love with the original target or fall in love with another person, the disease will disappear by itself. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bdae670d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bdae670d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Yuri!!! on Ice | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_bdae670d | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bfb483af | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bfb483af | comment |
The Splatoon oneshot i'm so full of love i can hardly breathe is about Pearl suffering with the disease because of her feelings for her best friend Marina. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bfb483af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_bfb483af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Splatoon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_bfb483af | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_c5e69cfa | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_c5e69cfa | comment |
In the Lolita fanfiction called A child rapist gets hanahaki disease and the only medicine is reality, Unreliable Narrator Humbert horrifically uses Hanahaki Disease as justification for his attraction toward little girls. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_c5e69cfa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_c5e69cfa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lolita | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_c5e69cfa | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_d5ddd6c1 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_d5ddd6c1 | comment |
In the Pokémon: The Series one-shot forget-me-not, Misty gets the disease because of her feelings for Ash. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon: The Series | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_d5ddd6c1 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_db30cf92 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_db30cf92 | comment |
In the Warrior Cats fic Bluebells, Leafpool gets the disease because of Mothwing. She initially thinks it's greencough (pneumonia), but she begins coughing up flowers alongside blood. Eventually Leafpool begins sprouting flowers out her chest. Right before she dies, she confesses to Mothwing, who says that she likes her back. This cures Leafpool of her Hanahaki Disease. There is also a Multi-Animator Project based off of the fic. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_db30cf92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_db30cf92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warrior Cats | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_db30cf92 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_e21a006 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_e21a006 | comment |
The BTS AU fic the weight of love, or idol's disease presents a scenario where the people getting Hanahaki Disease isn't the one in love but the loved one. As the title indicates, is quite common among entertainers, and a legitimate problem for entertainment companies as they want their talent to be loved enough to become popular but no so loved that it endangers their livehood. Companies try to reduce the risk by concealing every personal info about their talent (even their legal names), and music labels rarely debut soloists going for multitudinous groups instead (as fans will divide their love and attention between the members), but even those measures aren't always enough. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_e21a006 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_e21a006 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BTS (Music) | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_e21a006 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_fdbace96 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_fdbace96 | comment |
In this Gravity Falls fanart, After Wendy tell him that she's not interested, a heart-broken Dipper begins having flowers growing out of his eye until Pacifica begins showing him her feelings for him. | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_fdbace96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Hanahaki Disease / int_fdbace96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gravity Falls | hasFeature |
Hanahaki Disease / int_fdbace96 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
Fanfic Tropes | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
Flower Garden Index | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
Index Syndrome | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
Indexitis | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
The Newest Ones in the Book | |
| Hanahaki Disease | processingCategory2 |
Unrequited Love Tropes | |
| Cheekface (Music) / int_e84b5cf4 | type |
Hanahaki Disease | |
| Seraphim Slum (Video Game) / int_e84b5cf4 | type |
Hanahaki Disease |
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.