manager in the fanfiction universe: I don't care how many flower petals you're coughing up. You need to come in today
Cranky customers: That’s the trouble with young people today, they don’t want to work. . Why when I was your age, they just put a basket next to the deli counter and we coughed ‘em up and kept right on working. Sometimes the petals got in the sandwiches for extra flavor.
@blueblynd I have seen that variant several times, actually. The dramatic tension is more satisfying that way IMO - if you could be rid of your painful unrequited love with a medical or magical cure, wouldn’t most people leap for that option, even in a story where hanahaki isn’t fatal? Make yourself feel better and make sure the other person remains unbothered by your pesky feelings, a win-win.
But if you’d be blunting your ability to love permanently, it becomes the stuff that tragic myths are made of.










