i find it really funny when in hanahaki fics unrequited love was requited all along. like, why did they have hanahaki if their love wasn't one-sided? can you get hanahaki from thinking someone doesn't love you? what about people with trust issues? do they just die?
if there's a disease that causes you to cough flowers specifically because the person you love doesn't love you, and then later it turns out they did love you back the entire time, WHY were you sick in the first place? placebo effect?? what is this, make believe your own suffering???
and don't get me started when somebody dies and the person they loved finds them and they're like "if only i confessed my true feelings". sorry my guy, your beloved died because anxiety.
if you can get hanahaki because you feel unloved then oh boy it opens a can of worms you do not want to open. trust me.
am i nitpicking? maybe. but it really does break my immersion when i start thinking about how high school would look like in a world like this