#sihe lore

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Okay so

Now that this is the end

Remember when you answered that ask and posted Hanahaki spoiler without context?

I may be dumb but even now I'm.confused about it xD

Could you expain what they meant please?

By the way I absolutely l o v e d following the comic. Everything from the artstyle to the story was absolutely beautiful

Oh, my! You are so right, I forgot to address that although I had it in the back of my mind xD You are not dumb, you are very valid considering how incredibly vague they were, as well as scene specific. Ok so, this is not an exact 1/1 but I will elaborate further:

1- Ok, the first one was not- in fact- about both of them being stupid. Although the person that had interpreted this as such was very right. So, it is heavily implied and some people caught it but I think some might have not and not everyone was around when we had been talking about it here, that Hizashi did in fact get the surgery the first time around, when they were still in school. In the flashback you see him taking a moment to remember Aizawa because of it, so the first picture was (maybe a bit of a tease) symbolizing the memory erasure. 👀

2- The second is so much more easy to explain xD It was just the glass of water Shouta gave Hizashi when he woke up.

3- Is just as easy, and while it could have honestly been applied to any part of the story, I actually had the spread page in mind when I had put that photo there 😌

4- EMERGENCY MEETING- Called by Cyan. The colour choice was important eheheh, because that picture was a reference to the flashback. Where Oboro and Shouta had an "emergency meeting" to talk about Hizashi.

And this clears out that ehehe, it was so much fun when I had posted it and seeing everyone's guesses of it 💕 Hope this wasn't much of an underwhelming answer xD

Thank you very much!! 💚

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I think the ending being kind of ambiguous is really nice! It has this bittersweet sort of feel to it that you don't really get with hanahaki ideas very often if at all and it was an immensely beautiful read especially with the later pages being all Aizawa POV! I loved it from start to finish so thank you very much for sharing it with us!

Awww, that is what I was hopping! It makes me very happy to hear it came through 🖤

All of the story leading up to a POV shift had been the plan from the beginning, so we could understand what had been going through Shouta's head. We didn't get to see a few of the details of Aizawa's POV, either because I couldn't work them in organically, or because they would have made the story drag, or ruined the pacing, but I got to show the most vital parts of it and the emotion he was going through.

For example, something I couldn't really portray without spelling it out was that once Hizashi had confessed to Shouta in his delirium, Aizawa couldn't actually confront him about the flowers anymore, because it could have doomed him. Since the disease depends on the perspective of the person infected, if Aizawa had revealed what he knew and confessed anyway there would be a risk that Hizashi wouldn't have believed him, thinking he was doing it to save him, meaning he would be fucked and there wouldn't be much Shouta could have done at this point (similarly, if Hizashi got convinced Shouta loved him back he'd be healed regardless of whether or not it was true. Which thankfully is not the case in this story). So that's why every time Hizashi drifts off, or starts coughing, risking compromising his secret, Shouta distracts him and deflects.

Little lore dump you didn't ask for but I was looking for the opportunity to share xD Thank you so much for the sweet words, sincerely. I was incredibly worried about disappointing people with that end but it was the original vision and I stuck to it. Everyone has been very sweet and kind with it too, so it makes me happy.

Thank you once more for reading and enjoying! Have a wonderful day 🌸

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Self Indulgent Hanahaki Erasermic

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In your Erasermic hanahaki comic, how long has Mic been coughing up petals/flowers? Did the incident with the girl occur during high school or later on in life? I know I'm sorta late to the party, but I just had to ask.

🌸 Hello! Don't worry, you're welcome at any point.

Mic was infected by the Hanahaki quirk in high school, yes. It is implied (very subtly, sorry about that) in the flashback that he had the surgical procedure to remove the flowers, which stopped them (and removed his romantic feelings toward Shouta) for a while.

Inevitably, Mic fell in love with Shouta again down the line, and started coughing up petals once more until the quirk user offered to stilt its growth. A good solution that they warned him, wasn't permanent. That was around his early twenties.

The plant was still there, but dormant. He hadn't coughed up petals for years, until the Tartarus visit broke the spell, which brings us to the start of the comic.

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Ooo that doesn't quite look like aizawa :0 im excited to see who it is!!

It's because he is not wearing black, isn't it? I understand the confusion. I was really debating and overthinking about that too! Damn. Listen, he is borrowing one of Hizashi's shirts, anditcontrastswellwithhishairnowthatheisnotwearinghisscarforhasittiedup, ok? No white or colorful clothes in Aizawa's wardrobe.

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Wait to stop the flowers from essentially suffocating him does aizawa have to love him back?

🌸 He does but it is not enough. The quirk feeds on the infected person’s perception of reality.

🌸 Which means for him to be cured, Mic will have to believe that his feelings are reciprocated. Even if Shouta straight up said he loves Hizashi, the flowers wouldn’t go away if Hizashi wasn’t convinced it was true.

🌸 It works the other way around too. If Shouta said he loves him and managed to convince him, the flowers would go away. Even if Shouta was lying about loving him back.