Hi I am in love with this hello- just. Yes! Yes!!! love as horror is something that can be so personal actually-
Feel free to ramble about this as much as you want anytime you want I am hooked
oleg!!!! Im so happy to have a mutual with this same type of obsession as me!!!
Ok. So like. Im actually a sucker for hananaki disease since im a big fan of flowers and flower language, also abt themes horror and/or love BUT it is also so painfully disappointing that most takes are so....alloromantic and amatonormative and arophobic, so it's been a long time since i wanted to make an aromantic perspective of the trope! I remember a post talking abt something similar, i will have to find it.
Anyways, with hananaki disease i wanted to address topic such as non romantic forms of love; how love is something inherently selfish for better or for worse; the ethical implications abt the surgery thing; unrequited love from the perspective of person who isn't in love with the another person; death in general; what is considered 'unrequited' or not; society view on the disease and its romanticism; the deathly beauty of the disease; also instead of being solely tragic it's something joyful either in a fucked up way or in a "i know my love (be it platonic romantic familial etc etc) is requited but my love for you is so big that i feel like i will bloom an entire field of flowers for you" or something nice and ok in general; also a polyam take!!!!
There so many options and opportunities and i desperately want to write about them! Again, im v sad that there is close to none takes like that....
And abt other concepts besides hananaki, like i said in the tags i want to take some sayings or romantic beliefs or general concepts to its most literal and extreme conception.
"I have butterflies in my stomach" well you have butterflies on your stomach, theyre trying to eat you inside out and your torso will be ripped apart and butterflies soaked in your blood and flesh will fly away announcing your love to the world
"They're my soulmate/my other half" well thats but as a curse. You will never be free. You will forever be imprisoned with that person, whatever it is physically or emotionally or spiritually. Your soul and self is not your own and that begs the question if your seld agency is real
"The red string of fate" you have a string of fate but instead of being tied in your pinky finger, its strangling you. Maybe it's red because it your or yours beloved's blood. The string will slowly cut and suffocate you.
"I cant help but look at their way" that but literally. If you're ever in the same room as the person you will only be able to look at them and will be unable to see anything else. (The danmei devil venerable did that and i fucking loved it)
"Love is in the air" yeah it's a deadly toxic gas that will fuck you up or straight up kill you
And also places like paris, high schools, coffee shops and other typical romantic places have a higher amount of cases like that!
There must be some more but these are the one that comes from the top of my mind.
And abt the comic thing, i had actually thought only briefly abt that and never had given a more deep thought cuz i was focusing more on my other wips. That will change from now on tho! I want to make a story with multiple pov or main characters, maybe an anthology? But it will have an aromantic protagonist/recurring character who resolves these brutal cases, even if in most cases theyre just a supporting character for the pov characters
