Hanahaki Event

Thanks to the massive reach of social media, some people romanticize the death of a loved one and the suffering caused by it.

Sayings like the following became popular: “You rooted me down, now let me breathe” “You’re killing me” “You have planted your roots, but you haven’t watered them.”

Governments are doing what they can to avoid collapse, using all their resources to keep the medical system running. Education is compressed into a 10-year block of study (five years of primary school and five years of secondary school) to allow early access to university.

There were critical periods, but several battles were won.

Each of Cupid's challenges is called an "arm-wrestling match," since both parties must keep their arms steady. The biggest blow came when medicine discovered the "cure." There is a black market for love, although it is inefficient, since only the loved person (with heart, mind, body and soul) can heal the person.

Everything is calm for now.

Cupid barely rests. For example, during the Glorious Period (2018–2020), he stopped harassing humanity, giving it a breather before returning with full force on March 21, 2021. In this world, COVID-19 and its variants did not exist, as the initial infected could barely withstand the plant-like aberration in their lungs.

It's been 16 years of constant wobbling. For now, the world remains functionally normal.

Crematoriums are saturated and highly profitable, due to the lack of space for cemeteries without interfering with society. It seems that everything has calmed down, but there is no certainty that this is the case.

Global events hardly differ from the original world, as this is not a conventional epidemic.

Mortality and vulnerability have left areas of the world completely devastated.

V. Relationship with Humanity Cupid does not hate humans. But it doesn't protect them either. He considers them incomplete as long as they hide what they feel. Observe, intervene, and adjust. Every human reaction feeds into his experiment. VI. Reaction to Social Groups Lovers: He validates them, even if they die. They represent total honesty. Armadillos: He considers them to be in denial. They are often forced to emotionally collapse. Neutrals: They see them as unstable. Neither honest nor in denial. It does not favor survival. It promotes exposure. VII. Limitations You cannot create love where it does not exist. You cannot force genuine reciprocity It depends entirely on real human emotions That's why the system never stabilizes. VIII. Result of your Intervention Cupid achieved his goal: Love ceased to be invisible. But the cost was the transformation of the human bond into a field of constant risk, where feeling implies exposure and not being reciprocated implies death. IX. Current State Asset. It has not been contained or destroyed. It shows no intention of stopping. Human adaptations do not negate it. They only change the form of the conflict.

I. Nature Cupid is not a god in the classical sense. He is a conscious force of human connection, an entity that exists where there is desire, projection, and emotional need. Before 2010, it operated invisibly, almost passively: it induced, connected, suggested. After 2010, he decided to intervene. Do not create love. It forces him to manifest himself. II. Rupture (2010) Cupid rebelled against gods and humans for one simple reason: Love, being the most decisive thing in human life, was treated as something hidden, denied or postponed. The invisibility of the feeling made it, in his eyes, a structural lie. His answer was direct: to make love visible, even if that meant massive suffering. The result was the release of the Hanahaki Event. III. Motivation Cupid does not seek destruction. Seek absolute honesty. But his definition of honesty is incompatible with human survival: If you feel it, show it. If you deny it, your body screams it. If it is not reciprocated, it becomes harmful. For Cupid, unrequited love is not a tragedy… It is an inconsistency that must be resolved. IV. Intervention Methods

1. Hanahaki It transforms unrequited emotions into lethal physical matter. It does not distinguish age, context, or intention.
2. Arrows of Bitterness Applied to individuals who feign affection for their own benefit. Effects: Progressive emotional depletion Inability to form genuine bonds Persistence of life without affective capacity It doesn't kill the body. It eliminates the possibility of feeling.
3. Systemic Pressure It does not directly attack hospitals, but it overwhelms the system by generating simultaneous massive cases. Result: Healthcare collapse Social despair Increased impulsive decisions V. Relationship with Humanity Cupid does not hate humans. But it doesn't protect them either. He considers them incomplete as long as they hide what they feel. Observe, intervene, and adjust. Every human reaction feeds into his experiment.

Lovers: they staked everything on love; their very lives were a coin toss. Many became active hunters of their counterpart's attention, their "cure." They fought diplomatically, tooth and nail, against other lovers seeking the same person. So much so that they were called "sincericides," since they were so transparent with their feelings that it was almost suicidal. Many were rejected, dying in the process. Others managed to win their love and form lasting partnerships. But not all were true lovers: some only sought their own salvation, using the beloved as a vaccine. To these latter, Cupid responded by emptying his quiver of bitter arrows into their bodies. Armadillos: people who denied their love to avoid dying. They took refuge in solitude, avoiding contact with others. But even that failed: many couldn't bear the isolation and sought out their targets, mostly failing and losing their lives… or their feelings. Within this group, there was a high number of non-heterosexual confessions, as they surrounded themselves with people of the same gender to avoid falling in love, and ended up developing feelings anyway, manifesting the symptoms. (Although a considerable number were reciprocated.) Others were left alone and empty. Neutrals: people who neither avoided feeling nor fully surrendered to it. Ordinary people who didn't hide what they felt but also didn't obsess over it. Many died, refusing surgery so as not to lose their emotions. There were also more groups, but they were smaller. Neutrals: people who didn't shy away from obsession. Ordinary people who didn't hide their feelings. Many of them died because they refused surgery for fear of feeling their hearts grow cold.

There were also more groups, but they were smaller.

In this world, Cupid rebelled against the gods and against humans, deciding to make love visible, by any means necessary. To accomplish this, he unleashed a global plague (see World Health Organization, WHO, Black File I and II) and achieved exactly what he promised… but at the cost of the lives of countless people who didn't even understand what was happening to them. The beginning was recorded in 2010. During the first few years, many believed it was the real “end of the world” that had been so often rumored around 2012. It didn't arrive like fire or meteorites, but as something much quieter: people dying from feelings they couldn't bear. Over time, humanity managed to respond and develop countermeasures. But Cupid had no intention of giving up. He intensified the conflict by attacking indirectly: he overwhelmed healthcare systems, overflowed hospitals, and created a domino effect where even those who saved lives ended up needing to be saved themselves. In the midst of this chaos, the real cause was discovered: unrequited love. This led to deep, highly polarized social rifts (see “society”). Relationships ceased to be a private matter and became a question of life and death. Even so, it wasn't all downturn. A wave of mass correspondence emerged, generating a sudden reversal of the disease. People confessed, relationships were strengthened, feelings finally found their answer. For a brief period, it seemed that humanity might win. But the problem was just beginning. Many of those targeted for love and infatuation already had someone in their lives or hearts. This left a huge number of people without any hope of recovery, trapped in a hopeless situation, making the process uneven and cruel. Thus passed the first ten years.

PART II VI. Treatments:

1. Emotional resolution It requires emotional reciprocity. It stops the growth It allows for functional recovery.
2. Surgical intervention Floral tissue extraction Eliminates the disease It causes loss of the associated emotional bond VII. Forecast: Without treatment: progression to respiratory failure Early treatment: high recovery Delayed treatment: possible pulmonary sequelae The speed of progression depends on the emotional intensity and its persistence. VIII. Clinical observation: The illness physically manifests an unresolved emotional conflict. Denial or inability to resolve increases the aggressiveness of the growth. IX. Additional Notes: It is not contagious It does not have biological vectors It affects exclusively the individual with the emotional conflict It can vary in floral form depending on the emotional bond

PART I I. Description Hanahaki disease is a psychosomatic disorder where an unrequited romantic emotion induces the formation of floral structures within the respiratory system. The structures (petals, stems, and complete flowers) develop primarily in the lungs and trachea, interfering with respiration. The specific flower species may vary depending on the emotional connection. II. Etiology Unrequited romantic love Repression or inability to express affection Rejection or impossibility of reciprocity Sustained emotional conflict generates an abnormal response that transforms the affective burden into invasive organic matter. III. Clinical progression (symptoms in order) Phase I – Start Thoracic pressure Occasional dry cough Mild breathing discomfort Persistent thoughts about the person Phase II – Manifestation Frequent cough with expulsion of petals Throat irritation Slight presence of blood Fatigue Low fever Phase III – Development Expulsion of floral fragments with stems Moderate/severe chest pain Progressive respiratory distress Physical weakness Phase IV – Invasion Growth of full flowers Partial airway obstruction Coughing up blood Shortness of breath at rest V. Severity: Phase I: mild Phase II: moderate Phase III: severe Phase IV: Criticism Phase V: terminal