Heads up! Someone was asking if they were able to use this idea a while ago and I just didn't see it, so if that was you I'm sorry!
To answer the question yes this idea is free to use if you would like to write something for it. All I ask is if I would be able to get some sort of credit for it. Whether that's linking this post or linking the actual work from ao3 is fine.
Have fun writing and hope that it turns out great! I would love to read anything that's written with it as well!!
@queerjustices
Alright I had this idea a while ago.
So there's the normal Hanahaki diseases. That one where if someone loves someone, they'll throw up flowers growing in their lungs until the person loves them back and that's basically the only cure.
Well I had the idea to turn it into a platonic "looking for a family" sort of situation. I thought of this at like 3 am one night and it hasn't been able to leave my brain alone.
Basically I'm working on a story where Carter Locke has Hanahaki and it only gets better when he finds a family that's not a crappy manipulative uncle. It's following pretty closely to what actually happens in the first book with some minor changes here and there.
I named it "Roses are the Flowers of a Magician" (RATFOAM for short. It wasn't intentional but I think it's funny).