Flowers of Heaven: Status Effects

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Whenever a flower is burned on the blue flame pyre, everyone with that flower as a key has an essential part of themselves broken/destroyed. They temporarily catch fire along with the flower, then experience one of the two status effects listed. (The choice is OOC, not IC.)

Idols who lose both flowers experience death of the self: they experience (temporary) full amnesia, and are wreathed in blue flame. This status overrides other flower statuses.

(All "deaths" will be healed at the end of the game; however, the losers will continue to experience status effects for all lost keys, which will mean two effects for those who “died.”)



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I. Lotus
- Curse of irrelevance: become a solipsism—people literally struggle to remember you if not reminded; at worst, you might not feel real without them.
- Unchained power: your unit abilities respond to your emotions, whether you want them to or not.

II. Vervain
- Plague of self-doubt: you've lost trust in your own skill.
- Intense physical weakness.

III. Acacia
- Honesty causes physical pain.
- Lose desire to lie or equivocate—you're still capable of it, but just don't understand why you'd want to. Side-effects may include being honest to a fault, or talking about all those feelings you were planning to hide forever.

IV. Clematis
- Become cynical/pessimistic and unable to perceive beauty.
- Strong belief that everything is perfect and beautiful, including altered perceptions where necessary to sustain this belief.

V. Aconite
- Lose the ability to feel any anger at all.
- Unbound rage that ignites at the slightest provocation.

VI. Wild Oats
- Hollowed joy: the indulgences you love feel unsatisfying at best, pointless at worst, and even relaxation brings little relief.
- Unrestrained pleasure-seeking. What's an "inhibition"? Can you eat it?

VII. Star of Bethlehem
- Memory loss of that event, changing you to who you would be if it hadn’t happened.
- Plagued by flashbacks that interfere with reality.

VIII. Gorse
- Shattered bonds: lose all sense of restraint by or obligation to who/whatever it was that "held you in thrall." May extend to scorning any and all authority.
- Bound anew: become heavily—emotionally and/or literally physically—dependent on a group (e.g. your unit) or individual. (OOC choice, but be sure to clear this with the player/s who are the target of the dependency.)

IX. Honeysuckle
- Exhaustion, yet unable to sleep.
- Scars open (non-fatally) and resist healing, and phantom pain accompanies all past wounds.

X. Chamomile
- Lose ability to feel love (OOC discretion as to whether this means only romantic love, or any love at all).
- Overcome to the point of self-desctruction by the need to pursue an impossible or illusory Ideal (e.g. your ideal self, or a philosophical ideal).

XI. Wild Rose
- You’re hyper-aware of your otherness, and desperately try to conform to rid yourself of it.
- Utter disconnect from humanity.

XII. Hollyhock
- You're lost—your sense of purpose and/or conviction is gone. (You may be much more susceptible to persuasion as a result.)
- You're lost—where ARE you? Also you literally can’t navigate.
- SPECIAL: wing trauma
—characters with wings: wings wither painfully, and may fall off entirely
—characters without: wings (of a kind symbolic to the character's personal journey) burst from their back in a process that is neither quick nor painless. (Example: Haibane Renmei, cw: things moving under skin.)

XIII. Mimulus
- Insatiable wanderlust, to the point of risking sofaform.
- Agoraphobia (the fear is manageable if accompanied by a unitmate).

XIV. Water Lily
- Faith and/or spirituality feels hollow, pointless.
- Instinctive revulsion for the physical body.

XV. Oak
- "Mid-life crisis": you've gotta change your life! (Can be a classic mid-life crisis—dye your hair! buy a car!—or more existential, depending on what "change" means to the character.)
- Morality swap. (e.g. good to "evil," chaotic to lawful, careful neutrality to intense conviction)

XVI. Alyssum
- Forget greatest achievement—and feel distinctly conscious of that gap. There was something that once made your journey worthwhile, wasn't there? But it's gone.
- An intense feeling of ambition that cannot be satisfied; all you accomplish or have accomplished feels hollow.