operasteers | surely they don't just sweep all those flowers down the drain

i was talking with a friend about teas and various ingredients when i started to wonder.... what do they do with all the petals in hanakai aus? like, maybe the petals are types that disintegrate once they've come out of the host but there's also that surgical removal so, presumably, the doctors have all these little bouquets that are just flowing with the feelings of the host

and imagine if they used those bouquets for teas... like, would teas made from petals of a first love taste light and sweet, or would all the petals be inedible because they're too bitter, or maybe that bitterness is part of the appeal/an acquired taste? imagine what tea made from unrequited love would taste like, esp if the flowers were removed moments after the host perishes...

i'm now craving tea... and wondering if this would be considered a sort of body horror/cannibalistic sort of thing...

but anyhow! i think it'd be interesting if the flowers were used for making teas and other various culinary dishes (and i kinda wanna incorporate this into the hanahaki fic that i have in my drafts)

or maybe they just gather the flowers and make some sort of compost with them... pressed flower bookmarks or other cute little accessories that come with the remaining energy of longing loves (now i'm just imagining some sort of blackmarket for all sorts of goods made from flowers from ppl infected with hanahaki.... god imagine if they even had some occupation where you could pay someone to go and trick a selected target to fall in love, all in order to get a certain bouquet.... the studies that are probably done seeing who has a higher chance of yielding which flowers and so on....)