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Many of these were actually worked into FKG's lore too. Rice Lily has a curse that repeatedly got her squad killed (her flower language is apparently derived from the story of Sassa Narimasa and Sayuri, in which a concubine is wrongly killed by a samurai and curses him in return), Snake Gourd's "man hater" makes her one, Mirabilis ("shyness") is extremely meek, Lavender is a yandere because of "distrust", Tiger Lily's horns and Spider Lily's tails have caused them some grief in the past ("hatred", "sad memories"), Forget-me-Not used to be an unparalleled flower knight who is now crippled due to a certain incident that she can't forget, Japanese Anemone is afraid to fall in love because of "fading love" (she saw a close friend go yandere because of it, and figured that this love business was too scary for her), and Dahlia ("betrayal") was in fact betrayed in the past.

The trio of LN-only, pest-corrupted flower knights also have this as their unifying theme, between Mandragora's "horror", Redbud's "distrust, betrayal" and Nepenthes' "sweet trap", with Wolfsbane ("hatred, vengeance") nearly heading that way as well. Other flowers have more positive spins on their meanings: Allium has a positive outlook towards her "infinite sorrow", Dendrobium's "selfish beauty" applies only to her kit, and Catchfly's "insistence" and "a trap" is mostly for pests (as is natural, since this is a semi-carnivorous plant). Some other interesting flower meanings include sundew ("fraud, dishonesty"), asphodel ("my regrets follow you to the grave"), Duranta ("conceit"), tansy ("I declare against you"), henbane ("imperfection"), coreander ("bitterness, rancor"), basil ("hatred"), manchineel ("perfidy"), linden viburnum ("I'll die if you ignore me"), cypress ("despair") and false strawberry ("impish charm").