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(Y/n) had told themself that once Ace returned they would confess their feelings to him. After the war and his death, they never got the chance to tell him. The flowers growing in (Y/n)’s lungs burned, after his death, they thought the flowers would wither and die. That was not the case as the flowers began to fester and grow with newfound vigor. Ace was gone and (Y/n) could not stop loving him. They were going to bring up possibly having the surgery to the ship's doctors, but it was already too late. Before they could even ask, their lungs had already given out. Holed up in their room they choked on the flowers clogging their throat. The constant stream of flowers pooling in their mouth stopped them from crying out for help. (Y/n) died in a mixture of blood and flowers. Reunited with Ace in the afterlife.