Sneezing Blood

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It started with sneeze —Series Pixiv Description

Sneezing Blood is a series of poems by Amoridere that tell a narrative of a mysterious "blood plague" (as Amo dubs it in hashtags) and how, quote, "the world ended with a sneeze".

Tropes used in Sneezing Blood include:

• Ambiguous Situation: Did the "sneezer" in Panic at the U.N actually have Patient Zero's disease or were they experiencing a nosebleed at the moment they sneezed? Regardless, it caused a panic.
• Artistic License Biology/ Artistic License Medicine:
  • There is a hemorrhagic septicemic disease, yes, but it doesn't affect humans , though, this is somewhat downplayed, as PZ's disease is zoonotic.
  • If not for the sake of plotline, bacterial diseases don't work like PZ's disease, as, in real life, aside from permanent effects, her disease could have been cured, though, the blood loss probably would have killed her before the infection itself does.
• Blood From the Mouth: A road less travelled in that PZ sneezes blood.
• Cult: Alluded to in The Cult of Plague, wherein the cults have formed around the Plague, Patient Zero, and the Immune
• Empathy Doll Shot: The cover for Phase 6 has teddy bears.
• From Bad to Worse: It starts with a sneeze and by a point, governments realize how effective PZ's disease is effective as a bioweapon.
• Ill Girl: The Patient Zero. She is chronically sick with a septicemic disease and her meds have stopped working.
• The Immune: Ill and the Immune has the first appearance of the Immune, who's, of course, immune to her disease.
• Infant Immortality:
  • Phase Six is implied to avert this, considering the family's options.
  • Aside from Phase Six, it's implied that children have died from the disease itself.
• Narrative Poem: Poems rather. The story is told through this series of poems.
• No Name Given: Neither Patient Zero or the Immune are named, though Lyssaria implies that the former's name is "Lyssa".
• No Biochemical Barriers: As Zoonosis—ESREVER demonstrates, Patient Zero's disease can be spread to and from animals.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Freeing PZ (as Amoridere dubs her) in "the patient isn't in the building" was well-intentioned but her rescuer caught her disease and helped further spread it by dropping her in a place where no one else was exposed, where she sneezes again.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The disease. We only know four things about it but we don't know where it came from or how the Patient Zero caught it, much less why it kills almost everyone else that isn't her (or the Immune).
• Offing the Offspring: Happens in Phase Six, wherein a family is implied to kill their children, with Mercy Kill.
• The Plague: The outbreak starts with the Patient Zero sneezing and then the spread continues from there. Three things that are clear is what it does (and it's not pretty), no treatments can help, and, by Blood at the Borders, the country is on the verge of collapse because of it.
• Typhoid Mary: A weirdly inverted case, as the subject is symptomatic, she's just not contagious — that is, until her medicines stop working.