Hana
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Hana
Hana in a chemical laboratory
| Born | ... Hana |
| 29 May 2003 | |
| Fountain Valley, California, U.S. | |
| Aliases | Hanners |
| Hana Banana | |
| Rat Bastard (assigned Simran) | |
| Slai (assigned Zach) | |
| Hammer (assigned Chizel) | |
| Nationality | American |
| Residence | California |
| Education | Santa Clara University |
| Spouses | Adrian (HanaDrain) |
| Eden (???) | |
| Scientific Career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Cell Biology | |
| Entomology | |
| Plant Development | |
| Restorative Ecology | |
Hana (japanese: 花, Hana; born 29 May 2003) is an ecologist, botanist, queer activist, cosplayer, and artist who is best known for their astoundingly unecessary Cinnamoroll collection and library of strange stims. They enjoy spending time around people, looking at greenery, and pondering.
Raised in San Jose, Hana studied Biology at Santa Clara University and graduated June of 2025. At this institution, Hana made their way around the biology, chemistry, and physics departments by working as the lab associate's assistant. Hana was known in high school to be rather recluse and otherwise neurotic, having won a few mathematic awards and participated in several hobbyist clubs.
Hana is somewhat known for Greenhouse, a story and aspiring comic about queer segregation and the perils of allophobia; the story was first conceived in middle school and is still a work in progress. While it is certainly not renowned as a standalone piece, their beloved character Cheryl Clausen has made small waves among captive audiences willing friends (the ever loved Adrian and Zachary).
Early Life
Hana was born in UCI Health, a hospital located in the predominantly Vietnamese-occupied city of Fountain Valley in Southern California. Their mother, Mom, was from Vietnam and father, Dad, from China, which explains why they were born in Southern California. Their deadname was chosen by Dad's childhood best friend which Hana has since abandoned due to this individual's history of what can only be described as horrendous activities.
Hana was raised with three brothers: Anthony (or Tony, 5 years their senior and born to a different father), Tyler (or Tai, 4 years their junior) and Bryant (6 years their junior). They were raised as Vietnamese Catholics, which Hana abandoned quite early on in their life after discovering Tumblr and the LGBT community in middle school.
Hana goes on to attend Learning Star, a preschooling institution, then Vinci Park for most of their elementary years. Notably, in the third grade, Hana is recognized behaviorally as a "Citizen of the Month." Unrelatedly, they were a member of the student council. Hana was also known to frequently earn first place at jump roping during the school wide olympics events.
Just when Hana was about to enter the fifth grade, Mom decided that she wanted to transfer Hana to a new school based around Tony's convenience. He was set to attend Milpitas High School (MHS), which was a ways out from Vinci Park and would be inconvenient during Mom's morning commute. This landed Hana a spot at Anthony Spangler, which went up to the sixth grade, a grade more than Vinci Park taught.
Obviously, switching schools meant leaving behind friends and memories. Hana's three memories of Spangler were being called fat by an upper classman that they had a crush on (but was in a more advanced class than), being bullied by some female friends for interacting with a boy everyone liked, and breaking their arm on the playground and lying on the ground until someone found them. jenny, circles, robin talent show, art kid, stealing school dollars,
High School (2017-2021)
Simran and Alex, as well as a few other cool mutuals who would hang around campus after school. greenfingers
bio w loeb, greenfingers, ryan clough, COVID 19 hitting junior year rendering high school nothing more than a fever dream. among us polycule, Memento mori. icarus, sunny, Group Incident. Plans for SFSU as a psychology or art major.
University (2021-2025)
On March 5th of 2021, Hana was accepted to Santa Clara University as an economics major. On January 10th of 2023, they switched into Biology. Charles. Santa Clara University. Seggsy Six. Safeway work. Hospitalization. AMLB trauma. Chizel, Gosia, and Adrian! Chemistry Lab Associates. qpoca
Post Education (Current)
family travels. mural mistake. open sauce. zine fest
Personal Life
Hana is partnered to Adrian (born November 20, 20XX), who is the most awesome chemical engineer food-enthused programmer catcreature in the world. Hanadrain announced their official partnership on October 26, 2024 in the Discord server they had with their SCU friends.
Hana feels most identified as agnostic. They had grown up as such, finding church ennui and concrete religions absurd. They might have been (further) influenced to be communist and even Marxist by Agustin.
On May 18, 2025 at the 3rd annual Culture Gala Show, Hana showcased several of their artworks, including a digital portrait (Hungry, Digital, 11.50 px x 800 px), two watercolored portraits (Body Pain, Ink & Watercolor, 11.2" x 7.6"; River of Wine, Watercolor, 7.6" x 11.2"), and four zines (An Ode to my Gay Love, All Your Shades of Rutaceae, Mr. Meteo, What's the Weather like Today?, and Pinks and Purples and Boys and Girls).
AuDHD, BPD, and Bipolar
God obviously hates Hana if gthey decided to inflict hthem with this discordant onslaught of mental plagues. Doubling down by also making them AFAB in an asian household was God's biggest punishment to humanity. It's one thing to be autistic and typically unaware of others' needs, but ostensibly even more insensitive to have the same person who was overly cautious about someone's enjoyment of the car climate suddenly unaware that anyone would care about getting spoken over time and time again. Coupled with mental illnesses that convince its owners that they never do enough for anyone and that the whole world could leave them at any given time, Hana has an extremely difficult time maintaining ordinary relationships. Although first impressions tend to come to them with ease, Hana actually struggles to identify the time and place to say things--or to say anything at all.
More evident as you get to know them, Hana
more on bpd
more on bipolar
Culinary Interest
Growing up in a predominantly Vietnamese household meant growing up learning Vietnamese food preparation. Soy sauce, chicken bouillon, star anise, lemongrass, ginger, and garlic were pantry staples. The refridgerator always had tofu and scallions. While Dad loved manning the grill (as any father does), Mom was a soup enthusiast who left a brazier of stock on the stove at least once a week. By the age of eight, Hana was made familiar with the ins and outs of their kitchen and made it a point to sit around whoever was cooking on any given day, offering to help where they could. They first learnt about washing and prepping produce, then figured out measuring (about as much as a Vietnamese mother does), moved onto trimming and cutting aforementioned produced, and eventually frying their first egg. Instant noodles came soon after.
San Jose is nonspecifically a mixing pot of ethnicities with a notable mass of Hispanic folk reflected in local cuisine, especially Mexican food, which was the next biggest cuisine Hana somewhat learned about. Shamefully, they began at Taco Bell, like any other American gastronomy rookie. Tortillas, protein, a bed of lettuce, and some cheese having infinite permutations in addition to cream cheese was generational. As they quickly burnt out on eating out, Hana moved on to, alongside their younger brother Tai, learn how to make something similar if not better at home. In the middle of 2015, Hana found them and their brother gathering the same groceries of tortillas, tomatoes, avocados, ground beef, shredded cheese, and cream cheese once a week, eating the same thing every day for those weeks. The cumin, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and cayenne were a one time purchase.
After a lifetime of tacos, quesadillas, tacos, and more tacos finally got old, Hana decided to move onto something that might have felt lighter: some fish and a bowl of miso soup. Japanese food wasn't so unfamiliar to Hana, as they were raised on it, but it wasn't until after taking on two other cuisines that they considered trying to assemble a pretty looking plate of fish at home for themselves. It wasn't so hard, really: Japanese cooking helped Hana hone in their knife skills, cutting soft filets of fish and firm pepo of cucumbers. Hana also, at this time, experimented with mixing condiments to spice up their dressing game. Their long-time standing favorite is a mixture of Buldak's hot sauce and Kewpie mayonnaise.
Hana technically began assembling "Italian" dishes at the ripe age of approximately ten years of age, which involved boiling dry pasta and adding a jar of Prego. No shame to anyone who still prepares pasta that way as it is delicious and reliable, but Hana began making sauce from scratch and spicing it a few years after, in the big 2018. This sauce revelation expanded over the course of the COVID-19 quarantining, where they tried adding cream to red sauce to make a marinara sauce. At some point, they took an online culinary class where they covered the mother sauces, which prompted them to attempt a roux-birthed alfredo sauce.
Having properly fucked with Japanese food, Hana uncovered curry, which inevitably brought Hana around to try Indian curry.
Indian
Korean
Chinese
Greenhouse
Greenhouse is an unfinished comic story started in 2014 by Hana (age 11), inspired by Tumblr's Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF) fandom (namely bamsarakiilledyou and less remarkably Rebornica), and then later and more prominently Zach. Greenhouse has seen many iterations: the Simran contributed edition during the COVID-19 lockdown (alternative universe where all characters act as traditional humans and Cheryl runs a school) and the most recent and concurrent 2023 revamp. It is said that many of the characters were conceived in the likeness of Hana's mental illnesses.
The story follows the wealthy Miki Chiang who traverses an impoverished yet industrial landscape on a secluded island. These lands, known as The Calbit Islands, are home to the close knitted community of Drivhus. It is a known phenomenon that many members of the Drivhus develop personalized powers, or Graces of God, that emerge during adolescents which is noted to be refined with age and use.
5393 the new americas, the verdants
Life as an Arist
Like with any young child, Hana began drawing with whatever they found around the house which meant creating refridgerator drawings out of paper and pencil. Popular mediums ranged from wide-ruled notebook paper and random NetApp stationary. Some of these drawings made their way to Hana's father's desk, which was formally in what is now known as Hana's current bedroom. Most of them are now lost media.
The first notable pivoting point in Hana's art career is its informal start: combining markers and coloring pencils in one peice, albeit for a Minecraft-themed third grade writing assignment. The memory of all of their classmates huddling around their desk to carefully observe the childishly drawn cuboid seared itself into Hana's mind as a sign to start taking art seriously, and not that Minecraft was all the rage at this time.
Eventually, Hana made it to the fifth grade, when they transfered to SJV which meant art classes. Sketches in notebooks -> Locked in on color pencils -> pens/markers for accountability -> spend a fortune on copics because everyone said they were the best for beldning -> cheap daiso watercolors -> digital -> acrylic -> oil pastels -> color pencils revisited -> charcoal -> oil -> zines
experience with commissions
Plant Studies
started as id ing familiar plants, slowly taught myself about distinguishing characteristics (color, petals, leaves, shape, square stem, woodiness, floweing?), horticulture, case studies, dichotomous keys, plant classes in college
Queer Identity
Being raised by a Vietnamese Catholic Immigrant Mother made being happy a little difficult for Hana. It was not until Zach had introduced Hana to a website that was a familiarly obnoxious blue (Tumblr) that they discovered that two men sharing a tender kiss was alright, not that they ever though it was weird in the first place. This enlighenment made itself known to Mom and Hana found themselves trying to talk to everyone but her about their newfangled interest in identity and orientation. freedom in highschool gsa, finding queer friends and spaces online, cosplay community, pride in college, furries and stigma, hospitalization, pride parades, zine scene
Social Platforms Used
| Platform | Handle | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Artfight | scribbyls | Annual month-long art trade free-for-all with artists of all walks of life! |
| Discord | hanamoroll | Advanced excellent messaging platform for organized and personalized discussions |
| Github | hanamoroll | Developers platform for proprietary software |
| iNaturalist | basil-enthusiast | Ecology crowdsourcing with advanced filter and processing tools |
| chairsocks | Main profile | |
| hanacoser_ | Cosplaying profile | |
| scribbyls | Art profile | |
| Hana Long | Business social networking platform for employment aid | |
| Spotify | Handle | Music streaming service |
| Steam | Hanapiii | Gaming profile |
| Tumblr | lieutenant-squid | Hana's first home on the internet |
| Youtube | hanana-banana | Personal-ish blog |
| ASH (Alex, Simran, Hana) | Joint discussion account with best friends |
List of Favorites
| Category | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alcohol | Whiskey | description |
| Amino Acid | Histidine | Amino acids are essential to the construction of proteins, which are essential to growth, repair, and other bodily functions. Unsurprisingly, consuming proteins often leads to consuming essential amino acids! Proteins that contain histidine include most animal meats, eggs, and legumes. Histidine is specifically a precursor to histamine which is a neurotransmitter that helps mediate allergies. Histidine sometimes engages in a little dance called a proton shuffle where the nitrogen helps to create a positive charge imbalance that can help to quickly reset an enzyme. |
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut | Vonnegut is a rather dark and satirical writer, so it's a bit ironic that his writing was the one to get Hana out of a deep depression that lasted years and looked like an unorganized and unsanitary hoarder that knew nothing of health or decency. It was in his book A Man Without a Country where Vonnegut wrote something that reignited Hana's joy and passion for doing anything at all: “[...] go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”Hana had discovered this on a fateful Tumblr-scrolling day, which forever changed the course of how they proceed every day. If you knew Hana from 2017-2021, they have likely sent you this and/or posted it somewhere. |
| Bone | Zygomatic | description |
| Cat | Calico | Disregarding cat breeds, calico refers to the coat coloration of a cat, often three toned: white, orange, and grey. They are more likely to occur in female cats due to activation in the X chromosome; in the case of a male calico, the calico coat would be an indication od Klinefelter syndrome. Hana likes calico cats simply because they are colorful; Hana is currently (Aug 2025) matching with Adrian's one calico, Pocky. |
| Cereal | Lucky Charms | description |
| Chip | Calbee HAITAI Honey Butter Chip | Originally a South Korean snack manufactured by Haitai Calbee, honey butter chips made their way over to Japan under the rebranding of "Happiness Butter Potato Chips". Honey Butter Chips made their way into plenty of popular media, including Tumblr-hit otome game Mystic Messenger. This snack is seen to be readily consumed by one of the romanticizable characters, 707, who is shown once flaunting duck lips with a couple of arched oblong chips. |
| Chocolate Bar | CHOKLAD NÖT: IKEA's Hazelnut Chocolate | description |
| Chocolate Type | Dark Chocolate (~75%) | description |
| Color | Green | Naturally occuring most predominantly as a result of chlorophyll, it is fitting that this color is known-botanist Hana's favorite color, including barfy chartreuse, but especially deep forest greens. Let it be known that unless specified as "plant green", blue and green are the same color. Japan also conflates blue and green--pay attention to their traffic lights! |
| Cookie Flavor | Red Velvet | Despite knowing that the red in velvet does not drastically change the taste of the cocoa powder, something about having a decadent red treat with white spots of pure sugar does something for Hana. Their favorite red velvet cookies came from Safeway until they were discontinued sometime in the early 20s. |
| Cuisine | Korean | This was a hard toss up between several Asian cuisines, all of which were odes to Hana's upbringing. However, after arduous and careful consideration, Korean food won on all important fronts of food forms: noodles (japchae), soup (jjigae), seasoning (sesame oil heavy), flavor profile (excellent balance of sweet, umami, and spicy), and naturally very spicy. Hana adores the idea of a banchan and would love if every meal ever came with one. |
| Dessert | Tiramisu | This surprisingly simple three-part assemblance of lady fingers, coffee, and mascarpone supposedly comes from Italy and can be recreated in ones kitchen in as little as an hour. Hana has made tiramisu more times than they have fingers to count. They suggest baking the lady fingers as a lady palm or torso instead: as a sheet rather than logs. |
| Drink | Jasmine Sea Foam Cream | Regardless of cafe location, the jasmine sea foam cream combination is an infallible one and unlikely to be unpallatable. Obviously, the fat in the cream neutralizes the bitter tannins in the tea, drawing out the gentle floral notes of the jasmine in a velvety smooth sip. Sweet and salty flavors are added to accent and dance in the mouth, creating the ultimate mouth experience. Bonus points if the location tops the drink with some sort of powder, which is usually matcha. |
| Fast Food Chain | Popeyes | description |
| Fern | Adiantum jordanii (California Maidenhair Fern) | Ferns are vascular plants that reproduce with spores instead of flowers or seeds. The California Maidenhair is native to California (go figure). Its scalloped fan-shaped leaves are described to emerge in a fountainlike manner. They enjoy growing in moist shaded areas, often found on cliffs in shaded forests. |
| Flavor | Strawberry | Nothing beats the bright refreshing taste of the perfect balance of sweetness and acidity of this vibrant fruit. With a gloriousy intricate cross sectional pattern, the strawberry also boasts an incredibly elegant and delicate profile. Whether topping a fruit cake or sliced for drinks, the appearance and flavor of a fresh strawberry is premierly exceptional. |
| Finger | Ring (4), Right | description |
| Fish | Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) | Certainly no hobbyist fisher, Hana enjoys the culinary value of consuming fish, especially raw in dishes like chirashi. Their favorite fish to have come from yellowfin tuna, sometimes advertised as Ahi, because of the mouthfeel and taste. |
| Flower | Peony | Although not typically a fan of ornamentals, the humble bisexual peony trumps all Saxifragales and holds a special spot in Hana's heart for its 262 known chemical compounds which include monoterpenoid glucosides, flavonoids, tannins, stilbenoids, triterpenoids, steroids, paeonols, and phenols. In vitro biological activities include antioxidant, antitumor, antipathogenic, immunomodulative, cardiovascular-system-protective activities and central-nervous-system activities. Paeoniaceae are dependent on simple C3 carbon fixation. They contain ellagic acid, myricetin, ethereal oils and flavones, as well as crystals of calcium oxalate. The wax tubules that are formed primarily consist of palmitone which lowers oxidative stress in inflamed nerve cells, alleviates neuropathic pain and inflammation, and manage diabetic neuropathy. |
| Food Form | Noodles | Put on by their Asian upbringing and later expanding to other cuisines, Hana thoroughly enjoys the sensation and bite of a good noodle. |
| Fruit | Cantaloupe | Contrary to popular belief that Hana's favorite fruit is the strawberry, if they were to choose from a selection of freshly cut fruit in front of them, they are most likely to reach for cantaloupe. Strawberries are, of course, an extremely tight second, closely tailed by durian. This ranking accounts for the average quality of store-bought fruit in the United States. |
| Functional Group | Acid Anhydride | Useful in Friedel-Crafts acylation, this chunky derivative of acyl halides are a little less electrophilic than acyl chrlorides and has less atom efficiency but has a lower cost in acetylation reactions, making it more accessible. |
| Game | Mystic Messenger | The mobile otome game to rule all of Tumblr from 2016 to this day, Mystic Messenger features six stunning characters (5 romanceable) to the player, who all exist in a chatroom that runs in real time respective to each run. Hana's favorite character, Saeyoung Choi (also known through the in-game alias as 707) is a red-headed charismatic programmer who is written to be as sentient as the player is in real life. |
| Genre (Music) | Progressive Rock | description |
| Hex Code | #69A669 | Of the 16,777,216 colors that can be represented in the hexidecimal computing language, Hana's favorite is a muted, deep foresty green shade that has two instances of "69" in its code, an ode to Hana's terrible and crass humor. |
| Holiday | Christmas | description |
| Hot Sauce | Samyand Buldak 2x Hot Sauce | description |
| Instant Noodle | MAMA Oriental Style Shrimp/Tom Yum | Deemed "Mama noodles" in their household, Hana views this brand as the classic home staple and the standard for instant noodles. With springy noodles that are forgiving to being overcooked, the most savoury melty tom yum flavors, and a delightful kick of spice, the blend makes for the most ideal and agreeable convenient food sensation. Hana has also been know to indulge in the uncooked version, which calls for combining all the dry ingredients in the bag and crushing the noodles (mostly) to uniformity. |
| Instrument | Bass Guitar | description |
| Language | Dansk | description |
| Lichen | Chrysothrix candelaris (Gold Dust Lichen) | description |
| Lucifer King Character | Szarlota | The only most beautiful and smart Polish woman that is able to academically go band for band against the one and only genius Lawrence Spencer, Szarlota proves herself to be awesome with her mere existance. Of course, that means Lawrence comes in at a close second as an excellent ghost and keyboardist. Joey comes in third place purely due to the rapport he and Hana have developed after the many endless nights they have spent drawing him in Zach's gracious presence. |
| Mascot | Cinnamoroll | description |
| Milk Tea Order | Jasmine "X" Cream | description |
| Mineral | Serpentinite | description |
| Mooncake | Taro with Salted Egg Yolk | description |
| Noble Gas | Xenon | description |
| Noodle Dish | Bún bò Huế | description |
| Noodle Type | Rice Noodle | description |
| Number | 707 | description |
| Pasta | Fettuccine | Hana tends to like thicker ribbons of noodles, which the humble fettuccine embodies without being too wide. A well cooked fettuccine noodle has the most excellent mouthfeel and slurpability and can serve as an excellently versatile sauce harbinger. Parpardelle is almost as good. Excellent pasta shape runner ups include: farfalle, rigatoni, and fusilli. Hana hates macaroni and orzo. |
| Person | Adrian | Hana has an astounding affinity for this extremely wise and kind soul, who adores all of the world for its inventions and wonders spanning from the exploding stars to the smallest of phytoplankton. Adrian is a gentle beauty who loves gathering knowledge from roadside garbage and the depths of the internet and sharing wisdom on personal and cultural quirks. They have six awesome cats, love chemistry and writing epics of code, and have the most melodic laugh in the world. |
| Phytohormone | Abscisic acid (ABA) | Plants, just like any other biological organism, have many hormones that regulate their structure and function. This sesquiterpenoid plant hormone plays a large role in plant development, especially in dormancy (when the plant is active or "hibernating"), germination (when the plant begins to grow), seed development (when the plant is ready to produce offspring), and responses to biotic and abiotic stress (when the plant faces harsh or otherwise extreme conditions, such as very high or very low temperature). |
| Rhythm Game | Wacca | Contrary to popular belief, Hana's favorite rhythm game is not global hit Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, but 2019 Japanese arcade game Wacca (ワッカ; stylised as "WACCA"). Presented as a large, illuminous euclidean ring of seizures, gameplay was often described as akin to practicing magic. Online servers have been offline since August 31 of 2022, discontinuing the collaboration and inclusion of many once included musical artists while also spurring a grand finale of bonding for Wacca lovers across America. |
| Short Story | Flowers for Algernon | description |
| Spice | Sesame | description |
| Sport | Volleyball | description |
| Subject | Cell Biology | description |
| Tea leaf | Jasmine | description |
| Teeth type | Incisors | description |
| Vocaloid | Megurine Luka | description |
| Water Bottle Brand | Kirkland Signature | description |
Gallery
See Also
- Adrian (Drain)
- Chelsie
- Eden
- horselover84
- Sealsoul
- TempoTerry
- Zach