Swarming with Hatred
is a Pretty Cure fanfic, primarily taking after Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure and Smile PreCure!. Billed as a follow-up to both Twinkling in the Dark and Don't Cry For Me, I've Already Wilted, it began publication on May 30th, 2023.
During a battle against the Undergu Empire, the Cures call upon the Ultra Happy Shower once more, leaving the Bad End Kingdom with another good energy poisoning victim to tend to. This time around, Battamonda is affected, and since he can't take Bad Energy, the other villains look for alternative medicines.
Tropes:
- Affectionate Nickname: Akaoni refers to Battamonda as "Battamon-mon".
- All Your Colors Combined: A variation of the Marble Screw is used, which combines black from Cure Black, purple from Cure Macaron, yellow from Mepple, and pink from Pekorin.
- Blood from the Mouth: Subverted. Battamonda hacks into a tissue and begins to panic, but calms down when he realizes it's just sparkly pink mucus on it, not blood.
- Catch Your Death of Cold: Played for Drama: When Majorina freezes the pool, Makoto falls in, nearly freezes to death, and is sent to the hospital.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even though the Bad End Kingdom are trying to make the Cures miserable, Akaoni is willing to point out that Joker's fight against Rosemary went too far when his breakdown speech dipped into transphobic territory.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: Due to his illness making him unable to sleep, Battamonda's eyes grow bloodshot and baggy.
- Good Parents: Ayumi and Keitarou, Yasuko and Takeshi, and even Poisony and Joker are nothing but supportive and loving to their children.
- Green Thumb: Cure Felice, with help from Cure Custard and Cure Fortune, uses magic to restore grass and flowers to a barren field.
- Handicapped Badass: Cure Daylight, despite needing a cane, can still use The Power of the Sun to fight off monsters, as well as using his cane as a weapon.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Majorina makes a joke about plump little boys tasting the best, freaking out Battamonda (whom Majorina has given food). However, she was just teasing him.
- Jaw Drop: Cure Sunshine's jaw hits the floor when Satsuki becomes Cure Daylight.
- Mythology Gag: In Chapter 3, a dazed Setsuna refers to Reika as "Chloe".
- Nightmare Sequence: Akaoni induces a nightmare in Asumi to create a mini-Akanbe. Asumi's nightmare has her unable to save her Cure friends or fight back against Akaoni. It's implied that this is her first nightmare as well.
- Pink Heroine: The pink Cures all band together to perform the Ultra Happy Shower. Because Cure Grace is absent, Cure Miracle and Cure Butterfly take her place.
- Rainbow Puke: Battamonda vomits a rainbow as a symptom of the poisoning.
- Sailor Earth: Cure Sunshine's brother Satsuki awakens as Cure Daylight.
- Shout-Out: Pekorin shouts "Aim for the flat top!".
