now this has me wondering if those flowers used to be very commonplace, but humans wasted them. for all we know gothel drove the plant to extinction.

... like, imagine if gothel and her friends and family just had to watch as their guaranteed vessel for immortality was stripped away from them with each dying plant, and they as people finally had to realize their own fragility and die. gothel could have very well watched all of her friends and family die out with that flower. gothel could have been the last of a generation of 'immortal' people.

damn.