AkaneC

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Dramione in old Chinese clothes XD. I think men's clothing in the Ming Dynasty is very handsome, its will be good on Draco.

[akaneqc]

Manacled Chinese translation hard copy 《镣铐之下》

Cr：季的季几（Weibo）

@senlinyu

[senlinyu]

Hi, Sen! I remender reading one of your answers to asks about Manacled that you imagined after Aurore was born, they'd have to deal with the trauma about their intimacy. I gathered you wont be writing about it, but could you tell a little of how you imagined the process went and how much they managed to heal? I hope I dont sound morbid, once H remebered it was different, but I wonder how a couple could heal and try to focus on their love after so much hurt. You keep making me reflec a lot.

I feel like it was a bit of a push and pull process for them. They’re both survivors and the thing about people who push things down in order to survive is that it can reach a point where they struggle to ever deal with it.

I think Draco was the one who needed it more because for him the trauma was linear, he always remembered their relationship, whereas for Hermione, because of the disconnect she had due to her memory loss period, she was more capable and inclined to just suppress the period of her imprisonment in the manor because that Hermione was a different person who operated under a different context.

You can see that difference in the way they both approached having sex after her memories come back. For Draco having sex with her again is like a form of redemption that he doesn’t think he deserves. Whereas for Hermione, it’s a reversion and a reclamation of something she regards as having been lost/taken that she’s determined to have back.

The thing about their resuming their sexual relationship so quickly (much too quickly) is that in a way it was necessary for them in order to have the degree of intimacy and trust needed for the escape, but on a strictly relationship level perspective, it would have been much better for them to have reconciled more gradually and intentionally. The fact that they did rapidly revert back to their wartime sexual emotional codependency made it harder for them to actually start dealing with what happened once they were safe on the island.

I think the biggest hurdle was probably talking about it at all. And then once that finally happened it was a very slow process of dealing with it in small enough pieces that it didn’t trigger their survival/suppression impulses. Hermione I think would have been willing to just ignore it, she has a tendency to sweep things under the rug for herself once she’s decided they were necessary (eg her almost complete lack of guilt over bombing Sussex, or her reaction to the revelation that Draco killed children as High Reeve), she’d rather just move on than deal with the trauma. But for Draco, I think he needed to process it because he was afraid Hermione was only staying with him only because she wasn’t actually acknowledging that he’d harmed her.

[minipear]

I rarely thought deeply about how they would repair their relationship after the war. I always felt that they loved each other enough to ignore their past incarceration on the manor.

I should take another look at their relationship.

[akaneqc]

There was an analogy in my mind while I was reading Manacled (especially post-flashback chapters): Hermione was a computer that released (or erased) its memory and part of its hard drive; Draco, on the other hand, was running at full capacity with a 16-core CPU and had never shut down.

[akaneqc]

Just saw this on Weibo…

铐kào: manacle

生shēng: life/live

铐kào: manacle

死sǐ: death/die

Describing anyone who has read “镣铐之下 (Manacled)”, then lose oneself and cannot get out of it for a long time. Even if being torn limb from limb, still insisting to reread it again and again, weeping for Dramione’s love. Swearing to engrave every detail on the cigar and inhale into the lungs.

Cr: Weibo @Nobelium-94

[senlinyu]

Works List

Although I do occasionally cross-post to fanfiction.net, wattpad, and inkitt, most of my stories are solely on ao3. I decided to compile a full list of my works for reference rather than just keeping them buried in my FAQ.

A quick note about my stories: I have an open policy about my fics, anyone who wishes to is welcome to archive, print and bind (personally or via a non-profit fanfic bookbinder), remix, podfic, translate, write meta about, make art for, or write in the same universe/fanon as any of my fanworks. I’d love it if you send a link. Credit is appreciated but not mandatory, fandom is open source.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Sun, The Moon, And The Truth: art and fic collab with @elithien. Zuka/Katara. Rated: M. Post-war AU. Firelord Zuko. Water Tribe Envoy Katara. Forbidden Love. Mutual Pining. My usual.

Harry Potter:

All You Want: Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. My very smutty a/b/o fic. Eighth Year. Alpha Draco (and Theo and Neville), Omega Hermione. Miscommunication and mutual pining.

Anthology: Assorted prompted ficlets of varying lengths. All Dramione. Including:

Prompt: “He set fire to the world around him but never let a flame touch her.” Category: Angst. Rating: T

Prompt: “But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it.” Neil Gaiman. Category: Comedy, Fluff. Rating: M. 

Prompt: One bed. Rating: T. Category: Rom-com

Prompt: Harry and Draco trapped in an elevator after Draco and Hermione’s relationship has become public. Rating: T

Prompt: Draco blackmails Hermione. Rating: M Category: angst, political enemies.

Prompt: Meet me in the stairwell in a second for a glass of gin. (From the song ‘Nobody Else Will Be There’ by The National)

Prompt: Accidental pregnancy. Rating: T

Prompt: Tabula Rasa. Memory loss fic. Rating: T

Prompt: “No, no, no, stay with me. Don’t close your eyes.” Category: rom-com, fluff

Whatever You Want Granger for @nikitajobson. Rated: T

Married art and fic collab with @avendell. Rated T.

Prompt: Dramione University Students AU.

A Slow Cruel Descent: Draco/Hermione. Rated: M.

A Slow Cruel Descent. My very first angst/dark fic. Wartime AU. Voldemort doses Hermione with a love potion, making her fall in love with Draco, and then uses the threat of harming Draco to extract information. 

A Fragile Ascent. Sequel. Post-war, Hermione struggles to move on and heal from the trauma of her imprisonment. 

A Thing With[out] Feathers. Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. A plot I invented just because I wanted to write extremely indulgent wing kink. Fake relationship with benefits. Veela Hermione. Wing sex. That’s it. That’s the plot. 

The Bestiary: Assorted creature one-shots and ficlets of varying lengths. All Dramione. Including: 

Kiska: 8th Year. Hermione secretly has cat-ears and Draco is suspiciously interested in them. Rated: M for heavy petting.

Demon!Draco. Rated: M

the business we’re in: Tom Riddle Jr/Hermione. Rated: M. Mafia AU. Cleaner/Assassin Tom is given the task of killing the ‘very ordinary’ Hermione Granger. 

Compendium: A collection of prompted ficlets originally posted on tumblr. Pairings vary and are indicated in the chapter titles. Ratings and any relevant warnings are listed in the chapter summary of the particular ficlet.

Cordial Enemies: writing collab with @stargazing121. Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. **WIP.** Bridgerton inspired fake relationship fic. Minstry co-workers. Tabloid news. 

Do Not Go Gentle: Severus/Hermione. Rated E. 8th Year. Hermione is suffering from a terminal curse following the war and Severus attempts to find a cure. Not ‘really’ a student/teacher relationship, but does occur at Hogwarts. Feral cat personality Severus.

Forever Is Composed of Nows: James Potter/Aurore Malfoy. Rated: T. Post-Manacled one-shot about James and Aurore. 

Height: Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. Dramione Height Differences Minifest 2020. 8th Year. Erotic hand holding. Hermione initiating the relationship. 

Ice: Draco/Hermione. Rated: T. DHr Advent 2018. Co-workers at Gringotts. Accidental bonding. 

Impress Upon You: art and fic collab with @mia-moriarty-art. Draco/Hermione. Rated: T. Deck The Halls with Dramione 2020. Draco asks Hermione to show him the Muggle world in an attempt to impress a Muggleborn. 

I Think It Might: tumblr live-write with @lovesbitca8 and @liliansilverstuff. Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. Drunk Draco. Cam Girl Granger. Crack.

The Library of Alexandria: Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. Librarian Hermione. Annoying Draco. Trapped together and required to have sex for some reason. Accidental marriage. Librarian Draco.

Little Hearth Fires: for @kumatan0720. Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. My one and only foray into entirely angst-free domestic fluff writing. Married  Dramione with bb bean Scorpius.

Love and Other Misfortunes: Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. My very first story. Veela Draco. Ministry workaholic Hermione. Veela bond where Draco will die if Hermione doesn’t mate with him. Ministry conspiracies. 

Manacled: Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. Voldemort Wins AU. Handmaid’s Tale premise. Memory loss. Espionage. Dark fic. Don’t read without checking the trigger warnings.

Manipulation: Blaise Zabini/Hermione. Rated: M. Vampire Blaise with a crush.

Nontrivial Pursuits: art and fic collab with @gubabubas-sketchbook. Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. Post-war Ministry coworkers engaging in a strip trivia competition. 

Now Is A Gift. Draco/Hermione. Rated: T. Sunbeam Hermione sets out to prove what a nice person she is by getting grumpy Draco the perfect Christmas present. DHr Advent 2019.

The Seduction: Draco/Hermione. Rated: E. Pining Draco trying to seduce Hermione by starting a bookclub and cooking dinner with her while she doesn’t notice…for two years.

The SenLithien Collaboration: art and fic collab with @elithien. Includes:

United We Stand. Rated: T

Beltane. Rated: M.

Seeker Fit. Rated: T

One Night. Rated: E

the first kiss. Rated: M

A Witch’s Wedding. Rated: T

consumed, obsessed, and attached. Rated: E

For Want of a Jumper. Rated: T

Switch. Rated: E

Power Couple. Rated: T

Insomnia. Rated: T

Fate and Plans. Rated: E

Rebirth. Rated: M

Common Spaces, Empty Places. Rated: M.

Snow Fall: Draco/Hermione. Rated: M. DHr Advent 2020. Newly weds having their first Christmas. Hermione helpfully teaches Draco muggle methods of staying warm during a blizzard.

your lonely calls to me: art and fic collab with @avendell. Draco/Hermione. Rated: T. Healer Hermione realizes that Draco is being abused in Azkaban and takes him in.

Star Wars

after the fall [we rise]: Ben Solo/Rey. Rated: E. My fix-it fic for The Rise of Skywalker. 

Binding The Light: Kylo Ren/Rey. Rated: T. Following the destruction of Starkiller, Kylo Ren obsesses over what he wants.

Reputation: Ben Solo/Rey. Rated: M. Rey is in a forced relationship with Hux and so out of spite she asks Kylo Ren to take her virginity.

Short: Ben Solo/Rey. Rated: E. Jealous Ben with a choking kink disapproves of Rey’s outfit. PWP modesty trope subversion. 

[senlinyu]

at the start of manacled, the portraits whisper things like whore etc and at the time i obviously thought they meant hermione but after reading the flashbacks and draco tells the portraits he’ll burn them to ash if they say anything bad about her i wondered if they actually were referring to astoria as they knew about her affair?

Correct. It was directed at Astoria.

[akaneqc]

😭

[avendell]

You are not replaceable | Commissioned by Jelena for @senlinyu

[akaneqc]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh😭😭

[euphie22]

🍫🍫A painting for White Valentine’s Day

[akaneqc]

Chocolate flavour valentines😋

[euphie22]

🍻🍻

[akaneqc]

Oh hooooooo🪁

[aprilislee606]

In order to find the missing Draco, Hermione embarks on a lonely journey.

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS OF FANFICTION TITLED "UNCHAINED" written by @ladykenz347, you can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19386577/chapters/46130698?view_adult=true

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The initial inspiration was just to edit a story about Hermione's search for the missing Draco. But after reading “Unchained”, there was more inspiration.(I love LadyKenz347. She's my Muses.) Maybe this is a new story? I'm not sure. Anyway, just enjoy it and I hope you’ll like it~

I’m a fan from China, so the subtitles are in both Chinese and English. Also, thanks to my friends, who encouraged me to put this video on the YouTube. I love you all !!!

[akaneqc]

This is what Manacled’s Aurore Rose Malfoy looks like in my mind❤️ (McKenna Grace)

[akaneqc]

Manacled Hermione & Draco