The Gilded Dragon | How can you heal from a past that won't stop invading the present & threatens your future? | an 8th yr hurt/comfort healing journey | feat. demisexual virgin Draco, magical science, and a touch of surrealism | 5/40ish
Draco and Hermione struggle to find their way in a post-war world that neither had any plans of being part of and shed the expectations placed upon them — for Hermione to save the world and for Draco to burn it down.
After a late-night encounter in the 8th yr commons, they begin to see one another more clearly and find it difficult to look away. Draco is determined to understand why the golden girl seems as broken as he does, and perhaps to also map the delicate freckles on her cheeks like stars and read the future in them... as one does.
At its heart, this is a former enemies to friends to lovers, hurt/comfort healing journey, but I also think of it as a psychological/neurological exploration of sorts, interwoven with elements of mythology, hallucination, dissociation, magical realism, mysterious connections, and magical science.
Beyond the psychological trauma they carry with them and new traumas that arise along with way, they both still bear more than mere scars from their torture at Bellatrix's hands.
Hermione's cursed scar still plagues her and Draco's repeated exposure to the Cruciatus curse has left him with an incredibly rare and poorly understood neuromagical condition.
They'll go on mini-quests to magical destinations near and far, realllyyy get to know one another, fall into 'platonic' domesticity like the idiots in love that they are, unintentionally invent the wizarding booty call — work together to recreate an esoteric ancient Egyptian healing ritual, desecrate every alcove, storage closet, and hidden room they can find, and grapple with how to heal the trauma of a past that that just won't leave them alone and continues to threaten their future.
Featuring a demisexual virgin Draco who is soo sweet for her it will rot your teeth. He would do anything for her, and is trying to be a better person, but is still a bit prickly around the edges, and just a little possessive. And a sex positive, experienced Hermione who is mildly chaotic, bad at feelings, and will gladly 'correct' anyone who has a problem with her new friend, turned lover.
Draco and Hermione struggle to find their way in a post-war world that neither had any plans of being part of and shed the expectations placed upon them — for Hermione to save the world and for Draco to burn it down.
After a late-night encounter in the 8th yr commons, they begin to see one another more clearly and find it difficult to look away. Draco is determined to understand why the golden girl seems as broken as he does, and perhaps to also map the delicate freckles on her cheeks like stars and read the future in them... as one does.
At its heart, this is a former enemies to friends to lovers, hurt/comfort healing journey, but I also think of it as a psychological/neurological exploration of sorts, interwoven with elements of mythology, hallucination, dissociation, magical realism, mysterious connections, and magical science.
Beyond the psychological trauma they carry with them and new traumas that arise along with way, they both still bear more than mere scars from their torture at Bellatrix's hands.
Hermione's cursed scar still plagues her and Draco's repeated exposure to the Cruciatus curse has left him with an incredibly rare and poorly understood neuromagical condition.
They'll go on mini-quests to magical destinations near and far, realllyyy get to know one another, fall into 'platonic' domesticity like the idiots in love that they are, unintentionally invent the wizarding booty call — work together to recreate an esoteric ancient Egyptian healing ritual, desecrate every alcove, storage closet, and hidden room they can find, and grapple with how to heal the trauma of a past that that just won't leave them alone and continues to threaten their future.
Featuring a demisexual virgin Draco who is soo sweet for her it will rot your teeth. He would do anything for her, and is trying to be a better person, but is still a bit prickly around the edges, and just a little possessive. And a sex positive, experienced Hermione who is mildly chaotic, bad at feelings, and will gladly 'correct' anyone who has a problem with her new friend, turned lover.