Fic & Art: In the Wakes We Remain (Harry/Draco)

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Title: In the Wakes We Remain
Author/Artist: crazyparakiss
Prompt: PROMPT # 157
Adapted from: NANA
Pairing:Harry/Draco, Remus/Tonks, any and all other pairings are in my head.
Word Count/Art Medium: 1.5k +/- of words and I used a tablet for the arts.
Rating: NC-17 just to cover my bases
Contains (Highlight to view): * There’s no sex! HAH! Also suicides, death of main characters and the story is told from an outsider’s POV in a fragmented kind of way. Drug use. ANGST GALORE. Also AU to the extreme, seriously.*
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Thanks to M, she’s always there to correct my horrible exploitation of commas. Also thanks to Ai Yazawa for creating the best manga of all time and damn her for not finishing it Also modelled Draco after Andrej Pejic and that was before I realised no effeminate Draco. The prompter was contacted and was cool with the pictures being modelled after him.
Summary: Teddy went to the shore, lit a cigarette, and watched the smoke as it coiled up from the cherry. He bowed his head and sent his forgiveness out to the sea while the snow kissed his cold neck and cheeks.


In The Wakes We Remain

Comments

[eidheann_writes]

Sweet and sad. Lovely work.

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Thank ya!

[capitu]

The art is beautiful, and the story very powerful. Great work.

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[teas-me.livejournal.com]

Incredibly beautiful story. I really enjoyed it. Also the art. It is amaze <3

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Love you, sweetie! :D Thanks!

[lee_bella]

Tragic, painful and raw, this story digs into my mind like glass shards, but not in a bad way. Your words beautifully evoke the angsty spirit of NANA. The way you incorporate your artwork into the story is a nice touch. I truly enjoy your take on the adaptation. Thank you for the wonderful story and the gorgeous artwork. Draco looks absolutely stunning *wink*

Well, I forgive Yazawa-sensei for her delay, since she's still recuperating from an illness.

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I wrote it trying to give you a sense of that awesome angst that Yazawa nails flawlessly in all her works. *smiles*

I read somewhere that she was planning on abandoning the project in favor of designing fashion, but that's been a couple years ago that I read that. I am just a bit bitter.

[appleling.livejournal.com]

Dear Mystery Author, you'd be delighted to know that I've taken the time (hours!) to look up Nana (the manga) again, specifically just to understand which Nana character was adapted into which HP character better - because the premise of this fic was so remarkably intriguing that I just... I just had to know. And with that extra bit of knowledge about Nana.... I have to say, you did an amazing job with this adaptation! *breathes*

I don't even know where to start! You've captured the very essence of Nana, but with a darker, deeper, more poignant twist to it - and you did it beautifully. Aching, and bittersweet but poetic and elegant all the same. Your words and the vivid imagery they invoke and how poetic they sound and feel... that was the first thing that I noticed about your fic when I first read it, despite my earlier confusion because I didn't know Ren Honjo died in the manga. Even then, despite being confused about Harry's role as Ren and about Ren's death, I love the way you describe things and make your words flow and form such beautifully vivid images in my head.

Luna with the cigarette in held between her fingers. Broken Harry with drugs and drowning in his misery. Beautiful Draco, obsessed and so in love. The bathroom scene (meep!). Neville with the guitar.... and the way everyone was so upset and still mourns so deeply for Harry and Draco (that made my breath catch by the way... but it was good pain).... If I were to list every single line/image that I like about this fic, I'm afraid I'll go on and on and never be able to stop.

And yes, if want to know, it was precisely because of my earlier confusion with Ren's death that made me feel so very guilty for not being able to truly appreciate the adaptation you've made of the story that pushed me to look up Nana again. Now though, with the extra bits of knowledge about Nana's universe that I've looked up... Oh. My. God. Amazing!

You've made Harry and Draco so beautiful together, despite all the angst they've been through, with your words and the way the story was told from past memories... just the way Ren and Nana were beautiful together. Kudos to you, mystery author! And OMG!! The portraits you've drawn were gorgeous too! I can't stop staring at them!

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie! I am glad it made you want to read the manga. I can't do NANA justice, because it is just absolutely beautiful. Ren dying still makes me choke up!

It was Draco that drowned, by the way. Harry killed himself by running into the side of a building. But I am glad you loved it. Sweetie, this comment made my day. Love you :)

[appleling.livejournal.com]

I know :) I get that after awhile. It should be a horrifying scene in my head because I'm squick-y with Harry and/or Draco character death scenes but the way you wrote it was.... for lack of a better way to describe it, darkly beautiful. And when I imagined that scene.... I was all "Oh waaahh!" instead of "Eww!"

I ♥ the way you play with words :)

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie! You make me smile so hard <3

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

*snuggleglomps* Thank you! :)