Oh My God I Am So Excited

Oh my god I am so excited

Can’t wait to read this chapter and see how your thoughts and ideas will all fall together. I am so hyped

So this might be a surprise to some of you but I realized that the ficlet I wrote a while back of Shapur's meetings w my OCs could work as a first chapter for a longfic and so I sought to tweak and extend it a bit to make it better-suited as a first chapter.

Which means I added more stuff to it! New lines, new dialogue, and of course, new sections. Because my vision for chapter 1 didn't end with the third encounter.

So I kept writing and showed not the entire thing not yet it's not finished but a certain section/scene to my lovely beta @concernedbrownbread that... y'know what, I'll just let their reactions speak for themselves <3

AAA NO AYUNNEN

NOOOOO

Why would you DO that

I mean it's fucking cool and I love the description BUT NOOOO WHYYYY

So yeah. Please look forward to the moment Winds of Wolfsong will go live on AO3! The first chapter is... aaaaalmost finished, save for one last section.

From Episode 14. Hilmes decides to leave Peshawar Fortress and return to Ecbatana rather than wait to see how things play out with Sindhura. This scene features just him and Sanjeh.

By contrast, here's the manga scene from Chapter 42, where Zandeh and the soldiers he inherited from Kharlan are present. This scene is accurate to the novel.

(Honestly, it's no wonder anime viewers thought Zandeh might be dead; if I recall correctly, after he fell down that cliff with an arrow in his back, he doesn't show up in the anime again until Team Hilmes are leaving to go and oust Bodin from Zabul Fortress!)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arslan Senki | Heroic Legend of Arslan Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hilmes/Xandes (Heroic Legend of Arslan) Characters: Hilmes (Heroic Legend of Arslan), Xandes (Heroic Legend of Arslan) Additional Tags: Canon - Manga, Canon Compliant, Explicit Sexual Content, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs Summary:

After infiltrating Peshawar Fortress, Hilmes returns to the camp wet and cold. Zandeh warms him up.

I am so proud of him

So so proud

He has grown so much and I love the way how Arakawa shows it in her manga.

Pride is not the word I'm looking for, there is so much more

ID: panel from the Arslan Senki manga where Arslan declares, with his sword raised high, "This is a bettle for our honour as a nation!! Onwards!!!" END ID

TW: Animal Death

“Story of a Mother”

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I like this scene so freaking much…I can’t say how glad I am you designed this idea. I need it to be canon

From my back-and-forth w @innerchorus in the comments of a post of theirs, I can't stop rotating the scene in my head of Shapur pulling Kazai into an embrace after the Sindhuran duel before the gods thing (yup, it's now concrete that Kazai would be chosen by Rajendra instead of Daryun for a reason: said reason being Kazai's magic was perceived as him being favored by gods) uncaring of the gore and grime on his husband's face (I mean, man did rip out Bahadur's throat with his teeth) and it's a Sight™ to everyone else bc 1) he's being affectionate/intimate with someone?? (they kept their relationship pretty private in terms of affection) and 2) dude why are you letting his face and those biting teeth near your neck, didn't you see what he did to the other guy???

Shapur just doesn't care. He was afraid Kazai was gonna die, and he's just too relieved to care about any of that nor the gore getting on his cloak. It was meant to get dirty anyways, it's fine.