Oh My God Its Them

Oh my god it’s them

It’s them *inner screaming*

my inner teenage fangirl is freaking out right now

And Kashi, go get there ass girl!!!!!!! (I can hear the door flew open from here) it’s time to kick some asses!!

@innerchorus They!! Very nervous about sharing this but ehhhh they are taking over my brain so here ya go.

And a Kashi based on the Aragon opening a door gif.

A sharp, reliable, easy-to-use sword

Arslan Senki : : Zandeh, Gurgin

Zandeh cares

for @innerchorus

"Listen, magician… Is it true that you worship Zahhak?"

Gurgin slowly turns his head, as if he have just seen Zandeh standing here.

"Why are you so interested, son of Kharan?"

"Because it's very dangerous! It's Zahhak!"

"Zahhak, Arslan's army, Turan, Lusitanians - there are a lot of things around that are dangerous."

"You do not understand!" Zandeh gets excited, infuriated by his indifference. "Yes, there are Turan and Arslan, but Zahhak is completely different!"

Instead of answering, the magician raises an eyebrow - so what?

Zandeh strains his brain, trying to formulate an elusive tought. It is difficult to explain the idea that is already obvious to him, but for the sake of the wizard, Zandeh is ready to try.

"Here!" He proclaims triumphantly. "Turan and Lusitania are enemies, but they ane ones only when we are at war with them. And when we are not at war with them, we can, well, deal with them. So… I mean, when they are our enemies, they are evil, and when they are not enemies, they are good. Understand? And Zahhak is not good for anyone! He's nobody's friend. He is evil for everyone!"

He reads a sudden understanding in Gurgin's eyes and considers it as a convince of his own rightness.

"That's it!" Zandeh nods to indicate the conversation is over. "So come on, stop with it now!"

Gurgin's answer sounds completely different from whatever he expected.

"Tell me, Zandeh… Imagine you've found a good sword on the battlefield, beautiful and sharp one, and it is just right for your hand, and you think: "I can protect my friends with this weapon!" So tell me, would you care about who owned this sword before?"

"Well… I don't know." Zandeh feels confused a bit. "If he was a good man and if he is alive, I will probably try to return the sword to him."

"What if he was a bad person? If he was a villain and you know it?"

"Then hell no!"

For a moment Gurgin is silent. Zandeh wants him to continue, curious what's next about the sword - but the wizard's answer is unexpected again.

"I grew up in the Temple of Mithras."

If Zandeh knew how carefully Gurgin keeps in secret all the details of his life, he would be flattered by this revellation. But he didn't. The Priests of Mithra are real sorcerers, and now Zandeh understand why Gurgin is so smart.

"Great! They say it's so hard to get there!"

"I left it."

If Zandeh expected a fairy tale about the life in Mithras' Temple, there will be not.

"I hadn't find what I wanted there. Wisdom. Magic. Power. And then I swore I would find a place I could get all of that."

The wizard raises his head, and Zandeh meets his piercing (wolfish, someone would say. But not Zandeh) look.

"Do you understand me? Have you ever feel the same, son of Karan? And now when I have gained the power to protect those who are dear to me - does it matter, Zandeh, does it matter where I got it from?"

Zandeh draws from his words the only one conclusion: this idiot is not going to break up with Zahhak. Then another idea come to his mind: he's a clever devil, the magician, maybe he can slip away even from the Serpent King? at least for now, and then Zandeh will chat him up or come up with something else. And Zandeh resigns himself - for now.

"Then just… take care of yourself, magician. And be careful there."

Gurgin snorts. Maybe this strange sound means laughter.

"I can definitely promise you that, son of Kharan."

Everytime I read more facts about Kazai I like him a little bit more and more and more.

I can’t wait till we get the chapter were he fights against Bahadur and the scene after the fight with Shapur.

I love this crazy ship

OC alphabet soup game for K?

KAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI

He's the lady of the castle in all but gender. The household servants defer to him as they would the lord's wife and he is their lord's spouse, and he's very well beloved by them which is a feat considering the fact that he barged into the castle and tried to strangle Shapur all those years ago.

Hey, grief makes you do unwise things. He thought Shapur was involved w the attack that killed his sister and brother-in-law.

He was the one chosen by Rajendra for the Adikalania, the duel before the gods, because Rajendra perceived Kazai's magical abilities as being blessed by some gods and hey, better to pick someone who is favored by the gods for this duel before the gods thing, even if it's not your own gods, right? And since Kazai had already grown infamous for being favored by the divine and a monster on the battlefield (to the point someone who knew about clan history would say “No wonder they were called divine weapons of the gods.”) Gadhevi freaked out as in canon and picked Bahadur in response.

Kazai won.

By ripping out Bahadur's throat with his teeth.

Shapur, who thought he was going to lose Kazai to this duel (because Kazai was being a tad too cautious w his magic lest he be accused of cheating and didn't know Bahadur couldn't feel pain he got quite injured), embraced him as soon as he could, not caring about the stares or the blood on Kazai's body— and let Kazai nestle his face in his neck to which people were like “????? dude did you not see what he did to that other guy's throat??? why tf are you letting him put his face near your neck????”

Back when Shapur was still trying to get Ayunnen and Kashi and Kazai to come with him to his castle Kazai was the only one who was just a little bit interested instead of scared like the other two were. Also, I don't know if I've talked about this before but he was born to a concubine of Some Rich Dude which the main wife Did Not Like and tried to kill him and his mom was trying to protect him and things went to shit and ended up w the main wife dead. Charged w murder, some huge punishment was waiting ahead for both the mom and her two little kids (3yo Kashi and infant Kazai), maybe enslavement, maybe imprisonment, I don't know, but things were grim until a sympathetic guard slipped them out and so they were on the run— and at some unspecified point the mother dies and Kashi has to contend w protecting Kazai all alone at like, toddler age. Also they got picked up and raised by wolves so... yeah. Feral little babies! Until somebody from the clan found them and took them in. Kashi chilled out somewhat (still terrifying in battle though, more like concentrated and stockpiled until she sees fit to release it) but Kazai's Wildness™ is less contained. Though many in the castle kinda perceived him as some sort of wildcat, the full potential of his feralness came out after Arslan got horribly maimed. He's angry and it shows.

His original birth name was not Kazai as Kashi's wasn't Kashi, they were something else entirely, Parsian names, but they both discarded it as society discarded them. Kazai wishes he remembered their mother.

They both inherited their mother's black hair. Everything else is up in the air but that much I am certain.

In the first ever ArSen AU I wrote (RHoG) I made Elam go all starry-eyed at Kazai because of how he makes so many things more convenient in the domestic setting. I wonder if I should retain that.

Love this panel

Tis a very good panel!

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.

Friendship Massage is magic! Arslan Senki : : Zandeh, Gurgin, (not so) Magic Healing AU

Oh, Zandeh is so big! it's not an easy job even for magician to knead his muscles well :) Yesterday I suddenly find that the crack friendship I made up still lives on and inspires people )) @innerchorus , it was so touching! How many yeas have passed? my blogs tell me it all was back at 2016-17 :D I'm rather far from Arslan theme now, but it is so strange and pleasant to go back there and find that people remember you still and the caracters are still warm & dear for you. I'd made some unpublished sketches while plotting "the magic healing au" & this is one of them. It is back from that time, yes.