Oh, I Want To Divert You From An Unpleasant Topic! Let's Talk About Arslan's Wonderful Hair Color. I

Oh, I want to divert you from an unpleasant topic! Let's talk about Arslan's wonderful hair color. I think it's boring to consider them just white. The anime, of course, does not convey this, but it seems to me that if they were filming a movie, they would be an unusual color!

Oh, sure! Well, for starters, Tanaka himself doesn't even specify what Arslan's hair colour is! The original illustrator of the novels, Yoshitaka Amano, gave him blond/white hair, and after that, it seems everyone else more or less followed his example. I don't think it's boring; in fact, I think this pale hair colour was chosen precisely because it is unusual, and it (in particular for the manga/anime/OVAs) hints at the mystery of his origins.

He doesn't look anything like his dark-haired father, Andragoras. In the novel, although Daryun ventures that Arslan looks more like his mother when Vahriz presses him for an answer, the truth is that he doesn't look like her, either (in the novel series she has black hair and eyes; the fact that both Sachiko Kamimura and Hiromu Arakawa changed this in their character designs was no doubt to make the matter of his parentage all the more confusing). So right away, it makes people start questioning things — is Andragoras not, in fact, Arslan's father? Why does his mother, who he does resemble, treat him so coldly?

I doubt Tanaka pictured him as having white hair, but I do think it's an appropriate choice. Is there a particular colour you think would suit him better?

An evening at Kishward’s.

He almost jolts out of his skin when a gentle hand cups his cheek. “I can't come with you,” Ayunnen says. “This is for the both of us. Please understand.”

He cannot answer.

Neither of them acknowledge the tears he sheds silently.

...That was their first meeting.

It was not the last.

Welp, fellas, at least the first encounter is done!! Now to actually get on with the next two, aye 😭

Because I finally have to clear my head so I can continue working on my story.

So now I'm going to bombard you with thoughts about my The heroic legend of Arslan modern AU.

Shapur

Oh my god where do I start? I have so many thoughts about him

- In his time in middle and high school, Shapur was a good judoka and was quite successful due to a shoulder injury, but he had to give up the competition

- He owns a motorbike and in his free time he likes to do some laps especially towards the mountains and forests. Sometimes he also visits Isfan when he is on duty at the ranger station at the weekend

-when he was 18 he took custody of Isfan (the backstory here is about the same as in the manga)

- Shapur is a passionate mountain biker even if he doesn't get to do it often because of his job

- He doesn't like spicy food but likes something sweet (at work he has a drawer with a stash of sweets)

- He doesn't drink much because he can't tolerate too much alcohol

- He was in the military until he was injured on a mission and retired. Kahrlan then took him to the M.o.P

- Kubard is his colleague

-Shapur is often annoyed by him, but their clearance rate and cooperation is the best in the entire team

- Shapur wakes up quickly and due to his military background he gets up early and goes jogging

- Kayra (my OC) can't understand that

"Honey why are you awake?" "stay down I'm just going jogging" "it's 5:30 on a Sunday morning" "I'll also bring fresh bread rolls" "and a croissant"

- he is a romantic

- He hates casesin which children are involved

Kubard (my brother in spirit or rather Kayra's 😂)

- Kubard wasn't in the military

- He comes from a poor area of ​​Ecbatana where there is a lot of crime

- he made it to the rank of police officer and was brought into the M.o.P through his merits

- He loves to mock Shapur and his reaction

- He played basketball when he was in school and still does today. once a week he goes to his old neighborhood to play a few rounds of basketball with the kids there and make sure they don't go down the wrong path

- he buys old houses, renovates them himself and rents them out cheaply. It's more about renovating. just let off steam and tear down a wall

- he loves vintage cars, he has three of them and tinkers around with them

- he lives in an old airplane hanger and has set up a bachelor den there, no woman has stayed more than one night so far

- he has a diving license

Ok so far until now

Might write some thoughts about Isfan, Gieve, Daryun, Saam, Narsus and Kayra (Oc) aswell

Maybe Arslan, Farangies and Elam to

Forgive me for my AU ramblings but—

Finding out from @innerchorus how Gurgin was always attracted to… darkness, sort of, and had a tendency to poke things that should not be poked at even before his brother’s death… His tendency to question the norms laid before him (how interesting to say “might is stronger than faith” when he’s a priest-in-training, eh?), I can’t help but wonder what he’d think if or when he finds out about the clan.

Because even if none of the other disciples may know, I’ve decided that the Master definitely does. Not that they’re still alive, no, but their history, the animosity, mages vs sorcerers in the fight against Zahhak, the role the mages played in the sealing of Zahhak (unclear if he’d know about the betrayal and the sacrifice)…

Actually, how should the disciples learn of the history, anyhow? Would the Master tell them? From the start? Or only after their first run-in with a mage, probably Arslan in Ecbatana?

Let’s go

Wow! Chapter 109 is here!!

https://weloma.art/1105/95081/

...I'm so scared to look. Okay. It's okay. I'm going to do it now. Thanks so much for sending me the link.