So I Was Tagged By @tired-reader-writer, Thank You And Lets Go!!!

So I was tagged by @tired-reader-writer, thank you and lets go!!!

Last song: A Symptome of being human from Shinedown

Currently watching: The Witcher, rewatching the Big Bang theory, rewatching Indiana Jones

Currently reading: „Engelskalt“, the heroic legend of Arslan, the fic from @innerchorus and @tired-reader-writer

Currently obsessed with: The heroic legend of Arslan (of course), selfmade lemon ice tea, the nice summer evening’s

Again thanks for tagging ng me 😃

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.

Me the little fox

Thanks @tired-reader-writer for tagging me

Was tagged by @ladamebrunette and @frankenbition for the picrew train, thank you both <3

I gave myself a littol elven ears. As a treat.

Tagging @lilas @joy-fires @galpal95 @nethlies @shanaraharlyah without any pressure

work song

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.

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."