#Farangis

[tired-reader-writer]

Thinking about Isfan and Arslan's childhood in Wolfsong. Them being permitted to accompany the clan on its trips— some clan members travelling to pick up information, trade their crafted goods, pick up “strays” etc and some staying behind at their home in the woods near Shapur's castle (in this AU it would be located atop a hill, surrounded by a dense gathering of trees— formerly had nobody using that land because it'd have been a pain to reform the land for agriculture but of course it's not so much an issue for the Mardi), they even take turns probably, the boys also taking turns? Gieve is often on these trips, he likes travelling, Farangis occasionally— she likes being rooted at home but she also will travel to offer her healing services if need be (also as a mediator, when she grows older). Maybe weeks, maybe a month, maybe more. Imagining Isfan in particular integrating himself into that culture. Herding livestock, learning about surviving in the wild, travel routes, getting to listen in on tribes and villages negotiating for grazing land, water supplies, etc. Getting to know, hands-on, what kind of issues tend to be common among the people. I think Arslan would do quite well where it concerns interacting with loads of people, listening to people, etc, while maybe Isfan might like some other parts more— defending, guerrilla tactics, being in tune with the environment to the point he can weaponize it against anyone he may be fighting against. Also maybe there's some big gathering among the villages/tribes on Shapur's land for some event, I don't know what, and the Mardi kids (Isfan and Farangis primarily, Gieve is more of a helper and drifter lol, Arslan might still be too young but he might like to step up when he's old enough) are tasked with helping set up the thing, the logistics, making sure the event goes smoothly, but also getting time to have fun, mingle w kids their age, fool around (OMG IMAGINE ALL THE CHAOS ASHAYA WOULD CAUSE, Saman is SO done). Them getting to listen in on the adult talk!! Oh god, imagine there being an open market at an event like this, or games! Archery competitions, wrestling matches… maybe even an army of plov making, LOL, since I kinda sorta drew from Uzbekistan for the whole Gorgan culture thing. Ehhhh hopefully it makes sense. Just. Them ❤️

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@tired-reader-writer turns out I had some Arslan Senki: Senshi no Shikaku Isfans on my laptop! Google Translated images because I'm lazy and it looks good enough, lol.

Before the fight with Gieve.

Different scene; pretty sure this is from the anime scenario where Gieve playing his oud lead to Team Arslan coming to his aid when he, Zaravant and Tus rushed ahead.

(I have a headcanon that both Shapur and Isfan intensely dislike feeling indebted to others.)

This was new.

(Honestly, I don't think Isfan or his brother take well to mockery. He's obviously feeling the sting of his poor decision here and assumes Farangis is about to rub salt in the wound. Sadly I don't have any more screencaps to see what was said next!)

Also, I did finally go and check Book 9 to see whether Tanaka truly did retcon/add that Isfan was suckled by a wolf, and yes, it appears that he did! The specific phrase used is 狼の乳, 'wolf's milk'. After being abandoned he was kept alive with wolf's milk until Shapur turned up to rescue him. Makes me wonder how much time passed between him and his mother being abandoned and Shapur finding him? I assume not long (like, not multiple days) because he was still out in the open. Even being wrapped in almost all of his mother's clothing wouldn't protect him from the temperature for long, though if the wolves curled up with him that would have helped.

[iubworks]

It's done. It's finally done ;_________;

that's one more commission scratched off my list.

The Heroic Legend of Arslan can be found on P@treon only as an exclusive!

[daryun]

Got my hands on the German version of volume 19:

Arakawa's bonus sketches are

[svxlua]

farangis

[importantdestinydefendor]

So, uh...

Fellt a little silly today and thought I share some of my "Funny Dialoug Prompts with my Characters" with yall. (Will contain new ocs.)

Credits to the rightfull owners, who came up with most of these!

Azar: “I’m surrounded by idiots.” Gieve: “But at least we’re hot!” Arslan: *skeptical* “Are we?”

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Farangis: “You hurt?” *leaning forward* Azar: *sitting on the ground* “No. I normally spurt blood from my rib cage.” Farangis: “You seem to be just fine.” *walks away* Azar: “Help me up at least!”

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Azar: “Do you think-” Narsus: “All the time! I’m a good thinker, you know!” Azar: “Sometimes I think you don’t. Anyway-” *queue Narsus offended face and Daryun die laughing in the corner*

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Farah: “You’re … alive…” Azar: “Great observation, genius.” Farah: “But, you were dead!” Azar: *spitting out blood* “Well luckily you really are a failure.”

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Gieve: *to Azar* Ten years of friendship and this is the treatment I get!” Azar: “I met you yesterday!”

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Chabik: “You know, I really feel like we aren’t seeing eye to eye.” Mehrin: “It’s because you’re taller than me, asshole.”

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Aleksi: “You know, I may be an idiot…” Arslan: “...but?” Aleksi: “No ‘but’, that was it.”

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Mehrin: “... Just to be sure we’re on the same page.” Vahriz: “Page? We’re not even in the same library!”

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(this was made by me) Gieve: “You wished you’d be like me~” Azar: “No, I don’t.” Gieve: *with a cocky smile* “Why not? I’m lovely~” Azar: *deadpan*  “If I’d ever be like you, I’d be six feet underground by now.”

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Daryun: *gently taps table* Narsus: *taps back* Jaswant: “What are they doing?” Azar: “Morse code.” Daryun: *aggressively taps table* Narsus: *slams hands down* “YOU TAKE THAT BACK-!”

BONUS:

From a discord conversation with my friends (translated) Friend A: *talking to their roommate* "Close the door, that will be better. Me: *thinking he was talking to me* "But… my door is already closed." Friend B: "Close it further. " Double Bonus: Friend A: "I was not talking to you, you Idiots!"

Tell me if you want more! (and @tired-reader-writer, you wrote that you are not feeling well. Hope this brightens your day a little!)

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ARSLAN SENKI (2013-?) by arakawa hiromu

[ladies-of-fiction]

Farangis

[jdnemesis2]

Arslan senki characters

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Hello! I understand that you may not know Japanese well, but I know that you know the Legend of Arslan well. What do you think Tanaka said here about Farangis and Giwa? Did he also talk there about “16 wings” and about the fact that “Each of them knows his own body completely”? What? Unclear. I would like to know what you think, as well as perhaps those who know Japanese. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XJxgAD7R-s

(For reference, the video link is the final Wright Staff interview with Tanaka where he discussed the relationship between Gieve and Farangis.)

I'm gonna go right ahead and say I really don't know Japanese at all, I've never studied it and without OCR/machine translation etc I can only really pick out the odd word! The automatic closed caption translation on this video wasn't clear at all, though I had slightly better luck extracting the Japanese captions and looking at those. Just be aware that I may make some errors!

Regarding what Tanaka had to say about Gieve and Farangis, after teasing us with the title of the video he didn't really say anything new about their relationship. Essentially, he said that he left the nature of their relationship ambiguous, and left it for readers to decide for themselves. Some people may think that the two of them were never together right up to the end, while others may think there was actually something between them.

As far as I can tell, the line about the 16 generals refers to the fact that other than Farangis and Gieve, the rest of them are well known (in terms of their origins, history etc, whereas for Gieve and Farangis there's a bit of mystery about their lives before meeting Arslan, though we do learn a little bit about Farangis's backstory later).

The most interesting (and kinda sad) tidbit of information that came out of this video was the fact that Tanaka said Arslan longed for love (アルスラーンなんかのはもう子供の恋愛時代に憧れてるようなそういう for anyone who wants to translate that bit, looks like Tanaka said that someone like Arslan already seemed to long for love/romance in childhood).

[daryun]

One thing about Arslan Senki is that we have a few characters who aren't Parsian.

So I am curious about Jaswant's reaction to this foreign county's mythology actually being bleeding true. (What kind of implications does this have for Shindhuran mythology?)

n'awwww Jimsa seems to have left the picture after chapter 123, I think this is the last we see of him and he had a horse packed and ready to go.

I would love to have seen Jimsa also swearing at the gigantic Parsian Snake Monster. We'd be learning so much colourful Turanian.

In terms of our heroes in chapter 126

I really need to see Daryun's reaction. I need to know for legal reasons if he is the "If it's real I can kill it, obvs" or if he needs to overcome a "holy shit" moment.

I will patiently be waiting for chapter 127, it's bound to be a good one.

(The downside to this version of the story is there will be no Daryun catching Alfreed on Mt Damavand during an earthquake moment, unless that comes later? I just love him looking out for her)

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ARSLAN SENKI (2013-?) by arakawa hiromu

[daryun]

finally, in chapter 126+127 of the Heroic Legend of Arslan...

My favourite type of movie is “period piece romance but fantasy-horror hijinks happen and now everyone has to adapt to the new genre or die,” ala Curse of the Black Pearl, Anastasia, The Mummy (1999)

[makerofmadness]

I'm still back

with a vengeance (uh link to the post where I actually came back)

(Linking 'Cus I'm not putting a block of text here explaining everything I'm doing differently from my translation posts before a second time dnndndndnd)

Less than the other post because I'm hoping that I can do more in a week when I see my parents again in person. (I texted these to my maman [except for the two without dialogue] and she fixed Olive, Icicle Yeti and Herb's but I got the others right by myself she said :3)

I'm not gonna put the romanization under the cut this time 'Cus it's not long enough to warrant it I think? If anyone asks me to I will:

*Wizard Cookie: بیسکویت جادوگر (biskwit jaadoogar)

*Strawberry Cookie: بیسکویت توت فرنگی (biskwit toot farangi)

*Olive Cookie: بیسکویت زیتون (biskwit zeytoon)

«!در انتظار آثار باستانی» ("dar entezaar asaar baastaani!")

*Silverbell Cookie: بیسکویت زنگ نقره (biskwit zang noghreh)

«!...یک روزی ما همه خوشحال خواهیم شد» ("yek roozi maa hameh khoshhal khaahim shod...!")

*Pomegranate Cookie: بیسکویت انار (biskwit anaar)

«!برای اربابم» ("baraa-ye arbaabam!")

*Icicle Yeti Cookie: بیسکویت یتی قندیل یخ (biskwit yeti ghandil yakh)

«خواستی با دوستم باش؟» ("khaasti baa doostam baash?")

*Herb Cookie: بیسکویت سبزی (biskwit sabzi)

«.سلام! به باغ من خوش آمدین» ("salaam! beh baagh man khoosh amadin.")

*Alchemist Cookie: بیسکویت کیمیاگر (biskwit kimiyaagar)

«!راهنمایی من را پیروی بکن» ("raahnamaayi man raa peyravi bekon!")

[mademoiselle-crabaletta]

Listen I know everyone on this site loves and adores Hiromu Arakawa for making fma, but I personally can NEVER forgive her for giving Arslan 0 drip and making Daryun ugly. And also making everyone super pale for some reason.

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A couple of illustrations by Sachiko Kamimura that I don’t think I’ve seen shared on here before. These were included with the laserdisc release of OVA III.