#aph indus valley civilization

[ask-pakistan]

Indus Valley Civilization and her baby who wasn’t even born in the timeline she was alive in but i decided to eff that , the mother and son should bond and here is the AU for that. I changed IVC’s clothing just a tad bit to be somewhat historically accurate.

[peonycats]

miscellaneous chibi doodle dump! I've been posting on instagram recently and adding these fun little bonuses to my reposts heheh

characters labelled, from left to right

1) India & Pakistan

2) Tanzania & Uganda

3) Gambia & Senegal

4) India & Indus River Valley Civilization

5) Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic

6) Sapmi & Ainu

7) Ethiopia, Somalia, Oman, Yemen, Iran

[ask-pakistan]

So the earlier Ask got me thinking, what if Pakistan was born from the very start of his history?(like, from Pakistan’s ancient history, from the times of IVC herself) That would make him a very old personification, perhaps older than India himself.

If that had been the case, perhaps He would’ve been the one to raise Hindustan, as IVC had once done to him. I think that would make for a very fun interpretation, different from my usual one lol

[ask-pakistan]

Mama’s little boy.

A little Drabble under the cut lol.

It was hard for him to breathe, it ached everywhere. He couldn’t move. His throat burned, head was spinning.  He couldn’t remember where he was, or why it had gotten so dark so soon.The pain had hit him so intensely he’d lost all his balance and tripped over a few stones, landing face-first into sand. He could feel his muscles spasming under his skin.

It must’ve been one of those times..

He wasn’t able to recall where he fell, or how long he had been lying there. Something he did know was that the pain wasn’t going to get any better any time soon. It was only getting worser.

Distantly, he could make out the vague sounds of people screaming, metals clanking. Men roaring. This wasn’t good. This wasn’t good at all because he knew. He knew when they screamed like that people die.

He whimpered.

He wanted to get away. He wanted to escape. Those people scared him. They were hurting the villagers and they were going to hurt him too and--

Just then, a gentle hand pressed onto his back. A strange sense of relief washed over Umer. He felt someone softly rubbing circles on the sides of back.

“Do not worry child, i am here for you.” spoke the voice of a woman.

 He couldn’t tell if this was real or the pain had worsened to the point he was starting to hallucinate things. But this was welcome. He was starting to lose consciousness anyway.

The woman carefully dragged him into a warm embrace. His sore little muscles complied to her actions. Her presence seem to calm his nerves. He felt a kiss his temple, “I’ll stay by your side for the night, little boy.”

The sound of carnage were growing distant.

He was content with that.

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Alright so i must inform you, i am not the best at English, neither am i a good writer. But i wanted to write something with Baby Umer and IVC anyway. Q__Q This is my first time writing something somewhat seriously. I’m sorry if this was cringe but i tried my best lol.

Englishhh isn’t my only language lol

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Some Headcanons:

Umer has dreamt of IVC long before her ruins were discovered in the 1900s. He knew of her presence in a strange innate way, but didn’t know how credible this feeling was. Growing up, he thought he might’ve conjured up the figure of this woman to cope with his sense of loneliness and grief. That was until he visited the ruins of her civilization himself, was when he realized he recognized this place from his dreams. 

I think it would be a fun concept to have the Ancients appear in the dreams of their descendants once in a while lol Now whether their descendants believe they’re real or not is entirely subjective but i think a concept like that would be sweet. I think the link of IVC to Pakistan is kinda deep, in the sense that IVC has ancient sites in nearly all provinces of Pakistan. And Pakistan roughly constitutes the entire region which was once IVC’s territories. 

Growing up, Umer felt like a outcast. Not because of his apparent case of not aging (as compared to humans), but also because he didn’t really fit into a category of what he represented. He had no sense of being a proper “Nation” till very later on. He had seen empires and their personifications running amok with such pride and spirit, like they had it all figured out. I guess Umer kinda envied that. He just needed to find a place of his own.

[ask-pakistan]

The one who now rules this land. 

[Predecessor & Successor]

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Some Pakistan and IVC Headcannons:

=> IVC and Umer have never met. In fact, the existence of IVC was recently discovered in the 1900s. The period of IVC’s death and Umer’s birth are thousands of years apart.

=> Umer often wonders what IVC would’ve thought had she seen what has become of her land. Would she approve or disapprove of him?

=> The IVC scriptures have still not been deciphered yet so he doesn’t knows what happened or how the IVC declined.

=> Umer likes to think of the personification of IVC as a parent figure for him, even if he doesn’t knows a lot about her and her people yet.

[ask-pakistan]

Here.. have some Indus Valley Civilization? Okay it’s Educational Time !

I thought it was time to introduce the Indus Valley Civilization. So IVC was one of the first Bronze Age Civilization ! Not much is known about them since they were discovered fairly recently during the 1920s during the British Raj in one of Pakistan’s provinces such as Sindh etc. They have a script too but as of now it has not been cracked so really not much is known about them. It is theorized that the people of Indus had perished long ago under unknown circumtances so they may or may not have much connection with the current Populations of Pakistan , Eastern Afghanistan and North western India but these are our Heritage sites (since 95% of River Indus is in Pakistan).

Interestingly enough , these people were very peaceful as not a single weapon designed for wars etc has been found. They mainly flourished due to the fertile land supported by the River Indus which has a lot of its tributaries. These people have also built impressive drainage systems and Baths which were quite impressive for their times. Indus Valley along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia was one of the first civilizations to ever flourish and it was the  more widespread out of the three.

I tried to come up with a clothing design for her but look , when i saw those statues , there was tons of nudity , so this was the best i could do (Que the messy af sketch) :

Good thing they had basic jewelry and cloth back in those days ha ha ha.

Headcannon time? Well Pak doesn’t knows much Mama IVC since he has never met her. He sees her as the Nation whom he replaced thousands of years later But he still feels a weird connection with her. As this was the Lady to which her people might have owed their origin too , before they became muslims and before ethnic groups and intermixed races were born. IVC herself is very mysterious but guess what? who knows but India might’ve known her and doesn’t remembers much about her. Since Hindustan himself is seen to be an ancient himself.

Bonus:

Indians and Pakistanis fight because they want to be the ‘rightful’ inheritor of the heritage of Indus and its History. Well to put it into simpler words, in the current republic of “India” , there are people belonging to other civilizations who have scarce relations to Indus , like the people of River Ganges or the South/East Indians, they have a culture and civilization of their own. So the only people in India who can claim the IVC as theirs are only those people who belong to the Provinces bordering Pakistan. But for now , lets begrudgingly call this a “shared heritage” \(--3--)/ peeaaacceee fellas!