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An Isfan/Jimsa ficlet series — Arslan Senki canon-divergence AU

@acheneya-blog Rest assured, there is more to come! Please feel free to point out any errors I made while trying to fit all our shared conversations into this little compilation ;-)

@acheneya-blog and I may have cooked a bit too much in the comments and this is what came out of it!

This might come as an unexpected pairing to some but we hope you're ready for our full presentation of evidence as to why they are a perfect match! It might yet surprise you as much as it surprised us.

Please feel free to share your comments, thoughts, hopes and wishes.

The first set of ficlets is currently with a friend of mine for beta-reading. I hope to share it soon! For now, please find below a little teaser:

Shapur survives Atropatene because Kubard, faced with a man who would rather die than retreat, solves the problem by knocking him unconscious and carrying him off the battlefield.

Later, Jimsa ends up responsible for a pair of wolf pups.

He has no idea what to do with them. Isfan does.

This is the girl Shapur fell in love with in my AU.

●A girl in Ecbatana, who lives with her mother and younger siblings. Her father died when they were all little. They are common people, neither nobles, nor slaves(Āzāt).

● From a young age, Āhu helped her mother with the children and tried to fill her father's place, and she really worked as hard as a man. Her mother would grieve and say that she wished her first child had been a boy and that he would do all of these works now. This also affects Ahu's attitude.

●"A gazelle in the barracks"

From time to time, a group of people, many of whom were women, would go to the barracks and bring bread and such to the soldiers. It was a kind of way of thanking those who had worked hard to serve their homeland. Ahu was among them, going with her younger brother and sister. There were other girls there, sometimes very beautiful. Ahu was more innocent than beautiful.

●Āhu means gazelle. (sometimes deer).

●Ahu has long, light brown hair, like Māhruy(Isfan's mother), which makes her look like her when she is standing from behind. This partly fuels Shapur's trauma.

●She has completely normal brown eyes with long eyelashes. She has innocent look and when she runs it looks like she is flying. She is also very delicate.

●She has a very calm nature. You almost never see her angry.

●She is a very good supporter.

●She does not keep anything to herself and expresses her feelings openly. Even if she tries to hide it, the truth shows on her face.

●Her weakness is excessive naivety and a bit gullible and sometimes superstitious.

●She is very will-powered and could have made a lot of progress if there wasn't a class system.

●Shapur fell in love with her from the bottom of his heart and she was exactly the same person who, after seeing what his father did and the events that later happened between him and his mother, told himself that he would never get close to any woman, it could lead to such tragedies. But Ahu unknowingly showed him the reality. He understood what love meant. He was completely his true self in front of her and his sensitive spirit was revealed. Ahu could make Shapur show his romantic side.

●Ahu is really a gazelle, (but about Shapur, I think, although I want to say wolf but the cat family comes to mind I don't know why! He's such a cat to me, something like leopard or a cheetah).

Depictions of Shapur’s victories over Rome were put up all over the Persian empire. A number of carved rock reliefs celebrating these victories survive. Perhaps the most famous is at Bishapur in southern Iran, where Shapur built a magnificent palace. In this image, Shapur is spendidly dressed and sits on a horse. Underneath the horse is the dead Gordian III. Behind is the captive Valerian clasped by Shapur’s right hand. The figure in front is the emperor Philip I (ruled 244–249 CE) who replaced Gordian. He is begging for the release of the defeated Roman army.

The new statue recently unveiled in Tehran appears to be a partial copy of a celebratory Sasanian rock relief at Naqsh-i Rustam. The kneeling figure is reported to be Valerian. If it is indeed modelled on the Naqsh-i Rustam relief, then the kneeling figure is usually identified as Philip I (as in the original relief Valerian is standing before Shapur). Nevertheless, official statements identify the kneeling figure as Valerian.