#sinbad.

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’ i’m so mad that i don’t know what to do. ’ (ja'far @ sinbad)

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such a grave statement    /    coming from the one sinbad adored as his pillar ,   the compass he had needed to get across the seven seas     :     the shaky hands and compromised expression left him flabber - gasted for a brief moment ,   before he grasps them within his own    /    a rough finger pulp gliding over the smaller hand in an attempt to ease ,   to comfort     :             “  …   i know it’s frustrating.  ”            ja’far was no covetable company when losing his composure ,   but they had seen enough of each other    /    jabbed at hearts with knives and words alike for sinbad to not be afraid anymore.         the scent of white lilies right outside his office window was carried inside ,   the breeze as gentle as his smile.        he had been munificent with their business partners     :     but his generosity knows limits too ,   especially towards people who could pay for it either way.

his hand strays ,   gently threading through his advisor’s hair as white as the snow in the land they had first met    /    yet he was happy to see something warmer swim in ja’far’s eyes as an eyebrow was raised at him.               “  we will figure out what to do ,  ja’far.      every contract has a loophole    —— — -    do you remember?  ”             it was one of the first lessons they had been taught by rurumu    :    first seen in action against their diplomatic feud with madaura in reim    /    a practise they had become well - versed in over the years.          and the sting lessens its intensity over time ,   even if he can see the stubborn tilt of ja’far’s head and sinbad’s hand is ushered away    /    the king throws his own head back in laughter ,   as free as he could possibly be while drowning out a flustered influx of complaints.

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sinbad’s evolution will always be why i enjoy his character so much .  . how his ideals began so small , simply wanting more power to end the suffering of the residents of his hometown at first .  .  .  once he had aquired that power and saw more of the world’s suffering , he wanted to help the world .  . he wanted to build a country that would be free of war and slavery and ‘everything bad’ in the world .  . and once he accomplished that , it was taken from him while a fatal idea was planted in his head .  . that no one , not even sinbad who very much viewed himself as master of his own destiny was truly free of the shackles fate had put onto them before they were even born .  .  . and his ideals of wanting to free everyone (including himself) of destiny’s hold is just . so True to his character , even if he looked at it as a very radical thing and was absolute in his measures , while everyone else (understandably) valued their lives more than ‘true’ freedom

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YOUR CHARACTER IN 5 QUOTES.   //   𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝.

“ to know is like a hunger : it destroys peace. ”     ------ --- -     against sincerity by louise glück

“ never again to feel that we are lonely orphans or slaves of our silent destiny... ”     ------ --- -  nocturne: blind by elías nandino

“ [...] slip into the same old dream every night : welcome all the things that could have been / i cannot avoid this fight with my wit. ”     ------ --- -     peace is on the rise by chad vangaalen

“ what can you know about a person? they shift in the light. you can’t light up all sides at once. ”      ------ --- -     portrait of fryderyk in shifting light by richard siken

“ do you remember your childhood? when the dream ended, terror remained. ”     ------ --- -      timor mortis; vita nova by louise glück

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so i was doing some digging on persian culture for sinbad (because parthevia in magi is based on the equivalent of persia irl) and i stumbled across a very interesting article called ‘Herodotus: On The Customs of the Persians’ and while i do recommend reading the whole article for yourself , here is a brief excerpt of the most sinbad - like paragraph in the whole article :

“ [...] It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine. ” 

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i think a lot about the facts that the adventures of sinbad were multiple books that sinbad wrote / edited / published himself .  . and that they were a hit , judging by the reaction (mainly) of alibaba’s generation ! and you bet he read those books over and over again years later after he took the position of king as sindria and couldn’t really go out on adventures anymore h hh