#Alfarīd's headwrap is technically the wrong shape/wrap

[tired-reader-writer]

Some very, VERY shitty concept sketches for potential redesigns of the Zott siblings. I kinda sorta based their clothing on that of the Baloch people, and though my logic isn't so solid, I'm gonna lay it out anyways:

Where Tanaka likely got the name Zott from:

Zott (Arabic: زط; singular Zottī) is the Arabic term for gypsies, Romani people, and Dom people. The Zott were musicians who migrated in great numbers from northern India to the Middle East about 1000 years ago.

Wiktionary entry of “زط”:

A tribe of Jat migrants from the Indus Valley (note: modern-day Pakistan and northwest India) who settled in the Middle East in the mid to late 1st millennium AD.

Wiktionary entry of the Jat:

A member of an Indo-European ethnic group of people native to Northern India and Pakistan that have attributes of an ethnic group, tribe and a people.

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A member of an Indo-European people living in the Punjab, northwestern India, and Pakistan.

Why the Baloch?

The Baloch are an Iranian nomadic, pastoral ethnic group [...] and is native to the Balochistan region of South and Western Asia, encompassing the countries of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

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Balochi(بلۏچی, romanized: Balòci) is an Indo-European language, spoken by the Baloch and belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the family.

It's quite a bit of a logic leap, the word Zott likely did NOT refer to the Baloch irl, but this is what I chose, partly also just because the men's headwrap is the closest I could find that matched Merlaine's style that didn't come from the wrong direction (I found Tuareg head-wraps, which looked dope, but they would be from like, the west of Pars, not the east, so they're out)

Am I satisfied w the designs? Nope. But I'm allowing myself to be shitty for now. I think I wanna do a proper character redesign sheet for these two next. So y'all have smth to look forward to in the character redesign sheet saga thing?? Yay??

Mainly tried to give them some protection from the sun, they're said to be from the desert and uhhh I do not want them to get skin cancer from excessive UV exposure so. Sleeves.

Also some armor. Because while they're bandits yes the novel also said they do mercenary work for even foreign countries and they must be kinda like well-known and well-employed. Even outside that context, they're arguably the most powerful bandit clan in Pars. They gotta be well-equipped, don't ya think?