Final design is Olruggio as a barn owl! I’ll probably revisit this eventually to draw beldaruit, easthies, tartah, and custas, but I have to switch projects for a little bit! These will be available as stickers, keychains, prints, and tshirts on my shop!
I don't want Qifrey to become a Brimmed Hat, but if he did, this is the design that would cause me the most emotional damage. My headcanon is that Olly made the tassel glow to keep Qifrey warm, despite it all...
So if Caine and Kinger finally have a father-son relationship… does that mean Kinger calls him by his first name, all three middle names, and last name when he’s about to unleash the full force of his parental wrath
Most wholesome HC first: Olruggio's nest is the entire house. Yes, his room beyond his desk is primarily a pile of blankets and pillows, but the entire atelier makes him feel safe and secure so he naps and chills where ever. "Nest" here is less a "place to be intimately vulnerable" and more so the safest, most content place an omega can be: thats home.
Qifrey is the one who buys most his pillows, but they are a hodge-podge of ones he Thinks Olruggio will like even if they don't match, and Olruggio likes them regardless because he was thought of while the purchase was made
Olruggio, despite the whole house being his safe space, is unmated, but mentally refers to Qifrey as his alpha. He hasn't brought up that idea to Qifrey (or maybe he has. He can't quite remember if he did.) I mean, two unmated individuals, taking care of kids and house together, vaguely flirting...
He's never really had baby fever, but having the girls around does make him kinda want a kid... But he's much too busy for that! And they have the girls! Besides, hes got a few years left...
Has entertained in a drunk state finding an alpha who will claim him-- he partially thinks he's missing out since he's never really been that intimate with anyone and he's had quite the fair share of suitors! But he doesn't push that thought beyond his drunk, sad musings. He doesn't want to leave the atelier or his family, so he will just make do with what he's been given.
If he's napping sometimes you can catch the faintest purring noise from him. Peaceful king.
Doesn't really scent others, but everyone ends up smelling vaguely like him from how close they get to him. Qifrey does scent, making sure others know his apprentices are protected and he's near, and then he just has scented for Oly for a decade now and isn't stopping because Olruggio never spoke against it. Beyond that, sometimes when the girls need comfort, like Coco, they'll just come and lean against him or if he's napping they'll join him. He appears like an overbearing, overboard omega to others based solely on how his scent is Everywhere.
He's not upset that he's an omega, but he mostly just feels like a beta. Sometimes he will genuinely forget and then someone will make passing mention of his omega status and he will be in a loading screen for a few seconds before being like... Yeah..
I'm already writing fic about about this because it... hurts me. it hurts me very deeply that whenever qifrey tried to leave so he could at least stop giving his best friend regularly scheduled magical lobotomies (understandable I expect that's the kind of thing that wears on you until some kind of blessed numbness of routine can set in), every time what olruggio would be hearing is 'I want to have this adventure SPECIFICALLY without you'. the guy who went to the lengths he did so no stupid plant could put an end to 'our adventure' has to live with that, repeatedly. from his perspective that has got to be just about the worst thing qifrey could ever do to him, it keeps happening with no satisfying explanation, and he is turboforbidden from ever understanding why. it's a special layer of hell just for them <3
(I feel like 'I thought when you took on the other apprentices it meant you'd finally settled down' must contain an aching center of like... how many times did he think that before. when they finished their training, when they built the atelier, how many times did olruggio think this must mean qifrey had finally chosen to stay for good, this time. that even if olruggio on his own wasn't a good enough reason, at some point something would be. and meanwhile qifrey has to bite his tongue on the Nona the Ninth style 'This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?' of it all. he hurts the person he loves the most when he stays, and he hurts him when he leaves. it's like moving through an endless expanse of thorns on every side; there's no movement that won't make something bleed. unless he can figure this out, and he has to do that without olruggio by definition no matter how desperately he wants him there. olruggio thinks he's not enough and meanwhile qifrey is out there feeling sapling shoots wriggling around behind his eye whenever he indulges in even thinking about olruggio too hard, seeking towards comfort the way normal plants seek the sun.
the mutual 'you're here and not here at the same time and I can hardly bear it' going on is unspeakable.)
What Olruggio's job is: report any forbidden or suspicious activity from Qifrey or his apprentices.
What Olruggio does as "part of his job": Keep the girls from getting sick, comment on teaching approaches, enforce meals and bedtimes, teach his own moral and practical lessons, use magic to make sure everyone is warm and cozy at night.
What Olruggio doesn't do as part of his job: report any forbidden or suspicious activity from Qifrey or his apprentices.
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