i'll see your "olruggio has confessed a hundred times in a hundred ways but qifrey always takes root soon after so he doesn't remember any of them so qifrey must carry the knowledge of their reciprocal affection alone"
and raise you
olruggio has never confessed, not even once. he bites the words back every time and qifrey genuinely believes that olruggio doesn't feel that way about him because if he did surely he would've said something by now, it's just that he's such a kind gentle soul, that he would do all this, go this far, and qifrey is taking advantage, selfish and awful, hurting olly over and over and harboring these obviously predatory and unwelcome feelings for him on top of it.














