Tetia's interactions with Eoleo really have me thinking about the potential parallels that Tetia has with Olruggio.
Olruggio and Tetia: Two witches who are keen to help people whenever they can. Olruggio is a well-known witch and inventor who specialises in fire magic. His magical inventions are there to make life easier for others as well as allow access to basic necessities such as warmth and light. On the other hand, Tetia is a young apprentice witch who had only recently made her debut with magical inventions. Her inventions utilise and specialise in earth magic. Her instent staff and serpent's bed of sand are both things that utilise earth (sand and dirt). Tetia's invention also exists to make life easier for the common folk by allowing them access to shelter and comfort.
Both Tetia and Olruggio's inventions are distributed to those who need them as they help civillians using their inventions. Their inventions are also found to be incredibly useful during the Silver Eve festival: olruggio's invention is used to defeat the curtain leech, and Tetia's invention is used as temporary shelter for those escaping the chaos.
Olruggio and Tetia are two kind and compassionate characters. It is their desire to help people to the best of their abilities, which makes them critical of the witches code. Olruggio and Tetia consider breaking the witches code in some way, shape, or form to be able to better help people. This is mainly focused on helping people by allowing them access to knowledge. Why should people be prohibited from life changing knowledge that can benefit them? Is a question that both of these characters ask and can't find it in themselves to justify such a thing.
What further connects these two as strong parallels is their relationship with monarchs as witches. Witches are taught to be secretive and keep their distance from monarchs. Monarchs and witches are unable to stand side by side as it is against the witches' code to function in the times of the old prior to the formation of the pact. This is due to the tragedy that is associated with many witch and monarch stories, with the monarchs ending up dead and wars being created. Olruggio and Tetia are both put in positions where the monarchs propose a cooperation deal, a chance to go back to the old ways. Both experess wariness at this proposition with Olruggio successfully declining the offer while Tetia seems to be interwoven in a complicated relationship with Eoleo. Olruggio's beliefs about witches and monarchs are made clear that he disagrees with the alliance due to its historical consequences. However, Tetia finds herself questioning and critiquing this rule. Why can't witches be friends with monarchs? There surely isn't anything wrong with such a thing, is there? Tetia is still naive to the diplomatic workings of witches and monarchs, unlike olruggio.
It's also interesting to notice that Olruggio and Tetia both catch the eyes of a monarch in Ezrest. We see King Ezrest watching Olruggio's silver Eve performance in chapter 61. We see Tetia catch the eye of Prince Eoleo, who she chooses to hide from the Palace guards during the Silver Eve festival.
Tetia and Olruggio's characters also focus on the concept of transformation. It's ironic that the importance of appearance and clothing is brought up in reference to their characters and specifically when it comes to the Silver Eve arc as a way to differentiate themselves from outsiders and other witches. Olruggio and Tetia believe and use items like masks and clothes as a way to 'transform' into different people and to be viewed differently as a result. Olruggio utilises the cosmetics mask to make himself look presentable to his clients who would like to meet him and require some of his magic while Tetia switches cloaks with Eoleo and is deemed to look like royalty.
Both of these characters are shown to aid both monarchs and civillains. Their work and training (in Tetia's case) is built up to complete their duties as witches, which is to make everyone happy at the end of the day. Tetia loves hearing people thank her and wants to be a witch who is able to see and hear people's content at her work while Olruggio is a witch who has managed to achieve such a thing. Tetia would like to be known internationally while Olruggio has built a strong, seemingly international reputation about himself as the light witch.
Tetia's current optimistic and outgoing demeanour can be said to be very similar to young Olruggio. Both characters hear the gossip surrounding Coco and Qifrey and are ironically the first peer to approach them in the great hall and the atelier.
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