witch hat atelier kitchen is so funny because with qifrey its always "the girls! i have to cook and feed the girls because it is my responsibility!!" and then olruggio comes out of his room at four in the morning like "im so fucking hungry"
Qifrey just got home from the literal week from HELL in Ezrest, had to go find Coco (who ran away to her house to see if the counterclock spell would work), and finally was able to sit down and meal plan alone because Olruggio took the girls out to help him.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HIEHART AND JUJY SHOW UP ON HIS DOORSTEP ASKING FOR HIM OF ALL PEOPLE
no wonder he is grippin the panel, mans is so done with people
Qifrey, explaining to Coco: Olruggio's position as a Watchful Eye is to make sure that no issues are swept under the rug and everything is reported as it should be :)
Olruggio: Right, so are you going to let me do my job?
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Luluci is gonna be the one that figures out what is going on with Qifrey
Walk with me here.
She is the one who helps Custas with his wounds and takes him to the hospital
She also made sure that he was given a seal chair for mobility and is kept up to date with Custas
She also makes sure that Custas is healthy before investigating if he saw magic being drawn..... which we know is what he figures out from the brimmed caps
She was dispatched to the second test when Alaira didn't reach out and was met with a missing kid, a missing proctor and a bloodied Qifrey. Of course, Qifrey being a part of the test, which he wasn't supposed to be, made her even more suspicious, ESPECIALLY when Olruggio tried to be like we aren't going to the Great Hall.
She also learns that Qifrey didn't tell Coco that witches are forbidden from studying medicine, telling her that it is a fundamental lesson in magic history.
Cut forward 20ish chapters and suddenly Custas' seal chair is getting returned, and her first comment is, "its good to know he made a full recovery." To which the doctor says umm no he didn't need it because of the nice witches he met.
And who are those nice witches? Coco and Custas.
So now she's suspicious and has connected that Coco, who didn't know that medicine is forbidden, is helping someone who was under investigation FOR WHEN he gets better and now has run away from the tracking sigil that was on his sealchair.
Cut to her chapter in the Silver Eve arc and she is told (along with Easthies) that someone is walking around with a spell on his chest. And who is that.... Dagda
And who is that.... Dagda. The man who told Luluci to take care of Custas all the way at the beginning.
Then she gets told that her friend and coworker got all of his memories erased and Atwert says the Galga heard minstrels singing, mentioning the staircase river.
That puts her on alert because she immediately connects that whatever happened to Galga has to do with Custas and Dagda, and yet she doesn't tell Easthies.
And then shit goes down... she finds Tartah.... one of the two that helped Custas.
And then there's Dagda who saves her from the leech out of nowhere, connecting that he was there when Galga lost his memories to a Brimmed Cap.
Especially when she hears that Custas was up in the sky... and if she connects the dots then she will realize that Custas might know about magic and needs to erase his memories.
Dagda runs out, knowing how dangerous the situation is and how the knights will treat Custas, but Luluci is already on the hunt and follows him. Leaving the girls in the outsiders hands with Tartah and Mr Nolnoa.
And then she finds a brimmed cap, who she believes is behind all of this leech stuff, and finds a brimmed cap trying to get Jujy to use forbidden magic. She gets immediately confused because Custas was not a witch, or a brimmed cap before so how in the world does she go from here.
And then Custas tells yells about how Galga attacked Dagda, making her put the pieces together.
They fight and all but get stopped by Coco and Qifrey, and Coco gets through to everyone that they are going after the wrong thing.
Coco gets Luluci's attention, telling her that saving people are what witches do and this puts him on the pointed cap side, he was taught the wrong way.
At finding out the it was Custas the whole time she doesn't know what to do and Dagda asks her to lay down her weapon, and she almost does, but Beldaruit tells her to apprehend them to keep the Pact.
Coco and Beldaruit have it out, and Luluci is listening in the whole time. Coco tells them that counterclock magic isnt forbidden because memory erasure is just another type of counterclock magic which makes Luluci pause and allows Custas to show Jujy how to save Hiehart.
Now she is starting to see a connection between Coco, Custas, and Dagda with the Brimmed Caps. Not that Coco is on their side but knows how to bend the rules in the way the pointed caps think.
She also overhears EVERYTHING that goes on between Coco, Beladruit and Captain Vinanna, including about what happened with Engendale until Beldaruit crushes the window way allowing her to hear everything.
Which means she doesn't hear about Qifrey defeating Engendale... but that is a separate thing.
But now we get her starting to defect and realize what she has known her whole life might be a lie. Which is right around the time that Custas starts to start feeling better and relief... starting up the silverwood.
She's starting to get suspicious and brings everyone to the medical spire, finding Coco to try to get some answers but Luluci gets stopped by Dagda who can tell the Coco is BUSY
She stays with everyone until Easthies comes around trying to wipe everyone and gets told by her commanding officer that she is either with him and the knights or she is getting erased.
This is when I think she starts to fully defect and wonder what the hell is going on. Everything that the Wises have put together has made sense but he is right, its against the pact. Ofc Easthies gets knocked out and she realizes that she as a witch has done NOTHING but hurt people today as she has just tried to silence the kids over and over again before hearing them out.
Fast forward, the leech is gone, everyone is saved but Dagda and Custas are still in the medical spire with Luluci. Dagda brings up how people are treating them so much better ever since Custas got a cap and he asks her if there really is a reason behind who gets to be witches.
He shows her that he was the one with the counterclock tattoo on him and she immediately goes to for her spear, but he tells her not to bother cause he isn't coming back again, telling her to watch over Custas when he's gone.
Custas wakes up and feels relief in the way he wakes up in Dagda's arms and IMMEDIATELY the tree explodes.
Now she knows the myths, all witches do, that silverwoods only sprout in animals when they feel calm, they don't grow in humans. But now she has seen right in front of her that isn't true.
Suddenly Coco comes through the branches and she tries to tell her but Coco goes, yeah I know its Custas, and she is holding a book IN QIFREYS HANDWRITING about how to fix it, something that Coco should not even know as a beginner witch
When asked how she got it, she deflects and Dagda takes the book saying that they wont need it because Dagda is dying. Luluci is HORRIFIED at this, learning that Silverwoods can grow in humans, how the counterclock spell works on a literal corpse, and how tf Coco knows about all of this.
She stays with Custas and Dagda throughout all of this. We dont see the after affects of what happens, but now, after the tree goes away, Luluci is with a dead Dagda and Custas is nowhere to be found (as he was taken by Restys)
Then we have all the Qifrey and Olruggio chapters... but then we get to chapter 97....
Luluci is back in the Great Hall and everyone is dealing with the consequences of their actions. Where she is told that Easthies is not a Deputy anymore, not because of what he did, but because he went against Vinanna.
She is told what he did was in the right and now basically everything that she allowed under Vinanna (before memory erasure) and Beldaruits word was WRONG. Vinanna tells her something was amiss that night and when Luluci asks what, she gets told that its on a need to know basis.
Shes starting to feel that everything isnt what it seems and maybe things arent right. And the higher ups are keeping a huge secret.
Soooooo.... this leads me to believe she is going to start investigating things.
Starting first with where Custas went. Presumedly, someone in the knights moralis has his cap, which can be used to find him. She eventually finds him but notices brimmed caps everywhere and says I'm not going in alone.
Or she is told to investigate where Tartah went, which leads her to the same place.
Either way the last person who saw either of them was Coco, which will lead Luluci right to the atelier. My guess is she goes to talk to Coco and Qifrey tells her absolutely not. Putting her back to square one, until she remembers a certain book with the full memory wipe spell.
She throws that into the orb and it points her to Qifrey and she puts everything together, finding out that he is also a silverwood host.
Now this could go two ways. If he finds out that she knows, her memory is getting erased. But if he doesnt, she is going to start investigating and put a HUGE hole in the brimmed caps plot to create a symbiosis between humans and the silverwood.
Let me know what you think. This came to me one day and I wanted to put together the info!
umm okay this is great. I'm going to have to think on this more.
i also just wanted to say I love the idea of symbiosis. it's something I've wanted to explore more but haven't yet really. I'm so curious if you have thoughts about how it would work?
So if we take the theory of the silverwood as CPTSD metaphor, people in our world, CLEARLY have figured out how to live hand in hand with trauma.
I don't know if in the end, the silverwood is going to be burned out (if you want to read theories on that please go read @joshuallyman they have so many good theories about Olruggio and Qifrey) or if he finds a way to live with it.
Tbh we will probably go with the first, but the idea of Qifrey being able to live with it and still be happy would mean huge lifestyle changes and whatever the equivalent to antidepressants are in magic land!
Or another theory of mine is giving him something like histamines, which naturally stress out the body, so that he can calm his mind.
The mountain apple that Utowin eats through chapter 26 is a metaphor for the Knights Moralis wiping memories.
When he takes a bite, he talks about how the world is at peace, which is because they wiped the outsiders memories of how magic works, taking a piece of the person.
The angle turns to Easthies, a known memory eraser, and Utowin calls him out on stopping witches who disturb the peace, which also ends in erasing memories.
Throughout the whole chapter he is eating the mountain apple and when taking someones memories too many times, a person basically becomes a husk of themselves, turning into something that ends up being thrown out.
When you take away what a person is over and over again, they become something different and something hollow. Which is why I see that mountain apple as a metaphor for what happens when you take away peoples memories. Especially after learning that when people are fully erased they get thrown away to Adanlee to learn how to be outsiders.
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