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[Witch Hat Atelier Animatic] You are my monster

Click Eng [CC] for English subtitles!WHA ch 93 spoilers - orufrey animatic based on summer hikaru died ed.Made with procreate and da vinci r

"it doesn't have to be you"

an orufrey animatic I made // ch 93 spoilers // based on the summer hikaru died ed // English subs in [CC]

[daily-olly]

First Day

[bagelbarr0n]

Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning

[yimmypee]

ive been thinking about this tweet for the past 2 days like literally nonstop

[justalilpearlie]

couldnt help myself

agott what in the everliving premeditated murder was that

[waitafrikk]

i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause

[lunyselene]

terry pratchett is the only person who actually knew how to use a pregnant pause

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

The fact that Qifrey and the kids and the fandom and the hecking narration and really even Olly himself all bully Olruggio for drinking excessively but the only time we ever actually see him "overindulge" is in the does-this-count-as-canon kitchen spinoff and there he's half-asleep and refusing refills three drinks in while Qifrey's pouting about how he was just getting started. Slander and libel on Olly's good name. That man is an occasional social drinker who got slightly tipsy at a fancy arts patronage fundraiser one year and no one ever let him live it down. and Qifrey is a functional alcoholic wine mom.

[cryptophage-art]

Had to do a panel redraw for my favourite babygirl

[adamtotscomix]

[fuckyeahisawthat]

he is just constantly ready to do Crimes

[hhfdyjn]

66/100

[xeemaee]

Try reading witch hat kitchen without audibly saying “family” with a smile on your face every two seconds I dare you

[midomochitea]

Qifrey 🩵

[sachermorte]

eternally painful that you can't socialize without people expecting you to talk. sometimes I just want to be around. like a cat

[purelovemechanism]

making tartah irish (a colonized people, albeit european) in the dub was a wildly good decision that only enhances his relationship to and solidarity with custas (who has indigenous ainu & roma influences) considering england’s historical and contemporary oppression of both roma and irish people. roma and irish people have a very complicated dynamic in and of themselves with the irish perpetuating anti-roma stereotypes for proximity to white supremacy, which is perfect for the fact that despite tartah’s insistence he has custas’ best interests in mind, custas can’t really trust him. it makes tartah’s unflinching solidarity with him all the more touching even on top of the disability narrative. i’m pretty sure tartah’s accent is closest to a northern irish accent, a territory still actively occupied by england. those in the slum and those in “polite society” are literally separated by a wall atop which custas confronts tartah and coco. hello belfast. hello “peace walls”. not to mention the dynamic of an english qifrey and an irish tartah. girl this is mitrust of lying adults and witches and colonization. hallelujah. tens across the board for this adaptation so far.

[pivotttt]

Olruggio of the Torch (Witch Hat Atelier Spoilers Ch92)

A torch has two main goals: to light up a path and bring warmth. In this post, I will go over how Olruggio is the perfect embodiment of the torch from the very beginning of the story.

The Torch for Coco

Olruggio's more cold personality in his very introduction is quite the deception. It is still not long before we see the core of his whole personality when he uses his magic to warm up Coco.

Then, we learn Olruggio's cobblestone spell is the first instance of magic that Coco has ever encountered.

This is one of the sweetest moments in the manga, and Olruggio's embarrassed reaction is just gold. However, Coco's lines in the two bottom panels hint at something more somber. The next time she mentions the magic she felt from the cobblestone path is in her monologue in ch62.

Growing up without her father left Coco feeling lost and directionless. Encountering magic gave her hope to latch on. She imagined all the fantastical things she could do with magic; but above all, it gave her the tiniest hope that she could meet her father. Even though this goal was unattainable, Olruggio's magic lit something foundational in her soul. A light that Agott could see so clearly, which is why Agott asks Coco to reflect on her love of magic in ch62.

The Torch for the Cursed

Ch24, where Coco and Tetia encounter the cursed people of Romonon, is the groundwork for the most important theme in Witch Hat Atelier.

After a failed attempt to beat them with physical force, Coco and Tetia reach out to understand the people of Romonon. What they find is that their cruelty is the result of so, so many years without the feeling of comfort.

Coco's solution is to bring out the most comforting magic she knows: Olly's. The people of Romonon immediately see a path with the snugstone. A path that leads them to finally rest.

It's a choice that Coco protests and despairs over, but in the end, it's the path that they found through Olruggio's magic. Once again, it does not only have a physical warmth to it, but it acts as a guide that helps others make choices.

The foreshadowing of Qifrey's character in this chapter is also important to note: he knows the answer to the riddle is 'comfort' immediately, and he also stops Coco from trying to interfere with the end they chose. All of these details are so much heavier now that we know that Qifrey is someone who is Cursed as well. A snugstone was given to Qifrey; but with what we know now, is he able to even use it?

The Torch for Himself

In the bonus chapter for volume 11, Olruggio is almost entirely by himself. Struggling with an artblock for his work, he produces a purely decorative spell in order to "clear his mind."

These animals he composes are torchstags, which we know because Agott shows Coco her own decorative animal spells in ch58. Perhaps it was Olruggio that partly inspired her to do so after seeing how all the girls enjoyed this display of magic.

Even without others, it's in Olruggio's nature to produce magic with a guiding light. He naturally dazzles others even when it's magic for himself, but he still notes the effect of his magic on Coco.

This page directly connects to the theme of Olly igniting Coco's light; though, reminds the audience that the hope comes from the witch's deception. The magic itself may be a lie, but the strength it gives to others is true.

Indeed, Olly has always had a torch for himself. Ch76 has the youngest sighting we have of Olly. He proudly stands in front of his warming contraption.

However, it's the incident in Noz that leaves him feeling more lost than ever. He doesn't believe in the warmth of his light anymore. That is, until he encountered...

The Torch for The Silverwood Maiden

ch89's flashback opens with a despondent Olly following what he deemed as his greatest failure. The chief assures him that he won't have to worry about saving people down here; ironically, he immediately finds someone that needs saving.

Unsurprisingly, it's a drying spell to keep Qifrey warm that Olly uses. Yet somehow, saving his life will be far from the only gift that Olly brings him. It's with Qifrey that we first see him wave the torch of knowledge. He teaches him to use magic to solve his problems instead of charging in unprepared.

Olly teaches him how to lie. How to put on a friendly smile.

He even teaches Qifrey how to cook, another very important part of Qifrey's future personality. He kept showing Qifrey more and more. Even when Qifrey pushed him away, he is always there.

He was above Qifrey with a helping hand even when he shut himself away in the darkness.

Olruggio isn't just a torch for Qifrey.

When sailors are surrounded by the discomfort of endless seas and in the darkest of nights, they look to the unwavering stars to navigate. And Olruggio is...

This brings us back to the Silverwood maiden Tale in ch47.

There are endless things to pour over in this tale. For this post's sake, I will focus on the aspect mentioned in ch92: that boats sail on the night sky. This reinforces the idea that the sea and sky mirror each other. The star messenger was lost before meeting the silvermaiden, just as Olly was lost before meeting Qifrey. They have too many distinctions to mirror each other exactly, but there's a sort of balance to them. Olly leaves Qifrey a guiding torch to give him hope, but it's because of Qifrey that Olly has a direction to confidently 'sail' in.

I've gone through the many things that Olly has done for Qifrey, but it would be have to be another post to talk more about what exactly Qifrey has done that has made Olly so attached to him--how much of it is because of olly's savior complex, qifrey's nature, etc. All of that is true, and yet there is also a simpler answer to his ceaseless attachment to Qifrey.

[yfel-axel]

There's at least one old lady in every village they help out that calls Agott Olruggio's teenage hardworking daughter