Yes, I did just make a post about how I hate making theories because it eats my brain.
Yes, this is a theory post.
Anyway, hot take (FIRST AND LAST SPOILER WARNING FOR LIKE THE WHOLE MANGA GO READ)
Yeah, I'm not totally convinced the Silverwood tree is actually what's making Qifrey's vision go out in the other eye.
Okay first of all, the Brimmed Caps are cruel, but I don't think they would go as far as injuring a child's eye for the sake of their experiments.
Did they hurt Qifrey in many other ways? Absolutely. Have they hurt other people in the past? 100 percent.
But if you look at Custas, he only got a seed because of a preexisting disability. And when Inninia yells at Coco, her defense that the Brims aren't wrong is the fact that the Pointed Caps erased healing magic. In fact, a lot of her own magic has to do with healing. Almost like how Coco focuses her magic on helping others because that’s her main goal. Inninia’s goal seems to be to heal others.
And Custas and Inninia (am I spelling her name right? who knows.) wanted an audience with the king, a man whose family used to be the best at healing magic.
There's probably a lot of other theories about the idea guessing that implementing Silverwood into the body used to be like a prosthetic/the Brims want to use the Silverwood to make prosthetics.
Specifically, with disabled individuals.
So why would the Brims that experimented with Qifrey use a non-disabled person?
I don't think they did.
Remember the kid from Chapter 39? The one with the really sensitive ears and his mom offered him up to Olly, Hieheart, and Jujy?
Well, the whole chapter, Olly was thinking about Qifrey. And isn't it such a coincidence the kid is the last thing we see before it goes back to Qifrey?
And isn't it such another coincidence that Hieheart believed that Olly would perform healing magic on the kid?
Hmm it's almost like a reccuring theme with this kid and Custas. When doctors can't heal a disability, they turn to witches.
Hmm it seems that it's likely Qifrey was offered up to the Brims to heal his sight.
Okay, I've established that Qifrey was experimented with the intent to heal his vision but what about now?
The part where I said the Silverwood isn't to blame for his eye sight.
I kinda think the tree is actually trying (but obviously failing) to heal his eye.
It's been established in canon that the tree grows from injuries, right? But that doesn't mean it causes injuries.
But I lean more towards simply Qifrey's eye sight is failing because of the preexisting condition he has. And not the Silverwood.
Why would the tree choose to grow through his other eye specificially when it has been shown to grow in different places entirely? It knows how to grow through the host's back, arms, legs, and hands. But yet just out of the blue, it starts attacking the other eye only?
And the treatment for the pain in his eye isn't like the treatment for Silverwood growth. In fact, his solution gives comfort instead of taking it to prevent growth. The spell in Qifrey's lense causes the pain from incoming light to stop which is interesting because stopping Silverwood growth causes more pain.
So yeah, as much as I would love a happy ending for Qifrey, I have a feeling that removing the Silverwood won't actually solve the problem.
So this post is for like a whole of 10 people but whatever!!
They really were just kids bro D:
Qifrey went through so much and for what?? He didn't deserve that. And poor Olruggio who's all heart. He's just the biggest sweetheart and he suffers for how deeply he loves. D:
But also...
GAYEST CRAP I'VE EVER READ.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN QIFREY STAYED AWAKE FOR HOURS WHEN ALL HE WANTED WAS TO DIE JUST FOR OLRUGGIO???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN OLRUGGIO PASSED THE TOWER OF TOMES FOR QIFREY???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN OLRUGGIO SMILED SO BRIGHTLY WHEN HE OFFERED TO ERASE HIS MEMORIES??? (yk granted he did give qifrey an anxiety disorder)
WHAT DO YOU MEAN OLRUGGIO REFERED TO THEIR LIVES AS "THEIR ADVENTURE" AS IN. SHARING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS KID CALLED THEM "PARTNERS IN PAIN"???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN OLLY IS THE ONE THING THAT WILL GIVE HIM COMFORT AGAIN AND AGAIN??
OH MY DAYS GET MARRIED YOU OLD CHRONICALLY ILL FOOLS. I'LL BUY THE RINGS. I'LL OFFICIATE THE WEDDING. I'LL BE THE FLOWER GIRL. I'LL BE THE MAID OF HONOR AND THE BEST MAN.
DOOMEST YAOI TO EVER EXIST. IT'S SO BAD THE TWO MADE THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIP NONCANON THEMSELVES.
I don't think any noncanon ship could have prepared me for the tomfoolerly that is Witch Hat Atelier.
What do you MEAN ORUFREY ISN'T CANON?!?!?! I genuinely though they were husbands BEFORE I joined the fandom?!?! NO ONE LOOKS AT THEIR FRIENDS LIKE THAT GUYS!!!!
Like we are a hop skip and a jump away from Qifrey and Olruggio getting together BUT NO ONE IS HOPPING, SKIPPING, OR JUMPING!!!
I don't think any noncanon ship could have prepared me for the tomfoolerly that is Witch Hat Atelier.
What do you MEAN ORUFREY ISN'T CANON?!?!?! I genuinely though they were husbands BEFORE I joined the fandom?!?! NO ONE LOOKS AT THEIR FRIENDS LIKE THAT GUYS!!!!
Like we are a hop skip and a jump away from Qifrey and Olruggio getting together BUT NO ONE IS HOPPING, SKIPPING, OR JUMPING!!!
The more I think about TADC, the more I fall in love with the show.
EPISODE 9 SPOILERS AFTER THE CUT!!!!
If you look at the charecters lives with the standards society has, they've acchieved nothing. There's no career for them in the circus, there's no money to have, there's no titles or awards to win.
In the eyes of our world, none of them have done anything with their lives.
But even when they all learn that in the physical world, they have acchievements, they don't want to go back to that. Pomni is Pomni, not Abigail. Ragatha is Ragatha, not Suzie.
Because they're human. They're alive. And life no matter what should never, ever be thrown away. Life has value, even when you have no worldly achievements
Zooble made a mark in Gangle's life. And that is reason enough to keep living.
Kinger taught them how to rebuild the circus and helped the others keep moving and grapple with the fact of Caine's death. And that is reason enough to keep living.
Ragatha and Pomni have been by each other's side to show the light when the other can't find it. And that is reason enough to keep living.
Even when Jax abstracted and showed Pomni that he's done nothing but hurt people, he was scared to die. Because he had reason to keep living.
There was more than enough reason to live despite everything.
