chapter 98 wha thoughts, predictions. olruggio focused.
these are my olruggio centric, dramatic ass thoughts and predictions for what's to come. unfortunately i feel like something bad is gonna happen to olruggio at every turn bc of the Foreshadowing. a lot of thoughts came from chatting with @ladysdork and @justjill72.
but yeah i fear the Foreshadowing is coming for his ass
and i can't help but think noz 2.0 is on the horizon. he's freezing in the middle of battle cause of noz.
he's passing out when the battle isn't won bc he doesn't take care of himself (including the bottom panel just bc he looks good btw)
and now that the winter season is here i'm worriedddd for him since noz took place in the winter. i've said before but i feel like olly not taking care of himself is leading to something. i feel like noz 2.0 is gonna hit and he's going to fizzle out for a while.
so one panel i'm looking at differently now is this one from ch. 96. so initially i thought this might be a tetia backstory piece (and i'm still convinced it might be) but apart of me worries it's olly foreshadowing now.
because everyone but him seem to go to deliver the dragon eggs
you can see qifrey, qiflings, hiehart, and jujy, but no olly. (lol @ when the next chapter has him walking in after them first panel)
and olly coming back from their trip to the village just seemed sooo sad and tired. i think that's why qifrey helps him with his cloak cause he's clocking olly's mood. (or shirahama is giving us domestic crumbs for delaying the chapter) but qifrey looks a little concerned as he's helping olly take the cloak off.
in this panel he's the only one not smiling or looking at least neutral
even jujy and hiehart - who looked stressed in 98, aren't looking at upset as olruggio which i think it interesting.
so i kind of think the kids, qifrey, and hiehart end up staying at dragon island at least a day and olruggio said they would go out to the villages tomorrow. so i'm thinking while everyone is away, olly goes to do work in a local village and thennnn noz 2.0. especially if there's another blizzard again or something. if it's a remake of the first noz incident. i think his exhaustion is going to catch up to him and leave him vulnerable in a critical moment. we see the night before he drank so much he passed out. (i say this bc shirahama has said before olly passes out when he drinks too much)
i've been thinking more about the image of utowin, olly, and easthies (and the fuckass dog) more and wondering if it's not just grouping them together for noz, but as a repeat trio in the series
first instance is ghodrey/noz. utowin finds olruggio sobbing after coming back from noz and easthies is headed to the site. they're all in the same place.
and it's utowin and easthies who save olly in the leach fight. all in the same place again.
so i kind of wonder if noz 2.0 happens, they'll send the knights and these three will be grouped together again. cause i still think our moment of utowin comforting olly will come
also i just think it would be fun to see the friendship between the ghodrey boys grow they have such an interesting past. if easthies shithead apprentice shows up and sees olly breakdown would he be a dick about it bc agott and like spread rumors or something lmao.
but yeah the circumstances around the dragon's death seem sus to all parties. qifrey can't understand why they'd be buried in a cold forest away from breeding grounds. and it's winter.
i think whatever monster olruggio is going to find in his next village is going to be the reason that dragon is dead. maybe it chased it til it tired and died. the blood in its mouth is strange to me if it didn't die from injury.
and circling back to the tetia panel
if olly's the one who's going to be alone while his family members are away does that mean he gets hurt in the process too? like the dragon did? he won't be dying bc i refuse (and narratively don't think that would make sense lool).
