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it's so funny that the place we primarily see adult olruggio maintain his clever/hm maybe more like crafty Techniques is in his professional life -- as seen with his expert noble wrangling in chapter 39 that somehow leaves everyone walking away happy -- and meanwhile on the homefront he gets regularly and effortlessly outmaneuvered by a gaggle of preteens. I feel so bad for him in the silver eve arc where everyone keeps taking off with coco's modified sylph shoes, he's like a desperate sheep dog whose precious flock have donned little sheep rocket boots and are merrily scattering to the winds on him

(well I guess in a very real sense he has been outmaneuvered by a preteen every day for the last twenty years or so, it's just that that preteen happens to be himself lol)

#qifrey is the x-ray vision parent who can foresee the workings of an apprentice mind olruggio is just like 'they're nice girls :)'#(mildly exaggerated for comedic effect but I don't think it's that far off either haha)#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #olruggio #someone PLEASE just tell this poor man what's going on at any given time he's spent so many chapters of this manga #so deeply confused lol. like there's one subject around which he can't retain clarity of course but at least that's part #of the good ol' two man con situation he set into motion himself #but that still leaves a lot of stuff that goes in the 'sorry master olly no time to explain see you later' category haha

love-goblinn

orufrey shmoodle in my sketchbook #yay

#the energy in this is *chef's kiss* these lines are so fun #witch hat atelier #qifrey #olruggio #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey

hunker down wonder boy........

#utowin is so funny and for what. for easthies? smh #witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #olruggio #I'm willing to believe olly weighs next to nothing under all his clothes but also he is a grown man #and utowin did just carry him around like a medium-sized sack of flour. damn utowin

sovirana

happy pride month, here's the TFGraves standee~

#hehehe the carved heart making it in <3 this is soooo cute op #tf x graves #tfgraves #league of legends

wizardnaturalist

I do not know your name but I love you

#the way I genuinely exclaimed in awe the first time I saw her on the page. shirahama thank you for all you have done in general and for me #in particular #witch hat atelier #won't see her in the anime until next season probably so #witch hat atelier spoilers

bitter-rayjay

#okay alright alright okay #witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #qifrey #olruggio #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey

*agott voice* THERE'S A SIGIL FOR THAT!!! <3 she got to save the day with the power and passion of 'UM ACTUALLY -- ' I could not be happier for her

I'm fine just standing in the rain for personal reasons and not even crying at all

#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #agott arklaum #get loved agott #tetia wha #richeh wha #the beat where she just holds the book in front of her face silently is so brilliant. I wish everything good for her #I wonder how long tetia and richeh have been apprentices alongside agott (who I understand has been stated to be the one #qifrey picked up first). the pattern of her keeping herself apart before coco came stumbling in to rock her world #seems to be pretty established and even tetia had given up on changing it. im so glad we're at this point now tho

kerizaret

damn this doomed yaoi got hands

#I think about the 'I fw you most ardently' frame about five times a day. like. yeah #witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #qifrey #olruggio #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey

nolvini

new moon

#hell yeah #love this art nouveau layout it's so swoopy #witch hat atelier #coco wha #agott arklaum #richeh wha #qifrey #olruggio #tetia wha

fiafey

this is not enough

#god.... god #witch hat atelier #qifrey #olruggio #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey

peiskios

soft✨

#i made myself too sad I'm holding this against my chest like a protective talisman #this is so fucking soft op idk what to do with myself #the warm light coming in...#witch hat atelier #olruggio #qifrey #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey

I do admire that olruggio knew himself well enough by the age of like thirteen to base his whole plan on his own capacity to be down just so catastrophically horrifically bad for decades and decades without disruption or deviation or distraction with no resolution in sight. and he was right

#he was in fact correct about that #I'm far from the first to say this but something deeply strange is going on with this dude too hahaha #witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #olruggio #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey #he's given up all other versions of himself he could have been to this and he did so gladly but also. ow (also qifrey's pov on it I suspect #I do see the 'olly is right where he wants to be' sentiment and partially I agree #but also....... no one who treats themselves like olruggio does is particularly happy I think #there is something missing here. and I know this post is framing it in the jocular tumblr idiom of shipping lol #but I don't even mean it in a strictly romantic/sexual light as just a completeness of closeness/intimacy in whatever form #(I am of the 'fuck you 'yes and' with me here. romantic AND platonic #AND a secret third thing they do not preclude each other and pretending so is boring' persuasion myself)#I do think both the untreated ptsd and the experience of never managing to close the gap with the person who matters most to him #are contributing in causing a sort of hm how do you say... infinite sadness and cycle of self-abandonment he can't keep up forever.#burning yourself out to keep everyone else warm etc. will leave nothing but ash if you let it go far enough. but MAN #what a staying power on this guy. he isn't ash yet he might have a decade or two left in him of being constantly on fire lol #(hopes for phoenix themes being there for him when he's at the point he needs it pretty please Im love him....)

yfel-axel

thawing memories

#oh agony actually :)#this is such a beautiful composition and use of colour op omg #witch hat atelier #olruggio #qifrey gets the flashback when beldaruit strokes his hair even though he remembers nothing clearly. I wonder if olruggio #ever gets something like that. surely his sanity can't be completely untouched by twenty years of repeat lobotomies #witch atelier spoilers #b/c I cannot shut up in the tags ever sorry I will do it again

second most romantic page in the manga (after agott helping coco out during the silver eve parade, the desperately earnest baby yuri just barely snags the crown there I think). very I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes -- and moreover I will make this huge many-headed dragon with you core

#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #olruggio #qifrey #qifrey x olruggio #olufrey #such a good olruggio on this page <3 #something about the angle of his head that makes it read so romantic/intimate I think it makes it look like he's craning his neck #and leaning close to meet qifrey's eyes #olly out there playing footsie with the line between where supporting ends and aiding and abetting begins at all times #presumably they've practiced this many times. do you understand how badly I need a flashback to when they were older teens #they're very cute as babies/preteens but imagine the unhinged shit they got up to coming up with stuff like this haha #ALSO the frame itself being distorted through the water of the dragon. shirahama can't keep get away with this #she's too good!!!!! she must be stopped her whimsy and perfect command of the medium is too powerful she'll kill me

I just realized that the tears olruggio uses for the memory erasing spell come specifically from Qifrey's missing eye -- he can't see out of it, but he can cry from it. that seems like, poetic or something haha. something really fucked up about the way it looks like dew or rain dripping off the leaves, considering rain trickling down the leaves of a tree was what nearly drowned him in the first place

#witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier spoilers #qifrey #graduated from being buried under a tree to being the tree :') except not on olruggio's fucking watch you don't #this is def not what shirahama is playing around with but also gives me norse myth vibes. something... odinesque about all of this #the sacrifice of an eye the hanging on a tree as a surrender a sacrifice of yourself to yourself the loss of sight in the search #for wisdom. or insight if you will. insight beyond what you should have probably. a one eyed man turning up to grant you wisdom #and magical insight and also lure you into a world of trouble has precedent mythologically is what I'm saying haha #(actually... some of the same restless anxiety and quest for meaning/understanding that underlies both odin and qifrey fundamentally #also coco. it's the 'if I can only completely understand this thing will I stop being so frightened will that mean I can fix this' thing #odin several levels more fucked up and ruthless than even qifrey at his worst lol but same instinct I think)#deeply suspicious of the idea that the brimhats (or whoever) pumped so many resources into this experiment #only to then unceremoniously dump him alive in that grave for no reason and give up. I fear a long con could be at play here #(did they mean to like... graft him onto another tree or something from the roots up...? did they want him in the great hall?#idk man I just feel like it can't be good)

razzberrysheep

a lesson in temperance

#fambily #witch hat atelier #tetia wha #olruggio #richeh wha #agott arklaum #qifrey #coco

bearytherehooray

EVERYNYAN SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JUJI TOMORROW

#happy early birthday to the best girl <3 #witch hat atelier #jujy wha

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