agotta be kidding me

Qifrey wiping Nolnoa's memories leading to Tartah joining Brimmed Caps is like finding out that this one kinda evil choice you make at the start of the game has a far-reaching consequences 100h later in the playthrough

i love olruggio witchhat so much. he’s a sun-coded black cat. he’s a lethally chronic procrastinator. he’s a girl dad. he lies to the police. his magic is warm. his kids bully him and they’re right. he’s in a decade-long magically induced situationship, but he doesn’t know it’s cursed and he’s in it for love of the game. he’s lowkey a celebrity but chooses to live in a cottage on the countryside with said situationship and their four children. he sleeps on the couch. he was a crazy child. he’s a bit of a picky eater. he has chronic anemia and is two minutes away from passing out at all times. he hates hurting things so much that he struggles to kill a disgusting giant leech. he’s a burnt out gifted kid. he is begrudgingly excellent at one of his jobs and on-purposely atrocious at the other one. he has a baby face and is nearly unrecognizable without his beard. he carries an enormous, inexplicable guilt. he’s the sky’s kindest, most radiant star. he’s the perfect man

custas and dagda are like if daedalus fell to ensure that icarus stayed aloft

all these greek myth comparisons to the tragedies in witch hat atelier are killing me in the best way (still painfully though).

Sorry but I'm still obsessed with all the nuances of little Olly's choice to put Qifrey and himself in the torment nexus. It's selfish. It's selfless. It's a scared kid doing the only thing he can think of to save his best friend's life. It's a former golden child desperate not to fail someone in trouble again. It's an act of unconditional love. It's shockingly ruthless. It's a tangible demonstration of how deeply he values Qifrey's life and dreams. It's putting his own wishes over Qifrey's. It's permission for Qifrey to keep living no matter what it costs. It's trusting Qifrey to keep their promise even if the version of himself who forced it on him is gone. It's trusting every version of himself to keep loving Qifrey no matter what memories are lost along the way. It's a decision he'd make a thousand times over, if the result is that they can grow old together.