The Optimistic Authour

He's better than me. I just leave my drafts open in my art program for days on end, hoping they'll eventually bully me into working on them.......

It's like Sunk Cost Fallacy, but...the other side of that......

I support Olruggio taking time off! Very good.

I've just fuckin' realized that the reason his name is so easy to PUN in Japanese is because you just take a verb that ends with る(many such cases) and just fuckin. Stick it in there. And it works.

(in this case it's だるい, an adjective but my point stands. mad respect for the translators trying to keep it up in English)

why is this dude so relatable

Dad Misses Family Even When THey've Finally Left Him Alone To Have Some Peace, More at 5

Backstory? In MY cosy bonus chapter?

Olruggio of the Flame, huh. :(

Oh, don't worry. That's not a Someday. It's already here. They're already crushed.

Won't fool me, I know you're like, 24.

Yes, let's not have a repeat of the Donnor Party. Those look like some dark mountains up ahead, Qifrey...

Santa's here, kids!

For fun. It's for fun!

Me, when I need to draw comics for Patreon but I instead wanna do comics about my dog..........

....what's that you got there, Coco? A smoothie?

We're brainstorming DURING the performance. It's an evolving live artpiece.

The best thing is, Agott went out there BECAUSE she knew, on some level, Coco is like this. She knew she would be welcomed. Instead of accusations and people telling her she might be stealing, or perhaps trying to take someone's thunder, Coco just wants to work together with her.

I'm sure that heals something in Agott, teaching her that there's other ways to live in this world.

Yeah, the spell she traced from the book was for the love of the game.

I'm going to hang on to that comment about her father. I don't feel like that's just a throwaway line. Her mother said that he... passed from illness? I wonder if it was the sort of thing forbidden magic could have theoretically fixed. Or hell, regular magic.

OOOOhhh yess! Callback to adding animal sigils to the seals!!!

damnit I'm tearing up again. No matter how far down we go, no matter how dark it gets... this manga always comes back to the thesis that Kindness Is Important. And that's. So cool, actually. It's so fucking rad.

Oh, that's neat. I suppose that fixes one problem!

LMAO fair play

Very heartwarming that the spell that did the trick is basically just... an aid. Something that helps the common people. So often, magic is focused on the flashiest, most damaging or most powerful type of world-changing spell.

But instead, having THIS kind of magic be staged, it's really neat. Really good reminder what innovation is really riding on.

The spell could also just be for YOU Coco.... you don't have to make EVERYONE happy with EVERY spell all the time.....

Thank FUCK for Agott.

YESSSSSSSS AGOTT IS THE QUEEN OF PUTTING HERSELF FIRST, WHICH IS ALSO A VERY NECESSARY SKILL. SIDE BY SIDE WITH CARING ABOUT OTHERS, AS BOTH ARE IMPORTANT. WE. LOVE. TO. SEE. IT.!!!!

So does Olly.

I hear the pokemon battle encounter music playing...

Uh oh... Mama Agott.... did she see Agott helping another witch? Will that get a thumbs up or thumbs down...

Surely Custas didn't choose THIS time to attack......... that seems weird timing. He needs Coco to succeed? Or is this something else???

The fact that it was Olruggio that saved them when so many other powerful witches are nearby...True Dad Instincts.

Is there like, a mouse or a snake or something...?

Their faces are--- ........... ........shaped.

At first I thought he was responsible for something, but there are, apparently other witches up there also looking at stuff.

okay, so clearly there's some eldritch monstrosity we're about to get a whole eyefull of, but I need to make guesses as to what it's going to be.

The giant forest spirit from Princess Mononoke? A gigantic homonculus. A..... cloud dragon that's also a storm. Idk I feel like that's pretty far.

That. Was not on the bingo card.

Thing, from the Addams Family???

Okay so is that. Is that the kid's hand? The prev. Wise in Friendships (WOAW okay so obviously he has had lots of time to perfect manipulating people) tricked him into using the ring, I'm presuming?

...........

Oh. Okay that. That sounds more like..... he gave the dude the ring, and the dude himself decided to draw on his own hand???????

I thought he would be trying to draw on the castle's outer wall?!!??! Or on a piece of rock that he stuck out of the window???? WHAT

FLUFFY BONUS CHAPTER?

NOW??????

RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY BLOOD MAGIC ABOMINATION??????