artist in da ocean

꒰ 🌊 ꒱ names: lucent , devotion , ethe , dreamer , corner !

— - it / tide + shi / shine ; masc or aquatic terms.

our main is @devotedprism ! ꒰ ☁️ ꒱

hello hello, welcome in! we are the devotees of the otherworldly, a collective (system) formed by dissociative identity disorder that uses this blog as a creative outlet! we mainly write, but we also draw digitally and traditionally, cosplay, and we even stream on twitch!

we love exploring unconventional relationship dynamics, and are very fond of extreme displays of trust and vulnerability. however, we also make content geared towards age regression; a coping skill and defense mechanism often used to cope with symptoms of mental or physical conditions, or to help with trauma recovery.

that content is kept to a separate blog, as this blog may be used to explore 16+ themes and content, which would make this blog unsafe for those in a vulnerable mindset, like being regressed. as such:

➤ you can find our agere content on @littledreamers-corner <3

as a reminder: regression is not a kink nor inherently sexual. implying so or accusing us of making regression content with that in mind will result in a block on not just both of our creation blogs, but also our main blog.

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like yeah, qifrey's alive! four apprentices! all five tests! one of the best water mages out there! incredibly smart and tenacious and has survived dozens of close encounters with the brimmed hats! but he's also constantly in pain and whenever olruggio tries to help him it hurts him and sure that's gone now but he hurt qifrey for years and it was his fault and he couldn't even fix it.

so much of olruggio's character orbits around how he helps others. the sky's kindest, most radiant star. olruggio of the torch, who shirks requests from the king just to help commonfolk. a boy who wailed and sobbed when, despite being too young to even take the test to become an apprentice, he felt he should've saved more than two people in the face of a blizzard and a monster.

and qifrey's silent agony, the distance between them, it was his fault. he did that. and sure, qifrey is asking him for forgiveness, and we all know qifrey wouldn't let him apologize for the pain he went through, it was a necessary price if he wanted to grow up at all.

but olruggio, mister "i'm angry with myself for not being able to help you," master olly to four beautiful young girls, definitely would take "it was your plan to make me wipe your memories every time you learned what was burdening me" as a personal failure and he would be unbelievably cruel to himself about it.

i agree. qifrey deserves good things. let him finally be happy.

Theyre so father & daughter im gonna throw up. Also qifrey being sweet to him im gonna start SWINGINGGHUHGHHHHHH

Instead, have a little headcanon of mine I've been developing.

As you can see quite clearly in the manga, Agott has textured hair. It's thick. It's curly. It gets frizzy. Maintaining hair like that takes a good amount of knowledge and some hefty effort. It'd be hard for a girl that age to take care of her hair all on her own, as much as I'm sure she wants to. Plus, being from the family she's from, it'd be a blow to her pride to not look well-maintained.

Unfortunately, curly hair like Agott's needs a lot of moisture to remain defined and to keep it from being frizzy. And we all know how much Qifrey hates water and being wet! So who would that leave to help Agott?

Olruggio, of course.

He might claim he doesn't want to be a teacher. That he wouldn't be right for it. But he does love teaching. And gods, he loves those girls.

So on wash days when Agott is struggling with her hair enough that she gets sick of trying to manage it on her own, she shows up outside of Olruggio's atelier. Knocks on the door, towel around her shoulders and hair still dripping wet, a basket over one arm, holding another towel, a hairbrush, and multiple bottles and tubs.

Olruggio opens his door, sees its her, and welcomes her in.

It was a bit rough at first, but by the time Richeh and Tetia have joined them, he's got it down to a science. They sit on the glowing tiles, Olruggio's sleeves tied up and pushed back, as he works leave in conditioner into Agott's hair, gently pulling apart tangles and only using the brush to clear out the particularly rough snarls, always letting Agott pull away if he tugs too hard on accident or if her scalp hurts from a knot getting caught on brush bristles.

He scrunches the curl defining cream into her curls, and if the tub is running too close to empty, asks her to remind him the name of the shop in she gets it from, so he can pick up more for her the next time he visits Kalhn. He dutifully always emulsifies the oil on his palms before finger combing it through her hair, absently twirling some of the curls around his fingers to re-define them as he goes.

Agott sits patiently through it all, letting herself relax under gentle hands that help take care of her hair for her, with a patience she still isn't always used to, sighs of relief when Olruggio lets her pull away not just because the pain of hair getting tugged on fades, but because she's allowed to take a break if it hurts, and lets her eyes wander, watching glimmers of light float up off the tiles as she lets herself be taken care of.

She'll be a grown up and a librarian on her own, one day. The best there ever was. But until then, it's... not so bad to let someone else take care of her hair for her. Especially not when Olruggio gives her that proud, self-satisfied grin, and tells her he's all done when he lowers the towel from scrunching some of the excess water up, just so her shoulders dont get wet, and she turns around to look at him.

...she knows Qifrey and Olruggio don't play favorites. But she was the first apprentice, and she's good at what she does, and she's the only one who gets her hair done like this by Olruggio.

smth smth one person's dream (qifrey not having to worry about anyone & if hes hurting them or not) being another person's nightmare (olruggio would fall apart without a purpose to hold him together) and all that