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from kyli_u on twitter:

I wanted to draw Bird-san, who didn't get a chance to be featured in the main story, so I collaborated with the teachers 🐧

[Start] [Mission 1: part 12] <- -> [Part 2]

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[Start] [Part 11] <- -> [Mission 2: Part 1]

Him having an existential debate with himself in a shaving cream beard was definitely a choice.

I find myself subconsciously bracing for a voyeuristic camera angle or inappropriate interaction, and I feel a huge sense of relief when that doesn't happen. And then I get mad that I've been conditioned to expect that in anime about young girls.

his initial instinct, when threatened, is to be violent and subdue the percieved 'assailant' by whatever means necessary -> this is worth noting, because he's the only one in the atelier with this instinct. Olruggio and the girls' default to true-blue witchiness, and seek to use magic to help without causing too much harm

a good anime-friendly example of this: the introduction of the Knights Moralis [Richeh tackles Easthies arm, Tetia sets the pennant on fire-- just weak enough to burn out before reaching anybody. Qifrey puts a blade to Easthies throat]

even Coco, an outsider, has the witchy instinct to use magic for helping-- as seen with the dragon, where she vyes for a peaceful way to subdue it -> whereas, Qifrey makes a dragon that dwarfs it and... essentially waterboards//half drowns the thing

it's really interesting, to me, because Qifrey is their teacher-- he's the one that's supposed to be ingraining that instinct into them, rather than contradicting his own teachings