Nona

we know how their reasoning to use magic is a major plotpoint in both of their respective character arcs, right agott draws magic selfishly, for her own gain and self-development, to prove herself meanwhile coco first became a witch to save her mother and she continues, desperately, doing her best to help as many people as possible with her bright and beautiful magic

coco teaches agott to think about others, to create magic for them. agott teaches coco to put herself first sometimes.

but doesn't the same logic apply to orufrey?

qifrey is driven by his desire for revenge, by his desire to find out the truth about himself, what happened with his right eye and how to override the silverwood curse. recklessly, he tried on multiple occasions to escape from the great hall on his own when he was a teenager, all with the goal of regaining his memories. he has an ulterior motive for taking coco in and earlier in the manga we see him forgetting about his responsibilities as a master to chase the brimhats.

olruggio catches him before it's too late, reminding him of what's actually important. as children, he taught him the importance of magic too, he showed him companionship and continues to do so as they care for the girls together. he's teaching him what it is to trust other people, to protect them.

for olruggio, being a great witch equals to being able to help people, to make a difference. his whole magic style revolves around that, his fire keeps people warm and safe. he disregards his own needs (proper sleep, timely meals, etc) in favour of doing his job. he's so selfless that he willingly proposes to have his memories erased to save his best friend. he failed to save people once and he's bend on not letting that happen again.

just like coco, he used to be a child who got too much responsibility to bear, who carried lives of other people on their shoulders. and it's tragic in the way it alters their worldview and the way they interact with their magic

however, i don't think that as of right now we've seen qifrey doing the same thing agott did for coco. he nudges olruggio, helping him appreciate his own effort and take care of himself in small ways: by cooking for him, making him tea so he falls asleep easier. but has it ever been anything major? will olruggio's goals ever be not selfless? when will he get something good for himself and himself only? is it even possible at this point, considering that he's an adult man with settled ideals and beliefs, who's quite content with his life?

This is due to several ressons, but I think a major is how our view of him progresses throughout the story.

When we first meet him, we are lead to believe he is a very strict and grumpy man who happens to have a small soft spot for children. It's the first instance where Coco realises that she is an extremely unique case that is actively breaking the rules ofthe witches. Olruggio, at this moment, is reminding us that we need to be very scared about Coco's secret getting leaked.

Then we see him in more instances. He makes cloth and fabric as well, and grows attached as Coco shows genuine interest in his creations. He admires the passion that she has for it. He becomes more humanised andess of a threat to Coco's secret in our eyes.

This is also slight foreshadowing, seeing the sheer passion that Coco has for magic. I'd like to think of how this is in contrast to Olruggio who clung to magic as a way to save people because it was expected of him.

The more and more we see of him, we get to see how much of a silent helper he is. His actions often speak far louder than his words, and he will provide aid without questions or invitation. He cares for people deeply and even if he scolds them, you can tell it comes from genuine concern.

This all leads you to believe that Olruggio is a man who is deeply empathetic and kindhearted, though he goes about it in a rough manner that isn't verbal, often. Something in direct contrast to the mess that Qifrey is, who seems to remain hungover something from his past that we are initially believe were just regarding his eye and memories.

Then the recent chapters throw that all out the window, building up to the moment in Chapter 93 where we have to recontextualise how we see Olruggio and come to the conclusion that he is in fact worse than Qifrey, and also the main cause of anxiety in him, which is meant to keep the silverwood seed inside of him at bay.

His saviour complex is the result of being a gifted child that had to deal with the pressure of people's expectations that he never asked for, but still took in, because him being empathetic s his fatal flaw.

He is a weird amalgamation of selfish and selfless, because he want to save people so that he can make up for the time that he couldn't. But that guilt weighs him down so heavily because he cares. A consequence of his own nature.

Because that's what he does. He made the link rings to keep people dry. He makes things that are meant to bring joy and comfort to people. It's his whole thing. He will go well out of his way to ease people's burdens whenever and wherever he can. He's constantly thinking through every contraption he makes in great detail.

And there's something about him seeing on a personal level how someone can connect to what he refers to as 'what he's best known for' and also 'a simple spell'. Going so far as to say it's nothing to be impressed by.

SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE BOOK!!

Anne rices vampires are dark more human than most other portrayals, but in the series they're even more people that also drink blood.

Louis and claudias relationship in the books was sickening, and it was meant to be so, it incestous pedophilkic, a bit animalisitic I even dare say.

When it comes to lestat he was abusive, he was not a cartoon villain, but a major prick, and so he was in the series. One of the thing is very much am pissed off at AMC is showing relationship of louis and lestat the way they did, because lestat was abusive. He was violent, he was selfish, he wanted to keep louis to himself for eternity no matter what it took, and that's why he made claudia, which was present in the series but not as much.

Claudia was not a band aid for a shitty marriage she was basically a product of lestat baby trapping louis, because louis told lestat he wanted to leave him, and lestat knew louis would be easy to emotionally blackmail with a child.

And AMC really showed louis and lestat as "well they have their disagreements but they live eachother" which is genuinely harmful.

Yes louis did try to kill lestat, but abusing someone for years, who did nothing wrong to you, and wanting and trying to kill your abuser are very different things.

But claudia was an abominationa and she was meant to be an abomination, lestat was abusive, and he was meant to be abusive, armand was meant to love louis for how human he was, and show him they way to become more of a vampire, and leave him once the human flame burn out, because that was who armand was, he needed mortals to remind him if the beauty of the world so he doesn't step into the fire.

So the book is much more sick and twisted and dark and morally inexcusable because they are vampires. And vampires are sick and twisted, and AMC made it more digestible for wider audiences. So I think basically what I'm trying to say, most plot of iwtv book takes places in louis head, there isn't really much action other than war between his vampire nature and his human self, if you came for a series filled with action its a dead end.

And actually you should be disgusted at times. Because vampires have nothing in common with human morals, and they are very often disgusting.

But thanks for your input! I do agree that their relationship is abusive and the way it's framed in the show can be really weird.