#jask rambles

qifrey and olruggio being so married they didnt bother to return his cap directly, just gave it to his partner

like when you really think about it, its orpheus and eurydice x 100 on the heartbreak scale

cause orpheus only got to go the underworld once

olruggio keeps going back and never remembers turning around to avoid losing qifrey again and again and again and -

eurydice knew she was loved in that moment, loved in every step to and from the underworld, qifrey knows its that very love that will always deliver him into death again and again.

neither change the story.

olruggio keeps going to hell for qifrey and qifrey keeps following olruggio towards his own death. the idea of doing anything else is impossible. their love is so fundamental to themselves, so ingrained into their very bones, that its rescuing and raising and teaching children, its making snugstones out of kindness, it keeps defying a spell that wipes the slate clean, keeps holding a parasite at bay against all the odds, they made a home together, with each other, they are each others home.

its the myth told over and over again for centuries to come.

like how qifrey looks so relaxed as soon as he recognises olruggios spell

olruggios glove to protect himself from the fire spell

and how alairas hair kind of has the shape/look of sasaran the brimmed cap that transformed euini. sort of a gentle reflection, one transformed and hurt him, the other intends to save and protect him.

a mirror to the coco qifrey/iguin dynamic

[spoilers up to ch 96]

this panel scratches something in my brain

i realise coco is our narrative entry to the world so some level of ignorance is required just so we the reader can get answers to things but at the same time the idea that qifrey is essentially ignoring some aspects of the standard curriculum is just crunchy to me

its kinda wild to me that the academy set ups within the great hall don't appear to have a watchful eye. richehs former academy certainly appeared to lack one and eunis master also seemed to lack oversight to the point both qifrey and alaira seemed to be ready to report the man. maybe im missing a detail but the watchful eyes don't seem to assigned within the great hall. which is interesting...

the academy settings do have larger class sizes and a more government run education while the ateliers out and about dont seem to adhere to the government standard education and do require a watchful eye

something something the watchful eyes might not just be for the protection of children

im not trying to say the leadership of the witches is a dictorship but I do think shirahama is trying to say something about the dangers of their current system with the series as a whole and this little tidbit makes me wanna bite something