The Incredible Wonderful Sadistic Bastard Writer

Agott, the No, Nevermind, Works up the courage to go to the door, but talks herself out of knocking and goes back to bed.

Coco, the ‘Father, I Frew Up’, Stands in the doorway and meekly asks if Qifrey (or Olruggio) is awake.

Richeh, the Brushbuddy Slide, silently worms her way under the covers and into Qifrey’s arms.

Euini, the Puppy Dog Eyes, would only do this with Alaira. Sits and stares and whines until she lifts the covers up to let him in.

Custas, the Pillow Smack, doesn’t need to ask. Just smacks his pillow onto Dagda’s stomach and falls asleep there.

Tartah, the Floor Sleeper, comes in, but doesn’t want to wake Nolnoa so he curls up either on the floor or in a chair nearby.

Ininia, The Blair Witch, stands and stares. Sometimes at a wall. Sometimes directly at whoever she wants to cuddle with. There is no rejecting Ininia’s request.

Jujy, the Pounce and Shake, jumping from the other side of the room directly onto Hiehart and shaking him awake. Doesn’t calm down till he wraps her in blankets like a little cocoon.

And for bonus:

Young Olruggio, the Bookworm, pretends like he was up studying just so his master would carry him back to bed. He’d never ask outright for cuddles, so this is the closest comfort he’ll get.

He loses his eyesight completely. In the end he no longer needs it, like he felt he needed it to hunt down the brimmed caps. But he’s still disappointed that he can’t see Olruggio and the girl’s faces anymore. Their cheerful smiles. Their wonderful spells.

So the girls make stuff that he can feel. Sculptures of ice and stone that he can run his hands over. They guide his hands across the pages so he can feel their seals and still give them guidance.

He also asks to hold their faces to remember what they look like. Even Agott agrees, and he gently traces their faces with his thumbs, and bumps their foreheads with his. He can feel their smiles again.

Olruggio and Richeh work together to make her rings get warmer the closer they are to a person. That way he can tell where the others are and when someone is coming up to him.

Water is still unnerving to him, but now he can use it for relaxation. Lowering his hands into a cool stream, lying in a warm hot spring, feeling a sea breeze mist across his face.

Olruggio does most of the cooking from now on, but he still does stuff wrong on purpose to get Qifrey in the kitchen. Qifrey takes it up quickly again, and everything is kept in consistent places so he can help.

He gets to really enjoy all sorts of foods he rarely ate before. He’s got months worth of dishes he’s been dying to have again because they were so good. Too good for his own good. Olruggio is happy to indulge, and is even happier to see Qifrey gain weight. (And not be a twig anymore…)

He finally gets to sleep. And sleep he does. He’s so used to keeping himself awake, but now the whole atelier conspires to get him to nap. Warm tea, snug stones, serpents bed of sand, etc.

They probably have a tally of who has gotten him to sleep the most. No one can beat Olruggio but Agott is, surprisingly, second place.

He still practices spells with the girls. He knows plenty of seals by heart and can do them without looking…but his confidence is shaken without his eyes. It’s up to the girls to be his teacher now, and they take on the task with pride.

They just found this boy beaten, broken, unconscious, and left to die in a coffin. His memories erased and the only reason they found him was blood on the ground. He nearly drowned in that coffin.

And not only did they want to erase his memory again. They’ve put him in what looks like a prison cell. No blanket, no bedding, no outside contact.

Don’t get me wrong, she’d be fantastic.

But I think a big part of her arc will be finally escaping her parent’s expectations and doing what she likes. Which seems much closer to Olruggio’s line of work. Making things that make her and other people happy.

She doesn’t need to impress her mom. She doesn’t need to impress anyone. She can just be who she is.

And I also think something might happen to her drawing arm. The Brimmed Caps specifically targeted her first, drawing into her left arm. I have no problem believing the Brimmed Caps have something against the Librarians and their children, so of course they’d target her.

Then there’s also how connected Coco and Qifrey are to her. They’re both extremely impulsive, and part of the test was seeing if Coco specifically would use Forbidden Magic to save her (before Euini became an easier target).

I have no doubt Qifrey would do literally anything for his apprentices, let alone his first. He nearly took Easthies head off at the shoulders in a show of force. When Coco got hit in the face, he looked ready to lose his mind and morals to destroy Engendale. Only cause Coco twitched did he stop because she was alive.

Anyways, would be a very, very interesting arc if the Brimmed Caps targeted Agott, basically destroyed her drawing arm, and she had to learn how to draw again. But this time, Coco is there, telling her she doesn’t have to impress anyone. She doesn’t have to be a Librarian just because her family is.

And so she listens, and suddenly magic is…well, magic again. She enjoys it again. She’s finding her footing again. And she can be who she wants to be. Maybe even studying under Olruggio more often, creating toy contraptions and night lights shaped like animals.

Like a witch who focuses on botany and horticulture of magic plants starts growing lichen from their back, then branches, and eventually after centuries, becomes a towering tree.

A necromancer paying the price with their own limbs. Eventually, even sewing themselves together won’t save them.

I CANNOT stop thinking of Qifrey like this:

Witch Hat Atelier Manga Spoilers!

Thinking about Qifrey discribing the ink from the Silverwood tree as it's 'literal blood' and brushbuddies looove ink!