Sofie’s Reviews > Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 6 > Status Update

WHAT????? he thinks that coco needs to be protected from qifrey????? okay okay okay my brain is going a million miles an hour but they must’ve had a falling out bc of qifrey’s obsession/grudge with the brimmed caps and since beldaruit is so madly in love with magic he thinks that qifrey’s disenchantment with witch society is a sign of him going down a dangerous path. tell me EVERYTHING beldaruit PLEASE

when did qifrey talk to beldaruit about coco????? and why????? i assume they’re not on good terms so…..??? was he the person qifrey was talking to with that contraption all the way back in volume 1?? and again. WHY

there’s something so poignant about the kids delighting beldaruit by bringing him out of his daily routine and reminding him of the beauty of the outside world. sometimes all you need to regain a bit of childlike inspiration is to go somewhere new and suddenly everything seems novel and exciting again. beautiful callback to the rainy day from a few volumes ago too!! agott got to experience this one this time

MY FUCKING HEART CANT TAKE THIS SHIT i’ve gotten exactly what i wanted with olruggio stepping up as father number 2 and giving the girls new perspectives that aren’t qifrey’s specialty. they’re such a great team. it’s beautiful that bc he decided to follow qifrey (or however it happened), olruggio gets to be a mentor figure even though he didn’t go down that path for himself

COCO AGOTT HUG LETS GOOOOO THIS IS HUGE oh my god they are so adorable i love watching coco melt agott’s heart. it seems fast bc i’ve been devouring these volumes but i think watching the progression in the anime will put it back into perspective

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he clearly has a tendency to cast aside his own well-being and isolate himself in order to achieve some goal (and i haven't forgotten that moment in volume 3 when agott walked in on him about to experiment with the ink in the middle of the night!!!!). he's obsessive and secretive and that can make him lash out at times. all of that sounds very much like agott to me.....

i have more thoughts about potential arkco/orufrey parallels bc we saw utowin call olruggio a "wonder-child", while qifrey has been referred to as a "problem child" with a stained reputation. olruggio is all about warmth and using magic to make people's lives better (and his glowstones were the first kind of magic that coco ever fell in love with!!). meanwhile, qifrey is brilliant and determined to a fault (cont.)

the gentle hands after agott tried to literally push coco away???? agott being absolutely dumbfounded once again by coco's insistence at seeing the good in her bc she struggles so much to see it in herself?????? this is top tier angsty yuri and i am eating every bit of it right up
i wonder if there'll be parallels between them and orufrey (like itafushi/satosugu) if we ever fucking learn about their backstory

but also seeing some of qifrey's bare torso here does debunk my theory that he's hiding some scars or seals on his body and that's why he always wears the black undershirt. i guess it's just Fashion. slutty fashion that just so happens to add to the complementary nature of his and olruggio's designs uh huh uh huh i'm sure it's casual

if y’all could see the smug smile on my face rn oh my god this is one of my favorite microtropes EVER. there better be SEVERAL fics about olruggio staying by qifrey’s bedside and taking care of him and giving him HELL when he wakes up (and also being super soft and gentle and relieved afterwards, but the yelling comes first okay “if you die i’ll kill you” blah blah blah you know the drill)