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    After years of circling each other, the Silverwood was burned out, and everything else remained.

    So when Olruggio kindly asked if they could be something more, Qifrey accepting was only natural. For him, it was everything else that was hard: the trauma of the Silverwood, the years of lost experiences, the new scars and the old ones. He never expected to get that far. But when he said he would take back what was stolen from him, he meant all of it—Olruggio included.

     

    Or: the three seasons it took to untangle it all.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    It starts, as so many things seem to, with Qifrey being absolutely miserable. It's not the ever present ache of his missing eye that used to follow him every waking second, nor the quiet underlying sense of dread that had never left him, cultivated by his own design to keep the silvertree roots at bay before the medics at the healing spire has cut him open and removed it with a precision no one thought possible. No, this was an entirely different sort of misery, one that was so mundane it bordered on comical in contrast to what he had endured.

    Qifrey, quite plainly, is sick.


    Or: Two years after getting rid of the silvertree seed, something new starts growing.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Basically a dedicated writing sandbox for me to practice writing Olruggio and explore his relationship with Qifrey.

    Each chapter is based on a different song from a personal playlist, jumping all over the timeline to look at them as kids, as co-teachers, and dealing with the unspoken tension between them. Qifrey is carrying the weight of his curse and the secrets he's forced to keep, while Olruggio is stuck dealing with a strange mental fog he doesn't realize he brought upon himself, and a deep love for a man who won't return any advance.

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    Harvey // Her's

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    18 Jun 2026

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    “Come on, Olly.” Qifrey rolled onto his stomach to fix Olruggio squarely in his sights. The last few years of boyhood had rounded out Qifrey's sharpest edges, leaving him mostly handsome and amiable. From time to time, though, he still got this look in his eye like an impending tsunami.

    Olruggio had long since given up any illusions of outrunning the destruction.

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    Before the atelier and the apprentices, young Olruggio and Qifrey have recently passed the fourth, and final, test to become full-fledged witches. With their newfound freedom from the Great Hall, they decide to pay a visit to Ghodrey in the north--Olruggio's hometown.

    Between dealing with his embarrassing relatives and planning for life as an adult witch, Olruggio grapples with growing desires towards his best friend. He is unsure what the future holds for them and whether he can follow Qifrey wherever it takes him.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Qifrey is free of The Curse™, but it leaves him with low vision. He adapts with a little help and some nifty new contraptions from his smart and awesome apprentices. He also finally gets to have good things, like way too much wine and the best friend he's longed after for ages.

    Or: I write out my ideal post-canon for my beloved family. I am un-dooming them from the narrative because I'm too impatient for Shirahama to do so herself in 10 years. Characterization/plot leans sweeter and less tragic. I like my imaginative whimsy and queer joy!

    Anime-onlys read at your own risk.

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    10 Jun 2026