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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    It happens again, the way it always happens again and likely always will, when it's the two of them and something like peace hangs in the air.

    The details may differ but the dance is the same, and the dancers.

    Qifrey is weak, or maybe Olruggio's gravity is something no one could escape. He is lucky, and he is cursed, and he is afraid and excited.

    Of course this is how it goes.

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    It's a quiet night at the atelier, and Qifrey can't hide his love. Olruggio doesn't even try. (It's not the first time, but it could be, from a different perspective.)

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    16 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    When all glass is stained and shattered, there is Olruggio in the aftermath; picking up the shards, rebuilding a home.

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    09 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 72

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    Five times Olruggio fell asleep next to Qifrey + one time Qifrey fell asleep on him.

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    09 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    Towards the heavy sky their voices, tense like drawn bowstrings, rose in unison. “Three… two… one, go!”

    Their pens flared in twin arcs, closing their circles.

    Qifrey was forced to squeeze his eye shut against the initial flare of light, but the ragged pillar of radiance tearing towards the clouds seemed to imprint itself against the inside of his eyelid anyway, leaving a ghostly afterimage. When he could squint to watch the thing directly, his breath caught in his throat.

    The first proper trial run of the boilfire dragon spell seen in the Leech Arc!

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    09 Aug 2026

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    Something, equal parts wariness and weariness, stirs in Olruggio’s eyes whenever Qifrey makes some reference to the future — when he indirectly promises a tomorrow, a next week, an ‘after your commissions are done’. It’s the subtlest thing, a flicker, a spark; someone who knew him less well might not pick up on it. But Qifrey knows Olruggio as well as he knows himself, and he can hardly in good conscience begrudge him his flinch of cynicism. Not when it’s wholly his own fault for having put it there.

    Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, still shame on me. Fool you thrice… well, if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I was fooling myself most of all.
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    The night Qifrey returns to the atelier for good after his wandering days — old promises kept, new promises made.

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    07 Aug 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 57

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    Olruggio is twelve, sleeping on Qifrey’s bed, when he notices people treat him like an adult more often than not.

    Or,

    The whole beauty of stars comes from something that went dark long, long ago.

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    04 Aug 2026

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    "Speaking of ateliers," Tetia said, "it's been ten years since we graduated."

    "Nine," Agott corrected. "Next summer, it will be ten."

    Tetia smiled. "But I might be away then! What do you say to an early reunion? Come on, Agott, it would be fun! When was the last time you saw Master Qifrey and Master Olruggio? We can ask Richeh to come, too!"

    Thirteen years after Coco passed the third test and moved back to stay with her mother, Agott returns to the atelier.

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    03 Aug 2026

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    The hands at his waist grip a little tighter. Qifrey, who has been cautiously opening himself to this kind of physical contact in the past few months, has been surprised to discover that he likes it—being held, pressed, kept tight. It stokes the part of him that is terrified of being trapped, just enough to keep him from relaxing.

    It’s precisely this interplay between comfort and uneasiness that made him consider the possibility of using it to their advantage.

    (Or: an exploration of trauma, healing and acceptance, of settling into one's own skin, and of what it means to make a home in one's heart.)

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    03 Aug 2026

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    And of course there is an instant, after that first warm touch of Olly’s lips upon his own, where Qifrey feels a terrible tingling sensation within him and remembers his parasite. Where Qifrey remembers his silverwood, the tyrant that rules his body with an iron fist, and thinks, with a sinking sense of foreboding, that he is risking its awakening and his own impending death with this decision.

    And then Olly’s hand flies up to bury itself in Qifrey’s hair. And then Olly’s arm wraps around his waist, and pulls him in flush against Olly’s chest. And then Olly’s tongue sears hotly across the seam of Qifrey’s lips, and Qifrey parts them for Olly’s entrance with a moan.

    I love you, he thinks, and he remembers who the real tyrant is. The silverwood may one day take Qifrey’s body, but there's only one being in the world who rules his heart.

    ~*~

    On the last night of the Golden Eve Festival, Qifrey and Olruggio share a bed.

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    31 Jul 2026

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    Olruggio didn’t think Qifrey liked physical touch at all, but now that the curse is gone, the white-haired man immediately decides that Olruggio’s personal space is his personal property and he will be burrowing into Olruggio's ribcage, thank you very much.

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    28 Jul 2026

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    Five times Qifrey erased Olruggio's memory. Every time, he changes.

    Sometimes the only way to protect something is to destroy it.

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    Manga Spoilers up to Chapter 93. Be warned.

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    25 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 29

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    It isn't until Easthies's palm cracks like lightning against his cheek that it occurs to Qifrey that no one has ever hit him before. Not like this. Not in the face. Not, he thinks with a wry grin and blood on his teeth, that he can recall.

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    24 Jul 2026

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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Olruggio and Qifrey get drunk and one thing leads to another...

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    23 Jul 2026

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    Qifrey has had a terribly, perfect day, and is in desperate need for a remedy and Olruggio finds him nearly drowning in a lake.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Qifrey tries to catalogue all of the places they touch, reminding himself that the contact is no longer dangerous. Olly’s nose is slotted against his temple, fingers having moved from between his shoulders to the base of his head. There’s a slight tickle where the hair on his chin brushes against Qifrey’s cheek. The other arm is wrapped loosely around his middle, squeezing against his tunic. Their legs aren’t exactly tangled, but he can feel Olruggio’s calf against his own, a bony knee against his thigh, and the press of something warm and firm against his hip. His own body is an unfortunate mirror, the hour still early and the closeness still unfamiliar.

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    or; how does a man who has only ever deprived himself of wanting allow himself to lust?

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    21 Jul 2026

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    The only way to see someone's true nature is to see how they act when they don't know they're being watched. The girls catch moments between Qifrey and Olruggio that help them decide on their future as apprentices.

    OR: Before they're official apprentices of Qifrey's atelier, the girls accidentally (on purpose) stumble upon Qifrey and Olruggio when the two men think they're alone. It tells the girls everything they need to know about the kind of witches (and people) they are.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    And it’s finally quiet, in the hospital. Dark enough without the overhead lights that the entire wing feels calm and his body doesn’t twitch uncomfortably at the constant surveillance he’s under during the day. It’s quiet, and he’s alone.

    Every day that he’s been out of surgery, that’s about the moment Izuku shows up.

    He’s less and less unprepared for the sound of his door being opened at this hour, the mechanical click from the handle and the heavy, low squeak of the panel shifting slowly ajar. It’s been about a week, now. Even the first time, Katsuki had a hard time feeling the shock he tells himself he maybe should have.

    Instead, like every other time, he feels relief.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    Mitsuki remembers the exact day Katsuki learned the word mine and decided it applied to everything soft, green-eyed, and freckled.

    Izuku (tiny, earnest Izuku) in the sandbox is a lopsided castle with a plastic All Might flag. Katsuki stomps over, palms sparking, and plants himself in front of it like a guard dog.

    “Mine,” he declares, pointing a stubby finer at the castle.

    Izuku blinks up, eyes huge, and offers a shovel. “Wanna help, Kacchan?”

    Katsuki’s cheeks go red. He snatches the shovel, sits, and starts digging a moat.

    Mitsuki hides her laugh behind her coffee mug. Already whipped, brat.

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    16 Jul 2026

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    Qifrey had been terrible with his sylph shoes, at first.

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    11 Jul 2026

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