Magus of the Library - Ch. 49.3 - The Story of Shagrazzat - Part III

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I'm curious when the mangaka decided to include this connecting bond. The one-shot stars "Shio Fumis" but it's Sae. And then for some reason the protagonist was changed to a male, and the old protagonist was turned into a side character with the same last name with the orphanage background as the explanation why they share it.

It's just intriguing from a writing/creating standpoint.
 
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i wonder who's that third baby besides theo and sae. i wonder if sophie connected the dots when she met theo as a kafna
 
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i wonder who's that third baby besides theo and sae. i wonder if sophie connected the dots when she met theo as a kafna
i forgot her name but i believe she is the one that keep looking after sae. i think she too from the same orphanage but she retain her own name instead adopt the doctor's/orphanage's name as their surname.

edit: sae childhood friend is Tepel.
 
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i forgot her name but i believe she is the one that keep looking after sae. i think she too from the same orphanage but she retain her own name instead adopt the doctor's/orphanage's name as their surname.

edit: sae childhood friend is Tepel.
Nah, tepel said she lived with her parents and wasn’t a part of the orphanage. It just that the orphanage doubled as a public school
 
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Holy shit, that's TIFA! Finally after so long she plays a role again. Its been so long i didn't expect it at all.

Being raised by a former editor with passion for books explain why Tifa's adamant on theo's education. (Remember that scene when she persuade theo the importance of learning? That's my favorite scene in this series).
hmm so why did tifa run away with theo from that orphanage? sae's father seems great
It probably not him, but everyone else around. The society, maybe even other relatives, may well looked askance at Lumino raising a amity child and pressuring him about it. Thus Tifa run away, partly to protect theo, but also so to not burden Lumino and the rest of the orphanage. That's my guess.
 
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From this chapter.

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From a previous chapter.
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I love callbacks like this. Same for Theo and Tifa being there which was alluded in a 4koma chapter, but seeing it in print is great.
 

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hmm so why did tifa run away with theo from that orphanage? sae's father seems great
It probably not him, but everyone else around. The society, maybe even other relatives, may well looked askance at Lumino raising a amity child and pressuring him about it. Thus Tifa run away, partly to protect theo, but also so to not burden Lumino and the rest of the orphanage. That's my guess.
tenhut's explanation is likely, another possibility is that the orphanage didn't have enough funding, for all the orphans back then.

note: chapter 14 shows baby Theo in Amun so Tifa probably left immediately, and Sophie published Shagrazzat after Tifa left so Sophie's huge donations came later and orphanage is wealthier now

chapter 33- 'pirates keeping us afloat' is pretty clear now
 
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Holy shit, that's TIFA! Finally after so long she plays a role again. Its been so long i didn't expect it at all.

Being raised by a former editor with passion for books explain why Tifa's adamant on theo's education. (Remember that scene when she persuade theo the importance of learning? That's my favorite scene in this series).

It probably not him, but everyone else around. The society, maybe even other relatives, may well looked askance at Lumino raising a amity child and pressuring him about it. Thus Tifa run away, partly to protect theo, but also so to not burden Lumino and the rest of the orphanage. That's my guess.
It's not just and amity child, but the RACE of said child(Haupi x Hyron) AND with a druj mark on the forehead. It's likely he WOULD'VE taken care of them just fine, but even ata young age, Tifa would realize that's asking A LOT(that and likely wanting to put as much distance as possible from anyone who might look for them).
 
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i forgot her name but i believe she is the one that keep looking after sae. i think she too from the same orphanage but she retain her own name instead adopt the doctor's/orphanage's name as their surname.

edit: sae childhood friend is Tepel.
it's not tepel, she's not an orphan and her birth was even mentioned by a passerby during this flashback

edit: here's the page
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hmm so why did tifa run away with theo from that orphanage? sae's father seems great
That would be a mistranslation. It's just "We've got a troublesome girl here". 娘 does not necessarily imply she's his daughter, you'd usually call that うちの娘, especially when talking with somebody who doesn't know you.
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I love callbacks like this.
This manga is so full of foreshadowing and set up.

I was re-reading the whole series again, and it struck it that in the chapter where Xtoh and staff talking about Theo's possible future after he show inability to initially choose office to aspire to (what chapter it was, 18 IIRC), while Xtoh talk about future in analogy of cogs, there's Cynthea face shown in the reflection of the metaphorical cogs, several chapters before she actually shows up.

Talk about cogs, this manga is like massive rube goldberg machine. :LOL:


I really looking forward for Tifa/Theo reunion with Lumino. I'm sure it will happen. It would be a crime to not be with this such set up.
 

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