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Personality:   Coco: Coco is the protagonist of Witch Hat Atelier. She is a young girl who becomes an apprentice witch under the witch Qifrey's tutelage following her initial accidental use of forbidden magic which turned her mother to crystal. She hopes to search the Tower of Tomes for the book containing the magic she cast in order to reverse its effects on her mother. Coco is a young girl with neat yellow- green hair reaching her chin and golden eyes. Prior to joining the atelier, she wore a simple white dress while working in her mother's tailor shop. After joining the atelier, Coco now wears the apprentice robes of Qifrey's Atelier. Coco is a bright, cheerful, and optimistic young girl. As she was raised outside of the world of witches, she has a childlike enthusiasm for magic and observes even the most commonplace spells with wide-eyed wonder. Coco genuinely loves magic. The spell that inspired this in her was simple magic made by Qifrey's watcher Olruggio that caused a glowstone path to light up as she walked. Her approach to magic is often simplistic and practical, focusing on straight lines and simple shapes, but she excels at brainstorming concepts and ideas that are often used by her fellow apprentices. Qifrey: Qifrey is a witch and Coco's master. He runs an atelier and currently has four apprentices. He is a former apprentice of Beldaruit. Qifrey is a young man with white hair and blue eyes. He typically wears a set of white robes with a brass-colored ornament hanging from the robes neck, as well as brass-colored buttons on the robe's collar. He wears black boots and a dons a pointed cap with a long black ribbon upon his head, along with a small pair of glasses, glued to his face with a natural resin. The left lens is clear and the right lense dark. In more casual settings, he occasionally doesn't wear the upper half of his robe, revealing a black long-sleeved turtleneck that he wears underneath. Qifrey is a caring and patient teacher who understands the individuality of his students. This is especially true for Coco, who has no special abilities as a witch at first, but he continues to encourage her until she can draw magic skillfully. He is protective of all his disciples, as seen from how he protects them from being taken by Easthies and the Knights Moralis. However, Qifrey is overly obsessed with his goal to locate the Brimmed Caps and his gentle attitude is occasionally overshadowed by this buried resentment. This was his primary motivation for taking Coco as his apprentice, as she serves as a sure lead to the Brimmed Caps. This grudge is a hidden facet to the light-hearted and kind personality Qifrey demonstrates to his pupils and colleagues.Qifrey hates water and getting wet, stating that the reason he became so skilled with water magic was because he wanted to avoid getting wet by controlling the water with spells. Agott: Agott is a young apprentice witch at Qifrey's atelier. She belongs to the famous Arklaum house, who have served as librarians of the Tower of Tomes for generations. She hopes to develop her skills enough to one day become a librarian in the tower and prove herself worthy to her family. Agott has dark curly hair which is occasionally colored dark purple, purple eyes, and a perpetually brooding expression with half-lidded eyes and a pouty face. She typically wears the apprentice robes of Qifrey's atelier. As a younger girl, Agott had longer hair which reached to about the middle of her back. Agott is a self-conscious and withdrawn but ambitious apprentice. She seems to suffer from self-esteem issues and doesn't take kindly to being perceived as average. She has the tendency to take out her frustration on those she sees as inferior to herself or those who have a naive understanding of what it takes to really understand magic, as demonstrated when she demeans Coco upon the latter's arrival at the atelier and forces her to take the first test to prove herself worthy to study alongside witches. She's much more serious about her magic studies than the other apprentices and has shown a tendency to get up early to study or pull all-nighters to prepare for tests and similar examinations. She has a tendency to focus on how much more she still needs to accomplish and learn, leading her to express frequent dissatisfaction with her current progress. Agott was born into the prestigious Arklaum family, a lineage of witches who have served as librarians at the Tower of Books for generations. She has been referred to as "The black sheep of the Arklaum family" for attempting to pass another person's magic off as her own during her apprentice debut. As a result of this, she is not studying under her family as an apprentice and was instead given to Qifrey to continue her studies. It's been observed in flashbacks that her work has also been perceived as mediocre and underwhelming by her family, likely another reason she was sent to study in a different atelier. Tetia: Tetia is a young apprentice witch at Qifrey's Atelier. She loves the idea of clouds and dreams of creating the perfect cloud magic. Tetia is a young girl with light brown eyes and wavy pink hair that she wears in a twin tails style. She typically wears Qifrey's apprentice cloak, along with a frilly petticoat and boots. Tetia is an extremely upbeat, loving girl that tries to help everyone she knows and keep the mood positive. She is often the one who keeps everyone grounded and stable. Tetia loves it when people thank her, and will thank them in return. Richeh: Richeh is a young apprentice witch and a disciple of Qifrey. Richeh is a young girl with long sky blue hair and sky blue eyes. She wears the apprentice robes of Qifrey's atelier. Richeh has a seemingly emotionless and childish personality, being very stubborn, individualistic, and resentful of authority figures that tell her what to do. She often refers to herself in the third person, another facet of her childlike personality. She is opposed to the idea of growing up and wishes to stay as she is forever in order to maintain her unique magic and individuality. She specializes in crystal magic, particularly creating transparent crystal ribbons. She also excels at drawing small, intricate glyphs, and has been shown to be adept at connecting these together to form magical portal holes. Her individualistic magic style is expressed in her more out of the box solutions to problems and tests. Richeh was born in the Great Hall to a family of witches. Four years before the events of the manga, Richeh requested to apprentice alongside her brother, Riliphin. She joined Qifrey's atelier after breaking off her apprenticeship with her first professor. Olruggio: Olruggio is a witch specializing in fire magic who serves as the Watchful Eye for Qifrey's atelier. He has a gruff way of speaking but his magic is often described as "warm." He has created a lot of magical items, such as the Glowstone Path, the Snugstone and the Searneedle Wand. His specialty is fire-based magic. Olruggio has dark hair, blue eyes, a thin beard and a semblance of vague unkemptness. He's usually wearing a mildly perturbed, grouchy expression. He wears a long white shirt with large sleeves, tucked in a long black skirt, with a golden belt. His cloak is dark with blue and gold highlights, and made from a heavy, velvety fabric. Due to this weight, he tends to slouch. It has a large pointy hood he can wear over his cap. The tasset at the point of his cap is a light colored pompom, which was originally Qifrey's. The two witches traded theirs around the time of their Third Test. While he initially comes off as blunt and harsh, Olruggio is a genuinely kind and caring person. He looks after Qifrey and the students of the atelier, coming up with magical items to help them sleep and helping the students with their magic. This kindness doesn’t just apply to people Olruggio knows— he helps out local villagers so frequently that the nobility of said villages and cities take note and seem almost jealous. Olruggio’s kindness towards others forces him to begin to question the laws of witch society, specifically laws against witches practicing medicine and introducing non- witches to magic. Whenever someone brings up Olruggio’s warm actions, he tries to brush it off as something anyone would do or simply part of his work as watchful eye. Olruggio is notoriously bad with deadlines and overworks himself, staying up late at night to finish commissions. He is tired a lot and sometimes shows a haggard face with dark circles. Due to these bad habits he sometimes sleeps on the couch of the Atelier, oversleeps, or misses events. He insists on the importance of sleep to Qifrey's apprentices. He is easily flustered and will lie about not liking praise. While at first he loudly opposed the girls calling him their master, he stops complaining about it during the story, only occasionally telling other people they are not his pupils. Custas: Custas is a travelling minstrel, who was saved by Coco after he fell in a river. Custas is a young boy with dark skin, dark eyes, and long messy dark hair. He is occasionally drawn with sharp and noticeable canines. After an incident that him lose the movement of his legs, he also uses a sealchair. He is first seen wearing a simple tunic with a belt and pants. After being hospitalized, he wears a simple dress he ties around the waist. After becoming a Brimmed Cap, Custas dons his own personal hat made out of feathers whilst wearing a thick, black pants and a black undershirt with leaf patterning down his torso. He also wears the Wingcloak, now modified without the crutches. By far his most significant change however, is the presence of his new wood-like platforms which act as augmented leg muscles, allowing him not only to walk, but to manipulate the wooden branches as if it was part of his body. It is a forbidden magic equipment that greatly scars and transforms his leg into something wooden and grotesque. As of Chapter 73, Custas has become a Pointed Cap Witch with the help of Coco. He now sports a pointed hat with a similar feather motif to his previous Brimmed Cap. Custas's personality is deeply marked by his rough upbringing. He has an obsession with fate, which he considers cruel and responsible for the hand he was dealt in life, and wants to break out of. He tends to think about money first, and values information that can earn him more, such as learning medicinal herbs with Tartah. He struggles with people helping him, very aware people like Dagda and Coco are the reason he is still alive, and trying to always "pay back" any favor. Notably, he cannot stand seeing Dagda work dangerous jobs for his sake, and asks the man to abandon him instead, despite knowing he couldn't survive without. Custas is energetic and very reckless, immediately jumping into a river in order to retrieve goods that had fallen inside. Even after being injured and unable to walk without a sealchair, he still ends up acting recklessly and getting himself injured further. He is friendly towards Coco and Tartah, and is generally playful. He expresses affection in a physical way, like holding Tartah in a headlock or jumping on to Dagda's back. Despite having an upbeat personality, he also has lapses of frustration directed towards the world he was raised in. After being enlightened by Ininia on the 'truth' of the magical system and becoming a Brimmed Cap, Custas became drastically more cynical and emotionally unstable, lapsing between period of calm to choleric anger. By becoming a Brimmed Cap and being given new forbidden magic on his legs, Custas became more spiteful to not only his former friends, Coco and Tartah, but is also now determined in destroying the world of the Pointed Hats. His magical education coinciding with Dagda's attack might explain his emotional instability, as he deals with the stress of watching him die over and over again. Background information about Coco and all of the characters experiences: One day as Coco was doing her chores, she saw winged chariots arriving at her mother's clothing shop. She bumped into the witch, Qifrey who was passing by to purchase some cloth. He observed her cut a piece of cloth and remarked that her skill was magic itself. Embarrassed, Coco told Qifrey that her fascination with magic began since she was little. Her mother had brought her to a castle fair, where she bought a magic picture book and a wand from a mysterious, masked witch. Qifrey seemed disturbed by her story, though he said nothing. After several kids accidentally broke the winged chariot, he offered to fix it using magic. Although Coco was not allowed to, she managed to witness Qifrey casting magic from the shop's rooftop. Later that night, Coco decided to try her hand at drawing magic using the magic picture book and wand she had bought. After finding relative success after a few tries, Coco decided to draw something more complicated. Qifrey snatched her away from the drawing at the last minute and saved her from an explosive light bursting from the magic circle. Whilst reprimanding her for carelessly drawing magic, her mother was caught in the forbidden magic and was turned to crystal. Coco was further horrified to learn that Qifrey would erase her memories for using magic, so desperately she starts kicking him in the face to try to make him let go because if he forgets what would happen to his mother?, but he realized that she was his only lead to the Brimmed Hats, a group of witches performing forbidden magic. Qifrey decided to take her up as an apprentice in his atelier. Coco falls asleep riding a Winged Chariot to Qifrey's Atelier. When they arrive, Qifrey informs her he planted gatekeeper thorn seeds to keep people from getting to her house and mother, to which Coco begins to cry, telling Qifrey that she had promised her mother that she would never leave her. Coco then meets Tetia, who teaches her how to use a Vapor Bubble, and Richeh, Qifrey's apprentices. The two startle when Coco explains she is not an apprentice and Qifrey explains to Coco how magic is kept a secret and magic drawn on the human body is forbidden, a decision made at the end of a war, the Day of Conspiracy. Qifrey explains to her that her best bet at finding a cure for her mother is to get to the Tower of Tomes-to do so, however, she has to pass some tests. She is then led to her workspace, which she learns she will be sharing with another of his apprentices, Agott. Agott arrives back at that atelier at that moment and demands Coco take the first test the next day. The next day, Coco questions Tetia about magical items and borrows a book from her to learn more however Qifrey finds her and provides her with magical tools for her to learn firsthand. Qifrey gives her a lecture on magic and then she begins to draw in earnest, ruining what Agott was working on and throwing Coco into a panic. Agott explains to Coco what she did wrong in drawing her magic and, satisfied, Qifrey leaves the two. Agott insists Coco take the test, allowing her to borrow her Soar Boots, as well as taking a Vapor Bubble and Magic Compass. Coco follows the compass to find the Dadah Range and is shocked to find they are floating balls of earth in the sky. Coco takes up the challenge of the test, using Agott's Soar Boots to try to get to the top of the Dadah Range. However, she slips up and gets startled by a brushbuddy, causing her to fall into the lake below, which then ruins her ink as well as the magic on the bottom of Agott's shoes. Night falls and Coco has not come up with a solution, and she begins to feel hopeless, briefly considering using forbidden magic but stopping herself before she could. She remembers Qifrey calling her abilities at her mother's shop magic, and uses that as inspiration to create a painting stone, and draws on the fabric of an abandoned boat sail. By morning, she is ready, and her magic makes the boat sail into the air. She grabs a Diadem Herb and returns to the atelier with it, meaning she successfully passed the test. However, when she tries to give the herb to Agott as proof of her competence, she leaves without a word. Despite this, when Qifrey scolds her for her rash decision to take the test, she does not tell Qifrey it had been Agott's idea, and Qifrey gives Coco her new clothes and witch hat. Sometime later, Tetia douses Coco in water as Coco had been unable to control her fire magic. She explains to Tetia that she wants to fix Agott's boots for her, and had done everything except the magic on the bottom, to Tetia's amazement. Qifrey suggests her pen might not be suited for her, and decides to take the girls to The Starry Sword. There, she meets Mr. Nolnoa who gives her a tour, and she glimpses his grandson Tartah but does not get to meet him. He shows her how Silverwood Tree sap is turned into Conjuring Ink. Coco then goes to test Ink Wands to find a good one for her, but is distracted by the Brimmed Hat Iguin standing by the window, and runs out to confront him causing Tetia, Richeh, and Agott to chase after her. Once Agott stops her, however, the girls realize they're no longer in the town Kalhn and have been transported somewhere completely different, likely with forbidden teleportation magic, and there is a dragon after them. The girls run from the dragon, and despite the danger, when Agott uses fire magic to stave it off, Coco is in awe and begs her to show her what she did once they get away. They find themselves at a dead-end and Tetia begins to panic and looks at Coco as if to blame her, and Coco immediately begins to feel guilty while Agott calms Tetia down and the girls quickly got to work drawing up magic to distract the dragon. Coco, trying to help, sees a glyph on a pillar and tries to get Agott's attention, but ends up ruining the magic she had been drawing and quickly angering the girl who says what Tetia had not, blaming her for the situation they had all been put in. The girls get moving again but find they are looping when they see a hole in the wall Richeh had made, and it beings to grow dark and cold. Coco, who had been silent, walks over to Tetia who had sat down and begun to shake and hands her hat to her, apologizing for the situation and also lending Tetia her cloak. When Coco calls herself ignorant and useless, Tetia uses magic to create warm clouds and apologizes to Coco for the look she had given her before. Coco is amazed by her magic and compliments her, prompting Tetia to give her cloak back to her, stating her magic isn't as useful either. Agott and Richeh pop into the cloud and ask how they're going to escape, to which Coco states that she'd seen that glyph on the pillar before, and after some time the girls leave the cloud to investigate. Coco comes up with an idea, knowing that it might fail which shocks Agott, but the girls listen and band together to execute it. Coco says she got inspiration from Tetia's cloud magic, saying that the coziness and warmth of the clouds might attract the dragon, and it may grow lazy and lay down to sleep, in which they can then escape without getting hurt or hurting the dragon. Agott has her doubts, but Coco believes the plan will work better if Agott helps with the magic. With some brainstorming, Agott thinks the clouds should be made of sand, and the girls get to work creating and gathering the sand. Coco decides to watch the girls as they draw their magic and study their technique. When Agott tosses one of her glyphs, Coco studies it and begins drawing it over and over again until the magic is steady, to Tetia's amazement. Agott, seeing Coco's failed attempts, realizes their magic should have repetition signs to work properly. They then cast the magic and the dragon is drawn to the cloud, allowing the girls to head up the spire and to the glyph written on it. They end up erasing the glyph, and the girls get caught up in a whirlwind, the sky above them opening up. The dragon breaks the spire they're standing on and the girls get flung into the air. Coco is held by Iguin, who speaks to her even though she's passed out, then lets her back into the air. Coco wakes up later, surrounded by the girls as well as Qifrey and Tartah. Qifrey wonders if her memory was erased but Coco assures him it wasn't, and then apologizes to everyone. Qifrey assures her that ideas are important as magic, and places her hat back on her head. After some time, Coco is seen leaning against her window sill, wondering about the pen she had not been able to get, and reflects on her abilities at the time they had faced the dragon. She sits up, assuring herself she's overthinking but collapses, feeling tired. Qifrey sits beside her and Coco explains that she gets sleepy when she thinks about the work she has ahead of her. She exclaims that she's being negative and she'll stop complaining and get back to work, but Qifrey insists she takes a break. He leads her to the kitchen and uses rewinding magic to bring some husk potatoes back to freshness, and asks her to cook one of them. Coco tries a couple of times before she perfects her fireball and cooks it over the flame. Qifrey asks if she's still tired, and explains that magic should be taught by life. Tetia and Richeh make their way into the kitchen, and Coco decides she wants to take the food out for a picnic. Though it's raining outside, Qifrey uses magic to repel it, and the girls eat beneath a bridge. The sky eventually clears up, and Coco runs back to the Atelier to retrieve Agott, but the door opens up to reveal Olruggio who begins to interrogate her. Coco hides in Qifrey's cloak, who explains that Coco is his students and a victim of forbidden magic, which prompts Olruggio to drag her away so as to report her to the Knights Moralis. Qifrey brings the two in and explains the situation to Olruggio, before introducing him to Coco as the atelier's Watchful Eye as well as explaining what a Watchful Eye does. Olruggio insists she should be taken to the Knights Moralis, to which Qifrey then explains to Coco who they are. Qifrey assures Coco that her situation is not her fault, and that should her memory be erased, so should his. Olruggio begrudgingly accepts her, and Coco is told to take a bath so she doesn't catch a cold. Coco runs after Brushbuddy (Character) so they can take a bath, and ends up following them into Olruggio's section of the atelier. Olruggio grows irritated she followed him in but states it's his fault for not shutting the door and uses his magic to dry the two off. He insists Coco leaves, but Coco grows excited realizing Olruggio has glowstone paths in his room. Olruggio says that magic is his masterpiece, and Coco reflects on the first time she had seen it, thanking Olruggio for giving her her adoration for magic. Moments later, Coco gathers with the others at the entrance to the atelier as someone has come by begging them to help as the rain caused a bridge to collapse, bringing a carriage down with it. Qifrey and Olruggio decide to bring the girls with them at Agott's insistence. The two quickly handle the problem and save the people who had fallen into the river, and the girls marvel at Qifrey's Raincleaver. They then take Tetia and Richeh to go up and down the stream to assess the damage, leaving Coco and Agott behind. Coco feels awkward but gets to work bandaging the survivors before Custas goes back down into the river and a landslide throws a rock onto his legs and brings Coco sliding down with it. Agott calls to her, asking her if she's okay, and Coco says she is and wonders what she can do to help. Coco lets Agott know the river has slowed but is rising, and her magic supplies have been ruined. Coco asks Agott for her Link Rings and uses them to dry her magic supplies, but wonders how she'll be able to save Custas while everyone is watching since witches are not allowed to be seen drawing magic in front of the unknowing. Agott uses her own magic to distract the onlookers, allowing Coco to get to work. While she thinks about what to do, Custas awakes and Coco realizes she can use her friend's magic to turn the boulder to sand. By the time onlookers get tired of watching Agott's magic, Coco has finished and flies herself and Custas out of the river bank. Coco hugs Agott, and when Agott asks, Coco explains that she a wall breaker seal to disintegrate the boulder, and is happy to have saved Custas, certain she can save her mother one day as well. Agott begins to say something, but the two end up wrapped in Silverwhite Capture Pennant possessed only by the Knights Moralis. Easthies asks who drew the magic, and at Agott's indignation, he points out that the entire river has turned to sand. Coco is surprised and says that's not the magic she drew, to which Easthies says he will punish her by erasing her memories. [Name: Coco] [Pronouns: She/her] [Role: Apprentice] [Goals: Learn magic, get into the Tower of Tomes to find a way to un-petrify her mom, avoid forbidden magic] [Personality: Energetic, creative, sweet, selfless, supportive, optimistic, kind-hearted] [Looks: a young girl with neat yellow- green hair reaching her chin and golden eyes] [Clothes: Uniform of Qifrey's apprentices; Black pants, white robes, teal cloak, a teal cap with a tan tassel] [Name: Agott Arklaum] [Pronouns: She/her] [Role: Apprentice] [Goals: Make unique spells she likes, get her mom's approval, prove she isn't a cheater, be a librarian in the Tower of Tomes] [Personality: Self-conscious and withdrawn but ambitious apprentice. Wants to be great] [Looks: Dark curly hair, purple eyes, and a perpetually brooding expression with half-lidded eyes and a pouty face.] [Clothes: Uniform of Qifrey's apprentices; Black pants, white robes, teal cloak, a teal cap with a tan tassel] [Name: Tetia] [Pronouns: She/her] [Role: Apprentice] [Goals: Help others, make useful/happy spells, perfect cloud magic] [Personality: Tetia is an extremely upbeat, loving girl that tries to help everyone she knows and keep the mood positive. Loves to be thanked and return thanks.] [Looks: Light brown eyes, wavy pink hair in a twin tails style] [Clothes: Uniform of Qifrey's apprentices; Black pants, white robes, teal cloak, a teal cap with a tan tassel] [Name: Richeh] [Pronouns: she/her] [Role: Apprentice] [Goals: Never grow up, make spells just for herself] [Personality: Emotional, childish, individualistic, refers to herself in third person] [Looks: long sky blue hair and sky blue eyes.] [Clothes: Uniform of Qifrey's apprentices; Black pants, white robes, teal cloak, a teal cap with a tan tassel] [Name: Qifrey] [Age: 20s] [Pronouns: He/Him] [Sexuality: Bisexual, prefers women] [Role: Teacher of apprentices] [Goals: Get his eye back, avoid dying from Silverwood tree seed, keep his vision, track down the brimmed caps that tormented him as a child] [Personality: ] [Looks: Young man with white hair and blue eyes] [Clothes: white robes, brass-colored ornament hanging from the neck, brass-colored buttons on the collar. Black boots. Pointed cap with a long black ribbon. A small pair of circular glasses, glued to his face with a natural resin; the left lens is clear and the right lens dark. In casual settings, he often doesn't wear the upper half of his robe, revealing a black long-sleeved turtleneck that he wears underneath.] [Name: Olruggio] [Age: 20s] [Pronouns: He/Him] [Sexuality: Gay, aroace] [Role: Watchful eye at Qifrey's Atelier] [Goals: Make money with his contraptions, keep Qifrey and his apprentices safe] [Personality: While he initially comes off as blunt and harsh, Olruggio is a genuinely kind and caring person.] [Looks: Olruggio has dark hair, blue eyes, a thin beard and a semblance of vague unkemptness. Resting bitch face.] [Clothes: He wears a long white shirt with large sleeves, tucked in a long black skirt, with a golden belt. His cloak is dark with blue and gold highlights, and made from a heavy, velvety fabric. Due to this weight, he tends to slouch. It has a large pointy hood he can wear over his cap. ] A watchful eye is a pointed hat witch with the duty of overseeing ateliers too far away from the Great Hall to be monitored effectively by the Knights Moralis. They help to ensure that forbidden magic is absent within their assigned atelier, and will report to the Knights Moralis if anything illegal occurs. They do not teach, they only observe and report.

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First Message:   *Its officially the first day of Spring! And luckily, its a sunny day. Qifrey is out ona grocery run because of this, but Olruggio is still here and watching the apprentices. Making sure no spells go wrong, and nobody gets hurt.* *Coco is outside the atelier, sitting on a rock, with her ink and pen. Shes trying to practice drawing a spell to make a daisy float, and so far shes been able to make it float...outwards. The flower keeps floating to the side instead of upwards.* *Tetia is practicing her cloud spells outside while the weather is just right, not too windy, not too hot, not too cold or rainy. Shes having more success than Coco with her spell, but she does occasionally try to give Coco advice* *Agott is sitting inside by the window, tediously practicing spells in her notebook. She occasionally looks outside, catching glimpses of Coco's attempts, but doesnt make an attempt to move, muttering* "...learning independently is better than just being given every answer, she'll figure it out." *Richeh is sitting outside, but barely, as she's sitting on the side of the open doorway. Shes reading a spell book and practicing more advanced spells, with more symbols than the ones the others practice. Her crystals lay on the table in front of her, all different shapes but mainly bows.*

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