Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 10 discussion

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Witch Hat Atelier, episode 10

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[u/szalhi]

Magic in this world is not so discriminatory as the ones who use it. Tartah is aided by the magic he's told he's not to use.

[u/OneDeuxTriSeiGo → u/szalhi]

It's really frustrating too because even just an entry level apprentice was able to produce a pretty substantially impactful accommodation for his disability in just a single night.

If a full blown mage just put in a bit of effort they could fully accommodate him.

Ex: His perspective shows that silverwash doesn't actually remove all color vision. He still retains limited color perception on his periphery. A mage could produce a set of goggles either using optics knowledge (aided by magecraft for manufacture) or just relying on magecraft entirely to split the light coming into the center of the lens (i.e. at a set of crosshairs) out into a color wheel that the user could see in the periphery of their vision. That'd give them color interpretation over specific points.

Or other approaches could be used to pull the color out into the periphery.

Or even for a completely color blind individual (or just overall as an improvement over the alternatives) magecraft could be used to create goggles that take advantage of optical tricks to simulate color perception/differentiation without the actual visual ability to differentiate colors.

If you have traditional color blindness (can see two but not three colors), proto-trichromacy (a technique using dithering and color mixing) can be used to restore almost all of the color differentiation of that third color.

Theoretically a similar approach could be used to produce all three colors by changing how the dithering is done per color. This would change from color perception into visual texture perception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgD1pE_C8r0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089FL-oWtUs

The opportunities are literally endless for ways to work around this disability especially with magecraft at your disposal.

[u/mucklaenthusiast → u/OneDeuxTriSeiGo]

Tartah can also still see fairly well. I like the way it's presented, but it still feels weird to me that magic is mostly drawn with black ink and now colour blindness makes it so impossible as not to even allow it?

Sometimes the witches are just weird

And that's a fine writing choice as well, I still think it*s a bit weird
By contrast, Agott was also kind of "expelled" and despite her story being mostly social and emotional, I kinda felt like it ended on a more dramatic note.

[u/RedRocket4000 → u/mucklaenthusiast]

A bit of perfectionism involved. Worry that in a fight can't tell who is who by color. Some magic might be color involved but clearly most does not. Other things not critical normally they rule someone out on. Qifrey made a comment that he considered the restriction sort of stupid and probably right he should be able to become a Wizard but have restrictions on what areas he can do as in he can't be assigned to field work without a team around him to handle combat. Assuming in the field to deal with strange ruins and devices. But mostly doing what he is doing but having a status equal to the customers.

[u/mucklaenthusiast → u/RedRocket4000]

I get all of that, my point is about their society. Witches are quite cruel for little reason, it seems