#but even the fact that Elphaba is ‘alive’ at the end doesn’t rule this out

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given the framing device of wicked the musical being that Glinda is telling the story of her and Elphaba’s “friendship” to the people of Oz, the reason it is made to be so painfully straight and “no homo” is because Glinda is censoring her own lesbianism for the sake of her career. This is canon btw

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Wicked Musical Extended Ending

For @cuckoo-outlawoflove-in-nirvana, @broadwill, @breakfast-at-bendels, @elphabaoftheopera, @squeegool, @thegoodplacey, @politedemon, @diablodancer, @superelphie, @colwengrounds, and all fans of “Wicked” who crave more and wouldn’t mind an "adaptation” of a musical that is based on a book (the first of a series) that is based on a movie that is based on the first of a series of books.

After reuniting, Fiyero and Elphaba leave the Land of Oz via train under unsuspecting disguises and arrive in a nearby land unfamiliar to them. With virtually nothing but each other, Fiyero and Elphaba travel by foot, seeking shelter in barns and surviving on fruit trees, until they find a bare grassland where they decide to construct their own home. In the time that it takes them to build a house, they grow their own garden of produce.

Fiyero has the permanent appearance of a scarecrow, but Elphaba manages to reshape him, allowing the couple to consummate their feelings. The first time they make love, Elphaba sobs the entire time because she worried for so long that she would never find love and nearly lost it when she found it. Fiyero just holds her so she knows that love found its way back to her. 

Fiyero wakes up most nights to Elphaba sniffling, and she keeps worrying about the future of their unborn child, if it will be just as much an outcast as she had been and perhaps be ashamed of its mother, or even possess any magical abilities that will frighten others. She only calms down when Fiyero rubs her baby bump and lets her, calmly, talk about what ails her, and this enables her to fall asleep better. 

Elphaba goes into labor while gardening, and Fiyero carries her inside and assists her through contractions. He knows nothing of childbirth but keeps her distracted by coaching her to maintain control of her powers with each push. It takes hours, but a healthy baby boy is born, and Fiyero laughs and cries the entire time that he clutches the newborn. To Elphaba’s relief, little Liir is born with pale skin and black hair, and his parents can’t stop kissing him. 

In order to bring in income, Fiyero and Elphaba expand their garden, and Fiyero sells produce at markets and to neighbors who don’t mind his unusual appearance. Elphaba, unwilling to present herself and risk causing fear among others, raises chickens at home to sell or eat the eggs, and has Liir assist her but creates games out of his chores and teaches him math this way. At night and during rainstorms in the daytime, Liir’s parents teach him to read and write. Even though it makes her miss Dr. Dillamond, Elphaba tutors her son biology and history, and Fiyero buys books of biology and the country’s history for him and his family to read and learn.

Liir begins school at age six and easily becomes a top student. His enthusiasm and intelligence delight teachers, and his kindness attracts many friends of different ages. Out of respect for his mother, Liir doesn’t bring classmates to his house but goes to theirs. As this continues, Liir becomes frustrated at his mother for wanting to live like a hermit, saying that any true friend wouldn’t mind what she looked like. Still, Elphaba refuses to change the rules and promises that he would understand when he was older. 

Liir leaves for university at sixteen, but before he leaves, his parents tell him their stories about Oz, how they met and fell in love, and why they left home. He isn’t angry about their revelations but reflects on the information he has on the aunt and grandfather he never met and his mother’s fall from grace, and considers traveling to Oz to meet Glinda. On the train ride to school, Liir promises himself to return his parents to their homeland. 

At university, Liir instantly bonds with his roommate, Trism, and befriends the beautiful Candle. Although Liir and Candle begin a romantic relationship in their second year, he finds himself attracted to Trism but delays telling them his conflict. This continues even after the three finish school and travel, trying to find employment, and his relationship with Candle becomes sexual. Candle finds out and isn’t offended but suggests that he might be bisexual. Just as Trism and Liir begin a relationship, Candle finds out that she’s pregnant. The three have lengthy conversations and consider co-parenting together. 

Liir writes to his parents of his sexuality and receives a loving letter regardless. At Trism and Candle’s urging, he brings them to deliver the news of the pregnancy to his parents. Of course, Trism and Candle are surprised with Elphaba’s skin and Fiyero’s physical appearance but spend more time defending Liir from his parents who are more furious about his “carelessness”. The five come to an uneasy truce, and Elphaba and Fiyero agree to let Liir, Trism, and Candle stay with them as the trio begin searching for their own house. At this time, Trism and Candle knew little of Oz but learn of Elphaba and Fiyero’s pasts and feel sorrow.

Like Elphaba, Candle begins labor in the garden and is in pain for the rest of the day and night. She ends up in the same room where Liir was born. Liir is extremely squeamish, but Fiyero instructs him on coaching a birthing woman. As he, Trism, and Elphaba assist Candle, Liir talks to her in a calm voice until he delivers his daughter and nearly passes out. The baby is healthy and cleans up a light green, much to her grandparents’ surprise. 

Rain grows up in a city apartment with her three loving parents and cherishes free time with her grandparents. As part of her schooling, Liir teaches her to read and write by having her read and copy letters from a journal that he wrote about her parents, her maternal family, and the political conflicts in Oz. However, he does not reveal if it is fact of fiction. When Rain learns that Oz is a real place, she decides to visit when she is older.

The first holiday after Rain’s first year of university, she persuades her parents and grandparents to let her travel to Oz with her best friend Ozma, who goes by the nickname “Tip” because of her preference for masculine clothing. Elphaba is nervous but gives her blessing and requests that Rain not inform anyone that her grandparents are still alive. Rain and Tip travel to Oz and then the Emerald City, where they call for the attention of a widowed Glinda, who has since lived up to the name “Glinda the Good” but whose physical appearance is fading. Initially, Glinda is reluctant to speak of her life prior to the Emerald City until Rain begins pressing her with questions about her “old roommate”. As Glinda continuously refuses, Rain and Tip excuse themselves and take a train to Munchkinland, under the governorship of a man named Shell. There the girls finds the land where Rain’s great-aunt and great-grandparents are buried together. They sit at the grave for two hours until Glinda arrives via bubble, confident that she would find them there. 

Back at the Emerald City palace, Glinda quietly interviews Rain, who recalls the story of Dorothy Gale, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, and remarks that Glinda’s “old roommate” had known them all at some point. Glinda presents Rain with the Grimmerie and has her read through the book just as the guards announce the arrest of Tip for an action they do not reveal. A panicked Rain subconsciously recalls a spell that she had just read and instinctively chains the guards together. Rain and Tip are shocked, and Glinda begins to weep when she realizes that her old friend had survived and lived to have a child. She admits to have staged Tip’s arrest to test Rain of any power as proof that she truly was Elphaba’s granddaughter, and is furthermore pleased that Rain proved herself braver and more willing to save a friend than Glinda had been in her youth. 

Rain, in Glinda’s home, writes to her grandparents and informs them of her meeting with Glinda. An emotional Ephaba congratulates her but is also surprised that Rain possessed some form of magic that Liir did not demonstrate. Because all of Oz are convinced that Elphaba had died long ago and still speak ill of her, Rain suggests for Glinda and Elphaba to communicate via mirrors and meet on the night before Rain leaves to return home. Glinda agrees but wonders if she should tell Rain and Elphaba the truth of Elphaba’s parentage. Despite Rain’s eagerness to go back to her parents, she promises to return and talks of one day living in Oz. Rain and Tip watch from the shadows as Glinda’s mirror unfogs and she says, “You wicked thing...”

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A Wicked Analysis: Fiyero

This post is an in-depth analysis of how I interpret Fiyero and why I made certain changes to his character in Wickedly Queer, not only for his character to work in a slightly alternated version, but also to try and give him more of an arc than he actually has. So with a final note that this is just my interpretation, let us begin!

There are very few things Fiyero Tigelaar and Fiyero Tiggular have in common. (For one, they don’t even share the same last name). I feel it’s hard to pin down book!Fiyero because we only get to really see him one chapter and I think that’s also why the musical writers didn’t really bother sticking to the character. But there is one aspect I found that both of them have in common: boredom.

In the book there’s this quote: “He knew he was in lazy doubt about everything; doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.” That is about the most character revealing I found, but it does set a certain tone. Then there’s the musical. Let’s start with a lyric breakdown of his song Dancing Through Life (or as I like to call it: happified existentialism!)

What the characters around him hear and see is a boy who just doesn’t care about the rules and does his own thing and seems happy doing it. But look through the thinly veiled surface and you can see why Elphaba later on makes a comment about how unhappy Fiyero actually is:

“Life is fraughtless / when you’re thoughtless.”

Translation: Don’t think too hard, because if you do, you’ll fall into an endless pit of despair and nobody wants that so let’s have a party!

“Nothing matters / But knowing nothing matters / It's just life”

Okay, teen angst edge lord, calm down…

“Only because dust is what we come to.”

Haha, yikes! It’s a twisted version of ‘Carpe Diem’ that’s actually closer to ‘Memento Mori!” (don’t forget you’ll die!). And yes I am aware that the “thoughtless” and “brainless” is all just foreshadowing and an inside joke for the fate of Fiyero becoming the Scarecrow, but you cannot deny there is some serious existentialism going on here.

It also shows the contrast with the ending of the song, where it describes Elphaba’s and Glinda’s relationship: “And the strange thing / your life might end up changing / while you’re dancing through.”

While Fiyero basically sings: “just ignore life, you’re better off that way”. The theme Glinda and Elphaba dance to is: “if you go through life, and open your mind, you might end up being surprised by yourself and the people around you and being better off because of it.” Subtle lyrics difference, huge difference in implication.

This is my main motivation to believe that Fiyero is actually depressed. However he is not the (stereo)typical “I’m depressed and therefore sad and therefore will do nothing”. He is depressed in a sense that he’s going into reckless behavior, to try and feel something again. This is also amplified by the fact that he keeps getting kicked out of schools. Something in his life isn’t adding up, but he hasn’t discovered what, so instead he ignores it in the hopes it will go away.

Now here’s the point where I start to disagree with the musical writers, a lot. Because the story arc given to Fiyero is: “he falls for the less conventionally beautiful girl, and that shows growth because it means he no longer values being ~shallow~ and ~popular~ but loves Elphaba for who she is inside” and ok yeah this show was written in the early 2000s but come on it wasn’t even that revolutionary back then, it was every fucking teen movie I can think of off the top of my head.

Loving a girl that is not as conventionally beautiful as another girl is not a story arc. It’s not a ““sacrifice”” or selfless for “settling for less”. And no, I don’t think the writers actually thought like this when they wrote the script, but it’s still there. It’s the same old tiresome trope of “love is blind” and while that may be sweet in some ways, it’s also pretty dang nasty when you take a sec what it implies.

The logical step for his character development isn’t love. Fiyero doesn’t need to learn how to love. He knows how to love. Fiyero needs a purpose. Something to believe in; something to fight for. He needs to feel alive and getting the idea that life is worth living. That’s what Dancing Through Life is suggesting after all! He’s bored, and he needs something to do that doesn’t make him feel like he needs to shove down his negative feelings with mindless and careless behavior.

That’s where Elphaba comes in. Elphaba is the most passionate person you can meet. In that regard, they’re completely opposite from Fiyero. They know what they want out of life, and goddammit they will do everything in their power to get it too. Does Fiyero fall in love with them a little bit? Absolutely. But in the second act, Fiyero realizes that although he could not win Elphaba’s affection, it doesn’t really matter that much, because they have opened his eyes to being passionate about something.

Fiyero becomes passionate about the Animal cause. Through Elphaba, he has seen the injustice that is happening in Oz. In fact, he obviously has felt some himself being a black queer man. He definitely does have some privilege (mostly class-privilege) being a prince and all. But it does awaken a flame in him to stand up for what is right.

Instead of loving one person, he now loves others regardless. In the musical and in the book he is pretty selfish. Yes, he’s aware somewhat about the Animal cause, but he doesn’t really do anything about it. Just goes after his own interest. This is definitely not the case in WQ.

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When you apply all that I’ve discussed so far to Fiyero’s character in Wickedly Queer I hope his actions make a lot of sense. So in chronological order:

He comes into Shiz and almost drives his car over Elphaba

Elphaba calls him out, and specifically in WQ they say: “Is this really how you go through life? Do you even notice anyone besides yourself?” which will come back later to bite Elphaba in the ass, because they’ll be proven wrong.

It doesn’t take a lot of convincing on Galinda’s part for Fiyero to agree to be her beard.

Like 70% because he has his “scandalous” reputation (rumors that he has dated boys, which is obviously true because he’s bi) and Galinda’s ‘good’ image will reflect well on him too. About 20% because he’s bored and depressed and has a habit to throw himself into all kinds of stuff just to do something with himself. And 10% because he is annoyed that Elphaba just called him selfish and he wants to prove them wrong.

This means that after Popular and before Dillamond gets fired, the exchange between Elphaba and Fiyero also changes. Galinda has told in the previous scene that Fiyero is her beard. Mending Elphaba’s judgement that he is a selfish prick. When Elphaba is properly ‘Galindafied’ and Fiyero comments on how “[Galinda] charmed [them] already” they are both aware of the connection the other person has to Galinda:

Elphaba knows Fiyero is bearding for Galinda.

Fiyero knows Elphaba has a crush on Galinda.

This also changes why Fiyero isn’t affected by Elphaba’s magic. Their opinion of him has changed because of Galinda, not because of that lousy comment of “You don’t need to know that y’know?” (do better boy >_>)

In the Lion Cub scene it is again established that Fiyero is not selfish at all: “Let me help you” until Elphaba dismisses him. When he protests, saying he is not useless, Elphaba agrees and tells him quietly that they were referring to Galinda. “It’s very thoughtful of you to look out for her.”

Break Time Question for the crowd: why can Elphaba call herself ugly in musical canon, and dismiss any compliments she receives, while it’s clear to the audience that this is not true. While Fiyero constantly depreciates himself by saying he is: “brainless” “thoughtless” “unwise” and everybody simply goes along with it. Right, right. Scarecrow-inside-joke. But still. He seems to have as many self-esteem issues just like Elphaba. Just the other way around. (smart <-> pretty)

That’s why I think it’s very important that Elphaba actually calls him thoughtful in this moment. But just as Elphaba cannot see themself as pretty, neither can Fiyero see himself as smart.

Of course, Fiyero is also realizing in this moment, that he is kind of admiring, dare he even admit, crushing on Elphaba. Which is incredibly unhelpful, because in the previous scene he already noted that Elphaba has feelings for Galinda. So while Elphaba frees the Lion cub, Fiyero gets to sing an I’m Not That Girl alternation in which he utilizes all these thoughts.

((He likes Elphaba, but they like Galinda, for whom he’s bearding. And while in the original Elphaba expresses how she’s not ‘beautiful’ (I wasn’t born for the rose and pearl) enough to be with Fiyero. WQ!Fiyero will most likely sing something similar, only he would not feel smart enough to be with Elphaba, even if they weren’t already in love with Galinda)).

When Elphaba is ready to set off to Emerald City, Fiyero still gives her flowers, but when he says: “about that Lion cub and everything, I think about that day a lot” it’s not a romantic implication. Fiyero has actually thought more about Animals and how unfair they’re being treated. Yes, flowers still indicate some romantic implications, but also to show his support. And hey, who doesn’t love a bunch of flowers, right?

Act II

We start act II with Thank Goodness. While I might not have changed a lot of dialogue here, I feel like the underlying tone of this scene has shifted tremendously from the original. So let’s dig into it, because I love this scene a lot.

So it becomes clear very quickly that Fiyero is still bearding for Glinda. When Glinda announces their engagement.

“Surprised? :D” “Yes..!” has a completely different meaning, because to Fiyero it reaffirms that Glinda is scared shitless to come out the closet and would even go as far as having a fake marriage with him to keep her public image.

When the Ozians start bashing Elphaba, they both get really upset. Fiyero storms off and Glinda goes after him. I kept this interaction mostly similar, because it shows where both of them stand. Glinda thinks it’s hopeless at this point. Elphaba left, Glinda stayed “that’s all there is to it”. She has accepted her role as public figure. Fiyero on the other hand doesn’t hesitate a second to suggest they should just leave this all behind. He’s ready to join the resistance at any time.

I’d like to take a moment and point out that Fiyero and Glinda are genuine friends in WQ, and after years of pretending to be a couple, they’re very aware of each other and their respective role. Fiyero is also no idiot. After Elphaba left, Glinda must’ve been an absolute wreck. He was there for her, because he’s the only one who knows that Glinda is gay and quickly put together that Elphaba’s and Glinda’s feelings were mutual. He knows it’s pointless to go after Elphaba, because he doesn’t even know where to start looking.

Until, an opening appears. Because Glinda stayed behind, she is now on good terms with the Wizard, who is quickly transforming her into a public figure. Fiyero discusses his plan to find Elphaba with Glinda and Glinda puts in a good word with the Wizard so Fiyero can join the Guard to “search for the Wicked Witch”.

In WQ Fiyero doesn’t join the Wizard’s Guard to try and find the woman he’s pining after. He joins the Guard because he wants to find the friend they both dearly miss. He isn’t emotionally cheating on Glinda. (That’s the whole “Glinda no, it wasn’t like that” “well it was… but it wasn’t.” referring to after all. Clearly it doesn’t count because they didn’t fuck right? Well jokes on you: emotionally cheating is still a form of cheating!) A complete dynamic change that I feel is for the better.

So Fiyero is ready to leave, until Glinda talks him out of it. “They don’t want to be found. You’ve got to face it.” It bursts the bubble of Fiyero’s dreams, but she has a point.

Glinda apologizes for the surprise engagement and explains: “people were asking questions.” Fiyero immediately understands she freaked out and came up with the surprise (public!) engagement, so people would stop asking questions. They have ‘been together’ for years after all. and you know if it’s one thing straight people are good at, is reinforcing heteronormative bullshit down everyone’s throat!

Glinda quickly says they don’t have to go through with it. She understand what Fiyero has done for her all these years and doesn’t want to pin him down in a position he doesn’t want to be in. Yet to her surprise, he agrees.

(I want to stress once again how selfless he is acting in this scene)

still he doesn’t leave without dropping a truth bomb: are you really sure you want to live your life behind a mask?

“But I have to ask, don’t you want to be with someone you truly love instead?”

Boq-Fiyero Parallel Break Time! Alrighty! We’ve entered the Nessarose/Boq scene and even though Fiyero is not in it, I’d like to take a moment to point out a parallel I have been thinking about, but not actively incorporated in the GIFs.

Musical!Boq is more a plot-device, which I’m not as bothered by as some. I do love book!Boq (with the exception that he’s a peeping tom, which fortunately, he grows out of). His banter with Elphaba and their friendship is one my favorite things of the entire book. So with my sincerest apologies to book!Boq, I’ll now delve into how WQ!Boq is even worse than musical!Boq.

So let’s take a quick look at all the speaking men roles of Wicked:

Dr. Dillamond: 100% plot device. Introduces the bigger issue, and just like in the book, is more a symbol than an actual player. He’s good, but has no real arc.

The Wizard: manipulative enabler with no real powers. Next!

Boq: seemingly nice guy who pines after a woman he can’t get and then becomes completely bitter and joins the witch hunters after he’s turned into the tinman. Conclusion: asshole.  

Fiyero: falls for another girl then the one he’s with, which is far from a crime. But then, doesn’t break up with Glinda, staying by her side while pining after Elphaba. Leaves Glinda for Elphaba and makes sure Elphaba stays alive. Conclusion: compared to the other guys not as big-a-dick-he-could-be. He’s the only guy out of the three main men who we’re suppose to side with.

I won’t explain Fiyero’s role again, because I think you get the gist by now. So what has this to do with WQ!Boq? Well, I’d like to turn him into the Nice Guy. Yes. That creep. He sees Galinda and instantly turns her into his manic pixie dream girl. He projects his ideals on her, without ever bothering of actually getting to know her.

His advances on her are explicitly predatory, because Galinda is a lesbian. She won’t ever return his affection. (Although, to be fair, Boq doesn’t know this. But the audience does. So the audience will feel uncomfortable with his behavior). Now, here is the parallel between Fiyero and Boq:

As you may remember, WQ!Fiyero develops a crush on Elphaba, and in a way, also projects certain ideals on Elphaba. Still, there is a difference with Boq. He is in awe of their passion, a spark that he has not known before that point. They inspire him.

Moreover, and this is the important part: Fiyero doesn’t sulk over his crush. He’s immediately aware that Elphaba won’t return his affections: and he accepts it! When he sings I’m Not That Girl he isn’t blaming Elphaba for anything. He just sings about what a stupid timing it is and how inconvenient these feelings are, and more than anything, it becomes apparent that Fiyero doesn’t think much of himself.

Instead of blaming the world for this unjust, he starts thinking about Elphaba and why they rescued the Lion cub. He starts seeing the injustice in Oz. And in the second act he’ll come to the conclusion that he has (mostly) misread his affections for them. They aren’t romantic as he thought, but are feelings of admiration.

Fiyero is a friend to Elphaba and Glinda. He comes close to those two, and helps them. He never complains that he isn’t loved the way he may have wanted at one point. He’s already glad to be a part of Elphaba’s life. This is reflected by the plot, which rewards his behavior.

Meanwhile, Boq never gets over his crush. In the second act, he’s still with Nessarose. Let’s remember that she has been pitied her entire life. Yes, she got more love and attention than Elphaba, but it had always that negative layer  underneath of a “pity party”. If people were shown to care for Nessa, they got popularity points for paying attention to the “poor cr*ppled girl”

Nessa really wants to believe Boq loves her, but she’s always placed second. She knows, on some level, she’s always been treated as a ‘lesser’ human for her disability (which I made a small plotpoint in WQ) So it’s additional painful that deep inside, she knows, that she’s only a second choice to Boq, who much rather would be with his self-indulgent fantasies of Glinda. 

This behavior gets punished in WQ. I’d say Boq’s behavior is already pretty heartless even before his heart shrinks and Elphaba turns him into the Tinman. He doesn’t respect Glinda or Nessarose. He becomes the bitter Nice Guy, who joins the witch hunters to kill the ‘woman’ who has wronged him.

The Wizard’s Chamber scene! This is a really important character moment for Fiyero. I have explained how Fiyero just goes along with almost anything due to his depression, causing him to be quite selfless. But now, there’s an opening to go after something he actually wants. Elphaba is right before his eyes and thus the Animal cause is within hand reach.

This is the first time we see Fiyero wanting something. He wants in. He tells Elphaba that it doesn’t matter what it costs.

“Fiyero [helping me] will haunt you for the rest of your life” “What if I believe the cause is worth it?”

Let me also emphasis here that Elphaba and Fiyero genuinely believe Glinda prefers to be in the Emerald City. Elphaba thinks so because of the Defying Gravity scene, where Glinda decided to stay behind. Fiyero thinks so because of the Thank Goodness scene, and her reluctance to run away, admitting that she can’t turn away from the glamour. (Little do they know the conflict within Glinda has already settled: she wants to be with Elphaba).

Glinda is suddenly overwhelmed by the whole scene and before she can even object, Fiyero has reminded her to “be good” and keep playing her part like she has done so far. And Elphaba and Fiyero run off.

(Yes Glinda is so upset that she does tell Morrible and the Wizard to “spread a rumor about Nessa”)

Obviously Elphaba and Fiyero won’t sing As Long As Your Mine. They do discuss some resistance stuff, and while Elphaba is at first reluctant, Fiyero points out that he’s already a fugitive “so I might as well be useful.”

While first act Fiyero seemed to be incredibly confident, in a later part of the scene, you’ll see he’s actually scared. Because for the first time, he has something to lose.

He uses this fear as a fuel. If he’s afraid of losing it, it’s worth fighting for.

There is obviously some more plot points yet to come, but I hope this explains the majority of his character in Wickedly Queer and why I interpreted him the way I did.

All is to say, in Wickedly Queer I tried to create an actual arc for Fiyero. Yes, one that might be pretty straightforward. But I’d also like to think that he challenges the viewer. As I’ve pointed out: Fiyero is never shown selfish during the entirety of the show. He constantly is shown helping others. When he does chose for himself, it’s in helping Elphaba and the Animals. So in a way, still pretty selfless.

It actively challenges the idea that most viewers will have when he first enters the stage: that he’s a rich, spoiled asshole. Instead, together with the rest of the characters, our prejudices trick us, and we soon realize that Fiyero grows into a wonderful guy who wants nothing more than the best for the people around him.

In the musical, Fiyero is supposed to be the good guy; in WQ he is the good guy.

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Oof! Thanks for making it till the end! If you like this let me know. (damn I sound like a YouTuber. Don’t forget to hit that like button ;D) But seriously, I know I spouted a lot of theories just now (some of which may be complete bullshit) and I’m super interested if you have your own thoughts on this!

If you simple can’t get enough of these Wicked analyses, there’s the general wicked meta tag where I exchange theories with some of my followers (y’all are great! :D it’s genuine the best thing about this entire blog to interact with other wicked/gelphie fans!)

Here’s a (way shorter) analysis examining Fiyero’s “It’s looking at things another way” and comparing it to Glinda’s: “Why Miss Elphaba, look at you, you’re beautiful.”

I also did a video-analysis taking a closer look as Wicked as an adaptation, and yes, I will continue mentioning this until the ends of times okay? I worked very hard on that video. Link: Wicked: Re-imagining Stories Through Adaptations