#dorothy x the scarecrow

[buffyfan145]

I finally just saw this on YT last night after looking up clips from their "Wizard of Oz" movie since seeing "Wicked" back on Sunday and getting back into the Dorothy/Scarecrow ship I've had since I was little. Have no idea how I didn't know about him showing up on her 60s TV show and this was after they talked and sang "If I Only Had a Brain" with the original lyrics. For those that don't know the movie was going to originally end with Dorothy and Hunk confessing their feelings for each other and promising to write while he was off at college (she was supposed to be 16 and him just turned 18) implying that they'd end up married in the future. So this looks like Dorothy and Hunk decades later. 🥰

Here's the original last verse of the song implying how he felt for her:

"I would not be just a muffin', My head all full of stuffin', My heart all full of pain; And perhaps I'd deserve you and be Even worthy of you If I only had a brain."

Ray Bolger and Judy Garland, (1960s) from “The Judy Garland Show”

[m4lted-cr3am]

"We must be over the rainbow!" No Dorothy you are IN THE GODDAMN RAINBOW

[valerie4ever]

I just finished reading the wicked screenplay at 2am (naturally) and I discovered another clever bit of fiyercrow foreshadowing!!!!! the realization made me cackle with delight. this part didn’t make it into the final cut, but maybe that’s because it would’ve been too on-the-nose? footage of this line delivery by jonathan bailey probably exists in a director’s cut that we’ll maybe, hopefully get to see… one day…

[overly-dramatic-artist]

Of course, some people do go both ways!

In which y/n doesn’t go over the rainbow, but into the rainbow ✨🌈🌪️👠

Dorothy!y/n who is romanced by both Sun and Moon Scarecrow and the Queen of Faeries ( @pluck-heartstrings )

[darkcrowprincess]

Fiyero trying to sell the point to Elphaba about adopting Dorothy if he can't get her home, "Yes I know she dropped a house on your sister. But your sister was a dictator and it was an accident. She's a young girl that has nobody else. Doesn't that remind you of somebody Elphaba?"

Dorothy from behind the scarecrow prince, "who's Elphaba?"

Fiyero flinching because he didn't know she was behind him while he was stress pacing, " Nobody, no one."

Dorothy while smiling, "If she's no one why are you so nervous?"

The scarecrow laughing nervously, " Because this is how act whenever I'm thinking of her- I mean nobody!" Scarecrow losing even more brain power when he thinks about his witch love.

[eggmanleft4ball]

Dorothy: Ok...so let me get this straight...you dated her...but then you realized you wanted to be with her...and meanwhile you two were having the weirdest homoerotic tension

Elpheba:EXCUSE ME?!?NO WE DIDN'T- WE WERE JUST FRIENDS

Glinda:...well you don't have to say it like that...

Boq/Tin man: Really??!? So while I lost my life to confess my love to you before you married Fiyero (thanks for that by the way Elpheba) you were still on your collage situationship with cabbage here?!?!?

Fiyero/Scarecrow: ...see this is why you don't date two best friends Dorothy...

[starrynighttime]

In defense of Glinda, she was going through a lot.

[alicesbread]

I really need to write a fic where Glinda sees Dorothy and goes "yup. You're my child now." And then after a torturing slowburn her and the wicked witch get together so Dorothy has aunt Em and Uncle Henry at home, and whenever she goes to Oz she has her witch lesbian moms waiting for her.

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

I love how Boq and Fiyero have the same dynamic of short farmer x tall royalty that Dorothy and Ozma had because that would mean that baby Tincrow was just MLM Dorzma

[starlightoath]

If book Dorothy found out about how the popular Dorothy x Scarecrow is.

Dorothy: How do you s'pose that happened? Ain't the Scarecrow and the Tinman busy adoring each other? An' anyways I'm Ozma's Queen Consort. How e'zactly did all that translate to the Scarecrow an' I have those kinds of Affections for each other? I j'st don't understand it.

[hah-studios]

Dorothy and Scarecrow kiss 20?

Kiss on a scar (writing prompt list)

This take place after the Wizard leaves Oz:

Scarecrow walked through the halls of the Emerald City. He passed more than one Ozian who was in good spirits. It had been a week since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West and the whole country was still celebrating.

Scarecrow would’ve joined in, if things had gone the way they were suppose to.

After the Witch had fallen Scarecrow, along with his friends Dorothy, Tin Woodsman, and Lion, returned to the Emerald City to get what they had been promised from the Wizard.

Scarecrow had gotten his brain, it was a comfortable weight in his head and his thoughts felt both faster and more organized. Tin and Lion were also enjoying the heart and courage they had been gifted.

But Dorothy…Dorothy had been wronged.

The young woman had traveled farther than all of them, had faced all the dangers, had been the one to best the Witch. All she had wanted was to go home and the Wizard had utterly failed her. The daft man had floated away in a hot air balloon meant for Dorothy, leaving her behind in tears.

Her three friends had been so enraged by this they had been willing to throw away the gifts they had been given but Dorothy told them there wasn’t a need to.

Still, it crushed Scarecrow to see her, usually so bright and optimistic, constantly in tears and dragging her feet. They were trying to help, Scarecrow had been trying to think of some way to get her back to Kansas. But it had been three days since the Wizard had parted and no progress had been made.

He was going to check on his friend now, Tin talking to a Winkie who had come to visit and Lion (accompanied by Toto) going to find food for themselves and Dorothy.

He reached the fancy jeweled door that led into the room given to Dorothy. Scarecrow himself had been given to room but without a need to rest he was rarely inside it. And after days of traveling with his companion, it felt unnatural to spend the night alone.

As a scarecrow he had not been raised up proper even if Dorothy would call him a gentleman on occasion, so he didn’t knock before he opened the door.

The young brunette woman was standing in the middle of the room, barefoot with her hair down and her blue dress replaced by a green slip she could sleep in.

Dorothy jumped at his sudden appearance, a shade of red coming to her freckled cheeks.

“You startled me!” she scolded, wrapping her arms around herself.

“Sorry!” he jumped at her sharp tone. “I wasn’t-sorry.”

The two stood where they were, staring at each other for a moment. She wasn’t crying, but her eyes looked so tired and sad. And although he was just made of straw, Scarecrow felt his insides twist. She was so bright eyed when they first met, ready with a smile and a kind word. Scarecrow rarely felt anger, but he was enraged that the Witch and Wizard had taken that from her.

This was the Dorothy the Ozians didn’t see, the girl traumatized that she had taken the lives of two women-no matter how evil they were-and it was both a blessing and a curse that Scarecrow was close enough with her to see her in such a state.

Dorothy shifted, breaking eye contact, “Is something wrong?”

“N-no. I just wanted to check on you,” he admitted, then awkwardly pointed back to the closed door. “If you want me to leave I can-”

“NO!” he jolted again at her volume and she quickly dropped her voice to a lower level. “No. Please stay. I need the company.”

More than happy to oblige Scarecrow walked over to sit next to her on the giant green bed. Dorothy kept her hands in her lap and was still staring at the floor. Scarecrow leaned back and kept his gaze on her.

She’s so beautiful…thoughts like that wasn’t a surprise when they popped up. It was thoughts that had drifted through his straw-filled head not longer after he had first met her. He knew he hadn’t had much experience in the world, that they was much he was going to see and do. But he couldn’t imagine finding a wonder like Dorothy Gale of Kansas, anywhere else.

And he felt guilty that he couldn’t be as sad and frustrated as she was. Because a part of him that he’d never voice, not even to Tin and Lion, not even to Toto who couldn’t talk, wanted her to stay here. In Oz. With him.

His blue and white eyes moved down to her shoulders, for once bare, and he noticed a spot just below her left shoulder. A spot of red flesh.

“What’s that?” he pointed to the scar, resisting the urge to touch her.

Dorothy looked down and winced. Fear clouded her blue eyes and Scarecrow regretted asking.

“It happened when-when the Wit-when Morgana melted. A piece of her it-it landed on my arm and…” she shuddered, her eyes growing wet. “It burned me.”

“It wasn’t your fault,” he spoke seriously, in his kingly voice he had adopted now that he was in charge of Emerald City. “You were a prisoner. You didn’t know that would happen. The Witch of the West is gone because of her own choices. Not yours.”

This time he didn’t resist the desire to lift his hand up and left his cloth thumb brush against the burn mark. Dorothy turned her head away from him.

Scarecrow wasn’t used to having a brain and thinking properly, so he must have forgotten to use it when he bent his head and let his artificial mouth touch the small scar. He was sure if he was an expert at using his brain, he wouldn’t have done such a thing. It would just make him think of things that could never happen.

Dorothy’s head shot back around to look at him, the rest of her face a stark contract against the surprise bright in her eyes.

Scarecrow pulled his head away quickly but didn’t move his body away. “I just-I’m glad it was you who made it out of there.”

“You would’ve never gotten put back together if I hadn’t.”

“No,” he shook his head. “I could’ve been in perfect help and I’d want you to come out of there. I would’ve risked fire for you to get out of that castle safely. You’re…” He shook his head, once he was used to having a brain he’d think of the right words. “You’re special to me.”

Her throat bobbed as she swallowed. Without a word she leaned her body against him, rubbing her face into his shoulder like she used to do when she was sleeping during their travels. Scarecrow wouldn’t move an inch if his life depended on it.

Dorothy sighed shakily, “You’re a good friend.”

[bellesheres1219]

Looking back at the entire Oz franchise, I notice Scarecrow is paired off with a lot of love interests. In the original books, he was with Patchwork Girl. The filmmakers of the Wizard of Oz wanted to pair him up with Dorothy, which is why she tells him, "I'll miss you most of all." And in Wicked, he has Glinda wanting to marry him and he ends up with Elphaba at the end. Scarecrow's got a lot of girlfriends in this franchise. So I made a comic about Elphaba confronting all of them and apologizing in her own way. It was kind of painful to draw Elphaba as a jealous girlfriend.

[slashingdisneypasta]

Imagine;

DMD!Scarecrow acting like a good mentor for you when you crash-land in Oz, just like he did with Dorothy all those years ago; pretending to be just the person he was back then and helping you on your adventure to get back home. Being the Mad Hatter to your Alice.

But secretly the entire time, he's sabotaging you because he wants you to stay with him. Sending you both in the wrong direction (*face palm* oh silly me. You know the old straw brain isn't as sharp as it used to be 😅 we're several fields away from where we should be), giving you the wrong advice (OH, my bad. I FORGOT that the hungry tiger roams these parts 😕 Oopsie daisy? Heheh 😅 Good thing he stopped himself, right?? Aaaanyway- ), etc.

When you somehow, finally get to the Wizard (who's, miraculously, willing to help you), Scare is actually baffled how this happened and that just makes him even MORE mad ontop of the fact that you're getting away. His pride is hurt and you could escape??? Jesus fucking christ.

... but still. He keeps the act up. Maybe you'll choose to stick around, right? He's been so sweet. Such a good friend. Kept you fed and kept your fragile little organic body safe-- surely you'll w a n t to stay with him, right?? Yes. That's the only thing that makes sense.

So just as you're about to step into the hot air balloon with that crackpot 'wizard', Scare jumps up to you, takes your hands softly in his and tilts his head oh-so-cutely. "You could stay, you know. ... with me." A wonky grin on his stitched-mouth.

When you giggle gently, tears in your eyes, and shale your head; his non-existent heart drops. That's the last straw. "I would love to... but I can't. You understand, don't you?? My lovely friend ^^ "

Scare can't answer. His mind is absolutely boggled. Jumbled up. And he's pissed. Off. His fingers are tightening around yours, when the Wizard taps your shoulder. "Child, of course he does. Now come on- "

"The HELL I do." Scare growls, yanking you away from the hot air balloon just as the Wizard cuts the ropes tying it to the ground. The damn thing pf course starts flying away without you, history repeating itself, but Scarecrow can't acknowledge the symmetry while rage boils inside him and your little hand wriggles in his hold. Trying to get away.

But fuck that.

He knows he's scaring you with this jarring change in his demenour but he doesnt care. He put so much work into being a good friend to you. How did that not work?? What- is he supposed to do all that for you and just let you GO?? No. A thank you is not good enough. You have to stay. You have to be grateful.

[goldiesay]

There’s no place like home❤️

[jaybaeblue]

Leather x glinda is real...(+ scarecrow and tinman being supportive dad's <3) credits to my sister for drawing tinman

[hannathecartoonlover]

My wizard of oz designs I’m very proud of them a lot more will come

Bonus doodle