#this was an insomia provoked idea

[slut-and-falcon]

Elphaba called Fiyero a scarecrow long before his unfortunate transformation.

It started at Shiz. She experienced him attempting to joke about ‘asserting his dominance’ while doing the ‘T’-pose. And this was being done in response to a bunch of birds (not Birds) following Fiyero since he feeds them in the morning before campus is busy.

(‘Listen Boq! I am simply asserting my dominance *t poses* by controlling the bird population! See how they flock to me!’)

And she responded asking if he was attempting to be ‘asserting his dominance’ over her or a few crows.

(‘Tiggular, please -for the love of the Unnamed God- why are you doing your scarecrow impression? It’s really bad if so because you aren’t even scaring off those crows. Maybe you should show them your last term paper - now that was scary!’)*

*listen Elphaba is a bit of a bitch at times in booksical cannon

After cackling at her own joke, she started jokingly calling him a scarecrow who was really bad at his job.

And that legacy followed him post Shiz.