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There's something funny (if slightly tragic) to me about the fact that Fiyero's himbo act that he puts on through Dancing Through Life, and that we find out later he secretly hates, is literally what saves him multiple times through the musical.

When Madame Morrible realises Elphaba cast the spell and freed the Lion Cub which hastens her invite to the Emerald City to get rid of dangerous influences (I'm aware this isn't explicitly shown in the musical but I have to think it went down in a fairly similar way to the movie), Fiyero is missing too, but presumably Madame Morrible, just thought he missed the lesson because he didn't care - no suspicion is put on him at all.

When Fiyero, suddenly after Elphaba is declared a criminal, starts immediately having an interest that he never did before at working in the palace in the Wizards Guard? He's just following his girlfriend, surely the best thing we can do with him is give him a fancy position and get him engaged to boost moral! There's no way he could be a man on the inside.

When he asks for water the moment they are about to capture the Witch? Yeah, that's just the kind of zany thing himbo Fiyero would do, there's nothing sus about him removing every hostile witness from the room...

And then, of course, he's literally pretending to be brainless for the latter part of act 2 - which allows him to temper the biggest threat coming towards Elphaba and facilitate her escape, without anyone even suspecting who he really is.

I would genuinely argue that Fiyero is the cleverest character in the whole show and he gets so far by people constantly falling for his act and underestimating his intelligence.

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I could never be convinced this man is brainless when he says stuff like this

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WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

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"I fucking killed you"

THE CROW (2024) - Dir. Rupert Sanders

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Sir Andy Murray

Thank you. For everything.

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NABRIELISE + text posts pt. 4

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MONKEY MAN (2024)

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big day today

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hooray for blue charmander!

somehow I've done another Chartodile family moment

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sterek + touching

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and therein lies your torment. (x)

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DEAD BOY DETECTIVES + the onion headlines

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2, 3, 4, 5

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clownfish be like "i know a spot" and take you to a fucking deadly sea organism

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