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Ok so I’m watching dr. who for the first time (started w the modern episodes) and I’m so mentally torn rn bc the 9th doctor just regenerated into the 10th and I LOVE David Tennant but I’m also mourning the 9th doctor and everything he was?? Does that even make sense bc ik they are the same person but I still feel like I lost a character. Idk maybe I’ll get over it but rn that feels impossible
Update: just finished the Christmas episode and then started crying bc the 10th doctor said fantastic. This is fun
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obsessed with this Jurdan comic strip by court_of_sketches on instagram (reposted with permission - do show them some love on the original post as well!)
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omg omg omg i love this
Guys, I just thought of something (that I probably should've figured out a long time ago) about the titles of the Elfhame books by Holly Black.
The Cruel Prince - We all know that refers to Cardan. But what if it didn't refer to Cardan alone? What if it also refers to Dain: Dain who killed the mother of his child and thought he killed his child along with her, who poisoned his father to weaken him so that he could take the throne, who turned his father against all his other siblings, who got Cardan kicked out of the palace, who got Jude to stab herself through her own hand as a show of loyalty to him etc.? What if it refers to Balekin: Balekin who was working with Madoc to get the throne for himself, who killed his own father and all his siblings except one, who abused Cardan both physically and emotionally, who threatened Cardan after Cardan delayed putting the crown on his head?
The Wicked King - This refers to Cardan (obviously) because he's the High King of Elfhame in this book (and Jude sees him as wicked, of course. His wicked smile and wicked heart and wicked tongue and her wicked wicked thoughts about him and his about her)
The Queen of Nothing - This refers to Jude when she was in exile, because she was the queen of nothing during her stay in the mortal world up until Cardan confessed to all of Elfhame that Jude is their High Queen after she fell from the ceiling. But what if it doesn't only refer to Jude? What if the title refers to Suren as well (a little bit of foreshadowing by Holly Black about the next book)? Because, at the end of the book, Jude tells Lady Nore to swear an oath of fealty to Queen Suren and thereafter dissolves the Court of Teeth, lays claim to their lands, and absolves them of all titles. At the end of QoN, Suren is, quite literally, no longer a queen. She is the queen of nothing. And the next book we get is The Stolen Heir, which is from Wren's POV.
(⚠⚠SPOILERS FOR THE STOLEN HEIR BELOW⚠⚠)
The Stolen Heir - I know a lot of us thought that this could refer to Wren because she was stolen away to the mortal lands when she was a kid and then she was stolen away to Elfhame by Lord Jarel and Lady Nore, BUT it can't refer to her. Suren is not an heir. She was already the Queen of the Court of Teeth, not the heir to the throne. She already had the throne. Which therefore means that the title refers entirely to Oak. Because Oak, no matter how much he protests, is currently Jude and Cardan's heir (although he and the fandom all still hold out hope that Jude and Cardan rule for a 1000 years and then pass Elfhame on to one of a dozen offspring. And then get married again and live happily ever after till the end of time.) And he is being held captive by Wren at the end of the book. He was stolen away by Wren. Oak is the stolen heir, not Wren.
The Prisoner's Throne - So, none of us really know what is going to happen in the second book of the duology (other than it being from Oak's POV) considering it's only being released next year (😭😭😭), but we do know that Oak is going to become a king. Whether he becomes the High King of Elfhame after Cardan or whether he becomes King of the (newly reinstated) Court of Teeth to rule beside Wren, we don't know. He will be a king though and we know that (the Thistlewitch said that she saw his future and he will be a king.) So the prisoner in the title is most probably in reference to Oak and the throne could refer to his future throne. Or, maybe Wren will be taken prisoner by Jurdan and it could refer to her throne. Remember, Wren swore an oath of fealty to Jude and Cardan at the end of QoN so she will have to obey their every order and if they order her to turn herself and Oak over to them, she would have to (unless of course she manages to break the oath the same way she broke all those curses).
I need this book in my hands yesterday.
Holly Black is a Queen and I love her.
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me using these to make sure i didn’t miss any quotes when i was annotating….
my favorite the folk of the air quotes
(who said it + pages)
the cruel prince:
"I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them" jude duarte, 31.
"But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else." jude duarte, 43.
"Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet" locke, 101
"Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear" jude duarte, 197
"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse." jude duarte, 210
"But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them" jude duarte, 219
"If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." jude duarte, 231
"I hate how I feel around him, the irrational panic when I touch his skin" jude duarte, 262
"Prince Cardan is my prisoner" jude duarte, 267
"There are so many broken things that I don't know how to fix. But I know how to fight" jude duarte, 276
"Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night." jude duarte, 286
"I forgot how charming he can be — and how dangerous that is" jude duarte, 298
"Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop" cardan, 307
"You really do want me. And you hate it" jude duarte, 307
"I can be charming. I charmed you, didn't I?" "Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes"
the wicked king:
"She liked it when she was angry, too. Angry was better than scared" epilogue
"Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to" Madoc, 6
"It amuses her to keep me out of trouble" cardan, 14
"I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your hearts beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy" Balekin, 25
"Your infernal majesty" jude duarte, 46
"The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness" jude duarte, 49
"For a moment, I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." "And what made you decide it wasn't?" "They missed." 57
"Kiss me again. Kiss me until I'm sick of it." cardan, 57
"He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you the more for it" jude duarte, 57
"If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure" cardan, 57
"You're never to deny me an audience or give an order to keep me from your side." "Whysoever would I want you to leave my side?" jude & cardan, 59
"You want to know what I did to make him raise me up? I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted." jude duarte, 81
"You ought not to be here tonight, little ant" cardan, 98
"I have too often been troubled by dreams of Jude. Her face features prominently in my most frequent nightmares." cardan, 103
"I hate you." He tilts my face to his. "Say it again." jude & cardan, 104
"Whatever you do to me, I can do worse to you" jude duarte, 107
"I stare at his treacherous mouth and imagine it on me" jude duarte, 107
"Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you" jude & cardan, 144
"I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else." jude, 145
"I want to tell you so many lies." cardan, 145
"I like him better than I've ever liked anyone." jude duarte, 146
"So much of winning is waiting" jude duarte, 147
"I can't help recalling him gazing up from my bed, intoxicated and disturbingly intoxicating" jude duarte, 157
"I wonder if I will ever be able to look at him again without remembering what it was like to touch him." jude duarte, 180
"It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me." cardan, 180
"It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time." jude duarte, 181
"I hope Cardan misses me." jude duarte, 225
"Fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse" jude duarte, 244
"I never thought he liked me enough to save me" jude duarte, 253
"I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone —truly gone beneath the waves— I hated myself as I never have before." cardan, 266
"Sometimes lying is a real pleasure." jude duarte, 277
"Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god." cardan, 284
"Sweet Jude. You're my dearest punishment." cardan, 285
"You say I will be well because you fear I won't be." cardan, 288
"Glad you're up to mocking" "I hope it's the last thing about me to go." jude & cardan, 289
"Marry me. Become the queen of Elfhame." cardan, 304
"Maybe I wouldn't have to be afraid to love him." jude duarte, 306
"I will lie down. If you lie with me." cardan, 308
"I have become the Queen of Faerie" jude duarte, 308
"Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter" vivi, 321
the queen of nothing:
"All power is cursed." jude duarte, 10
"Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts" Heather, 31
"Didn't you get my letters?" cardan, 68
"Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen." jude duarte, 128
"She is my wife. The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile." cardan, 147
"It was terrifying, watching you fall. I mean, you're generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you." cardan, 159
"You never break." cardan, 159
"He was a symbol of everything about Elfhame that I couldn't have, everything that would never want me." jude duarte, 161
"I want you here by my side, as my queen" cardan, 163
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe he'd like to hear me scream." "I would. And perhaps one day I will." jude & cardan, 166
"I never thought love was a game" cardan, 185
"He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can't barely breathe" jude duarte, 201
"By you, I am forever undone." cardan, 203
"We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." cardan, 203
"I missed you. In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you." jude duarte, 204
"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned." cardan, 204
"It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours." cardan, 209
"I do love you. I will always love you." jude duarte, 278
"Every part of me is a delight." cardan, 282
"I love you." jude duarte, 291
"If I let myself love you, I would burn up like a match. Like the whole matchbook" jude duarte, 291
"And you do love me." "I love you." "Because I am clever and funny. You didn't mention my handsomeness." "Or your deliciousness. Although those are both good qualities" cardan & jude, 291
"I knew little else, but I always knew you." cardan, 292
how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories:
"Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire." 31
"The odd curve of her ear was what he had noticed first." 55
"Jude, Cardan thought, hating even the shape of her name. Jude." 57
"Playing the villain was the only thing he'd ever really excelled at." 73
"There was absolutely no reason to think of Jude in that moment. she was utterly insignificant." 74
"Boys change. And so do stories." 79
"A heart of stone can still be broken." 86
"Stop telling me who I am. I am tired of your stories." 99
"I am nothing, if not dramatic." 111
"He had always been awful. Now he was just worse." 118
"And all through that night and for many nights after, he couldn't rid his thoughts of her. Not the hatred in her eyes. That he understood. That he didn't mind. It warmed him." 124
"But every night, Jude haunted him. The coils of her hair. The calluses on her fingers. An absent bite of her lip. It was too much, the way he thought about her. He knew it was too much, but he couldn't stop. It disgusted him that he couldn't stop." 124
"Remember, all you really get to control is yourself." 12
"Cardan cannot mind when he takes Jude in his arms." 132
"Why didn't you hate everyone? Everyone, all the time." "I hated you." 133
"Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth." 159
"You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?" 162
"Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway." 165
"No one's heart has to remain stone." 166
"Surely you've heard of her, Jude Duarte." 166
"Truly, I don't know what I would do without her." 166
"You didn't hear the story I told. A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like." "You are really terrible, you know that? I don't even understand why the things you say makes me smile." 172
"The next time you want to make a point, I beg you not to make it so dramatically. "So long as you're begging." 173
the stolen heir:
"If I look at him too long, I want to take a bite out of him." 28
"I wonder which sister he'd glamoured. I hoped not the one who sat on the throne now, his life in her hands." 46
"The sword's name is Nightfell," he whispered. "It belongs to Jude." 49
"Some people are ridiculous. Especially when it comes to love." 69
"Let me do that," he says, taking strands of my hair in his fingers. "it's the color of primroses." 102
"Since you're in a benevolent mood, perhaps you'll also dance with me." 117
"Kissing him is profane. It gives all the horrible satisfaction of smashing a crystal goblet." 120
"Hit me again," the prince says, daring them. 146
"It's me. Now go away." "But I've only just found you. And I want to talk." "What will you give me if I do, Prince of Elfhame?" "The pleasure of my company?" 152
"Let me stay in the woods with you." 153
"I thought you didn't like me." "I can prentend, for one night." 155
"He'd acted the fool, that his enemies might believe he was one." 168
"It pleases me to see a Greenbriar with some teeth." I assume that the last is a dig at the High king, well known for leaving the fighting to his wife. 169
"It would be safer if I hated him. Since I cannot, perhaps it is a good thing that he now hates me" 171
"Maybe I'm glad that you gave me the opportunity to be my worst self." 173
"I suppose you want to believe I charmed you into kissing me?" 191
"He'll steal your heart." 198
"Do you know what I admire about you? That you never stopped being angry. It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it's like hope." 216
"It is my curse to adore cruel women." 235
"When his eyes meet mine, desire, as keen as any blade, bends the air between us. The moment slows. I want to bite his lip. To feel the heat of his skin. To slide my hands beneath his armor and trace the map of his scars." 247
"I am poison. Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch." 279
"Pretend with me," he whispers. And then he presses his mouth to mine. 291
"My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore." 333
"Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power." 349
"But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name." 352
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In the final battle between namor and shuri, when namor is fighting to win and shuri is fighting to kill, she’s about to end it when she stops. When her all consuming quest for vengeance fueled by an anger that’s turned from inward to outward (anger at herself for not noticing her brother’s illness, for being too slow, for not making the heart shaped herb fast enough, for not being able to save him, for not being there when he died).
And the shots reverse. The destruction is undone, everything goes back to normal. But not because she kills namor, but because she doesn’t. Because she puts an end to the cycle of destruction, of colonialism turning peoples against each other, of generational trauma, of grief. Because Queen Ramonda speaks to her, and namor’s mother reaches out to him.
She demands he yield but it’s more than that. He yields but it’s more than that. It’s ending the ceaseless grief that’s been haunting them both for so long, it’s ending the violence that would’ve haunted their people for eternity. Stopping the violence the oppressors who seek to exploit them want to see, and the violence they themselves want to inflict. Namor adds a new painting to his wall, imoritalizing the end of something ancient. Shuri burns her funeral robes, marking the beginning of something new. And while they’ve both loved and lost and lost so much more, death is of course, not an end. It’s a stepping off point into something new. Beyond grief and rage. Into healing.
Or at least, the start of it.
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I just saw The Batman in theatres today, and it was everything I hoped for!
*SPOILER* if you haven’t watched it, don’t scroll
also.... not related but how does one put a spoiler break in a post?
I loved the whole depressed revenge-obsessed Bruce Wayne, I feel like Bruce’s is so often portrayed as this playboy that it seems like his trauma is kinda pushed down and ignored. Having him be a loner who is only focused on his mission is a Bruce I haven’t seen before, and I love it. Obviously I would not mind if they also had him become playboy philanthropist Bruce too, but he needed to figure his shit out before and I’m glad they had Bruce do that.
The set of Gotham was beautiful, and as someone who lives in NYC seeing all the changed landmarks was hilarious. One of the prettiest superhero movies I’ve seen by far.
Also, stan bisexual Selina Kyle for clear skin!
Now, for the actual reason I am writing this post. In the movie, there is a moment when Bruce is shot multiple times by the Riddler groupies (someone needs to come up with a name for them - Riddlies?) and he is passing out in Selina’s arms, only for her to be attacked by one of Riddler’s groupies (a Riddlie). Bruce injects himself with some green liquid and is suddenly up and at it, like he wasn’t shot 2 minutes earlier. He also starts fucking this Riddlie (someone please come up with a better name) up, like was fully going to beat him to death if Gordon did not intervene. Hence my theory/question:
Is it possible that Bruce injected himself with water from a Lazarus Pit?
It would explain the quick recovery time from an injury that he was going to pass out from earlier (so probably a really bad one) and the “madness” and violence he exhibited until Gordon snapped him out of it.
I’m not sure, thoughts?
#the bat and the cat#the batman#batman#lazarus pit#bruce wayne#selina kyle#commisionergordon#riddler#batman2022#spoilers
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Wicked characters as memes I have saved on my laptop
Fiyero:
Elphaba:
Glinda:
Nessa:
Boq:
Dillamond:
Chistery:
Morrible:
the Wizard:
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Wicked
It appears I’ve been living under a rock, because it took until this past summer for me to listen to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John all the way through. Somehow, I guess I’d never heard it before. I fell for the song instantly, and it’s still one of my favorites. Obviously, the song is primarily tied to Dorothy and her journey from Kansas to Oz to the Emerald City, all along the Yellow Brick Road. The song is one giant metaphor and not really inherently about The Wizard of Oz, but whatever allusions to the franchise made by the song are centered around Dorothy. However, my brain immediately jumped to Elphaba’s life, its end, and the absolute tragedy of it all.
“When are you going to come down? When are you going to land?” I drew this parallel to Glinda and Fiyero’s relationships with Elphaba, and how they were prematurely cut short due to Elphaba’s insistence on rebelling against the Wizard, the drastic measures she took to defend and preserve Animal rights, her attempts to assassinate Madame Morrible, and other acts of her own stubbornness and subconscious belief that she wasn’t worthy of these relationships on the basis of her self-proclaimed state of being “soulless.” There are endless tracks of “What-could-have-been”s for Elphie, Glinda, and Fiyero, had she not cut herself off from the possibility of her relationships progressing further.
“It’ll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again” was WAY too reminiscent of the many stops Elphaba made leading up to her death, each of which she encountered a person she met at Shiz University. She meets Boq and his family, and proceeds to have drinks with Avaric before flying off again.
“This boy’s too young to be singing the blues,” is rather straightforward, as it can be interpreted as Elphie’s lack of innocence and a proper youth, or Liir’s unconventional circumstances. Throughout all of the chaos of their lives, he still remains with his mother until she meets her demise, but she is, for a mother, uncharacteristically cold to him and refuses to acknowledge that he came from her. Liir grows up in the eerily loveless Kiamo Ko, previously operated and inherited by his deceased father. There is something so painfully macabre about Elphaba and her son living with the late Fiyero’s family. They are all together, but the man responsible for their affiliation with each other is dead (which, of course, Elphaba feels responsible for)…Son of a Witch adds a grimmer connotation to this lyric, as he is alone, without human or familial connection, searching desperately for his half-sister, and traveling with his “speculated” (at the time) mother’s cape tied around his neck, giving into the occasional urge to weep and grieve for Elphie.
The “Ahs” during the chorus don’t hold any direct significance, as they do not serve any lyrical substance, but there is something so haunting about them. The first time they hit, it brings me to when Elphaba shrieks in terror upon realizing Dorothy is standing before her, in the same predicament as herself when she came to meet Sarima. The second most common instance I think of is one of my unfortunate favorites; Elphaba spots Dorothy and her friends on the Yellow Brick Road to assassinate her as per the Wizard’s (let’s remind ourselves, her father’s orders), and she scrambles to devise a spell to bring Fiyero back to her.
“’Fiyero didn’t die,’ she said. ‘He was imprisoned, and he has escaped. He is coming home to Kiamo Ko, he is coming home to me, and he is disguised as a scarecrow because he doesn’t yet know what he will find.’” To me, this is the single most heartbreaking moment in any piece of literature. I know that, in her heart, she believes this to be true because she is so desperate to meet her lover again. The notion that “he is coming home to me” implies that she believes she can build a life filled with maternal love and normality with both Fiyero and their son, Liir. I am a Gelphie shipper through-and-through, but this part of the book really sold me on being able to accept and even hope for a fulfilling, storybook end to Fiyeraba’s existence (i.e. the Scarecrow really being Fiyero; Elphie can find closure, rejoice in knowing she didn’t inadvertently have her love murdered, and they can raise their son together at Kiamo Ko).
I don’t know. I could be taking this a bit too far, as half of my followers are bots and the other half probably won’t see this or acknowledge it ;-;. It just felt good to get this out. I can’t help but think of Elphie’s life each and every time I hear this song.
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I was thinking about the fact that liir does not accept being fiyero and elphaba's son, when he starts to wonder about what he has about each one. I can see both of the two in him: elphaba's attitude and fiyero's calm and rationality. He always puts himself in front of his mother's causes just like her (so much so that he entered the bird conference) but he also thinks a lot about everything the same as his father... Liir is the perfect contrast of his parents.
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Elphaba let out a shaky breath as she covered Fiyero with a thick blanket, her eyes filled with tears. The spell had worked — Fiyero was human again.
The downside? Neither one of them had anticipated the pain that it caused him. Fiyero had screamed and writhed for an hour, Elphaba murmuring the same words over and over again, until finally he changed back to a human and immediately passed out. Maybe it was his exhaustion overtaking him, she didn’t know.
What she did know was that he hadn’t slept well since he became a scarecrow. And now that he was human again, she kept watch over him, just to ensure it wasn’t something temporary and they’d have to start all over again in their search for a spell to remedy what she’d caused in her desperation to save him.
“It’s fine, Fae,” he’d told her shortly after they had moved to the Vinkus. They had been promised solitude and Fiyero’s parents — who were two of the sweetest people Elphaba had ever met — had promised that no one would know their whereabouts.
“I don’t mind being a scarecrow. And I wouldn’t have minded if it had ended the other way.”
She always noticed how he avoided saying that he very well could have died. Fiyero was smart; he knew how to word things and get his point across without actually saying what he meant. And so, when an uncomfortable subject arose, Fiyero tried to take control of the situation and always managed to change the subject within five minutes.
Elphaba gazed down at him, a single tear falling onto her emerald skin as she pulled her fingers through his light brown hair. She had missed this. She had missed the sweet moments — playing with his hair, having him play with her hair, teasing him over his rosy cheeks when he’d been out in the cold too long, or having him grasp her hand and hold her close when she needed him to.
And while Elphaba was grateful the spell had worked and kept him alive, she had missed Fiyero being human. After all, they had reunited after being apart for two years, had ran off into the woods together, only to be separated again merely hours later. Elphaba had never been so grateful for her magic as she was in the moment she discovered that her spell had worked and Fiyero had been saved.
Fiyero had been a lot calmer than she’d expected about the entire ordeal, had even laughed when she told him that she would eventually find a way to turn him back. He’d waved it off, promising that it didn’t bother him much.
“Fae?” Fiyero croaked, turning his head toward her, his eyes barely opened, showing slivers of his blue irises.
“Yero,” she smiled softly, caressing his cheek. “How do you feel?”
“I think I’ve been hit by a cart. No, maybe it was a train. Train car. I was hit by a train car.”
Elphaba couldn’t help herself — she laughed. Fiyero, who was slightly more conscious than he had been a second ago, stared at her in bewilderment.
“I’m sorry, love, I’m sorry,” she chuckled. “You haven’t been hit by a cart, or a train, or a train car. It worked, Yero. It worked!”
Fiyero slowly lifted his left hand, his eyes widening when he realized that it was indeed a human hand. He sat up, throwing the blanket off and scrambling toward the mirror. He hesitantly brought a hand up, touching his face, letting out a breath as he gazed at his reflection — his human reflection — for the first time in months.
“Sweet Oz.”
Fiyero spun on his heel to face Elphaba, his eyes filled with disbelief and joy as he crossed the room, bending down and kissing her sweetly.
“I missed that,” he whispered as he pulled away, earning a breathless chuckle from her.
“So did I.”
“So… this is going to sound strange—“
“Everything you say sounds strange, Yero. What makes this any different?” she teased, earning an unamused look.
“I don’t remember what happened. Would you like to fill me in on that or are you going to keep it to yourself?”
“Well… we started it and it caused you a lot of pain. I’m pretty sure you screamed until you became human again — which took about an hour, by the way — and you’ve been sleeping ever since then.”
“Oh,” Fiyero blinked. “I… don’t remember any of that.”
“Maybe it’s best that you don’t.”
“Maybe…” he agreed softly, wiping the stray tear from her face. “How long was I out?”
“Just a couple of hours. I think you need to get back in bed. The adrenaline won’t last forever, and Oz knows what will happen when you have an adrenaline crash. You haven’t been human for months, Fiyero, please—“
“What are you so scared of?”
Elphaba stared at him for a moment, her dark eyes gazing into his blue ones. Eyes that sparkled with joy and concern, the two emotions somehow mixing and making Fiyero’s eyes shine brightly.
“I’m not entirely sure if it’s worked yet,” she admitted, hanging her head. “For all I know, it could be temporary and we have to start over again.”
“Is that all?” Fiyero sat down beside her, letting her lean her head against his shoulder. “Oz, Fae, you had me worried it was something serious. I don’t give a twig if we didn’t find the right one — I’m human now and that’s what matters. If it’s not right, well, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. But for now, let’s enjoy this, hm?”
A comfortable silence befell them, Fiyero combing his fingers through Elphaba’s raven curls and allowing his fingertips to brush against the back of her neck. The silence lasted for all of forty-five seconds before Fiyero began to giggle with glee, putting Elphaba in mind of a small child.
“I can feel again, Fae!” He smiled brightly at her, shifting slightly. Elphaba lifted her head, allowing him to caress her face, then grasp both of her hands. “I… it feels amazing to be able to feel things again.”
“I’m glad,” Elphaba mumbled, observing him. She was certain that she’d never seen him look so overjoyed. “And I’m sorry. For everything.”
“What? For the scarecrow thing? I’ve told you before, Elphaba, I don’t mind that I ended up being a living scarecrow. You saved my life.”
“Not just that,” she shook her head. “I never meant to bewitch you. Or whatever I did. And I never intended for you to come with me when you and the other guards came in. I didn’t intend for you to think about the day in the clearing with the lion cub before I left for the Emerald City. There were a lot of things that happened that I didn’t want to happen, things that I didn’t intend to happen.”
“You didn’t bewitch me,” Fiyero rolled his eyes. “And I am fully aware that you never meant for any of the other things to happen. Those are on me, not you. Of course, if you’d been mad at me when you got mad at the rest of the class, we probably wouldn’t have had the day in the clearing, and we — well, I wouldn’t have realized that I love you.”
“You didn’t realize that until after I didn’t come back,” Elphaba reminded him.
“That’s beside the point.”
“It’s literally the only point, Fiyero.”
“Whatever,” Fiyero waved it off. “Come lie down with me. I want to hold you.”
Elphaba sighed and nodded, unable to deny him his request. How could she when he was glowing with the elation he felt? Fiyero was happy that he could feel again, so of course, one of his first thoughts is to hold her like he did every night.
Lying beside him, Elphaba turned onto her side, tucking her face into the crook of his neck. Fiyero wrapped his arms around her tightly and buried his nose in her hair.
“I missed this.”
“You still held me,” Elphaba countered, waiting to see what his response would be.
“But I couldn’t feel it. I couldn’t feel anything when I was a scarecrow. I like being able to play with your hair or rub your back. And I like being able to kiss you whenever I want to.”
Elphaba tilted her head upward, gazing up at him. Oz, she loved him. She loved Fiyero more than anything. And Fiyero loved her.
“For what it’s worth, I never believed you were wicked,” Fiyero spoke up, startling her out of her thoughts.
“Is that so?” She quirked a brow in amusement.
“Yes. I knew better than to believe the lies that the Wizard and Morrible told about you. Everyone else, on the other hand…” Fiyero shook his head. “I — I wanted to go looking for you after you disappeared. Glinda had come back and told me what happened, and I wanted to go find you. But somehow, she convinced me not to, and I stayed at Shiz.”
“You didn’t need to come searching for me. That would have put you in danger, just like this has put you in danger. You almost died because of me, Fiyero.”
“I would have done it in a heartbeat.”
Elphaba exhaled shakily, wrapping her arms around him. She had known that Fiyero was willing to risk his own life for her, and the thought terrified her. What if they ended up in a situation like that again and she couldn’t save him with a spell?
“Sweet Oz, Fae, I can hear you thinking,” he groaned, pressing a chaste kiss to her temple. “Stop thinking and try to rest. We both need sleep.”
“Oh, alright.”
The next morning, after he bathed, Fiyero had stumbled outside, making a startled noise as he tripped over his own feet and crashed onto the ground. He blinked, staring up at the sky for a moment before he burst into laughter.
Hearing the hysterical laughter, Elphaba made her way to the door of their home, smiling fondly when she saw her boyfriend sprawled on the ground, clutching his sides as he laughed. She leaned against the doorway, folding her arms over her chest while she watched him laugh, knowing that he was perfectly fine.
“What are you doing, Yero?” Elphaba queried, the smile still present. He turned his head toward her and started to laugh again.
“I fell,” he informed her.
“I can see that.”
“Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve been able to feel when I hit the ground?”
“A while.”
“Yeah,” he breathed, turning his head back. “I love being able to feel again. And I like being human. It’s a little easier to walk this way.”
“Well, you’re not going to go anywhere by staying on the ground, Yero.”
Fiyero snorted, glancing at her before he sat up.
“Oh, leave me alone.”
“Never.”
She approached him, stretching out her hand. Fiyero took it, allowing her to pull him to his feet.
“Thanks, Fae.” Fiyero pressed their foreheads together, sighing happily. “Oz, I missed all of this.”
“Yero, we were together one day before—“
“That doesn’t matter,” he interrupted. “What matters is that we’re together. And that I love you. I love you, Elphaba Thropp. I love everything about you.”
“And I you.”
Fiyero captured her lips in a tender kiss, one hand cupping her cheek while the other wrapped around her waist. Elphaba placed her hands on his biceps, slowly bringing them up to his face.
When they broke apart, Fiyero wore a boyish grin. Elphaba couldn’t stop the giggle that escaped her upon seeing his face, pressing another kiss to his cheek.
Fiyero gazed at her, brushing a single strand of her raven hair out of her face.
“You know,” he murmured, his fingers twisting the strand of hair, “I think I could get used to living like this.”
“Like what? Being a fugitive?” Elphaba asked dryly.
“We’re not fugitives,” Fiyero rolled his eyes. “We’re just… wanted by the Wizard for doing what’s right.”
“We’re still fugitives, Yero.”
“Whatever. Anyway, that’s not what I meant.”
“Then what did you mean?” She tilted her head slightly.
“I mean, I could get used to this. Us being together and being able to… I don’t know, make a life together or something. Stop looking at me like that, you know I’m not good with words.”
“You are excellent with words,” she laughed. “You just didn’t think that through very well.”
Fiyero laughed quietly, pulling her into an embrace.
“And besides, Fiyero, we’re living in the forest near your parents’ castle for a reason. It’s called necessity.”
“Oh my Oz, you’re impossible,” he huffed petulantly, burying his face in her hair. And of course, Elphaba began to laugh. It had been a while since she’d managed to make him pout, but when she did manage it, she loved it.
“You’re cute when you pout.”
“I’m not pouting!”
Elphaba hummed. She pulled out of the embrace and started to walk back toward the cottage, glancing back at him.
“What? Someone has to do the cooking, and it’s not going to be you.”
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I hope you’re happy
“now that you’re choosing this. I hope it brings you bliss. I really hope you get it, and you don’t live to regret it. I hope you’re happy in the end. I hope you’re happy my friend”
Let’s talk about Glinda and how my heart breaks for her. She has to live the rest of her life with regret. Regret that she didn’t get on that broomstick when she had the chance. Regret that she chose public approval over choosing to stand with Elphaba. Regret that she has to put on a smiling face for the Ozians while deep inside she’s so broken. I think Glinda really has the best character arc in the show. She starts off only caring about her looks and popularity, but then she meets Elphaba and get’s a TOUGH lesson in what’s right vs. what’s popular. During “No One Mourns the Wicked,” she is 100% singing about herself:
“The Wicked’s lives are lonely. Goodness knows, the wicked die alone.” She’s not happy in the end. She is left all alone, isolated in her bubble, with a lot of popularity but no REAL friends. All of Oz looks up to her, but she feels so alone.
Elphaba is a strong character, but I think we really underestimate Glinda’s inner strength. She’s the type who will never show that she’s struggling and never loses her composure, even when everything is falling apart. Now she’s going to lead the Ozians while carrying out Elphaba’s work.
“Never let em see you sweat.” This is Glinda!
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Wicked Essay - “Another Way” (Fiyeraba)
ALERT! CONTAINS A FEW SPOILERS
“It’s not lying, it’s looking at things another way.” -Fiyero
Ok it’s time to discuss this line and more of Fiyero’s lines in the show and why he loves elphie and thinks she is beautiful.
Some argue that this line is calling Elphaba “ugly” because he doesn’t directly say “you’re beautiful” and has to look at her another way. However, looking at elphaba another way is a POSITIVE THING! This line is necessary because it is the ENTIRE POINT OF THE MUSICAL - seeing the Witches of Oz from a different perspective instead of Glinda = good and Elphaba = Wicked. By the end of the show, the audience sees the “wicked” witch in a completely different way than she is portrayed in Oz. After getting the full story, we don’t see her as a wicked witch but a strong, independent, intelligent young woman with gorgeous emerald skin. WE SEE HER IN ANOTHER WAY!
Ok now getting back to Fiyero. He is the only person who doesn’t comment on Elphaba’s green skin. Yes he says “maybe the driver saw green and thought it meant go” but this line was not in the original show when the musical first opened. The scene was added in later so the characters can meet, but he doesn’t freak out or runaway.
More lines of Fiyero’s regarding Elphaba:
“She doesn’t give a twig what anyone else thinks” - Ozdust Ballroom
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Morrible: You’ve been on the hunt for the wicked witch.
Fiyero: Well I don’t think of her has a wicked witch.
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Fiyero (To Glinda): you can’t leave because you can’t resist this.
Glinda: Well who could?
Fiyero: You know who can and who has.
-Thank Goodness scene
These lines reveal a lot!
Fiyero outright states to the public that he does not think of her as a wicked witch. He thinks of her in ANOTHER WAY! He loves the fact that she is different, not only in physical appearance but also socially and in her personality. He is attracted to her feisty side and admires how she rejects the crowd and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. He likes how she will fight for what’s right even if it makes waves in society, whereas Glinda wants to appear cooperative and remain well-liked by the ozians. (I’m not bashing Glinda. I actually think Glinda is such a complex and amazing character and someday I will write an entire essay on her journey). He sees her green skin not as “an outward manifestorium of her twisted nature” as quoted by Morrible, but as something mysterious and beautiful that sets her apart. Again, he sees her in ANOTHER WAY than the rest of Oz sees her. Elphaba has been conditioned to believe that her green skin is “bad” and therefore not beautiful, but Fiyero sees it differently. In this scene, he refuses to say anything nasty about her even though the public will applaud him for it. He storms out, unable to tolerate the mean comments and rumors about the woman he loves.
Now we have “Popular” and the lion cub scene right after. Glinda tells Elphie “You’re Beautiful” only after she gives her a makeover (but Glinda is so innocent here because that’s all she knows.) In the next scene Fiyero notices but tells her she doesn’t have to be galindafied (Again, I’m not bashing Glinda. I love her character) because he likes her the way she is and she doesn’t have to blend in with the rest of the popular girls at Shiz to be attractive to him.
“Come be how you want to, and see how bright we shine” -ALAYM. They can be themselves with each other and it’s just so sweet 🥲
Ok I’m done. Let me know what you think. Agree? Disagree? Want to add something? Awesome. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I’m obviously way too invested in these fictional characters 😂
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Let’s talk about how Fiyero is the only one in the entire show who appreciates Elphaba’s powers and doesn’t shame her for them! CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Examples:
1. Nessa, who is the least grateful in my opinion:
“Elphaba, why must you always embarrass me?!” -Room assignment scene
“This is your fault! This would have never happened if you didn’t show up with that horrendous book! - WWOTE scene after Nessa accidently shrinks Boq’s heart and tries to blame it on Elphie. Elphie helps Nessa walk yet she still isn’t happy and blames Elphaba for Boq leaving her and turning him into the Tin Man, when Elphaba just saved his life.
2. Boq/Tin Man - “It’s because of her I’m made of tin. Now I will be heartless killing her.”
3. Cowardly Lion - Blames Elphaba for him being a coward because she “didn’t let him fight his own battles.” Although she rescued him from becoming a government experiment and losing his speech.
4. Glinda - “That’s what started all this in the first place, that hideous levitation spell!” In response it Elphie enchanting the broom and giving the monkeys their wings. *I will give Glinda the benefit of the doubt here since she regrets her decisions in the end and comes to realize how Elphaba truly tried to make good and stand up for what’s right.
5. Madame Morrible and the Wizard - are only interested in exploiting Elphaba’s powers and manipulating the citizens of Oz. “She the one responsible for the mutilation of the poor, innocent monkeys!”
But then we have *drum roll please*
My Prince Fiyero (as the scarecrow): “Go ahead, touch. I don’t mind. You did the best you could. You saved my life!” After helping Elphaba escape and risking his life for her to be tortured in a cornfield. Then stays by Elphaba’s side as they leave Oz and begin a new life together🥰
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I was rewatching Enchanted (Disney movie; highly recommend if you haven't seen it) the other day and it occured to me, not for the first time, that I kinda can't believe somebody hasn't done like a Fiyeraba AU for it. (Maybe they have and i just have not explored the depths of this site enough, very possible)
Because I think it works so well for it. Slight role reversal but like
Fiyero is the fairy-tale prince who is supposed to marry the princess (Glinda, I suppose, or maybe Sarima. Depends on how much you want to put the book into it) and gets sent to the "real world" and there he meets the disillusioned single mom Elphaba, who's been so worn down by reality that she doesn't believe in true love and all the "fairy tale" stuff and slowly they fall in love and he teaches her how to see the magic of everyday again and ends up staying with her in the real world.
Idk. I can totally see Fiyero starting a big dance and song number and Elphaba like going the whole time "people are staring. People are staring, Fiyero."
Just, i don't know. I think it works.
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There’s no way that Elphaba and Fiyero had that one encounter with the lion cub and that’s it. If you read between the lines, you can tell they got to know each other during the Shiz days. During the train station scene, Elphaba says to Glinda:
“You won’t even notice I’m gone. You have Fiyero. Not that I expected him to say goodbye to me. WE BARELY KNOW EACH OTHER”
Haha Elphie is so flustered in that scene because she knows she is just saying that so Glinda won’t suspect anything. Then it really gets awkward when Glinda talks about how Fiyero has been distant and moodified, right before he shows up with a bouquet of flowers for Elphie, and Glinda is standing right there! If you dig deeper, the above line highly suggests that Elphaba and Fiyero definitely hung out and bonded in the days after the lion cub scene. Logically, Elphaba can’t just get on a train to the Emerald City immediately after rescuing the cub. Fiyero even says “I think about that day a lot” which is saying that the lion cub day is in the past and a few weeks have passed since then. Now I don’t think they were having a physically intimate relationship at that time, but I do think they were meeting for coffee and having deep conversations that we didn’t see on stage. The writers can’t show everything on stage or else the show would be 10 hours long. Especially when trying to condense such a dense novel into 2.5 hours.
Then in Act II we have the scene in the Wizard’s chamber.
Glinda: “All this time, the two of you behind me back?!”
Elphaba: No Glinda it wasn’t like that!
Fiyero: We’ll it was.
Now I’m not saying this was the best way to go about things, and I do think that Fiyero should have told Glinda the truth a lot sooner. Glinda has the right to feel hurt and betrayed, and all the characters do the wrong thing at some point in the show. But these lines also suggest that Elphaba and Fiyero we’re meeting up at Shiz behind Glinda’s back. There was DEFINITELY SOMETHING going on between them, even if it wasn’t physical and only went as far as holding hands. There was even a cut song from the early 2000’s pre-broadway “As if By Magic” where Elphaba and Fiyero help Dillamond with his research to prove Animals and Humans are equal. They end up succeeding and dancing around the room together to celebrate.
Most people are thinking, “how can they touch hands once and be madly in love?” But if you read between the lines you can tell that wasn’t all that happened. The Elphaba/Fiyero relationship, and Fiyero’s character in general, cannot be explored too much because then it will take away from the main story, which is the friendship between Elphaba and Glinda.
So what do you think? Thanks for reading my essay and watching me get way to invested in fictional characters.
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