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This is based on the scene in Popular

Little thing i made after watching Wicked 💕💚

Just watched Wicked and my dad came in at Loathing and said “Oh no, this isn’t a love story between them, is it?”

So true

They're so funny for always looking like a rich couple actually

double agent fiyero headcanons bc i need it

(pre captain) feldspar is his informant — fiyero constructs an elaborate story about how riding him will “teach him his place” and make him forget how to speak. feldspar is “imprisoned” in a stable that only fiyero has the key to — when he goes on these rides, he tells feldspar all the information he’s gathered about where Animal raids are going to take place. geldspar then takes the info to another informant, who notifies the Animal community

the wizard’s personal guard, which fiyero leads, is a personal protection service, almost like an elite emerald city police force. the wizard uses men in lower positions to do the grunt work of actually removing Animal settlements

* fiyero distributes these orders, but always slowly enough that the settlement is able to escape

he is the one that is in charge of imprisonment — whenever an Animal is arrested, he makes sure that he intercepts them before they’re taken to the wizard himself. when he “interrogates” them, he reveals that he’s an inside agent. before the engagement ball, which he knew would draw the majority of the skilled guards away, he unlocked all the cells so the animals could escape. this was blamed on elphaba when she arrived, but was actually orchestrated by feldspar

he refuses to be told elphaba’s location — if he’s discovered and tortured (lmao ironic) he cant put her in danger

he does however smuggle supplies out of the palace for her, and has definitely given feldspar a bunch of poppies to deliver on several occasions

the flying monkeys are his biggest regret — he cannot free them because it would immediately reveal him and the guilt absolutely eats him up

he has successfully redirected the Gale Force to be primarily concerned with finding elphaba, keeping them away from Animals

if a particularly sociopathic guard joins the Force, he ensures that they are assigned to the wizard’s personal guard instead of being on the field

by the way ☝️ the other thropple thing i dont see people talking about enough is the inherent hysterical comedy of elphaba (magical powerhouse and radical), glinda (social linchpin and queen manipulator), and fiyero (guy with a gun)

My Wicked Pony ⋆｡°✩

They plucked his feathers :(

Feel free to drop requests/questions in inbox (ponies or not), I have few requests left to do <33

I think I cooked and burnt the food

Galinda: I could fix her

Fiyero: yeah? well I could accept her as she is! you don’t like the murder? grow up! the atrocities are part of her, and I’ve decided that they’re funny.

I see a lot of posts taking about how Elphaba couldn’t believe someone like Fiyero would ever love her (because she’s been told she’s repulsive/unloveable her whole life). Like, why would a handsome prince who could have anyone he wanted chose her, the weird green girl?

But you know what I love even more? If Fiyero can’t believe Elphaba would want him.

Fiyero. Handsome, charming, a literal prince. Admired by all his classmates and landed the school’s it-girl, Galinda. No doubt has a bright future ahead regardless of how many schools he’s kicked out of because he’s at the height of wealth and privilege.

And he’s sulking around campus because he doesn’t think he’s good enough to date the green girl everyone dislikes.

After all, Elphaba is so smart and brave and beautiful despite what others say about her green skin. She doesn’t put on airs or act shallow like the other students do. She’s sharply perceptive, seeing right through him in a way that no else really has. She cares deeply about those in need and has the courage to do something about. She spat in the Wizard’s face, told him he has no real power, and ran off from a tempting offer for a better life in favor of doing what she knew was right. Despite her cold exterior, she’s never outright cruel to others despite how cruel others are to her. And on top of all that, she’s a once in a lifetime talent at sorcery.

She’s extraordinary. Why would she go for a shallow, brainless party boy like him? (He tells himself as she’s singing “I’m Not That Girl” elsewhere in the woods).

I’m thinking about Wicked tonight, specifically why Elphaba ends up with Fiyero instead of Glinda in the musical despite Elphaba and Glinda having the more well-rounded relationship.

You could chalk it up to the writers wanting a heteronormative ending (and I’m certain that’s part of it) or the fact that Elphaba and Fiyero had a love affair in the book. But I think there’s a bit more nuance to it.

The whole point of Glinda’s character is that she upholds the status quo of Oz. No matter how much she loves Elphaba or sympathizes with the plight of the Animals, she will always align herself with the current system and those in power. And as long as that remains the case, a relationship between her and Elphaba is futile because Elphaba will not give up her cause.

Elphaba and Glinda represent to different ends of a spectrum. Elphaba resists the oppressive forces in Oz, while Glinda upholds them. But Fiyero is somewhere in the middle. He starts out privileged and carefree like Glinda, but quickly turns to Elphaba’s side. He does become Captain of the Guard, but only to find Elphaba and help her evade arrest.

And therein lies the difference between Glinda and Fiyero as love interests to Elphaba. Glinda would never sacrifice her title as “the Good Witch” and all her power granted from the Wizard, even if it meant helping Elphaba. Fiyero, on the other hand, does give up his privilege, his title, and even his human form for Elphaba. Glinda clings to what the status quo gives her, while Fiyero ultimately rejects it.

Yes, the writing around Elphaba and Fiyero’s romance is a bit rushed and doesn’t have the same gradual development that Elphaba and Glinda have. And yes, I have no doubt heteronormativity played a role in giving Elphaba a male love interest in the end. But I see a lot of people write off Fiyero and his relationship with Elphaba and I just don’t agree.

Why does Elphaba end up with Fiyero instead of Glinda? Because Fiyero makes the sacrifices that Glinda wasn’t willing to.

Gliyeraba in my head is just elphie happily studying alone at a desk in the library but through the window in the background you can see glinda and fiyero on a self-imposed quest to get/make/do something to make elphie happy and it's just pure chaos. glindas legs flying over her head and fiyero running after her to save her. fiyero climbing on some cliff to get a specific flower and glinda with her arms open on the ground to catch him if he falls (she'd just get squished though). all scenarios work equally well the other way around. they're just pure chaos. in the end, it's always elphie who has to come save both.

watched wicked and I think glinda and elphaba should get gay married

"goodness knows the wickeds lives are lonely goodness knows the wicked die alone it just shows when youre wicked youre left only on your own" GLINDA KNOWS SHE COULDVE CHANGED THAT HER SURVIVORS GUILT IS GONNA BE CRAZY I AM SO SAD

Now THAT is a bubble dress. I love how they also have other features that show they're not regular humans. The bits of green on Glinda and the bits of pink on Elphaba? Yeah, ate!

Watched The Wicked at last!🥳 I have heard of The Musical once before but I didn’t know that much about it, so I needed to see The Movie! and I had to say The Musical was Fantastic! Loving Glinda and Elphaba, I just Loved it so much!🥺 and I thought of drawing their Classical poster in my style for fun, (I tried to give them an Emerald and Bubbly look lol)🙌🏼💚💕✨

Saw Wicked in the theatre yesterday and let me just say I did not expect to enjoy it that much. I feel a new obsession starting to form in my head and I'm liking it a lot.

Popular for me was my favorite 🩷

Defying Gravity is easily second 💚

Found this on TikTok and Idina and Kristen finally kissed at the end of for good

here is a part that I thought went well when I was still editing the gelphie edit

I just made another gelphie edit instead of sleeping, I like this one so I hope you guys like it too

I finally made my first Gelphie edit, I had to delete so many things just to make space to make this edit, I’m so proud of this too, it’s so satisfying how the scenes go to the beat of the song at times, also the song is Trouble by Cage The Elephant

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day

Someone needs to edit elphaba to this song, if any one does send it to me somehow

I just realized I don’t think I posted my Gelphie playlist that I made, so here it is

https://x.com/gelphiethinker/status/1894665974533464335

This is definitely one of the current gayest moments in Gelphie history

That quote can also work with Gelphie

💔

I tried making a sad glinda animation, because she’s so me, my sad little meow meow, also I haven’t animated in a long time so I hope it’s good, this took me 6 hours