because galinda upland killed my grandma, okay?

"Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller, their capacity for real damage is less alarming. Though being more intimate they are the more treacherous."

Elphaba Thropp, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

"Her attentions may be on you now that you bathe in the warm light of her gaze, but would you stake so high a wager on the whims of a dragonrider?"

yeah ig i see why some people think gelphie is one-sided or that glinda loves elphaba more than elphaba loves glinda but i personally don't agree and rebuke that energy

this is the elphaba who threatened to drop out of college for galinda before they even really became friends. the elphaba who looked at galinda like this when she called her beautiful

movie elphaba saw the "i hope you get your heart's desire" note and immediately asked glinda to come with her to the emerald city. she kept that note for all the intermission and was borderline hallucinating her and glinda in that poppy field. the same elphaba who couldn't resist flying to glinda's balcony on the night of her wedding just because she missed her so much, who was ready to give up all of her morals for the chance to be with her again

i think most of the "gelphie is one-sided" takes come from the fact that elphaba didn't tell glinda she was alive, but personally i see this as her greatest act of love. a lot of people interpret it as her "choosing" fiyero, which i find really dumb and male-centered because she would've made the same choice whether or not straw boy was in the picture

like by the time of kiamo ko elphaba has just watched most of her loved ones die horribly and has crippling guilt over that because she believes it's her fault. and here comes glinda offering to throw herself in front of a mob for elphie. and elphaba's can't bear the thought of glinda getting hurt because of her

elphaba knows atp glinda won't let the lies and demonization continue and would do anything in her power to try and save elphaba. but after losing most everyone else, elphaba can't let that happen to glinda, and she can't bear the thought of glinda ruining her life on her behalf. so she fakes her death so that glinda can't make that choice, and so that glinda can live a happy life in oz doing the good that elphaba couldn't

she also gave her bf glinda's eyes cuz fiyero's eyes are blue until the scarecrow transformation, where they turn brown. and he's talking about "seeing through different eyes" and later elphaba tells glinda "look at me. not with your eyes--with theirs" implying glinda's eyes are the eyes that see her as beautiful