I wanna pick your brain a bit here, have you ever wondered how life would have been for Elphaba if she had been raised by the Wizard. Like... if somehow the Wizard knew about her existence and knew he was her father, so he decides to take her when she's still a baby.
Any thoughts on an alternate universe for that?
I have! Its probably my favorite Wicked AU because I actually think Oscar would legitimately try to be a good dad (actual results would vary). I think in this he would pop back to Munchkinland and see Elphaba as a baby and go “Oh dang” but come up with some excuse that ‘magic’ had been done to create an heir to Oz and Elena had been found “worthy” and now he’d take his heir and compensate them.
I like the idea of Elphie and Glalinda meeting as kids at some high society function and Galinda instantly gluing herself to Elphaba’s side and declaring herself her Bestest Friend.
Madam Morrible of course is there and still acting in a motherly role to Elphaba, but even more so as she’s basically helping raise (mold) her. (Madame Morrible in my mind doesn’t actually care for anybody, except for how she can use them for her own ends. Any and all affection can be turned in and off at the drop of a hat).
Elphaba grows up pretty much becoming Oz’s new de facto fairy princess/symbol of the Wizard’s right to rule. Though in this world she has doubts about her ability to live up to all the promises that the Wizard and Morrible make to the pop,e, as she sees from behind the scenes that things aren’t as wonderful as they appear, though she doesn’t know the full length of the power abuses yet.
I think she does still go to Shiz as she would want to have some sort of normal school experience and get to see more of Oz, and Oscar wanting to keep her safe. Shiz is a good compromise, with Madame Morrible being there. At Shiz’s she’d still be roommates with Galinda—with a lot more space, as this time it’s Galinda moving into her private suite at Elphie’s insistence. She’d make friends with Fiyero and Boq, (I’m still trying to figure out what to do with Nessa). She also makes friends with Dr Dillamund and is horrified when he’s dragged off, and then whole bit with the lion cub. She’s the determined to write to her father and find out what’s going on. She’s never forgotten the kindness DulceyBear showed her as a child, and always liked Animals ever since. (Something Morrible knows and so has worked to keep Elphaba unaware of the worst of her plans).
Ultimately I feel like this culminates in a scene that’s a mix of Elphaba finding the caged animals in part 2 and Moses discovering the slaughter of the Herbrew babies in Prince of Egypt, with Elphaba begging her father to assure her he didn’t know about this, and then denouncing him and running off. This time though Oscar isn’t willing to villainize his own daughter, and Morrible amps up the Anti-Animal stuff by saying they’ve kidnapped the Heir.
Meanwhile Galinda and Fiyero (who were left at Shiz as Elphaba didn’t think she’d need backup to talk to her dad) are working together to try and find Elphaba and navigate the mess that Shiz has turned into. I think they’re still a thing in this, but since they’re not getting pulled into being figure heads in this , they have more space to think and both go off to join Elphaba sooner, and they all three get together.
If Dorothy still shows up—maybe Morrible still tries to draw Elphaba out of hiding by threatening her half-sister?I think that she’ll get scapegoated into a Wicked Witch in league with the Animals. Nessa’s death would put her at odds with Elphaba at first but she’d realize it was an accident and refocus on who’s really to blame. If I kept going with this I’d probably pull Tippa in and all that but this kinda got away from me at this point xD Still I hope you enjoy it and thanks for the ask!
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