#azkadellia

Anyway so far:

Elements from the Emerald City:

-Langwidere, Jack, Ozma/Tip (plotlines remain mostly unchanged)

-Langwidere having beef with the Wizard

-maybe also Jane but she's not Dorothy's mother here or from the same time/universe/dimension as the Wizard (interdimensional travel us unpredictable ok).

-Four Cardinal Witches used to be a thing in the past

-The Beast Forever

-"Only a witch can kill a witch", each witch having a very individual set of spells, ancient tradition of preserving a witches magic as part of her funeral rites (abandoned/outlawed in this universe).

-Eamonn as Captain of the Gale Force instead of Fiyero (One wonders if that skin & mask came from a lion or a Lion).

Elements from Tin Man:

-The royal family are sorcerers but they're not the rulers of the whole OZ, just the South

-Emeralds are still relevant to the story but not because of a magical stone. Instead it's just OZ strip mining Quadling Country for gemstones like in the book, atrocities towards the local population and widespread ecological and magical (Nome King?) devastation included.

-Azkadellia=> Witch Queen of the South, (Quadling Country) not possessed* in this 'verse, currently in hiding in Finaqua after the rest of the royal family was killed and her sister disappeared

-*but possibly using the magic of dead witch ancestors to boost her own like Mistress West had Ozma do in Emerald City. Which gets twisted into "She's a creepy twisted necromancer possessed by an ancient evil spirit" in the Wizard's propaganda

-DG/ Dorothy Gale is still Azkadellia's long-lost sister but closer to her movie self

-but they're not descendants of movie!Dorothy like in the miniseries as DG and Dorothy aren't separate characters in this.

Their father Ahamo** is not the same person as the Wizard and neither is Mystic Man, the other Wizard stand-in (I think it's better to leave the latter one out altogether).

-**but he might have been one of Oscar Digs' old colleagues from the carnival and known he's a fraud

-Toto is a Dog not a shapeshifter (though he can still be the princesses' tutor. He spent the last decade or so looking out for Dorothy in Kansas).

- Glitch/Ambrose, Cain and Raw are still there but they start out as Az' companions here

-Raw is still a Seer but he's an actual Lion here that escaped while the rest of his pride was captured and imprisoned. Which possibly included a certain Lion Cub

-Wyatt Cain is the former captain of the royal guard, roughly the same backstory except they were attacked by the Wizard's men instead and he was found& freed from the tin suit by Glitch a few years earlier. He's currently Azkadellia's bodyguard.

-Jeb Cain is still a resistance member, either in Elphaba's cell or just some local guerilla group

-Jack from Emerald city is also Wyatt Cain's son

-None of these three know the others are alive

-Glitch/Ambrose is still the former royal advisor and weird genius scientist who remained loyal to the previous Queen and got arrested for it, but the reason why he "lost his marbles" is different.

-He was actually the (captive) scientist behind a large portion of the technology we see in Wicked +not that the Wizard let him take the credit). Eventually he refused to cooperate, either because the Wizard and Morrible had asked him to make something particularly horrifying or because he knew something re: Azkadellia and Dorothy's survival and whereabouts. In a last-ditch effort not to give anything away, he managed to shield large parts of his mind even from himself with magic (he has a little because he's some distant relative of the Queen)

- it's powerful but very crude and results in severe amnesia, "glitching", and other problems as seen in Tin Man. He did however manage to make himself so useless to his enemies they eventually just forgot about him and allowed him to escape.He eventually managed to wander back to Azkadellia's people but now they can't access the crucial information either.

-Dorothy will become the next Witch of the East

-Yes I still ship Cain/Glitch for this 🛢️🐦‍⬛👑

And now Wicked (mostly 2024 movie for Act 1)

-most of the story up to Act 1 finale remains the same

- except Glinda escapes to join Elphaba, either on the broom or shortly later with Fiyero

-yes this will be Gliyeraba

-Fiyero & Feldspar take them to Kiamo Ko sooner and they start organising a rebellion

-Elphaba makes her visit home earlier and she and Nessa design the enchantment for the shoes together with plenty of input from Nessa on what she needs and wants from it. Nessarose learns a lot of magic in the process and continues to develop her powers after Elphaba leaves

-She still becomes the Wicked Witch of the East unfortunately. Maybe with some dark magic corruption (let's put that hand-held mirror of hers to good use) but mostly because getting out of the wheelchair won't fix her other problems (such as Boq not loving her romantically, her sadness over Elphaba leaving, grief over her father, being unprepared for her role, her father's shitty parenting etc).

-The Vinkus aren't happy with how OZ government (Dominated by the Gillikinese) has been treating them either so the rebellion had supporters there.

-Fiyero is a prince but he's a spare with plenty of siblings ahead of him so officially his parents pretend to have disinherited him. If asked they will claim they haven't been able to contact him since and they definitely have absolutely no clue where he is.(Luckily Kiamo Ko is obscure and abandoned due to being in a particularly inhospitable and empty part of the country with no major routes in the vicinity. It was originally built as a fort against some ancient forgotten threat at the border and full of old magic).

-They free Doctor Dillamond sooner before he loses speech because I said so.

-Boq and the other Munchkins still get enslaved by the Witch of the East.He does manage to escape her eventually and goes to find Elphaba to ask her for help against her sister.

-He turns up at Kiamo Ko a few years after Nessa became governor, much to everyone's surprise. Turns out Fiyero told him a lot of stories about his home back when they were roommates at Shiz and he remembered enough to puzzle out where they might hide (It was actually a bigger risk than he thought and Fiyero is franky shocked he managed to survive the journey with so little information and not get lost and die out there in the wilderness somewhere).

-He also found this traumatized young Lion on his way and what the hell, Fiyero, did you just leave this kid alone to fend for himself in the woods after you rescued him? *

-*(Fiyero didn't, actually, but the Animals he left him with got raided soon after and Brrr got lost)

- Boq treats Brrr like his kid brother

-Unfortunately Nessarose'has managed to curse him after he escaped and he's been slowly turning into tin these past few months. Body horror ensues.She promised to lift the curse if he returns to her but he can't bear to do that.

-He's also traumatized as fuck after the whole enslavement ordeal and terrified Nessarose will find him again

-Glinda feels guilty

-Boq finally gets to get over his crush on her

-The spell is one of Nessarose's own design this time and Elphaba doesn't know how to undo it( as per Emerald City, "a witches spells are her own". ) It doesn't stop her from trying to save her friend though, and she and Boq embark on a series of experiments.

Azkadellia and Elphaba-Glinda-Fiyero form an alliance to overthrow the Wizard together

-Nessa meanwhile is starting to get worried her curse might've been more serious than she bargained for and will wind up killing Boq, as he refuses to return.She contacts her sister for help.

-unfortunately that's when Morrible drops a house on her. Which happens to contain Dorothy, who had her memories modified as a child and who knows nothing about her Ozian origins as she wasn't meant to return until she's an adult.

-She's a witch though and apparently "Witch A (Morrible)drops witch B (Dorothy)and her house on top of witch C (Nessa)" counts under the "only a witch can kill a witch " rule.

-Elphaba shows up to the meeting with her sister, finds this whole mess, and attempts to kidnap Dorothy so she can take her back to the base where she and Glinda can sort out this mess together.

-she's unsuccessful because the Munchkins still believe her to be Wicked and call the Gale Force on her (she's not really helping her case either let's be honest) and she's forced to flee.

-also will they be able to lift Boq's curse before the tin gets to his heart now that Nessa took her spell with her into the grave?

-The soldiers try to escort Dorothy to the Emerald City (Mme Morrible is starting to have suspicions as to her true identity) but she escapes on the way there

-Meanwhile Azkadellia has been keeping an eye on the whole thing via magic. She also has her suspicions as to Dorothy and sends Glitch, Cain and Raw to escort her.

-the whole Tip/Ozma plot is still happening except instead of Mistress West as a mentor they get Azkadellia

-Elphaba becomes Dorothy's mentor

-Ozma the lost Princess turning up is also very convenient politically for the rebellion as they need someone to replace the Wizard.

-eventual Ozma/Dorothy

-maybe future Boq/Jeb Cain ?

-Glitch and Fiyero bond over their love of dancing

- sequel where they deal with the whole apocalyptic Beast Forever problem

-Btw the Great Drought? Yeah that was the last time the Beast Forever came

Gale and Azkadellia 💕

She’s a rogue teifling that knows like 2 things about magic but is willing to give it a go 👀

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