For the sake of making Fiyero suffer (#are they even your faves if you don't give them unnecessary trauma), I am now deciding that up until Elphaba explicitly sung "let him feel no pain," he felt every. single. moment of the transformation. All the way from the first 'eleka nahmen' to 'let his blood leave no stain,' he felt his skin peeling away and sewing itself into burlap, his organs melting, bones dissolving, blood literally boiling itself out of existence (also doubles for being terrified of fire, b/c technically based on the spell even that shouldn't hurt him, but if the last thing he felt was his body being so hot his own blood evaporated, yeah, he's gonna be a bit scared of intense heat), and of course all the previous torture. And then after "let him feel no pain," it just goes blank, and he's confused, and he think's he's died, and he glances down except why is his neck so floppy and he can't really see anything out of the ordinary because all he sees is his clothes, but he feels that something is wrong (technically, he doesn't feel which is wrong) and so he tugs against the ropes which weren't even secured all the way because the Guards had dislocated his shoulders, bashed in his knees, and secured the burlap sack to his head and neck before putting him up on the pole, so they weren't terribly worried about him running away in the first place (which also works better for the timeline because now they could have made him incapable of running away in Munchkinland, then traveled with him via horseback to the cornfield with the pole, so it makes sense as to how Dorothy got him down despite arriving to Oz before he was transformed since horeies are faster than a girl in the worlds worst walking shoes), but anyway he tugs on the loose ropes which should be, by all means, incredibly easy for him to remove since he can't feel pain except he can't even do that and he starts panicking because why can't he move like normal. Because he's not feeling pain, so its not like that's whats inhibiting him from moving, except he doesn't even understand anything yet and ngggggggggggggggggh.
And when this little innocent girl Dorothy shows up, he practically begs her to let him down, and he's never shown this much emotion to anyone and he still doesn't know what the hell is happening to his body and then he just. Entirely crumples as soon as Dorothy lets him down, and he can't feel anything but he's fairly certain he shouldn't bend that way and- whats all this hay doing on the ground, its prime corn season nothing should be dead- and then the little girl immediately, perhaps a bit too touchy but shes just trying to help so who could possibly blame her, turns him over and begins to grab the hay and stuffs it back into him and Fiyero still has 0 clue what he's been turned into so maybe he yelps and backs away because why is this little girl trying to shove hay into my body and then he looks down and he sees the hay spilling out and he wants to gag but he doesn't have the throat to gag anymore so all he can do is stare with wide, wide eyes at his new body with his ankles twisted backwards underneath each other like a pretzel. And so he reluctantly lets little Dorothy put everything back in because he realizes this is his life now, being dependent on others for not withering away and for walking normal and he suddenly thinks, wait, what does my face look like? And he can't even find out because Dorothy isn't exactly carrying a mirror so the first time he sees his face is probably in Boq's new tin skin, so they're literally reflecting one another physically and symbolicly as men who really aren't that straight forward with their feelings to women, and said women decided to enact revenge in one way or another, which led to their physical transformations.
