#tippa

Did some Ozma’s to go with the Dorothy’s I did :) (

Usually I draw my book Ozma with short hair but wanted to go with the more canon design for this

MGM Ozma’s design is from a Marvel comic book that was based in the movie and used the designs

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.

Thinking more about Wicked sequel idea, since you can’t really do the actual rest of the Wicked books as the places everyone and Oz are in is so different, I thought I’d just take lose inspo from them + the og books. So I’ve reworked Rain as Elphaba and Fiyero’s daughter for the movie-verse (conceived before Fiyero was scarecrowed) an born in Ev after the couple eventually reach it escaping Oz.

Dorothy eventually washes up in Ev from a shipwreck, it’s been only a year for her but it’s been 17 years for Oz. Still working out the plot but she meets Rain first and eventually they’ll team up with Tip (Ozma Tippetarius /Tippa) who has been working for Prof. Mombi for as long as they can remember (and longer then they realize, as Mombi’s understanding of “biological studies” has been used not only to disguise the heir to Oz but also slow their growth. )