ArcticMermaid
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Less Than Perfect by ArcticMermaid
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024)
16 Dec 2025
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Galinda needed to make sure everyone at Shiz University knew that she was perfect, and to never allow even a hint of a crack in that veneer to be perceived. She was expected to meet her well-off husband at this school, after all. A flaw in how she presented herself here would not be tolerated.
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Galinda Upland's whole life has been planned out for her in advance. She is supposed to be the perfect young lady. Unfortunately, she has been saddled with a chronic illness and a green roommate, neither of which were part of the perfect plan.
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Waiting in the Dark by ArcticMermaid
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
22 May 2025
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Elphaba was only 11 years old the first time she experienced the sensation that her head was going to spontaneously explode. It was a sharp, intense pain aggravated by the slightest movement or light. When Dulcibear came to fetch her for dinner, Elphaba was hiding in the windowless closet attached to her bedroom. It was the darkest place she had been able to find.
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A short one-shot about Elphaba's struggles with migraines and how Galinda reacts when she finds out.
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Plaits and Poppy Syrup by ArcticMermaid for galindafied
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
01 May 2025
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After rifling through the meager contents of the medicine chest, Galinda came to the conclusion that no, Elphaba had not been any more prepared for a sudden spring flu than she was. The only thing they had that could possibly help was poppy syrup. She knew that was mostly to treat coughs, which she hadn’t developed despite her throat being desert dry. But there was a big warning on the label that read “CAUTION: MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS,” and well, that was exactly what she wanted. Sweet, sweet unconsciousness.
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A little sickfic drabble in which Galinda is high on poppy syrup. Her girlfriend saves the day with TLC and snuggles.
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Mirror, Mirror by ArcticMermaid
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024)
18 Feb 2025
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Sometimes, Elphaba cursed whoever had invented mirrors. Really, who was the jerk who had decided that society would benefit from everyone knowing exactly what they looked like? Probably someone beautiful, like Galinda Upland.
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An examination of Elphaba's fraught relationship with mirrors, and how Galinda helps her to heal.
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The Most Privileged Prince by ArcticMermaid
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024)
06 Feb 2025
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For a brief moment, Fiyero yearned for his school days, when he had a different attractive girl or boy on his arm every week, and he never had to contribute anything to those relationships because there was always a line of interested suitors waiting to replace them. Life had been so much easier before he found partners that he genuinely cared about and wanted to be better for. He wouldn’t trade what he had found with Elphaba and Glinda for any amount of carefree dancing through life, though. Even if that meant dealing with them when they were both sick and cranky.
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When Elphaba and Glinda both have a cold at the same time, Fiyero's patience is tried. He has to remind himself that loving them is, in fact, a great privilege.