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A secret makes a woman, woman



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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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    AU where Elphaba is raised by the Wizard and grows up in the spotlight as half of Oz's favorite team (and Galinda Upland's biggest celebrity crush). When Elphaba goes to Shiz University as Madame Morrible's graduate assistant, she reconnects with her childhood friends Fiyero and Feldspur and accepts Galinda as her protege. Their charmed circle is joined by Nessarose Thropp, the only child of Munchkinland's governor, and Tippetarius Shepherd, fellow grad student and foster son of Professor Mombi.

    Written with the movie's cast in mind and influenced by some movie-only events, aesthetics, and music. Influenced by the play, Gregory Maguire's bookverse, The Wizard of Oz (1939), and the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum.

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    21 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    “What hitch, Henry?” she asked, trying to keep her voice calm. He hemmed and hawed, clearing his throat a few times and holding his glasses up to the light, apparently finding another speck of dust, and restarting his polishing task. “Henry,” Zora repeated, the flicker of hope extinguising and a heavy, cold feeling settling in the pit of her stomach, “what hitch?”

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    09 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    Some things stayed with you. Most people didn’t.

    [Zora/Henry, six months later.]

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    06 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    Jinu comes back to life with no memory of what happened while he was controlled by Gwi-Ma. Now, he's a university student who sings songs on the street with his guitar. The world vaguely remembers the Saja Boys, and Jinu can't seem to remember a particular girl who keeps coming to his street performances. And what is this aching in his heart whenever he sees the cloudiness in her eyes? Was she someone he met before his required military service? If so, can she help him uncover his past, or will he let the fire in his heart go out?

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    28 Jun 2025

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    Elphaba comes to on the train

     

    She knows where she is. She’s on her way to the Emerald City. On her way to meet the Wizard.

     

    It’s not like she’s never come back here before, in her head. She revisits it plenty, and it comes to her repeatedly in her dreams. She’s gone over every minute detail of how she could have avoided her fate, over and over again, chiding herself constantly for her temper, for being so quick to anger, for not being able to think on her feet.

     

    Impulsivity, acting without thinking. Not like that’s how she ended up back here again too.

     

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    When Elphaba's rash attempt to save Fiyero triggers a spell she can barely comprehend, it gives her something she could have never dreamed of: the opportunity for all of them to have a second chance.

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    19 Jun 2025