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1. the tin needle in a strawstack by exaskies

   Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Boq/Fiyero Tigelaar
   • Boq & Fiyero Tigelaar
   • Boq & Elphaba Thropp
   • Boq/Nessarose Thropp
   • Boq (The Wicked Years)
   • Fiyero Tigelaar
   • Elphaba Thropp
   • Galinda Upland
   • Nessarose Thropp
   • Frexspar the Godly (The Wicked Years)
   • Jinjur (Oz)
   • Avaric Tenmeadows
   • Madame Morrible
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Fix-It of Sorts
   • Idiots in Love
   • Love at First Sight
   • Strangers to Lovers
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • Implied/Referenced Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
   • Cheating
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • (apart from nessa lolz)
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Eventual Smut
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Boq Needs a Hug (The Wicked Years)
   • Boq & Elphaba Thropp Friendship
   • Bad Flirting
   • Sexual Tension
   • Mutual Pining
   • Minor Fiyero Tigelaar/Galinda Upland
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   Boq never went to Shiz. He chose family, and the regret stained his soul for the rest of his life.
   Fate still decided for him to work for the Governor years later.
   The only break of his torturous routine was watching an engagement announcement through his window, between two of the most beautiful people he'd ever seen.
   The Captain, under the circumstances of the Wicked Witch sighting, decides to stay in the mansion for a short while.
   He wonders how much this could change things.

    

   everything else up to that point is pretty much canon, other then boq just wasnt in act one, therefore never meeting fiyero and glinda because im a fucking sucker for love at first sight. will anything canon happen in this au after that? lowk no idea

   veryyy lightly inspired by the discomfort in reliance by oxacillin__bruise and care and keeping by rovingotter

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,376

   Chapters:

   1/?

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