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User Name/Nick: Chatsy
User LJ: masquedesreves
AIM: FroggieAvenger
E-mail: quimange@gmail.com
Other Characters: Tony Foster, Adric, Edgar Parker
Character Name: Elphaba Thropp
Series: Wicked (the book)
Age: 38
From When?: Right after Dorothy melts her
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - By the end of the book, she’s gone insane, and has developed a moral tunnel vision. She trips her own nanny down the stairs and shows no sign of guilt or concern, she tries to kill Dorothy, and she tries having her flying monkey, Chistery, drown Toto.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Elphaba was never a powerful witch, and she’s become even less so on the Barge. If she had the Grimmerie, she’d still be able to read it, and she can mix potions still, but the only one she knows by heart is a potion to stave off sleep. She can still fly on her broomstick, which she will be keeping, but that will have little value on most parts of the Barge. Her ability to slightly change reality to suit her needs in moments of high emotional intensity is completely gone. In the book she also seems to have some psychic ability, but this will be eliminated.
Personality: Elphaba has always been the sort to see conspiracies in the world around her. In her youth, it was largely conspiracies that were actually going on. As she aged, however, this tendency intensified into paranoia and delusion. She began imagining conspiracy after conspiracy, wondering if Madame Morrible was Yackle in another form, which she wasn’t, suspected Dorothy of actually trying to kill her, and suspected until it was proven otherwise that the scarecrow was her lover, Fiyero, in disguise, returned from the dead.
Her moral center went from being firm and sound, seeing why denying a speaking, sentient Animal rights was wrong, to having a narrow tunnel vision of morals. She saw nothing wrong with doing experiments on monkeys to try to create flying monkeys so that Chistery could fly with her, resulting in the painful deaths of numerous animals, she threatened and intended to kill Dorothy who was only a child, and she showed no empathy after tripping her very old nanny down the stairs. It’s as if though she can only see right and wrong when they fly into her narrow scope of vision, though due to this she does have flashes of morality, granting a soldier who was having his entrails pecked out by birds a mercy killing when she hears about his predicament, and trying to save Nor.
However, she assumes moral inferiority in others when they can’t see things her way, particularly when Boq was afraid of her when she convinced him that she’d killed Madame Morrible, and questioned why she would do something like that. She can’t see how he could sit down and lead a perfectly contented life on a farm when there are so many wrongs, and in forcing herself to stew in the wrongs of the world, she’s become cold, bitter and angry.
She can be clever, however, and now tries to give the image of the Wicked Witch of the West to lead people to fear her, feeling like through that fear she can get what she wants. On the Barge, she’ll do nothing to imply she’s lost any power, and will, in fact, try to figure out ways to imply that she can and is doing more than she is. She believes now that there is only a blurry line between science and magic, and her interest in life sciences never waned with age. She wouldn’t tell others that she is a scientist or claim to be interested in working in the labs, wanting to give the more mysterious air of claiming her actions to be magic, but is willing to use her scientific knowledge to give the appearance of using magic.
Elphaba loves half things. She has ever since she was a child, and would break off parts of her toys that she loved. That’s why she loved the idea of a bird/monkey when she thought of the idea, and that aspect of her personality will be apparent on the Barge. She will appreciate any half-breeds of any kind that she encounters on the Barge.
She is also sensitive to Animal rights and will be wary in trying to avoid eating Animals, unaware that they don’t exist in most realities of the Barge. She will be open to the idea of equality among all races on the Barge and will have a problem with none.
Elphaba is an avowed atheist, having rejected the very idea of her even having a soul, and enjoys mocking religions of all kinds.
Path to Redemption: Elphaba needs to see how she hurt those close to her, and why it matters. Basically, she needs to learn to see individuals. She sees huge sweeping groups, like Animals, but she's unable to see the importance of treating Liir well, or seeing Dorothy for being a young girl. She also needs to learn to empathize with others and see things their way, rather than assuming they're wrong just because they don't agree with her.
She will likely be irritated with someone who’s overly sweet, though there’s the chance that it could, with time, sink through to her as Glinda’s personality had. Military types would likely be immediately disliked by her, and she likely wouldn’t take religious types seriously. It might help if her warden reminds her of someone from her past, but this is not necessary. It will also help if her warden doesn’t let her isolate herself, as most of her problems come from going too long without really trying to relate to others.
History: Elphaba was conceived in a haze of green elixir when a traveler who one day would be known as the Wizard of Oz used this substance to take advantage of her mother, Melena Thropp. The green elixir basically worked like GHB, but likely was part of what caused her child’s deformities. Melena was the wife of Frex, a Unionist minister, a religion that believes in one Unnamed God. Frex often spent long periods of time away from home preaching to the denizens of Munchkinland, where they lived. Frex, despite being a Munchkin by birth, was not short due to being the Eminent Thropp Third Descending, and all Munchkin nobility had married into height some time ago.
Nine months later, Elphaba was born with green skin and sharp teeth, which she’d frequently try to use to chew on herself and others when her mouth wasn’t tied shut. When Nanny, the woman who had taken care of the children in Melena’s family for a long time, arrived, she found that the baby had never been touched. She was more willing to touch the child and tend to her, but none truly liked the child much until Turtle Heart, a Quadling glassblower came. He’d actually play with her, and it was him that taught her happiness, but also he who created a mirror through which she could see horrors that would one day befall Oz. Eventually her sharp baby teeth fell out, and were replaced by normal ones. Years later, Melena had another daughter, Nessarose, who lacked any arms.
That night, there was a slight raise in water levels, which was considered a miracle to the Munchkins of Colwin Grounds as there had been a drought for a long time at that point, and in order to try and keep the water coming, they performed a ritual where they sacrificed Turtle Heart. Elphaba took it upon herself to tend to her baby sister, aided by their Nanny. It was after this that their father decided to move to Quadling country to preach, feeling like he owed it to Turtle Heart and blaming himself for not realizing the danger Turtle Heart had been in.
She lived for many years in Quadling country, helping her father preach by singing to the Quadlings, who loved her beautiful voice and strange appearance. Ironically, while she did all this obediently, she never believed in the Unnamed God, or any other religion, for that matter.
Many years later, she was sent off to be educated at Shiz, where she shared a room with Galinda, who hated her at first, but they eventually grew to be close friends. She also majored in Life Sciences and became Doctor Dillamond’s assistant. Doctor Dillamond was a Goat, not to be confused with a goat, a sentient Animal who could talk, think, and teach like any normal human, though he needed some help due to a lack of opposable thumbs. He was engaging in research comparing the cellular structure of animals, Animals, and humans seeing what, if any, difference there was between then, hoping to find that Animals and humans on a cellular level were the same in order to fight against the increasing encroachment on their rights that was going on in Oz.
However, Madame Morrible, who was an agent of the Wizard’s and supported the suppression of Animals, discovered this and had her tiktok man, Grommetik, kill Doctor Dillamond. There was a cover up, and everyone was told that it was an accidental death, but Elphaba saw the body and knew the truth. She went to his lab and gathered what she could.
Years passed, and she could see Animal rights declining more and more. Animals were no longer able to be hired or promoted, first, though they were able to keep a job they held. Her new professor brought in a Lion cub to be experimented on until some students saved it. Animals were required to travel in crates, rather than in the passenger portions of trains. Then they weren’t allowed in some libraries, or in restaurants or cafes. Slowly, Animals were being forced into the position of animals, and this is where things were when Elphaba and Glinda, as Galinda was now called, went to see the wizard.
However, when Elphaba presented their case, the Wizard dismissed it, not caring about what was happening to Animals nor whether they deserved better. They left in bitter disappointment, and Elphaba saw for the first time how truly evil the wizard was. When Galinda returned to Shiz, Elphaba stayed behind to become a terrorist.
For five years she went without anyone knowing where she’d gone, when Fiyero, a boy she’d known back in Shiz, recognized her and followed her back to her home. She demanded he leave and never return, or else she’d have to move so he couldn’t find her again, but he didn’t listen, and she didn’t move, and soon they began an affair despite Fiyero having a wife and children in the Vinkus. This affair continued until the night she was to assassinate Madame Morrible.
Though she had information on where Madame Morrible would be that night, she hadn’t expected her to be surrounded by a hoard of small children. Seeing them made her hesitate, trying to figure out how to get to Madame Morrible without putting them in danger, and that hesitation led to her losing that window of opportunity. Elphaba was devastated, but not as devastated as she was when she returned home, to find that Fiyero had been killed. Apparently, the Gale Forces found him when trying to find her.
Despite not believing in the Unnamed God, Elphaba lived as a maunt, the Oz equivalent of a nun, for seven years because she needed to get away from her previous life of failure and pain. She was driven mad by these two final events, however, and it was a few years before Elphaba regained enough of her wits to even be aware who she was. She was taken under the wing of Sister Yackle while there, and was given a broom that she was told was part of her destiny. During this time she gave birth to a boy named Liir, though she retained no memory of this and she wasn’t sure who he was, and it wasn’t for a long time that she began to suspect he may be her son. He simply was the boy that, when she decided to move on, came with her.
During the long journey, she acquired a wolfy looking dog, a hive of bees, three crows, and a snow monkey, as well as being advised by Princess Nastoya, an Elephant, to give others the impression that she was a witch. It was incredibly easy for her to do, she found, despite some on her journey knowing she’d been a maunt.
Once she arrived, she spoke with Sarima, Fiyero’s wife, explaining that she believed she was at fault for Fiyero’s death and wished to ask for an apology. However, Sarima refused to even hear how she could have had a part in his death, knowing well that people often blamed themselves for deaths after they happened, and also suspecting that once she gained her apology, Elphaba would feel she’d tied up all her business and disappear forever.
Feeling trapped because she wasn’t permitted to even speak with Fiyero, Elphaba stayed at Kiamo Ko. It was there that the incident happened that spurred her first maternal feelings for Liir. Manek, one of Sarima’s sons who was always picking on Liir, shut him down the fishwell and forgot him there, leaving him until late evening when the women of Kiamo Ko began to notice he was gone. When they found him, he was no longer breathing. Elphaba gave Liir mouth to mouth, reviving him. Shortly after, Elphaba subconsciously willed a long, sharp icicle to fall, landing on Manek’s head and killing him, having realized who put Liir down there. Liir also told her that a Cod in the well told him that he was the son of Fiyero, and Elphaba began to wonder if that was true, suspecting that if that was the case, she then knew who his mother was. She felt like she should be maternal toward Liir, but never could quite bring herself to do it.
Then soldiers came and began residing at Kiamo Ko. Elphaba objected, but Sarima said that visitors were always allowed to stay there, which was why they’d let Elphaba stay. The soldiers occupied Kiamo Ko for quite some time, and it was during this time that Nor, Sarima’s daughter, discovered that she could fly on the broom that Sister Yackle had given her. It was a short while later that Elphaba received a letter from her father, asking her to come to Colwen Grounds where her sister had led Munchkinland to succeeding from the rest of Oz. She decided to try riding the broomstick herself, and when she succeeded she went to see her sister.
She was asked to join her sister in ruling over Munchkinland, but refused, returning to Kiamo Ko, where she found in her absence that the soldiers had taken Sarima, her sisters, and their children. Only Liir and her Nanny, who had tracked her down and joined her in Kiamo Ko a while back, remained. She began to try and track them down to rescue them, but never was able to. In their absence, the people of the Vinkus looked to Elphaba for guidance. She also used what she knew of science to try and ‘develop’ a flying monkey by surgically attaching roc wings to snow monkeys. When she perfected the complex stitching together of new muscles, she tried it in Chistery, the snow monkey she’d had since her journey to Kiamo Ko.
Five years later, the wizard arranged for a house to fall on Elphaba’s sister. Elphaba was upset, and felt guilty for not joining her and possibly preventing this, and then angry when she discovered that Glinda had given away her sister’s ruby slippers. Feeling particularly irrational, Elphaba decided to tie up old loose ends, tracking down Madame Morrible to kill her. However, once she did so, she found the old woman dead, so she smashed in her skull with the woman’s own trophy then set it in her arms to make it look like murder, then went off to brag about it and get drunk. Once she felt satisfied that the rumor would spread, she left, spying on Dorothy. Later she woke up with a hangover and returned to her castle.
She’d learned that Dorothy was sent to kill her from some snooping around Liir did, and was concerned at first, but when watching Dorothy though her spyglass, she momentarily forgot that she was supposed to be an assassin when she saw the Scarecrow. Her delusional mind began to weave a fantasy that he was really Fiyero, dressed as a Scarecrow and joining Dorothy so that he could find Elphaba.
Believing this despite the lack of evidence, Elphaba sent Killyjoy, her dog, as well as his kin who he’d accumulated over the years, to find them and bring them back. Unfortunately, the travelers assumed the dogs were coming to kill them, and the Tin Woodsman chopped off their heads. Elphaba was watching through her spyglass and was horrified and furious. This reminded her that these people were coming to kill her, and she also saw from this that these people could be dangerous. Furious, she sent a flock of crows, bred from the original three she’d gotten, to peck out Dorothy and her friends’ eyes and pull the mask off the Scarecrow. These, too, were killed. She then sent the bees, now more determined to kill these people that were slaughtering all her familiars, but the Scarecrow disassembled himself and covered his friends with straw, except for the Tinman whose tin body killed the bees as they attempted to sting him. Now she not only had the loss of her bees, but also the belief that she’d still tried to cling to that the Scarecrow was really Fiyero. He wasn’t even human.
Night fell, and Elphaba, persuaded by Liir’s sympathy for Dorothy (much to her chagrin, he seemed to be getting to the age where he developed crushes on girls) she decided to send her flying monkeys to bring Dorothy and the Lion back since they’d probably fall over the steep cliffs trying to travel in the dark the way they were, though she figured the Scarecrow and Tinman would be fine, not being living people. Chistery was hesitant, but he and the other flying monkeys she’d made during her experiments on snow monkeys flew out and grabbed the two, returning with them unharmed.
Elphaba confronted Dorothy alone, threatening to drown her dog if she wouldn’t speak with her one on one. When they were alone, she lit the bristles of her broom on fire, planning to burn Dorothy, but said she first wanted Dorothy to admit why she came. Dorothy said that the Wizard sent her to kill the Witch, but she hadn’t come for that. She came to seek forgiveness for killing Elphaba’s sister. Elphaba was so shocked by this that she pulled back, lighting herself on fire. Dorothy, in trying to save her, splashed her with a bucket of water she’d set out to gather water that was dripping down from a leak in the roof, killing Elphaba.
Sample Journal Entry: [Video]
[Elphaba is fiddling with her journal, and doesn’t seem to notice that she’s turned on the video.] -is this thing?
[After a moment, she lets out a ‘humph’ and sets it down, wondering if it was some strange object that Liir brought in. She’d have to talk to him later about just depositing things in her room. Standing up, she went over to get her grimmerie to try and translate some more of it when…she realized it was gone. She wasn’t going to talk to Liir later. She was going to talk to him now.]
Liir! [She shrieked the word before running to the door and flinging it open, only to see…she reeled back in shock, returning to her journal and examining it more frantically this time. She turned it off.]
[Twenty minutes later. The journal turns back on.]
I have figured out what this device is from reviewing other such posts. For now, I have only three questions. Where am I? How did you bring my room from Kiamo Ko here? And WHERE IS MY GRIMMERIE?!
Sample RP: Elphaba stormed down the hall, dragging her broom along with her, and letting her heavy black robes flap behind her from the force that she was swinging her arms and stomping her boot clad feet as she went, furious. She remembered now, and realized that Dorothy’s arrival was not just a dream. She came, sought pity, and killed. If she was more rational, Elphaba would realize it was just an accident and that the girl must not have known water would kill her. Unfortunately, Elphaba was not so rational, and dismissed the whole thing as a very clever assassination.
What was even more infuriating was that all her life she dismissed the idea of the afterlife, and yet here it was. It could be possible, though, that this wasn’t any such thing at all. Perhaps the water wasn’t enough to kill her, but merely put her in a coma. Perhaps she was taken somewhere while she was unconscious, though…certainly not a prison, by the looks of things.
If that was the case, though, then how did they replicate her room so perfectly? And why wouldn’t she end up in a prison if the Wizard’s agents were there?
She needed answers. Which was why she turned on the first person she saw, pointing a long finger and demanding, “You, there! What is this place? Why am I here?”
Special Notes: She melts in water.
User LJ: masquedesreves
AIM: FroggieAvenger
E-mail: quimange@gmail.com
Other Characters: Tony Foster, Adric, Edgar Parker
Character Name: Elphaba Thropp
Series: Wicked (the book)
Age: 38
From When?: Right after Dorothy melts her
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - By the end of the book, she’s gone insane, and has developed a moral tunnel vision. She trips her own nanny down the stairs and shows no sign of guilt or concern, she tries to kill Dorothy, and she tries having her flying monkey, Chistery, drown Toto.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Elphaba was never a powerful witch, and she’s become even less so on the Barge. If she had the Grimmerie, she’d still be able to read it, and she can mix potions still, but the only one she knows by heart is a potion to stave off sleep. She can still fly on her broomstick, which she will be keeping, but that will have little value on most parts of the Barge. Her ability to slightly change reality to suit her needs in moments of high emotional intensity is completely gone. In the book she also seems to have some psychic ability, but this will be eliminated.
Personality: Elphaba has always been the sort to see conspiracies in the world around her. In her youth, it was largely conspiracies that were actually going on. As she aged, however, this tendency intensified into paranoia and delusion. She began imagining conspiracy after conspiracy, wondering if Madame Morrible was Yackle in another form, which she wasn’t, suspected Dorothy of actually trying to kill her, and suspected until it was proven otherwise that the scarecrow was her lover, Fiyero, in disguise, returned from the dead.
Her moral center went from being firm and sound, seeing why denying a speaking, sentient Animal rights was wrong, to having a narrow tunnel vision of morals. She saw nothing wrong with doing experiments on monkeys to try to create flying monkeys so that Chistery could fly with her, resulting in the painful deaths of numerous animals, she threatened and intended to kill Dorothy who was only a child, and she showed no empathy after tripping her very old nanny down the stairs. It’s as if though she can only see right and wrong when they fly into her narrow scope of vision, though due to this she does have flashes of morality, granting a soldier who was having his entrails pecked out by birds a mercy killing when she hears about his predicament, and trying to save Nor.
However, she assumes moral inferiority in others when they can’t see things her way, particularly when Boq was afraid of her when she convinced him that she’d killed Madame Morrible, and questioned why she would do something like that. She can’t see how he could sit down and lead a perfectly contented life on a farm when there are so many wrongs, and in forcing herself to stew in the wrongs of the world, she’s become cold, bitter and angry.
She can be clever, however, and now tries to give the image of the Wicked Witch of the West to lead people to fear her, feeling like through that fear she can get what she wants. On the Barge, she’ll do nothing to imply she’s lost any power, and will, in fact, try to figure out ways to imply that she can and is doing more than she is. She believes now that there is only a blurry line between science and magic, and her interest in life sciences never waned with age. She wouldn’t tell others that she is a scientist or claim to be interested in working in the labs, wanting to give the more mysterious air of claiming her actions to be magic, but is willing to use her scientific knowledge to give the appearance of using magic.
Elphaba loves half things. She has ever since she was a child, and would break off parts of her toys that she loved. That’s why she loved the idea of a bird/monkey when she thought of the idea, and that aspect of her personality will be apparent on the Barge. She will appreciate any half-breeds of any kind that she encounters on the Barge.
She is also sensitive to Animal rights and will be wary in trying to avoid eating Animals, unaware that they don’t exist in most realities of the Barge. She will be open to the idea of equality among all races on the Barge and will have a problem with none.
Elphaba is an avowed atheist, having rejected the very idea of her even having a soul, and enjoys mocking religions of all kinds.
Path to Redemption: Elphaba needs to see how she hurt those close to her, and why it matters. Basically, she needs to learn to see individuals. She sees huge sweeping groups, like Animals, but she's unable to see the importance of treating Liir well, or seeing Dorothy for being a young girl. She also needs to learn to empathize with others and see things their way, rather than assuming they're wrong just because they don't agree with her.
She will likely be irritated with someone who’s overly sweet, though there’s the chance that it could, with time, sink through to her as Glinda’s personality had. Military types would likely be immediately disliked by her, and she likely wouldn’t take religious types seriously. It might help if her warden reminds her of someone from her past, but this is not necessary. It will also help if her warden doesn’t let her isolate herself, as most of her problems come from going too long without really trying to relate to others.
History: Elphaba was conceived in a haze of green elixir when a traveler who one day would be known as the Wizard of Oz used this substance to take advantage of her mother, Melena Thropp. The green elixir basically worked like GHB, but likely was part of what caused her child’s deformities. Melena was the wife of Frex, a Unionist minister, a religion that believes in one Unnamed God. Frex often spent long periods of time away from home preaching to the denizens of Munchkinland, where they lived. Frex, despite being a Munchkin by birth, was not short due to being the Eminent Thropp Third Descending, and all Munchkin nobility had married into height some time ago.
Nine months later, Elphaba was born with green skin and sharp teeth, which she’d frequently try to use to chew on herself and others when her mouth wasn’t tied shut. When Nanny, the woman who had taken care of the children in Melena’s family for a long time, arrived, she found that the baby had never been touched. She was more willing to touch the child and tend to her, but none truly liked the child much until Turtle Heart, a Quadling glassblower came. He’d actually play with her, and it was him that taught her happiness, but also he who created a mirror through which she could see horrors that would one day befall Oz. Eventually her sharp baby teeth fell out, and were replaced by normal ones. Years later, Melena had another daughter, Nessarose, who lacked any arms.
That night, there was a slight raise in water levels, which was considered a miracle to the Munchkins of Colwin Grounds as there had been a drought for a long time at that point, and in order to try and keep the water coming, they performed a ritual where they sacrificed Turtle Heart. Elphaba took it upon herself to tend to her baby sister, aided by their Nanny. It was after this that their father decided to move to Quadling country to preach, feeling like he owed it to Turtle Heart and blaming himself for not realizing the danger Turtle Heart had been in.
She lived for many years in Quadling country, helping her father preach by singing to the Quadlings, who loved her beautiful voice and strange appearance. Ironically, while she did all this obediently, she never believed in the Unnamed God, or any other religion, for that matter.
Many years later, she was sent off to be educated at Shiz, where she shared a room with Galinda, who hated her at first, but they eventually grew to be close friends. She also majored in Life Sciences and became Doctor Dillamond’s assistant. Doctor Dillamond was a Goat, not to be confused with a goat, a sentient Animal who could talk, think, and teach like any normal human, though he needed some help due to a lack of opposable thumbs. He was engaging in research comparing the cellular structure of animals, Animals, and humans seeing what, if any, difference there was between then, hoping to find that Animals and humans on a cellular level were the same in order to fight against the increasing encroachment on their rights that was going on in Oz.
However, Madame Morrible, who was an agent of the Wizard’s and supported the suppression of Animals, discovered this and had her tiktok man, Grommetik, kill Doctor Dillamond. There was a cover up, and everyone was told that it was an accidental death, but Elphaba saw the body and knew the truth. She went to his lab and gathered what she could.
Years passed, and she could see Animal rights declining more and more. Animals were no longer able to be hired or promoted, first, though they were able to keep a job they held. Her new professor brought in a Lion cub to be experimented on until some students saved it. Animals were required to travel in crates, rather than in the passenger portions of trains. Then they weren’t allowed in some libraries, or in restaurants or cafes. Slowly, Animals were being forced into the position of animals, and this is where things were when Elphaba and Glinda, as Galinda was now called, went to see the wizard.
However, when Elphaba presented their case, the Wizard dismissed it, not caring about what was happening to Animals nor whether they deserved better. They left in bitter disappointment, and Elphaba saw for the first time how truly evil the wizard was. When Galinda returned to Shiz, Elphaba stayed behind to become a terrorist.
For five years she went without anyone knowing where she’d gone, when Fiyero, a boy she’d known back in Shiz, recognized her and followed her back to her home. She demanded he leave and never return, or else she’d have to move so he couldn’t find her again, but he didn’t listen, and she didn’t move, and soon they began an affair despite Fiyero having a wife and children in the Vinkus. This affair continued until the night she was to assassinate Madame Morrible.
Though she had information on where Madame Morrible would be that night, she hadn’t expected her to be surrounded by a hoard of small children. Seeing them made her hesitate, trying to figure out how to get to Madame Morrible without putting them in danger, and that hesitation led to her losing that window of opportunity. Elphaba was devastated, but not as devastated as she was when she returned home, to find that Fiyero had been killed. Apparently, the Gale Forces found him when trying to find her.
Despite not believing in the Unnamed God, Elphaba lived as a maunt, the Oz equivalent of a nun, for seven years because she needed to get away from her previous life of failure and pain. She was driven mad by these two final events, however, and it was a few years before Elphaba regained enough of her wits to even be aware who she was. She was taken under the wing of Sister Yackle while there, and was given a broom that she was told was part of her destiny. During this time she gave birth to a boy named Liir, though she retained no memory of this and she wasn’t sure who he was, and it wasn’t for a long time that she began to suspect he may be her son. He simply was the boy that, when she decided to move on, came with her.
During the long journey, she acquired a wolfy looking dog, a hive of bees, three crows, and a snow monkey, as well as being advised by Princess Nastoya, an Elephant, to give others the impression that she was a witch. It was incredibly easy for her to do, she found, despite some on her journey knowing she’d been a maunt.
Once she arrived, she spoke with Sarima, Fiyero’s wife, explaining that she believed she was at fault for Fiyero’s death and wished to ask for an apology. However, Sarima refused to even hear how she could have had a part in his death, knowing well that people often blamed themselves for deaths after they happened, and also suspecting that once she gained her apology, Elphaba would feel she’d tied up all her business and disappear forever.
Feeling trapped because she wasn’t permitted to even speak with Fiyero, Elphaba stayed at Kiamo Ko. It was there that the incident happened that spurred her first maternal feelings for Liir. Manek, one of Sarima’s sons who was always picking on Liir, shut him down the fishwell and forgot him there, leaving him until late evening when the women of Kiamo Ko began to notice he was gone. When they found him, he was no longer breathing. Elphaba gave Liir mouth to mouth, reviving him. Shortly after, Elphaba subconsciously willed a long, sharp icicle to fall, landing on Manek’s head and killing him, having realized who put Liir down there. Liir also told her that a Cod in the well told him that he was the son of Fiyero, and Elphaba began to wonder if that was true, suspecting that if that was the case, she then knew who his mother was. She felt like she should be maternal toward Liir, but never could quite bring herself to do it.
Then soldiers came and began residing at Kiamo Ko. Elphaba objected, but Sarima said that visitors were always allowed to stay there, which was why they’d let Elphaba stay. The soldiers occupied Kiamo Ko for quite some time, and it was during this time that Nor, Sarima’s daughter, discovered that she could fly on the broom that Sister Yackle had given her. It was a short while later that Elphaba received a letter from her father, asking her to come to Colwen Grounds where her sister had led Munchkinland to succeeding from the rest of Oz. She decided to try riding the broomstick herself, and when she succeeded she went to see her sister.
She was asked to join her sister in ruling over Munchkinland, but refused, returning to Kiamo Ko, where she found in her absence that the soldiers had taken Sarima, her sisters, and their children. Only Liir and her Nanny, who had tracked her down and joined her in Kiamo Ko a while back, remained. She began to try and track them down to rescue them, but never was able to. In their absence, the people of the Vinkus looked to Elphaba for guidance. She also used what she knew of science to try and ‘develop’ a flying monkey by surgically attaching roc wings to snow monkeys. When she perfected the complex stitching together of new muscles, she tried it in Chistery, the snow monkey she’d had since her journey to Kiamo Ko.
Five years later, the wizard arranged for a house to fall on Elphaba’s sister. Elphaba was upset, and felt guilty for not joining her and possibly preventing this, and then angry when she discovered that Glinda had given away her sister’s ruby slippers. Feeling particularly irrational, Elphaba decided to tie up old loose ends, tracking down Madame Morrible to kill her. However, once she did so, she found the old woman dead, so she smashed in her skull with the woman’s own trophy then set it in her arms to make it look like murder, then went off to brag about it and get drunk. Once she felt satisfied that the rumor would spread, she left, spying on Dorothy. Later she woke up with a hangover and returned to her castle.
She’d learned that Dorothy was sent to kill her from some snooping around Liir did, and was concerned at first, but when watching Dorothy though her spyglass, she momentarily forgot that she was supposed to be an assassin when she saw the Scarecrow. Her delusional mind began to weave a fantasy that he was really Fiyero, dressed as a Scarecrow and joining Dorothy so that he could find Elphaba.
Believing this despite the lack of evidence, Elphaba sent Killyjoy, her dog, as well as his kin who he’d accumulated over the years, to find them and bring them back. Unfortunately, the travelers assumed the dogs were coming to kill them, and the Tin Woodsman chopped off their heads. Elphaba was watching through her spyglass and was horrified and furious. This reminded her that these people were coming to kill her, and she also saw from this that these people could be dangerous. Furious, she sent a flock of crows, bred from the original three she’d gotten, to peck out Dorothy and her friends’ eyes and pull the mask off the Scarecrow. These, too, were killed. She then sent the bees, now more determined to kill these people that were slaughtering all her familiars, but the Scarecrow disassembled himself and covered his friends with straw, except for the Tinman whose tin body killed the bees as they attempted to sting him. Now she not only had the loss of her bees, but also the belief that she’d still tried to cling to that the Scarecrow was really Fiyero. He wasn’t even human.
Night fell, and Elphaba, persuaded by Liir’s sympathy for Dorothy (much to her chagrin, he seemed to be getting to the age where he developed crushes on girls) she decided to send her flying monkeys to bring Dorothy and the Lion back since they’d probably fall over the steep cliffs trying to travel in the dark the way they were, though she figured the Scarecrow and Tinman would be fine, not being living people. Chistery was hesitant, but he and the other flying monkeys she’d made during her experiments on snow monkeys flew out and grabbed the two, returning with them unharmed.
Elphaba confronted Dorothy alone, threatening to drown her dog if she wouldn’t speak with her one on one. When they were alone, she lit the bristles of her broom on fire, planning to burn Dorothy, but said she first wanted Dorothy to admit why she came. Dorothy said that the Wizard sent her to kill the Witch, but she hadn’t come for that. She came to seek forgiveness for killing Elphaba’s sister. Elphaba was so shocked by this that she pulled back, lighting herself on fire. Dorothy, in trying to save her, splashed her with a bucket of water she’d set out to gather water that was dripping down from a leak in the roof, killing Elphaba.
Sample Journal Entry: [Video]
[Elphaba is fiddling with her journal, and doesn’t seem to notice that she’s turned on the video.] -is this thing?
[After a moment, she lets out a ‘humph’ and sets it down, wondering if it was some strange object that Liir brought in. She’d have to talk to him later about just depositing things in her room. Standing up, she went over to get her grimmerie to try and translate some more of it when…she realized it was gone. She wasn’t going to talk to Liir later. She was going to talk to him now.]
Liir! [She shrieked the word before running to the door and flinging it open, only to see…she reeled back in shock, returning to her journal and examining it more frantically this time. She turned it off.]
[Twenty minutes later. The journal turns back on.]
I have figured out what this device is from reviewing other such posts. For now, I have only three questions. Where am I? How did you bring my room from Kiamo Ko here? And WHERE IS MY GRIMMERIE?!
Sample RP: Elphaba stormed down the hall, dragging her broom along with her, and letting her heavy black robes flap behind her from the force that she was swinging her arms and stomping her boot clad feet as she went, furious. She remembered now, and realized that Dorothy’s arrival was not just a dream. She came, sought pity, and killed. If she was more rational, Elphaba would realize it was just an accident and that the girl must not have known water would kill her. Unfortunately, Elphaba was not so rational, and dismissed the whole thing as a very clever assassination.
What was even more infuriating was that all her life she dismissed the idea of the afterlife, and yet here it was. It could be possible, though, that this wasn’t any such thing at all. Perhaps the water wasn’t enough to kill her, but merely put her in a coma. Perhaps she was taken somewhere while she was unconscious, though…certainly not a prison, by the looks of things.
If that was the case, though, then how did they replicate her room so perfectly? And why wouldn’t she end up in a prison if the Wizard’s agents were there?
She needed answers. Which was why she turned on the first person she saw, pointing a long finger and demanding, “You, there! What is this place? Why am I here?”
Special Notes: She melts in water.