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Character Name: Elphaba Thropp
Series: Wicked { Novel }
Timeline: Just after leaving Glinda in the Emerald City.
Canon Resource Link: wiki link

Character History:

The day Elphaba Thropp was born her father, pastor Frexspar Thropp said the devil is coming. His wife Melena Thropp scolded him for saying such a thing when the child is due, even if he never referred to the baby when he said it. He left her to preach to the people of Munchkinland not to attend a pagan show involving a clock in the form of a dragon.

Melena gave birth to the child alone and she was concerned even before giving birth.
Unknown to Frex, Melena suspected the child may or may not be his. She had an affair with a man who offered her green Miracle Elixir to drink; drunk on the elixir and having loose morals anyway, Melena took him to her bed and on the day of the birth of her first born, she wasn’t sure who the father was.
Perhaps it is because Frex had spoken of the devil during that day and perhaps it is because of the green Elixir, but the baby who was born was anything but normal. The baby was born with teeth sharp enough to bite off the finger of her midwife and more importantly, she was born with unmistakably emerald skin and a fierce allergy to water. The baby seemed savage and caused a sense of deep shame to her family. Frex had decided the baby was a punishment for his sin, his failure preventing his flock to turn to paganism and Melena was mostly disgusted looking at her first born, a girl who has a claim of Eminent Thropp and rule all of Munchkinland. Her mother is ashamed to have such a child for her first born and to have to give her the title ‘Thropp Third Descending’ making her importance and heritage known. Frex and Melena decide to name the baby Elphaba and both of them confess to hoping the child will die in early age. Melena even goes as far as bringing her to the lake side but never finds the heart to kill her.

She doesn't find the heart to love her, either and so she calls her childhood nanny named Nanny to come and help.

Nanny is the first to discover what both parents seem to have not notice; the baby is developing quickly and seems to be a particularly intelligent one. Nanny finds such intelligence and sharp eyes discouraging as no baby is supposed to be clever. To Nanny’s dismay, Frex leaves home to preach God’s words and Melena pays no attention the child whatsoever, turning to alcohol and drugs called “pinlobble leaves” for comfort. Elphaba grows up lonely until Nanny herself decides to take her meet other children her age in hopes she won’t bite their ears off. Nanny is the only one to show her any sort of affection and Elphaba, as a whole, grew up with an absent father and an intoxicated mother.

When Frex returns, he finds a Quadling man named Turtle Heart living in his home after escaping the Wizard’s men who came to take over the Quadling mines. Frex is not bothered by his presence, even goes as far as engaging in a threeway sexual relationship with him and his wife. That relationship leads to a second pregnancy and again, no one is sure who the father is. Melena asks Nanny to make sure the baby won’t be born green and so Nanny goes to a witch to work a spell. The baby girl is born with perfectly normal skin but that has a price, she is born without arms. The family names her ‘Nessarose’ and she becomes her father’s favorite to Elphaba’s dismay. The child seems unimpressed with her mother but eager for her father’s attention. He, however, is resentful of her as he is loving of Nessarose, leaving her with only Nanny for company. When Turtle Heart tells the tale of the Wizard coming in a balloon and taking over Oz while driving Ozma away, Elphie speaks her first word.

“Horrors.”

The horrors of the Wizard’s actions would determine her whole life as an adult.

Sixteen years later, Elphaba arrives to Shiz University the same day as her roommate, one Galinda Uplands. The two are set to room together, much to Galinda’s dismay. However, Elphaba’s titles and importance ( to whom seems indifferent ) wins her the last luxurious room so in a choice between Elphaba and the common girls, Galinda settles for a green roommate. Elphaba, at first, shows no interest in her roommate. She has no friends and takes to her books, preferring studying and enriching her mind than trying to socialize with those who would mock her for her irregular color anyway. At class she is proven to be fiercely intelligent but rebellious and unorthodox in thought, sharp and full of criticism and questions about the world and its nature. One night, Galinda and Elphaba start talking and Elphaba helps her to form her own questions and thoughts about the world and shows her she is not narrow minded or shallow and capable of critical thought. Galinda finds her roomie repulsive her first but oddly engaging later and together they start to take Biology lessons, Elphaba’s favorite subject. Their teacher is Mr. Dillamond, a Goat and an Animal, meaning a sentient animal. He becomes a mentor to Elphaba, alerting her that the Wizard, much like the headmistress Madam Morrible (whom Elphie calls ‘Horrible Morrible’, believes that ‘Animals should be seen and not heard’ and slowly but surely, he is stripping away their rights. Elphaba cares for the struggle for Animal Rights and against their discrimination and even becomes Dr. Dillamond’s lab assistant, watching him conduct a research that would prove that Animals are not different from humans as they share genes. Coming from a religious home, Elphaba becomes invested in science, a field her pastor father loathed and finds that by helping Dr. Dillamond she finally found something she is passionate about. She stops wanting to please her father, having accepted the fact that it won’t happen and starts investing her time in helping her teacher.
As the time passes, Elphaba and Galinda become the most unlikely of friends. Galinda becomes precious to Elphie as Elphie proves to her she is able to think and become an independent, intelligent woman. The two girls discuss their studies and their future career and Galinda becomes the one person most dear to Elphaba for the fact that she has been able to change her scorn into affection as Elphaba's parents never could.

Elphaba also befriends Boq, an old playmate from Munchkinland. She tries to help him spend some time with Galinda as he is in love with her but Galinda finds the idea absurd as he is a short Munchkinlander and she is a tall girl from Gillikin. She also finds it curious that Elphaba is so tall, another hint of her odd heritage.

The peaceful days come to an end with the murder of Dr. Dillamond and the theft of his research that was about to prove the Wizard’s policy against Animals to be wrong. Elphaba herself is deeply shaken by the murder and is unable of conducting the research herself as she lacks the Doctor’s knowledge. Galinda’s chaperone Ama Clutch sees that it is Madam Morrible’s make-do clockworks servant Grommetik who murdered the Doctor but is magicked by the Madame to keep silence. Galinda changes her name to Glinda as this is how the Doctor had named her and even tries to magick her Ama better on her deathbed. The Ama manages to tell her and Elphaba the truth before her death. Elphaba vows to avenge her mentor and take action against the wizard. She befriends Fiyero, a young boy from the West of Oz at the same time as her sister Nessarose arrives to Shiz herself. Their father sends Nessa a pair of glass shoes, a symbol of the love and approval that he has never given Elphaba.

Dejected by the proof of her father’s indifference to her, Elphaba spends her time with her friends and lets Nanny take care of her sister who grew up be fanatic in her religious devotion to the Unnamed God. She also carries on Dr. Dillamond’s research to the best of her ability but she does so in secret. Eventually, Morrible summons Elphaba together with Glinda and Nessa and offers them to become ‘ambassadors of peace’ at the service of the Wizard. Meaning, a political puppet quite like herself. She tells Elphaba to rule the East and Munchkinland as her title allows and become a governor, she gives the ruling of the North to Glinda as she comes from Gillikin and Nessarose she will send to the South, to Quadling country to rule it and the mines. She sends no one to the West as there are so few people there that the area is no interest to the wizard. She also ties the girls’ tongue magically, making them unable to speak of the offer, even to each other.

Elphaba cares nothing about ruling the East and even less of becoming the Wizard’s pawn. While Glinda dreams of her bright future, she thinks the Animal’s struggle is being forgotten and decides to speak to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz herself and plead for the freedom of the Animals. She and Glinda leave school and travel to the Emerald City where they meet the Wizard who shows no interest in the Animals. As Glinda boards the carriage back to Shiz, Elphaba tells her she is staying behind at the Emerald City because if she can’t get the Wizard to cooperate with her, she has decided to fight against him and release Oz from his rule. Glinda goes back to Shiz while Elphie disappears in the Emerald City, determined to bring the Wizard’s fall from grace and to his death.

In her future, Elphaba is destined to become the Wicked Witch of the West, infamous for magic though she never had interest in it ( though she had the talent) and the story of her would become known as the Wizard of Oz. She will fall in love with Fiyero, give him a child and eventually move to the West only to find her ending brought forth by a bucket of water thrown by one Dorothy Gale. But that is the future and that would be then and for now, she is only known as Elphie.

Abilities/Special Powers: Elphaba has a gift for witchcraft but in her current canon point, she is not aware to the fact and magic doesn't interest her whatsoever. However, it can come into action if she is in danger or emotional. In the novel she tries to change a monkey from drowning and manages to turn the water into ice without noticing it. Her magic seems to be, in times, out of her control. In eway she will very slowly learn to be aware of it and it'll take even longer for her to be able to summon it. She is known to being able to change water to ice and making a broomstick fly and also she melted icicles when she was angry. A lot of her magic, it seems, is tied to her emotions.

Third-Person Sample:

She was dreaming. It was vivid and colorful and real but a dream nonetheless. After all, she cannot fly.
But in her dream she was doing that indeed; flying above Oz, free and overwhelmed with a strange emotion that she felt whenever Glinda held her hand too tight or in the rare times her mother braided her hair. Beneath her, Oz stretched out like a painting of one of the girls in Shiz. The bright red of the ruby mines in Quadling Country, the golden fields of Munchkinland, the vivid green of the Emerald City.
From behind a cloud, a colorful balloon appeared and she awoke at once.

For a moment, she was certain she was still dreaming (ever since she ever humored such nonsense? Dreams were for children and maidens), around her, the room was clean and white and foreign. When she laid her head, it was in a small, dark room. Here there was vastness and light.

This was not her apartment.

Rising quickly to her feet, she scanned the room. No chains, no crests of the Emerald City or the wizard's army.

Not a prison, but not her apartment. Then what?

Walking to the window, she peered aside only to have her frown deepen. No emerald was seen to greet her, no familiarity, just an odd view of a city she was certain she had never seen before.

But how? Can a spell send one through their sleep to another place? She was certain this was folly; even Horrible Morrible could not do something like that (could she? She did manage to tell her of a spell that will make her forget the meeting they had – there was a meeting, she recalls it, only not the subject, not the - )

No, this was not Oz. She learned of Oz, of its cities and its views. This was like nothing she had ever seen.

How?

The Wizard came to Oz through the sky (a colorful balloon peeking from behind a cloud - ) perhaps she, too, moved.

Moving without actual movement, how curious, how curious indeed.

This city was a mystery wrapped in a riddle.

Oz waited somewhere – far away from here, probably, behind the clouds and the skies, violent and ever changing.

If she wished to return, she will have to understand where she is, how far away from Oz she had somehow wandered to and how to return.

Being herself, Elphaba knew the last part would be as tricky as figuring out where the wizard came from, how the worlds were connected to begin with.
Riddles and more riddles.

Stepping into a brand new city, the green-skinned girl took a deep breath of air and settled on observing.
It would be best to learn what she could, before asking questions.

She did hate unnecessary questions herself.

First-Person Sample:

Well this is quite unusual. A rather odd scene, but it is not entirely unwelcoming for all of the bleak concept of the place.

That aside, there is only one thing that I want, and that is answers. I would like to know my location, this looks nothing like my own land. I am not naïve enough to think I could leave this place; it would seem that I would have to remain here for a while. My own world tossed me away as it is, so I shall accustom myself, with the lack of any other choice.

[ see how calm she is. ]

One last matter, I am highly experienced in foolish questions regarding my skin condition. I will end them before they will start, I am indeed green, and I am indeed aware to my own condition. I was born green, and now you know as much as I do, so any other questions would be unnecessary.