Ok, I was listening to the Wicked Musical soundtrack and it got me thinking. More specifically, the "No Good Deed" part where Elphaba/the Wicked Witch of the West goes off the deep and and unconciously casts the spell to turn Fiyero into the Scarecrow to save his life without realizing it.
Now in both the book and the musical she has no idea he lives and the Wizard of Oz canon takes place as normal around Elphaba's story. In fact the scene explains why she shifts from being mildly intimidating to outright violent. She's somewhere between turning totally to the Dark Side and being suicidal over the loss of her lover.
But... consider the first part of the song No Good Deed where she is casting her spell while in a trance:
Now consider this, what if the spell worked as it reads? What if instead of making him a living Scarecrow managed to make Fiyero immortal and invulnerable? Well granted, you would have the horror of Dorothy coming across his crucified body that the Gale Force had propped up earlier rather than just meeting a talking scarecrow as he woke up.
But how would this change things as a whole? How would the Wizard and Morrible deal with someone like Fiyero that actually has the political and military connections to challenge them as the Crown Prince of the Vinkus? Heck, how would Elphaba deal with everything?
Now in both the book and the musical she has no idea he lives and the Wizard of Oz canon takes place as normal around Elphaba's story. In fact the scene explains why she shifts from being mildly intimidating to outright violent. She's somewhere between turning totally to the Dark Side and being suicidal over the loss of her lover.
But... consider the first part of the song No Good Deed where she is casting her spell while in a trance:
(spoken) Fiyero!
(sung) Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Let his flesh not be torn
Let his blood leave no stain
Though they beat him
Let him feel no pain
Let his bones never break
And however they try
To destroy him
Let him never die:
Let him never die:
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka: eleka:
(sung) Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Let his flesh not be torn
Let his blood leave no stain
Though they beat him
Let him feel no pain
Let his bones never break
And however they try
To destroy him
Let him never die:
Let him never die:
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka: eleka:
Now consider this, what if the spell worked as it reads? What if instead of making him a living Scarecrow managed to make Fiyero immortal and invulnerable? Well granted, you would have the horror of Dorothy coming across his crucified body that the Gale Force had propped up earlier rather than just meeting a talking scarecrow as he woke up.
But how would this change things as a whole? How would the Wizard and Morrible deal with someone like Fiyero that actually has the political and military connections to challenge them as the Crown Prince of the Vinkus? Heck, how would Elphaba deal with everything?