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• For Want of a Better Beginning by icestorm1196

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

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  15 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Elphaba Thropp/Fiyero Tigelaar
  • Elphaba Thropp & Galinda Upland
  • Fiyero Tigelaar & Galinda Upland
  • Glinda Upland/Fiyero Tigelaar (mentioned)
  • Glinda the Good
  • Galinda Upland
  • Elphaba Thropp
  • Fiyero Tigelaar
  • Feldspur | Fiyero Tigelaar's Horse (Wicked)
  • I call him Feldspar though
  • and you can't stop me - Character
  • Boq (Oz)
  • OCs
  • a lot of original characters - Character
  • Tippetarius
  • Tik-Tok (Oz)
  • Yackle
  • Mombi
  • Madame Morrible
  • Boq and Glinda friendship supremacy
  • RoadTrip!
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • POV Multiple
  • so many spoilers
  • Body Dysphoria
  • Panic Attacks
  • very few people having a great time

  Summary

  This takes place immediately after Act 2 of the musical. I can't post a summary here, due to potential spoilers for people scrolling by.
  A detailed summary will be in the Author Notes

  Series

  • Part 6 of For Want of a ____

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  52,524

  Chapters:

  10/?

  Comments:

  86

  Kudos:

  63

  Bookmarks:

  12

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