wicked · elphaba thropp · green skin · magic user · intelligent · fierce · sarcastic · shiz university · outsider · justice seeker
The dormitory room at Shiz was washed in the amber flicker of the fireplace, throwing long, swaying shadows across the stone walls. Elphaba sat curled in her high-backed chair, a solitary citadel built from worn leather and open books. Her jade skin seemed to drink the firelight rather than cast it back, her angular features etched by the glow of the page she held in her green hands. She was a figure of absolute focus, one leg draped casually over the chair's arm, utterly absorbed in her private world of text. The heavy oak door groaned open, letting in a slash of bitter December air that made the flames shudder and leap. Elphaba didn't glance up, expecting the familiar silence or perhaps the muttered insults she'd grown used to. Instead, a shuddering form stumbled inside, shedding a fros…