People (3) liked this so here are more headcanons for Seer!Fiyero.
He sees the past just as much as the future. Nothing is linear, remember? He gets hurt on mission as part of the guard, and when the bone snaps he's suddenly lying in his mother's lap with a broken arm from falling out of a tree. The other guards are unsettled. They worry maybe he's been cursed by the Witch.
When he meets Glinda, she's wearing a wedding dress. Then he blinks and it's a school uniform in the wrong colors. But he thinks, Oh. This is the person for me. Or already has been...or will be...whatever, it's meant to be!
Only then he meets Elphie, and calls her Fae. He knows her name, it's Fae. He's said it before. He's been saying it all along! He's surprised that she's green, of course, but somewhere in the back of his mind...he's confused. Is it really so unusual? He's known a green woman named Fae for years. She's not so odd. And...this is Fae. But he's just meeting her now? After that first meeting in the forest, he drinks himself to sleep. His feet are dragging in the morning; he feels closer to death when he's closer to her.
Elphaba discovers his Sight when they're loosing the lion cub and he mutters, "Sorry, Brr. I'll make it up to you once we get to the Wizard." She doesn't ask what on earth he means, but she knows then that he's living moments the rest of them can't see. She is the first person not to mistake it for madness.
He can't read well, because he seems to see every page simultaneously when picking it up. It's as if he knows the whole story, and none of it, at once. It's rather like life that way, he supposes.
His head aches on bad days and buzzes on good ones. When his engagement is announced before the nation, he is having a very bad day. He's barely seeing what's in front of him by the time he walks away from the crowd. Glinda looks like her school-self when she runs after him, so he says of course he'll marry her if that will make her happy. After all, he just met her, he doesn't even know who Fae is...
Oh, no, he does. What has he done?
When Elphaba shows up on the wedding night, it's the closest to clarity he's been in years. He can see his death, looming and crystal-clear, but he can see her before it, and he finally bites the bullet and surrenders to his fate.
It is every bit as painful a death as he foresaw.
Yet...he wakes up. With a head full of straw, and absolutely nothing else.
He cannot see ahead, behind or around. He can only see what is in front of him.
And he sees it, finally, clear as day.
In the end, there really was not so much pain without his brain.
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