ive had this au in mind for like months but never anything to do with it so here you go: wicked angel/demon au 😍🙏
So basically before the wizard arrived angels and demons (they are basically both just mfs with wings and like a couple other features) lived together in oz
eventually though he started to vilify demons to the point of them being wiped out by being locked in prisons and whatnot
So now demons haven’t been around in Oz for a long time and everyone thinks they are evil
There are three types of angel -
archangels have two pairs of wings, one main one and one smaller secondary one. They are also the only angels who can use magic
Regular angels are just that. One pair of wings
Cherubs (munchkins) have wings that are too small to fly
All angels have feathered wings, tail feathers, and a halo (which is literally just like a ring of light that is always above their head and it’s annoying because it’ll hurt your eyes if you look directly at it)
There are also fallen angels—if an angel’s mind and actions turn too corrupt, their wings will gradually turn into these weird feathered bat wing things (making it extremely difficult to fly)
their halo will also become entirely black like a whole absence of light thing
Demons have bat wings, those scaly demon spade tails, and little horns
Being human, the wizard has none of these features (neither does dorothy but we’re not talking about her right now)
details under the cut ⬇️ (some spoilers i suppose)
elphaba
Demon (ofc)
malayan flying fox
just randomly born as a demon instead of an angel and nobody knows why
it’s actually because her father (the wizard) is human which did some bs to the genetics or whatever
also isnt green anymore 💔💚 she’s a demon instead
obviously everyone HATEDDD her for this at first
What happened to her only exacerbated the stereotypes around demons
glinda
Archangel
gyrfalcon
Despite being an archangel she struggles with magic (which everyone expects her to know) so she is quite insecure about this
the only archangel student at shiz so everyone treats her like the seventh wonder of the world
absolutely enraged out of her mind when she got roomed with a demon (at first.)
also was incredibly mad that morrible chose a demon over her
nessarose
Fallen angel
red kite/vampire bat
in the past, could fly but not walk
now she can walk (thanks to the slippers) but can barely fly anymore because feathers + skin wings arent exactly aerodynamic so its pretty ironic
fiyero
Angel
peacock ✨✨✨
has that extremely big peacock tail that just generally gets in everybodys way (including his own)
also can fly about as well as a peacock can (which is not very well)
as the scarecrow has like a bunch of straw sticking out of his back and it barely even looks like wings
BOQ✨
Cherub
like a budgie or something
as the tin man he just has like tiny little immovable metal wings like those ones on a statue of an angel or something
morrible
Archangel
snowy owl
Thought glinda was an actual disgrace to archangelkind at one point
probably the most powerful archangel before glinda
Everyone admires her ability to fly completely silently even with four wings (owl wings)
the wizard
Just some mf guy
people somehow revere him and see him as magical for his lack of wings/angel traits
also random thought of mine i like to imagine that the sound of glinda slamming the book on the table when she says RIGHT in popular is her like flaring all four of her wings at once and scaring tf out of elphie