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What Oz could have been: The Great and Powerful

I first heard about the original script for Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful" through a fan art of Theodora by the brilliant artist hwilki65 over at DeviantArt. The fan-art in question is gone now, but do not hesitate to go check the artist's gallery over at DeviantArt, he is one of the most thorough Oz artists of the Internet with tons of clever and beautiful takes on the Ozian world.

Everybody remembers Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful", right? This Disney movie that attempted to be a prequel to the MGM movie, and yet couldn't really because Disney didn't have the rights? This VERY divise 2013 movie which was a big flop in terms of Oz adaptation? You remember, this thing which took a very cool concept of prequel, a lot of beautiful visuals and impressive visual effects and just... drowned it in cliche plot points, wasted opportunities and the most insufferable characters you ever met?

Yeah, this movie.

In his description for his fan-art, hwilki65 evoked the original scenario for the movie. His fan-art was of the "original" Theodora, not the one from the movie - and while the final product might seem like a simple cash-grab attempting at reclaiming the MGM heritage, these early drafts proved that the movie ACTUALLY started out as much more faithful to the Oz books and more sincere in its attempt at reconciliating the various Oz heritages into something new.

Of course, the idea of a better original version of the movie, that eventually was butchered into the story we can see today, was very intriguing. So I checked out the original script for the movie (but not after YEARS of searching it around, because it wasn't disponible online at first). And OH MY! The original scenario is indeed very different from the final movie, and quite better in term of overall quality! I did a full breakdown of this script back at my Oz side-blog (@witchesoz ), but to give you a taste of what we lost, and to encourage you to go seek this original scenario, here are some key points different from the final movie:

Oscar, the Wizard of Oz. In the movie? A selfish, greedy, womanizing jerk who starts out as the villain of the story, and his evolution arc is basically just him learning to be a decent human being. In the original script? He was such a positive character - in fact I will dare say he was a saner and cleaner version of Jack Sparrow. He was this kind-hearted, goofy, extravagant stage magician VERY good at his job (he was also a ventriloquist like in the novel, AND an escape artist/contortionist), but unfortunately unappreciated by the folks of 1900s USA, so he was forced to do snake-oil selling just to survive. He wasn't motived by greed or lust, but by his day-dreaming and ambition at being the greatest magician of all time, acclaimed by the masses - and the reason he played into "Yes I'm the Wizard of the prophecy" wasn't because of some girls or riches, but simply because Oz was the first place where his magic tricks actually impressed someone.

Remember this little winged monkey fella that Oscar saves the life of in Oz, and so the monkey swears a "life debt" to the wizard and becomes his funny sidekick? In the original script it was the reverse situation. Oscar was helped by a winged monkey, and thanked the talking animal for saving his life, swearing he had a "life debt" TO THE WINGED MONKEY, not the reverse.

In the final movie, when Oscar is in the tornado, he just whimpers and begs for his life. In the original script? He underwent a King Lear-like monologue, insulting the winds and defying the storm, insulting the tornado and daring it to kill him.

Theodora... Oh, Theodora! The character was originally designed as the very opposite of what she ended up as. She wasn't a shy, naive, nice girl - she was this strong, confident, majestic witch. Oscar didn't manipulate her like a teenage girl: she was the one who manipulated Oscar like a puppet by pretending to be a good witch and forcing him into the role of The Wizard of Oz. Yes I say "by pretending" to be a good a witch. Because originally, Theodora was a wicked witch FROM the start. She knew and was in league with her sister's evil plan. The only difference between the two is that Theodora, as the younger and less experimented sister, still had some humanity left in her - feelings of kindness and human decency that the wizard managed to "wake up" by just... being nice to her and treating her like a regular human being. There was the whole "I give you the music box" scene, but it was the reverse? In the original draft Oscar didn't lie, he just gave her a random music box as a gift for helping him in Oz, just out of kindness without expecting anything in return ; and that DID touch Theodora because indeed, since she is a wicked witch, she never had such a genuine gift out of pure kindness.

Originally we would have the backstory of the Cowardly Lion. Theodora, wishing to "test" if the Wizard truly had powers or not, secretely turned a rabbit into a lion, and had it attack Oscar while he was alone and presumably defenseless... Only for the Wizard to shoot it with a gun, causing in this rabbit-lion the fear of humanity.

Originally the servants of the Wicked Witches were the various terrible tribes of the novel "The Emerald City of Oz", monstrous outsiders the Witch sisters had Oz invaded with. The Growleywogs, the Whimsies, the Nomes (well rather the Gnomes)...

In the movie Theodora "turn to evil" is literaly just "Oh, a guy cheated on me, I'm heartbroken, let me nomnom on some evil". In the original draft? SO MUCH BETTER! Evanora, noticing Oscar had rekindled the last piece of goodness in her sister, first tries to convince Oscar he should kill Theodora because she is "in league with the wicked witch". When Oscar refuses to commit murder, Evanora tries to convince Theodora Oscar was trying to kill her... But Theodora doesn't buy it and, even though the Wizard knows she is a Wicked Witch, she still helps him escape Evanora in return for the kindness he showed her. And afterward, Evanora spends many, many scenes abusing her sister, at first verbally, psychologically, finally physically, to convince her to give up on the last of her humanity and enter a deeper, more monstrous stage of wickedness. Theodora does end up burning her skin due to the tears - but they're the tears her sisters make her shed with her torture. And Theodora resists' Evanora poisonous words, only to give up when Glinda causes a siege on the Emerald City and the Witches must prepare themselves to directly confront and fight Oscar.

And can we speak about Glinda? She was SO MUCH closer to the Glinda of the books! She was this majestic, beautiful and powerful warlord-witch living in a grand palace in the south, all on her own (because, since she is a witch, she literaly needs no servant). As soon as she saw Oscar, she cut through his bullshit and shoot down his dream of grandeur, because she knows what real magic is (all Witches do, but the Wicked Witches played along to better manipulate Oscar). She gathers an ACTUAL army of thousand of people to besiege the Emerald City ; and during the war she uses so much more her powers, bu unleashing blinding mists and huge snowstorms, and literaly stopping or unleashing the winds. Oh yes, and all possible romance between Oscar and her is also clearly made impossible when it is revealed that Witches cannot kiss humans - else humans DIE (which also puts Theodora's loneliness under a new light).

Oh yes, and in the original draft, Oscar's development was actually him going from this ambitious daydreamer who only wished for a fantasy land to escape to, where he would be a great and acclaimed wizard... to him actually being fed up with Oz where everybody wants to kill or manipulate him, and dreaming to return to Kansas to settle down with those he truly love, and live there a mundane, quiet, normal life, as a regular man... Something he ends up being forced to give up, because he is needed to prevent the Wicked Witches from overtaking Oz, and so he literaly is trapped within his own dream and forced to give up what he realized too lat was what he wanted all along...

Seriously, the original draft for the movie was SO INSANELY COOL. It was still a rough draft and it had pacing problems, and some cheesy stuff that definitively needed to be cut, and also some weird phrasing that made it sound somehow racist sometimes? But outside of that, the characters and plot were truly so much better than what we got!

[zadaruon]

To me, Apocalymon is...

To me, Apokarimon is a cute baby. When Pico comforts and watches over Apokarimon with loving eyes, it feels like a parent seeing off a child. For Apokarimon, who's grown accustomed to being alone, Pico's affection is a bit too much. Recently, he's calmed down and learned to depend on others.

Apokarimon needs a mother. Resentment and hatred melt away with love. Pico in my work is extremely friendly with Apokarimon, but there's a reason for that.

In their previous lives, they were a human parent and child, but were brought to the Digital World by the Administrator Yggdrasil and separated by death.

Pico's true identity

Pico's true identity was that of an ordinary human woman. Her dream was to become a kind mother. However, she was already carrying a small life growing inside her. She was very unlucky. She was brought to the Digital World due to a mistake by Yggdrasil. Childbirth in the Digital World is extremely difficult. Yggdrasil is not an obstetrician, so she was unable to provide the proper care. "Are you in pain? If so, let's remove it." She then disposed of the baby growing inside her in the Digital World's trash can. In despair, she committed suicide. Seeing this, Yggdrasil felt sorry for her and reincarnated her soul into a Digimon. However, even after being reborn as a Digimon, she continued to worry about her baby. "It might be crying because it's hungry," "It's looking for its mother," "It must be very lonely," and so the mother resolved. "No matter what form I'm reborn into, when I meet my baby, I'll love it lots," that was Pico. She may be small and weak, but her love is immense.

At that time the baby...

The dustbin was filled with dark data. The baby was absorbed into the dark data without even a cry. As a result of the mixing, Apokarimon was born. Based on a baby, Apokarimon unconsciously yearned for its mother. Born to purge the world, however, just as a baby craves its mother's milk, Apokarimon craved the love of its parents. "If I destroy this world, I might never see my mother again," Apokarimon thought, refraining from purging the world. And so began a long, lonely battle. Apokarimon endured alone for tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of years. "Destroy this world," "Spew out your hatred," "Be angry and rampage," the darkness repeatedly tempted Apokarimon. But even so, Apokarimon refused to succumb to hatred. That's how much he wanted to see his mother. When he was on the verge of going insane, he repeatedly engaged in self-abuse. His body wasn't easily killed. He abused himself so much that his hands smelled of blood. "Mom, I'm here," "Come see me quickly," "Hey, Mom... it's dark... I'm scared... I don't want to be a destroyer..." A baby was crying. The dark space where Apocalymon was was always filled with the cries of a baby. One day, a Picodevimon landed on his hand. It was the reunion of parent and child.

As Apokarimon interacts with PicoDevimon, he realizes that she is his mother. However, despite finally meeting his mother, Apokarimon hesitates to ask. "My mother would never love me, because I'm so ugly." However, his mother had forgotten her memories of her human life. It took her over 10,000 reincarnations to become Pico. Even so, her maternal instincts remained. Pico unconsciously tried to love Apokarimon. Apokarimon was troubled. "Pico, stop," "There's no point in loving me..." But Pico continued to love Apokarimon. One day, as Apokarimon rested, Pico stroked his cheek with her wing and said, "Boy, thank you for being born." Those words saved Apokarimon. "Mommy!" Apokarimon cried loudly. Pico shed tears of joy as she stroked Apokarimon's forehead. "Boy, I'm sorry I'm late." In reality, the mother was afraid to meet her baby. He thought it was only natural that he would be hated, for he was a terrible parent who had left his child all alone for so long. "I want to see Mommy," "I want to see my baby." The wishes of parent and child came true. "Mom, thank you for giving birth to me," Apokarimon said, gently embracing Pico. Pico cried, crying, "I can't hold you or breastfeed you with this body!" "We'll be together forever from now on," "I love you, my boy..." "Thank you for making me your mother!" Freed from loneliness, Apokarimon was no longer a destroyer of the world. Having found happiness, Apokarimon's next wish was peace. He decided to use his purging power for peace. He would not lose. He had Pico. He had a mother he loved. After all, neither Digimon nor humans could do anything alone. Just having someone to share his heart with gave him such courage. Apokarimon crossed over to the real world with Pico. Aren't there many families on this earth who cannot find happiness? I want to support them. Apocalymon and Pico continue to strive for world peace today. [END]

*I used Google Translate to write a scenario for Apokarimon and Pico. What do you think? I'm truly sorry if it's difficult to read. I came up with this scenario because I wanted to see a story where Apokarimon is happy. Apokarimon in Digimon Adventure (Japanese) was so pitiful... Wouldn't it be nice if there was at least one fan fiction that could make Apokarimon smile? My dream as a child has come true. I've created a scenario worthy of you who lamented, "Apokarimon is so pitiful." I want to scream at my younger self: He's happy. He's loved a lot.

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Here’s my little contribution to the Slay the Princess fandom.

I created an OC called The Child. She doesn’t really have a name, just like her parents. Yeah, she’s supposed to be the daughter of the Princess and the Decider.

Warning: Major Spoilers ahead if you haven’t played the game yourself or watched too many videos about it

She comes from another timeline where she was born after everything is said and done and the Long Quiet and Shifting Mound leave together as their true selves.

I imagine she stumbles upon another Construct and is only able to enter it during the events of Apotheisis when the Princess tears a hole into the Construct’s walls. She takes the form a small speck of light that goes completely unnoticed by the Shifting Mound at first.

After this, the Child becomes part of almost every scenario the Long Quiet creates, only appearing in the second and third Chapters. She refers to the SM and LQ as her mother and father, much to their confusion.

In the second chapters, she meets LQ inside the cabin, in the room with the Pristine Blade, and goes on before him.

In the third chapters, she meets LQ just outside the cabin, warning him of what he might find. Depending on the situation, she either stays outside where it’s safe or goes in with him.

Like her mother, her appearance changes with each Chapter. In The Nightmare, the Princess is enamored with the Child because she can actually withstand the effects and even give off her own. She’s happy to let her play with LQ too and escape with her.

In the Spectre, the Child serves as the Princess’ only company before LQ comes back, taking on a half-spectral form herself.

In the Witch, she is initially distrustful of LQ and scurries off to her mother’s side upon his entry. The Princess is protective of the Child, like any mother cat would be.

In the Adversary, the Child acts as the referee while the Princess and LQ duke it out. They’re indifferent to her but still aware she’s there.

I imagine that, in the Happily Ever After scenario, the Child will present an interesting divergence. She gets sleepy and the Princess will want to put her to bed, leading the Hero to the girl’s room in the Tower-Cabin. There, we’ll see evidence of her true nature in drawings she plastered on the wall. The Child will also let the LQ in on the fact Smitten was with the Princess.

I have my own scenario in mind for an original Chapter 2. I call it The Mother, wherein the Cabin turns into a veritable cottage. The front room appears very cozy and home-y, basically a living room, with a couch/bed tucked into the corner.

A table is there, littered with papers and drawing implements, but no blade.

The basement has been turned into a kitchen/pantry/dining room and we find the Princess hard at work using the Pristine Blade as a regular kitchen knife, attached to a longer chain that will only let her move to as far as the door. The Child is waiting patiently at the table for her food to be ready.

It’s basically just them playing House, and could go a few different ways.

The Child’s mission is to explore and learn about how her parents were before she was born, but after being traumatized a little, she wants to escape and rejoin her real parents who are already out in the real world together.

When the LQ asks the Shifting Mound about the Child, she will claim she knows nothing about her. Unlike the Narrator, the Child is a real person but an outsider. An Intruder.

The Narrator won’t know what to make of her, but from appearances alone, he might conclude that she was related to the Hero somehow. Though he’ll claim that’s impossible (because he didn’t create her).

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tyring to draw again so I did a side by side of my protag vs a Golem unit

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Villain x Henchman #Scenario 15

These characters are both gender neutral and nameless because I couldn't think of anything specific, I wanted to do with them. This is also (again) inspired by one of gingerly-writing's prompts. Hope you like this short scenario and thanks for reading.

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Hero pushed henchman down with their hand wrapped around the other's throat. Soon enough villain would be there and hero would punish them for hurting them so much. They would finally get their revenge. "Hero! Let go of them!" Villain shouted, landing on the roof. They began walking towards hero with fury in their eyes. Hero clenched their hand around henchman's throat causing villain to stop just as quickly as they had started. "What do you want?" Hero loosened their grip, tears continuing to seep down henchman's cheeks. "You know, making a hero beg is easy. They always have so many weaknesses. Friends, family, the city, an intolerance for pain. But a villain? Oh, now there's a real challenge." "What does that have to do with henchman?!" "Don't interrupt me!" Hero yelled, clenching their hand again. Henchman gasped for air. "Where was I? Right. You used all of my weaknesses against me! YOU KILLED PEOPLE! Just to get to me. So I thought I would return the favour." "How?" "Well, I think that I finally found your only weakness. Don't you agree henchman?" Henchman choked back a sob, unable to breathe, unable to speak with hero choking them harder with each word they spoke. "Henchman isn't my weakness." Venom laced villain's voice. "Then you won't mind if I throw them over the side of this building?" Hero lifted henchman and hung them over the railing of the roof. Henchman clung to hero's arm. "Wait! Wait. Please!" Villain yelled. "Beg me to let them go." Villain slowly bent down, resting on their knees. "I beg you, please, let them go." "As you wish." Hero removed their hand from henchman's throat. And they began to plumet down. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Villain dove over the edge of the roof after henchman, trying to fly as fast they possibly could. But they were too late. Henchman's body was pierced by a street sign. "HENCHMAN!" Bystanders screamed at the bloody sight. Parent's covering their children's eyes as they screamed. Villain cupped henchman's cheek. "Henchman?" Blood slipped from henchman's lips. "Sorry villain. Wish I could have been more useful. Thanks for letting stick by you for so long, though." The last word was barely a whisper as henchman's eyes closed and the breathed their final breath. Villain cried. Hero laughed.

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Me & My S/I seem dumb at first, but if you understand the thought process-

Jervis: What kind of cat is the pink panther?

*Jonathan and Edward just look at him.*

Blake: Good question. I always just kind of assumed he was a jaguar.

Jonathan: Wh- what????

Edward: ...The- The pink panther is a PANTHER.

Blake: No he isn't, though. He's not black.

*Jonathan and Jervis silently watching the ensuing argument in the background*

Edward: Of course he's not black, he's pink!

Blake: But that's why he can't be a panther. Panthers aren't pink!

Edward: He's a cartoon!

Blake: But if he's not black, he can't be a panther! Panthers are just melanistic big cats!

Edward: I- ...What?

Blake: 'Panther' is just the term used for any big cat with melanism. You could call a black lion a panther. The Pink panther can't be a panther because he's not black.

...

*Edward whips out his phone and looks it up*

Jervis, smug: So, it's not a dumb question, after all.

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hiii been a while

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lappy fixed for now so freak in bound