i feel like we're missing out on a lot of missed fanon opportunity given we know Annabeth is explicitly supposed to have been heavily based on Atalanta. That's why her name is Annabeth, even. That's why she had the whole narrative of nearly joining the Hunters. She even has a whole backstory about being unwanted by one of her parents, raised by an animal/adoptive family (in this case Chiron), and then returning to her father later in life. Like, the Atalanta inspiration behind her is very clear.
Anyways I would like to see Annabeth challenging Percy to a footrace and Percy knowing he's going to be so cooked trying to physically outpace her that he can only hope to try and match her wit to win
The Wicked musical, for a 2003 liberal fantasy that wants to deal with racism without actually having to talk about racism in our world today, is actually pretty interesting in the ways in which it functions as a form of gay and racial allegory that very much does not treat those two things as if theyāre the same issue, which a lot of āyouāve been different your whole life and everyone has always hated you for itā type stories at the time, and a bunch to this day, are guilty of, so that they donāt actually have to get into anything more specific.
Elphaba has been scorned and tormented ever since the literal second of her birth for something she cannot change or hide. Sheās from a wealthy background, but doesnāt play nice with others. She has an absurd amount of talent, but that only serves to make her more of a target, as she is only seen as someone of worth when she can do something for more powerful people around her. Her otherness is only forgivable when she is being exemplary, because being just as good as everyone else is not good enough when youāre different. Elphaba canāt hide, but she also doesnāt really have to cover up what Glinda was to her. She loses nothing if everyone knows that Glinda was kind to her, or that she was the one to insist Glinda be allowed to learn magic. She has significantly more experience with marginalization, even as the daughter of a prominent government official, than Glinda does, and it changes the way she interacts with the world.
Glinda is rich, blonde, charismatic, and gets her way always. Sheās not the most talented, but sheās not uniquely restricted or handicapped in anyway whatsoever. Sheās privileged, and the only thing she ever does thatās out of line is care about the wrong person. Glinda can, and does, hide that thing that makes her different. The thing that makes her stand out from the rest of Oz is something that she can ignore in order to make herself look better. Yes, sheāll be alone and unhappy, but she has her job, and her popularity, and she can have everything sheās ever wanted. Because, regardless of whether you think itās romantic or plutonic, Glinda is closeted. Her feelings about Elphaba leave her to mourn alone in a crowd of celebrating people.
still riding the high of absorbing doomed yuri the marvel television series and doomed yuri the movie musical back to back if I'm being completely honest...
I sometimes forget what really happened in the books, what we know from the extra content, what is a very popular headcanon in the fandom and what is just something I read in a fic that one time
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