I am a sentimental man who always longed to be a father.
Well, he was – he had been – a father. And never known it. And he had killed his only child.
Not directly, of course. But he had caused her death. Had sent that little girl from his world, the only person he had ever met in Oz who came from Earth, and she had melted the "Wicked Witch of the West." Oh, how the Wizard regretted that little bit of anti-Elphaba propaganda.
And helping you with your ascent allows me to feels so… parental.
Knowledge could be bitter. If he had stayed ignorant, if Glinda hadn't found the bottle and put everything together and realized, realized that the Wizard had murdered his only family member… Everything would be better.
Have another drink of green elixir, and we'll have ourselves a little mixer…
Would it have been better if he had never even met Melena? He didn't know. He had not thought of her for quite some time. Madame Morrible had never mentioned that the new witch she was grooming for his service was the governor's daughter, just that she had a "skin condition."
There are precious few at ease with moral ambiguities, so we act as though they don't exist.
He had preferred a life of uninformed ease, when Madame Morrible controlled everyday things.
I never asked for this, or planned it in advance.
If he had planned it, it would not have involved a green daughter he knew nothing about, or her death, or even – especially – leaving Oz. He had grown to love the country, or, rather, the power he had over it, and didn't know how obscurity would suit him back in the United States.
And they said wonderful. Believe me, it's hard to resist. 'Cause it feels wonderful…
He had been wonderful. But now he was normal. Ordinary.
One of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities.
He didn't know if he could adjust to that. It would be so difficult.
From his balloon, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz looked down at the ground. And Oscar Diggs looked up, and smiled. It would be so easy.
Ha, gotta love the ambiguous endings. What did I mean by that last sentence? Nobody but me shall ever know…
Anyway, yeah, it's been months since I updated, but at least I did, right?