catboyelphaba

[catboyelphaba]

once i get the book and can bring up quotes with page numbers to provide textual evidence of elphaba being autistic it’s over for you bitches

[catboyelphaba]

elphaba takes an unwaveringly clinical approach to the dumbest fucking ideas. combining two types of toothpaste to see if it cleans her teeth better? done and done let me pull a properly formatted data table out of my ass. launching snowballs with crope and tibbett’s homemade slingshot?? you best believe she’s noting down the ideal angle to fire it at. hanging clothes up to dry??? she’s throwing the window open and testing the air flow in order to reposition the clothesline so everything dries faster. there’s at least 6 existing floor plans of how room 22 would look if she acquired a bookshelf that is 1) simply too large and 2) far too expensive to be a reasonable student acquisition and not a single one of them is ergonomic.

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i’ve definitely already said this before but elphaba’s handwriting is absolute chicken scratch and boq and glinda people have tried copying off her during tests only to take one look at the paper and go. i can’t read this shit. why are you submitting this.

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doctor dillamond gives fantastic hugs this is not up for debate

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what’s this??? gelphie character references??? >:3

yeah! if you’re having trouble picturing them in my writing (or if my descriptions don’t really match up with how you see them in your own head), here’s just how I imagine they look (and how you can expect to see them described). (this also exists in case i forget some details) <3

Elphaba:

tall (like 6′2″ probably?)

lanky bby. stringbean. got that Library physique.

toned arms, still. she carries a lot of books around and it’s not like that’s not gonna build (or at least maintain) muscle

FANGS this is NON-NEGOTIABLE (and her other teeth are sharp, too)

a few freckles!!

do i. do i need to say that she’s green

i once read a fic where she blushed purple (instead of just darker green) and i’ve lived by that headcanon ever since

eye color is a whole spaghetti-tangle of genetic fuckery (and her lineage being. unique also throws another spanner in the works) but she’s got brown eyes w/ little gold flecks in them

*voice of god* behold! the holy no-tiddies mathematical expression: childhood neglect/malnutrition + a dubious-at-best ruling of afab (that’s canon, don’t come for me) + the metabolism of a hummingbird on speed + constantly walking around a big-ass college campus

i promise i’m not a creepy dude who writes about boobs all the time i’m just a trans guy and an escapist

sharp! elbows, knees, tongue, you name it

why the fuck does she lose her glasses after Popular that shit makes no sense. i wear glasses and will never get over this. anyways she’s blind as fuck without them and it’s safe to assume she’s wearing them whenever i write her

dark under-eye circles

i mean,,,,,, she’s a college student majoring in a STEM field like. what did u expect lmao

right-handed, but reasonably dexterous with her left as well

HOWEVER her handwriting ranges between “yeah i think i can read that?” and “fucking illegible” at any given time this girl has NO patience and her brain is faster than her hands by MILES

nose is a lil crooked (common symptom of Will-Fight-A-Bitch Syndrome)

scars

oh boy so many uhhhhh. 

lots of common ones like knees/elbows from just Being a Kid

several in the wrist/forearm region, mostly from her teeth

most of the more serious ones are on her back. they’re shaped like buckles and sharp lines and the death-masks of flames and one of her favorite hobbies is not talking about them

two almost-identical ones on her right hip and shoulder that she legitimately does not know the origins of (literally no significance to this, just kind of funny)

short nails. she bites em when she’s nervous. whoops

glinda already waxes poetic about her hair in the book so i’ll leave it at that ;) only distinguishing characteristic i usually add is that it’s like. hella long. like waist-length at least

Glinda:

short!! tiny!! (like. 5′1″ max she is SMALL!!)

n chubby! aughhg my vision of glinda is just. so soft she makes me happy to think about. i’d love to get a hug from her any day of the week

teeth are a little crooked but in like. a charming way

fuck it, she has freckles too. more of them, b/c she doesn’t spend as much time inside as Elphaba does

pale as fuck; see above. doesn’t tan, just gets freckles (as a fellow pasty bitch i can relate)

this one’s kind of dumb to specify lmao she blushes like a normal person

two subtly-different blues in her eyes. it’s weird and it looks like a trick of the light at first but it lends her some mystery

i had a conversation with an online friend about this YEARS ago :,) i miss her... love you, olive, wherever you are...

it’s important to pay attention to her eyes in conversation. she might be acting dumb but she’s keyed IN. much sharper than a lot of people realize, or give her credit for

oh boy the boobie question. uhhh you guys know what? i’ll leave this one up to you, honestly it’s not v important to me

the round/soft to Elphaba’s angles <33 fuck i love that dynamic so much

probably needs glasses but would NEVER wear them. a lil squinty as a result, sometimes

actually gets the appropriate amount of sleep! good for her, honestly. charismatic enough that she can talk her way into extensions/out of missing assignments VERY easily to catch those extra Z’s

lefty!! (so she and Elphaba can hold hands without compromising their dexterity or whatever) her handwriting is really neat b/c she has to go slowly in order to not smudge the ink

so, naturally, Elphaba’s handwriting annoys the fuck out of her kjhgjfkdfsj (she can still read it with barely any trouble tho b/c she’s a fucking simp i don’t make the rules) (oh wait. i do.)

misc. facial features

cute lil nose!

OH MY GOD SHE HAS DIMPLES I ALMOST FORGOT

pierced ears, naturally

no scars, surprisingly. she was a cautious kid

nails aren’t long, but are well-maintained

her hair is like. ungodly soft. v shiny, naturally curly, just as bouncy and sunshiny as she is <333

she’s just such a ball of positivity??? i lov,,,,,, she,,,,,

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k uhhhh starting off strong i guess? ND elphaba headcanons let’s go, it’s projection time babey (also shiz-era b/c post-shiz makes me sad wahoo)

under the cut b/c i’m embarrassed about these for some reason? idk take it up with my shit-brain

- technically organized but in like. a spicy way. like a v v specific system that’s mostly neat but doesn’t make sense to anyone but her, really

- tries really hard to only stim in like. “acceptable” ways b/c society is Like That (Leg Bounce(tm), rubbing hems of clothes, lip/nail-biting, cracking knuckles and fiddling with writing utensils and stuff like that)

- although life kind of just fucking sucks so on Very Rare occasions, ya know, it’s just Go Time and that’s when she either goes to a corner of the library to just rock back n forth for a while, maybe flap a hand or two, or holes herself up in the room and is a little more. violent,,,,, like slam-your-back-against-the-wall, blow-your-voice-out-screaming, apply-teeth-directly-to-wrist kind of violent

- as sort of a follow-up to that, i’d consider outbursts of magic (moreso musical-verse) as another kind of stim almost?? feels right to me, idk

- uhh hyperfixations/hyperfocusing, woo boy!! hyperfocused? will forget to eat. guaranteed. Animals, specific historical concepts, Life Sciences (i also hc her as being interested in neurology as it relates to Animals and their speech capabilities)

- most of the time, pretty hyperverbal (this isn’t even really a headcanon there’s literally a line in the musical about it lmao) but will absolutely just. stop talking when overstimulated. like that’s the first thing to go.

- LOTS of things to say but not the best volume control. her voice is naturally low/reasonably quiet but when she’s on a roll it’s either super mumbly or just a constant stream of slightly-too-loud words

- FUCK loud noises. all my homies hate loud noises. this is the second-most project-y one and i don’t even care. emerald city and the wizard? pure fucking sensory hell but adrenaline is a hell of a drug and also she’s Very Bad at, ya know. taking care of herself/leaving painful situations b/c she’s been taught that she deserves it :,) glinda is ABSOLUTELY her rock in there though. sometimes you gotta do it for the homies.

- good luck becoming trusted enough to hug her but in reality she’s fucking touch-starved and god does she need a hug. this probably counts as pressure stimming now that i think about it.

- oh yeah heavy boots too. and the cape, to feel something on her shoulders. and The Hat, once she gets it. pressure, pressure, blocks some bright lights in that order.

- did i say she chews on things? yeah but i’m gonna say it again because this is practically canon as well

- WE’RE ENDING ON A WHOLESOME ONE. she thinks there’s not a lot to be happy about (curse you gregory maguire) but she absolutely happy stims this is NOT up for debate. lots of fuckin uhhh arm movements? like it’s obvious she’s trying Not to Do That (fuck you frex, you piece of shit) but she does open up eventually :,)

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My comfort characters really be like *autistic coded* *autistic coded* *asexual-coded* *bisexual* *neurodivergent* *autistic c-

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“my child is completely fine” your child relates to elphaba from wicked