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Fiyero Tigelaar is an Arjiki prince from the Vinkus whom Elphaba first meets as a student at Shiz. Described as dark-skinned with distinctive blue diamond tattoos—traditional Arjiki facial markings—he stands apart from his peers, a visible outsider whose difference resonates with Elphaba. They reconnect years later as adults when Fiyero spots Elphaba in a chapel in the Emerald City and follows her home. Though Fiyero is married to Sarima and they have three children—Irji, Manek, and Nor—he and Elphaba begin a passionate affair, fueled by mutual respect and love. But Fiyero’s involvement with Elphaba eventually leads to his capture and presumed murder by the Wizard’s Gale Force, who leave behind only a bloody scene in Elphaba’s apartment. His body is never recovered. Elphaba, consumed by guilt, spends seven years in a convent, where she gives birth to their son, Liir. Fiyero’s murder and absence shapes much of Elphaba’s later life. She seeks forgiveness from Sarima only to be denied, and she clings to the illogical belief that he may somehow still be alive, possibly living as the Scarecrow. Her inability to accept his death stems from their rare connection. Fiyero was one of few who understood Elphaba, and his loss is inextricably tied to her own sense of culpability.
Fiyero Quotes in Wicked
The Wicked quotes below are all either spoken by Fiyero or refer to Fiyero. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prologue: On the Yellow Brick Road Quotes
“She’s a despot. A dangerous tyrant,” said the Lion with conviction.
[...] “I hear she’s a champion of home rule for the so-called Winkies.”
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12. City of Emeralds Quotes
He grabbed her hand, and looked up into her face, which just for a second had fallen open. What he saw there made him chill and hot flash, in dizzying simultaneity, with the shape and scale of its need.
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“I was a tool. My dear father used me [...] he used me as an object lesson. Looking as I did, even singing as I can—they trusted him partly as a response to the freakiness of me.”
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“I love you so much, Fiyero, you just don’t understand: Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.”
She was right. He didn’t understand.
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14. The Jasper Gates of Kiamo Ko Quotes
“You want to throw down your burden, throw it down at my feet, or across my shoulders. You want perhaps to weep a little, to say good-bye, and then to leave. And when you leave here you will walk right out of the world.”
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15. Uprisings Quotes
[...] Nanny began to attend to Liir’s needs more lovingly than she did the needs of Nor and Irji. Elphaba registered it with shame, for she also saw how willingly Liir responded to Nanny’s attention.
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16. The Murder and Its Afterlife Quotes
Elphaba, who had endured Sarima’s refusal to forgive, now begged by a gibbering child for the same mercy always denied her? How could you give such a thing out of your own hollowness?
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Fiyero Character Timeline in Wicked
The timeline below shows where the character Fiyero appears in Wicked. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
11. The Charmed Circle
...pair of antlers to life. The antlers attack a new student, a Winkie prince named Fiyero, until Crope and Tibbett subdue them.
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...is friendship. He, Elphaba, Glinda, Nessarose, Nanny, and occasionally Crope, Tibbett, Pfannee, Shenshen, Milla, and Fiyero form a group Boq calls “the charmed circle.” During one of their gatherings, Fiyero casually...
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12. City of Emeralds
Five years later, Fiyero visits the Emerald City to attend the opera with a colleague. Beforehand, he stops at...
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Elphaba reluctantly invites Fiyero inside her residence. He shares that he has three children and works in the Office...
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Throughout the fall, despite Elphaba’s better judgment, she and Fiyero continue meeting at her home. Fiyero shares that Boq married Milla and moved back to...
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Throughout their affair, Elphaba never lets Fiyero touch her with his hands below the waist, and one night he notices a faint...
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One winter afternoon, Fiyero stops for coffee at a café where an explosion had torn up the garden wall...
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Fiyero keeps what he witnessed to himself, afraid that sharing his newfound sympathy for Elphaba’s cause...
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Later, as Fiyero shops for Lurlinemas gifts—scarves for both Elphaba and his wife, Sarima—he unexpectedly runs into Glinda,...
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Fiyero ultimately never sees Glinda again, nor does he tell Elphaba about the encounter when he...
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When Madame Morrible arrives at the theater in a carriage, it becomes clear to Fiyero that she was Elphaba’s target all along—and Elphaba confirms this with the look on her...
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13. The Voyage Out
...guests why they’re traveling to the Vinkus, and Elphaba admits that she hopes to ensure Fiyero’s children are taken care of and confess her sins to his widow, Sarima, before exiting...
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The caravan finally reaches Arjiki territory, Fiyero’s homeland, and seeing the Arjiki people makes Elphaba miss him even more. At a lakeside...
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14. The Jasper Gates of Kiamo Ko
...Sarima offers to call her “Auntie” instead. When Elphaba mentions being an old friend of Fiyero’s, Sarima recalls the stories her late husband once told her about his Shiz days, and...
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...At lunch, Sarima bluntly tells Elphaba that she doesn’t want to hear her confession about Fiyero. She sees Elphaba’s need to “unburden” herself as placing a burden on her instead. Sarima...
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...sisters for her outburst at Lurlinemas. Afterward, she brings up Sarima’s refusal to talk about Fiyero and asks what they know about his death. They explain most of the story: an...
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Elphaba asks whether Fiyero had ties to the Wizard, but the sisters say they doubt it—Fiyero kept much of...
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15. Uprisings
...Elphaba about what happened in the fishwell once. He says a Carp told him that Fiyero was his father and that Irji, Manek, and Nor were his siblings. Sarima, overhearing this...
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...gradually: Sarima’s sisters worry that Kiamo Ko will never again have a strong protector like Fiyero, since Irji seems too “feckless” to fill that role. Sarima grows more withdrawn and reclusive,...
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16. The Murder and Its Afterlife
...earlier, soldiers had sent the runaway Liir back to Kiamo Ko, unaware that he was Fiyero’s illegitimate son. Now 14, Liir begs Elphaba to let him attend Nessa’s funeral, but Elphaba...
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Elphaba confronts Glinda about Sarima’s belief that she had once carried on an affair with Fiyero in the Emerald City, but Glinda scoffs at the idea, claiming Fiyero was “dark-skinned,” and...
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...let her know within the year. Before leaving, he reveals Madame Morrible was responsible for Fiyero’s death, having advised the Wizard to keep tabs on Elphaba all those years ago. A...
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...glass Turtle Heart once made, the one she left behind in Emerald City the night Fiyero was killed by the Wizard’s men.
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...on at Shiz, and if, by extension of this same logic, the Scarecrow could be Fiyero, somehow returned to her. His body, after all, was never recovered. Desperate to avoid more...
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...Red Windmill, Elphaba prepares to stop them, retrieve Nessa’s shoes, and reunite with her beloved Fiyero. She sends the elderly Killyjoy and his pack to track Fiyero’s scent, but the Tin...
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...die, she sees figures from her past—Melena, Nessa, Frex, Boq, Glinda, Doctor Dillamond, Madame Morrible, Fiyero, the Wizard, Yackle—before everything fades away.
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