Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked or any characters or materials taken from the book or musical. No copyright infringement intended.
Author's Note: This story was inspired by 'The Wicked Witch Diaries' by Niamhinwonderland.
The video starts with a black screen and white text in the center reading, 1: First Vlog. After a few seconds, the black screen vanishes and we see a girl in her early twenties, with emerald-green skin, piercing hazel eyes, and wavy midnight-black hair that she wears in a loose mane about her shoulders. There's a set of bookshelves all along the wall behind her, completely filled with books, but that is all the camera allows us to glimpse of her dorm room. As we can only see her from the lower ribcage up, we see that she's sporting a charcoal-grey tank top, a black cord necklace with a sliver wolf head pendant, and black leather armbands bearing red tribal markings on her toned biceps. Her arms are crossed and she looks a little nervous as she licks her lips before starting.
"Hey, I've never done one of these vlogs before and I have a tendency to ramble, so please bear with me. I suppose I should start with my name. I'm Ragaleana Emeraldin, daughter of Ragos Emeraldin, as in the owner and CEO of EmeraldTech, the largest company of electronics and technological advances in the world. Yeah, those Emeraldins." She sighs in a way that's half weary, half disappointed.
"Anyway, I'm here at Shiz University to major in business for the distant someday when my father will retire from the company and pass it and the family legacy on to me. This is my first year at Shiz, even though I'm twenty-one. The reason for this is my little cousin Jonik. He's basically like my annoying little brother, and my Aunt Minea made a deal with my dad that I wouldn't go to college until Jonik was ready to go too, so I could keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't do anything to get himself expelled. I'm not complaining, I'm just annoyed and disappointed because the kid is smart and he knows it, but he acts like a spoiled eight year old even though he's really eighteen.
"In any case, what I really wanted to talk about, was my reason for starting a vlog. As you can clearly see, I'm green. No, it's not makeup or a joke, I'm really this rich emerald shade of green. I've been this way since birth and, while no one really knows for certain why, I have a theory." Ragaleana disappears from the frame for a moment as she bends down to grab something.
She pops back up a minute later, holding a little glass bottle, filled with a thick green liquid. "You see this bottle? Inside it is an alcoholic and highly addictive beverage known as Green Elixir. My mother, Valea Emeraldin, drank this while pregnant with me. Now, I know this could just be a coincidence, but this stuff is the exact, and I mean exact, shade of green as my skin. My theory is, this stuff permanently turned me green in my mother's womb. Now, I don't blame my mother, she couldn't have known. I just think that this stuff is the cause of my greenification.
"Anyway, I'm rambling again. To get back to my point, when I first came to Shiz, I had no intentions of doing a vlog. What changed my mind was that one day, I was sitting under my favorite tree in the wood out back, after a rigorous round of dulon training, when I stumbled across a vlog on OzTube. Now, I'll be honest, I was down right shocked when I saw the girl vlogging was as green as myself! Now, imagine how much greater my surprise, when I found that, not only was this girl green like me, she was attending Shiz this year as well! Unfortunately, I don't have the same class schedule as her or I'd have known sooner. Still, this girl has been an inspiration to me and I decided to do my own vlog.
"Elphaba Thropp, you are an inspiration to me and I hope we can meet up one of these days and get to know each other. Well, that's it for now. I'll be back soon, hopefully with a better plan than just winging it. This is Raga, signing off."