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I thought a lot lately what a Wicked x Xiaolin Showdown crossover would actually look like. If Chase is Elphaba, I imagine he'd have dragon features, maybe green dragon scales, so the green elixir Elphaba's Mom drank would be the Lao Mang Lone soup. Maybe he's a human-dragon hybrid, and he faces discrimination like all the other talking animals of Oz, then during Defying Gravity he finally embraces his full dragon form.

And that would make him the Wicked Dragon of the West.

Wait.

Anyways, Dashi would obviously be Fiyero, as a platonic common friend to both Chase and Guan, who's sort of stuck in the middle. Their personalities simply match too well.

Dojo would be Doctor Dillamond. When he gets taken away, Dashi drops his careless act and becomes an advocate for mystical creatures, trying to keep Chase safe in the process.

The Wizard of Oz is Jack, a young inventor who crash landed his jet into Oz, or his heli-pack was carried away by the wind, and everyone in Oz was so impressed with his mechanical creations they thought he had mad power. But Hanibal is really the master evil mind who secretly controls Jack.

Omi is the Cowardly Lion, except he's the Fierce Little Lion. You know, the Lion's whole deal was that he was big and fierce-looking but really a scaredy cat, so I thought it would be fun for Omi to be the exact opposite.

Kimiko is Dorothy and she really just wants to go back to Tokyo and her dad. In the original Wizard of Oz book Dorothy was much tougher than the movie and more resourceful, so I think it fits.

Clay can be the Scarecrow. I want him to be his own character because I really liked him in the book. He was the voice of reason amongst his friends. Also, yeah, he comes from a farm. Dashi can just come back as a ghost during the final act, I suppose.

And then there's Raimundo as the Tinman. We all know he's got a big heart under the cool exterior.

That leaves Nessarose, and just hear me out, trust me on this one. Nessa is Katnapee. She was born disabled and both her and Chase were abandoned by their parents for their "deformities" (they can be different parents, they don't have to be related by blood) and left on the Xiaolin Temple's doorstep where they were more or less raised by Master Fung. Katnapee never gave a hoot about being in a wheelchair, and that thing can really gather speed, but she had always been jealous of Chase's animal features because she always wanted to be a cat, and not just wear a costume.

Master Fung doesn't necessarily have a favorite, he's equally distant to both of them, but he asked Chase to keep her out of trouble when they went to school because of Katnapee's mischievous tendencies.

When Chase tapped into his powers, he was able to turn her into a real panther. She still has her wheels like those for disabled cats or dogs, but she's having the time of her life.

No need for a romantic interest. Katnapee absolutely does not need a reason to go mad with power. Chase is half proud half terrified of the monster he's created, but he's too busy fighting the government with Dashi.

So anyway, this all sounds fun. I don't know if I'll ever be able to write a full fic around these concepts, but at least now I won't forget them.

Oh, also Wuya is Madame Morrible. This is an easy one.