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| “ | I remember once when a tinker with a funny accent gave me a draft of some heady brew from a green glass bottle. | ” |
| — Melena regarding drinking the Miracle Elixir from a stranger (the Wizard), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | ||
Melena Thropp is the wife of Frexspar and mother of Elphaba, Nessarose, and Shell.
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In the book series, she is the daughter of Lady Partra Thropp and Romen Skarr, as well as the granddaughter of the Eminent Thropp, Peerless Thropp, and the Thropp 2nd Descending, heiress of the Thropp Family.
She eloped with Frexspar the Godly to escape her life at Colwen Grounds, after the two met during a ball her family was hosting. He was initially requesting an application for the family estate’s patronage, but she would run off with him instead. Even though she loves Frex, she unfortunately comes to hate her life as a commoner in the fishing village of Rush Margins. She is very flirtatious and is implied to have had an active sex life as a teenager, and as a married adult - Frex would leave on work trips throughout the year, and she would actively invite men into the house to have her needs met; during this time she was also drugged and sexually assaulted by the future Wizard of Oz, which would produce her first child, Elphaba, however, Frex believes himself to be the biological father.
After Elphaba is born, Melena is initially repulsed by Elphaba's green skin and sharp teeth but eventually grows to love her. Melena also develops an affair with the Quadling glassblower, Turtle Heart, and while pregnant with her second child, Nessarose, Melena and her family are forced to flee back to Colwen Grounds, and Turtle Heart is ultimately sacrificed by the Munchkinlander populace thinking his death would end the drought. The guilt of this leads Melena and Frex to become missionaries to Quadling Country, where she would ultimately die giving birth to her third child and son: Shell.