#Wartwood!Sasha

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Role swap Marcy genuinely becoming besties with Percy and Braddock because they're the nicest people in the tower! And eventually becoming friends with Grime because she's so excited about all of this strategy and the politics of Frog Valley that her enthusiasm overrides her fear and only later realizes they're not different warring factions fighting against each other but that the toads are opressing the frogs and oh no, they're the baddies! And she tries to backpedal but Grime will hear none of it so she instead tries to suggest the most harmless strategies possible, framing them as "having more symbolic, cultural and institutional legitimacy to back them up" to convince Grime they're better ideas. She can't stop him but she can change the system from inside or something, right? Until Sasha and her frog militia take over Toad Tower because of course Sasha wouldn't sit around with her arms crossed, oh, no. This is Sasha who we're talking about! The girl whose only way to feel safe AND to protect others is being in control. She was outraged when she learned the frogs were under toad control and helped them realize they should govern themselves instead. Amazing idea. Would be better if her way of bringing it to life didn't include cornering Marcy and telling her she'll never be able to survive in the real world without Sasha to guide her. She gives her a small scar on her chin as a reminder. Do not step out of line.

But she disobeys her once more. After taking Toad Tower, Marcy doesn't stay at her side. She leaves with Grime and Braddock and Percy and all the other toads, disappearing into the forest with tears in her eyes. Somehow, the people that had her locked in the tower for months seemed like a better option than her best friend.

Sasha was devastated. She felt so completely and utterly betrayed that she didn't leave her room in all day. Hop Pop came to check on her at night - he wanted to give her some space - and told her friendships are never easy. That she's not alone and she doesn't need to shoulder the pain all on her own. She has him, and Sprig and Polly, and together, they'd find a way to reunite the friends and help them go back home.

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 979 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: New Wartwood

[aspynnwoofs]

i, uh. tried to make a scene from the First Temple in aWiW

i think it’s okay

i did this without any sketch, i just took my finger to the phone

meh

[kiwibirb1]

Fuck I wanna make a sasharcy animatic to Heather on the Hill yknow the one by Nathan Evans but literally all it would be is just them dance and doing fun twirls and laughing while anne drinks out of a red solo cup in the corner and sprig is like "bet you wish that was you" and Anne is like "shut up dude their happy" and then it's actually bt but only in my head because then I can use their canon designs in the amimatic but not those because they would be more idk gangly? Kinda like wait lemme find them kami's designs but specifically how they draw marcy because I love that um what was the topic again oh right animatic man I wish I could draw

FULL PERMISSION TO USE THIS IDEA BTW SEND ME THE LINK

[funstufffandomsandcoolpictures]

Fanfic is important because where else am I gonna read something this badass

[cc-cuttlefishculler]

im normal <- dreamt up a whole hs amphibia au where the kids are going to amphibia this time

[boldlysizzlingvoid]

Amphibia AU: Blooms of Calamity- Ideas and Concepts

Storyline/Plot: After discovering the Calamity Box, Anne and her friends are transported to Amphibia, but with a bit of a twist; They gain special, magical cosmic-like flower powers...

(The AU also features a lot of wholesome Sashannarcy moments between Anne, Sasha and Marcy, and sibling-like moments.)

Characters:

Anne Boonchuy

Gender: Female

Age: 12-13 years old

Appearance/Looks: Tall, yet a bit shortish, has long fluffy, flowing bushy ginger-brownish colored hair, her eyes a beautiful blue, sapphire gleam. Her hair blooms with beautiful, glowing sapphire light blue colored flowers and roses, wear's a yellow colored high top sneaker on her right foot, but only wears a baggy sock on her left one...Always wears a baggy blue and blue striped hoodie jacket with yellow cat ears on.

Likes: K-Pop Music, Flowers, Nature, Frog's, Chinese Food, Hanging out with her two best friends, Marcy and Sasha, Exploring, Movies and her Parents, along with her pet cat, Domino, working at her parents Thai restaurant, 'Thai Go', Dancing, Singing.

Personality: Anne's personality in this AU is a bit different from the original show's: She is known as a very adventurous, kind-hearted, sweet, lovable, and nature-loving person. Always wanting to help others, she is known for her energy and enthusiasm to be almost like a hero!

Powers/Abilities: The types of powers Anne has are very interesting, she is able to make the flowers blooming in her hair change color and appearance with different emotions she feels, example; When being happy, the flowers in her hair change to a light greenish hue, and morph into sun flower-like states! She also has the ability to summon vines from her palms and feet, and use them like whips. She also has a bit of her own calamity powers in this Alternate Universe, (But I'll be saving that for some other time when I come up with more ideas for her Calamity Form.) Anne also has another ability, such as being able to speak to plant's and animals through telepathy

Fun Fact: The Anne in my AU loves to play the ukulele, which is why she her parents got her one on her 13th birthday!

Marcy Regina Wu

Age: 12-13 years old

Gender: Female

Appearance/Looks: Marcy is a bit shorter then Anne and Sasha, but almost as tall as the two, she is seeing always wearing a baggy grey hoodie jacket on, baggy shorts, and brown shoes on her feet for clothing...Her eyes, just as Anne, have a faint gleam, colored dark green. She also wears a small tiny pin in her hair, that she was gifted from by her parents, her hair is a beautiful blackish color, as dark as coal. Has round circle shaped glasses on her face, her entire face covered in adorable brown freckles. Her hair is actually very long and photogenetic without her hair clip on, but she's a bit too self conscious to show it to people...Hair bloom's in beautiful glowing dark greenish flowers, shining with diamonds and white spots.

Personality: Shy, adorable, silly, goofy and clumsy, yet innocent and naive. Though, despite her anxieties, Marcy is true to her heart, and will try her best to do the right things in the end, even if it causes her to get hurt.

Likes: Video Games, Fantasy-Based RPG Games, Pepperoni Pizza, Fast Food, Chocolate, Researching Flowers and Plants, Sunny Days, Hanging out with Anne and Sasha, Mint Ice cream, Getting Hugs.

Fun Fact: Marcy has had a huge crush on Anne and Sasha ever since she was a little kid, and she still has ever since. Though, she's not sure how to tell them how she feels about them...

[problematicsashawaybright]

I think Anne & Sasha kissed exactly one (1) time during s3b wartwood resistance era, and Anne is so disassociated to cope with literally everything else happening she's just like "sure, this may as well have happened :)" and represses it to the back of her mind, meanwhile, Sasha, who canonically is feeling Every Single Emotion At Once during the resistance era goes out on a "mission" by herself the next day, but just ends up finding an empty clearing in the woods and screaming and crying until she throws up.

[nextstop-fixationstation]

I think my most controversial amphibia opinion is that the fact the Wu and Waybright parents didn't need to be shown on screen is a testament to how genuinely hands off they were with regards to their kids' emotional lives compared to the Boonchuys, and that that's actually a good insight into why both Marcy and Sasha are Like That

Like the way Mr. Boonchuy talks to the Plantars like he's used to having three girls in the back of the car, causing trouble, and the way Sasha says, "Hang out with your friends that love you (instead of being a "Good Girl" forced to be with her parents)" and the fact Marcy straight up just runs away without a second thought all point to a distinct lack of closeness. That doesn't mean they were necessarily abusive, but their relationships are genuinely fraught in a way Anne's relationships with her family and community just aren't. I think that's actually a really important thing to note.

Given that, it also explains why Marcy trusts Andrias to the point of unreason because he validates them so much, and why Sasha grows so much when working with Grime and when confronted with Wartwood — an actual community that cares about its own and reciprocates good deeds done.

I think that the decision to call those parents essentially redundant is...ultimately fine. It makes sense. Their lack of presence should be felt and understood as, perhaps, the reason Marcy and Sasha act out the way they do, and it also serves to emphasize just how good the Boonchuys and the Plantars are as guardians

[detentiontrack]

It doesn’t excuse her behavior, but Sasha’s actions in reunion are so much deeper than “these gross frogs are annoying and I don’t want to share my best friend with them”. Sure, it may be some of it, but it’s so much more than that. (A rambly analysis of Sasha Waybright’s behavior and what led up to her suicide attempt in reunion)

Sasha perhaps had the most traumatic entry into amphibia. She went from hanging out with her friends on Anne’s birthday to being suddenly transported into a bizarre unfamiliar world filled with scary creatures she’s never seen before. And immediately after that, before she even got a chance to process, she was held at spear point, arrested, and thrown in prison in horrible conditions. It’s unclear for exactly how long, but for at least a few weeks to a month, she was kept in that prison being constantly interrogated. At this point she had no idea where her friends were, if they were even ALIVE or in the same place as her, and she didn’t know if the toads would decide to torture or even kill her.

She had to use every single manipulation tactic she had ever learned (most likely from her traumatic childhood) just to improve her conditions and chance of survival. It’s written as a joke and glossed over in the show, but that entire situation is HEAVY and TRAUMATIC. And she is 13 years old.

Sasha’s introduction, her very first perception of this strange new world, was one of trauma and pain and fear. Anne was alone and then she met the Plantars. Marcy was immediately taken in by the newts. Sasha was completely alone and for all she knew, she was the only person in that entire world that she knew she could count on.

And then…. She receives news that ANNE is there. She went from torturing herself mentally thinking about all the scenarios where she possibly lost her friends forever, to learning that there’s HOPE. But even then, the only evidence is Anne’s singular shoe. She doesn’t know if Anne is hurt or even alive. She only knows that this scary strange toad captain who is holding her captive is interrogating her on the whereabouts of her friend. Realizing that even the captain of the toad army doesn’t know where Anne is, she feels like NO ONE does.

Finally, after prison break, she’s out. Not only is she out, she is lieutenant of the entire toad army. Again, she is 13 years old. She got there by desperately manipulating her way into freedom. Suddenly, she went from being captive in a cell for a month, to having the mission of finding both of her friends alive and finding a way to get them back home AND also becoming an entire lieutenant soldier in order to uphold the end of her deal with captain Grime.

FINALLY after a really long time of trying to find her friends, she receives word that Anne is alive and well in Wartwood. And everything changes. The hope she’s been running on has been refilled. And if Anne is alive, Marcy might be too. She learns that Hop Pop is the face of the frog rebellion, but due to the news about Anne, she’s sort of tunnel visioned. People forget that before reunion, Sasha probably didn’t even really trust Grime. Later in the show they have more of a familial relationship, but at this point, their alliance is purely out of convenience. She doesn’t trust him. But she NEEDS him to get home. And he needs her. So when she learns that Grime needs to smash the rebellion, she only thinks of amphibians as the people who have kept her captive and tormented her since the moment she got there. She thinks she doesn’t owe them anything. She just needs to get home with her friends. She’s willing to do whatever it takes.

They make a plan and arrive at Wartwood. She finds out that not only is the frog that is charged with starting the rebellion Anne’s FRIEND, but she has a new family, and someone she calls her best friend. Sasha’s entire world shatters as she hears that Anne replaced her. In her mind, Anne replaced her and started over exactly like her parents when they divorced and started new families. Anne was the only constant in her life, and now not only is she replacing her, she’s also aiding and friendly with the very creatures that have been traumatizing her. This is earth shattering to her. She can’t think straight. She feels raw emotional pain and has NO time to process it. So she does the only thing she knows how to do. Continue with the plan.

She thinks that maybe Anne will realize that they’re just frogs, and this entire thing will be over and they can go home, like how things were before. She’s not the same Sasha that originally got transported to amphibia, but she expects Anne to still be the same Anne.

She’s so caught up in the emotional pain and trying to cover it up with the happiness and relief that comes with finding Anne and (in her mind) being SO CLOSE to going home, that her world ends AGAIN when Anne takes a stand against her. She takes a stand against her for the first time in their 8 years of friendship AND it’s the replacement best friend AND an amphibian that encourages her to do it.

She didn’t mean to fight Anne, but the white hot rage took over her body. She got through her entire childhood by being ANGRY and fighting back, and this was her knee jerk response.

When toad tower crumbled, her change of heart that led to her suicide attempt wasn’t due to her believing that everything she did was wrong. She wasn’t quite there yet (as shown in toad catcher). It was in response to the fact that Anne was doing fine without her. It’s the fact that Sasha thought she was so replaceable, Anne allowed a strange evil creature, who is also highly annoying, to become her new best friend and companion. Anne didn’t need her. Anne was better off without her.

So she let go.

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Me with my Raised in Amphibia au: hehehe polyam wives. Queen Marcy and her two royal consorts against her evil dad 🥰 just the three of them against the world. Love each other more than anything. Unconditional loyalty.

Me with my role swap AU: what if Sasha purposely destroyed Marcy's sense of self and everyone cheered her for it. What if the bad guy was in the good guys' side and the good guy was in the bad guys' side. What if the abuser was regarded as a hero specifically because they manipulated and tormented their victim into submission and said victim was considered evil and worth punishing by everyone except for a couple of criminal toads.

[yaboirezzy]

This is so true!

And not only that, but the poor storytelling is why (in my unpopular opinion) I find the cast of Amphibia characters, some of the most painfully wasted characters I've ever seen.

This isn't me saying that I hate the characters, no far from it, I like the majority of them (yes even the side and minor characters). The main trio is great, the Plantars are great, wartwood folks I find some of them good and some of them average, the toads aside from Grime are kinda meh, Yunnan and Olivia are a riot, and Andrias I'd say is a decent villain, and so on. So no I don't hate them for who they are and what their personalities are like, what I don't like is what the writers did with them especially with side characters.

Their screentime, story arcs, development, everything, some say they're passible I just find them rushed or not developed enough, not to mention basically screaming wasted potential. So much so that even when a side character gets somewhat interesting, it feels like the amphibia crew only looked at a book of 'what to do with a NOT main character' and then made that character do something in a single episode. I just don't see any interest or care given to the side characters of Amphibia, just an excuse to have a huge roster of characters, a huge world that doesn't feel empty, and a bunch of talented voice actors who are also equally wasted.

And with episodes like 'Maddie & Marcy' and 'Sprivy' I don't even agree that they're just making characters that you would only see once or twice and then in the background, look at Ivy and Maddie, two fan-favorite characters I'm amazed managed to appear in an episode beyond s1

Again, I don't hate the characters, but I feel like more could be done with some of them. And I hope to god that if the Amphibia spinoff series ever happened, they better get the love they deserve!

The problem with Amphibia is that the show wants us to see the girls as the Calamity TRIO, a trifecta, a three-way conflict where each person is equally compelling, even if one is going to have more focus as the main character.

But because the narrative and characters neglect and sideline Marcy, with Marcy only existing to prop up other characters’ arcs rather than the other way around (thereby never being her own protagonist), it just comes across as The story of Anne and Sasha and Oh Yeah Marcy’s there too! Anne and Sasha’s conflict is central, but Anne and Marcy’s? Sasha and Marcy’s? An afterthought or nonexistent.

It really doesn’t help that the entire show sets up the prophecy as requiring all three girls to make up, lest Amphibia itself fall; The world lies on the reconciliation of these three and their teamwork. But in the actual finale, all Sasha and Marcy do is destroy some faceless mooks who appeared out of nowhere, and then lend their powers so Anne can save the day on her own. Sasha and Marcy aren’t really necessary to defeat the Core, which ruins the symbolism of having the prophecy be defied by sowing a rift between the girls.

You hit the nail on the head. Some have said that it's fine for the show not to give Sasha and Marcy that much focus because Anne is the main character. But the thing is Sasha and Marcy are an integral part of Anne's story. It was their influence that shaped Anne into the person she was at the start of the show, and they're the ones who were still there with her at the very end when she had to leave Sprig and Amphibia behind. They're intertwined with Anne in a way that can't be broken without fundamentally altering the story.

But unfortunately that's exactly what season three did, first by basically forgetting Sasha and Marcy even existed in 3A and then hardly mentioning Marcy in 3B and not rescuing her until the penultimate episode of the series. And it's these poor storytelling decisions that drag Amphibia down as a whole, leaving it as just a good cartoon when it could have been truly great.

[aspynnwoofs]

i made this like a month ago, but i think i forgot to post it

it’s Marcy and Sasha’s amphibian designs from aWiW aAA, and i don really like most of them other than the most recent; that one where Marcy’s on Sasha’s shoulder

[papyjr13]

A Swap AU : Wartwood

Here is my version of the popular swap AU. You can also interpret that drawing as if all three of them fall in Wartwood. Anne : She doesnt change but I wanted to give her a new outfit to fit her place in the farm. I was heavily inspired by Missakat.

Sasha : She was adopted by the Sundew, so she became a big sister figure for Ivy who loved her rebel attitude. With Felicia, Sasha learned how to canalise her anger thanks to her "technics". When Sasha discovered that Felicia was very good at fighting, she asked to her to train her.

During the mayor election, Sasha tried her shot and won. For a while, it was her best times but she learned in the meantime that her toxicity and her drama queen attitude made her very unpopular and all the town went in riot. She gave the mayor title back to Toadstool and apologise to the town. That adventure teached her to listening more the people around them and taking account of their feeling. When the Tax Toads arrive, she want against them when the Sundew were accused to no pay their taxes. With her fighting skill, she kicked their asses (and also Toadstool's). She saw that the town didn't have a militia, so she decided to form her own to fight the toads and taking over the system.

Marcy : She was adopted by the Flour. While helping with the bakery, she was quickly interested by Maddie's dark magic and became quickly friends. With Maddie's magic and Marcy's ingeniosity, together they helped Wartwood with various inventions, some of them works, some of them dont. At the start, Marcy saw the villagers like NPC and she accepted to help them like if it was a quest in a video game. She accepted anything but never took her time to learn about these people. When she finally learnt to slow down, she was amazed how much she could learn from others. By starting to listen to them, the inhabitants started to open their hearts and wanted also to know about Marcy. A thing that the girl didn't truly expect, specially with Sasha and Anne

When the Tax Toads arrive, they were with Anne, who felt at the Toad Tower who heard rumors about a Humus like her in Wartwood. She finally met Marcy and tried to convince her to come at the tower together. Marcy was happy to see her friend but she didnt want to leave the frogs, at least not now. Anne understood and leaves but promise to come back.

If you have any others questions, you can ask me on my AMA blog :

[balmora-citizen]

Thinking about Amphibia switch AUs again (have to reread "a witch in wartwood" soon) So many ways Sasha landing in newtopia could go (wrong). I really like the idea of Sasha going "I know fake when I see it" as soon as she meets Andrias (Awiw, lost and found). From herself as well as her parents.

Sasha and Andrias playing overcomplicated games of "I know that you know that I know..." as if they were in death note.

Sashas need for control meeting newtopian noble society, the queen of manipulation going ham. Just bringing out her worst side way more than toad dad could have ever done.

She'd probably create a grand conspiracy against the king running through half of high society and most of the military out of boredom (and because she hates authority figures, parents kings teachers what's the difference)

She would probably even get very far, until the coup reaches the castle basement...(yikes)

After the plots unpleasant end Andrias is back on the coral throne and the traitor Waybrigth is on the run. Newtopia criminal underworld or one of its many cults gets a new mysterious masked "newt" as it's leader. Unredeemed Sasha (or maybe Dasha) in an underground resistance situation? It's not pretty for anyone involved.

[furaneesu]

just realized i have not posted these here, but here's a beta sasharcy for everyone (because i think they should hold hands and kiss)

teeny brainrot ahead: When I see these designs of Sash and Mar, i just think, "hey they look like they work together", so it's kind of like the same as back in earth? Marcy and Sasha already work together as we know it, but they get transported to Amphibia and end up in one place together (while Anne was transported all by herself in Wartwood), and since then they've been working together a lot. With Andrias emphasizing that Sasha can act on-field and with the army, while Marcy is in charge of all the strategizing and planning, they're barely seen in separate, and if they were separate, it was Sasha visiting the toad towers, and Marcy being left in Newtopia to handle all the other stuffs (like doing research, helping fix stuffs, the usual Marcy stuffs y'know)