#Wartwood!Sasha
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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.
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Day 979 of Amphibia Screenshots
Episode: New Wartwood
#Amphibia#New Wartwood#Amphibia New Wartwood#Marcy Wu#Joe Sparrow#Amphibia Screenshots#Amphibia Screenshot#this is for yesterday cause i forgot o o p s#I'll have your usual sasha Saturday in like an hour 💀#i was just working all day and then i saw beetlejuice at night so it slipped my mind entirely#here have marcy feeling what I'm feeling about this rn lol oops
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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
#amphibia#marcy wu#amphibia fanart#sasha waybright#my artwork#anne boonchuy#amphibia au#awiw#aAA#an alchemist abroad#a witch in wartwood#art#digital art#not all that good#but i’m posting it anyway because i need to post art more#i have a bunch of whiteboard drawings#i could post those#hm#aspynn emerges#Ram is the frogging best#<- that should be a tag#this is right before Ram dies
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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
#amphibia#sasha waybright#marcy wu#anne boonchuy#animatic plans#?#i mean like ill never make it but its there#sasharcy#oh and their in wartwood because i said so haha
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im normal <- dreamt up a whole hs amphibia au where the kids are going to amphibia this time
#theyre color coded properly it works#but idk who rose should be. which is hilarious. because thats usually the first thing i figure out#........ she can be maddie#from wartwood#but yeah. june-anne dave-sasha jade-marcy#i was thinking about making andrias doc scratch. but i dont have my heart set on that one#also that entire arc was kind of a blur for me i think i read all of act 4 act 5-1 and 5-2 in like 3 days
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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...
#amphibia au#flowers#magical plants#garden#anne boonchuy#marcywu#sasha waybright#wholesome#tulips#pink flowers#colorful#sprig#calamity box#wartwood#blue eyed anne boonchuy#green eyed marcy wu#pink eyed sasha waybright#sashannarcy#sibling like moments#first amphibia au concept i've made on here#anne boonchuy loves her girls#anne boonchuy marcy wu and sasha waybright are girlfriends#anne boonchuy is an adorable tomboy#marcy wu is a cute nerd#beautiful gardens of flowers#singing and dancing is annes favorite thing to do#cherry blossom#no angst#calamity trio#imagination
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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.
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Amphibia has middle child dyndrome next to Gravity Falls and The Owl House
Let this be a lesson to everyone. Send me an ask about some things, and I will reply with a wall of text.
I'm gonna get into some Amphibia spoilers here, so if you haven't seen it, go watch it. The first season is slow, that's not a bug it's a feature.
Amphibia I don't think suffers from middle-child syndrome. Amphibia suffers from expectation issues from the audience, and that comes firstly from when exactly it was airing. Amphibia hit the scene in 2019, 3 years after the end of Gravity Falls (a whole 7 years after Gravity Falls began), during Star vs the Forces of Evil's fall from grace, and less than a year before The Owl House started airing. It was a time when the TV-Animation scene was still much stronger than it is today. Steven Universe: Future was on the horizon later that year, Adventure Time was in its final moments, and there was a lot of expectation about who was gonna be taking up the mantle of the animated show to watch. With Matt Braly, a Gravity Falls alumni, at the helm, Amphibia had a good chance.
And then the first season aired, and people seemed offputt. It's deliberately a lot slower than The Owl House, Gravity Falls, and the other shows of that era. It's quieter. Lower stakes and with less of that dark core that defined TOH and GF. But that's a deception- in reality, Amphibia is just as dark and just as complex. It just hides it.
Season 1 of Amphibia is crucial, but it also misleads the audience. It feels younger than its competition. Episodes are based around seemingly 'simple' morals of honesty, hard work, fixing mistakes, and so on. But the thing that sets it apart is this. Ann learns from her mistakes and becomes recognizeably different by the end of the first season. She's the same person, but her view of herself, her relationship with the Plantar family, and her place in Wartwood have all changed fundamentally. And so by the time Sasha appears at the end of season 1, Ann is no longer the same person that Sasha once knew.
And the brilliance of Amphibia is that, as Ann is doing this, so are Sasha and Marcy. In a way they've each undergone their own hero's journeys, faced challenges and temptation, and emerged from the other side fundamentally changed. And that's where the thematic core of Amphibia becomes clear.
Amphibia is about what happens when people (and members of society) who care about each other have grown in ways that make their former relationships to each other impossible.
Ann doesn't only gain the ability to stand up for herself. She clearly defines her moral compass apart from Sasha and discovers that, even if it's difficult, there are things she needs to fight for and protect.
Sasha is a gifted leader and a brilliant tactician but she's also manipulative and cruel. Underneath that, though, she does care about her friends dearly. She's just perverted that affection into something wholly toxic. Grimes understands her explicitly and encourages both the good and the bad, in her. She becomes stronger, more determined, and more able to bend situations to her will but she does so at the cost of any remaining boundaries she had.
Marcy outright regresses, even if she doesn't realize it. She gives herself fully into the fantasy and embraces her role as the 'heroic' savior from another world, and doesn't realize that she's causing the people around her pain. And that before getting into how she fails to see the danger she's in.
By the time Ann, Sasha, and Marcy find each other again, these changes in who they are have made it so they can't go back to how things were. Ann isn't the pushover she was. Sasha's veneer of kindness (with a genuine undercurrent of warped compassion) dissolves. Marcy isn't engaging with the people around her anymore, at least not genuinely. She's in her own fantasy long before the Core puts her there, and she suffers for it.
Amphibia is a piece of art. Honest and truly. I may prefer the Owl House but that doesn't mean I don't love Amphibia with all my heart. I honestly think it plays its cards so well that it fools the audience at first, and that's a really impressive narrative trick.
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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
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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.
#I am NAUSEOUS typing this in my car in a 711 parking lot at 10pm#but I needed to get it out#anyway that’s my two cents#sorry#amphibia#sasha waybright#anne boonchuy#sashanne#reunion#amphibia analysis#tw sui
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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.
#hughjidiot#rezzy rambles#amphibia#amphibia season three#amphibia s3#anne boonchuy#sasha waybright#marcy wu#sprig plantar#polly plantar#hop pop plantar#ivy sundew#maddie flour#wartwood frogs#lady olivia#general yunnan#amphibia is kinda filler coated and I hate that a bit
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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.
#amphibia#sasha waybright#marcy wu#anne boonchuy#raised in amphibia au#amphibia role swap au#Wartwood!Sasha#ToadTower!Marcy#Newtopia!Anne#my posts#sashannarcy#just !! in one AU Sasha stands still as one of her wives rips her arm off with her bare hands#while under the influence of the evil god of her fatyer#father*#not fighting back like she knows she could because she doesn't want to hurt her so she *lets her rip off her arm*#while in the other she's holding her quivering form by the front of her shirt and telling her she's gonna make her regret the day#she tried to defy her and threaten *her* valley#oh little marcy. should have kept your head down. did she really think she and her toad friends could do anything against sasha?#don't make her laugh! if little Marcy wants to play rought she will do well to expect sasha to play rougher#hey if anyone wants to send me asks. 👀 i would appreciate them
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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 :
#amphibia#anne boonchuy#sasha waybright#marcy wu#sprig plantar#maddie flour#ivy sundew#amphibia au#swap au
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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
#aWiW#aAA#amphibia#amphibia fanart#my artwork#marcy wu#sasha waybright#a witch in wartwood#an alchemist abroad#i’m okay with them#also Marcy has pants instead of a skirt#just because i like it better ig
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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.
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Hi guys! I want to talk about a minor problem I have with Amphibia and how they could've been done better. I will not be talking about any of the big problems that people have already complained about, like Sasha and Marcy's lack of screentime, their character arcs, parents, nobody talking about Marcy after "True Colors", yada yada yada, because we don't need another post like that, and I want to keep this overdue rant as short as possible. This is based on my personal opinions along with a few others, but feel free to disagree with me if you want. But with further, let us begin...
Anne almost always gets way too easily forgiven for f*cking up.
Okay! This one may be a hot take because I have never seen another person complain about this. But this has been eating me away for MONTHS, and if no one else is going to say it, then I will. While this occasionally extends to some other characters depending on the episode. The one I want to talk about most is Anne. Now, at the start of the series, Anne was pretty much a jerk with a heart of gold. She was selfish, bratty, lazy, and irresponsible, but she did learn from the mistakes that she made and became a true hero by the end of the series. While some of these flaws and mistakes are not worth talking about, there are still others that are actually worse than what the show's narrative portrays them to be.
They may not be as bad as leading a toad army to invade the capital city, burying the only thing that could get Anne home, or sending your friends to another world on purpose. Anne has still made some pretty questionable decisions, even to the point where they often cross the line.
Here's a list of some of the worst things Anne Boonchuy has ever done from Season 1 and 2:
Breaking Hop Pop's favorite cane that also happens to be a keepsake of his father and grandfather all while making fun of him.
Manipulating Sprig into taking Bessie the family Snail on a Joyride without reading. Which is like someone taking a car out for a spin without a driver's permit.
Forcing Sprig to marry Maddie despite his obvious discomfort for Pizza Dough and later forces him to date Ivy while he's still engaged to Maddie.
Faking being sick to get out of farm duty, which led the Plantars getting sick themselves and even thought they were all going to die from red leg.
Slacking off while she was supposed to be protecting the frozen townsfolk, while aware of what happens to one of them while they're frozen. Which, of course, led to Polly almost getting eaten by a giant weasel.
Causes massive property damage with Polly while on the streets of Newtopia, and later breaks into Newtopia University in hopes of finding a rad college party. The second one was Polly's idea, but Anne had no problem going along with it.
A team effort along with her frog family. Sending a giant chicken to attack Wartwood. Which BTW can create tornadoes, breathe fire, and even turned their loved ones into stone, all because they forgot to buy everyone gifts. Sure, Anne was against the idea, but she still went along with it.
What do characters usually respond with when Anne admits her mess ups?! "It's okay! You're good! What you did was serious, but it doesn't matter that we almost died, as long as you learned your lesson."
Though Anne still at least got a lot better, as the worst things she's done in Season 3 were covering up some major plot points from her parents, robbing a museum to get a clue on how to find a way back to Amphibia, and tricking Blair the Balloonist into flying a hot air balloon. Though, the first one is still a little f*cked up, but she did have selfless reasons for doing these, and she came clean for 2/3 of these.
But still, 90% of this show is just a lighthearted slice of life cartoon, but when it shifts to its dark story driven and plot twisting side, this is where the narrative (and by some extent Anne herself) gets pretty hypocritical. It's pretty much when Anne messes up and lies to other characters. It's a simple error in judgment. But when other main characters such as Sasha, Marcy, and even Hop Pop do the same to her, first they gotta face hell for it, and then they get their redemption arc.
Yes! They did do some serious sh*t, and Anne had a right to be mad at them. But it seems that other characters are just not allowed to even stay mad at Anne when she does pretty similar sh*t. I mean, yes, she does try to make up for it, and yes, she admits what she's done most of the time, and eventually, she does become a better person from them. But so have Hop Pop, Sasha, and Marcy. But again, they didn't get the protagonists treatment. They got hurt and thrown around like ragdolls because of one or two big mistakes, and even that wasn't enough.
While Anne sometimes faces some consequences for her actions, like breaking Hop Pop's heirloom cane with HP giving her dish duty for a month (Cmon man! You should've given her way more than that!), gets banned from an arcade because she threatened to eat newt kids for cutting in line (which is not important), and most importantly, gets stranded in Amphibia after being peer pressured by her friends to shoplift it, all on her 13th birthday. Which I guess was enough for karma itself to feel so bad for her that she will hardly ever worry about facing any lasting consequences for her misdeeds ever again. While karma beats the cr*p out of others who would dare lie and betray our precious protagonists, even when they have sympathetic reasons for doing so.
Speaking of, this leads to me to clarify something that some fans have misinterpreted since the beginning of the series. The flashback scene in the second episode, "Best Fronds," was intended to show where Anne's distorted views on friendship and some of her toxic traits come from. Not to justify every single bad decision Anne has ever made, like what some fans think.
While I'm not gonna say that Anne was just as bad as Sasha before Amphibia, as it does show that Anne had her own personal flaws that she had to get through without depending on her friends. Who were more enabling her flaws than causing them.
However, while the show does try to show that Anne wasn't exactly much better in their friend dynamic than they were. For the reasons I mentioned earlier, it instead paints Anne as the least toxic one or not being toxic at all. With them only making a handful of moments that show that even after their betrayals, Anne still isn't much better than them. But the usual wacky slice of life narrative in her character development episodes downplays the severity of her actions, with Anne only just getting an emotional lesson after nearly getting everyone killed, and some of the said lessons being brought up in a few episodes to test her character or as examples to show others how much she has grown.
Now, I'm going to do some comparisons between Amphibia and The Owl House. While there are several things that Amphibia did better than TOH and about an equal amount of things TOH did better than Amphibia. One of those things that The Owl House did better than Amphibia was the writers treating each and every character fairly. The characters make mistakes and learn from them without the narrative downplaying the seriousness of their mistakes, and it isn't always "Okay! You're forgiven! What you did was serious, but it doesn't matter that we almost died. You learned your lesson, and that's what matters." While it doesn't give other characters the short end of the forgiveness stick for doing similar sh*t. With that, it also makes the character arcs a little bit better, in my opinion.
However, I'm not saying that Anne's character development was bad or that Matt Braly is treating Anne like how some see Alex Hirsch did with Mabel. The show did alright with changing a bratty teenager with flawed views of friendship into a true and selfless hero. All of what I described seems to what TV Tropes would call "Protagonist Centered Morality," and if I'm being honest, but because of that reason, I don't find Anne to be the most appealing character to me. I'm sorry! I know that a lot of you love her, and she's the second most popular character in the show; with the first being Marcy (my favorite), but I don't even dislike her either. I just feel that the narrative could've done better in treating the characters more fairly, like how TOH did with their characters. I really want to like Anne more than I do now, but for what I described, it makes it kinda hard for me to.
That's it for my opinions on this. This was longer than I thought, so if you read it this far or read it at all. You either think that I have a point and should do more of this or my analysis stinks, and I should never speak my dumb mind again. I'll probably see how this goes either way. If anybody else here still cares about this show.
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