#amphibia s3b spoilers

[ithemissawesome]

Warrior of Wartwood

[kaseyskat]

anne watches the movie by herself.

it feels sacred, the first time she inserts the CD- it had always been left at her house because her house is where they had the most sleepovers. it feels sacred, because anne has never seen this movie without her friends, and the plantars aren't even here, they're downstairs, and she could call them up but that too feels wrong.

so she watches the movie by herself.

the beginning she knows well enough she can recite it by memory. she finds herself mouthing along to the characters, surprising even herself with how many details she genuinely remembers. she couldn't recall a single thing about this movie when she was asked, but here she is, tears in her eyes as she imagines the what-ifs and could-have-beens.

by the middle, things get blurry and faded. this is around the time where her interest would wane before amphibia, when sasha would pull up memes on her phone to show off, when distractions became a blessing because anne had been bored. she'd been bored, and she hadn't wanted to watch marcy's dumb movie that she made them watch every single time, and sasha had clearly felt the same way so that meant it was okay, right?

anne's not bored now.

here in this setting, she can understand why marcy liked the movie so much. it was right up her alley, with daring fights, powerful magic, and intense emotions, perfect for a fantasy loving teenager. anne almost hates how much she enjoys this now, because there's a stinging guilt inside her chest, one that whispers in her head that she should've done more, she should've been better, she should've cared.

maybe if she had cared, marcy wouldn't have started hiding her feelings and not talking about what was bothering her. maybe if she had put in the effort, marcy would've felt secure in the knowledge that they would stay friends with her even if she moved. maybe if she had...

...the movie ends, and anne's crying now, sniffling silently so she doesn't attract the attention of her family downstairs. she thinks she might recall the epic speech at the end - one where the enemy is defeated by the power of friendship, where no cracks or dents in the main character's friendships are permanent, where they get to return home victorious - but only because marcy would recite it all the time and not because she's actually seen it herself. it's a good ending to a good movie- why hadn't she paid attention to it before?

one day marcy, she promises, swallowing down the fear and the guilt and the shame, one day we'll watch this together and I'll pay attention. i promise.

[marzinstarz]

LIVING FOR THIS SERIES OF SCREENSHOTS- NOT KIDDING IT WAS SO FUNNY TO ME 💀💀

[datapancakes]

are we going to ignore the fact that anne literally died and is now just an exact copy of herself

[fizzlewizard404]

OH HELL NO THIS IS SOME MIDSOMMAR BULLSH!T AND I AM NOT FOR IT WHAT SO EVER

[happi-tree]

All In Spoilers Out of Context

[jaekaicx]

they forgot to edit the newtopian script! its supposed to say “optimization in progress”

THERE’S HOPE !!!!!!!!

[eeveearoace]

I'm not sure why, but part of me REALLY wants Anne to punch Sasha on sight and for the camera to cut to black for a few frames.

I don't? Really know why? I just. I think Anne deserves to get some of her anger out and also it would be really funny lol

[humanoctopus]

Did the racial hierarchy in Amphibia really start from an argument between teenagers? Lmao that is advanced petty.

[ithemissawesome]

slash

[kaseyskat]

okay tumblr it is time im going nuts over this episode for so many reasons but the biggest one and the one that is actively killing me right now IS:

the parallels between the og trio and the calamity trio.

i'm going to touch on a lot but be warned this is just me rambling okay but there are. points i would like to make okay bear with me!

i think what i love about the og trio is that they all parallel the girls but at different points! probably the biggest example of this is how andrias throws barrel under the bus by association with leif- a parallel, i think, to sasha throwing marcy under the bus in true colors, locking her away with anne and the plantars despite marcy not Really being fully on one side or another. it's fun! fun to think about. the other direct true colors parallel here, of course, is how andrias goes after leif with his sword, aiming to maim, trying so hard to stop her from taking the box to another world- and unlike in true colors, here, he fails. he won't make that same mistake in the future :)))) there is also something to be said about how barrel, like marcy, seems to be the one more or less cast aside in favor of the other two in their dynamic; but we didn't really see enough to make a hard case for whether it's always like that. there's the idea of barrel being a soldier while leif is a gardener(sasha and marcy ideally, respectively), leif getting the vision just like sasha was the one who saw the mural, and so many others, it's SO FUN!!!

probably my favorite parallel, though, is the ones between leif and marcy, specifically in relations to the way they interact with andrias! finding ways to communicate to each other through code(with those glasses that andrias uses once again around marcy... isn't that so fun), leif's doodle mimicking the girls, that sort of thing. from what the episode highlighted, leif is a problem solver, a thinker, an inventor! her mannerisms just SCREAMED marcy to me, like it is no wonder she wormed her way into andrias's heart the way she did <3

other people have pointed this out, but even like... her begging for barrel to understand her decisions, that she's doing it for everyone. andrias going after her to stop her from going to earth with the box. that entire confrontation! was so good! and idk idk it just. it reminded me of marcy so bad.

the specific thing that has me desperately in my feels is just that. andrias gave marcy the room with a direct link to the basement... the gardens... it was leif's room. it was leif's room! and he was able to have FUN with marcy, they communicated in puzzles, they researched together, she helped him with lawmaking... for a moment, she WAS his leif, his best friend. no wonder he throws her confession in her face like that; it's a punishment he wanted to give to leif, a "look at what you've done" born of a thousand-year-long grudge, and i think he expects marcy to do what HE did when he himself was placed in that situation. "see, it's not so great on this side of things, is it? how do YOU feel being the one betrayed?"

except marcy doesn't do that. she chooses her friends. she continues to choose her friends, proving that she's better than andrias ever will be and once again showing that she's NOT andrias, she refuses to be him! and i think that's why he feels so much regret after giving her to the core. i bet it was real satisfying at first, seeing her hope get crushed and seeing where her loyalty to her friends lays... but that's what made her marcy, and he clearly is worried about her through the ep. now, i don't want a full andrias redemption he's done So Much Harm but. BUT. it's just. something about marcy "bad at making connections" wu being the one to get through to him. to remind him of just how much he loved his friends and how he misses them. that her genuine adoration of him was worth more than his father's conditional approval. i want to see it.

and this has been: kasey's post-ep ramblings! tune in next time for whatever the fuck happens in fight or flight </3

[muzzable]

...Pacifica? Is that you?

[eeveearoace-creative]

just a little thing bc i'm mentally ill

summoning the eevee simps: @karamelys, @goodartitude, @peachpaws0, @arcadiii

beware spoilers, and enjoy <3

Marcy giggled, spinning and spinning and spinning until she was so dizzy she could hardly stand up straight.

She doubled over in laughter, her cheeks aching from smiling so hard. Sasha and Anne both beamed at her, their eyes sparkling with joy.

“I’m so glad you girls agreed to come to this with me,” Marcy sighed, letting Anne take her hands, the taller girl pulling her forward and twirling her under her fingers. “I was so scared to tell you two how I felt.”

“Of course, Marshmallow,” Sasha chuckled, taking Marcy from Anne and kissing her cheek. “And you don’t need to worry about telling us anything, okay? We love you just the way you are.”

“I love you, too,” Marcy hummed, sinking against her. She swayed against her side, happily letting her eyes flutter shut as she buzzed with warmth.

Marcy still couldn’t believe she had somehow found the courage to tell her friends – her girlfriends – how much she loved them.

And that they loved her, too.

And that they were at prom.

Wow. There were a lot of unbelievable things going on right now.

“I love you, Marmar,” Anne whispered, her breath hot on Marcy’s skin.

And so the three danced, all smiles and laughs and blushes, hand in hand in hand. It was a bit awkward, with most dances being meant for two people, not three – not to mention the extra difficulty coming from Marcy constantly tripping over her own feet – but they made it work.

They’d always make things work.

Marcy sleepily blinked open her eyes, staring down a dark, endless hallway that seemed to fade away into nothingness.

“Don’t worry about that,” Anne murmured, gently cupping Marcy’s cheek in a soft hand, guiding her attention back to her girls. “Just focus on us, okay?”

“Okay,” Marcy purred, snuggling closer to her girls.

Sasha and Anne seemed to quietly fade away under Marcy’s touch, slowly flaking away and turning to dust.

They were slipping away like a dream shortly after waking up.

Marcy paused.

… who was slipping away again?

She opened her eyes, finding herself in utter darkness.

Whoever "she" was, anyway.

[fizzlewizard404]

SPOILERS // AMPHIBIA SEASON 3B

PLEASE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AAAA

[happi-tree]

I’m having Thoughts about the Calamity Trio’s outfit designs - particularly their armor - and the symbolism of it all again, so naturally, I am going to make it everyone’s problem.

Sasha's most defining piece of armor is her shoulder pauldron. This girl is carrying the weight of rebellions and the weight of her own mistakes upon her shoulders, and she continues to shoulder those burdens as the story evolves. Out of the three girls, it’s Sasha’s armor that remains the most consistent (at least, in terms of placement). In season one, she’s carrying the weight of her own personal rebellion against her captors while simultaneously putting pressure on herself to find Anne and Marcy again. In season two, she’s attempting to lead a rebellion alongside Grime and the toads against Andrias but she’s also being affected - weighted down - by her actions in Reunion and their consequences in terms of her relationship with Anne. In season three, she becomes the sole leader of the Wartwood rebellion for a time, which is obviously an immense burden to carry, and she’s also juggling the weight of her mistakes from the past two seasons - but this time, she’s really acknowledging their presence and trying her hardest to make a deliberate change for the better. Notice how her pauldron grows larger with each updated design - as the scope of her command and the depth of her self-reflection grows, so, too, does its size. Another key component is that Sasha has only one pauldron and not two - it’s inherently asymmetric, inherently unbalanced. Keeping one shoulder bare of armor like this could also represent the moments of vulnerability we see from her, a physical representation of her trying to find balance between her tough exterior and her caring nature (because Sasha truly cares so much and so deeply). 

Sasha’s most defining piece of armor rests upon her shoulder because she's Strength. 

While Sasha and Marcy’s designs both have armor in multiple areas, Anne's only piece of armor is her chestplate. It should be noted that unlike Sasha, Anne only gets this armor partway through season two - there are no previous iterations of her armor because, in contrast to both Sasha and Marcy, she hadn’t felt a need for armor before. Against the backdrop of her school uniform and unmatched footwear, it looks almost jarringly out of place, but it isn’t! Anne’s always been a very emotional character - she’s very in tune with others’ feelings as well as her own, and up until season three, she makes her feelings very clear - she has an open heart, simply put. However, an open heart, exposed and vulnerable, is prone to heartbreak, and as the show progresses, Anne’s is broken repeatedly by grief, by loss, and by betrayals. Symbolically, her chestplate shows her character growth in that she’s had to learn the hard way to protect her heart - to guard herself from the onslaught of others’ ill intentions, to attempt to minimize the toll that these betrayals and losses have on her emotionally. The colors of her armor are also interesting - gold with blue accents. Anne is one of those people who have what is known as a heart of gold - she’s so inherently compassionate that her sympathy reverberates from her very core (ha), and it affects everything she does. However, the blue accents, focused at the borders and at the very center (the heart of the piece, if you will) could represent that her soul has been tinged with sorrow. While blue is the color of sorrow and sadness, though, it’s also a color of tranquility - Anne needs to make peace with that sorrow and grief, reconcile the mess of her negative emotions with her kind nature, in order to best move forward. 

Anne’s only piece of armor covers her chest because she's the Heart.

As for Marcy’s most prominent piece of armor right now… that would be the helmet. We’ve had the least amount of time with this silhouette - while Sasha has had her pauldron for the vast majority of the show and Anne has had her chestplate for a bit more than one season, the helmet only comes into play once season 3 is well underway. Marcy’s mind, her intellect, is her greatest asset, and yet it has also become her biggest downfall, as it was her knack for strategy and her sharp wit that made her the perfect host for the Core. Unlike the other girls, who wear armor to protect themselves from outside threats, the helm that Marcy wears while under the Core’s control is trapping a malevolent force within rather than keeping it out. It should also be noted that while Sasha and Anne’s prophecy-assigned colors are present in their most prominent pieces of armor, not a trace of green can be seen in this helmet - only gunmetal-black is present in its construction, alongside the burning orange-yellow of the Core’s many eyes. 

The design that Marcy’s body wears currently features a helmet as its most prominent piece of armor because Marcy is Wit, and that Wit poses the one of greatest threats to Andrias and the Core’s plans. Thus, it’s Marcy’s head that the Core needs to keep under control the most (itself being a hivemind), so a helmet - one that can filter out not only sight and sound, but also the wearer’s own thoughts - is a chillingly effective choice. 

[jaekaicx]

“HAHAHAHHA GET IT?? DISARMED?!?!?”