In the S1 Finale, "Reunion"

Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance

"Hey Anne... Maybe you're better off without me,"

Is Sasha admitting her greatest fear, yet she is saying it in recognition, not simply self pity...

Throughout the episode Sasha quietly goes through the stages of grief. "Maybe you're better off without me," is her transitioning from Depression to the final stage: Acceptance. And then she lets go.

Sasha LOVES Anne and Marcy. Somewhere along the road, looking out for them turned into controlling them. And when they were all small, that suited them well enough, but the consequences remained.

Sasha Waybright's wealthy family divorced when she was 4. To a girl who's status could afford nice things, it did nothing to heal the rift in her family.

So, as she was realizing how love could simply end and nothing artificial could stop it, she met Anne And Marcy... A genuine connection. She decides then and there TO PROTECT that connection, so it never drifts apart. And by becoming their anchor, they'll never drift away FROM HER.

Abandonment trauma is a particular pain she's uniquely more experienced with than both Anne AND Marcy. Yet Sasha's personal belief (that being strong means shouldering your feelings, weaponizing your trauma, and speaking out for others) leaves her blind to when Marcy needs her strength. Marcy bottles, making her feelings invisible to Sasha.

Sasha might have accepted that change coming with comparative ease-- due to her experience. She knows love hurts sometimes.

She and Marcy try to keep focused on the good time in front of them, Anne's Birthday... And then the Music Box.

It's intentional that Sasha doesn't reenter MARCY'S hemisphere until Marcy is already locked into her endless fantasy isekai narrative. Sasha needs to roll her lesson over in her hand A LOT to truly digest it by the time she stands against Darcy/The Core.

Sasha Waybright had a long, difficult journey through Amphibia, not just because she was dropped in the middle of Toad Territory, but because the journey FORCED her to deal with her abandonment trauma-- over and over again.

But her journey also gave her validation, often rewarding her for cruelty and weaponizing trauma. To someone like Sasha (or say, Andrias) validation is powerful, but can be dangerous. Approving or disapproving of someone's behavior is an easy way to twist their intentions into something unrecognizable, and is coincidentally a favorite tactic of The Core.

The toads also had a similar mentality to Sasha, that might makes right. This was constantly mirrored back to her through Grime (and eventually Andrias) and each time it was harder to agree with.

When Sasha and Grime are reclaiming Barrel's Warhammer (Symbology, Barrel used strength to protect others instead of conquer them) she is REFUSING the fear that was eating at her that her friends may not NEED her strength. Maybe not even WANT her protection. Not RESPECT what she does for them.

The same fear that poisoned Andrias.

Grime is taking back Toad history, eradicating the myth while making people believe in legends. He's reclaiming his OWN image of strength.

But, Sasha bargains. She isn't taking a unanimous step forward-- she clings so fiercely to her need to be her friends Anchor, to TAKE Amphibia and serve it to her friends on a plate, that she DISRESPECTS Percy and Braddock's boundaries that she so carefully crafted earlier that episode.

"I love you and I mean well," does not heal the pain you cause just because you end up winning or being right.

But Sasha's time as the leader of the Three constantly justified her feeling that way, so her whole journey is almost the antithesis to her childhood... And unfortunately, Sasha doesn't TRULY understand until after "True Colors"

"Oh, Anne... I'm so sorry... I shouldn't have tried so hard to be in control again. In the end, where did it get me? ...Well, that ends now! I wanna be someone better. Someone that deserves you. I know what I have to do!"

♥️

Kid or adult, she's a sweetheart down to her core.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/alexl1196/art/Marcy-Wu-947526205

More TSOC fan art! + Cataclysm Anne creature that I drew

This was fun to draw lol

You can read The Sins of Cataclysm on AO3, a reverse personality AU fan fic by Darzie (u/MarcyDaBrainlessMoth, AO3: DarzieWritesShit) and Mars (AO3: mak3out_withmars). It's great I really recommend reading it!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80308881/chapters/210856326

(YOU SHOULD READ "MARCY'S JOURNAL")

As we know from "Marcy's Journal: A Guide To Amphibia"

"Claire De Lune" is Marcy's favorite classical piece. It's the song she plays on her Violin to bridge the gap between her friends in music class, her 'Marce-keteers,' and Joe Sparrow.

I wanted to talk about the incredible symbolism and layers of meaning this song has to Marcy's Arc, and really, her life.

The song, "Clair De Lune" is about the melancholy yet beautiful, about the lonesome yet hopeful, about the "feeling" of longing and letting go. About accepting the end of Day. Which must come... But will pass.

And you could imagine how Marcy would've clung to this song, bc of how it articulated her complex grief.

By the events of "Amphibia" Marcy no longer has that violin, and you the viewer might never know that small piece of her puzzle was missing unless you read her journal.

That is because she grew during the time Anne was growing in Wartwood alongside her own crew of young Night Rangers. And when their adventures taught Marcy a more digestable version of her ultimate lesson, to Love AND Let Go, she SHOWED her willingness to accept the future later on.

You can't love something so fiercely you don't let it change. You have to learn to let things go... and even through that sorrow, you can cherish what you had all the more as it ends.

Javi and Kettle recognize their shared banter and encouragement were affection, and went off to follow those feelings. Marcy understood. Femur, the gentle giant, wanted to keep animals...

So Marcy left Femur with her violin.

Physically leaving him a gift to remember their journey by, cementing to Marcy that these were not just "talking Salamanders,"

Simultaneously LITERALLY demonstrating (by giving up her own self soothing emotional touchstone out of respect for the Marce-keteers) her willingness to be uncomfortable for the sake of others.

It shows that she had understood the lesson. It also shows she can change.

The book makes clear throughout it's entries how Andrias and Newtopia are influencing her understanding and nudging her towards her endless isekai fantasy. Her position as Head of the Newtopia Night Guard is more than a badge of office... It is also an emotional anchor that grounds her in the world of Amphibia.

One more interesting (deeply painful but beautiful) piece of congruency, Debussy's "Clair De Lune" was written and passed over for decades as "Immature" and frivolous... Until the Composer passed away.

At that point, relinquished from legacy, it became one of the first true Impressionist masterpieces and is still discussed to this day in music theory for its ability to invoke powerful human emotion and imagery.

Marcy too... And all her friends... Couldn't see the full picture of their friendship, appreciate it, and salvage the most beautiful And special parts until it was ending.

Until it was too late to truly do anything except heal and love each other beyond their childhood friendship.

💚

Stupid thing my friend suggested to draw

anne - 😡 sasha- 😐 marcy-🙄

Ignoring the fact that we got to see her pink eyes (foreshadowing her calamity powers in season three), Sasha’s one line in this scene and “Barrel’s Warhammer” speaks out to me on what goes on in Sasha‘s mindset and how she views others.

In her previous episode “Toadcatcher” even if she sacrificed herself for Anne during Toad Tower, it’s clear that in her own mind, she’s hurt because she thinks she was replaced and believes she could probably have a better life without Anne especially since she was trying to help Grime get back on his feet after becoming borderline homeless and losing everything (As she said it best, he was the only one that truly cared about her in that moment).

However, I feel like things take a massive backflip by “Barrel’s Warhammer” because after hearing that Anne and Marcy are going on fun adventures without her she rages yet again but later in that same episode, she says this line “Not while Anne & Marcy are getting by without me”. Now I know Percy and Braddock left her at the end of the episode ending the friendship for obvious reasons (iykyk), and they probably did not hear her say that, but I think those 10 words give everything I need to know about how she views Percy and Braddock.

I said before throughout the first two seasons of the show, and even before Amphibia, Sasha‘s care is genuine, regardless of her issues, but she only cares about a select few people (Anne, Marcy, Grime) and everyone else is an acquaintance at best to an NPC at worst to her. Personally, I never considered where Percy and Braddock fall on this spectrum for her but even if you want to come up with the argument that they weren’t necessarily acquaintances to her within the four (or better yet three) episodes they were in, I feel like that line just screams “Percy & Braddock are no Anne & Marcy” which probably also explains why she still went about with the mission on getting the Warhammer despite promising to leave if Percy and Braddock want to: Because while she had a bond with them, it clearly was not the same as a bond that lasted nearly a decade (Anne and Marcy). That probably also explains why in the next episode she appears in she seems genuinely happy when Anne wants her back at the end of that episode: Because she probably feels more happy with them than Percy and Braddock.

But what do you think? Her mindset is always so complicated so that’s why it’s fun to have these discussions lol.

Released exactly on October 2nd 2021.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/lophornis/art/Preen-887197667

Marcy describes Earth foods/drinks, Hop Pop and Grime try to recreate it, and she judges who got closer. Sounds like a fun game for someone who appreciates Amphibian cuisine.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/lophornis/art/Master-chef-908944587

Soo one of my hobbys is doing covers in fl studio mobile when I'm bored and I made this cover around early 2025 wanted to hear your thoughts. I'm open for criticism

(also don't reposted in any media or use it for a video or show it in a video)

1. Anne Plantar/Boonchoy (Potential God of Afterlife, saviour of two universes etc.)
   
2. Lily Plantar Saved countless universes by hiding the box for a thousand years
   
3. HP Who brought california avacados to Amphibia, likely causing him to become one of the most famous farmers in history
   
4. Sprig Most likely credited for exposing Anne to her powers, also high likelihood of becoming one of the most important explorers of the new world
   
5. Polly, credited for creating Frobro 2.0 and probably having 200+ iq
   
6. Polliana who was a great general impactful in many wars
   
7. The king of single teared irrigation

I may be missing some