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* BeneathTheMask: While Sasha gets angry often, her rant after Marcy gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in chapter 6 is the first time Marcy sees beneath the angry exterior and realizes that Sasha is trying her hardest not to cry.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Marcy finally blows up at Sasha in chapter 6, calling her out for her entitled and selfish attitude and for leading a rebellion that she is now stuck cleaning up the aftermath of. Which in turn leads Sasha to blow up with her grievances, like the king putting a bounty on Grime's head or how useless and lost she feels stuck in a cell while her girlfriends are out having fun together.
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* EntitledBastard: Sasha expects Anne and Marcy to be willing to share everything with her, ignoring such details as Sasha being imprisoned for trying to overthrow the king Marcy works for.
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* LooseLips: Marcy is pretty bad at keeping secrets and frequently slips up and nearly says them while excitedly rambling about something. She nearly tells Sasha about [[spoiler:the rebellions]] before catching herself, though Sasha picks up on her slipup.
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* EroticLiterature: Olivia reads one named ''In the Heat of the Swamp'' in her off time, and privately praises the author's use of... description.
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* DecadentCourt: Implied. We don't see much of the Newtopian court, but Olivia mentions that there have been rumours about Marcy's relationship with Sasha.
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* {{Polyamory}}: Anne and Marcy resolve their mutual crush on Sasha and each other with this. Unfortunately, being polyamorous does not protect them from the absurd amount of baggage all of them carry.
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* BatmanGambit: When going for a snack run for Sasha, Anne insist that they get chocolate covered flies, despite knowing that Sasha doesn't like insect food. She hopes that Sasha will refuse to eat them so she can have them herself. This backfires because Sasha is so petty that she'll eat snacks she hates just to stop Anne from having any.
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* UngratefulBastard: A bad habit of Sasha's. When her girlfriends buy a bunch of snacks for her (defying Olivia's orders to do so), her first reaction is to complain about the type of snacks they bought.
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* WhatIf: The toad rebellion attempted to conquer Amphibia before Sasha reunited with her friends.
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: Sasha admits that she's not sure where the cheese comes from since there are no cows in Amphibia. Marcy is about to explain before Sasha tells her that she doesn't want to know.
* WhatIf: The toad rebellion attempted to conquer Amphibia before Sasha reunited with her friends.
* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: Sasha admits that she's not sure where the cheese comes from since there are no cows in Amphibia. Marcy is about to explain before Sasha tells her that she doesn't want to know.
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* BrickJoke: In chapter 2, Sasha spends a while staring at the blue mushroom light in her cell out of boredom. Three chapter later, she gives a "strangely detailed list of grievances" about it.
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* BothSidesHasAPoint: The first major fight between Sasha and Anne in the fic comes when Sprig accuses Sasha of only being friendly (since Anne hasn't told him about their romantic relationship yet) to manipulate Anne and Marcy. Sasha in turn is furious and says a number of rude and insulting things about the Plantars. As Marcy argues, Sasha was out of line saying those things, but it was also unfair for Anne to agree with Sprig's accusation. Sasha is a very manipulative person, but she does genuinely love her girlfriends.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Sasha is an extremely good manipulator, even without meaning to. At one point she is able to get Marcy and Anne to go against their better judgement for her sake, despite both of them ''knowing'' that she's manipulating them.
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* BothSidesHasAPoint: The first major fight between Sasha and Anne in the fic comes when Sprig accuses Sasha of only being friendly (since Anne hasn't told him about their romantic relationship yet) to manipulate Anne and Marcy. Sasha in turn is furious and says a number of rude and insulting things about the Plantars. As Marcy argues, Sasha was out of line saying those things, but it was also unfair for Anne to agree with Sprig's accusation. Sasha is a very manipulative person, but she does genuinely love her girlfriends.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: During a tickle fight with Sasha, Anne gets her first feel of how the toad workout regiment improved Sasha's physique, and gets ''very'' distracted.
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* RiteOfPassage: Sasha recounts how toads prove themselves by going out to slay a particularily dangerous beast. Grime had her go through it while teaching her swordfighting.
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* BullyHunter: Sasha is a bully herself, but that doesn't stop her from going after anyone who's mean to Sasha and Marcy, be they classmates or amphibians. Apparently she did this so often that Anne learned to recognize when she's about to do it by the "revenge face" she makes.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Something Sasha does unintentionally most of the time, but which Anne has learned to recognize and tries to call her out on. Whenever Marcy or Anne points out something weird she does, she'll insist that she doesn't do it and it's just Marcy and Anne seeing things.
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* NeverMyFault: Sasha's fatal flaw. She refuses to listen to either of her girlfriends if they so much as imply that she might have had some fault in their fights.
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* PunchAWall: Sasha does this after Anne tells her she doesn't trust her. Realistically, she seriously hurts her hand, though it heals quickly.
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* RedemptionRejection: Sasha is frequently confronted with how horrible she has been to her girlfriends in the past, but every time she comes close to a HeelRealization, she instead doubles down.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Sprig is actually Anne's adopted younger brother, but the sentiment remains as he warns Anne against spending time with Sasha, worried that she will hurt her again.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Sprig does not approve of Anne's relationship with Sasha, though it's hardly unjustified considering that Sasha tried to kill him.
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* TheQuietOne: Harold, the guard assigned to Sasha's cell, never says a word.
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* MeaningfulName: The newt guard is named Harold, as in the memetic phrase "Harold, they're lesbians."
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* UndyingLoyalty: Anne and Marcy are surprised at just how loyal Sasha is to Grime, refusing to turn her back on him even when offered freedom.
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* GrewASpine: Anne, over the course of her time in Amphibia, has learned to stand up for herself and knows how to recognize Sasha's abusive and manipulative behavior. Sasha doesn't like it one bit. Somewhat downplayed in that recognizing the signs and standing up for herself does not undo the hold Sasha has over her, and she still finds herself succumbing to Sasha's pushing more often than not.
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* InternalReveal: In chapter 7, Anne and Marcy learn more about Sasha's early days in Amphibia, namely that she was imprisoned in the southern Toad Tower.
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* DramaticIrony: A large portion of the issues faced by the Calamity trio is the fact that neither Anne nor Marcy know anything about Sasha's experiences in Amphibia. As far as they know, Sasha joined up with the first and best evil army she found and marched straight on the capital. In reality, Sasha was at first imprisoned, then freed herself by cunning and manipulation, developed a close bond of friendship with her former captors, and only marched on Newtopia once Newtopia went out of their way to antagonize them.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Or grandparents in this case. Anne doesn't want to talk to Hop Pop about her feelings for Sasha because he'll try to give her something gross like relationship advice.
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* InsistentTerminology: Marcy isn't ''interrogating'' the toad [=POWs=], she's ''interviewing'' them. It's very transparently an attempt at making herself feel better.
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* AMotherToHerMen: "Mother" might be a bit far, but Sasha is very beloved by the toads under her command. When Marcy interrogates them, almost every single one she talks to praises her leadership and training for turning them into an elite army, and several express genuine admiration and concern for her safety.
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* ObviouslyEvil: A subversion. Marcy ''calls'' the Toad Army this, and while it certainly fits the bill in many aspects, it also shows how shallow her worldview is. She is shocked that Sasha would join "such an obviously evil army", when Sasha actually had very valid reasons for working with the toads.
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* SecretRelationship: Mary and Anne can't be open about their relationship with Sasha because Sasha is a prisoner of war from a hostile rebel army, not to mention what Anne's family would think if they learned she was in a relationship with the girl who tried to kill them.
* StarCrossedLovers: Between Sasha, the captive lieutenant of a warlord who tried to conquer Newtopia, and Anne and Marcy, who are loyal (Anne more so from association with Marcy) to Newtopia's king.
* SwitchingPOV: Between Sasha, Anne, and Marcy, with occasional insights from other characters. The alternating pov ensures that the reader gets insight into all the girls' issues without one side coming across as the clear bad guy.
* StarCrossedLovers: Between Sasha, the captive lieutenant of a warlord who tried to conquer Newtopia, and Anne and Marcy, who are loyal (Anne more so from association with Marcy) to Newtopia's king.
* SwitchingPOV: Between Sasha, Anne, and Marcy, with occasional insights from other characters. The alternating pov ensures that the reader gets insight into all the girls' issues without one side coming across as the clear bad guy.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: A big whoopin load of it, complicated by the fact that all parties involved think it's a case of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Sasha and Grime are a ManipulativeBitch and brutal warlord respectively, but their only knowledge of Andrias is as the tyrant that put a bounty on Grime's head.
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After her failed attempt at conquering Newtopia, Sasha had resigned herself to a life in the dungeons. She had not expected to be visited by her two former best friends. And she had certainly not expected them to confess their love to her.
'''Confessions''' is an ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' AlternateUniverseFic where Sasha and Grime's invasion of Newtopia happened much earlier in the timeline, while Anne and the Plantars were still staying there. As the invasion is repelled, Sasha is left in a prison cell where she is confronted by Anne and Marcy, both of whom are in love with her and want to attempt a relationship despite the less-than-favorable circumstances. But can the three of them really reconcile their conflicts and have a healthy relationship?
The fic can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1933876 here]] on Archive Of Our Own. The first part, "Confessions", is about the girls starting their relationship, while the second part, "Cell Dates", explores how that relationship goes.
!!Tropes
* BornUnlucky: Where the Calamity girls ended up when they arrived in Amphibia was apparently random, but Sasha got the worst out of it by far. Anne ended up with a kind FoundFamily and Marcy became the guest and loyal ranger of TheGoodKing (or so she thinks). Sasha, by contrast, was immediately thrown in a dank and rotting cell and had to build herself up to become Grime's second in command through nothing but her own charisma. This experience influences a lot of her views on the world, and leaves her just a bit resentful of Anne and Marcy.
* CerebusSyndrome: The first chapter is a cute oneshot about the Calamity girls confessing their love and agreeing that they want to make a relationship work despite the circumstances. This is followed by 20 chapters exploring why their relationship is unhealthy and toxic for everyone involved.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Inverted. Anne can’t believe that Grime would actually care about Sasha, or that Sasha would care about him in turn, because she sees Grime only as a sadistic sociopath.
* FatalFlaw: Marcy’s naivete. While her blind trust in Andrias can be justified by his skill in manipulation, Marcy’s trust crosses the line into blind obedience and hero worship when she refuses to believe Sasha’s claim that Andrias had a bounty put on Grime’s head. Olivia later confirms that Sasha was telling the truth.
* TheGoodKing: Subverted. Even Andrias' faux good attitude has some signs of tyranny. Notably, Grime was sentenced to death, had a bounty put on his head, and the AxCrazy general Yunan sent to kill him, all for a single failure after a lifetime of service.
* TheGhost: King Andrias, despite being the GreaterScopeParagon and GreaterScopeVillain depending on who you ask, does not appear in the fic (as of chapter 7), but is frequently talked about. The Newtopian Government is instead represented by lady Olivia.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: A big whoopin load of it, complicated by the fact that all parties involved think it's a case of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Sasha and Grime are a ManipulativeBitch and brutal warlord respectively, but their only knowledge of Andrias is as the tyrant that put a bounty on Grime's head.
* HealingFactor: After injuring her hand in a temper tantrum, Sasha heals remarkably quickly. The girls don't think much about it, though [[TouchedByVorlons it's implied it might be a manifestation of her Calamity powers]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Sasha and Grime were doing it for ultimately selfish reasons, they are also right in pointing out how unfair it is that Grime got a death sentence for a single failure after a lifetime of loyal service.
* MoralMyopia: Anne points out that it's rather hypocritical of Sasha to have such an issue with the Plantars, since Sasha has her own FoundFamily in Grime. Of course, this comes immediately after Anne dismisses Grime as a sociopath who doesn't actually care about Sasha, so Anne isn't free of hypocricy either.
* {{Polyamory}}: Anne and Marcy resolve their mutual crush on Sasha and each other with this. Unfortunately, being polyamorous does not protect them from the absurd amount of baggage all of them carry.
* VillainHasAPoint: Marcy has to concede when Grime points out that it’s a bit hypocritical of her to complain about Sasha’s imprisonment in Toad Tower when she is currently imprisoned in Newtopia.
'''Confessions''' is an ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' AlternateUniverseFic where Sasha and Grime's invasion of Newtopia happened much earlier in the timeline, while Anne and the Plantars were still staying there. As the invasion is repelled, Sasha is left in a prison cell where she is confronted by Anne and Marcy, both of whom are in love with her and want to attempt a relationship despite the less-than-favorable circumstances. But can the three of them really reconcile their conflicts and have a healthy relationship?
The fic can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1933876 here]] on Archive Of Our Own. The first part, "Confessions", is about the girls starting their relationship, while the second part, "Cell Dates", explores how that relationship goes.
!!Tropes
* BornUnlucky: Where the Calamity girls ended up when they arrived in Amphibia was apparently random, but Sasha got the worst out of it by far. Anne ended up with a kind FoundFamily and Marcy became the guest and loyal ranger of TheGoodKing (or so she thinks). Sasha, by contrast, was immediately thrown in a dank and rotting cell and had to build herself up to become Grime's second in command through nothing but her own charisma. This experience influences a lot of her views on the world, and leaves her just a bit resentful of Anne and Marcy.
* CerebusSyndrome: The first chapter is a cute oneshot about the Calamity girls confessing their love and agreeing that they want to make a relationship work despite the circumstances. This is followed by 20 chapters exploring why their relationship is unhealthy and toxic for everyone involved.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Inverted. Anne can’t believe that Grime would actually care about Sasha, or that Sasha would care about him in turn, because she sees Grime only as a sadistic sociopath.
* FatalFlaw: Marcy’s naivete. While her blind trust in Andrias can be justified by his skill in manipulation, Marcy’s trust crosses the line into blind obedience and hero worship when she refuses to believe Sasha’s claim that Andrias had a bounty put on Grime’s head. Olivia later confirms that Sasha was telling the truth.
* TheGoodKing: Subverted. Even Andrias' faux good attitude has some signs of tyranny. Notably, Grime was sentenced to death, had a bounty put on his head, and the AxCrazy general Yunan sent to kill him, all for a single failure after a lifetime of service.
* TheGhost: King Andrias, despite being the GreaterScopeParagon and GreaterScopeVillain depending on who you ask, does not appear in the fic (as of chapter 7), but is frequently talked about. The Newtopian Government is instead represented by lady Olivia.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: A big whoopin load of it, complicated by the fact that all parties involved think it's a case of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Sasha and Grime are a ManipulativeBitch and brutal warlord respectively, but their only knowledge of Andrias is as the tyrant that put a bounty on Grime's head.
* HealingFactor: After injuring her hand in a temper tantrum, Sasha heals remarkably quickly. The girls don't think much about it, though [[TouchedByVorlons it's implied it might be a manifestation of her Calamity powers]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Sasha and Grime were doing it for ultimately selfish reasons, they are also right in pointing out how unfair it is that Grime got a death sentence for a single failure after a lifetime of loyal service.
* MoralMyopia: Anne points out that it's rather hypocritical of Sasha to have such an issue with the Plantars, since Sasha has her own FoundFamily in Grime. Of course, this comes immediately after Anne dismisses Grime as a sociopath who doesn't actually care about Sasha, so Anne isn't free of hypocricy either.
* {{Polyamory}}: Anne and Marcy resolve their mutual crush on Sasha and each other with this. Unfortunately, being polyamorous does not protect them from the absurd amount of baggage all of them carry.
* VillainHasAPoint: Marcy has to concede when Grime points out that it’s a bit hypocritical of her to complain about Sasha’s imprisonment in Toad Tower when she is currently imprisoned in Newtopia.
