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* TheCassandra: Sasha is often disbelieved and distrusted, even when she's telling the truth. Marcy often disbelieves her when she points out some of Andrias' more tyrannical actions, only accepting it when Olivia or Andrias himself confirm it.
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* TheCassandra: Sasha is often disbelieved and distrusted, even when she's telling the truth. Marcy often disbelieves her when she points out some of Andrias' more tyrannical actions, only accepting it when Olivia or Andrias himself confirm it. When she reveals that [[spoiler:Lord Redd has been conspiring against the throne, the only ones who believe her are Marcy and Anne, who freely admit that it's mostly bias speaking, and Andrias, who knew all along [[ObfuscatingStupidity but pretends to doubt her]]]].
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* CryingWolf: Sasha makes it absolutely clear that she does not trust Andrias. Given what she has done recently, her girlfriends don't trust her judgement. Too bad she's completely right about Andrias being untrustworthy.
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* CryingWolf: Sasha makes it absolutely clear that she does not trust Andrias. Given what she has done recently, her girlfriends don't trust her judgement. Too bad she's completely right about Andrias being untrustworthy. [[spoiler:The same happens when she accuses lord Redd of being duplicitous, though this time Marcy, Anne and Andrias do believe her]].
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* TheCassandra: Sasha is often disbelieved and distrusted, even when she's telling the truth. Marcy often disbelieves her when she points out some of Andrias' more tyrannical actions, only accepting it when Olivia or Andrias himself confirm it.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: In chapter 18, Sasha tells Anne and Marcy that she's sorry. It comes across as apologizing for [[spoiler:not having told them about Lord Redd's plans earlier]], but what she actually means is that she's sorry that she'd do it again.
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* BeardOfSorrow: When Sasha [[spoiler:finally sees Grime again, she's heartbroken to see that his beard has grown out again, after she ''just'' convinced him to shave it and get out of his depression]].
* BigDamnReunion: After months apart, [[spoiler:Sasha and Grime finally have a chance to talk in chapter 17. Sasha is heartbroken and guilty to see her captain broken, dirty, and chained to the ground, while Grime is just happy to see that his lieutenant safe. Sasha offers to do anything to help him, anything he asks, even if it would mean ruining all of her relationships, but Grime simply tells her to go, and live well]].
* CliffHanger: Chapter 17 ends with [[spoiler:Sasha, having just talked to Grime and been told to live her life the best she can, charging at Cecil, apparently to attack him]].
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: It's mentioned that prisoners are often prevented from having a way to tell time as a way to break their wills and possibly even drive them mad. Both Newtopia and [[spoiler:Grime]] have employed this tactic.
* ItsAllAboutMe: During [[spoiler:Lord Redd's staged attack on the palace]], several nobles insist that the rebels must be attacking to assassinate ''them'' specifically.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Platonic version. [[spoiler:Sasha offers to do anything for Grime's freedom, support a powerhungry noble, overthrow the king, break him out of prison, and ruin her romantic relationships. Grime tells her that they had a good run, but he doesn't want her to sacrifice her freedom and chance at happiness for his sake]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Platonic version. [[spoiler:Sasha offers to do anything for Grime's freedom, support a powerhungry noble, overthrow the king, break him out of prison, and ruin her romantic relationships. Grime tells her that they had a good run, but he doesn't want her to sacrifice her freedom and chance at happiness for his sake]].
* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler:Grime admits to Sasha that she is probably the only true friend he has ever had, and certainly the closest]].
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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. Marcy is also completely loyal to Andrias, though the audience knows that, unlike Sasha's loyalty to Grime, Marcy's loyalty is not returned.
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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. Marcy [[spoiler:Sasha is also completely loyal even willing to Andrias, though the audience knows that, unlike Sasha's loyalty ruin her relationship to Grime, Marcy's loyalty is not returned.her girlfriends for Grime's sake]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Off-screen, the Plantars were mugged by someone who was then immediately after mugged by Polly.
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* RichBitch: It's mentioned that Sasha usually paid for Anne and Marcy when they went out shopping on Earth, and she's certainly a bitch.
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** After [[spoiler:learnign the full extent of what happened, Marcy finds herself seeing Sasha's point in the Toad Tower fight. While Anne knew Hop Pop personally and saw him as a grandfather, Sasha did not and only knew him as some random rebel figurehead that Grime asked her to take care of in return for giving her his aid. Killing him, while cruel, was the fastest and least violent way to put down the rebellion so she could get back to finding her friends and returning home, with Hop Pop merely being a victim of circumstance not unlike the dead rebel leaders Marcy reads about in history books and doesn't think much about. While Sasha was wrong, and trying to kill Sprig was inexcusable, Marcy can still see why she did it]].
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** After [[spoiler:learnign [[spoiler:learning the full extent of what happened, Marcy finds herself seeing Sasha's point in the Toad Tower fight. While Anne knew Hop Pop personally and saw him as a grandfather, Sasha did not and only knew him as some random rebel figurehead that Grime asked her to take care of in return for giving her his aid. Killing him, while cruel, was the fastest and least violent way to put down the rebellion so she could get back to finding her friends and returning home, with Hop Pop merely being a victim of circumstance not unlike the dead rebel leaders Marcy reads about in history books and doesn't think much about. While Sasha was wrong, and trying to kill Sprig was inexcusable, Marcy can still see why she did it]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Like in the show, Andrias plays the kind, bumbling monarch to distract from the reality that he is a cruel tyrant with terrible goals. Sasha isn't fooled, and is determined not to underestimate the King.
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* GenderBlenderName: Sasha names the guard weevil she befriends Princess, not having realized it's a girl until Marcy points it out.
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** Redd turns out to be ''even worse'' when it's revealed that [[spoiler:his goal is to overthrow Andrias because Andrias has (supposedly) allowed smallfolk to gain power similar to that of nobles, just because he hates the idea of nobility having to share any kind of power with simple lowborn]].
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* TheGhost: King Andrias, despite being the GreaterScopeParagon and GreaterScopeVillain depending on who you ask, does not appear [[spoiler:until chapter 10]]. The Newtopian government is instead represented by lady Olivia.
* AGirlAndHerX: While [[spoiler:working at Lord Redd's estate]], Sasha befriends one of the guardian weevil. It is at first outright hostile to her, but Sasha brings it scraps of food from breakfast every morning until it turns friendly, and Sasha grows fond of it because it reminds her of her dog back home. Sadly, she doesn't get to keep it when she returns to Newtopia, despite her best efforts (read: kidnapping).
* AGirlAndHerX: While [[spoiler:working at Lord Redd's estate]], Sasha befriends one of the guardian weevil. It is at first outright hostile to her, but Sasha brings it scraps of food from breakfast every morning until it turns friendly, and Sasha grows fond of it because it reminds her of her dog back home. Sadly, she doesn't get to keep it when she returns to Newtopia, despite her best efforts (read: kidnapping).
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* TheGhost: King Andrias, despite being the GreaterScopeParagon and GreaterScopeVillain depending on who you ask, does not appear [[spoiler:until chapter 10]]. The Newtopian government is instead represented by lady Olivia.
* AGirlAndHerX: While [[spoiler:working at Lord Redd's estate]], Sasha befriends one of the guardian weevil. It is at first outright hostile to her, but Sasha brings it scraps of food from breakfast every morning until it turns friendly, and Sasha grows fond of it because it reminds her of her dog back home.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Lord Redd shows up remarkably unlikeable and entitled, but crosses the line when [[spoiler:he reveals that he wants Andrias removed from power because Andrias has allowed power to be taken from the nobility it "rightfully" belongs to and given to lowborn merchants and freeholders]].
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Andrias is villainous and tyrannical, and established the caste system in the first place, but he allows lowborn to gain power equal to that of nobility by wealth, unlike [[spoiler:Lord Redd, who wants noble blood to be the end-all be-all of power]].
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* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Lord Redd offers Sasha the chance to free Grime from imprisonment, overthrow Andrias, and ensure fair treatment to the toads, which has been her goal from the very beginning. However, doing so would mean replacing Andrias with someone even worse, go against her principles, and likely destroy her relationship with her girlfriends]].
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* GenreSavvy: When an agent [[spoiler:of the rebellion]] approaches Sasha with an offer from an unknown benefactor, Sasha points out that they are in the house of a nobleman, and she was led there by the noble's weevil. Lord Redd is obviously involved, so he can get his ass out there and speak to her personally. [[spoiler:She's right, and he does]].
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* TimmyInAWell: In chapter 16, Sasha's new weevil CanineCompanion shows up to her room at night and gets her to follow it. [[spoiler:Though it leads her to something far more sinister than a child in a well]].
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* TheSocialExpert: Sasha is an extremely skilled manipulator, which is evident not only in how she has both her girlfriends wrapped around her finger easily, but in how she [[spoiler:picks up on the affairs of the Newtopian court better than Marcy, who has been neck-deep in court politics for ''months'', in just a day]], and how she routinely manages to get her guards on her side, even the guard weevils.
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* TheSocialExpert: Sasha is an extremely skilled manipulator, which is evident not only in how she has both her girlfriends wrapped around her finger easily, but in how she [[spoiler:picks up on the affairs of the Newtopian court better than Marcy, who has been neck-deep in court politics for ''months'', in just a day]], and how she routinely manages to get her guards on her side, even the guard weevils.weevils, and how she easily convinces the [[spoiler:toads to accept Andrias' offer, then has them go from resenting her to liking her again within a few days]].
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* AGirlAndHerX: While [[spoiler:working at Lord Redd's estate]], Sasha befriends one of the guardian weevil. It is at first outright hostile to her, but Sasha brings it scraps of food from breakfast every morning until it turns friendly, and Sasha reluctantly starts to grow fond of it.
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* CharacterDevelopment: In one of the first chapters, Sasha manipulates Anne and Marcy into getting her snacks and then refuses to share them. In chapter 16, Anne and Marcy bring her food and drink while [[spoiler:she's working in the field, and she refuses it because she doesn't want to enjoy a priviliege that the other toads don't get]].
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: It's mentioned that Newtopian guards ride crawfish.
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* TheResenter: Sasha ''really'' hates the Plantars, and especially Sprig, for what she sees as them having stolen away her best friend.
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** After [[spoiler:Sasha joins Andrias' court and is sent to work with the toad prisoners in lord Redd's field]], a lot of the toads resent her for her betrayal, refusing to include her in conversations and not helping her with the work. She does make some headway in earning their friendship again, but accidentally ruins it by [[spoiler:feeding a few scraps of bacon to a guard weevil, unintentionally prading her priviliege in front of the toad laborers]].
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* NiceGuy: Cecil/Seashell, one of Sasha's guards, is, as she puts it, annoyingly friendly. He does his best to befriend Sasha despite being there to guard her, gives her relationship advice as best he can, and [[spoiler:helps her and the toads out when they're working in Lord Redd's field]].
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* FirstNameBasis: During her interviews, Marcy notes that Percy and Braddock refer to Sasha by her first name, which she notes as odd given Sasha's apparent dislike of amphibians.
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* OrderedApology: Anne forces Sprig to apologize after he makes a cruel remark to Sasha about the toad tower fight, and for having laughed at her when she got attacked by a weevil. Sasha in turn is forced to apologize for having brought up Toad Tower in the first place and having called Sprig ugly.
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* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: When Sasha swears up a storm, Anne covers Polly's ears.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The first time Marcy and Anne notices that Sasha has become an ExtremeDoormat rather than just being sensible is during their first sleepover [[spoiler:after Sasha becomes part of the court]], where she isn't as confident or taking charge as much as she usually is during sleepovers.
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* FantasticCasteSystem: As in the show, Newts are the top of society, being scholars, administrators, and artists. Below them are the Toads, serving as military and local leaders. At the bottom are frogs, as merchants, artisans and peasants. Hop Pop in particular is shocked at the idea that a newt could be farming.
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* 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.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The first chapter ''Confessions'' is a cute oneshot about the Calamity girls confessing their love for each other and agreeing that they want wanting to make try a relationship work despite the circumstances. This relationship. ''Cell Dates'' is followed by 20 chapters exploring why a 21-chapter longfic about how unhealthy their relationship is unhealthy and toxic for everyone involved.is, set against the backdrop of cutthroat Newtopian politics.
