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* MirrorCharacter: Over time, it becomes clear that Anne and Marcy have a lot more in common than they would like to admit;
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Sprig laughs at how crazy the idea of Anne dating Sasha is, since it'd mean she was dating someone who tried to kill them and keeping it secret from everybody. This is precisely what Sasha is doing.
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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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** 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 parading her priviliege in front of the toad laborers]].
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* In chapter 21, [[spoiler:Anne tells the Plantars about her relationship with Marcy and Sasha]].
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* ShoutOut: While traveling to Lord Redd's estate, Anne entertains herself by [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLegendOfKorra making up stories about the guards]].
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* ShoutOut: While traveling to Lord Redd's estate, Anne entertains herself by [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLegendOfKorra [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra making up stories about the guards]].
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* ThirdWheel: Inverted. Sasha and Marcy end up feeling like the third wheels on one of their dates with Anne because Anne invited the Plantars along and spends more time with them than her girlfriends. She realizes in hindsight that it was rude of her.
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* PartingWordsOfRegret: After the dinner attack, Anne is worried that her [[spoiler:last interraction with Sasha would be the incident in the training yard]].
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* PartingWordsOfRegret: PartingWordsRegret: After the dinner attack, Anne is worried that her [[spoiler:last interraction interaction with Sasha would be the incident in the training yard]].
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The fic was completed on February 26th, 2023.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The fic ends with [[spoiler:Anne, Sasha, and Marcy leaving Newtopia along with the Plantars, intending to seek out the three temples and a way back home. The ending leaves a lot of plot threads open for readers to imagine themselves, including the three temples themselves, Sasha and Marcy coming to Wartwood, and the innvitable events of ''True Colors'']].
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* BittersweetEnding: The fic ends with [[spoiler:Sasha and her girlfriends riding of to a hopeful future, intending to look for the temples and a way back home. However, Grime is still imprisoned, Marcy's secret is still not revealed, and Andrias' betrayal is still looming in the distance]].
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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. [[spoiler:When she eventually does, he [[SubvertedTrope gives genuine and sound advice]]]].
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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. [[spoiler:When she eventually does, he [[SubvertedTrope gives genuine and sound advice]]]].advice]], though he does get to the embarassing relationship advice later]].
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* In chapter 21, [[spoiler:Anne tells the Plantars about her relationship with Marcy and Sasha]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Marcy is generally a sweet and nice girl, but when interrogating the [[spoiler:assassin who tried to kill Sasha]], she gets a wicked glint in her eye and is not above threatening with death.
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* FantasticSlurs: In the show, it's a running gag that toads forget what Sasha's species is called and call her a "hummus". In the fic, this is used as a racial slur by an assassin Marcy interrogates.
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* PartingWordsOfRegret: After the dinner attack, Anne is worried that her [[spoiler:last interraction with Sasha would be the incident in the training yard]].
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* PacingATrench: Anne has a tendency to pace when she's nervous, and Hop Pop at one point tells her to sit down before she wears a hole in their hotel room.
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* PoisonedWeapons: The assassin who [[spoiler:stabbed Sasha]] had a poisoned dagger.
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* NotSoStoic: Harold is usually very quiet and expresses no emotions whatsoever, but Olivia knows his tells and can tell he's angry and frustrated after [[spoiler:Sasha gets stabbed]].
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** Harold is usually very quiet and expresses no emotions whatsoever, but Olivia knows his tells and can tell he's angry and frustrated after [[spoiler:Sasha getsstabbed]].stabbed]].
** Olivia also finds herself hoping that [[spoiler:Sasha will survive]], though insists that it's only because her value to the Crown and not because it would break Marcy's heart if she didn't.
** Harold is usually very quiet and expresses no emotions whatsoever, but Olivia knows his tells and can tell he's angry and frustrated after [[spoiler:Sasha gets
** Olivia also finds herself hoping that [[spoiler:Sasha will survive]], though insists that it's only because her value to the Crown and not because it would break Marcy's heart if she didn't.
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* FreakOut: [[spoiler:After Anne repeatedly pressures Sasha into a sparring match despite Sasha's insistence that she doesn't want to (stemming from her not wanting to repeat the Toad Tower battle), Sasha eventually snaps and attacks until Anne is beaten and terrified]]. Sasha proceeds to fall into depression over what she did, not helped by Anne and Marcy avoiding her.
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* ItsAllMyFault: After [[spoiler:Sasha gets stabbed during the dinner assassination attempt]], everyone present blames themselves for it. Marcy blames herself for not being good enough to stop it, Anne does the same but with the additional guilt of having pressed Sasha's TraumaButton and then blamed her for having a FreakOut, Hop Pop blames himself [[spoiler:for having been careless enough that Sasha had to protect him]], and Cecil and even Harold both blame themselves for failing to protect her.
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* NotSoStoic: Harold is usually very quiet and expresses no emotions whatsoever, but Olivia knows his tells and can tell he's angry and frustrated after [[spoiler:Sasha gets stabbed]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sasha picks up on how to use a spear fast, but no amount of natural skill or [[spoiler:calamity powers can protect you from someone getting a knife past your guard, especially not if you're wielding a weapon meant to keep opponents at a distance]].
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Marcy and Anne continuously assume that Sasha's loyalty to the toad is merely transactional, that she maintains her loyalty to Grime and the rebellion out of some misguided sense of owing them, and as a result try to reassure her that she doesn't owe them anything and is free to join Andrias. In reality, Sasha is loyal to the toads out of genuine friendship, and she has very good reasons to not want to join Andrias.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
** Marcy and Anne continuously assume that Sasha's loyalty to the toad is merely transactional, that she maintains her loyalty to Grime and the rebellion out of some misguided sense of owing them, and as a result try to reassure her that she doesn't owe them anything and is free to join Andrias. In reality, Sasha is loyal to the toads out of genuine friendship, and she has very good reasons to not want to joinAndrias.Andrias.
** When Sasha refuses to spar with her, Anne assumes it's simply out of pride or stubborness, not wanting to risk Anne beating her again, so she starts pushing. In reality, it's because Sasha is terrified of hurting Anne like the last time they fought. [[spoiler:Anne doesn't realize her mistake until she's pushed Sasha's TraumaButton hard enough to cause a FreakOut]].
** Marcy and Anne continuously assume that Sasha's loyalty to the toad is merely transactional, that she maintains her loyalty to Grime and the rebellion out of some misguided sense of owing them, and as a result try to reassure her that she doesn't owe them anything and is free to join Andrias. In reality, Sasha is loyal to the toads out of genuine friendship, and she has very good reasons to not want to join
** When Sasha refuses to spar with her, Anne assumes it's simply out of pride or stubborness, not wanting to risk Anne beating her again, so she starts pushing. In reality, it's because Sasha is terrified of hurting Anne like the last time they fought. [[spoiler:Anne doesn't realize her mistake until she's pushed Sasha's TraumaButton hard enough to cause a FreakOut]].
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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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** 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'tget]].get]].
** In chapter 20, [[spoiler:Sasha, still suffering from guilt from attacking Anne earlier, sees how much the Plantars care about Anne and how happy they make her, and starts to accept them, even if mostly out of guilt. By the end of the chapter, she risks her own safety to protect Hop Pop]].
** 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
** In chapter 20, [[spoiler:Sasha, still suffering from guilt from attacking Anne earlier, sees how much the Plantars care about Anne and how happy they make her, and starts to accept them, even if mostly out of guilt. By the end of the chapter, she risks her own safety to protect Hop Pop]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sasha picks up on how to use a spear fast, but no amount of natural skill or [[spoiler:calamity powers can protect you from someone getting a knife past your guard, especially not if you're wielding a weapon meant to keep opponents at a distance]].
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* BelatedInjuryRealization: [[spoiler:During the Dinner Attack, Sasha gets a dagger to her stomach, but doesn't register it as more than a pinch in her stomach and thinks it's just a minor scratch until after she's killed the assassin and the battle is over]].
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* EmpoweredBadassNormal: During the [[spoiler:dinner attack, Sasha briefly manages to tap into her calamity powers to save Hop Pop. Not enough to go full Calamity Sasha, but enough to move with superhuman speed]].
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* InstantExpert: Sasha has never trained with a spear before, but can handle one good enough to [[spoiler:fight of the assassins at the dinner. Downplayed since while she ''can'' fight with them, she's not as good as with her sword, and ends up getting a stab wound for her efforts]].
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* 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]].
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** Chapter 20, the penultimate chapter, ends with [[spoiler:Sasha passing out from a stab wound]].
** 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
** Chapter 20, the penultimate chapter, ends with [[spoiler:Sasha passing out from a stab wound]].
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* EliteMook: During [[spoiler:the Dinner Attack]], there is no indication that the knife-wielding assassin is anything special, but he manages to hold his own against [[WorldsBestWarrior Sasha]] for a minute and [[spoiler:even manages to stab her before she kills him]].
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* ActionGirl: All of the Calamity Trio are capable fighters, shown of in chapter 20 when [[spoiler:a dinner is attacked by assassins. Anne and Marcy immediately get up and fight of the assassins with whatever they have on hand, and Sasha, once she gets over the guilt preventing her from fighting, is the most capable fighter of them all]].
* AmazonChaser: Anne finds herself thirsting over Sasha's warrior's physique, and during the [[spoiler:dinner attack, both her and Marcy admire Sasha's skill as a fighter. Anne even notes with surprise to herself that she's apparently into warrior women. Of course, neither are slouches in this department either, and they find it just as hot in each other]].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Sprig asks to come with Anne to [[spoiler:Redd's estate]] to make sure Sasha doesn't try to kill her with an apple or something. Anne assures him that she won't, and haven't done anything like that since they were in third grade.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: During the [[spoiler:attack on the dinner in chapter 20, everyone of the main characters get up to fight despite wearing fine dinner clothes. Special attention is drawn to Sasha, who fights with a spear she took from one of the assassines while wearing a fine pink dress]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: PlayedForLaughs: After [[spoiler:Jamison Redd petitions to have Sasha work for him and gets the court on his side]], Olivia calls on Marcy and Anne in the hopes that they might manage to quiet Sasha's loud protests. She didn't consider that Anne is louder than Sasha could ever hope to be.
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** Later PlayedForDrama when Sasha is training and Anne asks her to spar. Anne doesn't consider that the subject of swordfighting might still be a sore subject for Sasha, so she continues to push despite Sasha's repeated refusal, until Sasha finally has enough and [[spoiler:attacks her]].
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** Later PlayedForDrama when Sasha is training and Anne asks her to spar. Anne doesn't consider that the subject of swordfighting might still be a sore subject for Sasha, so she continues to push despite Sasha's repeated refusal, until Sasha finally has enough and [[spoiler:attacks her]].
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* HeroicBSOD: The realization that she [[spoiler:nearly hit Anne]] causes Sasha to curl up in a corner of her cell and refuse to say anything other than that she wants to be left alone for hours.
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** Sasha once again enters this state after [[spoiler:Anne pushes her too far and they have a physically violent fight, leaving Sasha lying in bed without moving for days out of guilt]].
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* CommonalityConnection: Marcy and Sasha both feel like Anne likes the Plantars more than them, though Marcy has learned to live with it.
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* InternalReformist: Sasha would love to overthrow the Newtopian aristocracy, but where she is now she can't really do anything close to that, so she instead spends much of the second half of the fic [[spoiler:arguing with Lady Olivia over the treatment of the toad prisoners]].
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* SoProudOfYou: After hearing about [[spoiler:Sasha helping dismantling Redd's conspiracy, Grime quietly expresses his pride in her for having managed to screw over the nobility despite being part of the court]].
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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 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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* MythologyGag: Marcy finds the evidence that damns [[spoiler:lord Redd]] behind a tapestry, just like how in the show Sasha and Grime find a mural that depicted Andrias as a tyrant behind a more benign tapestry.
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* TakesOneToKillOne: Sasha jokes that [[spoiler:it takes a rebel to rat out a rebel after she helps unravel Lord Redd's rebellion]].
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* IHaveYourWife: Lily Frond, an agent of the Rebellion, works for them because [[spoiler:her family works for Lord Redd, and he threatened to have them fired and never given work anywhere again if she didn't comply]].
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* NoodleIncident: While researching the calamity box, Sasha comes across a story about a cursed shovel wiping out a town. This event is never detailed, though Sasha does show Anne a drawing of dead frogs out of spite.
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