History Fanfic / OurSecondChanceIsCalledAmphibia

-->'''Anne''': “The river’s correct name is Khwae Noi, you…[[RageBreakingPoint '''''you arrogant fool!''''']]”

-->'''Anne''': “The river’s correct name is Khwae Noi, you…[[RageBreakingPoint you arrogant fool!]]”

-->'''Anne''': “Oh, and by the way? You’re right, I don’t know about the Burma jungle. That’s because the Khwae Noi River is in Thailand, and I even saw it once with my own eyes!”

** When Anne gets captured by Wartwood’s mob led by Toadstool and Hop Pop, the other humans rush to help her and clashes with the frogs. It’s implied that the humans, due to be taller, sturdier and stronger than the frogs (as well as Sasha and Jacob being experienced in fighting), were ''winning'' when the mantis attack stopped the fight.

** Hop Pop’s attempt to bury the Box fails as Sasha ends up catching him and exposing him to the rest of the family, prompting him to reveal what he knew about the Box and the fate of Sprig and Polly’s parents one season earlier. More importantly, the reveal that he had a book with information about the Box leads the children to decipher the language and find out valuable info about the Box and the Gems.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: More like the inverse of it. Instead of a character remembering that today is their birthday after a horrible event happens, the character, in this case, Anne, the main protagonist, is aware of her birthday and has a relatively good time until Sasha stops her from going home and forces her to steal the Music Box which transports her and her friends, and Jacob, Amelia, and James to Amphibia.

** The encounter with the Moss Man happens much earlier than in canon and instead of Anne, involves Amelia and Polly as they run from the other girls to go on an adventure on their own. Not only the Moss Man ends up acting much friendlier than in canon with Anne, but end up revealing Leif’s name to the duo, prompting Amelia to look out for clues on a quest to ‘help’ the mystical being.
** Due to landing near Wartwood together with Anne, Sasha and Marcy undergoes similar redemption arcs with Sasha growing out of her toxic parts of her personality [[FamilyOfChoice thanks to the Sundew influence]] and vowing to be [[ContinuityNod the best version of herself]], while Marcy, without Andrias’ manipulations and under the more moral and nurturing influence of [[DarkIsNotEvil Maddie]], [[ParentalSubstitute Hop Pop, and Farine]], further develop her self-confidence, and her sense of morality, the danger they end up facing almost every day making her realize that strand her friends in Amphibia was a major mistake much earlier than canon, eventually working to find a solution.

* JerkAss: In the chapter Hop Pop and Lock, Monroe is obnoxiously rude when he interrupts Hop Pop and Sylvia’s conversation and calls Sasha a monster, and then by being arrogant towards Hop Pop in the Dance Fever of Wartwood to gain Sylvia’s affection only to be rejected by her. He’s also a spiteful sore loser, angry that Hop Pop cannot be his punching bag anymore.

* SpringtimeforHitler: Jealous of the growing friendship between Anne and Sprig, Sasha decides to cozy up her relation with Ivy Sundew and pretend to be her best friend, in an attempt to make Anne jealous and “return the favor” to Sprig. Not only Sasha ends up growing close to Ivy ''for real'' (as well as enjoying working under Felicia [[MundaneLuxury and the various benefits of it]]) but when Anne, still feeling guilt for the events of “The Domino Effect” tries to apologize to Sash for her newly independent streak (what Sasha wanted to get with her aforementioned revenge plan), [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Sasha shut her down without even letting her speak]].

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Anne and her friends get into a lot of shenanigans either by accident or due to their actions:
** In chapter Cane Crazy, Sasha starts a mocking wave towards Hop Pop’s terrible cooking.
** In a flashback of the chapter Magic and Swords, Sasha manages to defeat Amelia in a sparring match by tripping her and making her fall on Maggie.
** In the chapter Flood, Sweat and Tears, the children go through a series of wacky issues of relocation after the basement is flooded. Anne and Sprig can stand each other’s antics every night. Sasha and Amelia fight constantly to get more space to sleep. Jacob and James find it difficult to sleep in their chosen places. And Marcy spends all her time trying to find a way to fix the issue with less-than-stellar results.
** In the chapter Snail Theft Auto – The Ballad of Reckless Anne, Jacob calls Sasha Pimplezilla due to her severe pimple problem. Marcy tries to make him and the others stop teasing about it failing horrendously:
-->'''Marcy''' “Would you guys knock it off? When you magnify something a few thousand times, of course it ends up looking hideous and disgusting. Hideously and disgustingly beautiful, that is.”
*** In the same chapter, Anne is horrified that she has to read a thicker-than-a-brick book detailing Bessie’s story to drive her and is much more horrified when Marcy tells her there are only diagrams.
*** Jacob gets lost looking for wood Loggle needs so he can build him a skateboard and then gets annoyed that Loggle’s notes don’t have any instructions on how to return to the town. He scolds Marcy for adventuring through the forest alone despite knowing how clumsy she is but when Marcy finds out he is doing the same thing he goes: “Touché”. Then both find out none of them know how to return to Wartwood. Much later, when Marcy tells him that she had drawn a map of Wartwood and the farm’s surroundings, he asks for it; however:
-->'''Marcy''': “Huh, the map is on my bed. Back at the farm.” [Jacob looks at her.] What? I was working on it last night!”
*** Anne, Sprig, Sasha, and Ivy prank Mrs. Croaker in a road rage prompting her to do the same to Sprig and Ivy by wasting their time when they were trying to look for help as their snails become unresponsive.
*** Jacob ironically summons Anne and Sasha riding on their snails when he says: “Do you expect for a miracle to jump in running and get out of this forest?”
*** At the end of the chapter, Hop Pop tells the children that they are ready to drive Bessie now that they have read the book only to be answered with all of them laughing to the point that it disturbs him and prompts him to lock the basement’s door.
** In the chapter Dating Season, Sasha realizes that her jealousy-filled vengeance didn’t work as she has genuinely been enjoying Ivy’s company and friendship over time instead of just using her to spite Sprig for “stealing Anne away from her”.
*** In the same chapter, both Amelia and Polly snap at Anne, Sasha, Felicia, and Hop Pop for taking the matchmaking too far:
-->'''Polly and Amelia''': “Enough! This is all your faults!”
-->'''Hop Pop''': “Say what?”
-->'''Sasha''': “Hah, you just delivered the perfect sitcom catchphrase!”
-->'''Amelia''': “Can it, Sash! You two are the reason we're here marinating and awaiting to be eaten by large monstrous birds, because you had to play matchmaker. Hop Pop, Felicia, not one of you was thinking of Sprig or Ivy’s happiness: you two were just greedy, using something that wasn’t even true in order to push your own personal agenda!”
-->'''Hop Pop''': “Maybe … a little?”
-->'''Felicia''': “It's nuanced.”
-->'''Anne''': “Nice. Totally innocent for once.”
-->'''Sasha''': “Amelia is right: you two should be ashamed.”
-->'''Polly''': “Are you two kidding? Sprig and Ivy went through with this only because of your insane desire to see them together, no matter what, and these dumb magazines!”
** In the chapter Camping, Jealousy and Gunpowder, Amelia’s start as a “sensei” for Maddie’s sisters find difficulties because the triplets are too energetic to even listen to her.
*** Anne goes through a lot of painful shenanigans trying to prove to the Plantars and James she is great at camping despite all the evidence saying otherwise.
*** Jacob, with Marcy and Maddie’s help, tries to recreate gunpowder for the town’s defense only to have each attempt exploding in his face and diminishing Maddie’s supply of mortars.
** In chapter Wyndigite, Jacob’s statement that Hop Pop had given them the day off tomorrow is comically erased when the old farmer goes back on his promise for the sake of his crops much to the disappointment of the children.
*** Ironically, Marcy’s inventions that are supposed to make farming easier become additional work when Hop Pop mentions that the family has to take care of them during Grace Rain.
*** Jacob reveals that Amelia had used an inhaler to hide the test solutions much to her anger.
*** Funnily enough, Amelia goes back on her word that it’s wrong to lie and use tricks to escape farming chores and even brings some excuses.
-->'''Amelia''': “Pass it to me, after you're done,"
-->'''Jacob''': “Amelia, do you also want to pretend to be sick? Didn't you say it was dishonorable and wrong, just yesterday?"
-->'''Amelia''': "Yesterday was yesterday, today is another day. And I don't want to catch another cold!"
*** When Jacob complains that the girls are allowed to make loud parties but his experiments are forbidden, it starts a funny argument with James:
-->'''James''': “Jacob, you were planning to make gunpowder.”
-->'''Jacob''': “So? I have the ingredients now, and Marcy taught me the process.”
-->'''James''': “She also told us about the explosions you caused on your first attempts.”
*** When Anne starts to freak out with the idea of dying after being told about the horrible sickness she and the other children has, Polly corrects her by saying that they will just turn into voracious, killing beasts earning a scold from Ivy and Maddie.
*** During the dramatic conversation between the Plantars, Ivy, Maddie, and the ‘infected’ human children, Polly brings a disturbing fact unnecessarily:
-->'''Hop Pop''': “Not much. If you have something you want to say, I suggest you to hurry.”
-->'''Polly''': “And then we’ll burn the tree down with you, to avoid the infection.”
-->'''Sprig, Ivy and Maddie''': “Polly!”
*** The human children confess some funny shenanigans that they had kept hidden:
-->'''Amelia''': “Sasha, before we go, I want to tell you…I’m sorry for misplacing your favorite hairpin, last month.”
-->'''Sasha''': “That was you? Well, I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.”
-->'''James''': “I’m the one who always steals the last chocopede,”
-->'''Jacob''': “I play pranks at school because I like the attention! Most of the things I do is to get attention from others!”
*** When Ivy asks Maddie where her father got the book about illnesses to find out why Anne and the others hadn’t turned into Wyndigite yet, Ivy finds out seconds later that it came from Swindtog’s store:
-->'''James''': “Swindtog?! But the books he sells are garbage! He either blatantly copies from other authors, or makes stuff up!”
*** The human children find out that the reason for the abnormal color of their eyes and tongues it’s because James and Jacob used detergent-like mushrooms in the soup without knowing.
*** Sasha lets out a frustration-filled profanity when she is told that they have to wait 16 hours to call for a blacksmith to unchain them because Jacob ate the key.
** In the chapter Family Shrub, Hop Pop describes to Anne and her friends some Plantar ancestors getting unenthusiastic, annoyed responses:
-->'''Hop Pop''': “Oh, yes, Great Aunt Gertrude! She was a masterful dirt tiller. I mean, how cool is that?”
-->'''Anne''': “Another farmer, hooray”
-->'''Hop Pop''': “Oh, and you can't forget second cousin Alfred. He was the king!”
-->'''Everyone''': “A king?”
-->'''James''': “You serious Hop-Pop? A true kingly King? As if the Plantar are secretly a prestigious family of monarchs?”
-->'''Hop Pop''': “No, James. But he was absolutely the king of single-tiered irrigation systems.”
-->'''Polly''': “Our ancestors were boring!”
*** When Marcy mentions her game player username, Kitty-The-D35tr0y3r, Jacob wonders how was she able to pronounce a name with numbers used as letters and then gets more confused as to how he could understand what she said.
*** Before leaving to buy more glue, Hop Pop orders the kids to not do anything weird or ‘funny’, funnily mentioning Jacob’s last disaster, burning Bessie’s stable again, much to his annoyance.
*** Marcy reveals having discovered one night the secret Plantar’s tunnels due to her clumsiness, earning different reactions from her friends:
-->'''Sasha''': “What.”
-->'''Jacob''': “Marbles! Do you realize what this is?”
-->'''James''': “Huh, a dark, creepy secret passage hidden behind a fireplace?”
-->'''Jacob''': “No, James! Marcy, what you’ve found…it’s a dungeon!”
-->'''Marcy''': “A dungeon? You mean we can now play Creatures and Caverns…in real life?”
-->'''Jacob''': “Yes! Wait for me! I’m going to get my adventurer kit and weapon!”
*** Jacob explains the Golden rule of dungeon-exploring to Amelia getting the wrong answer from Marcy:
-->'''Jacob''': "Marcy, help me, please. Do you remember what the golden rule of dungeon-crawling is?”
-->'''Marcy''': “Never open a chest before checking if it’s not a disguised Mimic?”
-->'''Jacob''': “The other Golden rule.”
-->'''Marcy''': “Ah, never split the party.”
*** In a hilarious irony, Jacob forgets to check if he is being followed by the rest of the group as he explains why sticking together in the tunnels is important and finds out later that he has gotten lost.
*** In his curiosity, Sprig pulls a lever recklessly, altering Aunt Gertrude’s room and freaking James out.
*** Polly attacks Emeline’s manners-test statue wasting one of the three tries she, Anne, and Amelia have to pass the test and get out of the room.
*** Amelia passes the manners test for the three of them, if barely, something she explains pretty annoyed.
*** Sprig once again pulls another lever, this time in Great Uncle Skip Plantar’s room, letting Pepo, a giant abominable pumpkin, out.
*** Sprig deceives Pepo with some kind gestures and then puts him back in his cage. He thinks Pepo will understand but James thinks otherwise:
-->'''James''': “Or it will try to devour you for betraying it in the first place.”
*** Sprig makes the same mistake again of pulling a lever without thinking when everyone reunites in Polliana’s room, activating the defenses of the place.
*** Polly, Sasha, and Jacob go berserk in Polliana’s training defenses after the simulator is put in level 3.
*** Anne, James, Marcy, and Sprig push the rest of the team out of Polliana’s room when their friends want to try the simulator on a higher level.
*** In Emma’s puzzle-game room, Marcy and Anne are going to start the death round level to get everyone out only for a rock to fall on Marcy’s head, leaving her unconscious.
*** Sprig tries to be encouraging to Anne while she plays the death round with a poor attempt:
-->'''Sprig''': “Anne, no pressure, but we're going to die.”
*** Just when Sprig is going to repeat the pulling-lever mistake, Sasha and the others stop him.
*** After being told about the secret family tunnels, Hop Pop goes to give them a try with an unwilling Loggle who is glued to his back.

-->'''Marcy''': “Ah, never split the party.”//

-->'''Marcy''': “Ah, never split the party.”

** In “Cane Crazy”, the kids manage to kill the large stick insect disguised as “the Doom tree” and they try to sell its wood to Loggle. Unfortunately, by the time they arrive, the shop’s long closed for the night. The next day, they try to sell it, only for Loggle to point out that with the mountain’s pass blocked and all traffic from and to the Valley interrupted, he has no one to sell it back, and thus, he can’t afford to pay for it in coins.
** Due to the group sending Amelia back home with the ingredients before going for the tomatoes, thanks to Hop Pop’s informing them of their risky nature, the group is able to produce the pizza and present it to the Pot luck. They don’t win (thanks to Toadstool giving them a bad “presentation” rating) but the Plantars are happy at not having to spend the night in the “Shame Cage”. Later, Marcy and Jacob proposes the pizza recipe to Maddie’s family, who quickly reproduces it and sells it with great success.
** Due to Marcy’s presence helping build a bridge between them, Maddie’s relationship with her sisters gets better by the first half of S1.
** The encounter with the Moss Man happens much earlier in the chapter Girl Time, revealing Leif’s name 2 seasons earlier and prompting Amelia to look for clues about her to help the mystical creature.
** Due to landing in Wartwood instead of close to Toad Tower, Sasha’s redemption arc starts 2 seasons earlier but [[spoiler: someone much worse, Aiden, takes care of the training of the toads and becomes Grime’s Lieutenant.]]
** Hop Pop’s plan to bury the Box in chapter 35 never reaches fruition as Sasha catches him in Fraganti and this prompts him to explain his reasons 1 season earlier. More importantly, his reveal that he had a book with information about the box impulses the children to decipher the ancient language in the book.

* AbileneParadox: In chapter 18, both Anne and James confess that neither of them wanted to say ‘I quit’ during the family camping activities because they didn’t want to ruin each other’s supposedly happy time, even when both were equally miserable:

* AdaptationalBadass: Marcy, known to be the lovable nerd, uses her brain and resourcefulness to solve important problems for the town, becoming a heroic figure.
** She became the strategist and engineer for the Wartwood Militia in chapters 25, 29, and 32, and in the chapter Snow Day, she showed a pretty serious and battle-ready disposition against the giant weasel that had been eating the frogs.

** Thanks to Marcy’s guilt over trapping her friend in Amphibia surfacing after she, Sasha and Anne almost get killed by the lake snake in the episode “Best Fronds Ever”, the group end up finding out about the gems being discharged early.

* JerkAss: In the chapter Hop Pop and Lock, Monroe makes his debut by being obnoxiously rude when he interrupts Hop Pop and Sylvia’s conservation and calls Sasha a monster, and then by being arrogant towards Hop Pop in the Dance Fever of Wartwood to gain Sylvia’s affection only to be rejected by her. He’s also a spiteful sore loser, angry that Hop Pop cannot be his punching bag anymore.

-->''Hop Pop''': “Oh, and you can't forget second cousin Alfred. He was the king!”

-->'''Hop Pop''': “Not much,” The old frog quietly said, trying to suppress his pain, “If you have something you want to say, I suggest you to hurry.”

-->'''Sprig, Ivy and Maddie''': “Polly!” Sprig, Ivy and Maddie called out at the same time.

* JerkAss: In the chapter Hop Pop and Lock, Monroe makes his debut by being obnoxiously rude when he interrupts Hop Pop and Sylvia’s conservation and calling Sasha a monster, and then by being arrogant towards Hop Pop in the Dance Fever of Wartwood to gain Sylvia’s affection only to be rejected by her. He’s also a spiteful sore loser, angry that Hop Pop cannot be his punching bag anymore.

* MundaneLuxury: One of the biggest benefit Sasha gets by working at Felicia’s tea shop, is the possibility to have regular hot showers thanks to the teashop owning a proper pedal-operated shower.

* FunnyMoments: Anne and her friends get into a lot of shenanigans either by accident or due to their actions:

-->'''Marcy''': “Huh, the map is on my bed. Back at the farm.” [Jacob looked at her.] What? I was working on it last night!”

And during their little adventure with Wally, Sasha lets out her depressive thoughts and regrets that border on suicidal thoughts with her heartbreaking phrase from Reunion: ‘Maybe you would be better off without me’. However, her friends and Wally comfort her and the frog hillbilly encourages her to learn from the past instead of letting it hold her back:

* Marcy, as in canon, is focused on living fantasy adventures with her friends. However, her time in Wartwood and the dangers of Amphibia show her the gravity of her mistake which intensifies her guilt and fear of being hated by them if they found out or she told them. Still, she also leaves behind that mentality of seeing Amphibia as a videogame-like scenery and tries her best to help the people of Wartwood after witnessing the injustices they suffer. She also finds someone who likes the same stuff as her in Maddie, and as they become closer, she also becomes part of the Flour family and helps Maddie to reconnect with her sisters.

** Subjected to see Marcy’s intellect help the Plantar in upgrading their farm, Anne ends up revealing her jealousy toward her in chapter 14. [[MeaningfulEcho This leads to Marcy confessing earlier about herself feeling jealous of Anne's better social skills and ability into making friends, and she admits that she sometimes has trouble looking at people in the eye]]. The two girls hugs, [[HeartwarmingMoments with Sasha joining them.]]]

* A Boy And His X: Besides Anne developing a strong friendship with Sprig as canon, both Sasha and Marcy make friends in Ivy and Maddie respectively, the bond between them growing so strong that the frogs consider the girls their “surrogate big sisters”.

* ABeastInNameAndNature: The OC Villain, Aiden, often shows his deep hate for all Amphibians. In his S1 appearances, he tortures and kills a frog family whose home he occupied, after enslaving them as his servants; allies with Grime only to manipulate him and use his role as “Lieutenant” to systematically abuse and exploit the toads while weakening them, kills Mire off-screen and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown mercilessly beats Fens into death]] [[ TheReasonYouSuckSpeech while insulting her and explaining her that toads are nothing more than Newtopia’s dogs]]. It’s pretty telling that, while Amphibians consider humans “monsters” at first sight, Aiden fully refers to them as “beasts” i.e., animals.

* HappilyAdopted: In chapter 20, Hop Pop adopts the six human children by including them in Plantar’s family tree. However, separately, Sasha is adopted by the Sundews; and Marcy, by the Flours.

* Happily Adopted: In chapter 20, Hop Pop adopts the six human children by including them in Plantar’s family tree. However, separately, Sasha is adopted by the Sundews; and Marcy, by the Flours.

** In “Cane Crazy”, the kids manage to kill the large stick insect disguised as “the Doom tree” and they try to sell its wood to Loggle. Unfortunately, by the time they arrive, the shop’s long closed for the night. The next day, they try to sell it, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome only for Loggle to point out that with the mountain’s pass blocked and all traffic from and to the Valley interrupted, he has no one to sell it back, and thus, he can’t afford to pay for it in coins]].

** In contrast to her canon version, here Sasha has a better relationship with the Plantars (while still feeling jealousy for Sprig monopolizing Anne’s time) as well with the Sundews, after befriending Ivy and starting to work under Felicia’s direction.

** After being hired as a regular by Maddie’s father, Marcy introduces him to more Earth recipes such as Scallion Pancakes and Xiao Long Bao.

-->'''Marcy''': (before being swallowed alive by the giant tomato plant, in “Hop Luck”) Sasha, Anne, Jacob, forgive me for bringing you here....

* FamilyOfChoice: There are Three!:

** Due to the group sending Amelia back home with the ingredients before going for the tomatoes, due to Hop Pop’s informing them of their risky nature, the group is able to produce the pizza and present it to the Pot luck. They don’t win (thanks to Toadstool giving them a bad “presentation” rating) but the Plantars are happy at not having to spend the night in the “Shame Cage”. Later, Marcy and Jacob proposes the pizza recipe to Maddie’s family, who quickly reproduces it and sells it with great success.

** Due to Marcy’s presence helping build a bridge between them, Maddie’s relationship with her sister get better by the first half of S1.