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** The whole reason the trip to the night market happened was because Maddie and Marcy were hoping to find potential ingredients to create a potion to restore Anne's voice.
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** Despite still having reservations against the Plantars, Sasha was still willing to help Anne carry them back to safety.
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Sasha is very abrasive and is hostile towards the Plantars. She made an attempt on Sprig's life more than once, including throwing him from a high ledge despite his pleading. But she still genuinely loves Anne and Marcy and is fiercely protective of them, and her trying to kill Sprig mainly came about because she was convinced he was abusing Anne.
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** Chapter 24 ends with Hop Pop and a frog nurse finding Sasha growling in the corner and her eyes glowing pink in the dark.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: A trait all three girls gain after arriving in Amphibia. Anne is the first to have this happen, followed by Marcy and then Sasha. The eye glow is triggered by extreme stress and emotion, so when it does happen, it's a warning that shouldn't be ignored.
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** With how little he knows about humans, Hop Pop is convinced that Anne would freeze solid just like amphibians during a severe drop in temperature.
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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Sasha has no proof that the Plantars are responsible for Anne not talking, nor any proof they're secretly shocking her to keep her compliant. That doesn't stop her from dishing out the accusations.
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** Seeing the ferret brutally rip open Sasha's side sends Anne into a fury and she crushes its skull.
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* BludgeonedToDeath: How Anne kills the ferret after it tears Sasha apart.
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* ThisCannotBe: When it's revealed that Anne was still alive despite the hunters' efforts, the villagers go into a panic.
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** Kind and friendly Maddie comes very close to trying to outright kill someone when Marcy is captured and traumatized in chapter 22.
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* WasItAllALie: When forcibly taken to the Plantar house, Sasha is convinced that Grime is preparing a rescue mission to take her back along with Anne. But after days passed and no sign of him anywhere, Sasha starts to wonder if Grime only ever saw her as a tool.
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* ManipulativeBastard: King Andrias charmed Marcy with various aspects of Newtopia in order to lower her guard so he could trap her. Other amphibians have also attempted to do the same to get to Marcy.
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** Again Marcy, when she is captured by amphibians at the night market to be sold.
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** The frog villagers are horrified when they find out Anne survived the hunters' attack.
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** Chapter 19 ends with Sprig using the last tranquilizer dart on Sasha, intent on bringing her back to his home.
** Chapter 23 ends with a mortally wounded Sasha needing to be taken to a hospital despite the villagers' fears of her species.
** Chapter 23 ends with a mortally wounded Sasha needing to be taken to a hospital despite the villagers' fears of her species.
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* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Downplayed. While Sasha still distrusts the Plantars and has been tempted to punch Sprig a few times, she has quieted down around the Plantars, no longer verbally accusing them of hurting Anne. She's still a long way from considering the Plantars friends.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Sasha stops the ferret from killing Anne by shoving a stick in its mouth and repeatedly hitting it with another stick. While this saves Anne's life, it unfortunately drew the ferret's attention onto Sasha and the poor girl gets her side ripped clean open. Even Hop Pop isn't sure if she'll survive the injury.
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* CuddleBug: Anne. Especially with Sprig, Marcy, and Sasha.
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* KnightOfCerebus: While the story is already darker right from the beginning, shit hits the fan in chapter 11 where it's revealed that King Andrias has been torturing Marcy to force her powers to surface. Marcy makes it clear that King Andrias would give this same treatment to Anne and Sasha if he ever caught them. Unfortunately the king's reward offer for Marcy's safe return has ensured that there's almost nowhere that's safe for the girls.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In this version of Amphibia, the locals are much more cold and cruel towards the girls. Anne was shot and left to die a painful death while Marcy spent months in torture and nearly got sold off in a bid at the night market. The girls are treated like exotic animals to be exploited, killed, or kept as a pet. The only one who had equal footing for a time was Sasha and even then it was only with Grime and his comrades. Anne and Marcy do get treated like people eventually but at the cost of Anne permanently adopting pet-like behavior and Marcy having a crippling fire phobia and trust issues.
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** When a bunch of unscrupulous amphibians capture Marcy to sell her, Yunan and Maddie don't hold anything back and tear the place apart.
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* {{Fingore}}: Marcy's fingers are burned during her struggle with her kidnappers at the night market.
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** The amphibians at the night market kidnap Marcy, shove her in a cage, repeatedly burn her, and try to auction her off.
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* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. Anne nearly died to injuries sustained from being shot with arrows.
* ClothingConcealedInjury: Marcy hides her many cuts, deep bruises, and unhealed burns underneath her outfit. When she removes it to show Sasha what happened, the blonde is rightfully horrified.
** Anne pulls down her dress collar to show Sasha the scar on her throat.
** Anne pulls down her dress collar to show Sasha the scar on her throat.
* HealingPotion: Maddie makes a limited version of one to help Anne and later Marcy recover from their wounds.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: As no one on Amphibia knows what humans are, a number of assumptions are made throughout the story.
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* CooldownHug: After Sasha recovers from her intoxication, Sprig finds her in the corner crying and looking at him with fear. Sasha demands to be left alone, but Sprig hugs her instead. The act catches her so off-guard she's unable to respond to it.
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** It's later revealed that Hop Pop has purposely given Anne the tea to calm her when she gets too angry.
** Sasha becomes intoxicated after being tricked into drinking the same tea Hop Pop used on Anne. She becomes overly friendly, cuddling with Sprig of all people, and confesses her love for Anne and Marcy before being conked out.
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** The Plantars blame themselves for Anne still exhibiting pet-like behaviors even after they start treating her like a person.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Sasha doesn't take it well when Anne tells her Sprig is her best friend. She makes a resolve to pull Anne back under her wing.
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* FatalFlaw: Anne-Wrath. Whenever Sprig's life is in danger, Anne goes ballistic and attacks with killing intent. During this state, her desire to protect Sprig blocks out her rational thoughts. During one of her outbursts, she nearly kills Sasha.
** Sasha-Rage. When things aren't going her way, Sasha isn't very good at remaining composed. After Anne permanently locks her collar back on, Sasha's first reaction is making a bee line to Sprig to stab him with her sword.
** Sasha-Stubbornness. No matter what the Plantars or even Anne tell her, Sasha doubles down on her belief that the Plantars purposefully hurt Anne. She refuses to even entertain the idea of being wrong.
** Sasha-Rage. When things aren't going her way, Sasha isn't very good at remaining composed. After Anne permanently locks her collar back on, Sasha's first reaction is making a bee line to Sprig to stab him with her sword.
** Sasha-Stubbornness. No matter what the Plantars or even Anne tell her, Sasha doubles down on her belief that the Plantars purposefully hurt Anne. She refuses to even entertain the idea of being wrong.
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* ControlFreak: Sasha is unhealthfully determined to gain control over Anne. She even rants about how Anne used to do everything she said.
** Just like in canon, Sasha receives a scar on her cheek from Anne.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite screaming that Anne isn't a pet and shouldn't be treated like one, Sasha herself has no problem with trying to control Anne.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Thanks to the hunters, Anne bears a scar across her throat.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Sasha is right in her assumption that Anne was deliberately injured, which cost the girl her voice. But her belief that the Plantars did it is way off the mark.
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** Anne is shaken to her core when she realizes she sliced Sasha's face in a blind rage.
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* BecomingTheMask: At first, Anne only acted as a family pet because it was the only way she'd survive. By chapter 19, she has fully embraced this role for real.
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The Plantar Family Pet is a WhatIf AU for ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TomatoBaster/pseuds/TomatoBaster TomatoBaster]] that diverges from canon starting with the events of episode 1. Anne, mistaken for a dangerous creature, is shot and left for dead by hunters. She is found and rescued by Sprig and she manages to survive the ordeal. But a resulting injury to her throat leaves Anne unable to speak and the Plantars, who had never seen a human before, decide to adopt her as a pet. Anne is forced to adapt to this new reality or risk being hunted down again.
It can be read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42358857/chapters/106369407
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!!This fanfic contains examples of:
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Unlike in canon, Marcy's torment begins much earlier, with King Andrias torturing her for months. If Marcy hadn't slipped away due to a careless mistake that left her cage unlocked, she would have continued to suffer at the king's hands.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While already a villain in the series proper, King Andrias was still reluctant to go through with the Core's order to kill Marcy, a child, immediately. In this fic, He has no hesitations in subjecting Marcy to cruel torture shortly after meeting her.
* AnimalMotif: Due to not being able to talk and being treated like an animal for so long, Anne adopts a few cat-like behaviors. This includes, much to her dismay, unconscious purring.
* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: Hop Pop gives the same type of tranquilizer dart that worked on Anne to Sprig and Polly in case of a toad confrontation. The problem is that tranquilizer darts have to factor in weight. Too little wouldn't do anything and too much would kill. With the toads being bigger and heavier than any of the human girls, it's safe to assume the darts wouldn't have done anything to protect Sprig or Polly.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Because of Sprig's efforts to take Anne's feelings into consideration even when he thought she was just a wild animal, Anne becomes protective of him to the point of taking on a hybeena and later her own friend Sasha to keep him safe.
** Maddie is the first amphibian to be genuinely kind to Marcy, which slowly but surely earns the broken girl's trust. In turn, Marcy becomes the first person to be genuinely interested in Maddie's witchcraft, a fact that excites Maddie enough to make Marcy her apprentice.
* BehavioralConditioning: Anne has spent so long being treated like a pet that even after the Plantars realize she's a person, she still keeps her pet-like behavior, a fact that adds to the Plantars' guilt.
** This extends to Hop Pop as well, who had grown so used to treating Anne as a pet he has difficulty breaking this habit even after learning the truth.
* BerserkButton: Woe to anyone who messes with Sprig on Anne's watch.
** Sasha abandons all reasoning and tries to go straight for the kill when an unfortunate encounter has her believing the Plantar family has been abusing Anne.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Hybeena stingers are filled with a devastating venom that drives its victims mad with pain. Anne is stung through the shoulder while protecting Sprig.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Anne might be a sweet girl even in spite of her predicament, but she does still have her limits.
** When Hop Pop talks about getting the human girls spayed, Anne chases him around the house until she collapses from exhaustion.
** Sasha receives a nasty bite from Anne after trying to kill Sprig.
* BigBad: King Andrias.
* MamaBear: Yunan quickly becomes protective of Marcy after learning of her past abuse.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Marcy. All she wanted was to go on an adventure with her two best friends. Her effort is instead rewarded with being separated from her friends, thinking that one of her friends was killed because of her, and being subjected to months of relentless torture. Even after she escapes, there's no reprieve as everyone she runs into has tried to kill her or capture her. By the time Maddie finds her, Marcy has severe trust issues.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Sprig chews out Hop Pop when his insistence on Anne wearing a leash terrifies her to the point of tears.
** And again when Hop Pop still continued to treat Anne like a misbehaving animal despite being informed she's a person.
* CassandraTruth: When Sprig realizes that Sasha is the same species as Anne, Hop Pop insists that the blood loss was making him see things. Polly remains on the fence. It's only until Sprig captures Sasha that Polly truly believes him.
* TheChase: A large portion of chapter 16 has Marcy being chased by Yunan.
* CliffHanger: Multiple chapters end in this manner.
** Chapter 7 ends with Anne being stabbed by a hybeena stinger and passing out in the forest while Sprig goes to get help.
** Chapter 9 ends with Sprig realizing Sasha is a human like Anne, but succumbs to blood loss before he can tell Hop Pop.
** Chapter 13 ends with Maddie preparing to introduce Sprig to Marcy.
** Chapter 16 ends with Marcy being darted and rendered unconscious by General Yunan.
* ColdBloodedTorture: King Andrias subjects Marcy to electric shocks, burn wounds, and cruel experimentations in an attempt to force her to unleash her Calamity Powers. The fact that his efforts haven't worked isn't enough to deter him.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sprig suggests getting Anne a partner, Anne manages to shout the word no to him. Instead of convincing Sprig that Anne is a person, all it does is make him think that Anne is like a parrot.
* CoveredWithScars: The torture inflicted on Marcy has left her body heavily scarred.
* CreepyGood: Maddie is a frog studying the dark arts. She is also one of the very few amphibian allies Anne and her friends have.
* CrushBlush: Happens to Marcy when Anne cuddles with her on the couch.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite her fears of being captured herself, Sasha is relentless in her pursuit to rescue Anne.
** Sprig's unwillingness to give up on Anne is what saved her life.
* ElectricTorture: One of the ways Andrias tortured Marcy.
* EveryoneHasStandards: General Yunan hunts down Marcy, intending on returning her to Andrias in exchange for the reward money. But after finding out that the king has been abusing the child, Yunan can't find it in herself to go through with it.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The pain caused by hybeena venom is so severe that its victims will lash out at their own bodies just to escape the agony.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While torturing Marcy, Andrias would pet her in an attempt to console her. This act contributes to Marcy's lack of trust.
* ForWantOfANail: Wally's panicked cries results in hunters going after Anne and nearly killing her, causing her to lose her voice.
** King Andrias reveals his true colors to Marcy much earlier, resulting in a broken Marcy wanting to go home immediately instead of going on adventures.
* TheGlomp: Marcy wastes no time in embracing Anne when the two are finally reunited.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: As no one on Amphibia knows what humans are, a number of assumptions are made throughout the story.
** The Plantars assume Anne is a baby.
** Because Anne refuses to eat bugs, it's assumed she's herbivorous.
** Friendly cuddling is mistaken for preparing to do the duty.
* IllKillYou: After finding Anne muzzled and caged in the Plantar's basement and assuming the worst, Sasha says this to Sprig.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Anne is shot in the neck with an arrow. The resulting injury rips away her vocal cords and renders her unable to speak.
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Yunan is so smitten by how adorable Marcy is that she ends up wanting to keep her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: The Plantars are unaware of how humiliating their treatment of Anne is. Once they find out that Anne is a person and not a wild animal, they make effort to change their behavior. It doesn't always work.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the wildly different circumstances, Anne still forges a friendship with Sprig.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Hop Pop gives Anne some mushroom tea to help her stay awake to guard his crops. But with Anne being human and not frog, the tea ends up messing with her system and by the next day, she's so loopy she mistakes Hop Pop for a tea kettle and attempts to eat an "ice cream cone" Sprig. Hop Pop is forced to tranquilize her until the tea leaves her system.
** Confirmed to have happened multiple more times when Hop Pop had Anne test various ingredients to see what she could digest and what messed with her system.
* ItsAllMyFault: Despite reassurances from Marcy, Sprig blames himself for Anne being unable to talk.
** Marcy blames herself for Anne's presumed death.
** Maddie believes it's her fault when Marcy goes missing.
* ManBitesMan: During her attempt to protect Sprig, Anne savagely bites and rips Sasha's arm, much to the horror of all three of them.
* MistakenDeathConfirmation: After crash-landing near Wartwood, an injured Marcy stumbles upon Anne's backpack. The presence of nearby blood and no Anne in sight leads Marcy to conclude that Anne had been killed. She spends days mourning Anne's death in peace before receiving the news that Anne is still alive.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sprig is horrified when it finally dawns on him that he was treating Anne, a person like him, as a pet. It's so bad that when Anne still shows him kindness, Sprig is convinced that she's just pretending to be nice to him.
** While under the effects of the hybeena venom, the extreme pain causes Anne to bite Sprig more than once. Despite Sprig understanding she didn't mean to do it, Anne still feels horrible.
** When Sasha threatens to kill Sprig, Anne loses herself long enough to bite Sasha's arm and tearing it open. Sprig's scolding snaps Anne out of it and she becomes wrought with guilt upon seeing what she did to Sasha. The fact that Sasha appears afraid of her doesn't help things.
** Sprig again when he realizes he traumatized Sasha by trapping her, muzzling her, and trying to tame her like she was a wild animal.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Given that humans are not native to Amphibia, Anne and Marcy's innocent cuddling winds up looking like much more to Hop Pop, who forces them to separate out of fear of them producing a litter of human babies.
** Sasha mistakes Anne's medical treatment to be some kind of terrible experiment.
* OhCrap: Marcy has this reaction when her own outfit gives herself away to General Yunan.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally loud and confident Sasha devolves into a sobbing whimpering mess when Sprig tries to tame her and she pleads with him to let her go.
** When Sprig's life is in danger, Anne becomes uncharacteristically savage.
** Hop Pop when his talk of spaying causes Anne to have a go at him.
* PapaWolf: Seeing Sasha in such a bad state after her run-in with Sprig leaves Grime feeling vengeful.
* ParentalSubstitute: General Yunan wants to be this for Marcy.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sasha delivers one to Sprig after finding Anne in a pet crate.
** Sprig gives one to Hop Pop after the latter refuses to believe Sprig's claims that Sasha was a human.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Sasha attempts this to save Anne. It fails and she ends up temporarily imprisoned by Sprig. The encounter leaves Sasha so rattled that it takes her days to get back to Grime and by that point, she's fallen ill and weak due to lack of food. After seeing Sasha's condition, Grime promises to join her in her quest to rescue Anne.
* SapientPet: Robbed of her voice and having no affective way to communicate, Anne is forced into this role for months. It isn't until Sasha explains it that Sprig realizes that Anne isn't a pet.
* TheSpeechless: Anne's vocal cords are ripped out by an arrow. Even after months of healing, she remains unable to speak and is forced to rely on animal-like noises to express her feelings.
* TearsOfJoy: Anne and Marcy spent months not knowing where the other was, with Marcy coming to believe Anne was killed after stumbling upon her belongings by a patch of dried blood. When the pair are finally reunited, they are understandably moved to tears as they desperately cling to each other.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Upon learning that Anne was a teenager, Hop Pop is quick to say it explains her rebellious attitude.
** Finding out Anne is a person makes Sprig realize why she had the reactions she did to her treatment over the past few months.
* UndyingLoyalty: Anne and Sprig share this with each other.
** Marcy and Maddie.
** For all her faults, Sasha remains determined to save Anne.
* WhatIf: This fic explores what would have happened if Anne had been attacked not long after she arrived in Amphibia.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After being repeatedly burned by King Andrias, Marcy develops a crippling phobia of fire. It is Marcy's reluctance to go near the fire despite being obviously cold that alerts Yunan that something is very wrong.
* WouldHurtAChild: Marcy being a young child doesn't stop Andrias from torturing her for her Calamity Powers.
** The hunters refused to show mercy when they tried to kill Anne.
** Sasha was fully prepared to murder Sprig due to a misunderstanding regarding Anne's predicament.
It can be read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42358857/chapters/106369407
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!!This fanfic contains examples of:
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Unlike in canon, Marcy's torment begins much earlier, with King Andrias torturing her for months. If Marcy hadn't slipped away due to a careless mistake that left her cage unlocked, she would have continued to suffer at the king's hands.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While already a villain in the series proper, King Andrias was still reluctant to go through with the Core's order to kill Marcy, a child, immediately. In this fic, He has no hesitations in subjecting Marcy to cruel torture shortly after meeting her.
* AnimalMotif: Due to not being able to talk and being treated like an animal for so long, Anne adopts a few cat-like behaviors. This includes, much to her dismay, unconscious purring.
* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: Hop Pop gives the same type of tranquilizer dart that worked on Anne to Sprig and Polly in case of a toad confrontation. The problem is that tranquilizer darts have to factor in weight. Too little wouldn't do anything and too much would kill. With the toads being bigger and heavier than any of the human girls, it's safe to assume the darts wouldn't have done anything to protect Sprig or Polly.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Because of Sprig's efforts to take Anne's feelings into consideration even when he thought she was just a wild animal, Anne becomes protective of him to the point of taking on a hybeena and later her own friend Sasha to keep him safe.
** Maddie is the first amphibian to be genuinely kind to Marcy, which slowly but surely earns the broken girl's trust. In turn, Marcy becomes the first person to be genuinely interested in Maddie's witchcraft, a fact that excites Maddie enough to make Marcy her apprentice.
* BehavioralConditioning: Anne has spent so long being treated like a pet that even after the Plantars realize she's a person, she still keeps her pet-like behavior, a fact that adds to the Plantars' guilt.
** This extends to Hop Pop as well, who had grown so used to treating Anne as a pet he has difficulty breaking this habit even after learning the truth.
* BerserkButton: Woe to anyone who messes with Sprig on Anne's watch.
** Sasha abandons all reasoning and tries to go straight for the kill when an unfortunate encounter has her believing the Plantar family has been abusing Anne.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Hybeena stingers are filled with a devastating venom that drives its victims mad with pain. Anne is stung through the shoulder while protecting Sprig.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Anne might be a sweet girl even in spite of her predicament, but she does still have her limits.
** When Hop Pop talks about getting the human girls spayed, Anne chases him around the house until she collapses from exhaustion.
** Sasha receives a nasty bite from Anne after trying to kill Sprig.
* BigBad: King Andrias.
* MamaBear: Yunan quickly becomes protective of Marcy after learning of her past abuse.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Marcy. All she wanted was to go on an adventure with her two best friends. Her effort is instead rewarded with being separated from her friends, thinking that one of her friends was killed because of her, and being subjected to months of relentless torture. Even after she escapes, there's no reprieve as everyone she runs into has tried to kill her or capture her. By the time Maddie finds her, Marcy has severe trust issues.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Sprig chews out Hop Pop when his insistence on Anne wearing a leash terrifies her to the point of tears.
** And again when Hop Pop still continued to treat Anne like a misbehaving animal despite being informed she's a person.
* CassandraTruth: When Sprig realizes that Sasha is the same species as Anne, Hop Pop insists that the blood loss was making him see things. Polly remains on the fence. It's only until Sprig captures Sasha that Polly truly believes him.
* TheChase: A large portion of chapter 16 has Marcy being chased by Yunan.
* CliffHanger: Multiple chapters end in this manner.
** Chapter 7 ends with Anne being stabbed by a hybeena stinger and passing out in the forest while Sprig goes to get help.
** Chapter 9 ends with Sprig realizing Sasha is a human like Anne, but succumbs to blood loss before he can tell Hop Pop.
** Chapter 13 ends with Maddie preparing to introduce Sprig to Marcy.
** Chapter 16 ends with Marcy being darted and rendered unconscious by General Yunan.
* ColdBloodedTorture: King Andrias subjects Marcy to electric shocks, burn wounds, and cruel experimentations in an attempt to force her to unleash her Calamity Powers. The fact that his efforts haven't worked isn't enough to deter him.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sprig suggests getting Anne a partner, Anne manages to shout the word no to him. Instead of convincing Sprig that Anne is a person, all it does is make him think that Anne is like a parrot.
* CoveredWithScars: The torture inflicted on Marcy has left her body heavily scarred.
* CreepyGood: Maddie is a frog studying the dark arts. She is also one of the very few amphibian allies Anne and her friends have.
* CrushBlush: Happens to Marcy when Anne cuddles with her on the couch.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite her fears of being captured herself, Sasha is relentless in her pursuit to rescue Anne.
** Sprig's unwillingness to give up on Anne is what saved her life.
* ElectricTorture: One of the ways Andrias tortured Marcy.
* EveryoneHasStandards: General Yunan hunts down Marcy, intending on returning her to Andrias in exchange for the reward money. But after finding out that the king has been abusing the child, Yunan can't find it in herself to go through with it.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The pain caused by hybeena venom is so severe that its victims will lash out at their own bodies just to escape the agony.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While torturing Marcy, Andrias would pet her in an attempt to console her. This act contributes to Marcy's lack of trust.
* ForWantOfANail: Wally's panicked cries results in hunters going after Anne and nearly killing her, causing her to lose her voice.
** King Andrias reveals his true colors to Marcy much earlier, resulting in a broken Marcy wanting to go home immediately instead of going on adventures.
* TheGlomp: Marcy wastes no time in embracing Anne when the two are finally reunited.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: As no one on Amphibia knows what humans are, a number of assumptions are made throughout the story.
** The Plantars assume Anne is a baby.
** Because Anne refuses to eat bugs, it's assumed she's herbivorous.
** Friendly cuddling is mistaken for preparing to do the duty.
* IllKillYou: After finding Anne muzzled and caged in the Plantar's basement and assuming the worst, Sasha says this to Sprig.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Anne is shot in the neck with an arrow. The resulting injury rips away her vocal cords and renders her unable to speak.
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Yunan is so smitten by how adorable Marcy is that she ends up wanting to keep her.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: The Plantars are unaware of how humiliating their treatment of Anne is. Once they find out that Anne is a person and not a wild animal, they make effort to change their behavior. It doesn't always work.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the wildly different circumstances, Anne still forges a friendship with Sprig.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Hop Pop gives Anne some mushroom tea to help her stay awake to guard his crops. But with Anne being human and not frog, the tea ends up messing with her system and by the next day, she's so loopy she mistakes Hop Pop for a tea kettle and attempts to eat an "ice cream cone" Sprig. Hop Pop is forced to tranquilize her until the tea leaves her system.
** Confirmed to have happened multiple more times when Hop Pop had Anne test various ingredients to see what she could digest and what messed with her system.
* ItsAllMyFault: Despite reassurances from Marcy, Sprig blames himself for Anne being unable to talk.
** Marcy blames herself for Anne's presumed death.
** Maddie believes it's her fault when Marcy goes missing.
* ManBitesMan: During her attempt to protect Sprig, Anne savagely bites and rips Sasha's arm, much to the horror of all three of them.
* MistakenDeathConfirmation: After crash-landing near Wartwood, an injured Marcy stumbles upon Anne's backpack. The presence of nearby blood and no Anne in sight leads Marcy to conclude that Anne had been killed. She spends days mourning Anne's death in peace before receiving the news that Anne is still alive.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sprig is horrified when it finally dawns on him that he was treating Anne, a person like him, as a pet. It's so bad that when Anne still shows him kindness, Sprig is convinced that she's just pretending to be nice to him.
** While under the effects of the hybeena venom, the extreme pain causes Anne to bite Sprig more than once. Despite Sprig understanding she didn't mean to do it, Anne still feels horrible.
** When Sasha threatens to kill Sprig, Anne loses herself long enough to bite Sasha's arm and tearing it open. Sprig's scolding snaps Anne out of it and she becomes wrought with guilt upon seeing what she did to Sasha. The fact that Sasha appears afraid of her doesn't help things.
** Sprig again when he realizes he traumatized Sasha by trapping her, muzzling her, and trying to tame her like she was a wild animal.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Given that humans are not native to Amphibia, Anne and Marcy's innocent cuddling winds up looking like much more to Hop Pop, who forces them to separate out of fear of them producing a litter of human babies.
** Sasha mistakes Anne's medical treatment to be some kind of terrible experiment.
* OhCrap: Marcy has this reaction when her own outfit gives herself away to General Yunan.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally loud and confident Sasha devolves into a sobbing whimpering mess when Sprig tries to tame her and she pleads with him to let her go.
** When Sprig's life is in danger, Anne becomes uncharacteristically savage.
** Hop Pop when his talk of spaying causes Anne to have a go at him.
* PapaWolf: Seeing Sasha in such a bad state after her run-in with Sprig leaves Grime feeling vengeful.
* ParentalSubstitute: General Yunan wants to be this for Marcy.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sasha delivers one to Sprig after finding Anne in a pet crate.
** Sprig gives one to Hop Pop after the latter refuses to believe Sprig's claims that Sasha was a human.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Sasha attempts this to save Anne. It fails and she ends up temporarily imprisoned by Sprig. The encounter leaves Sasha so rattled that it takes her days to get back to Grime and by that point, she's fallen ill and weak due to lack of food. After seeing Sasha's condition, Grime promises to join her in her quest to rescue Anne.
* SapientPet: Robbed of her voice and having no affective way to communicate, Anne is forced into this role for months. It isn't until Sasha explains it that Sprig realizes that Anne isn't a pet.
* TheSpeechless: Anne's vocal cords are ripped out by an arrow. Even after months of healing, she remains unable to speak and is forced to rely on animal-like noises to express her feelings.
* TearsOfJoy: Anne and Marcy spent months not knowing where the other was, with Marcy coming to believe Anne was killed after stumbling upon her belongings by a patch of dried blood. When the pair are finally reunited, they are understandably moved to tears as they desperately cling to each other.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Upon learning that Anne was a teenager, Hop Pop is quick to say it explains her rebellious attitude.
** Finding out Anne is a person makes Sprig realize why she had the reactions she did to her treatment over the past few months.
* UndyingLoyalty: Anne and Sprig share this with each other.
** Marcy and Maddie.
** For all her faults, Sasha remains determined to save Anne.
* WhatIf: This fic explores what would have happened if Anne had been attacked not long after she arrived in Amphibia.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After being repeatedly burned by King Andrias, Marcy develops a crippling phobia of fire. It is Marcy's reluctance to go near the fire despite being obviously cold that alerts Yunan that something is very wrong.
* WouldHurtAChild: Marcy being a young child doesn't stop Andrias from torturing her for her Calamity Powers.
** The hunters refused to show mercy when they tried to kill Anne.
** Sasha was fully prepared to murder Sprig due to a misunderstanding regarding Anne's predicament.
