Fanfic / Our Second Chance Is Called Amphibia

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Our second chance is called Amphibia is a What If? AU for Amphibia by TheItalianConstant where the Calamity Trio, instead of being scattered all across Amphibia, find themselves together in Wartwood alongside three additional characters: Jacob, school troublemaker and old friend of the Trio; his cousin Amelia, a know-nothing know-it-all on Eastern culture, always wearing an Asian cone hat and a wooden training katana; and James, a British kind-hearted exchange-student with a passion for stargazing.

Far away from familiar places and forced to band together, the six humans will be forced to walk a path that will lead them to personal growth, healing and redemption.

The first season of the story, adapting the events of Season 1 of the show, can be read on Archive of Our Own here. It can also be read on FanFiction.Net here. The events of Season 2, proptly titled Road to Newtopia, are currently being published both here and here.

The author also published Adventures in a Frog World, a series of adapted shorts and original contents depicting the six humans and their frog families dealing with various shenaningans

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This fanfic contains examples of:

• Abilene Paradox: During 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:
  James: “Anne, I was actually waiting for you to ask to go back home!”
  Anne: “What? But you already went camping before…”
  James: “Yes, but not like this! All the other times I went “camping” before, I did with my mother, and we never slept outside: we went in our car, we had blanket to lay on the grass, we always stayed with a group of other people helping each other, and we mostly just went stargazing! Frog, some of those camping were just nighttime field trips, we stayed out for some hours at most! I have never gone on a camping trip like this before!”
  Anne: “But then-why didn’t you say anything?”
  James: “You kept repeating how happy you were to be here, Anne, and I didn’t want to be the party pooper. I figured out that, if someone like you had nothing to complain about, I shouldn’t have as well.”
  Anne: “Wait, you mean I was waiting for you to say something, and you were waiting for me in reverse?”
  James: “Frog, I feel stupid now.”
  Anne: “Yep. Me too.”
• Absolute Xenophobe: Aiden sees all the inhabitants of Amphibia as nothing but animals with no “real” intelligence or mind, whose mere existence is “an insult” to humans. In many apparitions, he takes clear pleasure in killing frogs and toads in gruesome, horrible ways. Even his “alliance” with Toad Tower and Grime is nothing more than a ruse to pit them against Warwood’s frogs, thinking Anne and her friends are doing the same due to his superiority complex.
• Abusive Parents: As shown through some flashbacks, Sasha’s parents divorced when she was young, with her father losing interest for the family while her mother and her new boyfriend ignored her and treated her coldly, with her mom giving all her attention to her older sister, Esther.
  • Downplayed by Esther, who hasn't shown any malicious interest toward Sasha, apparently oblivious of her mother’s preference for her or her sister’s hate for her.
• A Beast in Name and Nature: 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 mercilessly beats Fens into death 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.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Inverted. Instead of a character remembering after an horrible event that's their birthday, Anne is well 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.
• 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”.
  • This can be applied to other humans as well, as Amelia takes Maddie’s triplet sisters under her wing, while Jacob and James develop good relations with Loggle and Mrs. Croaker.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • Sasha’s family life and her relationship with her parents (and Esther) is shown trough flashbacks in several episodes, showcasing the toxic home environment which led her to develop control-freak tendencies.
  • Marcy’s inner guilt for intentionally bringing her, Sasha and Anne to Amphibia, alongside with Jacob, Amelia and James starts showing as Anne, Sasha and the others nearly ends up killed by giant sticky bugs, enormous carnivorous tomatoes or menacing water snakes.
  Marcy: (before being swallowed alive by the giant tomato plant, in “Hop Luck”) Sasha, Anne, Jacob, forgive me for bringing you here....
  • After the events of “The Domino Effect” ends up shattering her own self-esteem, Anne contemplates the righteousness of her growing independence from Sasha, even contemplating submitting again to her friend’s controlling personality for fear of her own mistakes. Sasha herself shut this down unknowingly, before Anne can even apologize.
  • Subjected to see Marcy’s intellect help the Plantar in upgrading their farm, Anne ends up revealing her jealousy toward her in chapter 14. 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, with Sasha joining them.
  • Since all the humans ended up in Wartwood, both Sasha and Marcy undergo proper character development and growth as the series progresses, progressively healing from their own issues and repairing their friendship from its most toxic features two seasons early.
  • Besides Anne learning how friends should act with each other and being more confident in herself through her friendship with Sprig (as canon), she heals her friendship with Sasha after she ends up revealing the backstory and reasons for her control freak behavior.
  Sasha: “Anne, (…) I want to tell you, one of the reasons I was so controlling of you back home, was that I secretly envied your happy family life. Your parents…they were such good people, and even if we didn’t know each other well, I had no right to pressure you into doing things you didn’t like. Especially skipping your birthday party at home.”
  • On chapter 29, Anne’s long-repressed frustration due to Sasha’s control freak tendencies end up bringing the two girls into a duel clearly reminding of their two canon ones, with Anne herself later being horrified by her own actions and by how close she came to seriously wound Sasha. Not only that, but Anne’s previous decision to skip her watch duties to talk with Sasha led to the Herons attacking Wartwood with almost no warning, almost resulting in Sprig and Polly’s death.
  • While in canon Sasha was the one who took the longest to adapt to Amphibia, here her harsh demeanor and bitter personality mellows down through the early part of Season 1 thanks to her friendship with Ivy and being “adopted” by Felicia and Sylvia as well. Her redemption arc thus gets fulfilled by mid-Season 1 rather than Season 3 as canon:
  Sasha: “No, Anne. What happened, it’s my fault. It was me that had been a jerk to you, Marcy, and everyone else! It was I that always forced you two to do what I wanted, rather that decide together, it was me that acted like a total control freak! The one who emotionally blackmailed you, the one that threatened you, bossed you around, and stomped out every disagreement. You gave me your friendship, and I poisoned it with my toxic behavior and personality because I needed to feel in control. How-how could I have taken something as beautiful as our friendship and corrupt it in such a twisted way?”
  Marcy: “Sasha-”
  Sasha: “I…I apologize girls. I know that after today you probably won’t want to be my friends anymore, but-”
  Anne: “Sasha, what you did wasn’t good. Yet, I would never want to lose you. This is what friends are for, no?”
  Sasha: “Anne-”
  Marcy: “I don’t want to lose you either, Sash.”
  Ivy: “You’re my cool older sister. No way are we letting you go!”
  Sylvia: “You’re a Sundew, Sash, and Sundews never give up!”
  Polly: “You saved our lives!”
  Sasha: “Guys, I…I really don’t deserve your forgiveness. I know I was a very toxic friend, but…this ends now. From now on, I’ll be the friend you deserve.”
  Anne: “Sasha…”
  Sasha: “I’m me, Boonchuy, and I can never be you, no matter how hard I try, I can only be me. But from today forward… I’ll be the best version of myself!”
  • Sometimes, however, she ends up taking her vow too far, still struggling against her sadness and self-loathing:
  Anne: “Sasha, you said you were going to be the best version of yourself, not that you would have to suffer for us. And I don’t think I want you to freeze-”
  • 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:
  Wally: “Your friends haven’t forgotten your actions, but neither have forgotten your desire to improve, nor your promise to become better. They trust you, they want you, and they already forgiven you. Now you must forgive yourself, Sasha. You can’t go forward without looking back at your past, that’s true, but you cannot even let your past control you.”
  Sasha: “You-you really think I can do that?”
  Wally: “You have people that love you and trust you, a determination strong as steel, you have brain and beauty and everything else, you have everything you could ever need to reach whatever you want. The only question you have to ask yourself is: am I willing to do it? No matter how harsh and long the path may be, no matter what problem and issue I might face? You may be hurt on the road, again and again, but pain is temporary. Quitting is forever.”
  Anne: “We’re never letting you go, Sash.”
  Jacob: “No matter how you think we should do it.”
  James: “You were with us at the beginning, and you will be with us till the end.”
  Marcy: “That’s what being in a fellowship means, right? You look out for each other.”
  • 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.
• Adaptational Badass: Marcy, known to be the lovable nerd, uses her brain and resourcefulness to solve important problems for the town, becoming a heroic figure alongside her friends. After the Toads are ejected from Wartwood, in the AU equivalent of 'Toad Tax', she becomes the strategist and engineer for the Wartwood Militia and supervises the building of several fortifications to protect the twon from future raids. Moreover, during Snow Day, and in the chapter Snow Day, she shows a serious and battle-ready disposition against the giant weasel that attacked Wartwood.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Maddie Flour, in canon, didn’t appear until the episode “Hop Luck”. Here, she makes her first appearance in the episode “Magic and Swords” alongside her father.
  • In canon, Ivy Sundew didn’t appear until the episode “Dating Season” who was the thirteenth in the original series. Here, Ivy appears in the episode “Magic and Swords”, the fifth episode of the series, alongside Maddie.
  • Maddie’s sisters, due to the involvement between Marcy and Maddie, appear in the episode “Hop Luck”, while in canon they didn’t appear until “Civil Wart” and weren’t officially introduced until “Return to Wartwood”, in Season 2.
  • Felicia Sundew, Ivy’s mom and owner of Felicia's Tea Shoppe, while already appearing in canon as a background character in “Anne or Beast”, didn’t make a proper introduction into a speaking role until “Girl Time”. In the fic, she makes her debut in the episode “The Odd One”, which takes place just before “The Domino Effect”.
  • In canon, King Andrias and the Core didn’t appear until the events of Season 2, while here they make an appearance at the end of “Best Fronds Ever”, as Andrias shows the core Anne’s missing shoe as proof of the return of the Box in Amphibia, unaware both of them are being watched…
• Adaptational Intelligence:
  • 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. Later, thanks to Hop Pop's book, many keys information are found and shared among the humans, allowing them to find out not only about the Gem's backstory and their relation with Amphibia's hostory, but also realize that their power has been imbued into their bodies, and thus, Anne's newfound superpowers are not a case apart.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: While Sasha starts the story as her canonical toxic, manipulative and controlling self, she is still determined to protect Anne and Marcy, she’s more prone to get angry for people she cares getting hurt than for disobeying her orders, and she starts to mellow down and become nicer and kinder as the story progress, thanks to her friendship with Ivy Sundew and starting to work under her mom, Felicia.
  • In chapter 7, Sasha apologizes for emotionally blackmailing Anne and hugs her and Marcy after escaping from the tomato monster.
  • In chapter 23, she encourages the villagers to riot against Toadstool’s unjust taxation.
  • In chapter 24, Sasha protects Ivy from Bog’s attacks and refuses to join the toads.
  • In chapter 29, she saves Sprig and Polly from the herons despite her terrible fight with Anne and gives a heartfelt apology and vows to become a better person.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • 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. By chapter 18, Ivy has grown to consider Sasha as her “adoptive older sister” with Felicia filling the position of a motherly substitute.
  • Thanks to Marcy’s intervention and the relation the human girl develop with her family, Maddie’s relationship with her sisters Rosemary, Lavender, and Ginger heals earlier after Marcy borrowing one of her Cynthia Coven’s book to Maddie and unintentionally create a common ground with her sister, with the three polliwogs even participating with her sister to a Role-Playing Game session held by Marcy.
  • Captain Grime, after being betrayed and backstabbed (literally) by Aiden in S1 finale and joining the other survivors of Toad Tower in Wartwood, manages not only to reach the level of friendship with Sasha that in canon he got only by the latter part of Season 2, but he manages to become good friend with the others humans, expecially with Jacob and Anne, who gets him into 'Suspicious Island'.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the canon series, while Monroe was a Jerkass who competed with Hop Pop over everything, he joined the Wartwood resistance against King Andrias. Here, he is more malicious and willing to sell out Wartwood to the Toad Army.
• Adoption Angst: Even when Hop Pop willingly adopted Anne and her friends, in chapter 35 he betrays them by trying to bury the box in hopes to keep Sprig and Polly safe from it. That makes the betrayal more heartbreaking because with his actions Hop Pop implied that his biological grandchildren were more important than his adopted children.
• Advice Backfire: According to Amelia, Anne had advised that someone had to take care of the box at least one day of the week and interpreted it as if everyone should take turns to do it. However, what Anne meant was that the six of them should keep watch on the item as much as possible, any day. Much worse is that Amelia didn’t even tell her friends she had the box before leaving for work which made them believe it went missing and drove them into a panic.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: One of the fic’s strongest divergence from canon.
  • During the events of “Hop Luck”, the group is able to gather some tomato seeds and plant them in the Plantar’s farm, taming them and selling them to Maddie’s family to supply’s Wartwood growing request of tomatoes for pizzas.
  • 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. Likewise, Sasha imports the recipe of Brownies into Amphibia, quickly becoming one of the most popular recipes at Felicia’s tea shop.
  • In chapter 14, we can see some of the innovations and improvements Marcy introduced to the Plantar farm. They include, in order: an electrical fence (powered up by Zapapedes) to protect the crops; horns to care away invasive pests; greenhouses to keep the feeblest cultivations warm; a water channel system; weed-pullers; a magic super-fertilizer (implied to be the result of her lessons under Maddie); a wheeled plough and a self-refilling dip well.
• Always Someone Better: Sasha’s distain for her older sister Esther derives from this, but it’s shown to generate more from their parent’s vicious divorce and her mother’s preferential treatment on her older sister.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • 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 (plus Sasha and Jacob being experienced in fighting), were winning when the mantis attack stopped the fight.
  • During Toad Contact (the AU version of Toad Tax) the humans end up facing Bog and the other Toad soldiers in two distinct occasions. The humans wins both times.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In the chapter Cursed!, Monroe pays Barry to curse the whole Plantar family as revenge for having his popularity 'taken away' by Hop Pop.
• Family of Choice: There are three:
  • In addition to Anne, even the other five humans (including Sasha and Marcy) grow into consider the Plantar their found family, albeit with some issues.
  • Marcy grow closer to the Flour as well, starting with studying magic under Maddie, before helping her father with the shop (prompting him to hire on a regular basis) and spending time with her sisters too.
  • Meanwhile, Sasha develops a good relation with the Sundew, coming to see Ivy as her adoptive little sister and Felicia as her cool adoptive mother after finding out about her past and her secret martial arts training.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • 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 is 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.
  • Since the group sends Amelia back to the farm with the ingredients before going for the tomatoes, thanks to Hop Pop’s informing them of their risky nature, they are 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 propose the pizza recipe to Maddie’s family, who quickly reproduces it and sells it with great success.
  • Many episodes from canon are removed due to the changed premises:
    • While studying magic with Maddie, Marcy develops a magical skin ointment to fight pimples and other skin imperfections, butterflying away the events of ‘Breakout Star’.
    • Marcy submitting several projects on Hop Pop’s suggestions barrel (plus Sasha’s reaction upon finding out the truth under it) pushes Hop Pop to be more receptive to other people’s suggestions, removing the reason of conflict between him and Sprig in ‘Sprig vs. Hop Pop’.
    • Since they went to check the Mountain pass on Akitsu instead than with Bessie, the group isn’t forced to stop at the “Dandy Lion” Inn, avoiding to face the cannibal Horned Frogs family of ‘A Night at the Inn’.
  • 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. Later, Marcy unwittingly helps healing the emotional wounds of Maddie’s father Farine, eventually becoming as much an adoptive daughter to the Flours as to the Plantars.
  • On the same note, Sasha ends up finding out about Felicia’s past as an adventurer on her first day working at her teashop. Later, when she unwittingly ends up straining the relationship between Ivy and Felicia to the point Ivy tries to run away from home, Sasha manages to clear the misunderstanding between the two and reveal the secret truth of Felicia’s tea chores to Ivy by the first half of S1, one season earlier than canon.
  • 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 does the Moss Man end up acting much friendlier than in canon with Anne, but ends 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 undergo similar redemption arcs with Sasha growing out of her toxic parts of her personality thanks to the Sundew influence and vowing to be the best version of herself, while Marcy, without Andrias’ manipulations and under the more moral and nurturing influence of Maddie, Hop Pop, and Farine, further develops her self-confidence, and her sense of morality, the danger they end up facing almost every day making her realize that stranding her friends in Amphibia was a major mistake much earlier than canon, eventually working to find a solution.
  • Hop Pop’s attempt to bury the Box fails as Sasha catches and exposes 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.
  • Due to the emotional turmoil she went trough in 'Power Anne', culminating in believing the Herons had eaten Sprig and Polly, Anne awakens her Calamity Power and use them to defeat the Herons. By the end of Season 1, Sasha manages to activate her Power as well.
  • Thanks to the rebellions against the Toad spreading to the whole Frog Valley, as well as Toadstool fullfilling his own Character Development, the humans end up creating a militia to protect Wartwood from the return of the Toads. Later, in Season 2, Grime and his surviving soldiers, including Percy and Braddock, ends up joining the Militia after Aiden's betrayal and the destruction of Toad Tower, with Grime being reinstated as Captain by the first episode of Season 2.
• Happily Adopted: In chapter 20, Hop Pop adopts the six human children by including them in Plantar’s family tree. Later in the story, Sasha ends up adopted by the Sundews as well, while Marcy becomes part of the Flours' family.
• Jerkass: In chapter 27, 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.
  • In chapter 31, Monroe acts ungratefully against the Plantars family just because the human children spared the giant ferret and decided to tame it instead of killing it.
  • In chapter 37, he spitefully tries to ruin the Plantars’ lives by enlisting the help of Barry and his curses.
  • In chapter 41, Monroe -out of jealousy- tries to change the minds of everyone about Hop Pop being the Frog of the Year only to be scolded and rejected.
• Karmic Transformation: With the development of Sasha and Ivy’s friendship in chapter 17, the girl realizes that she has become a big sister to the little frog despite her estranged relationship with her own older sister. The irony keeps evolving in chapter 18 when Sasha defends Ivy from Felicia’s favoritism and harsh strictness, something she wished Esther had done for her at home, and in chapter 30, Sasha makes the transformation official by vowing to Ivy to be the best older sister for her.
  • In chapter 37, after being defeated, Barry is transformed into a mix-abomination of all the curses he unleashed against the humans and the Plantars.
• Mundane Luxury: One of the biggest benefits 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.
• Perspective Flip: Sasha forces Hop Pop to see how his actions might’ve hurt more than the children if he had hidden the box in the next hypothetical situation:
  Sasha: “Let’s make a hypothesis: what if, the day the Herons attacked Wartwood for the first time, Sprig and Polly’s parents hadn’t been killed by them? Rather, what if unbeknownst to all of us, they ended up in some different world, by accident? Let’s assume they ended up in a different world, populated by creatures different from the ones you’re used to. Maybe they were lucky enough to find nice people that took them under their wings, protected them, and helped them orientate themselves in their new reality. Maybe they even became close friends, but nothing, no matter what, no matter how, could make them forget the world they left behind…and the children they loved so much. So, obliviously, they tried to find a way back to their world and maybe found one, the only way possible they had to return to Amphibia, to Wartwood and their children. But they couldn’t return, because someone ended up, no matter for what reason, destroying their only hope of return. No matter how benign their intent was, that means that Sprig and Polly’s parents are now forever trapped in another world, with no way to return or see their children ever again, all because of someone’s action. Tell me, Hop Pop. If this is what happened, and you could know it, would you forgive the person who ended up trapping them in their world? What amount of logic and reason will be enough to forgive the one who’s ripping them from their children forever? Answer honestly, Hop Pop.
  Hop Pop: “None. No matter what reason they had, I’d never forgive them for taking my daughter from me.”
• Privileged Rival: Monroe’s popularity depletes gradually after Hop Pop adopts Anne and her friends as his losing streak in Potluck ends, he becomes a hero after paying the taxes for everyone, and his children are congratulated for standing up against the toads.
• Springtime for Hitler: 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 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), Sasha shut her down without even letting her speak.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Anne unleash one on James on 'The Bridge on the River Frog' after being fed up with him being so obsessed to roleplay Colonel Nicholson that he got on everyone's nerves, as well as hitting several emotional weak points of hers:
  James: “Come on, guys! I did all that I could in order to support and encourage you: I even learned how to play the movie’s music with my bagpipers! I called it The Kwai River British Ballad-”
  Anne: “…Khwae Noi"
  James: “I’m sorry, what?”
  Anne: “The river’s correct name is Khwae Noi, you… you arrogant fool!”
  James: “Wha-”
  Anne: “I know you wanted to roleplay that stupid movie, and this is why I decided to keep my mouth shut and not spoil your fantasy, but- I can’t stay silent anymore! You can barely grasp the facts you claim to understand!”
  James: “Hey!”
  Anne: “Do you even know that the movie is not supposed to be an example?! Do you really understand what the movie talks about? What your Colonel Nicholson is? He’s not the hero, he’s the antagonist! He is the one forcing his own troops to build a bridge that the enemy is planning to use, even forcing the sick and wounded to work to their death just so the bridge will be ready in time!”
  James: “Now, listen-”
  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!”
  James: “What?”

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