For some reason this is hitting me the hardest out of everything.
It feels…tender?
bittersweet..?
The “take care, kiddo” was full of just despair, a last goodbye.
andrias didn’t even try to say goodbye cause he know’s he fucked up with her.
a cold stab to the chest last second to make his dad proud.
and now that he’s dead.
he’s just full of regret, and guilt.
he know’s he cant be redeemed, and doesn’t even say sorry.
cause he know’s a sorry isnt gonna cut it.
he know’s that wont make-up for what he’s done.
so he stay’s silent.
Happy the day is saved, but that’s all the positive’s he could probably think of right now.
but marcy say’s goodbye.
she didn’t need to say goodbye, after everything that he caused to her, she would be vaild to NOT say goodbye.
but she does anyway, despite all the mixed emotion’s she has with him, a goodbye is said, to a once father figure, a goodbye to, a once friend turned backstabber, a goodbye…to a broken man.
it catches him by surprise, I’d be surprised too if i was him.
but even thinking maybe he doesn’t deserve this goodbye, this last interaction with someone he messed up big time with but still loves like a daughter.
I know it’s upsetting to hear that the trio kinda separated after Marcy moved and as they got through high school, especially after the events of the show, but it’s told to us that even though the girls aren’t as close as they once were, they’re still close.
They’re close enough to still get together for Anne’s birthday at age 23.
They may not talk or see each other every day but that’s okay.
Some friendships work like that.
You don’t always have to talk to someone all the time to still be best friends with them.
The calamity trio will always be together. Just in their own ways.
I do occasionally wonder if the way the Owlphibia AU has taken shape in my head accidentally subverts Amphibia’s theme that things change, but really thinking about it… things still change A LOT in the AU, it’s just that those changes are different from the changes in Amphibia. In the series finale, that change is represented by saying goodbye to the weird interdimensional stuff. In the AU, the weird interdimensional stuff is the change, irreversibly altering not just the characters but the world. But either way, things do change
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I like that the Calamity Trio drifted apart after Amphibia. They still cared about each other, but after everything that happened there was no way things could have gone back to the way they were. Nor should they have, considering how unhealthy their relationship was before Amphibia.
They weren’t the bestie clique anymore, but they remained friends and they must still care about each other a lot to still be so close after so long in the epilogue. There is a deeper connection there, one that like their relationship with the residents of Amphibia could never be broken no matter how much time and space come between them.
Also remember the saying, “If you truly love something let it go, if it truly loves you it will find its way back.” Sasha and Marcy came back to Anne. They aren’t kids that have less agency in their own lives anymore, they could easily all become besties again. This wasn’t just an ending, it was a whole new beginning.
All in all I guess I am trying to say as bittersweet as it is and how it isn’t the “perfect” ending everyone wanted or imagined, I think it makes it all the deeper and all the more beautiful.
