It’s ironic, isn’t it, how out of the three girls who got transported to Amphibia, Anne seems to be the only one who never questioned whether she wanted to get back to earth?
Marcy wanted to stay because she was afraid, because once she went home she worried she would lose her friends. Once she accepted her loss, she chose to go home.
But Sasha too, for a while she wanted to stay. Amphibia gave her a chance to indulge her desire for power, she had the opportunity to rule the world and she wanted it. And then, she got better, by re-evaluating her relationships and helping the people of Wartwood, she overcame her vices and learned to support people without manipulating them, she learned that she doesn’t need to be in control. And once she had grown, she chose to go home.
But Anne never wanted to stay. From the very start, Anne was looking for a way home, and she never once questioned that. Anne grew as a person during her time on Amphibia, it presented the obstacle of a foreign environment and she overcame it by making a home there. She built relationships with people, became part of a community, she found people she loved and in turn, she grew as a person, she became strong and considerate, she matured and learned to love herself. And not once did she ever think of staying.
When the time came all three girls were willing to potentially depower the gemstones and end up living in Amphibia forever, if that’s what it took to save it. But after everything they got from Amphibia, they chose to return to Earth.
Anne loved Amphibia the most, she became the most connected, she found a family there, she was willing to die for Amphibia. But she didn’t once want to live there.
and i’ve been thinkin about it lately does it ever drive you crazy thinking about those 10 years and all that must’ve occured during them and about the grief the girls experienced because they left so much behind they left behind family and friends and an entire world they came to love and how they must have held on to each other for at least a few weeks after their return and how they probably absolutely refused to be seperated because no one else would understand their nightmares and sorrow and no one else could be spoken to about their fondest memories of amphibia except each other and how hard how fucking hard it must have been when the time for marcy to move came and how they would have hugged each other so so tight and cried and promised and maybe how for the first few weeks after marcy moves anne and sasha call her every night and the three of them fall asleep on call together because they’re still grieving but slowly they start to heal and slowly the nightmares occur less and less often and slowly they figure themselves out and slowly they can loosen their hold on each other and slowly time passes and they grow and they drift apart but they never ever truly lose touch and even though it becomes very rare sometimes the nightmares come back sometimes the grief flares up and even if they haven’t spoken to each other in months they reach out again and it’s all familiar and safe and comforting and they get matching tattoos of their gems and they choose each other again and again and again because they love each other so so much and that love never ever fades and neither does their love for amphibia even though it’s been ten years ten whole years since they’ve last set foot in a world that would become so much a part of them to the point where they honor and remember it in jacket patches and careers and stories they tell and
