Sasha Waybright

Sasha Elizabeth Waybright, also known as Sasha Waybright, Commander Sasha and Sash, is a character from the Amphibia series.
== Charactah Account ==
One of Anne's classmates, and her close friend. On Anne's 13th birthday, she and Marcy got Anne to steal a magic music box, which sent all of them to Amphibia. Shortly after arriving, Sasha was captured and imprisoned by Grime. She quickly earns Grime's favor and becomes appointed as his second-in-command, working alongside him to find her lost friends and bring them back home, even if it means putting the Plantars at risk. She represents the pink gem of strength on the Calamity Box.
Sasha is characterized by her charming attitude and rule-breaker tendencies, as she eagerly encouraged Anne to steal the music box back on Earth. She is shown to be a charismatic and manipulative girl. She is able to form connections easily as shown in the episode "Prison Break", where she was able to maintain good relations with most of the soldiers who had captured her and later Captain Grime as well. In "Reunion", it's shown that Sasha has a great amount of control and influence over the school body, as when she enters the scene, a side character named Vince is shown playing a guitar solo for her, and she is easily able to get Maggie to give Anne back her khao niew bing in the flashback starting "Reunion".
She is also very persuasive. Sasha was able to persuade Grime into letting her free if she helped protect his fort against the herons, as well as advising him to be more caring and kind to his soldiers to gain their respect. This influence can also be matched with her manipulative behavior, as she was able to pressure Anne to steal the Calamity Box against her will.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Amphibia
* Amphibia Season 2
* Amphibia Season 3
* Chibiverse
== Trivia ==
* Sasha is the only girl in the Calamity Trio:
** Whose name is not used in the title of her debut episode.
** Whose surname is not revealed in her debut episode.
** Whose eyes do not glow her gem color in her debut episode.
*** They instead glow her gem color in "Barrel's Warhammer".
** Whose home on Earth wasn't shown onscreen.
* In an interview with the website Medium, Matt Braly said that Sasha's parents never appeared on the show because the team was approaching max capacity when it came to characters and story elements to pay off, and unlike Anne with her parents, Sasha didn't really need them for her story and arc to be satisfactory.
* Sasha, Anne, and Marcy are the only humans to visit Amphibia.
** However, they are not the only humans to see Amphibia, as Mr. Boonchuy, Mrs. Boonchuy, Terri, Dr. Jan, Ally, Jess, Molly Jo, Humphrey Westwood, two elderly Thai women, Mr. X, Jenny and unnamed FBI agents witness the dimension through Terri's portal in "Escape to Amphibia".
* Sasha is of German/Slavic (either Russian or Ukrainian) heritage.
** Despite this, her voice actor is of Filipino and Japanese descent.
* Matt Braly confirmed in Twitter that Sasha is bisexual. He confirmed later that she realized not long after the events of the series.
** This was implied in "The Hardest Thing", when a heart-shaped symbol with the colors of the bisexual flag can be seen on the rearview mirror of Sasha's car.
*** Although the writing decision was made fairly early, the decision to confirm it in "The Hardest Thing" was made quite late.
** Her voice actress, Anna Akana, is also bisexual.
* In "Toadcatcher", Sasha reveals that back home she's the captain of the cheerleaders in her school and top scorer in Super Dance Fusion.
** Curiously, in "Reunion", Sasha is seen playing the game with Anne when Anne yells "top score" before Sasha kicks the machine for tokens.
* In the opening sequence for the first two seasons, Sasha's physical appearance differs from the final. This is possibly due to it being a completely different animation studio.
* Sasha, Anne, and Marcy are featured in one of Matt Braly's very first drawings for Amphibia, with Sasha holding Anne and Marcy close as they share a nap on a couch sometime before their journey to Amphibia with the caption "Its Complicated". As he revealed, the drawing served to remind him that, no matter what happened over the course of their journeys, the three girls "cared for each other no matter what they went through on the show." He revealed that the caption stood for their complicated growth; each of the three had a role in what made their friendship toxic, and each of the three had a role in repairing it into something healthy. As he stated, "None of them is a cartoon villain; they all have very nuanced motivations for what they do" and that, once the girls were separated from each other into different regions of Amphibia, they all had a chance to grow in such a way that would ultimately help to repair their friendship.
* Sasha has shown to be resistant to pain as her boot was full of hidden daggers as shown in "The Dinner". However, this may have just been for a gag, as they are cartoon characters.
* She was the only other human character to appear in the present of the first season along with Anne. The third human character, Marcy, would debut in the Season 2 episode "Marcy at the Gates".
* In "Best Fronds", when Sasha was locked up she was seen without her jean jacket, but it returned in "Prison Break".
** Another error similar to above occurred at the beginning of "Best Fronds" during the flashback. Sasha is seen without her jacket during the pan over the three girls, with the jacket appearing after Anne opened the Calamity Box.
* Sasha, like Anne, has been repressing her emotions ever since the events of "Reunion". When asked about this on on a Reddit AMA, Braly responded: "Sasha has been shown through her expressions to have guilt, remorse, trauma, and sadness over what occurred between her and Anne at Toad Tower and has realized she's been a bad friend. She's repressing those feelings because "It's easier than facing reality"".
* Sasha is a B student.
* Her favorite food is orange chicken.
* Anne and Sasha's next encounter after "Reunion" was described by Matt Braly as being "volcanic", referring to the episode "The Third Temple".
* With the Sasha Theme Song Takeover, she got her own version of the main theme.
* According to her Theme Song Takeover, she is a practitioner of tai chi.
* According to a Reddit AMA, Matt Braly has stated that other than DDR, Sasha doesn't usually play video games unless Marcy gets her to.
** Although she doesn't play video games regularly, Braly has stated on Twitter that she owns a handheld PSVita.
* In the Amphibiland pilot, Sasha's hair was slightly different than the one she had while her school uniform was a darker shade.
* Sasha considers herself to be more of a dog person.
** Ironically, her voice actress is a cat person and owns five cats.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sasha Waybright at Amphibia Wiki
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