Anne Boonchuy

**Anne Savisa Boonchuy** (แอน สาวิสา บุญช่วย) is a 13-year-old Thai-American human girl the main protagonist of *Amphibia*. In Summer's Adventure Series, she is the Blue Topaz Toon Ranger, who joins in Season 13, alongside her friends Sasha and Marcy

## Biography

Anne is first introduced in the show Amphibia, who in 2019, stole the Calamity Box for her friends Sasha Waybright and Marcy Wu on her 13th birthday. After Anne opened the box, the three friends were transported to Amphibia.

While lost on a strange, lily pad-shaped island, Anne finds a new friend, an enthusiastic young frog named Sprig Plantar. Together they start seeking adventures and exploring the secrets of the world of Amphibia. Anne and her new frog family try to uncover the mystery behind the Calamity Box and a way to get Anne back home, along with trying to find Marcy and Sasha who were transported with her.

Anne returns home alone with the Plantars in tow, and must keep their low profile as frog people a secret from the other humans while trying to find a way to return to Amphibia so she can rescue her friends and defeat King Andrias once and for all. At the same time, she must also thwart the various deadly schemes against her and her family that Andrias sends to Earth. Anne eventually goes back to Amphibia and joins the resistance, aiming to defeat Andrias and end his reign. After the invasion fails, and upon realizing that the red moon is falling because of the Core, Anne, Sasha and Marcy are imbued with the gem powers to push it back. Unable to do so, Anne absorbs all the gem powers and destroys the moon and the Core, losing her life in the process. However, Anne is brought to a limbo-like dimension via a copy created by the gems' creator, who offers her a job to replace it as the new guardian of the multiverse, but she turns it down as she is still a teenager. It agrees to wait until Anne lives her entire human life to ask her again and sends her back to Amphibia, where she happily reunites with her friends. With the gem shards only able to open one more portal, she says her final goodbyes to the Plantars before returning home to LA alongside Sasha and Marcy.

Anne represented the blue gem of Heart on the Calamity Box.

## Personality

Anne is at first described as "self-centered" by the official series description and as "fearless and independent" by her voice actress, Brenda Song. Anne, filled with an adventurous spirit and excitement, is fun-loving yet determined, and will not hesitate to protect her friends and family.

Anne's characterization, much like most major characters in this show, has noticeable development throughout the show. When she first appeared, Anne, though appearing strong-willed and confident, was shown to be easily manipulated and lonely deep-down. She was manipulated into skipping school, vandalizing buildings and robbing a thrift store by her best friends. Unknowingly, she acted this way towards her new friend, Sprig, to a lesser extent, manipulating him into doing something he didn't wish to do.

Anne was also irresponsible and a bit of a rule-breaker, not respecting the limitations on her freedom within both Amphibia and the human world. Anne not only stole a music box while knowing it wasn't right to, but she also showcases somewhat of a stubborn personality. This was shown throughout the series from when Anne pushed Sprig to go to the lake even though Hop Pop specifically told them not to as he was still having doubts about Anne - thinking how he shouldn't let a "monster" that is Anne wander outside and terrorize the town (however, both of these instances had the underlying context of Anne's insecurity and lack of social confidence influencing her poor decisions out of fear of damaging the bonds with those close to her). Oftentimes, Anne knows the wrong decisions she makes aren't right, but she isn't willing to admit it unless she was under massive amounts of pressure. She learnt her mistake when she knew it wasn't the right idea to fake being ill, as it was likely the reason the rest of the Plantar family became sick due to an extra workload during a storm. She did attempt to make up for her mistake by taking care of the Plantars in their sick state, but she didn't admit her errors to the family until she believed they were going to die from the "disease" they caught. Following this incident, Anne became less conniving and manipulative after her laziness nearly got her adoptive family killed (or so they thought).

Back on Earth, Anne was lazy and selfish, even if not overtly, with little interest about what was going on around herself and believing her problems were worse than other's because they were hers. Upon meeting the native Amphibians, Anne was taken aback by their way of living. It is only when she started living with the Plantars that she began to open up and learn more about herself. Anne realized that much of what she was brought up on made her somewhat materialistic, and she began to accept simpler ways of living (though she still relies on her cell phone and has apparently gotten others addicted to its functions). There are even parts of herself that she had suppressed that, thanks to Sprig and the rest of the Plantars, she has opened up to such as cooking.

Despite all of her flaws, Anne still proved herself brave, caring, compassionate and kind in her early days in Amphibia, even if she was alienated by her fellow townspeople. Although she initially trapped an unfamiliar world, Anne demonstrated an incredible amount of bravery. She was brave enough to hold back the red praying mantis that was twice her size, in the hopes that Sprig and the Wartwood townsfolk could flee unharmed. A natural athlete, Anne is great at several athletic activities, such as basketball, volleyball, and swimming. She's also seen to be interested in and to participate in sports such as tennis and baseball (or a variation of it played by the Plantar siblings). Anne, at her core, is kind-hearted, though Anne's true selfless nature comes out when others are in danger. In these situations, Anne is willing to do seemingly anything to protect others, such as climbing entire mountains, fighting giant monsters and even standing up to entire armies. Eventually, Anne becomes not only a worthy member of the town, but a hero to most of its' townsfolk.

Anne is a child of the modern era; a pop-culture enthusiast with a love for young-adult romance and adventure movies and TV and also reads manga. She has sometimes said slang words and internet acronyms such as "Lit", "IRL", "BRB", and used the shrug emoji when she wrote a letter to announce Sprig's breakup. Anne would show a dislike to pineapples (especially as a pizza topping) and will threaten anyone mentioning them. Whenever she has downtime, she's pretty much always seen on her phone, listening to music, watching shows and films she downloaded and sometimes looking at or showing others pictures of her home. Anne's obsession with her phone has been implied to be more sentimental in nature - as she is shown to care most for the uses and memories the phone contains. During her stay in Amphibia, although she still appreciated her phone, she grew less attached to it and found other things to do in her spare time. When Sprig asked her about the disc, Anne claims that she's from another dimension and not the 90s.

Anne is shown to take great interest in the romantic lives of her loved ones - going far out of her way to try to make Sprig and Hop Pop confess their feelings to their respective crushes. Despite this, she can be downright brutal with her breakups, giving her the title of "Angel of Death" back on Earth. She's also a practitioner of easy-break ups, advocating Sprig break up with Maddie via a letter.

Anne cares about her adoptive family very much and greatly enjoys hanging out with them, especially Sprig and Polly. In general, she acts very sisterly towards Sprig and Polly, almost always carrying Polly before she got her legs, and giving Sprig lots of advice on dating, having fun, and other things. She also cares about their needs, including when she was willing to break up Sprig and Maddie because of how anxious and stressed Sprig was feeling. Within the first few months of her stay, she starts referring to the Plantars as *her* family without hesitation. The tipping point of Anne's acceptance, however, came when the Tax Collectors came to town. Though she joined them, she was the only member to show compassion for the residents and eventually used her sword-fighting skills to fight off the Tax Collectors, nearly getting killed in the process. After the battle at Toad Tower, Anne told the Plantars that they were family to her.

Anne is also shown to have a particular desire for friends. However, Anne is also sometimes naïve, depicted in how she is easily manipulated by her human friends, so much so that she did anything to be friends with Sasha and Marcy, as she believed they wouldn't want to be friends with her if she didn't follow through with their requests. Anne explained to Sprig the unhealthy perception that friends help each other always without objection, essentially blind obedience. Through her constant interaction with Sprig, a somewhat simple-minded child, Anne is able to look at friendship in a whole new way. She begins to desire a more compassionate friendship with those close to her.

Her relationships with her friends also begin to unravel as it becomes apparent that much of her decisions were more the result of being pressured by their wants and needs, whether it be by manipulations from Sasha or feeling responsible for Marcy's clumsiness. During the battle at Toad Tower, she finally sees through Sasha's manipulative tactics thanks to Sprig, who sees Anne for who she is: a kind and considerate person who is willing to protect her friends. Throughout the show, Anne has also become more open-minded regarding her human friends, even after learning what Sasha and Marcy did, as she was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, knowing that while they made many mistakes, neither of them truly wanted to cause her harm. This became even more evident after she had to leave them behind, vowing to find a way back to them, even after Marcy having just revealed her intentions about getting the girls to Amphibia.

## In the Adventure Series

Anne is kind-hearted and fearless when it comes to defending her team and her family. In the later seasons, she learns more about the other rangers, and becomes close with the Classic Toon Rangers, as she sees a lot of the Plantar Family within them. She also makes sure to keep her friends, later girlfriends Sasha and Marcy in check, since she doesn't want to lose them again