Manipulator Sasha

"I'm sorry, Anne, I didn't mean to do that... But now it's too late to go back......"

## Character

Manipulator Sasha is Sasha. She is one of the protagonists alongside Anne Boonchuy and Marcy Wu.

She is a version of Sasha who never found a mural of Andrias' ancestors (alongside The Core) using the Calamity Box to cause destruction, which leads to terrible events and various consequences in the twentieth and final episode of the second season of Amphibia: "True Colors".

## Backstory

The three girls (Anne, Sasha, and Marcy), the Plantar family, Grime, and Frobo, arrive at the gates of Newtopia in Joe Sparrow. Marcy asks Sasha and Grime to keep their hoods on until they deliver the music box to King Andrias so she can put in a good word for them and clear them of any crimes they committed, such as military failure at Toad Tower and refusal to surrender to General Yunan. Sprig is sad that their adventures are over, but Anne reminds them that as long as they have the music box, they will be able to see each other whenever they want. As they enter the throne room, Andrias greets them and is delighted that they were successful on her mission, but when Anne is about to hand the box to Andrias, Sasha and Grime act by using Grime's tongue to steal the music box from Anne's hand. Sasha reveals her true intentions to Anne while Grime pulls the Warhammer from Barrel and breaks the ground, creating a crater and stunning the group after effortlessly defeating the royal guards. Andrias yells at the duo and attacks Grime and crashes into him, knocking him into a stone pillar, but Sasha threatens to destroy the music box by hanging it on the porch.

Andrias reminds her that the music box is her only way home, but Sasha explains that she's not sure she wants to go home, especially when she could rule an entire kingdom instead of a high school. With Andrias distracted by Sasha, Grime is able to incapacitate him with Barrel's Warhammer, hitting him in the salamander's leg. Grime announces that if any guard resisted, he would finish off their leader, causing the guards to hand over their weapons to the disguised toads throughout the city who establish control. The frogs open the gates that are now accessible to the rest of the soon-to-arrive frog army. Grime orders his fellow frogs to tie up Andrias and take him to a large cell, while Sasha continues to act warm and affectionate towards Anne and Marcy as she mocks them without hesitation and even offers them to join her, but Anne, absolutely furious at Sasha's second betrayal, refuses, calls Sasha a horrible person and ends the friendship. Marcy tries to end the hostilities peacefully, asking them to come to an agreement, but to no avail. With this, Sasha tries to send Anne back to Earth to separate her from her frog family forever, but can't figure out how to make the box work as she opens it and closes the lid repeatedly without success.

Instead, she orders the guards to send Anne to the dungeons, along with Marcy, the Plantars, Lady Olivia, and Frobo, until she figures out how the box works. While being escorted down the hallway, an angry Anne blames herself for believing that Sasha really changed for the better and angrily headbutts the frog in front of her while the rest of the frog soldiers point their weapons at them in a threatening manner. A dark shadow is then seen crawling along the roof before diving down and knocking the frogs out with one blow. It is revealed to be General Yunan, who tries to introduce herself but is stopped by Olivia, stating that they don't have time and opens a secret passage located along the hallway. As they head to hide in Sal's old diner while the riots continue, Marcy informs them that the rest of the frog army will be arriving in town in less than an hour. The group is left dejected and saddened by the turn of events, but Anne motivates them to fight back and comes up with a plan to stop Sasha and Grime.

Hop Pop, Marcy, and Olivia will break King Andrias out of the dungeon while Polly, Yunan, and Frobo engage in a frontal attack on the town's frogs. Meanwhile, Anne herself and Sprig will close the gate to stop the toad army from entering. King Andrias, who has been placed in his cell and is surrounded by toad guards, suddenly encounters an intruder in the dungeons, revealed to be Hop Pop, who begins using his acting skills and distracts the guards long enough to allow Marcy and Olivia to help Andrias in his escape. Meanwhile, Polly, Yunan, and Frobo attack the frog guards, giving Anne and Sprig time to cross to the tower containing the winch.

While Sasha is resting in the throne room, Grime announces that he bought her a gift and decided that this would be the right time to offer it to her: a second sword so that she can wield it. Sasha is very happy, but when she looks at her reflection in the blade, she becomes sad and begins to wonder if Anne was right about her and is no longer sure what she wants.

In the original, Grime tries to cheer her up by letting her redecorate the castle, but when they tear down a tapestry, they find a mural beneath it showing the King using the box to cause destruction, making Sasha and Grime realize that Andrias may not be the benevolent and kind monarch he pretends to be, then they notice through a window that Anne and the others have escaped and tried to close the gates. Sasha tries to warn Anne about her new discovery about Andrias, but Anne doesn't listen and defeats Sasha. Grime is defeated by Sprig. They stop the frog army from invading, Marcy and the rest save Andrias, and so the story follows its natural flow.

But in this version, Sasha and Grime didn't find out about Andrias' mural, causing destruction with the box. They then come through the window and realize that Anne and the others have escaped and are trying to close the gate, Sasha comes to Anne and tries to convince her to join her, but an angry Anne attacks Sasha, but Sasha defends herself and a fight begins. During the fight, Sasha realizes that Anne is attacking to try to kill her. A confused Sasha asks if Anne wants to kill her, an angry Anne hits a grazing cut on Sasha's stomach, Sasha gets on her knees and Anne states that she and Marcy are no longer friends with Sasha and says that they no longer care about Sasha. Sasha believes that her friends no longer care about her, and they want to abandon her. In a state of sadness and anger at Anne's response, Sasha becomes very furious, her eyes glow pink for a moment, Sasha then gets up and sticks one of her swords in Anne's torso and then kicks Anne, causing Anne fall from the Tower and die in the falling. Sprig sees this and starts to cry desperately. Taking advantage of Sprig's distraction, Grime hits him with Barrel's Warhammer, killing Sprig instantly. Soon after, Marcy and the others (alongside King Andrias) come out of the sewers and see that terrible scene, Anne and Sprig dead on the ground. Marcy and the Plantar family start to cry, King Andrias was going to warn his guards against attacking but was stopped by Grime. Grime hit Andrias in the head with his Barrel Warhammer, making Andrias faint. Grime calls some Toads, and together, they arrest everyone again. While Marcy and the others were heading towards their new cell, Marcy looked at Sasha, who was at the top of the tower, staring at Anne's dead body. Sasha falls to her knees and starts crying, regretting the mistakes she made, but now it was too late to turn back......

## How and why he would join Bad End Friends

After a few months, Sasha (now Manipulator Sasha) and Grime, together with Sapo's army, dominated all of Amphibia and became the rulers of the World. Manipulator Sasha regretted her actions, but it was too late to turn back. Manipulator Sasha and Grime were sitting on their Thrones in the castle of Newtopia until a strange portal opened. Manipulator Sasha and Grime grabbed their weapons and prepared to fight, but two people Sasha didn't expect appear: Commander Anne and Darcy. Manipulator Sasha, in surprise, ends up dropping the swords. Manipulator Sasha, with some tears on her face, asks who they are. Commander Anne just says they are her friends. Manipulator Sasha says she killed Anne, Manipulator Sasha, crying a lot, apologizes for attacking Anne, and for trying to control everything. Commander Anne says everything is fine. Manipulator Sasha is surprised and doesn't understand what Commander Anne means, Commander Anne then says she understands what it's like to "control" those who are inferior to her and understands how Manipulator Sasha feels when she manipulates someone. Manipulator Sasha is confused by such a response. Darcy says that they are recruiting members for their group, an extremely powerful group. She says that Manipulator Sasha is thinking small in just dominating a planet like Amphibia, Darcy says that if Manipulator Sasha joins them, they will dominate "something greater." Manipulator Sasha, not wanting to be without her friends again, says goodbye to Grime and goes along with Commander Anne and Darcy, and so Manipulator Sasha joins the BEF.

## Appearance

Manipulator Sasha is a tall teenager, taller than Marcy and Anne, and of a slender build. She has blonde hair tied in a ponytail with long bangs parted on the right side of her head, a beauty mark under her left eye blue Almond-shaped blue eyes. She has a visible scar on her right cheek due to the fight with Anne at the top of the Toad Tower in "Reunion", she wears red armor with a slightly lighter color, wears a cape and only one glove, her cape and shoulder pad on her right shoulder they have a symbol similar to an eye painted by Percy. She also has a smaller shoulder pad on her left shoulder, she wears a dark brown skirt and red armored boots, and her hair elastic is dark brown.

## Personality

Manipulator Sasha is shown to be an incredibly strong, charismatic, and manipulative girl. She is able to form connections easily. She is also very persuasive. Manipulator Sasha was able to persuade Grime to release her if she helped protect his fort against the herons, in addition to advising him to be more attentive and kind to his soldiers to gain their respect. This influence can also be combined with her manipulative behavior. Manipulator Sasha is much more manipulative and sadistic than her original version, she regrets the mistakes she made for the death of Anne from her universe, but it is too late to turn back, so Manipulator Sasha continues manipulating others to get everything she wants.

## Abilities

* Charisma (Even before arriving in Amphibia, Manipulator Sasha has a natural charm that helps her successfully manipulate many people into doing whatever she wants. Whenever manipulations don't work on her opponent, Manipulator Sasha uses a tone and a look more forceful and serious to force her opponent/victim to move away and obey her. Manipulator Sasha became even better at manipulating after joining the BEF)

* Strength (Manipulator Sasha has shown that she is very strong, long before her calamity powers kick in. She has enough strength to cut blocks of wood in half, break an entire watermelon with her head, and shatter rocks on impact. She can resist gravitational pull better than Marcy, Anne, and the other amphibians and swing a war hammer quite easily. Manipulator Sasha has also been shown to use her athletic ability despite wearing heavy armor, as shown in "The Third Temple")

* Fencing (Manipulator Sasha is trained in dueling with a sword. She has the ability to take down others in one attack using dodging skills and can use a sword and a dagger simultaneously)

* Dual Wielding (After receiving her second sword from Grime, Manipulator Sasha has also shown to be competent in handling her old and new sword during battle, as demonstrated during her battles in Newtopia. Her main weapons are two heron-shaped swords, both swords having the head and tail as crossguards and the body as an umbrella, one sword is pink, and the other is silver)

* Daggers (Manipulator Sasha carries countless daggers inside one of her boots in case she loses her swords. Grime even wonders how Manipulator Sasha can walk)

* Leadership (Manipulator Sasha proved she was a competent military commander alongside Grime. She successfully commanded the entire Toad army to dominate all of Amphibia)

* Powers of Calamity (Manipulator Sasha has powers belonging to the red Calamity Power Gem. When she uses her Power of Calamity, her eyes turn pink and Manipulator Sasha becomes faster, more resistant and especially stronger, but these powers are temporary and only last 10 minutes)

## Weaknesses

* Temporary Power (after spending 10 minutes using the Calamity power, Manipulator Sasha will run out of strength to continue fighting)

## Interactions with the BEF

Manipulator Sasha doesn't care much about the BEF, but most of the time, she talks to Commander Anne and Darcy. She also likes to manipulate or kill alongside the two and considers Commander Anne and Darcy her best friends, and the two consider Manipulator Sasha as a "control freak friend".

## Behind the Scenes

Amphibia is an American animated television series created by Matt Braly that aired on the Disney Channel, the branching point of Manipulator Sasha, is in the twentieth episode of the second season of Amphibia: "True Colors".

If you want to watch Amphibia in full or support its creators, there are a few options, some of these options may be blocked depending on the region where you live.

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## Trivia

•According to storyboard artist Inbal Breda, Anne aimed for Sasha's vital organs (specifically her head, ribs, chest, and neck) during the sword fight, showing full intent to kill Sasha

•As Manipulator Sasha and Grime stopped Andrias, The Core was never able to free himself and never got a body

•Manipulator Sasha took with her the Calamity Box from her universe, and it is her main means of traveling through dimensions and alternate universes

•It is likely that Darcy also has a Calamity Box, this would make Manipulator Sasha and Darcy the only ones with Calamity Boxes, as Commander Anne never even saw the Box

•Darcy taught Manipulator Sasha how to create portals using the Calamity Box

•Grime left all those who tried to stop the Frog army imprisoned (Andrias, Marcy, Polly, Hop Pop, Frobot, General Yuna and Olivia), it is likely that all the prisoners are dead

•Even after meeting Commander Anne, Manipulator Sasha blames herself for the death of her universe's Anne and her actions, but it is too late to go back...

•Unlike Commander Anne and Darcy, Manipulator Sasha does not change her appearance and still has her original appearance (except for the pink eyes that appear more frequently)