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reunion and the trouble with toxic friends

in the beginning of this all, we see sasha being a protective force for anne against the bully, maggie. clearly, in a normal sense you see this as your friend standing up for you but in a toxic relationship, you may be manipulated to believe that without them you can’t stand up for yourself. anyway- sasha continues to show somewhat hostility to maggie, who backs off immediately. after anne thanks her, she quickly responds “you just gotta speak their language.”  already, in just these first glimpses at their friendship we can gather evidence of devaluation.

the scene cuts to a biology class where they are doing frog dissection. sasha helps anne get out of another situation that she doesn’t want to be in. when anne wants to follow the teacher’s orders, and go into the sick room. sasha says that they should skip school to celebrate anne’s birthday. so-, a lot of stuff goes down in that situation. we have sasha trying to pose her wants as a kind gesture towards anne. sasha is going to push those wants onto anne and make her also believe that she wants to go skip school.

then we get to them having fun, enjoying their time. until sasha does something that wouldn’t be deemed moral. making anne a little bit nervous. a good healthy bond would not make you feel nervous.

the next thing that occurs is when sasha puts down the party that anne’s family probably has planned for her. not completely terrible but in the act of attacking the family anne belongs to, she finds herself in a position where she feels undervalued and lesser than sasha, giving sasha more control over their situation. sasha uses this power imbalance to becoming even more intimidating, almost even the hostility that we saw her show maggie at the start. as not even anne’s bully could stand up to this kind of intimidation, anne caves in and sasha acts as though she was not manipulative at all, and anne made her decision all on her own accord. and she gets praised for making the decision sasha wants, returning that value to herself and making her friendship feel more beneficial to her again.

in the current time, anne notes this saying “she’s persuasive, right?” she’s somewhat anxious around her friend, of course, she’s overjoyed to be reunited with this friend that has served as her protection for so long but she’s really changed and sasha doesn’t realize that.

however, in this next part, wartwood’s citizens don’t look towards sasha for leadership. their trust is placed in anne, anne who is somewhat nervous still hesitates before saying they should trust sasha. again, as soon as anne makes the choice that sasha wants her too, she is then rewarded with sasha’s happiness and friendship.

another thing that really stood out to me is when sasha notes how close anne has grown with the plantars and then makes anne remember her negative attitude towards frogs in the past. a lot of times in toxic relationships and friendships, they make you feel as though they are the only person you can rely on, or trust, whether or not that is a lie or the truth. when sasha puts down anne’s relationship with the frogs it’s in hopes to sever the connection anne currently has with them so anne isn’t still attached to them once she reveals their plan to return back home.

anne nervously replies that she thinks they’re pretty great and she says that’s sees been living in their basement. sasha quickly says “a basement. yuck”. another was of attacking the thing’s anne is proud of. she enjoys her family in wartwood, but sasha quickly needs to deflect this situation back to her. look at what ive done. look at how much fun ive been having. look where i live. look what we could do. to try and sell anne on the deal that she has negotiated with grime.

anne however is not her old self and loosing a family member is too much stress on her choice to just fall back upon her old ways again. hop pop’s life being threatened makes anne triumph over the pressure sasha has put her under and she goes off to try and save all of the frogs.

now that anne has made a choice that sasha is not happy with, she repeats the whole hostility attack. intimidation. intimidation. giving away peer pressure like costco food carts.

sasha’s bond with grime is not so much like anne’s bond with hop pop. while anne and hop pop are like family, a mentor and a child. sasha and grime have not become so chummy yet, they are more like buisness associates. they both have goals, and they both are going to rely on each other to get what they want.

moving on- anne stands to protect the villagers of wartwood and totally stands up for herself, something that we see her struggle to do back home. however this is not just a bully, this is standing up to a friend. so hooray for character development. sasha then goes to project her wants on anne once againnnn. she’s gotta stop. but this tactic seems to not work, so sasha then goes to her harsher side, projecting more pressure on to anne to get what she wants. sasha then doubles down with the praise until sprig does what i wanted to do in this moment and chuck a sludgeball into her face. because you can’t be doing this to anne savisa boonchuy, alright, back off. sprig’s words really kick anne back into perspective.

the way she has changed, she hasn’t ever let a bully bother her in wartwood, so she shouldn’t just start now. anne gets back up and stands up to sasha with this amazing one liner and she turns back to sprig. sprig who was totally encouraging, stood up for anne when he realized she couldn’t, that’s a healthy friendship. that’s why spranne wins.

sasha when her and anne are hilt to hilt, swords meshing up onto each other lays down with pain in her voice, she doesn’t understand why anne isn’t just following what sasha wants. anne then fights back, breaking through another form of manipulation like the boss she is.

sasha then undermines the plantars. and you don’t wanna do that, because that was completely a buzz word for anne. calling them slimy little frogs completely triggered her sense of determination and loyalty to the frogs. as we see in the fight, anne could’ve lost here, and sasha was hoping that she would, because before that sasha’s combat was mainly aimed in tripping anne, or making her stumble. wanting her to fall and yield. if anne hadn’t gotten back up and knocked sasha off her feet, maybe hop pop would've just been tossed off the tower.

sasha is also super deterministic though. she doesn’t wanna lose this fight, grime told her that is she does nothing will ever go back to how it was. sasha values stability and control, so if she loses the fight she loses a lot of the things she values. poking back with a dagger, she just wants to get back to her sword. she doesn’t want to harm anne. all of sasha’s movements are just to get anne to loose energy or hopefully encourage her to forfeit, much like sasha’s manipulation. when anne finally strikes sasha back down again, sasha gains a scar.

she doesn’t happen to get up from this position of defeat which i think says something about how much she had lost in that fight. it’s almost embarrassing to her to lose this control, loose the stability in the plan, and lose a friendship all in one. when sasha is dangling from the cliff, with anne and the plantars being the only things holding her up, she realizes that she can’t just take something that anne loves from her again.

she realizes that she isn’t the support for anne anymore, therefore in that moment she feels unwanted but there’s also a possibility that she was awoken to how anne felt in their friendship and felt guilty for all of what she did. in letting go at the tower, it shows that she is letting go of that control in a way. if she was tenacious and didn’t learn a lesson i’m sure she would’ve held on, causing all of them to fall. sasha however takes this first step, not a lot of people identify her redemption arc from beginning here, as she is still scheming and is a main antagonist in the season 2 finale, but i believe it does. to truly heal from a moment like this, there has to be the act of letting go. the act of freeing yourself from what that relationship was. anne won in the sense that she’s free from a toxic friendship and won the battle. sasha lost a lot of what she believed to be true, and most off of she realized that anne had changed. there’s a whole other video i could do on just sasha’s development and even just the cliff scene because there’s a whole bunch to unpact about what she know about her character and different theories to why she let go. i used the theory that went along with this narrative, but there are plenty of explanations because us as humans are super non-linear, we make decisions on feelings. feelings based on like dozens of thoughts. so any number of explanations may actually be true.

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