#dysphibian au

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the best of Mythic’s Amphibia AUs

When you want people to ask about your AUs but realize you never actually talk about them so its likely that no one’s actually interested

Alright, that changes today! Sort of. The VR AU masterpost is still a lengthy work in progress. Anyway, here’s a list of my favorite AUs, complete with a link to my masterlist (here it is btw).

AUs under the cut!

Beta AU

- Based on the beta designs and concepts. All the girls are sixteen.

- Sasha has been in Amphibia for three years, is a general of the army, and swears like a sailor

- Marcy grew up in Amphibia, knows magic, and wears glasses

- Anne has blue-dyed hair, was friends with Sasha when they were younger, and is gay as hell

- I have a ton of headcanons that I incorporated into this AU

- Marcy and Sasha have a strangers to friends to lovers to enemies dynamic that‘s really fun to write

- Sprig’s name is Weed, and Polly’s is Marie (short for Pollyannamarie)

- I have no idea what the deal with the Core is. If we don’t get concept art for it eventually I’ll just go off of fandom interpretations back from before S3 came out

Calamity Frogs AU

- Sort of inspired by the Blessed AU, but I was thinking about it long before then 

- Sprig, Ivy and Maddie get sent to Earth instead of Anne, Sasha and Marcy ending up in Amphibia

- The gem’s colors change but they still have similar meanings (pink is Compassion, yellow is Bravery, blue is Intellect)

- The temples (or at the very least, versions of the temples) are located on Earth instead of in Amphibia, but in order to “properly” charge the gems the temples on Amphibia have to be used

- Marcy moves in this AU, and Anne and Sasha have a fight sometime after which means that the three of them don’t chat often (they aren’t enemies, they just aren’t close friends anymore)

- Maddie and Marcy are nerd buddies, Ivy is the sister Sasha didn’t know she needed (and vice versa) and Sprig and Anne are Sprig and Anne and they will always be siblings, to matter the universe

- Mr. X is a season one antagonist instead of Grime 

- Spraddivy 

Dysphibian AU

- Andrias succeeds in his invasion of Earth, leaving Amphibia a barely-habitable wasteland and Earth far more polluted than before, but something goes wrong with the mind control collars and a mushroom zombie outbreak occurs 

- Sasha is still the head of the Resistance, but something went wrong when Anne was trying to use Terri’s portal and she disappeared (and has been missing for the past three years)

- It’s mostly just an excuse to make Sasha a girlboss during the apocalypse

- Darcy is also there, and Marcy isn’t exactly having a good time (especially since Darcy and Sasha face off almost every week, and the former constantly mocks the latter than she’ll never get her friends back)

- Polly is a robot expert and one of the most powerful members of the Resistance, Sprig and Grime are actually sort of buddies, and Olivia drinks juice a lot 

- Anne eventually comes back and she and Sasha free Marcy and help start the world over from scratch (it’s a lot of work, but they have the support of a lot of people and luckily the government has managed to keep the apocalypse confined to LA and a few small areas outside of it)

Lost in Transit AU

- Instead of getting the portal up and running within weeks, it takes Terri, Anne, and Dr. Jan years to get Anne back to Amphibia

- Sasha and Marcy at this point have been legally filed as dead by the government 

- The only thing keeping Andrias from invading Earth was Sasha and the Resistance, who managed to rescue Marcy without Anne and just assume she left them behind 

- The portal is constantly sending Anne to the wrong realities, worlds where she really never did come back or ones where Sasha or Marcy or both are dead, and even the canon universe, which she immediately left when she saw the three of them safe and happy together

- When Anne stays in the wrong reality too long, it begins rejecting her (so she couldn’t stay with a mourning Marcy in one of the worlds where Sasha died, and she couldn’t stay to help Sasha when she ended up being the one to get possessed instead of Marcy)

- Over time, Anne becomes jaded and the first thing she does when she finally reaches a reality where Sasha is alive is say “Oh. You’re not dead this time.” 

- There’s actually a fair amount of crack in this AU, but it becomes less funny as time goes on because Anne is less and less fazed by some of the weird shit she finds in alternate realities (everyone’s a cat, Hop Pop is a wanted witch criminal, some girl named Luz and her brother Hunter and girlfriend Amity get sent to Amphibia instead of her and her friends, that kind of thing)

Stardom AU

- An actor AU with a twist (Amphibia is still a real place, everyone has the same first names as their characters but different last names, and the show is actually based on an ancient play/drama in-universe)

- Many of the issues the girls face (Marcy’s parents wanting to move, Sasha’s getting divorced, etc.) are issues for the actresses as well, but this time they have acting careers therapy to help them deal with it in a healthy way... oh wait

- This is one of the AUs where I rewire the entire lore of the series, and it’d take too long to explain but essentially just think of the Rift from Centaurworld but with the Calamity Box instead

- Gravity Falls and The Owl House may become parts of the AU, but they won’t play major roles 

- For Marcy, getting stabbed and possessed is actually the most fun part - she loves playing Darcy and says in an interview later that it was her idea to add fake blood all over the place for her death scene in True Colors 

- The main things that change in the show are the fact that it’s live action, the fact that there’s more blood because the show was approved for a higher age rating, and the fact that Olivia & Yunan got a content warning along with TC

- Sashannarcy (though to be fair all of these are Sashannarcy)

VR/Vrrrr AU

- LAST BUT NOT LEAST, LADS!! MY FAVORITE AU!!!

- The lore for this one is so complicated, but in short the box is a relic from a destroyed world that died eons ago. The box managed to find its way to Earth where it was found by a trio of scientists (Dr. Andrias Levi, Dr. Sage Pandora, and Dr. Archibald “Archie” Bracken) who used the code they found within it to create video games for their video game company, Newtopia Enterprises (emphasis on “New” rather than “Newt”)

- The Core was preserved along with the rest of the code inside the box, and eventually began instructing Levi to assist it take over the multiverse. Long story short it was very persuasive 

- Bracken found out about Levi’s “secret project” and died in a lab “accident” after leaving a note behind for Pandora, who found it, told Levi to turn back before it was too late, and quit her job, taking the box with her and hiding it at an antique store in hopes he wouldn’t find it there

- Pandora went on to start a group of white-hat hackers that worked against Levi and NE, making Captain Gregory “Grime” Torrel her second in command and essentially spy for the group

- Marcy found the box and the three girls were sent to Amphibia as normal, except only their minds were downloaded and Dr. P managed to get to Sasha and Anne before NE did (Marcy was selected as the Core’s host from the beginning and so she was top priority)

- None of the girls realize anything is wrong until the game starts glitching and lagging the longer they’re there, and after at least a hundred red flags everything comes to a head during True Colors, where Andrias reveals everything about the game (except for his master’s plans with Marcy)

- Everyone besides Mother Olm, Grime, and Andrias are sentient AI that are a part of the game, so a lot of our favorite amphibians get existential crises at some point (besides Polly, who doesn’t even blink, and Valeriana, who already knew)

- In addition to Anne, Sasha also gets out of the game during True Colors, albeit because the Core wanted an impostor among the Resistance and not because of anything else (but more on that later)

- There are many jokes made about obscure video games, the “Have you heard of Among Us, Gregory?” joke nearly drives Grime insane (Sasha we get it Marcy made you play FnaF Security Breach but PLEASE), and the Plantars are forced to use Zoom to talk to everyone else because they don’t exist outside of the game

- Overall the AU has an insane amount of tonal whiplash, the people who created it will be talking about killing Sasha one minute and Among Us the next, and by frog this AU has come a long way from the Darcy VR headset joke I made back in 2021-

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Amphibia AUs I Want to Write, Have Started Writing, or Want to Share so Someone Else Can Write Them For M- I mean get inspired by them

Just a quick dump of a few of the AUs I have in my brain right now. 

And you know what? I’m putting it under the cut because’s its pretty freaking long. 

Dasha AU - Sasha pushes Marcy out of the way. The result is pure calamity.  - Sasha gets stabbed instead of Marcy - Anne is still sent to Earth with the Plantars, and her adventures up to her return to Amphibia pretty much follow canon - Marcy and Grime are forced to get along and organize a rebellion. It goes... better than I thought it was going to, honestly (this is probably my favorite part of the AU) - Sasha is, surprisingly, much easier to manipulate than Marcy - Olivia and Yunan only go to Sasha as a last resort with plans to ditch her as soon as they get a chance. They just need her brute strength to get them out of the castle and figure out a way to stop Andrias - Based off of two separate dreams I had

The “Good” Ending AU - Sasha manages to hold off Andrias for a few seconds longer, and Anne pulls Marcy into the portal with her. No one gets stabbed, no one gets possessed (yet-).  - Grime, Sasha, Olivia and Yunan all end up in Wartwood after Grime and Yunan decide independently that jumping out of a window is the best option  - Joe Sparrow is so done with how many people he has to carry today - The Core is absolutely pissed and Andrias’ efforts are doubled in an attempt to retrieve Marcy for its plans - Maybe corrupted!Anne? Definitely Marcanne (and later, Sashannarcy, because I am going down with my ship) - It came to me as though in a vision while I was scrolling through the Amphibia Wiki (AKA I saw a meme and got inspired)

The “Vrrrr” AU - Amphibia is an evil video game. That’s it that’s the AU - The Calamity Box is a game console that latches onto someone and “transports” them to the world of Amphibia  - In reality, while you’re living a video game fantasy, the box basically becomes a full-body V.R. suit that controls your physical actions while your mind is in the game - Probably connected to the Core somehow? I should add that the V.R. suit looks like Darcy’s armor, I thought that was a fun touch - Based off of a roleplay I did with my brother a little while ago - Slowly, the player forgets the world outside the game, and thinks that doing the Core’s bidding is “just another level”  - Probably just Marcy who’s affected, but there might be a freaky NPC!Anne and NPC!Sasha (don’t worry, the real versions exist, too, but the ones in the game are created to help make the fantasy more real) - It’s a high possibility Anne and Sasha are originally put in-game as well, but manage to break free and/or log in from somewhere else to help snap Marcy out of the simulation - There might be human!Amphibians? That’d be kinda cool actually, let’s go with that - If you die in the game, you die in real life - The Box is either from an alien planet or created using alien technology. Andrias is some kind of scientist who originally discovered the box/created it using said alien tech. Everything mechanical from the alien planet is connected to the Core (which in this AU is just a supercomputer, probably not a bunch of minds) and Andrias goes on to serve it like in canon 

Dystopian AU - Andrias and the Core’s invasion is successful, Amphibia bleeds into Earth, and the world is sapped of its resources. (Possible alternate title: “Dysphibian AU”) - Anne, the Plantars, Sasha, some other Amphibians, etc. are part of a rapidly-weakening rebellion on Earth - Everyone thinks Marcy is dead, save for Olivia and Yunan who know the awful truth (or maybe everyone knows? I’m not sure yet) - Polly builds robots and made Anne a mechanical arm because we stan one-armed!Anne  - She probably also made Sasha a bionic eye, but that might not be until later in the story - Amphibia was destroyed or is uninhabitable for some reason - Maybe zombies? MAYBE MUSHROOM ZOMBIES??  - This is a few years after canon, the girls are sixteen by now - Not sure if this one has a happy ending or not, there’s probably two versions lol  - This is actually based off of a really cool lucid dream I had

Amphibiland/Beta AU -  Just my own take on the Beta AU. Nothing too fancy here.  - Marcy has lived in Amphibiland all of her life (may or may not have arrived as a young child and simply suffered memory loss, who knows), and is basically trying on a new outfit every day. She specializes in long-range combat and magic - Sasha arrived in Amphibiland when she was thirteen, and has been there for three years since then. She climbs through the ranks of the Toad Army very quickly and is the general of the army in this AU  - Anne arrives the day after her 16th birthday and her misadventures follow canon fairly closely except she’s a bit “edgier”  - Sasha and Marcy were actually close allies, since they were the only humans in Amphibiland and had to stick together. However after her quick rise to power, it started getting to Sasha’s head and she’s started a rebellion against Andrias - Both Sasha and Marcy can use their Calamity powers, but they can’t control them very well  - Sasha’s manifests mainly as her sword glowing with pink mist and being able to cut through anything with relative ease as well as an almost subconcious manipulation of those around her that she probably doesn’t even notice, and Marcy’s is more like moving objects without her intending to do so (it’s my AU so I took some creative liberties that I don’t necessarily consider canon to the show) - All ships involving Sasha are suddenly a lot more toxic, I swear that wasn’t intentional it was just an unwanted side effect  - There are multiple “Calamity Artifacts” - Sasha uses some kind of shield thing, no idea how Marcy got here, and Anne uses a music box as in canon - I should probably create a separate post for all the lore I’ve got on this one, I’ll make sure to update once I finish writing that 

Wow, that was a lot of AUs! I never realized I had quite so many... Anyways, please ask me about ‘em, I will ramble for days and I love me some angst. I probably won’t write a ton of stuff, but we’ll see! 

Note: All of these AUs are my own ideas. Even though one or two of them are related to other, similar AUs or memes depicting ideas in the AU, ultimately the particular stories are mine and I came up with them independently from others. I know there are lots of Dasha AUs out there, but I came up with this one on my own. If you want to use my AUs for something, tell me first. Or at least credit me. Thanks! 

TL;DR:  Dasha AU: Sasha gets possessed. Marcy ends up with Grime in Wartwood. Title is fairly self-exclamatory.  The “Good” Ending AU: Marcy AND Anne get sent to Earth. No one is stabbed or possessed yet.  The “Vrrrr” AU: Amphibia is an evil video game controlled by the Core. Or something like that. Dystopian AU: Andrias and the Core succeed. Anne and Sasha are part of a rebellion. Amphibia is a barren, uninhabitable wasteland and Earth isn’t much better. Also pretty self-exclamatory.   Amphibiland/Beta AU - Literally just the Beta AU with my own spin on it. That’s it.