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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I said let's see if I would write that. Convexian VR stuff. I think I'd be best off maybe coming back to it later cuz it's a big thing so anyway have some of what I have. -@scitties-enjoyer
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Was it weird that - okay it was probably weird - but in the game Grian was pregnant, and being out of the game felt weird and wrong, now.
"One day, one day we'll really put a baby in you. Give you a little grub to take care of. You'll be such a good mama."
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“What does False do in the game?”
“Well, what do you do?”
Based on what Grian knew from forums and such… getting railed by vex NPCs on an almost-nightly basis was not the typical user experience. “I… I build.” Yep. Definitely building.
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"That went well." Scar said with a wide grin. He sat down on the sofa beside Cub.
"Yeah?"
Scar giggled, "he has such cute little pointy ears, now."
"That is promising."
Scar nuzzled the crook of Cub's neck, "how about we celebrate?" Scar pressed his teeth against Cub's neck.
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The phone was ringing as Grian unlocked the door, and in his rush to get to it, he did drop his bags and leave the door open.
"Hello?"
It was Iskall. "Hey, dude."
"Oh, hi. Uh. I just got in." Grian said as he went to lock the door.
"Course, of course. Do you have time to talk?"
"I was just gonna open up that vr game, so yeah. I got plenty of time." Shopping, shopping- aha! He put the shopping bags on the dining table.
"Right, about that. I've been doing some research. And it's all pretty… weird."
Grian gave a curious noise as he started unpacking his shopping.
"Alright, get this, some people who play the game have physical changes. Their ears go pointy, their teeth start hurting, their skin might get ashy-"
"Kind of like a vex." Grian blurted. But Grian didn't have those things. It seemed like an exaggeration. Otherwise there'd be people walking around who look like vex.
"Right! And they change slowly, over time, usually deny the differences. And then all at once they go back to looking human. Or they go missing."
Grian caught himself in a mirror… his ears had always had a little point to them hadn't they- and Grian was definitely just imagining the tooth pain because Iskall had mentioned it…
"It's not just physical changes. People are changing… like their behaviour? In fact this one seems more common. Likely to obey certain people without question- no rhyme or reason as to who."
"I'm not finding that." If anything, Grian had been becoming more unhappy with being ordered around. "In fact, it's the opposite for me."
"Oh really? I mean it's not everyone but. That's interesting. Thanks dude."
"Anytime."
"I guess you're our inside guy after all."
Grian laughed. “I hope not.”
OOOOO from what you've written so far it's SO good and interesting.. Iskall doing his research... Grian being in denial about changing.. MMMMDajsjhf I love this AU sm, ty ty ty for sharing what you've gotten so far
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