Is Amphibia Setting Up A Polyamory Romance

[Winter]

I've mentioned before that The Owl House is, currently, the GAYEST show on Disney right now and is well on it's way to being as gay as She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (good thing) and on the whole Western Animation has been making some great progress in terms of LGBT representation which has been helped by some rather top notch stories with well thought-out plots as well as having engaging and deep characters. But I do wonder if Amphibia, another Disney show, will also include not only another Same Sex romance but a Polyamory SS Romance.

For those who don't know it, Amphibia is a shown that is a rather standard "Regular Teenager is transported to another world" only said world is full of sentient Amphibians like frogs, toads and newts. The main focus of the show is on Anne and the Planters as she tries to make her way home but the REAL focus of the show, as it tends to have the more effect on the plot and characters, is Anne's relationship with her fellow human friends Sasha and Marcy.

The relationship between these three girls is really the driving force behind the whole series as while Anne's relationship but what I want to focus on is the possible romantic relationship between the three.

Throughout the series there are is a lot of Les Yay between the three, so much so that many think Anne's relationship with both is romantic though VERY toxic. What's interesting is that if the show is intending Anne's relationship with both girls to be seen as romantic it's not playing out as a usual love triangle. The show keeps making it clear that the three have to ALL come together while a typical Love Triangle is usually down to a character being torn between two love interests.

For example, and I'm going to be focusing on a LT I actually like Nathan Drake, Elena Fisher and Chloe Frazer from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is driven, in part, by Nate's love for both women and in the end Nate chooses Elena as she is the one who had the fewest issues and was shown to have a functional relationship with. But the things about Anne's relationship with Sasha and Marcy is that BOTH have a rather toxic relationship with Anne and part of the theme of the series is Anne coming to terms with that and possibly working past it.

Anne has said that she can never forgive Sasha for what she's done and Marcy has also done some messed up stuff and yet when the chips where down she shows that she clearly loves both of them in spite off they've done, even making it clear in the clip from Season 3 that she plans to rescue them no matter what. What's interesting, if this is indeed a LT, is again that both relationships are inherently F#(k3d up so there is no clear choice to be made here, Anne does love both of them but both have hurt her in both a number of small ways and several BIG Ways. And yet both also show constant regret for their actions and clearly wish to due better but their both unable to truly move past those issues.

I think the show is setting up that all three have romantic feelings for one another with Season 3 being the culminations of all that buildup. But only time will tell but it would be yet another major step forward for the LGBT rep by having the first SS Polyamory romance on a kids show. And this show already showed it has some massive guts by (spoilers) STABBING MARCY IN THE BACK INN THE SECOND SEASON FINALE!!! I think having three girls in a romantic relationship would be rather tamed in comparison.

[Thebestoftherest]

I think your reading way to into it. I saw the show, I have mo reason any of the girls have any true romantic feeling for any of the other.

[Winter]

I think your reading way to into it. I saw the show, I have mo reason any of the girls have any true romantic feeling for any of the other.

I admit it is possible I could be wrong as not only would that be a rather big step for a show, one made by Disney no less, to take and I could be reading into this as I am a romantic and tend to ship anything that has what I see as good chemistry. But, I must ask the question, if Anne was a guy while Sasha and Marcy remained girls, would it seem as non-romantic then?

I mean, over on Supergirl the title character is given a different love interest every season, with each one trying to play up each one as if this one is her one true love. I have no issue with anyone have more then one love interest per-season/episode/movie/week but it often comes off, IMO, as the writers just giving Kara and love interest because she's the lead and she needs a love interest when they could have kept her single and change nothing as her love interests play almost no part in the plot or her character development.

On the Legend of Korra, Korra's interest in Mako and Mako's interest in her and Asami seemed to be based on "Because their lead characters". And other such relationships where character got together because it's expected of them. And the movie Klaus had Jasper and Alva get together because of reasons (seriously they spend only 3 or 4 scenes together, most of them is Alva being mean to Jasper because he happens to be in punching range, and by scene 5/6... they are not a couple. I'm not saying your wrong I'm just asking you look at it from another angle.

Is it possible that I'm readying to much into this? Yes, I'm a romantic and so far some of the better romances of the last 8 or so years have been with LGBT characters. Is it possible that I could be right and I'm not readying into it? Not sure as I'm clearly not the most bias on this subject but it IS possible.

[ProfessorDetective]

Well, if it IS, there is a poly YouTuber I watch who is going to melt with glee if/when they fully pull the trigger... Except for the toxic part, that may sour her opinion of it (she's firmly anti-Catradora for that reason).

[Thebestoftherest]

It cool bro, it not a bad theory.