I admit it, I’m not the best at empathizing with characters like Marcy. Time and time again, her motives have evaded my grasp, and I’ve been unable to figure out what exactly her flaw is.
Marcy is a peacemaker. But it’s more than that.
Namely I’m talking about this scene. The one where Anne and Sasha are fighting.
They both have valid points. For Anne, she’s protecting her frog family, who was nearly killed a while ago. For Sasha, she’s trying to fit in with Anne oncemore.
And what about Marcy? What does she think about the fight? What does she want right there?
The answer? We don’t know. She isn’t going to let that slip, she isn’t even going to consider her own feelings. Because right now, Marcy’s priority is one thing: to stop the fight at all costs.
And the thing is, it makes sense. Because that’s what Marcy has always been, is the peacemaker. I mean, we can see it already: she takes Sasha’s feelings into account, but also always seems to know everything that Anne felt as well.
That’s because Marcy is the best friend for both of them. She’s the shoulder that Anne cries on, and the ear that Sasha vents to. Even if it’s not her fight, she’s still vastly impacted by both sides.
The thing is, you can see that in her group dynamic personality. Sure, she was fine and it was fun…but geez, she didn’t really bring anything of her own to that discussion. She literally has this massive conflict about her proposal, and Anne and Sasha didn’t even notice how weird she was acting. And what happened to the fun little infodumper who had everything to say?
Marcy wasn’t being bullied by Sasha, per se. But when she’s in that group, she changes her personality. She makes it so she’s only reacting: saying the things that will make Anne and Sasha laugh, never once bringing up anything bad. She always agrees with everything, even if it’s contradictory.
And she’s never going to pick a side.
Picking a side means alienating a friend. Picking a side means that the loser is going to be mad at her. Picking a side means that Anne and Sasha will fight, and Sasha will leave, and Marcy will be stuck with absolutely no choice of who her friends are.
With Anne, she’s Marcy Wu. But with Anne and Sasha, she’s the awkward comic relief, desperately trying to fit in with a group that she’s convinced doesn’t care about her.
(But here’s the thing. If Marcy brought up her problems, they would.)
Finally, I’ll end this by pointing out that Marcy and Sasha are perfect foils. Marcy fears being non-genuine and pretending to be someone else in order to please people, sure. But she fears losing her friends more. So she’ll put on a front and be the perfect agreeable Marcy, in order to keep her friends. Sasha’s the opposite, where she’d rather ditch her friends than be wrong.
Since moving in with the Plantars, Anne has become a happy medium. She has learned when to stick to her instinct and when to listen to others. Marcy and Sasha both have things to learn from her. Good thing they’ll have an entire season to figure it out.
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