In "Prison Break", after Sasha has talked several of the toad soldiers into abandoning their jobs, to Grime's chagrin, Sasha convinces him that being kinder to his subordinates may help get them in order, which proves to be correct. When a couple of giant herons attack the Toad Tower, Grime ordered his army to fight, but they were too weak to fight back. Seeing that Sasha can fight, the toad leader used her help to fight the herons. Sasha advised him to be friendlier to his army, which gained him an advantage. After the battle, Captain Grime offered Sasha one final mercy, which leaving his castle to find her friends or joining the toad army. She chose the latter, and he told her to meet him in the castle.
At the end of the episode "Anne of the Year", she and Anne meet again.
Sasha returned in "Reunion" to invite the frogs to have a party with the toads. When Sasha revealed that the party was a trap to execute Hopadiah, who has become a figure of rebellion, Anne tried to help the frogs escape, but all of them were surrounded by the toads. Grime asked for a duel between Anne and Sasha, which results in Sasha being defeated, but after the boom shrooms exploded, the tower collapsed. Sasha was about to fall until Anne had caught her just in time.
Knowing
Anne and the Plantar family could not hold her weight, Sasha
remorsefully said to Anne with parting words and tears in her eyes,
"maybe you're better off without me", and willingly let go to fall to
her death. Luckily, Grime would catch her before she reached the ground,
after which he looked at Anne angrily and escaped with the unconscious
Sasha and his toad army to an unknown location.
Sasha is a
charismatic and persuasive girl who is somewhat of a rule-breaker to
boot, as she eagerly encouraged Anne to steal the music box. Although
she comes off as manipulative and selfish, she is not without a caring
side, having promised to herself that she will find her friends who also
got stuck in Amphibia and take them back home, as well as persuading
Grime to be more affectionate for his soldiers.
The history of the Krampus figure has been theorized as stretching back to pre-Christian Alpin traditions. In a brief article discussing the figure, published in 1958, Maurice Bruce wrote:
Discussing his observations in 1975 while in Irdning, a small town in Styria, anthropologist John J. Honigmann wrote that:
The
Saint Nicholas festival we are describing incorporates cultural
elements widely distributed in Europe, in some cases going back to
pre-Christian times. Nicholas himself became popular in Germany around
the eleventh century. The feast dedicated to this patron of children is
only one winter occasion in which children are the objects of special
attention, others being Martinmas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and
New Year's Day. Masked devils acting boisterously and making nuisances
of themselves are known in Germany since at least the sixteenth century
while animal masked devils combining dreadful-comic (schauriglustig)
antics appeared in Medieval church plays. A large literature, much of
it by European folklorists, bears on these subjects. ... Austrians in
the community we studied are quite aware of "heathen" elements being
blended with Christian elements in the Saint Nicholas customs and in
other traditional winter ceremonies. They believe Krampus derives from a
pagan supernatural who was assimilated to the Christian devil.
The Krampus figures persisted, and by the 17th century Krampus had been incorporated into Christian winter celebrations by pairing Krampus with St. Nicholas.
Countries of the former Hasburg Empire have largely borrowed the tradition of Krampus accompanying St. Nicholas on 5 December from Austria.