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Valeriana is a supporting character of Amphibia.
She is a ghost Newt from long ago that had created the Music Box to use the power of the Calamity Gems. In the present day, she's one of the many vendors at the Bizarre Bazaar. She sells several treasures she found in her countless years of travel, and she claims to have "seen and heard it all". She also has a purple parrot-like pet named Leander.
Appearance[]
Body[]
She is dark brown with a yellow underbelly, and yellow spots along her tail. She has light red eyes, with slit, dark shaded red pupils, and medium length, grayish-blonde hair. One of her eyes appears slightly out of shape and possibly damaged. Her tongue is a slightly light tone of teal, and her mouth is lined with short teeth. She's missing her right arm but uses her prehensile tail as a replacement.
She has reddish-brown "crests" over her eyes, which resemble eyelashes similar to a gecko. However, she is most likely a salamander, due to reptiles lacking sapience in Amphibia.
Clothing[]
She wears a stitched black cloak over her body, with beige armbands. She also has a hanging black pendant with a red hourglass symbol similar to a black widow spider on it and gold rings on her neck.
In her true form, her cloak turns white including her armbands as yellow markings appeared in her left armband, her hoodie and at the bottom of her dress, the hourglass symbol in her pendant also turns blue.
Background[]
A scroll saved from one of the libraries in Newtopia indicates that she invented the Calamity Box and united the ancient Amphibian kingdoms. She was known to be the wisest Newt of them all. Under one banner based on interdimensional conquest and ambition, this led Amphibia to a golden age, but she felt guilty when that unity segued into the absolute subjugation of other worlds. As time went on, it's supposed she eventually died of old age but kept seeking for redemption in the form of a ghost along with her winged purple companion Leander.
In "Bizarre Bazaar", Valeriana arrived in Wartwood Swamp as part of the Bizarre Bazaar to sell some treasures she collected. After coming back from lunch, she met a "mysterious creature" named Anne Boonchuy. Anne started to ask her questions while Valeriana was showcasing the artifacts she collected over the years in her younger years. When Anne asks if she ever saw anything like her, she replied "not exactly". She then witnesses Marnie, another vendor, steal Anne's backpack and she and Sprig set out to get it back. After Anne left, Valeriana asks Leander if Anne could be the one they've been searching for.
In "The Second Temple", Valeriana explains to Anne, Marcy, and the Plantars that she is the last of an ancient order that studies the Calamity Gems and temples. Upon seeing the music box again, she goes into a trance asking to hold it, but Anne puts it away out of suspicion, sensing something more with their guide. When an avalanche strikes on the mountain, Valeriana decides Anne and her friends are not worthy of the stones and forces them to find the temple on their own. When Valeriana is listing all the times Anne made selfish decisions, she reveals she stole the music box, to which Anne admits. Just as Valeriana is about to fall to her death hanging on the edge of the mountain, Anne risks her life to save her, accepting responsibility for all the mistakes she made. Valeriana then reveals that the mountain had been the temple the whole time and allows Anne to recharge the stone, which takes too long and Anne eventually takes it before it's fully charged to save her screaming friends heard from a distance.
In "The Hardest Thing", Valeriana appears in the throne room of Newtopia Castle and uses the music box to restore the powers of Sasha and Marcy, allowing the girls to fight The Core, which had fused with the moon to destroy its enemies. After Anne sacrifices herself to stop the Core and is revived by the Guardian, Valeriana uses shards given to Anne by the Guardian to power the music box one last time to send the girls home. After Anne, Sasha, and Marcy go through the portal, the box disintegrates.
With the Core destroyed and Amphibia being restored, Valeriana's ghost can now move on.
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Trivia[]
- Show creator Matt Braly has stated that Loggle is one of his favorite "citizens".
- He is the only non-frog amphibian resident of Wartwood to never show any animosity towards the other species in the town.
- He was previously a metalsmith, but quit when he fell and impaled his voice box. It caused a speaking issue in which when he is saying introducing adverbs, (e.g. absolutely, definitely) he pauses before saying the ending negative word, not.
- Although his eyes are usually closed, there are a few instances where Leopold's eyes are visible.
- In "Family Shrub", Leopold opened his eyes in fear once he saw Hop Pop as a grotesque glue monster as well as when he was forcefully dragged into the Plantar archive room by Hop Pop.
- Axolotls have the ability to regenerate lost limbs, thus it is possible that while he was able to regenerate his voice box, it came out wrong.
- According to Brian Mailiard, the voice of Leopold Loggle was based on Geddy Lee, lead singer of the Canadian rock band Rush.
- In "Reunion", it is shown that everyone is annoyed with Loggle's voice issues.
- In "Handy Anne", when answering to Anne's question, when he did not end with a negative word which resulted with him and Anne thinking it felt wrong.
- In the same episode, he shows that he's quite skilled in brewing potions as well as woodwork when he gives Anne a concoction that brings the plants on the farm to life.
- Real-world axolotls do not naturally produce the hormone required for metamorphosis into a land-dwelling creature, meaning the hormone, or the iodine needed to produce it, must be externally introduced. If this is true for Amphibia's axolotls, it's possible the environmental damage Amphibia suffered while Anne and the Plantars were on Earth caused Loggle's body to produce this hormone, resulting in his height increase and contributing to his muscle growth.
- If this is true, then it could also mean that he may not be the only Axolotl to have undergone such a drastic transformation.
- This might also explain how Loggle lost his muscles in the epilogue, as the factories that produced the Frobots were shut down by the time he took his cheat day.