#anon: hey what's the most Shaunzer song for you // me: HERE'S MY ENTIRE ESSAY OF HOW I THINK THESE TWO GOT TOGETHER

[soniana-draws]

bOI I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ME THIS FOR MONTHS

-cracks knuckles- Aight time for a long rambling about these two(warning for long post)

It's gonna sound cliche since this one basically fits with any ship but thanks to a irl friend with whom we talk about these two a lot(I know ur reading this) the most Shaunzer song for me would be...Distance by Christina Perri(the pic goes with the acoustic part). For me the lyrics relate to their 'oh no' phase, the time when both Shaun and Bitzer started noticing something was changing between them.

I personally picture Bitzer as the one who developed feelings first but was heavily in denial about it for several reasons(him being a sheepdog, Shaun not only being a sheep but the most stress-inducing one, not wanting to mess up their friendship, etc. u know anxiety dog things). Pretending his head wasn't a mess of excuses as to why he was being softer with Shaun lately looked like a good plan at first but...surprise, it backfired horribly. After one adventure where Bitzer ended stressed af Shaun actually went to check on him and then between jokes they ended laughing to the point of their bellys hurting and at noticing Shaun's satisfied smile at seeing he got his friend to feel better Bitzer just...couldn't pretend anymore.

And that's were part of the song comes, because even if Bitzer accepted his feeling he still didn't want them there ruining everything. If something happened to the sheep because he was distracted...if Shaun catched up on why he was so nervous around him recently(which he would do bc Shaun notices things)...Bitzer feared the outcomes of all that, so he started keeping his distance.

Shaun from his part did notice that something was different between them, but wasn't that sure what and Bitzer wasn't being that colaborative with confessing why he was acting so strange with him lately so Shaun just guessed his belly was predicting another 'imma be stricter for a week and then go back to normal' phase from Bitzer. From his pov this turned out to be true, but it wasn't like other times because it was lasting longer, and it even looked like if Bitzer was...avoiding him.

He was annoyed at first of course because he didn't do anything out of the usual?? Why would Bitzer be angry now?? But as days passed by Shaun's annoyement didn't last long and he started feeling...sad, he missed spending time with Bitzer and he just didn'tt understand what was going on, why one day they culd be joking around like if everything was normal and then suddenly Bitzer was acting all distant again, why he was so affected by that when other times he shruged it off knowing it was a matter of time. It was a cicle that repeated and Shaun didn't know how to leave. It only got mre complicated when after a shenanigan that went wrong Bitzer went to hug him because 'you idiOT THAT WAS DANGEROUS oh thanks god you're okay' and right there Shaun realized how nice hugging Bitzer was(had it always been like that?) and the dog being so worried was sort of...cute? later that night he did some deep thinking about Bitzer acting weird and him missing him so much and everything connects and he justs 'oh, OH'.

Shaun wasn't really in denial about it but more like...stuck in not knowing if he should give a first step of not, as he didn't know if Bitzer feelt the same and him acting all distant didn't gave much room to try anyways. Shaun ends up distancing a bit himself because of that. Bitzer felt bad about the whole thing, even feared that Shaun had discovered his secret when this weird aura around them appeared, but he was confused of what to do as well so....returning to the song(which I rambled away from sdfeds), I relate all the lyrics to them, but if I have to choose I'll say the last three verses are the ones for them.

And I keep waiting For you to take me                                     For Shaun You keep waiting To save what we have So I'll make sure to keep my distance Say "I love you" when you're not listening                     For Bitzer How long can we keep this up, up, up? Make sure to keep my distance Say "I love you" when you're not listening                    For both How long 'til we call this love, love, love?

so yeah, at the end I guess something happened that made both understand that the thing was mutual and it slowly evolved from that, with light teasing going to straight up flirting. A 'we know we like each other but don't say it out loud and even deny it if asked of, making out friends groan out loud because it's literally SO OBVIOUS DATE ALREADY' thing.

K thanks for coming to my Shaunzer ted talk have a good day bye