Poetic Bee

Poetic Bee is the het ship between Wirt and Sara from the Over the Garden Wall fandom.

Canon
Wirt first mentions Sara in Chapter 5, "Mad Love", when he opens up to Beatrice about embarrasing stuff like having a crush on a girl back home, playing clarinet and writing his own poetry. Beatrice is not even remotely judgemental about these (though she admits the poetry is kind of weird), clearly expecting more baggage and telling him those things are nothing to be ashamed of.

Later in Chapter 9, "Into the Unknown", a flashback to Wirt back at home is shown, where he was making a cassette marked with "For Sara". He was initially very reluctant and threw it against a wall, but then decided to make a makeshift costume for Halloween (consisting of a gnome cap, cape and the regular clothes he wears) and approach Sara after the football game. Sara is the team's mascot, a big bee, but Greg catches him watching her and guesses that the bee is named Sara. Grabbing the cassette, Greg wanders over to a trio of girls who all know Wirt. Seeing the cassette, with Greg unhelpfully telling them that it's from Wirt, they all coo over Wirt's crush on Sara and offer to give it to her for him. Wirt hastily grabs Greg and gets out of there, but then realizes that they still have the cassette so he rushes back, only for them to tell him that they snuck it into Sara's jacket. They tell Wirt that he better hurry, because Sara could be changing out of costume and go with Wirt's rival Jason Funderberker to a Halloween party.

Wirt finds Sara's jacket, but a guy thinks he's spying on her and warns Sara about "creeps" running around when she comes by and grabs her jacket, riding away on her bike. Wirt and Greg follow her, but she is attending the Halloween party and Wirt was not invited. After Greg walks into the party anyway, Wirt is forced to go after him and runs into Sara inside. Despite Wirt being welcomed by everyone attending the party, Wirt still feels the need to justify him being there, only for Sara to tell him that she was hoping he'd be here. However, Jason Funderberker shows up and turns out to be even nerdier than Wirt, just more extroverted and picks Sara up to go to the cemetary and tell ghost stories. Wirt quickly tries to get the cassette out of Sara's jacket, but Sara thinks he's returning it to her and walks off with Jason.

Going to the cemetery, Wirt gets incredibly jealous as Jason tells a ghost story and gets really close to Sara. However, as Greg continues to embarrass him, the group is found by the police, who scare the children into running away, even though the policeman didn't even mean to chase them. When Wirt and Greg climb over the (bone) garden wall, Wirt sees Sara find the cassette in her jacket. The policeman tries to convince him to come down again, but hearing Jason suggest that they should listen to it together causes him to jump off the wall with Greg. Nearly getting hit by a train on the other side, Wirt and Greg fall into a river.

The series ends with Wirt and Greg leaving the Unknown by regaining consciousness, with Sara and her friends finding the brothers and someone calling an ambulance. At the hospital, Sara is with Wirt when he wakes up. She shows him the cassette and tells him that she doesn't own a recorder to play it. Hastily, Wirt offers her to come by his house anytime so they could hear it together.

Fanon
Poetic Bee is a popular ship in the fandom, though not as popular as Infinite Eyerolls.

Many found Wirt's insecurities in front of Sara relatable and appreciate how Sara isn't a stereotypical popular girl, with her treating Wirt so nicely, fans can completely see why Wirt likes her.

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