Infinite Eyerolls

Infinite Eyerolls is the het ship between Wirt and Beatrice from the Over the Garden Wall fandom.

Canon
Wirt first met Beatrice in Chapter 1 "The Old Grist Mill", when he and his brother Greg were wandering through the woods, clearly lost. Beatrice was a bluebird at the time and watched the brothers from afar, but making herself known to them caused the logical Wirt to freak out over a bluebird talking, saying their brains aren't big enough for that. Beatrice takes offense to that, but just before she could ask them to come with her, Wirt and Greg are found by the Woodsman and are given shelter in an old, abandoned mill. After they accidentally destroy some of the mill while defeating a dog turned rabid by eating a turtle that had one piece of Greg's candy stuck to its shell, the Woodsman sends them away, with Beatrice following them.

In Chapter 2, "Hard Times at the Tuskin' Bee", Beatrice is found by Greg stuck in a thorn bush. Despite Wirt's insistence that they don't have time for this, Greg frees the bird and allows her to tag along on their search for a town. Beatrice formally introduces herself to the brothers, but doesn't actually care about their names, merely telling them that she can take them to Adelaide, the good woman of the woods, who can help them get home. On their journey, the three of them end up in Pottsfield, inhabited by people wearing pumpkins as costumes. Both Wirt and Beatrice get the creeps from the town, but Wirt insists on finding a phone. Beatrice gets the boys into trouble by escaping, with word spreading about them wanting to leave. This offends the village head Enoch, who sentences the three of them to a few hours of manual labor, finding them guilty of disturbing the peace. Wirt is fully accepting of that, but Beatrice finds it suspicious that they are told to dig aimlessly in the ground. Both Wirt and Beatrice think that they are forcing them to dig their own graves, so Wirt has to distract the townsfolk while Beatrice breaks the shackles around their ankles. Briefly believing that Greg and Beatrice abandoned him, Wirt finds out that the pumpkin people are actually skeletons and that they were merely asking the group to dig out their friends for them.

In Chapter 3, "Schooltown Follies", Wirt and Beatrice get into a scuffle involving Wirt's lack of a spine. Throughout the episode, Wirt decides to teach her a lesson by deliberately obeying everything the schoolteacher Miss Langtree tells him to do, even after Beatrice gets him into trouble by mocking Langtree's lovesickness song. When asked to go to bed, Beatrice admits that Wirt has a spine in the sense that he's a stubborn jerk. However, when Greg gets the idea to steal the instruments from Langtree's father, who was planning to sell them to save the school, Wirt instead sets up a benefit concert, with Beatrice lauding him and giving him a genuine smile when telling him to tie his shoe.

In Chapter 4, "Songs of the Dark Lantern", Beatrice and the boys hitch a ride with a panic-driven coachman, with Beatrice fretting about him taking them off-course. However, they soon end up at a creepy tavern, with Beatrice being kicked out by the Tavern Keeper, who doesn't allow any birds in her tavern. Wirt doesn't bother defending her, telling her that they'll just get directions and leave. However, Wirt gets sidetracked by the weird customs of the tavern regulars, with Beatrice being forced to freeze outside. When Beatrice goes of on her own, Wirt tells the regulars about the Woodsman who warned them about the Beast, thinking it's just a myth. But the people tell him the Beast is indeed real, with the one who bears the lantern being the Beast according to legend. Wirt realizes that the Woodsman himself bears the lantern and realizes that Beatrice is outside, stealing a horse to go after her. It leads to a confrontation between Wirt and the Woodsman, with Beatrice lying by an Edelwood tree. Wirt assumes the Woodsman is trying to turn her into a tree and Greg snatches her as they ride away. Beatrice regains consciousness, telling Wirt she wasn't in any danger, but still thanking him for trying to save her. However, she shows frustration when Fred the horse talked to Wirt and agreed to give him directions, but only laughed at her when she talked to him.

In Chapter 5, "Mad Love", the group settles down in the mansion of the eccentric rich guy Quincy Etticott, with Beatrice tricking him into thinking that Wirt and Greg are his nephews. They get into a little fight over whether it's morally correct to steal from Etticott, but when Beatrice reveals that they only need 2 pennies to ride the ferry to Adelaide's house, Wirt reluctantly agrees. While Fred and Greg distract Etticott, Wirt and Beatrice explore the mansion in hopes that Etticott has some "spare change" lying around. While they get stuck inside a closet trying to hide from him, Wirt uses the opportunity to try and get to know Beatrice better, with her wanting none of it. When they search through Etticott's pockets, Beatrice mentions that he may have sewn money into the fabric, telling Wirt she used to do that with her own clothes. In disbelief that Beatrice wears clothes as a bluebird, Beatrice calls Wirt stupid for not guessing that she used to be human. After a while in the closet, Beatrice confesses that she mindlessly threw a rock at a bluebird, causing it to curse her and her entire family to become bluebirds themselves. In turn, Wirt confesses that he has a crush on a girl back home, that he plays clarinet and that he writes his own poetry. When they find an exit through a hidden passageway, Beatrice reassures him that those things aren't weird, it's just who he is. They find out that they are in a completely different mansion than Etticott's, figuring out that the "ghost lady" Etticott mentioned to be in love with is actually just his neighbor and business competitor. Getting the two together, Greg is given one penny by each, but to Wirt and Beatrice's disappointment, he just tosses them both into a nearby fountain.

In Chapter 6, "Lullaby in Frogland", the group rides the ferry without paying, getting to trouble over it by the frog police. However, when they use Greg's frog to disguise themselves as bandmembers, with the bassoon player being tossed off the boat by accident. Beatrice encourages Wirt to take the bassoon in hopes of getting tossed off the boat as well, but instead, Wirt's playing is so well-liked that the frog's don't even care when the group is discovered. When they finally reach shore to Adelaide's house, Beatrice shows sudden reluctance at bringing the boys to her and tells them they should sleep it over. Once it looks like Wirt and Greg are asleep, Beatrice flies to Adelaide on her own, trying to talk her out of their ordeal, offering herself as her servant instead. But just as Adelaide appears to agree, Wirt and Greg barge into her house and end up getting ensnared by Adelaide's strings. Beatrice tries to make Wirt understand, but Wirt is so heartbroken that she was trying to betray them all along that he leaves her even after Beatrice kills Adelaide by opening her window.

In Chapter 7, "The Ringing of the Bell", Wirt is enraged when he wanders further with Greg, telling him that he will never trust Beatrice again. Meanwhile, Beatrice is desperately looking for the scissors Adelaide promised her. The scissors were supposed to turn her human again, but Beatrice couldn't find them anywhere in Adelaide's house.

In Chapter 8 to 9, Beatrice is flying through the snowstorm trying to look for Wirt and Greg to reconcile with Wirt. At the end of Chapter 9 "Into the Unknown", Beatrice finds Wirt almost drowning in a lake. With the help of a fishman, Beatrice pulls him out only to find out that Greg is not with him, having been claimed by the Beast in Chapter 8.

At the beginning of Chapter 10, "The Unknown", Wirt wakes up in the middle of a family of bluebirds, initially mistaking the mother for Beatrice. The mother is shocked to find out that the boy she found on her "doorstep", knows her daughter, with Wirt realizing that Beatrice brought him there. Getting ready to go back into the snowstorm, Wirt finds Beatrice and forgives her, with them looking for Greg together. They find Greg in the process of turning into an Edelwood tree, but Beatrice tells Wirt to simply chop off the branches growing around him. However, the Woodsman is tossed aside by the Beast, with the Beast telling Wirt that he can't save Greg, but the Beast can put Greg's soul inside the lantern to preserve him. Beatrice tells him not to, but Wirt had already questioned why the Beast wants the lantern lit so badly, almost like his own soul is inside it. The Woodsman realizes that he had been tricked and manages to hold the Beast off while Wirt and Beatrice save Greg. Wirt offers Beatrice to come with them, but she plans to confront her family and tell them that she was the reason why they all turned into bluebirds. Wirt just nonchalantly reveals that he stole Adelaide's scissors during his escape, with Beatrice hugging him and calling him a "beautiful mistake of nature". As the Woodsman blows out the light of the Beast's lantern, killing it for good, Wirt and Beatrice say goodbye to oneanother. As Wirt returned to the real world with Greg, Beatrice returned to her old home with her dog and her family, all thanks to Wirt.

Fanon
Infinite Eyerolls is the most popular hetero relationship for Wirt and Over the Garden Wall in general. This is despite the fact that, compared to the explicit crushes Wirt shows towards Sara and Lorna, he only gets lightly teased with Beatrice. Most people chalk it up to Wirt and Beatrice's "tsundere" dynamic and them being a boy and girl lead who interact with each other the most.

The "Wirt gets stuck in the Unknown" plot is so popular because people want Wirt and Beatrice to stay together or reunite. Though there are some Modern AUs or reincarnation scenarios that give Beatrice the opportunity to visit Wirt in the real world. Since most of these take place after the series, Beatrice is always portrayed as a human when shipped with Wirt.

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Trivia

 * The ship name "Infinite Eyerolls" was first coined by orbmanson7 on Tumblr.