Shipping

Shipping is the act of pairing two characters in a romantic sense. Ships in the show *High Guardian Spice* so far are

## SageMary

Sagemary is the ship of Rosemary and Sage. Many people support it due to the first episode having more than one scene of the two hugging and holding hands.

When Rosemary has a nightmare about her mother, Lavender, abandoning her, Sage offers up her bed to share with Rosemary.

Even though Rose has been attracted to males such as Aster, episode 10 has a scene where Snap asks if Rose loves Sage and she blushes before profusely denying her attraction to her best friend. Sage is also shown to get jealous over Rosemary's attraction towards Aster.

Sage's own TV Tropes page lists her as Ambiguously Gay as "Sage vehemently denies she has any feelings besides friendship for Rosemary, but she tends to be extremely possessive of her and once gets jealous of Rosemary crushing on another character. The only time she hangs out with other people it's usually to either complain about Rosemary or because she and Rosemary had a fight."

Raye Rodriguez himself quote-tweeted *"Is Sagemary canon? Look... we'll need more seasons to find out"*. The tweet he’d quote-tweeted features two pieces of original artwork featuring Rosemary and Sage engaging in shippy domestic scenarios with one another. [2]

On the creator's Tumblr, there are several pieces of ship art of Sage and Mary. One very early piece of art from 2013 reads with the caption, "I've begun to ship my own characters, someone send help" and another drawing featuring the pair, this time from 2016, is tagged as girlfriends.

## SageDragon

Sagedragon is the ship of Sage and Snapdragon. Snapdragon canonically has a crush on Sage as of Episode 3, shown blushing when Sage calls out Amaryllis for deliberately ruining her potion, thus mutating Neppy Cat.

Despite being introduced as Amaryllis' lackey, Snapdragon eventually learns to be more open and honest about themself and starts to spend time with Sage. The two also spend the waning last minutes of the Fall Festival together after Sage and Rosemary's falling out.

During the Fall Festival, Sage calls Snapdragon "pretty" and blushes when she sees their mermaid costume.

## SnapRyll

Snapryll is the ship of Amaryllis and Snapdragon. It is shipped because even though Amaryllis has a nasty and snotty attitude towards most people, she is a good friend to Snap and often defends them from Cal's bullying.

Amaryllis mentions to Rosemary in Episode 10 how Snapdragon got her her first lizard whom she named Bethany.

## AmaThyme

Thyme is the lone exception to Amaryllis' bullying and stuck-up behavior. In Episode 5, Amaryllis asks Snapdragon what they’re doing with Rose and Parsley but ,when she notices Thyme, her exterior suddenly changes and she acts friendly towards the other girl. This prompts Snap to ask "since when are you two all chummy", which Amaryllis brushes off as just them having done a project together.

In Episode 6, Thyme is partnered with Amaryllis in the obstacle course. Amaryllis tries to make conversation with Thyme repeatedly, but Thyme rejects all attempts at her friendship, hinting the feelings may be unrequited and one-sided on Amaryllis’ behalf.

## Thymage

In Episode 12 there is a brief scene of Thyme bridal carrying Sage. Sage blushes when she realizes what is going on.

## AsterRose

The ship of Aster and Rosemary. Rose had feelings for him but she was driven away by Aster's egocentric attitude.

## Coralyme

Coralyme is the ship of Thyme and Coral, one of the mermaids from episode 11. When they first meet, Thyme blushes at Coral and continues to get flustered around her throughout the episode.

## ParsThyme

Parsthymehe ship of Parsley and Thyme. It is shipped due to Parsley being very overprotective of Thyme and often insists on helping her. Thyme was initially put off by her clinginess but soon grew to like her.

## CalDragon

CalDragon is the ship between Cal and Snapdragon. It is shipped due to some enjoying the 'Homophobic bully is secretly queer themself' trope.

## References

1. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/dinoraye/status/1458554937835540480?t=\_CfNOkO\_JY68\_Tn5CPouMw&s=19