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Van Cameron S2 headcanons

-During home ec class, Liberty and Sean get assigned to bake a chocolate together. Liberty assumes that she would have to do most of the baking but Sean surprises her by knowing what to do. When Liberty asks him how did he become such a good baker, he gets defensive about it until he begrudgingly reveals that he learned to cook and bake from his circumstances. It’s also a coping skill for him. He doesn’t want anyone else to know because it would threaten his tough guy image but Liberty encourages him to be proud about it as girls love guys who can cook, or at she does. This sparks Sean to have an interest in Liberty and he offers to bake her cookies sometime.

-They progressively become very good friends over time. Sean gets protective of Liberty and is quick to stand up for her. Even though Liberty tries to act like she doesn’t need the protection, secretly she appreciates it as he’s the first person in her life who wants to do so (other than Danny). She helps him out with his schoolwork and he performs better in classes than he expects.

-Emma and JT are hating in the background 😂, though JT doesn’t register at first WHY he doesn’t like seeing Liberty and Sean together until Toby calls it what it is: jealousy.

-Sean, at first doesn’t want to admit that he has a crush on Liberty, especially when the other guys tease him for it during the events of Drive. But then Craig tells him to embrace it because Liberty is cute in a dorky but endearing way. The three of them become a friendship trio.

-Liberty gets confused and scared of her crush on Sean, because she still has a lingering crush on JT who’s suddenly become way nicer to her than before. She doesn’t know who to choose.

-While Sean feels frustrated with Liberty’s militant attitude as hockey manager like everyone else, when she explains her reasoning that she just wants recognition for the hard work she does for everyone while also still wanting them to succeed, Sean softens up and assures her that she does deserve to be loved and appreciated, she just also needs to relax and not resort to pressure all of the time

-Sean shows her how to play basketball, and he also encourages her to play less intense sports like frisbee and bowling. Liberty surprisingly becomes good at basketball with his efforts and pushes him to never go easy on her. This is one of their favorite activities to do outside of school.

-Tracker likes Liberty and encourages Sean to go for it, even though he teases Sean by reminding him of all the bad things he used to say

-When it’s the end of the year and the Hawaiian dance is tomorrow, Sean is worried about Craig’s mental state due to his father’s death but he also wants to ask Liberty out so he does, giving her a bag of homemade chocolate chip cookies he baked himself like he promised. Problem is, JT also asks out Liberty. Sean and JT get into an intense argument over who “deserves” to go with Liberty and gets all of their friends involved. Emma, Manny, Toby, and even Paige aggressively push Liberty to choose JT but Liberty decides to seek advice from the older kids, who outside of Paige push her to choose Sean (especially Ashley who still feels bad over what went down between her, Sean, and Jimmy at the beginning of the year) and that’s who she picks. Even though Sean doesn’t care to get in theme for the dance, he still tells her what he would like to see her in. She gives him reassurance that Craig is going to be okay eventually, he just needs time to grieve.

-When they go to the dance, Sean wears a luau for Liberty’s sake and shows her how to dance. They have fun, officially get together, and have their happily ever after!….

-I feel like due to Liberty skipping a grade and Sean repeating grade seven, the age gap between the two of them this season would have been really awkward because Liberty would only be 11-12 and Sean 13-14 (logically, the way this show did ages, birth years, and months was extremely messy and inconsistent. The writers kept retconning and changing everything as they went along? 😭💀), their relationship would have had to have been super chaste. Plus it’s hard to visualize S1-2 without Semma

-I can see a light enemies to lovers dynamic happening between them. They wouldn’t get along at first because Liberty wouldn’t trust Sean due to his background and Sean would find her annoying and stuck up. But then Sean would see Liberty get bullied by other kids at Degrassi and feel bad enough to stand up for her. This causes them to be nicer to each other and Liberty develops a crush on Sean. She gets very bashful whenever she has to interview him for the grapevine.

-Toby, for obvious reasons, is Team Van Cameron but he pretends to be Team Jiberty for JT’s sake. Manny, out of loyalty to Emma, is Team Semma.

-Tracker pushes Sean to go for Liberty only because he lowkey still resents Emma after the little Parent’s Day incident and think Liberty sounds better 😭. Sean lets Emma down gently and she’s a bit salty but she gets over it. I think in this timeline either Emma gives Toby a chance or Spemma happens earlier.

-When he gets a cut on the basketball court during a game and she patches up his wound, he confesses his feelings for her and asks her out. Liberty decides right then and there who she really wants. They start going out 🥰

-There’s no way in hell Liberty’s parents would be okay with her dating this early, and especially not with some kid who had to repeat a grade because he got kicked out of his last school for deafening another kid in his ear. They only spend time with each other at school and after school related events so her parents don’t find out.

-They’re very sweet and wholesome with each other. Sean gives Liberty his jean jacket to wear whenever she feels chilly. Liberty brings extra food from home so he could have lunch.

-Because at this stage in their relationship, Sean is still taller than Liberty, he gives her piggyback rides and she likes burying her face into his neck whenever they hug. -Liberty gets his jersey number embedded on one of her jackets to show support for him during a basketball game

-When the Armstrong incident happens, Sean is ready to beat up Mr. Armstrong the fuck up. They’re both very mad at Emma when she comes clean about the rumor starting with her, and Liberty accuses her of only starting the rumor because she’s jealous of her and Sean.

Liberty is nervous that Sean would think less of her for having dyscalculia when she’s so smart in other areas but even though he doesn’t understand the disorder much and he mispronounces it on a regular basis, he’s still supportive of her and assures her that he could never think less of her.

-The inevitable of them having relationship problems at the end of the year happens. Because she wants the best for Sean, Liberty starts getting really pushy and demanding about him studying for their final exams, which causes him to get stressed and lash out at her. Then his beef with Jimmy boils up. Because Liberty admires Ashley so much, she tries to work with Ashley to get their boyfriends to stop beefing. This doesn’t work and the fight happens. Liberty doesn’t jump in like Emma did but she’s still very angry at Sean and accuses him of being no better than a thug. They have a huge argument over this. Sean, out of insecurity, cheats off of her during final exams. Liberty is willing to make up with him until he confesses to what he did. She angrily dumps him 🥶 The events of Jagged Little Pill still happens with them. Sean makes out with Ashley, Liberty is upset, JT uses Sean’s fuck up as an opportunity to make moves on Liberty. She embraces him at the end of the night like how Emma did with Toby right in front of Sean’s face who’s heartbroken 🥶🥶🥶

-This season is one of my favorite AUs for Van Cameron considering it's the only one where Liberty canonically had a crush on Sean..o.even though it went terribly. The writers may have not seen their potential but I sure do! -Instead of Liberty hitting on Sean in the most embarrassing way possible and him meanly rejecting her, after they work on their history project together a genuine friendship forms between them. Liberty still crushes on him but she's too scared to be open about it after T -Sean playfully picks on her but he allows NO ONE ELSE to. The one time Jay tried to do so behind his back, Sean threatened to do him worse than he did Tyler and Jay is only nice to Liberty from then on. Sean affectionally calls her "dork" and is always "threatening" to steal her lunch. -Even though she finds his antics annoying, Liberty brings extra food from home so Sean doesn't have to buy lunch. Sean is flustered every time but is very appreciative of her doing this. He starts sitting with her instead of Jay and Alex which confuses them. -Sean becomes obsessed with Liberty's hair and encourages her to wear it down more often. He finds random excuses to touch it without looking suspicious. If it was anyone else, Liberty would feel uncomfortable with them touching her hair, but with Sean she secretly loves it because of her crush on him. -Liberty helps Sean with their schoolwork and he performs better in classes because of it.

-All of their friends are really confused at their friendship, and both Emma and JT are bitter and jealous e. Emma reminds Liberty every chance she gets that Sean was an asshole to her before they broke up and JT keeps warning Sean to stay away from Liberty because she might have a crush on him and there's NO WAY he would want that, right? Right? -Sean is crushing on Liberty back but he's scared to admit his feelings because he thinks he's too good for her. -When Sean is serving one of his Saturday detentions, he's not only surprised to see Jimmy, Hazel, and Ellie, but also Liberty. Liberty is there to do a research paper of the effectiveness of detention for students. Jimmy and Hazel tease her for her but Sean gets protective of Liberty and tells them off. This prompts Jimmy to start accusing Sean and Liberty of being boyfriend and girlfriend, making things awkward for them. -Sean does the same with Jimmy and Hazel, and during a game of Truth or Dare, Jimmy bites back by daring Sean to kiss Liberty. Sean protests the idea out of respect towards Liberty, but she goes along with it just so everyone would finally leave them alone. They kiss… and immediately their feelings for each other gets even stronger. Even though they're both still too scared to admit their feelings for each other at first, when they're alone on the rooftop, they eventually do and they decide to officially get together.

-Emma and JT are both angry at their relationship and try to sabotage it even though Emma is in a relationship with Chris. Chris dumps Emma when he gets tired of her nonsense with Sean, Manny refuses to date T because of how obvious it is that he has feelings for Liberty and tells Emma to get a grip. Toby is minding his own business from the sidelines. *. -It takes some time for Liberty to warm up to Jay and Alex, and she mostly only tolerates them because of Sean. Her and Alex eventually become friends though because Alex thinks she has a better personality than Emma -Most of their dates are at the movies, the mall, the library, the ice cream shop, The Dot, the arcade, and the park. Liberty often sneaks over to his apartment and lies to her parents that she's just hanging out with Manny. At his apartment, they watch movies and tv shows with pizza, soda, wings, and plenty of snacks and candy. Sean occasionally cooks dinner for her and bakes her chocolate cake to impress her. Liberty loves his cooking! -Liberty gets him into Lord Of The Rings and Sean gets her into Friday The 13th. -They progressively start rubbing off on each other. Liberty gets more assertive and free spirted. Sean gets more mature and willing to intellectually push himself. -Tracker loves Liberty and thinks she's a great influence on Sean -Sean buys her barrettes, pins, brooches, ribbons, and bows to put in her hair, and he likes snuggling into it. Liberty likes to cuddle with him because of his warmth and muscles «Sean's reasoning for calling her "babygirl" for this era specifically is because of her cute appearance and innocent demeanor