Headcanon: Shego and Drakken have no separate bedrooms (long post).
Not sure if anyone has thought about or noticed this before but hear me out!!
In the season 2 episode Sick Day, we can get glimpses of Shego and Drakken's 'bedrooms'.
Following the storyline of the episode, Shego is the first one to get sick because of her fight with Kim, she then stays inside her room to ensure Drakken doesn't get sick after which Drakken teams up with Killigan and then gets sick as well.
Looking at this room, we clearly can see that it's Shego's.
It's green-themed, has a make-up table, drawers for her clothes, etc.
But when I watched this episode (multiple times), I was so freaking confused about Shego's bed. It looks so uncomfortable, too small even for a 1 person bed and nothing indicates that this is one of those beds that you can pull the backside up for back support since it's one big 'piece'. Of course, the backgrounds are stylistic but if you look at the drawers for example, you can see the lines that indicate where the drawer can open.
A-ha! This is not a bed, this is a sofa.
Shego likes to read and lounge about, so she would definitely have a nice cozy spot to sit on to read her magazines. But that leaves the Question: Where in this bedroom is her bed?
Answer: There's none because there's not even space for an actual bed.
Just like Drakken's bedroom, Shego's room has a moat surrounding the middle platform. Placing a bed here would end up in having a too cramped space in here. Now take a quick look at Drakken's room.
Something that caught my eye (and surprised me on the first watch after all these years) was how big and RED Drakken's bed is.
Both Shego and Drakken have colors that lean towards cool tones rather than warm reds and they (most of the time) stick to their themes. So it's very odd for especially Drakken, who's blue, to have an entire bed that's red. It's not even his opposite color since that would be orange. What else: his entire bedroom is JUST a bed with surround-sound speakers and a TV.
My theory: This is Shego and Drakken's shared bedroom.
1. Shego's bedroom(?)
Shego's room in this episode isn't her bedroom but a relaxation room, full of her personal belongings. This is the place where she goes to take a break and be alone. Having her own relaxation room isn't uncommon since in the Christmas episode, it's confirmed that Drakken has a 'mudroom' in the lair but he doesn't even know what it's for. So he either let it be made for Shego not really caring what was in it or doing research or Shego took it upon herself to get one installed. Her mini spa as you will.
So if that's not the room in which she sleeps, what is?
2. Neutral grounds
The bedroom we see Drakken in is also Shego's bedroom.
Let me explain:
Both characters, like I said before, have 'nothing' to do with red; at least at first glance! If you look at the color wheel, you can see that their specific colors together make for the balanced opposite of red. (I went through multiple colorwheels and posting all of them would make this post even longer so yeah have 1).
So we can say that this area is neutral terrain for both of them.
They can go in and out of here as they please, without any hassle or the other saying "This is MY bedroom." because none of their personal belongings are in this room.
3. But then WHERE is Drakken's stuff?
His lab. It's probably all in his lab.
SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED:
1. Shego got sick after the fight with Kim, but none of them knew that Shego was infected. Getting sick usually takes a day or two (at least for me) and so Shego found out that she was sick a day or two after the infection.
2. She stayed out of their shared bedroom and remained in her relaxation room to quarantine herself in the hopes that Drakken didn't catch her cold and he could focus on his plans.
However, since it's been at least 2 days, Drakken also would be infected because of their shared space.
3. After a while, Drakken got sick as well and went into the bedroom because he had no lounge sofa or anything to lay in. He has just the bed.
My conclusion:
Shego and Drakken share 1 bedroom to sleep in.
The bed is big enough for 2 people. Shego probably sleeps more than Drakken does and maybe they take routines with one person sleeping at a time or so, maybe they sleep together with each of them at the furthest end of the bed.
Or my whole color theory and background analysis is off and it's just red because it makes the blue in Drakken's character pop, but there's one more piece of desperate-looked-into 'evidence' that shows that they have a 'relationship' in this bedroom:
there's a FREAKING HEART on the wall that STILL DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME OTHER THAN THAT THIS BEDROOM IS THEIR LOVE NEST.
May it represents them having 1 strong bond or them screwing each other's brains out on a Friday night after karaoke time, idk.
It can't really be a random hole because of the lack of depth and there are no small holes anywhere else in the room.
It cannot be a shadow since it doesn't line up with anything else in the room, the underlaying line isn't shown and the color is slightly off/darker when color is picked and compared to the shadows of the tunnel in the back of the room.
So yeah it's just a big heart being there.
Probably just to fill up the space but idk, I'd like to think that there's ALWAYS thought and meaning behind every detail in whatever art or media there is.
So there you have it!
My overly in-depth analysis. I probably went way too deep into this theory, but I like to think of it this way (especially since I've been drawing cozy cuddle scenes that I'll be posting here later).
Anyway do what you want with this info and I hope you have a good day<3
