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Obviously these two had a rough start. Sharpay perceived Gabriella as a threat to her and thought she was trying to compete with her over leads in the play and even over Troy. I feel like there was some tension between them and were . She saw her and Troy in the play as the leads and watched her confidence grow and decided she couldn’t hate her. There was tension between them over some things but during senior year, all of that softened because Sharpay knew Gabi wasn’t trying to take anything from her or compete with her. Sharpay apologized to Gabi and never held any ill will against her at all. During senior year, they gradually became close friends and by adulthood, they became close friends.

• When Troy decided to propose to Gabriella, Sharpay went with him to pick out the ring.

• Sharpay was one of Gabriella’s bridesmaids in her wedding, planned her a surprise Broadway themed bridal shower and planned a slumber party at Lava Springs for Gabriella for her bachelorette party.

• On Troyella’s wedding day, Sharpay probably Gabi her something blue, helped her make sure her hair, nails, makeup and veil were perfect, and more than likely cried when Troyella put rings on each other’s fingers and when they read vows to each other, when they kissed during the ceremony, and cried when Troyella did their first dance as a married couple.

• I feel like she attended Gabriella’s baby showers as well and became a godmother to Troyella’s daughter and supports their relationship during married life and them having kids. Sharpay, despite not wanting children of her own, loves Troyella’s kids. When they announce the birth of their 3rd child, she congratulates them.

What do you guys think?

My guess is this is his reaction when Gabriella told him he got her pregnant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤰🏼

Sharpay did what she did for Troy for very selfish reasons. She did it to bully him into performing with her and isolated him from Gabriella and his friends. She was the driving force of his behavior in HSM 2.

Gabriella did absolutely nothing wrong in this movie. Sharpay tried to steal her boyfriend from her and all Gabriella did was chew her out about it (which I personally think she had every right to do) and didn’t even retaliate at her. That’s not just mature, THAT IS IMPRESSIVE.

Gabriella always took the high road and never retaliated at anyone who hurt her and always chose to be the bigger person.

I do genuinely enjoy the first two Descendants films. Most of the characters are geniunely interesting.

But there’s one I’m not particularly a fan of- that character is Ben. I don’t hate Ben, I don’t think he’s a bad character, but I find him very boring and very forgettable.

Sure, he’s nice, and sure he’s well-intentioned, but he has the personality of bread. I’m not gonna hate on the actor because I’m sure he did doing the best he could with what he got but I found him to be one of the blandest love interests I’ve ever seen in any teen movie. Admittedly, his relationship with Mal is kind of cute, but that’s not enough to save his character.

Ben from Descendants to me is like discount Troy Bolton. At least Troy had a personality outside of being the popular nice guy- and he had an interesting character arc.

From feeling pressured to choose between basketball and singing in the school musical and feeling ostracized, trying to find success and being isolated from those he cares for (though Troy was not blameless for his actions in HSM2, but it wasn’t entirely his fault), He was multi-dimensional and Zac Efron is genuinely good at showing emotion when he acts. I’m probably just biased because I grew up with High School Musical so I greatly prefer that series, but just thought I’d share my thoughts.

I feel like Troyella are loving parents who love each other but have different parenting styles.

• Troy always has good intentions but he’s at times a bit misguided and doesn’t always have common sense. He adores his wife and kids, makes corny dad jokes, uses Gen Alpha slang without actually understanding what it means, embarrassing their daughter especially. He just wants to be fun dad and wants his kids to see him as a cool dad. He doesn’t want to discipline or be firm with them at all. I decided to make him reminiscent of dads like Phil Dunphy from Modern Family, or dads in movies from the 2000’s/2010’s played by Adam Sandler or Paul Rudd. He’s more of a pushover but always loves his kids and his wife. He’s firm when it counts, even when he doesn’t like it.

• Gabriella is as loving and kind as ever but firmer than Troy and is infinitely more structure and more of a disciplinarian than he is.

• She affectionately refers to him as her “husband child.”

In my universe, they got married in August 2012 and had kids.