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thstarsofsilver · 2 years

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i still don’t think we talk enough about how heartbreaking it would be for ej caswell to be not his best self and lose a girl to ricky bowen, then go on a long hard journey of self-development and self-improvement, learning to be a more outward-looking & genuine person and finally begin to gain confidence in his new, better self and STILL lose a girl to ricky bowen.

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whatever-color-of-the-rainbow · 1 month

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Nini: *putting on sunscreen at the beach*

EJ: Pussy.

Nini: You think you're stronger than the sun. THE FUCKING SUN.

#nini salazar roberts #nini hsmtmts #ej caswell #ej hsmtmts #nini x ej #ej x nini #hsmtmts #hsmtmts incorrect quotes

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aamirmitchell · 2 years

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why do people prefer the ricky/nini/ej love triangle over the gina/ricky/ej ? like people genuinely hate gina/ricky/ej, can i ask why?

this is no judgment at all, i’m just curious on what made that one the preferred? or why people connect to it more?

#I’d love some answers #hsmtmts #rini #rina #nj #???#did they have a ship name?#ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #gina porter #Ricky Bowen #nini x ej #ej x nini #ej x gina

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tvshowscouples · 7 hours

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If you love Nini&EJ (High School Musical The Series) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

#nini and ej #ej and nini #nini salazar roberts #olivia rodrigo #high school musical #hsmtmts #matt cornett #high school musical the musical the series #ej caswell #nini x ej

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blues-valentine · 9 months

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HSMTMTS Final Season Spoilers:

Ricky and Gina’s first relationships (Nini/EJ) prepared them for their own trials this season.

The thing about Ricky and Gina going thought similar situations as PW and Rini is to showcase not just why they’re different but that they’ve learned from their previous relationships too.

Because that’s the whole point.

Ricky’s relationship with Nini failed not just because they outgrew each other but because Nini wanted bigger things for herself and didn’t feel like she needed Ricky to get that anymore. She herself said on the pilot that being away from Ricky actually made her come out of her shell and pursue leading roles. And Ricky wasn’t ready to accept that change so in order to protect that relationship he started to become too attached and making Nini feel pressured about balancing YAC and Ricky. He thought he had to put Nini’s dream on hold only to realize not only did it made him selfish but not a version of himself he wanted to be. This is why he corrected all of those mistakes with Gina when presented with the same issues. Not just this final season but last season as well. (X)

It was stablished last season, Ricky’s love for Gina changed what he thought he knew about love. Gina is the representation of change.

For Ricky, the idea of Gina and him growing apart and walking different directions terrified him — he has seen this before and it didn’t end with people choosing him. But he wasn’t going to be the old Ricky that would delete Instagram posts and be like “I want you to leave the movie and stay here with me” and that’s because he now knows that’s not how you love. And he isn’t going to make Gina feel guilty about living her dreams. And that’s why he was the most supportive and attentive boyfriend she could’ve asked for. And Ricky knows it could cost him losing Gina but he is ready to deal with that as long as Gina is doing what she’s meant to do.

For Gina, she was living her dreams but Ricky is also part of her dreams. Gina’s arc has never been just about finding success but finding a place to belong and she found that (with Ricky, with East High). By holding the whole movie offer from Ricky, she understood why EJ did what he did last season and I think it was a very good learning experience for her and closure for the two of them. Gina was very naive and new in her relationship with EJ and going thought that allowed her to understand other points. I feel like if she hadn’t been in a relationship with EJ first she wouldn’t have known how to handle this issue with Ricky. But as opposed to Nini, who basically told Ricky she didn’t come back for him. Gina would fight for Ricky. Because she wants both the fame and him and I’m glad they didn’t have her compromise on either of those.

The contrasts and differences in all of those relationships needed to happen. It would’ve been too easy if Ricky and Gina were just in a perfectly honey moon stage even with all of those circumstances. And I would say they handled it gracefully and better than others would have (including PW and Nini). The thing about Ricky and Gina is not just that they both give the other something they need (stability, propose, ambition, understanding) is that PW and Rini gave up on each other too easy. Maybe because they just weren’t the right person. And if anything the season shows is that whatever happens next Ricky and Gina will find a way to make it work together and unlike Troyella (“who are not a real couple”) Ricky and Gina are.

#hsmtmts #high school musical the musical the series #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts s4 #gina porter #rina #ricky bowen #ricky x gina #ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #text post

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platonicsoulmatesstobin · 8 months

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Rini- wrong person, right time

Portwell- right person, wrong time

Nini and EJ- right person, wrong time (fight me)

Rina- right person, right time

Seblos- right person, right time

Madlyn- right person, right time

Redlyn- wrong person, right time

#rina #rina hsmtmts #anti rini #anti portwell #madlyn #ashlyn x maddox #ashlyn caswell #hsmtmts maddox #ej caswell #ricky x gina #gina porter #gina x ricky #ricky bowen #big red #nini salazar roberts #seblos

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rinacentral · 2 years

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the best thing i can do for her is just take a step back…

high school musical: the musical: the series 1x10 – act two | 3x06 – color war

#hsmtmtsedit #rinaedit #hsmtmts #gina porter #ricky bowen #rina #gifs #multi #s1 #s3 #1x10 #3x06 #ricky x gina #rina x ej #rina x nini #requests #*#by rajan #hsmtmts spoilers

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ginaporterr · 1 year

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RICKY & GINA + starting fresh with each other vs others

#hsmtmtsedit #hsmtmts #ricky x gina #ricky bowen #gina porter #ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #rina #3x02 #1x01 #3x06 #*#*requests #rinaedit #anti portwell #anti rini #idk if that caption makes sense but like. listen skdjfskf

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timetravellauvie · 8 months

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so what if the pre-season 1 Drama club including their parents were suddenly transported to this theater with Maddox, Jet, Emmy, Val and all their friends from camp and some North High kids. They were then there to watch High School Musical the Musical The Series from Season 1 to 4 and all that..

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elainiisms · 2 years

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CANONICALLY THE CUTEST THING GINA HAS EVER SEEN!!!

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 3 #hsmtmts spoilers #rina #ricky x gina #gina x ricky #gina porter #ricky bowen #high school musical the musical the series #high school musical the series #ashyln caswell #jet hsmtmts #maddox hsmtmts #ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #carlos rodriguez #kourtney greene #big red

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 2 years

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#The Chin Hold

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fandom-addict404 · 9 months

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Just watched season 4 of HSMTMTS and besides the fact that there are an incredible amount of plot holes, I’m mad about the fact that they never addressed the issue that I imagine many wanted addresses canonically. And that’s Ricky Bowen’s anxiety. He had a clear anxiety issue, especially considering his problems with change and fear of losing people. I really wish he saw some kind of therapist or has a diagnosis that was discussed in the show. I think it would’ve been great representation and a good way to expand on Ricky’s character as a whole.

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firstprincelovechild · 2 years

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we agree ricky is bi right- i mean, “friends? enemies? … lovers???? 😍” like that look to camera man

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joondaya · 2 years

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long post on the hsmtmts initial core 4 and their relationships and development i guess:

a lot of yall think getting into a relationship solves every existing problem within these characters and then get shocked when these exact problems get brought up again. the dumbest thing is that yall then bring up the argument “why spend the whole season building them up only to break them up in the next” or “you’re ruining their character development” as if we are not watching the same show and the answers are not right in front of you.

ricky accepted moving on from nini and it took her making a move and almost kissing him for him to realise he could go back to that and have one thing stay the same. he was terrified of change while she running towards change. i’m not saying he didn’t love her, but i’m saying that loving her was not the only reason for him to run back on his path of growth. and then in season two he did not like the person he was becoming with nini. ricky is not out of character this season but actually falling back to his character. because i don’t know what show yall were watching in season one but he was always goofy and carefree around gina. when he was reminiscing his friendship with nini he talked about himself as someone who was carefree and easygoing. he is not acting weird now just because yall did not pay attention to his character. he finally restored his relationship with his mother and no longer in a relationship where he feels he is being left behind, of course he no longer acts like an angsty teenager. please think a little.

nini got called out for making her life about boys and she tried to find her own person. but people seem to forget that besides that silly song that she did not actually grow from boys. in fact, right after that conversation with kourtney she was already getting jealous of ricky and gina. and right after that song she was already trying to kiss ricky. she needed that second chance with him to realise that an “i love you” wasn’t the problem of their relationship and they needed to work a lot more than just ricky’s feelings and communication. she also needed to know that her song wasn’t just for show and she actually needed to define herself and not having relationships define her.

they have not once been on the same page throughout season one and that was an argument people made before season two even aired and for some reason some of you were still shocked how things unfolded. (some even blamed outside drama but that’s another topic altogether) i feel like some of you guys are just not watching the show because this is a disney show, the subtext is not that deep. most of the things are right in your face.

and for some reason yall doing it again this season and i’m confused what part of the show have you missed? ej’s anxiety has been ongoing since season one. he is a guy that has never known anything less than perfection, and we could see that it comes from his family. he doesn’t work well with pressure and doesn’t really know his own way if things are not mapped out for him. he freaked out with having to play troy last minute, and freaked out with not being accepted into duke. mr mazzara told him to find a story and learn from it, so he focused on gina. now i’m not saying he hasn’t or couldn’t learn from gina, but that it was a pivotal moment in his life to finally learn about himself but he chose not to. now he is at camp with his girlfriend, with a responsibility he did not ask for but obviously wouldn’t turn away because that’s who he is. he had the summer mapped out for him but not anymore and that freaks him out. delivering anything less than perfection also freaks him out. this is something he should’ve started dealing with since last season when he realised his sense of self came from his family expectations. just like ricky, he got into a relationship to delay a growth that’s impossible to stumble upon. in addition, this guy severely lacks communication skills for someone that has been implied to be in several relationships. it happened with nini, it happened in the season finale with gina, and it’s happening once again. he creates scenarios in his head and goes with it instead of talking with the other person. in fact, he communicates his problems with anyone (ashlyn and now val) but the intended person. contrary to popular belief, “i’m no longer cunning” is not growth. specially when all his actions of redemption in season one was to make himself feel better. his character development is only starting now because besides not accepting that duke offer his dad practically bought him, he actually had no growth.

and then you have gina, a girl who entered a relationship in order to feel safe, seen and loved while not being over ricky. and deny it all you want, but that scene in carlos’ party wasn’t closure. her having to be away from ricky to create a path for ej and have her focus on it is not moving on. it’s only just creating a diversion that would eventually go back to its original path. this is also not me saying that she doesn’t like ej. it’s me saying that her heart has never been 100% with him because she never actually retrieved it from ricky in the first place. moreover, her character growth has never been about her “dropping the attitude” but about opening herself up to others and not run away when things get complicated as she never actually had the opportunity to form relationships and know how to communicate in them. that she doesn’t have to compromise who she is in order to feel loved and accepted.

and to just be clear, i’m not saying that these ships can’t eventually find each other again. but it’s never a surprise when a breakup is eventually coming towards them. and using “but they spend the whole season building them up” as an excuse is not the take you think it is. and that their character development is more than just “i did bad things and now i don’t” when they’re not actually growth. a lot of yall take one song or dialogue as character development and fail to realise that their actions are not following along and then call it “repetitive” when it gets brought up again when it hasn’t even been solved in the first place.

and i’m also not saying rina is above them. (although i do believe they are) but what i’m saying is that ricky and gina always had story arcs that flowed together and yet, it wasn’t time for them. so for me it makes no sense to question why rina is still a thing because you just do not understand the concept of slow burn and do not understand that these characters and their storylines have always been intertwined from the very first season. i understand the denial in season one, but if you finished season two truly believe they were over and done with, you’re either obtuse, or you were settling for extremely bad writing.

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 3 #gina porter #ricky bowen #ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #ricky x gina #rina #ricky and gina #gina x ricky #rina hsmtmts #hsmtmts rina

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luckyyluka · 1 year

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Second Chance (HAITUS)

Ricky Bowen x OC

Status: In Progress , On Haitus

There's gonna be A LOT of those cheesy/cliche tropes and I'm not even sorry.

childhood best friends to lovers

falls first x falls harder

hurt/comfort

one-sided pining

mutual pining

all that fun stuff <3

This is a High School Musical: The Musical: The Series fanfiction that follows Blake Sahan alongside her childhood best friend and first love, Ricky Bowen.

Blake Sahan's faceclaim is Maitreyi Ramakrishnan!

This series loosely follows the plot of the show, each chapter being based on every episode. Of course, (without any spoilers), there's a few key differences...

Characters are aged up.

They're in their freshman year of college.

The school is Salt Lake Community College.

If the college seems like a high school sometimes

(or most of the time)

it's for plot convenience ok just roll with it

Gina does not have feelings for Ricky.

Nini is lowkey kind of in her antagonist era in this.

Ricky Bowen has BPD (unknown at first)

(side note: so does Blake)

I will add trigger warnings specific for each chapter, but here are some general trigger warnings for this series:

Alcoholism

Addiction

Mental health (mainly Borderline Personality Disorder)

Toxic relationships

Poor relationship with parent / absent father

Death of parent

Occasionally some adult themes

DISCLAIMER: The author of this series (me lol) has BPD. Just keep that in mind, I am not stepping out of my place or anything, and please remember that anything I write that relates to BPD is written based off of my own personal experience. 💖

Please like, reblog, give me feedback, all that fun stuff! It really helps to keep me motivated! enjoyyy <3

credits:

editing: @ethansespresso

dividers: @cafekitsune

photoshop/manip: @cihkennugget on twitter

Season 1

Ep.1 Ep.2 Ep.2.5 Ep.3 Ep.4 Ep.5 Ep.6 Ep.7 Ep.8 Ep.9 Ep.10

Season 2

Ep.1 Ep.2 Ep.3 Ep.4 Ep.5 Ep.6 Ep.7 Ep.8 Ep.9 Ep.10 Ep.11 Ep.12

Season 3

Ep.1 Ep.2 Ep.3 Ep.4 Ep.5 Ep.6 Ep.7 Ep.8

Season 4

Ep.1 Ep.2 Ep.3 Ep.4 Ep.5 Ep.6 Ep.7 Ep.8

#💫TAGS:#hsmtmts #high school musical #high school musical the musical the series #ricky bowen #ricky bowen x OC #BPD!OC #nini salazar roberts #gina porter #ej caswell #kourtney greene #big red #ashlyn caswell #carlos rodriguez #ms. jenn #mr. mazzara #hsmtmts fanfic #ricky bowen fanfic

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blues-valentine · 9 months

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Before the final season of HSMTMTS premieres I just want to talk about one of the most important scenes from last season because it really encompasses Ricky’s add, Rina and the dynamic between the OG Core 4. And the way it was filmed, was to parallel that journey.

Ricky singing Kristoff’s Lullaby, a song that says “everything I thought I did [about love] you’ve gone and changed it” which is a response to Ricky and Gina’s first duet “What Do You Know About Love?” is it. This has been Ricky and Gina’s relationship from Ricky’s perspective and arc. It’s always been about change for him. About growing up, letting go of childhood, insecurities, concepts of love.

The whole framing of this scene it’s important because this parallels auditions back in the pilot episode. The OG core 4 (Ricky, Nini, Gina and EJ) are in the same place but in very different circumstances. On the pilot, Ricky was singing a song to Nini about his feelings sort of [a song written by her, a song that couldn’t even allow them to say the word love to each other]. And Nini isn’t so thrilled by this because this is Ricky inserting himself in what she considers to be her new found space. Ricky doesn’t even like musicals. EJ, Nini’s boyfriend, was by her side, absolutely not thrilled about it, of course, this is Nini’s ex just serenating her and it awakes his own insecurities. On the other side of the stage, there’s Gina watching him, at first she was so bored but then her eyes spark at Ricky’s song because it’s something new. Gina doesn’t get intrigued but Ricky intrigues her. He feels so out of place but he has something she’s never seen. And this is the start of their dynamic, and for all of these characters in a nutshell.

On 308, we have a similar scene but switched a bit. We have Ricky singing to someone. But this time, to Gina and it's not in her face, like he did it with Nini. He is not intruding in her space – he spends the whole season trying not walk over her own boundaries. For her and EJ. This is a Ricky that is sure about his place in theater and it’s doing it for himself. A lead role he actually put effort on. It’s Ricky singing a song about love, about meeting someone that changes everything for you, including the ways you used to view love. Gina is the representation of change. She’s been called this way multiple occasions. Ricky used to view love in a very consuming way. It’s all or nothing, even if sometimes it intrudes on boundaries. Even if by keeping that love so tight it changes you but not for a better version of yourself. Even if holding to it it’s stopping your from growing. Gina came into his life to tell him that changes can be good, that doing things for yourself are good. If a love is meant to be it will be. And he looks at Gina. Who, like before, was standing at the side of the stage. And she knows that line it’s for her. Gina knows exactly what Ricky is trying to tell her. But we also have Nini, who Ricky knows is watching too, they told him this before. But he is singing to Gina. Nini is not in his mind. But the fact that she is there makes that concept very clear. Nini is there watching him with pride because she can see too how much he has changed as a person and now belongs. And at the other side of the stage there's EJ, who’s basically on a similar situation as before but this time he knows is inevitable and he won’t do anything to sabotage that like he did before. He walks away. He knows he has.

Tim Federle loves its full circle moments and Season 4 will give us a lot of those. But this whole thing brings me to his recent interview where he says this is the first time Ricky and Gina are in love together because sometimes your first love is not exactly what you think love is. We often think our first love it's the standard of love and then comes someone that teaches you how to love. This is what Gina is to Ricky. (And I’ve made countless post about it X X X)

Nini and Ricky’s love was special but it was not helping them grow up, you could feel since the pilot how out of sync they actually were and neither of them wanted to admit that because their romance was attached to their childhood memories none of them were ready to let go. Nini was more ready to let go than Ricky was. Gina pushed Ricky to contemplate aspects of his life - and the reality that he needed to move forward and accept that things have to come the way they will come and he can't hold onto them. The song "Second Change" is also a song that summarizes the OG Core 4 arcs. For Nini, it's always been about finding her self self away for the image she created around Ricky. For Ricky, it was accepting changes, to embrace them. For Gina, it's about not running when things get too hard and finding where she belongs. For EJ, is about finding his own way outside of his parents expectations. That’s it. That’s the story. And if you didn’t see it…

#rina hsmtmts #hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts s4 #ricky x gina #gina porter #ricky bowen #ej caswell #nini salazar roberts #rina #text post #high school musical the musical the series

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