Rina

"Ricky intrigues me... And I don't get intrigued"

- Gina

Rina is the het ship between Ricky Bowen and Gina Porter from the High School Musical fandom.

Canon
In Auditions, Gina Porter first saw Ricky Bowen out in the hall talking to Big Red, Kourtney Greene and Nini Salazar-Roberts on the first day of school. Ricky Bowen and Gina Porter didn't officially met until auditions for High School Musical. During Auditions, for the school musical Ricky performs an original song and Gina is shown to be in awe watching his performance. They are labeled as outsiders being that Gina is a transfer student who moves around a lot and Ricky being a skater who doesn't like musicals but joins it in hopes of getting back together with his "ex". In The Read-Through, when Ricky was feeling insecure about staying in the school musical and drops out he goes to the skate park and surprisingly sees Gina who looks to have been waiting for him sitting on the steps with her headphones in. She asks him "Is it true that you dropped out?". He answers her with" Did Miss Jenn send you here?." Thinking that Miss Jenn probably sent her here to bring him back to the musical. Gina denies and says "Please, I think I scare her" indicating she came here on her own volition. Ricky agrees with her statement on her being scary. Gina encourages him though to stay in the school musical saying that "Outsiders keep everyone on their toes. You kept us real" Ricky looks deep in thought at what she says. In Homecoming, Ricky sees that Gina has brought EJ to the dance as her partner and tells her she could do better. She rebuttals him telling him "You're not the one to give relationship advice and when I want your opinion I'll ask." He goes around to say something that hurts her and she leaves the table. When he sees her pour a drink on EJ's head and storms off angry he goes off after her to see if she's alright and apologizes for what he said to her at the table. She asks him "Why do you care?" Relating to her problems and he answers with an uncertain "I don't know" but says "I thought we sorted got each other" Them being both outsiders to their receptive group. On the ride to her house, they share a moment with each other that leads to Gina kissing him on the cheek which leaves him speechless.

After homecoming, Gina and Ricky have grown closer and opened up to each other about a lot of things. However, they soon grew apart after Gina and her mom moved away. She did come back at opening night and they properly said their goodbyes with her saying she "wouldn't quit on them if she wasn't moving away." Ashlyn soon suggested that Gina stayed at her house for the rest of the school year, to which Gina obliged. She and Ricky still talked, but they weren't as close as before because he and Nini got back together.

During Season 3, while Gina is in a relationship with E.J. Caswell, they grow close again, with Ricky soon after rekindling his buried feelings for Gina during the season. In Let It Go, Gina confesses her feelings to Ricky again at the Frozen The Musical The Documentary red carpet and they share a kiss.

Fanon
The fandom of this ship consists of people who have supported Rina from the very beginning and people who just started liking them.

On the other hand, there is also viewers that didn't see it coming at all and were hoping for Ricky and Nini to get back together.

It is often discussed the fact that these two had a slow-burn relationship of three seasons. The fans are hoping to see more of them on Season 4.

Wiki
Ricky and Gina on HSMTMTS Wiki

YouTube

 * https://youtu.be/sgZtew4jQMc