High School Musical/Ships

= Casval = Casval is the het ship between E.J. Caswell and Val from the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series fandom

Canon
E.J. Caswell and Val first met one summer when they were young at Camp Shallow Lake. They grew up together going to summer camp together every summer and they are very close friends. They played Gretl and Kurt together in The Sound of Music when they were young.

Into the Unknown

 * E.J. sees Val and goes up to her to hug her.
 * E.J. tells Val that he is directing the show in the Camp Office.
 * E.J. reveals to Val that her and Gina are the only ones that know he is directing the show.
 * Val asks E.J. what happened to Nini from last summer.
 * Val suggests to E.J. that she should cast the show alone.

The Woman in the Woods

 * Carlos tells E.J. that his good friend Val casted him as Sven and E.J. thinks it's a mistake.

No Drama
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The Real Campers of Shallow Lake
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Color War
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Let It Go

 * Corbin Bleu shows the wildcats the Frozen The Musical The Documentary trailer and there is a clip from Color War of E.J. and Val walking together that makes it look like they are dating. In a interview Ricky says "Yeah, I have a lot of questions about those two."

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Most fans ship Casval as friends but, there are some fans that ship it romantically.

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E.J./Val (HSMTMTS) on A03

= Elos =  Elos is the slash ship between E.J. Caswell and Carlos Rodriguez from the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series fandom. AKA: Casriguez

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Elos is a rarepair ship in the High School Musical fandom. The Seblos and Caswen ships are significantly more popular. However, some fans ship Elos after their moments in Episode 8, where E.J. acts emotional during a rehearsal with Carlos. It rivals the Seblos ship. Some fans found Seblos to have a lack of development in Season 1 and found Elos more interesting. The ship is also occasionally called Casriguez.

As of 2022, they only have over 10+ fics on Archive on Our Own.

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= Portwell =  Portwell is the het ship between Gina Porter and E.J. Caswell from the High School Musical the Musical the Series fandom.

Canon
In The Auditions, E.J. Caswell and Gina Porter first met at the East High School Drama Club during Auditions for High School Musical. During Auditions when everyone was in a line when Miss Jenn was going through the line asking everyone who they are reading for Gina stands next to E.J. on his left side. E.J. originally tried out to played Troy Bolton and Gina originally tried out to played Troy Bolton's love interest Gabriella Montez. E.J. didn't get the part for Troy Bolton instead he got the part for Chad Danforth and Gina didn't get the part for Gabriella Montez instead she got the part for Taylor McKessie. E.J. and Gina both got mad when they got the part for the main characters understudy. In The Read-Through, one day during rehearsals when no one was looking Gina steals E.J.’s girlfriend at the time Nini Salazar-Roberts phone for E.J. and puts it in his backpack. E.J. finds Nini’s phone in his backpack and thanks his cousin Ashlyn Caswell for stealing it for him which confuses Ashlyn Caswell because she never stole it to begin with. Then Gina walks up behind E.J. and talks to him for the very first time offering him an alliance to team up with her because they both “want the same thing.” In Blocking, Gina walks up to E.J. at his locker offering to help him out to get the part of Troy and to win back his ex Nini who just broke up with him that day. They end up becoming friends. Then later that night E.J. shows up at Gina’s house after he got her text asking her about her plan. Gina tells him that he is taking her to the Homecoming date as his date to help him make Nini jealous. In Homecoming, E.J. and Gina went together as each other dates to make E.J.’s ex-girlfriend Nini Salazar-Roberts jealous who ends up not going to Homecoming anyways. Gina gets mad at E.J. and pours Punch over E.J.'s head and leaves. In What Team?, the next day E.J. sees Gina after the Homecoming incident is on the day of the Photo Shoot for the program. E.J. walks up to Gina and asked her what happened to the plan at Homecoming. Gina replies that everything has changed since Homecoming. Then E.J. asks Gina "Do you care about Ricky?" and Gina replies "And what if I do?" In Thanksgiving, Gina got a called from her mother during the Drama Club Thanksgiving party telling her that she got a new job and that they would have to move again before Opening Night. Gina was upset that she had to move again before Opening Night because she didn't want to missed the show. Gina ended up moving away with her mother but, she surprised everyone by coming back to see the show. In Act Two, it was revealed that E.J. was the one that bought her plane ticket because he didn't want her to missed the show. Gina thanks E.J. when Nini and Ricky are performing Breaking Free for buying her a plane ticket.

In Season 2, Gina Porter moves in with E.J.’s cousin Ashlyn Caswell so, she can still stay in Salt Lake City and be with her friends. Gina Porter and E.J. Caswell become closer over time. In The Quinceañero, E.J. realizes he has feelings for Gina when he finds himself staring at her across the room. In Yes, And..., when Miss Jenn asks everyone to partner up for a mirror exercise Ricky Bowen asks Gina Porter to be his partner because his girlfriend at the time Nini Salazar-Roberts wasn't there. Gina Porter ignores Ricky Bowen when he asks her to be his partner until E.J. Caswell asks her "May I have this exercise?" Gina Porter agrees to be his partner. In The Field Trip, they both host the first East High Morning Show as co-anchors with Nini Salazar-Roberts as their first guest star. Later that day the Drama Club go on a little field trip to North High School to get back their Beast mask that North High stole. Gina is on look out duty while the rest of the East High Drama Club looks for their Beast mask that North High stole. When Gina is on look out, she meets a random North High Guy who hits on Gina asking her for Snap Chat. Then E.J. swoops in pretending to be Gina’s boyfriend by putting his arm around her and calls her “Babe” to get the North High Guy to leave her alone. In Most Likely To, during rehearsals one day Gina gives E.J. last minute dancing tips before he performs Gaston during rehearsals. On Career Day at East High School, E.J.'s father Cash Caswell comes in as guest speaker in the classroom E.J. and Gina are in together. Cash tells E.J. to get up in front of the class and gives him the Duke Sweatshirt that his father gave him when he got into Duke. E.J. is very confused why his father is giving him a Duke Sweatshirt because he got rejected from Duke. Cash tells E.J. that he made some calls and now he is accepted to Duke. Later that night E.J. comes over to Ashlyn's house because he wants to talk to his cousin Ashlyn about his college situation. Gina ends up answering the door and explains Ashlyn is not home because she went out to get a T-Shirt. E.J. ends up sitting next to Gina on the Orange couch holding the wool to help her when she is knitting and ends up confiding to Gina about his college situation. Then Gina tells him to close his eyes and asked him what he sees when he thinks about his life. E.J. ended up talking about the horrible mistakes he has made in the past and then Gina told him what she saw, a great guy that bought her a plane ticket so she can be apart of the show, when he made a birthday tribute that made everybody cry, and him constantly trying to do the right thing but ended up failing in a joking manner. E.J. then pushed a little closer to her and tells her she's one of the bravest people he knows. Then Ashlyn walks in and interrupted them when they are looking at each other by asking if E.J. still needed to talk but he looked back at Gina and said that he's okay now. Later that night E.J. and Gina end up watching something on TV until Gina falls asleep next to E.J. on the couch. Then E.J. turns off the TV and covers Gina with his Duke sweatshirt and smiles as he turns off the light when he leaves. In Spring Break, Gina gets stuck at the airport when her flight gets delayed and posts a picture on her story about taking Uber home late at night. E.J. sees Gina's story and picks Gina up at the airport late at night to take her home and brings her a granola bar just in case she was hungry. Then Gina realizes that she has feelings for E.J. Caswell. In The Transformation, E.J. asks Gina out on a date to get some Risotto with him sometime for real this time which she gladly accepts. In Showtime, Gina is talking to E.J. after Be Our Guest when she gets a text that her mom is not coming but she send a surprise instead Jamie Porter Gina’s absent older brother. After Something There E.J. runs into Gina’s older brother Jamie Porter out in the hallway where he officially meets Gina’s brother Jamie Porter. At first E.J. is excited to meet Gina's older brother not just because he is a famous Music Producer it was due to the fact that Jamie is related to Gina instead. Jamie tells E.J. that him and his mom are so happy that Gina has E.J. as a "big brother figure" in her life which makes E.J. upset causing him to second guess everything. In Second Chances, they both plan to go on a date that E.J. ends up calling off due to a misunderstanding from Gina's older brother Jamie Porter who tells E.J. that he is glad that Gina has him as a big brother figure in her life which makes him second guessing everything. E.J. distanced himself from Gina at the afterparty at Salt Lake Slices by sitting across the room from Gina next to Ricky Bowen. Right before E.J. heads out his cousin Ashlyn comforts E.J. and he tells her that he thinks Gina sees him as a big brother figure due to what Gina's older brother Jamie Porter told him. Then Ashlyn goes up to Gina and tells her about her most recent conversation with E.J. before he left the afterparty. Gina looks at Ashlyn very confused why E.J. would think that she sees him as a older brother figure. Gina chases after E.J. as he is heading out to his car and tells him that he got "bad intel" which causes E.J. to turn around. Gina asks E.J. if he would be her first kiss which causes E.J. to drop his backpack and smiles at her. They both run into each other arms and share their first kiss (offscreen).

At some point in between Second Chances and Happy Campers, E.J. and Gina officially started dating. In Happy Campers, E.J. invites Gina and the wildcats to come with him to Camp Shallow Lake a theater camp he has been going to for years. E.J. picks up Gina who gives him a kiss on the cheek. E.J. drives to Camp Shallow Lake with Gina sitting next to him in the shotgun seat.

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Originally Portwell was not a very popular ship when High School Musical: The Musical the Series first came out. Portwell had a very small fanbase of supporters that shipped it in Season 1. It wasn't until when Season 2 when Portwell started to become more popular and more people started shipping it. Portwell's biggest rival ship is Rina. On AO3, Portwell is the second most written ship for Gina and E.J.. It is also the fourth most written ship in the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV) tag.

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= Rini =  Rini is the het ship between Ricky Bowen and Nini Salazar-Roberts from the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series fandom.
 * They faked dated twice in Homecoming and The Field Trip before they official started dating sometime in between the events of Second Chances and Happy Campers.
 * E.J. Caswell was Gina Porter's first kiss and her first boyfriend.
 * They have kissed at least four times so far.
 * They shared their first kiss in Second Chances, when Gina asks E.J. to be her first kiss. They run into each arms and shared their first kiss off-screen.
 * In Happy Campers, when E.J. picks Gina up to take her to Camp Shallow Lake and Gina gives him a kiss on the cheek.
 * In Happy Campers, before E.J. leaves to go do something at Camp Shallow Lake he gives Gina a quick kiss on the lips.
 * In Color War, Gina kisses E.J. in the barn before the Color War.

Canon
In The Tech Rehearsal it was revealed that they met in Kindergarten and Ricky didn't know how to pronounce "Nina" so he just called her "Nini", and it stuck since then. In first grade Nini had decided to call Ricky "Ricky" because "Richard" sounded like an old man's name.

Season 1
They started dating in Sophomore Year and broke up in the Summer of 2019, when Nini confessed her love to him after showing him a song she wrote for him and posted on Instagram for their one year anniversary ("I Think I Kinda, You Know"). Ricky suggests they take a pause due to her leaving for theatre camp and not being able to express his feelings.

On the first day of school, when Nini has returned, she is showing her friend Kourtney designer outfits on her phone. Kourtney stops and asks her about the cute boy on her phone, EJ Caswell. Nini replies that she's seconds away from making that her lock-screen picture, and Kourtney asks if You-Know-Who (Ricky) knows about it. Nini replies that she will tell him, just as Ricky arrives behind her. With Nini telling him they need to talk, as she explains what happened at camp and that she's dating E.J, Ricky insists that it was a break, not a breakup. Nini then announces, "Its a breakup now," walking away from him, relieved that they are on the same page as Ricky says that "Love is dead, and everything is terrible."

Later, Ricky sees E.J casually wrap his arms around Nini, and he storms out of the cafeteria in frustration. He then decides to audition opposite her in the school musical original HSM after finding out both E.J and Nini are auditioning. After doing a ton of studying on Troy Bolton, he races to the auditorium to audition, told he's arrived late, something Troy apparently wouldn't do and that he needs to wait after Nini's turn to audition. As she mentally prepares herself, E.J shouts out " You've got this, babe! ". A startled Ms. Jenn spills her coffee on the lights, causing the lights to go off. As Nini is told to wait, she chooses to sing despite the lights being off. Ricky then takes out his phone and shines the flashlight towards her. Whilst looking at Ricky, a jealous E.J comes up to Nini with his phone light on too. Nini looks at the two boys and closes her eyes, imagining herself singing in the huge auditorium in a red dress.

After the auditions, she runs after Ricky and asks what he's doing here. He replies he's auditioning. Nini replies that he hates musicals and that she's changed, causing Ricky to confess that he always believed in her and them, therefore that's why he was at the auditions because he cares. When about to confess his love, Carlos interrupts them by announcing the cast list has been posted. With Kourtney pulling Nini away from Ricky, Nini then sees that she got the role of Gabriella alongside Ricky who's playing Troy with Nini looking at E.J. who is mad for getting the understudy for Troy and turns to (a shocked that he got the role of Troy ) Ricky.

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On AO3, Rini is one of the most written ship under the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV) tag.

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= Troyella =  Troyella is the het ship between Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez.

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They meet at new year and sing Start of Something New and easily befriend each other

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On AO3, Troyella is the most written ship for both Troy and Gabriella. It is also the second most written ship in the High School Musical (Movies) tag.

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