Ben is addicted to coffee. Or rather, he relies on it too much. It worries the others. He tends to get very little sleep because of all his duties (I mean, come on, he’s a full-time student and king) so he claims the caffeine is essential to stay awake.
Jay is like a furnace. If anyone ever were to check his temperature, it would probably feel like he has a fever even when he’s perfectly healthy. Maybe because of this, and because he got used to it on the Isle, Jay doesn’t mind the cold.
Evie turned out to really like reading.
The VKs were encouraged to write letters to their parents at least once a month. The letters are brief, and come understandably less frequently than once a month, but they are sent.
Jay’s rough-housing can unintentionally get a little out of hand sometimes.
Evie’s not great with the sight of blood. She can handle it, but it makes her feel a little light-headed.
Ben purposefully leaves pressed flowers (usually purple ones) between the pages of the books he loans Mal.
Carlos’ favorite candy is chocolate peanut butter cups— the same ones he’d had in the limo that day they were first brought to Auradon.
Jay is really flirty and bold with random girls, but when he meets someone he really likes, he’ll be wrapped around their finger.
Mal has 6 cans of spray-paint hidden under her bed. She doesn’t know for certain that having them is against the rules, but better safe then sorry.
When she feels the need, Mal’s words can still have a lot of bite to them, and during the times when she uses that tone, a good portion of the Auradon kids still run for cover.
Carlos, Evie, Jay, and Mal got in trouble for having a food fight in the kitchen. Oops.
Evie makes smoothies often.
At one point, when Ben was describing a newly suggested political plan as something along the lines of “making absolutely no sense” to the others, Jay suddenly smirked and leaned in slyly, saying, “You might even say its… ridiculous.” Which sent Carlos and Evie into a fit of giggles, made Ben’s face turn redder than Carlos’ jacket, and earned him a not-at-all-gentle punch in the shoulder from Mal, who was also looking a little pink in the cheeks.
Mal gets a charm bracelet at the end of the school year as a gift. Every charm on it has a meaning. So far there’s one for each of her friends, a dragon, and a strawberry too, of course.
Occasionally, Jay snores. When he does, it is very, very loud. It actually made Dude flee the room once.
The robotics club is desperate to get Carlos to join.
Evie has a jar on her desk labeled “fashion fund.” It fils up every time a new hairstyle becomes popular.
It is practically illegal to kill a mouse in Auradon. Non-fatal traps are the most severe things used on these potential animal companions.
Ben hates broccoli. He’ll eat it if he must, but will pick it out if he has the chance.
You know how Mal had “Long Live Evil” painted all over the place, including on her belongings? Yeah. Scrubbing that logo off everything was awkward.
Evie takes a lot of pictures of herself, and her friends, and eventually everything else.
Seeing Mal and her friends defy their parents and fight to defend Auradon from them had a profound effect on the citizens of Auradon who had doubted them. Their way of thinking and ideas about good and evil was greatly changed.
Even Chad was changed. He realized that he couldn’t make assumptions about people based on where they’re from. He came to understand that he has to earn respect for himself. His actions reflect who he is, so he can’t just keep thinking of himself as “good” just because of his parents. He starts taking responsibility for his actions and considering them more carefully. Changing his character is a slow struggle though.
He also awkwardly apologies to Evie. She and Jay, who was standing next to her at the time, looked so ready to go into defense-mode that they almost scared the prince away before he could. But the apology was graciously, if with some surprise, accepted.
Carlos and Jay went through a phase where they would try everything dipped in chocolate.
Chocolate-covered strawberries? Well, duh. Chocolate coated popcorn? Check. Cheetos dipped in chocolate? Yup, they tried that too.
One time Evie and Mal came into the kitchen late at night to find that it looked as though a chocolate hurricane had passed through it. And in the middle of it all, sitting on the floor and edge of a table were the two boys, both in about the same state as the room. Whatever explanation they had tried to make was lost in the mouthfuls of food still stuffed in their mouths. Evie stared, Mal rolled her eyes, and they slowly closed the door without a world.
For a long time, even though she’d been shown no animosity for her actions at the coronation, and even though she’d formally apologized, Jane didn’t feel like she had the right to be friends with everyone again. Any kindness she was shown she assumed was just politeness or kindness she didn’t deserve. It took grabbing her hand and physically dragging her to their lunch table from where she had been sitting alone for Jane to realize that it really was okay.
Chad eventually stops being able to get away with making other people do his school work. At first his grades drop, but then he realizes that he has to actually put effort in, starts getting tutored and doing his homework, and becomes a little more “there, there,” you know what I mean?
One time Carlos mildly electrocuted himself while trying to fix the wiring of a device he’d found in the trash on the Isle.
Doug promises himself that he will never make the mistake of not standing up for the people he cares about again after the Family Day thing.
When he first arrived in Auradon, and had the chance to sleep in the big, luxurious, spacious dorm room, Jay had some trouble sleeping. On the Isle, he had always slept “on a worn carpet beneath a shelf straining under ancient television sets with manual dials, radios that never worked, and telephones that had actual cords attached to them” in his father’s shop. It was a very small, closed space. So when he came to Auradon, he felt a little uneasy sleeping in the more open space of he and Carlos’ dorm. It felt vulnerable. Not that he was complaining about the soft bed, at least.
Lonnie is one of the fastest runners at Auradon Prep, and very few people can match her stamina long-distance.
This includes the tourney team.
Evie has a collection of crowns at home. Most of them are things she’s made (with great skill) from random odds and ends of junk assembled to look like a crown. But she has a few that are actual crowns that Auradonian princesses have thrown out because of slight cracks or flaws that were easy for Evie to repair. She had a whole shelf displaying all her crowns and tiaras back in her room on the Isle. Now in Auradon, she has two.
Tea parties are a big thing in Auradon. Mal has some trouble adjusting to that (they never will be her favorite thing.) But Evie loves them.
One time Mal has to attend a formal tea with Ben. She goes, but was dreading it a little. That is until she takes a sip of her tea, and finds that it tastes and smells like strawberries. A glance at Ben, who is discreetly angling his face away from view and smiling slightly, reveals the caring culprit.
Sometimes Evie sings while she’s getting ready in the morning.
Ben has a dry sense of humor. He’ll make a joke, wait a second for people to realize what he said, and then feels very pleased with himself when they laugh.
Carlos was thrilled when he found out that there is even such a thing as white chocolate too.
You’ve probably noticed this, but color schemes are a big deal in both Auradon and the Isle of the Lost. You pick one and stick with it.
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