Study Buddies

The Study Buddies are a group of Class T1-T5 students in Titan Academy. They are a group of students who came together due to their love of studying and wanting to prepare for upcoming exams/ working together.
== History ==
=== Pre-Study Buddies series ===
Before coming together, the Study Buddies were all individually different groups of students in Class T1-T5 (Kevin and Ren Yi Xiang, JianHao + Vincent and Denise, Debbie and Julynn respectively). Back in earlier seasons these characters all had different arcs.
But due to having a need to study and prepare for the Organisation’s difficult exams, those T1-T5 students came together in order to survive the exams. Since most T1-T5 students relied on Denise (the smartest student in their class) for good grades beforehand, Denise quickly became the leader of their group when it was formed, showing her friends how to study and teaching them new things. JianHao also became a ‘co-leader’ of the group due to his charisma and ‘leadership’ skills.
The Study Buddies are first seen in the Season 5 episode School Life: Then vs Now, when they were shown studying together and then were confronted by a group of bullies demanding for their lunch money. Kevin stands up to them by demanding their money back, saying that the Study Buddies are more ‘dominant’ of the Academy’s territory as they’ve been her longer. As the bullies leave, Kevin appreciates the perks of being a ‘nerd’. But Ren Yi Xiang explains that they're not even nerds but study buddies. 
They are next seen in the Season 6 episode called Before Vs After Exams, where they are generally shown hanging out together and shown studying/discussing for the exams. And they are seen again in the recess episode, listening to Ren Yi Xiang’s draft of the upcoming Titan Academy anthem and playing his ukulele. Julynn and Kevin also begin to find love with each other. The group of bullies show up again and tries to smash his ukulele, but are stopped by Debbie’s crush Ben, who forces them to apologise to the Study Buddies. 
=== Study Buddies series- Season 1 ===
==== The School Assembly Arc (episodes 1 and 2) ====
In their titular series, they are first seen attending the school assembly, just like the rest of the academy students. Ren Yi Xiang then performs his song (the school anthem he wrote the previous episode) in front of everyone, only to be interrupted by the Organisation. 
The Organisation reveals to everyone that they have discovered who the mastermind of the heist is: JianHao Tan (due to Sunny’s confessions in the previous episode). They then force JianHao to point out to everyone else involved in the heist, and when he refuses, they start to shave his hair off and expel him as punishment. This gets stopped by Denise, who stands up for and prevents JianHao’s expulsion by lying to them that she was in the heist as well. When Mr. Alan is about to punish Denise, Mrs. Regna stops him, reminding him on how they can’t afford to expel her as ‘Titan Academy’s reputation lies in her hands’. Mr. Alan is forced to let JianHao go, but introduces to all the students a new Head of Department: Mr. James, who introduces much harsher new measures for the students. 
After the assembly, Denise gets angry at JianHao for not trusting her enough to tell her about his involvement in the heist. And paired with her mother’s pressure for her to stay away from JianHao and focus on her studies, she breaks up with him, leaving JianHao upset. Meanwhile, Mr. Alan develops a grudge against Denise due to her ‘embarrassing’ him in front of the whole school and orders his spy Teverly to do anything to get Denise expelled, despite Teverly’s objections. 
==== The SAT exams Arc (episodes 3-6) ====
Due to the upcoming SATs, the Study Buddies are again back to studying in order to prepare for the exams (with the exception of Vincent, who is with Madeline). Denise arrives to the group late and then tells the others about her and Hao’s breakup, upsetting them (since they all ship Denise and JianHao together). JianHao then arrives at their table, still upset about him and Denise’s situation and still wanting to be with her. The others question on who invited JianHao here, to which Ren Yi Xiang tells them that he did. Julynn rebukes this by saying, ‘exes can’t hang out. It’s not normal!’, to which the former says, ‘They can’t?’. JianHao gets even more upset and tries to leave, saying that only reason why he came here was because of Denise, who then instinctively grabs his arm to stop him and says that he still needs to study. Debbie also tells him that how she drew him on their group picture, saying ‘It’s permanent’.
Meanwhile on Vincent and Maddy’s table, Juhi gives out the news of JianHao and Denise’s breakup. Vincent, seeing this as an opportunity to try and win Denise’s love for himself, tries to leave his table and head over to theirs. Maddy tries to stop him by threatening to break up with him if he tries to, to which Vincent says that he’s breaking up with her first and then leaves her. Maddy, feeling heartbroken, then leaves the canteen altogether.
While the Study Buddies (now including Vincent) continue studying, Mr. James suddenly appear. The HoD tells them about how he’ll be sending them to school competitions (such as the science fair and decathlon), planning to postpone the SATs for them. He also introduces a new member for their group: N4-T1 student Teverly. When Ren Yi Xiang protests on how Mr. James can’t force them to do such things, the latter changes his mind and decides not to postpone the SATs; the competitions will happen later.
In the next episode, the Study Buddies are shown heading to the SAT’s examination halls. They run into Teverly (who isn’t with their group yet), who ‘annoys’ them on how it would be ‘embarassing’ to take the SATs more than once, specifying it to Denise. JianHao tells the rest to ignore him and they all walk away. 
In the SATs itself, the group tries to cheat by getting a ‘window cleaner’ (JianHao’s butler, Walater) to show them the answers on a piece of paper outside the windows. Teverly tries to sabotage Denise by making her doubt herself and destroying her calculator, only to be saved by JianHao when he secretly gives his calculator to her when she’s seen struggling without one. When Julynn gets suspicious of Teverly trying to ‘sabotage’ them, Debbie just says not to overthink about it. 
When the group gets their results, Teverly brags about how he scored highly while mocking JianHao for his low score. Denise objects to this, saying that she doesn’t expect them all to be perfect, but rather, ‘trying their best’. Mr. James shows up again to remind them about the science fair, and how he can’t accept failure from them. Julynn also advises JianHao to try and win back Denise by showing how much he still cares about her. And Denise is still shown to be pressured by her mother to stay away from JianHao. 
==== The Science project Arc (episodes 7 and 8) ====
The Study Buddies all come to meet at Debbie’s house to discuss on what they should do for their project. Teverly arrives late, and reminds them on how he’s part of their team now. JianHao still finds him ‘condescending’ and annoying, commenting on how Teverly’s a ‘big pigeon’. Before the group starts discussing. Debbie’s mom arrives and introduces ‘merchandise’ for their group, such as T-shirts and bags. 
There are many ideas from the team, but two only two main ideas come out on top: Denise’s ecosystem terrarium and JianHao’s AI robot: the T1-T5000. The two conflicting ideas cause a rift between the Study Buddies, and with Teverly’s suggestion, the group splits up in two: Team Ecosytem (Denise, Vincent, Teverly and Julynn) and Team AI (JianHao, Ren Yi Xiang, Debbie and Kevin). 
In the next episode (and season finale), the two teams are seen preparing their projects and standing face-to-face against each other. JianHao decides to cancel the T1-T5000 being presented to the judges, saying that they won’t be impressed by a safety robot and shows the T1-T9000 instead, a destruction robot and ‘protector of humanity’ (though it accidentally attacks the judge with a missle). Meanwhile for Denise’s team, Teverly stops to say how grateful he is of them for letting him be a part of their team (showing that he now genuinely is friends with them). Denise later reveals her terrarium, showing it to be a ‘microverse’ inhabited by ‘gorbazoids’ (tiny humans). Mr. Alan walks over to check on them, and the glances at Teverly when he leaves, indicating for Teverly do sabotage his group. 
After the rest of Denise’s team leaves, Teverly takes the opportunity to sabotage their project by setting it on fire. When Denise and the rest realise what has happened (not knowing that Teverly is responsible), they panic. JianHao seeing this and not caring about his own team winning anymore, reactivates the T1-T500 in order to put out Denise’s fire. After it does so, the judges come over, impressed by the teamwork and selflessness the two groups demonstrated. But the Study Buddies, now reunited, still come in second place, favoured over by another team’s ‘Ice Melts to Make Water’ experiment (which was ironically suggested by Vincent in the previous episode). Despite this, they don’t care and come together in a group hug, even including Teverly despite his earlier ‘annoyance’ towards them. 
After the science fair, they still consider the upcoming decathlon in a few weeks, but Denise tells them to make it wait for another day. Meanwhile, Mr. Alan congratulates Teverly for making them come second place, but Teverly (now being true friends with the Study Buddies), says that he doesn’t want to be a spy anymore for them, even willing to have have his scholarship cancelled. 
=== Study Buddies- Season 2 ===
Director JianHao Tan has confirmed that there will be a Season 2, which will take ‘a few months’ to create. 
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