Carlos and Seb

**Seblos** is the friendship/romantic pairing between **Seb** Matthew-Smith and Car**los** Rodriguez. They begin a relationship after Carlos asks Seb to be his homecoming date.

## History

Seb liked Carlos ever since he was 12. Seb and Carlos care deeply about each other and love each other. They will do anything to help each other out

## Moments

### Season 1

#### The Auditions

* During the audition line-up, Miss Jenn initially asks Seb to play Ryan, but Carlos tells her he thinks Seb would rather play Sharpay. Seb grins proudly in response.

#### The Read-Through

* During the Read-Through Seb's assigned seat is next to Carlos and they hold hands when the whole Drama Club is holding hands while forming a circle.

#### Homecoming

* At the beginning of the episode, the pair is seen dancing together to the instrumental of Bop to the Top. Later on, the pair is seen talking. The conversation ends with Carlos asking Seb to homecoming. Seb stays silent until eventually telling Carlos to send him a pic of what he's wearing.
* Seb ends up showing up three hours late. Seb apologizes for being late and says his family lost one of their cows and he had no cell service at the barn to text. Carlos says he's sorry about his cow and they slow dance together.

#### What Team?

* Seb comforts Carlos in the wake of hearing Miss Jenn might get fired. In a photo from a deleted scene, they appear to have a moment alone where they talk about it together.

#### Thanksgiving

* Carlos calls Seb "honey" during their game of High School Musical: The Choosical.

#### Act Two

* Carlos kisses Seb on the cheek when encouraging him to overcome a sudden burst of stage fright. In photos from a deleted scene, they are shown smiling while holding hands. In another unaired moment, Carlos gives Seb a bouquet of rainbow-colored flowers. Later (presumably), the two propose another round of High School Musical: The Choosical at the cast's after party.

### Season 2

#### Most Likely To

* While the Wildcats are benched from rehearsals for a week, they're still working hard on other things. Seb and Carlos are painting a part of the set together, when Seb states his annoyance that they're unable to rehearse on the day they were going to work on Chip[his character]'s big scene. Carlos, instead of giving sympathy, only replies with "does Chip have any big scenes?", unintentionally making it worse from there.

#### Spring Break

* Carlos is currently on spring break with his family at a four-star Resort in *Los Cabos.* He had invited Seb to come along but due to Seb's cow (Milky White) nearing labour, he was unable to; yet he was still, as Carlos put it, "having a cow about me[Carlos] not staying in Salt Lake, so.."
	+ When Miss Jenn asks "where's Seb?" Carlos only shrugs with a small laugh and says "don't ask me."
	+ Seb hops onto the Zoom call shortly after, and happily waves hello to everyone, but when it gets to Carlos his tone flattens and he frowns.
	+ When Big Red asks if the two of them are fighting, Carlos responds with "Well, that would mean we're speaking."

#### The Transformation

* Seb and Carlos are still fighting.
* When the theater kids decide to work on the Beast's transformation scene themselves, they split into two teams; boys and girls. But when Carlos and E.J. show up in Red's basement, Ricky asks Carlos where Seb is, and he dismisses it with a "don't ask." In the next scene, Seb is seen with Nini, Kourtney, Ashlyn and Gina instead, as to avoid Carlos.
* When asked if he can stay all night to work on the transformation "mechanism", Carlos states that he needs to talk to Seb eventually, but agrees to anyway. Ricky asks if he's sure, and he responds, "It's waited all week. Let's spin Ricky around for a few hours."
* In this episode Seb's insecurities are shown, as he states to the girls that there's "not a lot of choices for a guys like Carlos at East," and that he worries the only reason they're dating is because there's not many other gay males in Carlos' life and he's the "only other boy at school who watches Drag Race Canada."
* Nearing the end of the episode, Carlos sings to Seb a song [In a Heartbeat] which Ricky helped him to write, as an apology. The two then make up.

## Songs

In a Heartbeat

Over Again

## Quotes

### Season 1

#### Homecoming

*"Looks like I missed a lot."* — **Seb**
*"Dance started three hours ago."* — **Carlos**
“*We lost one of our cows.*”— **Seb**
*“You could've texted.”*— **Carlos**
*“We have bad reception at the barn.”*— **Seb**
“*I'm really sorry about being so late."* — **Seb**
*"I'm really sorry about your cow."* — **Carlos**
*“Hey. At least our ties match.”*— **Seb**
### **Season 2**

#### The Quinceañero

“*Okay, who stole my boyfriend?*”— **Carlos**
“*Carlos, hi. Um, I think you know that there is nothing greater than the love we share for power ballads originally sung by iconic women. Yes, you're my boyfriend but you're also sort of my hero. Here's something I never told you. That video from when you were 12 has 1000 views. I would say roughly 100 of them were from me. I was 13 years old, and hiding in my room; in every sense of that word. Uh, your post kinda went viral. Semi-viral for Utah. Um, I didn't know who you were, I barely knew who* I *was. I just knew that I felt inspired. So, I just kept on hitting repeat. So, thank you. And, happy birthday.*”— **Seb**

“*Where did you come from and why am I so lucky?*”— **Carlos**
*“Wasatch County! And you just are.”*— **Seb**

## Trivia

* In 2020, Carlos and Seb's relationship normalizing Gay Romance won an award for "Outstanding Kids & Family Programming award" at the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honors media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.
* Frankie A Rodriguez who plays Carlos Rodriguez and Joe Serafini who plays Seb Matthew-Smith fell in love on set and currently are dating in real life.

## References

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