Troy Sandoval

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* Current

**Troy Sandoval** is a human character from the burrow in *Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts*.

## Appearance

Troy is a male human with medium beige skin, black hair styled in an undercut, brown eyes, and dimples. He wears a grey and turquoise jumpsuit over a long-sleeved black shirt with light grey accents along the sleeves and zipper, and light grey sneakers. He also wears black stud earrings.

In his future look, he wears a white shirt with a red rim around the neck. Over it, he has a blue jean jacket with a small, pink heart patch over his heart. Troy also wears dark brown pants. His hair now resembles a mullet.

## Personality

Troy likes hip-hop music from the old world, especially Oz the Originator. He is heroic, as seen when he escorted Lio Oak to safety, and tries to protect Asher and Dahlia in both "Beyond the Valley of the Dogs" and "Paw of The Jaguar". He also volunteers to join Kipo and her friends to fight Scarlemagne.

## History

Troy grew up in the burrows under Las Vistas and made use of its music library to listen to old world MC's such as Oz the Originator.

### Season 1

When the Mega Monkey attacked the burrow under the orders of Emilia, Troy was almost captured until Lio Oak distracted her. When Mr. Oak's injury caused him to lag behind, Troy repaid the favor and helped him narrowly escape into the safety of the bunker. Troy, along with the rest of the citizens of the burrow, fled to live in Site B.

After getting to Site B, Troy reunites with his friend Kipo, and meets Benson. They both sparkle a relationship through their mutual love for hip-hop music, especially Oz the Originator. Benson promises to show Troy a few albums of his. This meet-cute is short lived, however, when the burrow comes under attack by Scarlemagne. Troy, along with Dahlia and Asher, manage to evade being captured with the help of Benson and Dave.

### Season 2

After Scarlemagne attacked Site B, Troy, Dahlia, and Asher are taken by Benson and Wolf to stay with the Timbercats for safety. Benson comes up with a plan to get the Timbercats to agree to protect them. He said they will only agree if they respect you, and they'll "respect anyone who can wrangle Pierre." The group leashes Pierre to bring him to the Timbercats.

At one point, Benson falls on top of Troy and they share a cute, tense moment before getting up. On their way to the Timbercats, Troy and Benson bond over their mutual love of flapjacks and their taste of music. Before parting ways, Troy gives Benson a kiss on the cheek.

Troy stays with the Timbercats until Scarlemagne's coronation, where he is seated with them. Once the fight with Scarlemagne begins, and as the liquid gold that Scarlemagne poured into the stadium started rising, Troy ran to save himself and those around him. He reached his hand out to help humans get up the stairs to escape. The hand he grabbed happened to be Benson and they had a brief conversation catching up before running to their escape.

Troy is able to reunite with his father, Roberto, and they break the news to Kipo that the rest of the humans are now with Dr. Emilia, who is trying to get them to rise up against all of the mutants.

Season 3

In the 8th episode, Benson had asked troy to be his date to the prahm posal. Troy said he was gonna ask benson the same thing. Benson happily says yes and him and troy both share a kiss. During emilla's mutant attack, troy insists to bring everyone to the bunker for safety. Before leaving, Benson gives him a kiss on the cheek. Cut to 5 years later after emilia's defeat and hugo's death, Troy and Benson had grown up together and opened up a restaurant together. Before Benson goes to meet up with Wolf, Dave and Kipo, he kisses Troy and leaves with a basket of food Troy packed for them.

## Episode appearances

### Season 2

* 01. "Paw of the Jaguar"
* 10. "Heroes on Fire"

### Season 3

* 01. "Everything Is Crabs"
* 02. "Code Word Milkshake"
* 05. "Song ReMix"
* 06. "It's a Trap"
* 08. "Hidden Treasures"
* 09. "Prahmises"
* 10. "Age of the Wonderbeasts"

## Trivia

* Up until Season 2, Troy's name had not been explicitly stated in the show. However, Giullian Yao Gioiello was credited to voice a character named Troy and the boy Benson met was the only character appearing solely in "Beyond the Valley of the Dogs" that was not named.
* Benson and Troy's ship name is Boy or Troyson  https://twitter.com/RadSechrist/status/1271945371715989505
* Troy is mixed Asian/Latino.
* He is one of the LGBTQ characters of the show.
* Troy was confirmed to be pansexual by showrunner Rad Sechrist on Twitter when he liked a tweet saying "hey rad, like this if troy is pansexual!".
* Troy's last name is Sandoval.
* His appearance strikingly resembles his voice actor Giullian Yao Gioiello.

## References

1. ↑ Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Full Cast & Crew page on IMDB.
2. ↑ Rad Sechrist, "His dad grew up in a burrow down in Mexico. He’s half Filipino half Latinx.," Twitter, Oct. 21, 2020
3. ↑ Taylor Orci, "Sandoval," Twitter, Oct. 21, 2020