Holidays Intro

So this was an idea I had and wanted to go ahead and jump on it. This story will be a compilation of stories that revolve around each holiday Ben and Mal share during their first year together. A few notes I want to put out there is that these will be holidays we celebrate in the U.S. I'm American and the bulk of my readers so far have been American also. I was tempted to go with French holidays, considering that is Ben's parents background, but then decided against it because I don't know all the traditions of certain holidays and didn't want to disrespect their traditions. Much easier to write what I know. I am also going to leave this story open to maybe do following years. So maybe do their second and third year celebrating the holidays together. With the movies being so spread out there is a five year span. I like being canon with the movies as much as I can, so in my head it has only been three years. Also with Mal's birthday supposedly being on December 31, 1999 and the fact that she was already 16 when she had her first date with Ben I figured they came to Auradon in 2016. Ben is also 16 but I can't find anything that that gives his birthday so I am just going to make it up. Below is my basic timeline.

Ben's Birthday May 20th, 2000 (This makes him a Taurus which is compatible with Mal's sign, Capricorn)

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June 2016 Ben makes proclamation to bring over the VKs.

August 28, 2016 VKs arrive

August 29, 2016 first day of school

September 15, 2016 Mal spells Ben

September 16, 2016 Ben and Mal's first date (This will also serve as their anniversary date)

September 25, 2016 Family Day

September 30, 2016 Ben's coronation

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I have no real timeline for this movie. I know Mal mentioned it had been six months but I wanted a bigger spread than that so it's more like a year in my head from the beginning of D1 to the beginning of D2. Putting them into their second year at Auradon Prep. I feel like cotillion would fall at the end of September 2017. (Update I made cotillion on their one year anniversary)

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Updated! (I worked the math after I finished the last chapter)

So even though we didn't get this movie until the summer of 2019, with the ages of our characters in the first movie and there actually being a birthday assigned to Mal, I feel like this movie actually takes place at the end of summer 2018. Making both Ben and Mal 18. I originally thought I would go with the 2019 thing but that didn't fit because it would have meant Uma was on the run for 2 years and that it took 2 years for them to bring over new VKs.

I was doing the math in my head and found that the 2017-2018 school year would make more sense as their last year at Auradon Prep. With the VK's no longer in the dorms in D3 but Audrey was still there because of summer school. (I attribute her being in summer school because of her absence in D2 saying she was away with Flora, Fauna and Merryweather.