"Yeesh, I didn't expect for us to get this many applications this fast. I mean, of course the people are eager to see this handsome face again but..." Chris ended his observation with a low whistle. As he peered through the intern-vetted applications, he had to say, he was impressed. For a new format of the show, people sure seemed to be interested. Hook, line, and sinker, the host thought.

Chris' longtime associate Chef Hatchet echoed his sentiment. "Yeah, this should be a good season. Some of these kids are gonna be fun to mess with."

Chris laughed at this. "I know, right? I think," he shuffled through his stack of applications before reaching the one he was looking for. "This one will probably cry on Day 1." He snickered before peering at the one Chef had in his large, calloused hands. "Whew boy, that one may even pee their pants!"

Chef smirked. "Wouldn't even take much to spook 'em." Chris pondered through the files again before frowning, which Chef noticed. "What?"

Chris sighed. "Well, it's just I don't know if we'll have as much drama. I can't see any of these losers clashing with each other."

"Nah, look at these two," he began, shoving two other applications into Chris' face. "That's conflict right there. On sight."

"Hm, you have a point. And that last one I was looking at and the one at the top of the pile, and maybe even that other kid? Yeah, those three would be fun to watch." The cogs in Chris' head were turning now. He could just see it. The deceit, the hormones, the ratings.

"Oh..." went Chef, snapping Chris out of his reverie. "This one right here? Trouble." He handed the host the final application, and before Chris was even halfway finished reading it he began to cackle.

"Oh man, you were right Chef. This is gonna be a good season. I can't wait to watch these audition tapes."

Chef used a cord to connect Chris' laptop screen to the hotel flat screen TV. "I'm ready to watch 'em when you are."

Chris nearly got comfortable before jumping up. "Wait! Let me make some popcorn first!"

Thank you to everyone that has submitted so far! I'm surprised that I got so many so quickly. There are currently 16 applications in out of 24. Of those 16, I can confidently say 10 of those have been accepted. I'm still deliberating on the other 6. Part of this is because I stupidly forgot that you can't copy and paste from the story on here and didn't put the application on my page until I had already gotten like 5 submissions. If you sent an application that had different questions from another SYOC story, could you kindly use the one that's on my profile now? Some of the OCs had a lot of promise but a lot of the questions that are on the app for TDTTS were missing so I couldn't make a fair decision. Also! I highly encourage people to apply with male characters! Of course female characters are still welcome but I only have 4/12 males so far accepted. I'm probably gonna wrap up the application period up sooner than I said because my creative juices are really flowing with this story and I don't want them to be gone by the time I get started, so let's give it a couple more days? If that's not enough time please let me know! I'll be sending out messages to those accepted after posting this and to everyone else, either resubmit with the application on my profile, your OC didn't really fit the concept, or there was already a character submitted with too similar of a personality. But everyone who submitted did an amazing job and I encourage you to submit your OCs to as many of these as possible!

I'm looking for variety so feel free to consult the list below to see what stereotypes have already been taken!

Accepted (so far):

GUYS

1. Zavier Townsend (The Soundcloud Rapper)- purplepancakes

2. Aaron Tomas Alvarez (The Troy Bolton)- blankspace76xx

3. Andrew James Hanson (The Lounge Singer)- Skyn1nja123

4. Jalen Blakenship (The Not-So Smooth Talker)- XxxInquistorXxx

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GIRLS

1. Eleanor Evangeline Graham (The Mouse)- blankspace76xx

2. Janice Alexandra Marlick (The Classy Dancer)- Candela Monsoon

3. Genevieve Duprée (The Imposing Psychologist)- GingerFrancophone

4. Millie Noel Roberts-Chang (The Broadway Expert)- purplepancakes

5. Ariana Contessa Maverelli (The Youtube Ice Queen)- maria

6. Luna Burmont (The Un-Snobby Rich British Girl)- JG243

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