A/N: Hey pals! I wanna start by saying thanks to everyone for getting your apps in so quickly as well as telling me about your excitement for this story - it really puts my mind in a good place! (Also special shoutout goes to the homie FizzyStarburst for going out of her way to send me an OC that she dubbed 'a filler'. Honestly what a great pal - she's also writing a Total Drama SYOC so check it out! #spon) I just wanted to make note that although I've pretty well uploaded the first two chapters back-to-back it's more of a way to get the characters out there and for you to get to know them because at the bottom of this chapter you'll see a second A/N where I ask you to send me something to introduce the 'interactive' side of this! (More details below). But from here on out the chapters will be posted a bit more sporadically and will have a bit more structure to them. Like I said last time, I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts on the fic so far via revieeeeews. I will restate though, that if you have any concerns about how I may be portraying your character to come to me via PMs just so it's easier for me to understand what you'd like me to do and we can discuss and that sort of thing! (I also already have a few things planned for a few of the submitted OCs so if you feel like something about your OC is off that may be why!) Anyways, please enjoy this chapter and I'll see y'all at the closing A/N!
"Welcome back to Total! Drama! Island! The Remake! My name is Chris McLean. We've already met our first six newbies and out first six returning campers, but now it's time we meet the other half!" He announced, his voice forcefully ecstatic and charismatic as he spoke with a charming smile to the camera.
The first 12 campers had arrived and although people like Michael, Griff, Izzy and Katie all seemed excited to see who'd be showing up, others like Duncan, Auden, Heather and Frankie all seemed uninterested. Duncan's stance changed on this though, when he looked up to see who had just stepped onto the dock.
"'Sup party people?!" Geoff exclaimed, clearly wildly excited to be back. "Man, this place hasn't changed a bit!"
"That's exactly what we were going for." Chris smiled, winking. "Just as awful as ever."
"Geoff, man! You haven't changed a bit." Duncan laughed. "Nice hat dude." He pointed out nodding towards the cowboy hat atop the blonde's head.
"Ha! Yeah, dude. Gotta keep up the ole' aesthetic as they say." Geoff laughed in turn.
"Literally nobody says that." Heather interjected, rolling her eyes.
Ignoring this though, Geoff moved on, his eyes fixated on looking at all the other campers who'd arrived and he'd found that his face flushing bright pink when he saw that Bridgette was staring at him, her jaw dropped ever so slightly.
"Oh, uh, hey...Bridge." Geoff acknowledged her awkwardly, a hand going to scratch the back of his neck uncomfortably.
"Oh, uh...hi?" Bridgette responded somehow more awkwardly than he had spoken to her.
Michael, who was evidently clueless to their entire history awkwardly leaned over to whisper to anyone who would listen, "Is...is there something weird with them?"
All this earned him was an eye roll from the few people around him, and a stifled laugh and headshake from Daniel who was looking over at him, confused.
"Well, that's enough awkwardness. For now. We'll come back to it eventually though." Chris chuckled. "But for now, everybody welcome the next camper! I'd say it's nice to see you Steve...but right now I'm smelling you way more than I'm seeing you." Chris cringed as the male walked past him.
Steve was a taller guy, and a little on the chubby size. He also appeared to not have bathed in sometime as he was literally covered in mud. He did have brown hair and brown eyes - or at least that's what the cast and crew assumed, given that they couldn't get past the smell, and the few that could couldn't really tell past the dirt.
"Suh dude," he nodded at Chris, a lazy smile painted on his face, walking towards the other contestants, who as he approached, all took a few steps away trying to avoid the smell.
"Ewwww," Katie stuck her nose in the air, turning to Madison who was standing next to her. "Please tell me you're smelling this too."
"I wish I wasn't," Madison responded turning away as if it would help the unrelenting scent. (It didn't.)
"Ugh. Okay. Moving on." Chris shook his head, internally raging at the producers for letting this guy on the show. "But hey, as an apology for...whatever he was. I present to you all - our next returning camper! Looking great as ever, buddy."
Justin, who had just stepped off the boat and onto the dock, flashed a smile making everyone turn their head towards him. With all eyes on him, the tanned, beautiful young man continued flashing his gorgeous smile making all who saw swoon. Nobody could take their eyes off of him, and he simply walked over, taking a place next to the other contestants, most of them who had turned thier head to follow him.
"Ahem!" Chris called out wanting all the attention back on him. "We have someone else arriving and I'm the host here! So all eyes need to be on me!"
Recollecting the contestants attention for just a moment, Chris continued on with introducing the next camper. "Everyone! Please welcome Robin!"
Stepping onto the docks was a curvaceous young woman, wearing jeans and a white t-shirt to show off her body. Her natural blonde hair was cut into a pixie cut and her blue eyes popped against her pale skin.
"Hey guys! Wow, it's so weird to finally be here! Good weird though." She smiled widely.
"Jesus, not another Positive Polly. We already have two of those in male forms." Auden nodded towards Michael and Griff. "Not to mention the two...abnormaly positive ones." She shot looks towards Madison and Daniel.
"Are you always this cynical?" Bridgette questioned genuienly concerned.
"Yeah, that's no way to get through life, bruh." Geoff added in, before turning to offer Bridgette a sheepish smile.
"What can I say? It's a gift." Auden reponded with a shrug.
"So uh, I'm just gonna go stand over there." Robin laughed, electing to ignore...whatever it was that just happened and choosing to not dive into the negativity.
"Well, Auden, if you're looking for less happy people, I've got some good news for you! Everybody please welcome back, Eva!"
The woman who seemed to have only gotten larger in the past few years stomped angrily onto the dock. "That's right, kids. I'm back. Hope you're all packed." She spoke bitterly, the words falling from her mouth like acid.
"God...she's...awful?" Madison whispered to Katie, a smile on her face as if to hide the fact that she was talking too negatively.
Following her lead, Katie smiled back at her before speaking in turn, "Oh yeah, she's terrifying. She can pretty much break like, literally any human limb. With one hand. In 20 seconds. Or less."
Nodding as Katie spoke, Madison took this all into consideration before her thoughts were interrupted by Eva who'd seen them speaking. "And what are you two tiny butterflies whispering about?" She questioned unhappily.
"Just about how strong you look! Wow, what great muscle mass you must have." Madison smiled nodding her head as she looked the muscular woman up and down.
"True. But flattery will get you nowhere. And quickly." Eva spoke, her words sharp and menacing.
Trying to take the attention away from the situation happening on the other side of the dock (and as a way to stop Eva from hurting a contestant - something he could potentially have to speak for in a court of law) Chris drew attention to the next person to arrive. "Hark! I doth believe I do see our next camper! Piper! Welcome!"
Stepping off the boat was a gorgeous woman - tall, thin, very pale with light blue eyes that popped beautifully against her raven coloured hair. As she walked past Chris she simply ignored him, narrowing her eyes to look at both the campsite and the other campers.
"Ugh," she began with a disgusted look on her face. "I thought it would be bad, but this has completely blown away all my expectations of just how gross this place would really be. I don't know how I ended up in a place like this, I -" she tried to continue but was cut off by Chris.
"I know how you ended up here," he began with a sly smile. "You signed the waivers. Just like eveeeeryone else."
"Please, never compare me to this second hand freakshow ever again." Piper rolled her eyes before moving towards them, as she caught Steve gazing over at her. "Take a picture, tubby. It will last longer."
"Someone's fiesty," Daniel chuckled, trying to make light of the situation.
"Yeah, I am. So please, do yourself a favor and don't test me." She replied back quickly.
"Alright, public school, calm down." Auden muttered, only being heard by the few people around her.
"What school?" Michael questioned, trying to get in on the joke but was advised by Daniel to just let it go.
"Well uh, thanks for that...interesting introduction, Piper. Next up, the gentle giant is back! Everyone say hi to DJ!"
Walking onto the dock, DJ paused to breathe in the 'fresh' Wawanakwa air. "Wow. It even smells the same!" He laughed.
"Dude! No way!" Geoff called out making himself recognized by his old friend.
"Geoff! Man, it has been years since I've seen you. What you been up to?" DJ Grinned widley, as he made his way over to hug the blonde male.
"Ugh, if I knew this was gonna be so...sweet I would have brought a barf bag." Eva sneered as she watched the events unfold.
"I dunno, I think it's kinda nice! Gives me hope that maybe we'll all find our own Geoff or DJ someday," Robin responded, laughing lightly.
"I don't think I remember asking for your opinion." Eva responded, her short temper showing.
"Right then. I'll just shut up now." Robin laughed once more, this time more awkwardly.
"Moving on!" Chris announced sticking a finger in the air. "Let us welcome the next contestant - our last male newbie, I'd like to add. Here he comes!"
Stepping onto the dock and towards Chris and the other campers was a relativley tall male, with light skin and contrasting dark, curly hair and blue eyes. He wore long black pants with a single chain on them, and a white t-shirt with a music note printed on. He smiled comfortably as he arrived.
"Welcome, welcome, Lucas! Glad to see you could make it!" Chris introduced the previously unknown male.
"Thanks, man! It's uh, it's good to be here." He smirked taking a long look at the other campers before continuing his walk towards them, opting for a place in the back.
"Alright, tall, dark and brooding. Watch where you're stepping," Heather rolled her eyes as he passed her.
Lucas had opened his mouth to respond but was interrupted by Chris who had began to introduce the next contestant.
"Ladies and gentleman, I present to yo-" but just as he had interrupted Lucas, Chris was interrupted by the last male camper to arrive.
"The kid is back!" Cody stuck his hands up in the air as though he was waiting for some sort of response. Unfortunately, all he had gotten was a pity clap from DJ. Paying no mind though, he simply walked towards the quickly growing group of campers. "And I see lots of gorgeous ladies have already arri-"
Keeping up with the tradition of interrupting, Piper put up a hand as if motioning for him to stop everything. "Don't even try it, kid."
Shying back, Cody decided on just taking a spot among the other campers and keeping his mouth closed for the time being.
"Looks like we've got ourselves another camper!" Chris exclaimed loudly, once again bringing the attention back to him. "Everybody say hi to Shelby!"
The petite woman smiled somewhat awkwardly as she looked at all the people on the docks. "I see most of the group has already arrived? Interesting." She spoke simply, not paying much mind to Chris at all, opting to ignore him. Shelby was very petite and had her dark brown hair styled in a pixie cut bob, framing her narrow hazel eyes, light freckles, and thin lips perfectly.
"Looks like someone's observant," Duncan responded to her, figuring what she had said was an obvious statement, earning a light, stifled laugh from Auden who for the most part had been standing beside him, but quickly found herself standing in front of him as he muttered the words, "Oh crap" prior to grabbing her shoulders, and hiding behind Auden like a shield.
"Dude! What the fu-" she began but was quickly distracted as she noticed who had just appeared on the dock before them.
"Hello fellow campers! It's a pleasure to be back!" Courtney announced loudly, a wide smile plastered across her face.
"Welcome back, Courtney! I'm a little surprised to see you here." Chris admitted honestly.
"What can I say? I live for competition. And I plan to win this time, since I don't see Harold anywhere around to screw up my life." She ended her sentence a bit dramatically before rolling her eyes. "Though I do see Duncan hiding behind that girl like the coward he is." She sneered.
Duncan, who realized he'd been called out, cursed under his breath before turning to Auden. "Thanks for nothing." He groaned.
"Hey! Leave me out of this. I'm not the one who just got wrecked by a girl in business casual attire, alright?" She retorted, moving now so that she was once again beside him instead of in front of him.
"Jeez, does everyone here know everyone?" Michael questioned, looking around, and was clearly very confused.
Laughing, Griff simply spoke, "You do know that half of these people were on this exact same show, like ten years ago, right?" He questioned, a realtive happy, but confused expression on his face.
"What? No? Did you know that?" Michael's eyes went wide.
"Uh, yeah," Griff continued to laugh. "I was pretty sure everyone knew that. Oh well. Gives you a chance to go into it blind." He shrugged.
"Enough of this chit chat!" Chris called out, "we only have one more contestant left? Or should I say...two?!"
"What do you mean two?" Heather narrowed her eyes, but quickly found her answer as two women, looking realitvely similar stepped off the boat, elbows linked.
"Everyone please welcome - Tia and Mia!" Chris announced.
"Woah! It's just like Katie and Sadie!" Izzy observed. "Except they actually look the same and they're not totally in the same clothes. Which one do you think is the ugly one that's gonna get removed from the other?!"
"You...you can't just ask stuff like that." DJ commented, furrowing his eyebrows together.
Ignoring these comments, the two gorgeous, toned, olive skinned twins made their way onto the dock. Mia was slightly taller than the other, but by nothing more than a couple of inches, but they shared the same shimmery dark brown hair, and big, brown, beautiful eyes.
"Welcome ladies!" Chris exclaimed, looking them both up and down.
"Yeah, hi." Tia responded, ignoring him, instead looking at all the other contestants.
"I hate to interrupt, but I don't see how this is going to work." Courtney spoke up, causing Heather to roll her eyes dramatically. "I've already counted and we seem to have 23 people here already, so adding two more creates 25 which is an uneven number."
Nodding as she listened, Madison too spoke up, "Yeah, isn't that going to be an unfair advantage? Not that I'm judging your decision or anything." She smiled charmingly.
"Well, thanks for not judging my decision, because here's where things get interesting! Tia and Mia!" Chris turned to face them, as they too turned on their heels looking up at the host. "You came together on this show, and on this show, you will compete together. You will act as one, count it - one contestant. You will get one vote between the two of you, when one of you loses a challenge, you both lose, and you will need to work as one person on all challenges, as well as enduring preeetttyyy much the whole competition as one person. Capeesh?"
"Oh! That sounds...pretty doable." Mia nodded agreeing to what Chris had explained.
"What?! No! That's not what I signed up for!" Tia argued.
"Actually, it is. Always read the fine print, Tia. Always read the fine print." Chris nodded knowingly. "Besides! You're causing drama with your sister already which is great for views!" he chuckled before the two twins walked over with the rest of the contestants (Tia, slumping), as Chris turned to speak to them all.
"Look around, kids! These are your cabin buds, teammates, enemies, and friends for the whole duration of this competition. Choose your alliances wisely. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Because this is reality TV, dudes. And there is 100,000 big ones on the line. Now head on over to the firepit, which, if you are unfamiliar with, ask someone who knows where they're going, and we'll start seperating you campers into teams!"
With the campers looking at each other, and soon trailing off, Chris turned back to the cameras. "And you, my dear viewers, stick around! Because there is still so much to come on this episode of Total! Drama! Island! The Revamp!"
A/N: So! Now that all of the contestants are here, your first task of writers, to make this story more interactive (because this isn't my story - your OCs!) is to look at the contestants and send me a PM explaining your OCs first thoughts on them. (PLEASE THROUGH PM. FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR OWN THOUGHTS ON THE CHARACTERS VIA REVIEWS BUT YOUR OCS SHOULD BE THROUGH PM) You don't have to go through absolutely all of them, but even a few words to describe most of them would be great! I know this may seem tedious, but I truly am someone who believes in developing characters and you know your OCs better than I do! Simply go through and tell me what they think of certain characters! Please remember though, that it is not YOUR opinion as a writer - it's your characters.
I'd also like you to let me know if there are any characters you'd see that your OC dislikes, thinks is nice, wants to be friends with, thinks is cute, etc! You'll have until the next chapter is posted (so realistically 2-5 days) to send me in your characters opinions before I go on and write without including it, and making my own decisions based on what I know about your OCs.
I also ask that although it's fun (and admittedly easier) to simply write about the canon characters, this IS A SYOC FIC, so I'd really love to hear your OCs thoughts on the other OCs!
For any questions please feel free to IM me and I look forward to hearing from you all!