I doubt this or the next episode will be on anyone's minds thanks to Christmas but oh well, gotta keep up with the schedule.
Anyway, it's the return of the talent contest! I was really caught between this one and the cooking challenge since both had a lot of fun character dynamics mixed in there and I was leaning towards cooking for a while but ended up going with this one since it had more of a personal touch to it. Might seem weird with less people on both teams but I'll do my best to make it work
Fireball88: It's honestly a toss up on whether Ripper goes if they lose again since he did warn Zee about that bird. Might've landed on Priya if Cassie has the instinct to play her statue. Speaking of which, I'm not a huge music listener but if I had to consider Cassie's style, it'd be Ava Max and Alan Walker. Listened to the latter a bunch during school. I'm not exactly huge on Wayne either though his friendship with Raj is one of my favorites. He is pretty funny though. As a stand alone character though, feels everything he does, characters like Zee just do better.
CodeTransformers: The raptors seemed like such a random thing to throw in so my headcannon is just all the weird wildlife is living on boney island now. As for Julia, it was more so just a small nitpick I had that she waited until the next day to confront everyone about the video since her reaction in talking to them seemed like she had just found out where it would've been at least a day. And yeah, Harvey and Cassie interacting was definitely my favorite bit to write but I'm also biased in that sense lol.
blee7442: Cooking challenge came real close. But yeah, you're right, I didn't wanna have two food related challenges in the same season even if they were both in Island. The gross food one is coming soon, that much I can confirm. MK's mostly been focused on her own survival in the game and Cassie has been kind of an afterthought recently as shown with Julia's phone and the book. Bowie's definitely gonna have to pick up the pieces so far if he wants to enter the merge in a good spot.
Also kinda annoying to have bots leave empty reviews of just the episode title but I'm having fun deleting those so whatever. It's a me problem.
Anyhoo, enjoy!
REMAINING PLAYERS.
Frogs of Death.
Bowie
Emma
Harvey
Julia
MK
Raj
Ferocious Trout.
Cassidy
Chase
Ripper
Priya
Zee
EPISODE 8: TALENTLESS SHOW
"Last time on Total Drama Island! Everyone was left to fend for themselves on the dreaded Boney Island! They had to find their way to the meeting point outside the large forest. This allowed some members from opposite teams to mingle while trying to survive the dreaded raptors and other horrors around every corner. But the biggest horror of all was Emma and Chase getting back together and kissed, ew! Julia ended up reaping the raptor that had been chasing her all caught in 4K TV and on MK's stolen phone. Wayne and Raj finally connected as Raj told him about his kiss with Bowie. Unfortunately for the hockey bros, they got caught up thanks to Ripper's dare with a bird and ended up costing the Frogs their winning streak. Raj wanted to show his gratefulness to Wayne and volunteered to be drone bait, but Bowie took the chance to switch the votes on to Wayne to keep another solid ally in the game. Smart guy. And Wayne ended up being victim number 7 of the drone of despair. Who will be victim number 8? I'm just as excited as you are to find out, right here, on Total Drama Island!"
FROGS CABIN: DAY #15.
Mostly all the girls had left early since Chef was making breakfast burritos as a special treat for everyone making it to the halfway point in the game. Julia however remained in her cabin, relaxing on her bed as eager to catch up on her social medias. She saw that a new video was posted to her account and she clicked it.
"MOUTHWASH!" blared from the phone and she instantly shot up in shock.
"How did this... who uploaded this to my account?" Julia wondered, only to get an even bigger shock when she checked her follower count. "I'm down to 3,000 followers? Oh these people are gonna pay." She clutched her phone in rage, almost breaking it in the process.
MESS HALL: DAY #15.
Zee and Ripper were the first to arrive to the Mess Hall and could hear cheering from inside.
"Woah, Chef must be in a good mood." Zee said, listening in to the sounds.
"Since when is Chef ever in a good mood?" Ripper told him before opening the door which turned out to be Chase acting like he had just won the million dollars.
"Woohoo! Yes!" He finished cheering before turning to face the other Trout Trio members.
"What's gotten you all chuffed?" Ripper asked. "You were missing from the cabins the other night."
"Ripper my friend, a gentleman never kisses and tells." Chase responded before bursting in to excitement again. "But that's exactly what happened. Emma and I had a humungous make out sesh last night!"
"So what? You've made out with a girl you've already made out with a hundred times. Big whoop." Ripper rolled his eyes.
"Woah, Chase and Emma used to date?" Zee chimed in.
"What? Yeah! Where've you been all this time." Ripper glared at him while crossing his arms.
"Here, before that, over there, outside, our cabin..." Zee trailed off while Ripper and Chase looked at each other.
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"Chase and Zee are lucky to have me as the brains of the operation." Ripper bragged. "Without me, they'd just be like my dad's car. Broken, beat up and wouldn't go anywhere!"
Ripper then thought to himself for a bit. "But if Chase and Emma are all kissy romantic again, I'll have to ditch him at some point. In my neighborhood, it's always pals before gals."
Both teams were together in the Mess Hall enjoying their burritos, where MK was about to go inside only to find Cassidy just outside the building, seemingly waiting for her. "Hey, can we talk for a sec?" She asked.
"What's up? Don't tell me you're allergic to burritos or something." MK laughed but then got worried when it seemed to be something more serious.
"It's not that, it's just... I don't know how I feel about having this alliance anymore." Cassidy confessed to which MK just got more confused.
"What are you talking about? It's been helping us a bunch in this game! How else would you have known the alliances on your team?" MK interrogated her.
"Are you kidding me? I figured that stuff out way before I listened to those confessionals. It was kinda obvious." Cassidy defended herself. "All I'm saying, is that is there a way for us to play this game without invading people's privacy?"
"Look, if you wanna play all buddy buddy with everyone else and worry about what they really think, then fine. But this is my only shot at getting to that million dollars." MK lashed out, frustrated that her supposed alliance was growing soft.
"Fine, you can keep going. But I want no part of it. I'm calling off the alliance too." Cassie crossed her arms, certain in her decision.
"Whatever, see if I care." MK let her know as she proceeded to turn around and walked away from the Mess Hall while Cassidy went inside and joined everyone else.
CONFESSIONAL: MK
"Ugh! I knew Cassie would grow soft on me eventually. But it's not like I need her anymore." MK shrugged as she held out Julia's phone. "This bad boy can do a lot more than download confessionals. Yesterday I posted that raptor video and it was a hit!"
Julia's screams were then heard from across the island as the cabin door slammed shut and it seemed as though she was storming her way through. "Right on cue. Let the show begin." She smiled to herself, wasting no time to exit the confessional to enjoy the fireworks.
The people in the Mess Hall were all chatting away until they felt feet stomping, getting closer and closer to the door.
"Did the raptors follow us back?" Emma looked up from her breakfast, letting out a gulp.
"Last time I checked, raptors can't canoe." Harvey argued as they seemed Boney Island exclusive.
The footsteps kept rising until Julia shoved open the door and looked around at the 10 other campers.
"Oh hey Julia!" Bowie taunted. "How've you been? Insulting forest creatures?"
Bowie laughed in her face before Julia snatched his burrito and smacked his face in to the plate, causing the rest of the rats to gasp.
"You can't slap a man with his own burrito!" Ripper objected before getting knocked out by said burrito which Julia flung at him.
"Woah! Fast food!" Zee said, amazed at the speed the burrito got thrown at.
"I'll ask this once. Who posted the video of me yelling at the dinosaur?" She asked with gritted teeth. She glared daggers at everyone with no one saying a word. "No one brave enough to admit it, huh? That's okay. I'll figure out who did it, myself."
Julia then stormed out of the Mess Hall in a huff.
"Does this mean you won't be blessing our morning burritos?" MK called out to her sarcastically, standing by the entrance.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"One way or another, I'll find out who did it. But honestly? I'm kind of relieved. Do you have any idea how hard it is to pretend to like emojis and yoga?" Julia asked, checking her phone which continued to lose her followers. "And avocado toast is gross! No more pretending. Now that I'm free, it's time to show the world the real Julia."
"Wait, where's Raj? Didn't think he'd miss burrito day." Harvey noticed that only him, Emma, Bowie and MK were present out of the remaining Frogs.
"I'll go check on him." Bowie got up and left the Mess Hall, feeling guilty that he was the one getting Wayne booted.
"So... 11 players left. What do you think tomorrow's challenge is?" Harvey asked Emma but was met with silence.
Harvey then glanced at Emma who seemed to be staring lovingly at Chase who was focused on beating Ripper in a burrito eating contest. "Uh, Emma? Hello?"
CONFESSIONAL: HARVEY
"She spends 2 weeks complaining about her ex to me and Bowie, and then decides to get back with him?" Harvey asked, feeling annoyed. "Then again this isn't the first time they've done this. One time her and Chase spent hours arguing over Chase letting Emma's cat run away, goes on a social media post rampage complaining about him. 30 minutes later, talks about how he's the greatest guy she's ever met."
FROGS CABIN: DAY #15.
Raj was all by himself in the cabin, currently locked in on a game of hockey with a stick and a paper ball. "He enters the zone, he rushes the net, he passes to his best bud in the whole world!"
He then passes the ball to a bucket with Wayne's face drawn on it with another stick behind it. "Wayne! Here! I'm open! I'm open!...
"*Sigh, it's just not the same without him." Raj sighs, sitting on the bed.
CONFESSIONAL: RAJ
"It's been 12 hours since Wayne kicked the bucket at the last elimination. I've tried everything, listened to sad music, loading up on more breakfast, I even made bucket Wayne!" Raj held up the bucket he played hockey with. "I guess they don't learn to talk until a certain age."
Raj sat there in despair until Bowie came in and looked at him, not used to seeing Raj so sad. "Hey, just wanted to check on you. How're you feeling?"
"Oh hey Bowie! Did you meet my new friend?" Raj pointed to the bucket which only added confusion to Bowie's emotions.
"Look, I know you're down about what happened, but what has Wayne always said when you guys were down in a game?" Bowie tried motivating him.
"That we'd go and get chicken and wings after?" Raj answered, enjoying the thought of going for chicken right now.
Bowie slapped his forehead and sighed. "That it's not over until it's over. Think of it like you're subbing in as captain for Wayne. You can lead our team to victory!"
"Hey! You're right! I guess that's better than a bucket in some ways." Raj nodded. "We can still go for wings after though, right?"
"I'd be down for that." Bowie sat next to him. "If there's anything you need, just let me know."
"Hey! I have an idea!" Raj's face lit up as he stood up from the bed.
"I'm all ears." Bowie told him, not knowing what Raj had planned.
It then cut to Bowie standing in front of a net in Wayne's jersey, a helmet, and a stick with Raj standing in front of him with a line of paper balls. He looked understandably nervous.
"Time to play defense." Raj looked at him with a determined look before firing the balls with a surprising amount of force, hitting Bowie in all areas as he fell over. "Awesome! You didn't let a single puck get scored!"
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"Hey, don't judge! If you saw someone who looked like a good alliance member, you'd do anything to get them on side too! Figured I owed him for sending his best friend home." Bowie defended himself, still feeling some of the bruises. "And anyway, it was actually kind of fun."
Bowie then caught back up with Emma and Harvey in the Mess Hall, the former of which just finished explaining her situation with Chase and how the two were all of a sudden on good terms again. Bowie just seemed confused at this. "So all it takes is one little sorry and you run right back to that walking can of body spray?"
"I have a lot of questions and I'm not even sure what they are." Harvey added, not wanting to sound too judgemental since Emma was still his friend.
"I don't know, I mean I can't deny that we were good together." Emma played off, forgetting her past couple weeks of talking about him. "Maybe that brush with death in the Boney Island challenge made Chase realize what he's missing and made him turn in to the modern mature man I deserve. I mean, that's how you feel about Raj, right?"
"I mean I wouldn't call Raj modern or mature but his heart's in the right place." Bowie defended his unique relationship with Raj. "What about you Harvey? There still anyone you got your eye on? Maybe a certain DJ?" Bowie hinted towards a table which only had Cassidy and Priya. Cassie was shown enjoying her music and using the burritos as drumsticks, high fiving one with Priya before they each took a bite.
Harvey seems caught off guard by the question and didn't seem to be in the right headspace to answer. "Oh uh, not really. I'm cool flying solo anyway. I'm gonna go hit the vending machine. Something tells me I'm gonna need a sugar kick for the challenge tomorrow."
Harvey then quickly got up and walked away, causing Bowie and Emma to get curious. "What's up with him?" Emma wondered.
"Oh he probably felt awkward about being a fifth wheel, that's all." Bowie responded, feeling like he had an idea of why Harvey wanted to leave the table.
On the other table across, Zee remained out of the Trout as Ripper and Chase had made off with the plate of burritos. That is until Priya joined him. "Hey Zee, what's up?"
"Um... the sky?" Zee answered to which Priya slapped her forehead.
CONFESSIONAL: PRIYA
"Right now it's Cassie and I against the three guys. We need to get Zee if we want any shot at making it to the merge." Priya said. "Last time I tried with an alliance was with Lauren and look how that turned out. Here's hoping Zee's not an escaped mental patient."
Zee was then in the middle of telling Priya about the last challenge. "So get this, I dressed up as a bird to distract it, then Ripper tried to bolt it, only for the bird to chase both of us! Isn't that hilarious?"
"It doesn't bother you that Ripper was gonna ditch you like that?" Priya asked, wondering how Zee could be so laid back about this.
"I was confused, but how can you blame a guy who didn't want to get eaten by a bird?" Zee shrugged as he finished off his last burrito. "And it helped me figure out that I'm not ready for anything serious. I like to take things slow."
"Yeah, can't say I blame you." Priya sighed with her head on her hand, understanding the awkward spot that comes with romance. "I sometimes wonder if I'll ever find someone. People say I'm too hardcore."
"You just gotta find someone your speed. It's like figuring out the right flavor of soda. You may not find it at first, but there's one for everyone!" Zee said as he cracked open another can. "Chase and Emma managed to find each other."
"Well at least I know to stay away from the Rippers and Chases back at home. Thanks Zee!" Priya admitted, surprised at Zee's advice before going back to the original topic. "And I would never leave a friend out in the forest. I promise us girls have your back."
"Cool." Zee responded as he paused in-between sips. "Wait, is there something on my back?"
"Testing! Testing! One! Two! Three! Guess what time it is." Chris's irritable voice ringing through the speakers. "Everyone head to the ampitheatre! McLean out!"
AMPITHEATRE DAY #16.
Both teams were sitting on the separate sets of bleachers whilst Chris took center stage. "Good morning campers! With only 2 weeks left that I get to torture you with, I thought there'd be no better way than to have you humiliate yourselves in front of each other. With a Season 1 favorite, the Wawanakwa Talent contest!"
This was met with mixed reception as some were excited whilst others were nervous.-
"T-talent contest?" Emma stuttered to herself, making sure no one heard her.
"Each team has 8 hours to pick their 3 most talented campers. These three will represent them in the show tonight. Remember, anything goes as long as it's legal." Chris reminded them all as Ripper growled at this rule. "Your judges will be none other than Chef and myself, who will give each talent a score out of 10. The team with the most points after all 6 talents, takes home immunity. And as always the losing team will be sending someone home a bigger loser than they came in as. Good luck!"
TROUT CABIN: DAY #16.
The Trout all sat outside their cabins, figuring they should try and take a head start in prepping their talents.
"So... who are we gonna pick?" Priya wondered as she looked around, knowing they didn't have much of a choice here. "Guess we should start with who's sitting out."
"Well duh, it's a talent show! No one's gonna care about computers or trivia stuff!" Ripper pointed to the two girls, assuming that was their go to. "You two can sit out!"
"You aren't even gonna give us a shot?" Cassidy asked, annoyed that Ripper was once again trying to take charge. "My keyboard's in the cabin. I brought it in case we had a band challenge. It's got a buncha cool gizmos. I can even remix the finale to Mutant Hunters 7!" She told Priya who seemed to match her excitement.
"Ugh, don't bore me with your nerd chatter." Ripper rolled his eyes.
"Fine, how about we hold it to a vote?" Priya proposed, figuring it was the most fair.
"Fine, all those who think we should stick to my plan. Raise your hand." Ripper instructed as him and Chase easily raised their hands.
"And all those who think Priya and I deserve a shot, raise your hand." Cassie says as she and Priya raise their hands. Both duos looked to Zee to see what he would decide before he also raised his hand.
"Zee? What the heck?" Ripper raised his arms, assuming that Zee would've taken his side.
"It's cool, guys. I'll hit the bench. I just think it'd be cool if we got to see Cassie remixify her keyboard." Zee reasoned while pointing to Cassie who grinned and nodded.
"Ugh, fine! I'll sit out." Ripper gave up, not wanting to take the blame if they do lose. "But if we lose again, one of you are so hitching a ride on that drone!"
"Must be better than you trying to burp for 13 seconds." Cassie shot back.
"Yeah! You tell em, Cass!" Priya cheered her on.
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Now that my alliance with MK is done for good, it'll be cool to actually get to show off my own skills for once. And if we do lose, I've always got my immunity statue that I can play to make sure Ripper goes home." Cassidy explained.
FROGS CABIN: DAY #16.
The six Frogs of Death all stood around outside their cabin, trying to figure out how to proceed from here.
"Wayne's gone. Who's gonna be our team captain?" Emma asked to which no one responded initially.
"Raj? Care to take charge?" Bowie turned to his boyfriend who struggled but agreed to it.
CONFESSIONAL: RAJ
"I've never led a team before. Usually Wayne's the one doing all our speeches when the coach is off sick. Who knew coaching hockey could cause so much vomiting and headaches?" Raj explained, feeling awkward about this. "But now Wayne's off sick and I've gotta sub in! Now I just gotta think, what would Wayne do?"
"Alright everyone, take a knee!" He instructed which everyone hesitantly agreed. "Let's tackle this like we would a hockey audition. Tryouts! We can vote as a team on which people to put in the game! Anyone got anything they wanna try out?"
"I'd try a makeup tutorial but my lip balm's gone missing." Bowie pointed out.
"Not only that, someone's swiped my hairbrush!" Emma added, pointing to her hair which was more of a mess than usual.
"Guess that explains the rat's nest on the top of your head." Julia laughed whilst Emma gasped. "Sorry, I've just been dying to say that this whole week. It feels so good to finally be me."
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"Rats are actually the cleanest of all the rodents so thank you for the compliment." Emma said, feeling like she one upped Julia there.
"Does it look that bad?" Emma turned to Harvey who just laughed nervously.
"Nah! You look great! It doesn't hurt to try a different style every now and again." Harvey tried comforting her.
"Okay time out." Raj told everyone. "Just a couple days ago Wayner and I lost our lucky playoff beards."
"Wonder where they could be." MK sarcastically wondered. She turned to Julia who like always, was busy on her phone. "Julia, any ideas?"
"Are you suggesting I took them? I'm allergic to things that stick to bodies." Julia defended. "And why would I need a hairbrush and lip balm when I own way better brands?
"Oh do you? Or was that just another lie?" MK shot back, causing Julia to look up from her phone.
"Hey! I'll have you know, I am missing a necklace and a phone. So there is a thief here, and it's not me." Julia argued, pointing to MK and Harvey. "You two haven't had anything stolen from you, it's obviously one of you."
"The heck would we want your guys stuff for?" Harvey held up his hands in defense. "How do we know one of the Trout didn't do it?"
"Maybe they're embarrassed for getting their butts kicked so much." MK added. "Or maybe Julia's begging for her followers back by bribing them with our stuff."
"Do you really think I need any more followers? Look at me, I'm doing just fine." Julia laughed, trying to hide her recent downgrade in popularity. "Now let's get this dumb challenge over with so I can get back to my beauty sleep."
CONFESSIONAL: MK
"Welp, guess the cat's out of the bag now. Since we've gotten here, I've sorta helped myself to a few things." MK confessed as she showed off her collection of all the stolen items. "The hockey bros beards, Emma's hairbrush, Bowie's lip balm and even Julia's necklace. I know I'm gonna win the million, but just in case I don't, I'm gonna auction these bad boys off on my new website: Things Total Drama Island contestants used to own. Cha-ching!"
"With the other four all buddy buddy, I need to get any edge over Julia I can so that they keep me over her. With this and the raptor blow up? I'm already two steps ahead." She chucked, still keeping her behind the scenes strategy going.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"If MK thinks she can pull a fast one and get me eliminated, she's got another thing coming." Julia said, deciding it was time for her to do something. "I think it's time for a new leader to step in to the ring."
"Okay fine. Bowie, if I let you borrow my makeup collection, you can do your stupid makeup getup thing." Julia told Bowie who seemed skeptical but agreed.
"Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I am gonna need a model though." Bowie admitted, looking for a volunteer. MK and Julia quickly backed out.
"I can't have makeup in my eyes if I'm gonna be doing hockey out there." Raj declined. "One time I had to have contacts in, I turned our whole team in to one giant dogpile. It was awesome!"
"Um, okay... Emma?" Bowie turned to his best friend who seemed nervous.
"I think I'll pass. I am not having a good hair day right now." Emma checked herself in her handheld mirror. This left only one option.
"*Sigh* You promise I won't look like a freakshow?" Harvey asked, not big on public performances but willing to take one for the team.
"I swear on my trophy collection." Bowie placed his hand on his heart.
CONFESSIONAL: HARVEY
"Sure I might've done a couple of side jobs, never said I was good at any of them. But with everyone's stuff going missing and me being a suspect, having to take one for the team might be my only call here." Harvey couldn't help but admit. "And when it comes to volunteering for things, it's way better than being support or bait."
Bowie was busy working on makeup for Harvey and when he was done, turned him around to show MK and Julia who just burst out laughing.
"You look like a gorilla got attacked by a clown!" Julia pointed out as Harvey felt annoyed.
"Seriously, Bowie?" Harvey turned to him who just shrugged in response.
"What? There's a reason I wanted a model. Shame Caleb wasn't here, I bet he'd rock that look." He defended. "And anyway, didn't you do a couple shoots in your spare time?"
"I was promoting kids toys dressed as a mascot, kind of a long way from home." Harvey explained while trying to wipe the makeup off with a rag.
"Maybe it would help if you plucked some of those hairs. This'll go much better if you looked more like a newborn baby." Bowie suggested, searching through his bag for some tweezers.
"I swear I might start acting like one if I'm doing this in front of millions of viewers." Harvey rolled his eyes.
"Emma, didn't you try out for a talent contest once?" Bowie asked Emma as she instantly felt nervous.
"Back when I was in high school. The prize was 200 dollars I was gonna use to help my mom." Emma explained, remembering the Truth or Scare challenge where she got haunted by the memory of her hair falling out during her talent.
"Woah, cool! What's your talent?" Raj wondered, interested in Emma's story.
"I was gonna sing while on my guitar. I was actually super in to classical music growing up before I got to dancing." Emma remembered fondly.
"Nice! Wanna give it a shot? We've still got one more spot open!" Raj asked her to which she gulped.
"Oh... um... I... I left my guitar at home. The song doesn't go without it, sorry." Emma excused while going to sit down. Harvey watched on, feeling bad for her.
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"Social media's fine for me, but ever since that night at our school's talent contest, I've never gotten on stage. I'm too scared!" Emma recalled. "And with my hair in a complete mess? There's no way I can do it. It's another reason why I was happy to ditch school with Chase. Did not want #BaldEmma trending online."
TROUT CABIN: DAY #16.
Priya was the first to show off her talent and was doing a montage of stunts including twirling, throwing and catching her battle sticks and karate chopping pieces of wood. Chase, Zee and Cassidy all applauded her.
"I spent one summer at a dojo. Got my black belt after only two months." Priya bragged, holding up her black belt she used as a bandana.
"Alright Priya!" Cassie cheered. "So that's 1 act."
"Why are you guys impressed? That was just dancing!" Ripper wondered. "Back in high school, I can bench-press 5 children!"
"Do you see any children around?" Priya asked rhetorically. "The show would get cancelled!"
"Pfft, yeah. Cause they're scared." Ripper crossed his arms. "Anyway, who's gonna be our second act?"
"Ooh! Me! For one of the world records, I tried cycling over a loop for 3 minutes." Chase raised his hand. "Extreme mountain biking is totally my thing."
"Don't people do that in a circus with motorbikes?" Priya wondered.
"Uh, yeah? But that's in a cage! When it's a loop, you have to make sure you don't fly off. I've got all 86 pieces in my bag!" Chase said as the others were shocked it was that big.
"Why don't we all take a breather?" Cassidy suggested. "It'll take a while for me to set up my keyboard. I've gotta use the bathroom real quick."
The Trout all agreed and separated, leaving Ripper and Chase. The former was glaring at Zee was following the girls, chatting and laughing with them.
"Since when has Zee gotten all chummy with the girls?" Ripper brought up to Chase, not liking how close they're getting.
"What are you talking about?" Chase asked him.
"It's obvious he's been chatting up alliances with them, and then he sides with them in the challenge. I say we ditch him." Ripper brought up.
"Hold on, you mean vote him out? Pass! Zee's my boy! Anyway, didn't you already try ditching him at that last challenge?" Chase argued back.
"That was different!" Ripper yelled. "What's gotten you all soft? Did winning Emma back all of a sudden change you?"
"Forget Emma! You're just jealous that I can actually get along with people." Chase exclaimed, oblivious to his track record.
"Oh yeah, you're a real people person." Ripper groaned.
"Ha! More than you! I bet your parents don't even love you!" Chase let out, causing Ripper to fall silent.
"You take that back!" Ripper growled at him, almost gearing up for a fight.
"Or what? You gonna use me as a human shield?" Chase laughed before walking off.
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"What a bunch of losers. As if Chase knows anything about me." Ripper ranted at Chase's actions. "Whatever, I don't need anyone! Once I win that million and beat that world record, these wimps will see how awesome I really am!"
CONFESSIONAL: PRIYA
"Yeah, we could pretty much hear the guys going at it from our cabins." Priya admitted awkwardly. "I'm not sure whether to feel happy or not, especially with Chase. But anything to keep you going in the game, right?"
While Harvey was gone to clean his face, Julia decided to show her talent. She was running towards a couple logs set up vertically and used those to perform a couple flips. She was also shown balancing on one vertically with only one leg. "I had to do this for a Selfiegram stream while doing shout outs. Longest 5 hours of my life."
"Okay, I am liking our odds a whole lot more now." Bowie observed.
"I don't know, do we actually have a shot?" Emma admitted, feeling uncomfortable, prompting Raj to stand up.
"Alright, listen up team. We've had to face way scarier stuff so far. We didn't make it to this point by giving up! We made it because we are The Frogs of Death! No matter what anyone tells you, you are all warriors! Now let's go out there, score those goals, beat that other team to the ground and celebrate with more of Chef's sludge! Let's fry those Trout! Go Team Frogs!" Raj cheered only to be met with silence. "What? You guys have never done a cheer before?"
"No, because I have this thing called self respect." MK responded only to get elbowed by Bowie.
"Go Team Frogs!" Bowie joined in which Emma and Julia cheered awkwardly with MK clapping slowly.
WASHROOMS: DAY #16.
Cassie entered the washrooms to see Harvey plucking his eyebrows. She cleared her throat awkwardly which got his attention. "I didn't know you use tweezers."
"Oh, they're not mine. I'm trying to get myself ready for tonight." Harvey explained before yanking out another hair between the brows. "Ow! Bowie's using me as a model for the talent contest tonight. So I'm trying to have less hair on my face."
"Hey, who am I to judge facials? I had to have a Chris tattoo stuck on my face for 24 hours." Cassie chuckled to which Harvey joined in, albeit less eagerly which she noticed. "What's up with you?"
"I still can't get Chase and Emma out of my head. I promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this sorta thing after last time, but it just bothers me. I dunno how to explain it." Harvey admitted.
"Makes sense. I mean not only do you like Emma, Chase is a complete whack job." Cassie agreed. "We even got front row seats to him and Ripper bickering earlier."
"Wow." Was all Harvey could say until Cassidy had an idea.
"Hey, if our team loses, I can give you a solid that we can boot Chase." She proposed, feeling like she should at least try to help out.
"You'd do that?" Harvey looked up at her.
"I mean I don't think it'll do much but maybe it'll help clear Emma's mind a bit." Cassie pointed out. "She always seemed stressed out at the mention of his name."
"I guess anything's worth a shot." Harvey shrugged. "Thanks Cass."
Cassie nodded with a smile but there was something else that's been bothering her that she feels the need to come clean about. "Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what's on the mind?" Harvey responded, still focused on the mirror.
"If I tell you, you promise not to get mad?" Cassie said hesitantly.
"I can't promise, but sure." Harvey looked up at her.
"Well, the truth is, I kinda already knew about your thing for Emma." Cassie started out.
"Oh no, did I make it that obvious?" Harvey seemed worried.
"No, it's not that. It's because I've been... well..." Cassidy stuttered, attempting to get the words out before they both got cut off.
"Attention campers! The talent show will begin in 10 minutes! Hurry your butts down to the ampitheatre!" Chris announced.
"Oh crud, I haven't even finished plucking!" Harvey groaned before jogging out. "Gotta go! You can tell me some other time!"
"I swear, sometimes this show has the worst timing on purpose." Cassie slapped her forehead.
AMPITHEATRE: NIGHT #16.
"It's the TDI talent extravaganza!" Chris announced with the usual over the top intro that was used the first time as all the non participants sat on both the bleachers to watch the event. "Where 6 campers will showcase their mad skills and desperately try not to humiliate themselves. But I'm sure the last 16 days have that covered. First up for the Frogs of Death. Bowie!"
The curtains opened to see Harvey sitting on a stool whilst Bowie was on his left, surrounded by a bunch of makeup and outfits.
"Let's do this." He said with determination as he got to work on Harvey's makeup and clothes. Everyone was silent until he was finished. Harvey was wearing a purple blazer, a new, red bandana on his head and sparkly jeans. Makeup wise, his face looked clean yet disturbingly tan.
"Honestly, I struggle to picture Harvey wearing anything else. Not exactly a pleasing sight. " Chris observed from the judging table.
"Eh, I think he looks pretty." Chef admitted.
Both held up their scores with Chris showing a 5 while Chef showed an 8, starting the Frogs off with 13.
"Thanks for not making me look like a complete circus animal." Harvey turned to Bowie. "Maybe I do have hope in the fashion business."
"I wouldn't get your hopes up." Bowie tried telling him as the two mostly cleared up and exited the stage.
"Not a bad start for the Frogs. Let's see how the Ferocious Trout measure up. Give it up for Priya!" Chris announced as the curtains opened to Priya wearing her black belt and wielding her dueling stick with a few pieces of wood lined up for her to chop.
Priya started by spinning her stick around and throwing it up in the air before catching it. Next were the pieces of wood. She hand chopped 3 of them before doing a flip to chop one that was higher up. She spun around, landing on her feet before tripping over one of the makeup brushes that was left on stage.
"Ow! What the- seriously? That wasn't part of the act!" Priya complained as she tossed the brush.
"Hey, you coulda moved it earlier." Chris argued.
"You left it there on purpose, didn't you." Julia whispered to Bowie.
"Maybe." Bowie giggled, glad his little stunt worked.
"Nice touch." Julia nodded in approval.
"Well that was looking to be a perfect 10 but the trip up at the end lost a couple points for me." Chris observed as he and Chef both held up an 8, bringing the Trout's score to 16.
"The Ferocious Trout take the early lead, let's see how long it lasts. Next on deck for the Frogs, Raj! Performing some sorta spin on hockey." The curtains opened, revealing Raj with his hockey stick from earlier, a pile of balls to use as pucks and a net to use as a goal.
"Time for me to perform my power play. Cyclone spin cycle!" Raj announced as he started spinning with the aim of knocking all the balls in to the net.
He started knocking the balls all over the place with some of the campers having to dodge and run with how hard the impact was. Chris even caught a couple to the face which Chef laughed at only to get one himself to the nose.
"Okay, how'd I do?" Raj opened his eyes to see lots of people unamused at him. He glanced at the net and smiled at the lone ball he managed to get in. "Hey! I got one!"
"Not a big fan of being used for target practice." Chris scowled whilst showing a 2. Chef on the other hand scored it a 4, likely due to Chris getting hit a couple times.
"Okay, 3 acts to go. Let's hear it, from the Ferocious Trout, Chase!" Chris points to the curtains as Chase was shown on his bicycle and his loop all put together from his attempts.
"Yo! What's cracking? It's your boy! About to do the craziest, most extreme... uh... coolest stunt you'll ever see!" Chase said to the camera, acting like he was filming for one of his videos as he got started on his bike
He got a fast enough start and built up momentum to where he started cycling around the vertical loop like a hamster on its wheel. He started picking up speed and after a few more seconds, he lost control and flew off the loop. He went screaming up to the stage lights, causing them to fall and destroying half the stage. "Ugh... don't forget to like this video..."
"Pfft, I knew that guy was all talk." Ripper boasted from the sidelines.
"Chase! Are you okay!" Emma got up and ran towards the prankster.
"You cannot be serious..." MK slapped her head as Emma helped her boyfriend leave the stage.
"Dude! That stage cost me thousands of dollars! That's it! I'm going on a coffee break!" Chris yelled as he stormed off.
"Uh... we'll be right back." Chef told the camera.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
"Welcome back! After Chase's wipeout of half the stage, I had to leave to get myself well caffeinated." Chris recapped. "Anyway, he only bagged 3 points for the Trout. Meaning we're all tied up 19-19 heading in to the final two acts."
The ampitheatre was shown half wrecked with the curtains and most of the stage lights taken out. Cassidy was shown setting up her equipment for her performance.
"Since I want to get the Trout's acts over and done with, I'm switching things up! Next up is DJ Cass!" Chris announced as the remaining stage lights lit up to show her on her keyboard.
"To all the Mutant Hunters 7 fans, this is for you." Cassie took a deep breath and started playing. She started to get in the zone as she allowed herself to get lost in the music.
Harvey watched her in amazement, enjoying more of her remixes after getting to listen to some of it from the previous challenge. Bowie easily took notice of this.
"So, you and Cassie huh?" Bowie whispered to him which confused Harvey.
"What do you mean?" Harvey asked him.
"Oh you know what I mean. You two looked like you had a lot of fun together in the last challenge!" Bowie specified.
"Well I guess Boney Island has brought us closer..." Harvey thought about it but shook her head. "But we're just friends. And I'm happy with it staying like that."
"Whatever you say." Bowie laughed, not completely agreeing with Harvey's call.
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"Before anyone asks, yeah, I know Harvey has a crush on Emma. And truth be told, he shoulda just told her before she got back with Chase." Bowie judged. "So being the good friend and alliance partner I am, I thought about setting him up with Cassie to make him feel better, but if he wants to live in the friendzone his entire life, who am I to stop him?
After their conversation, Cassie had wrapped up her performance and raised her hands which gained a ton of applause.
"Wow, nice tunes! That'll be hard to beat." Chris admitted as he showed a 9.
Chef on the other hand only showed a 5. "I'm just not big on all that 'modern' stuff."
"So that brings us to a final score of 33 for the Trout. The Frogs are gonna need 15 or higher to win." Chris updated as Cassie walked off stage. "It all comes down to our last performer of the night, Julia!"
Julia came up on stage but noticeably didn't have any gymnastic props set up, only the microphone.
"Originally, I was gonna perform gymnastics, but in light of a certain video on my account, I thought it would only be appropriate if I told everyone what I really felt about them." Julia spoke in to the mic as a lot of people were confused yet nervous.
"MK, if you're gonna be two faced, at least make one of them nice to look at. Your parents are living proof that two wrongs don't make a right." Julia tore in to MK who looked horrified, instantly realising what this was.
"Oh no, it's a roasting session." MK muttered as Julia continued.
"Emma, I've got heels that are higher than your standards. Next time you get a birthday, consider asking for a personality that's more than 'Chase's girlfriend.' Your relationship is gonna fall out faster than your hair."
"I did that to her once during our school's talent show. Such an epic prank!" Chase whispered to Zee who almost choked on his soda.
"Dude..." Zee responded, unsure of what to say.
Emma held her hair in fear, feeling a whirlwind of emotions and felt everyone staring at her, not being able to take the attention, she got up and ran off, deeply hurt by Julia's words.
"Harvey, the proclaimed bachelor of Total Drama. I'm sure there's someone out there for everyone, including a psychiatrist for you." Julia laughed with Chris chuckling, clearly the only one enjoying this as Harvey rolled his eyes.
"Bowie, fake nails, fake tan, fake jewelry? What are you? Made in China?"
"Deep breaths... deep breaths..." Bowie said to himself in an attempt to calm himself down.
"Raj, since you and Wayne are used to sharing a brain, you can officially call yourself a half wit now that he's gone, congrats!" Julia sarcastically clapped.
"Oh cool, is she roleplaying? She's really good at this." Raj admired, remaining clueless.
"Not roleplaying." Bowie whispered, causing Raj to gasp.
Chris meanwhile was just laughing at this whole spectacle. "Oh man, this is gold."
"Oh you think that's funny? I bet Botox are making a fortune just out of you trying to look a day under 38. You should make the next challenge a jump from your ego to your IQ. That'll for sure get the death lawsuits flooding in." Julia told Chris who in response slammed down a 4. Chef meanwhile was falling on the floor laughing and threw up a 10 as both scoreboards were updated with both teams having a total of 33. "Uh... oops."
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"Fine, maybe I got a little carried away. Not like I could help myself. I'm way better at putting people on blast than I am at gymnastics. I only used that as a cover so they'd let me perform." Julia explained her strategy. "After all, there's nothing Chris loves more than to see these people getting torn to shreds. Annoyingly I got too in to it and now we're facing a tiebreaker... this isn't good."
"Okay, it seems like we have a tie..." Chris said through gritted teeth. "Here's how sudden death is gonna work. Both teams have 10 minutes to choose someone who hasn't performed to go head to head. The person who does the better act, wins immunity for their team."
"This is my moment!" Ripper realised before standing up and turning to Zee. "Zee, get as much soda as you can and bring it back here! Hurry!"
"Uh, okay. For what?" Zee asked him.
"Now!" Ripper yelled at him again, scaring Zee in to running off towards the cabins.
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"This is perfect! Last time I completely blew it on getting that world record but if I get enough soda in me, there's no way I won't win it. I mean what's a better talent than beating a world record? I guess we'll see who's parents really love them!" Ripper said excitedly, feeling like this is his chance to shut Chase up.
"Nuh uh, no way am I performing. After what Julia did?" MK refused while glaring at the influencer.
"Hey! I'm keeping us in the running here!" Julia shot back as the two glared at each other.
"They're not gonna let me perform again, I was apart of Bowie's act!" Harvey pointed out.
"Honestly? I'm happy biting the bullet on this one and just heading to elimination." Bowie admitted. "Should be a pretty easy decision for us."
"Hold up, you guys wanna quit? That's not what a team does. We can still do this!" Raj stood in and told the group. Not wanting to give up."There has to be someone who wants to at least try."
"Well, I do have someone in mind. It might take longer than 10 minutes though." Harvey spoke up, to where everyone instantly knew who he was talking about.
"Oh boy..." MK sighed, not liking that this was their last resort.
Everyone was shown outside the washrooms where they easily knew Emma ran to since it had locked doors.
"Come on, Emma. We need you right now." Bowie pleaded with her. "You're the only one who can win it for us!"
"I don't care. Just leave me alone." Emma called out to the group.
"Look, if this is about what I said about you, that was strictly roleplaying." Julia lied, hoping to talk her in to it.
"So it was roleplay? I'm confused." Raj scratched his head.
"We are so gonna lose..." MK muttered to herself, feeling like this was going nowhere.
"Guys, can I talk to her?." Harvey asked the team, figuring a 1 on 1 was better for Emma.
"*Sigh* Fine, I'm tagging out." Bowie sighed as the group, apart from Harvey all left.
"Emma, listen. I know why you don't want to do the talent show." Harvey began.
"W-what are you talking about?" Emma asked from inside. Harvey leaned against the door.
"In your livestreams you always said that your two biggest fears were losing your hair and performing in front of people. And you dropped out afterwards." Harvey explained. "I know how it feels to miss out on school, to miss out on your friends, not getting to go to prom or graduate. Sure people may laugh at you, but eventually they'll find something else to laugh at. This is your chance at doing something you love!"
"Well it doesn't matter. Millions of people are watching. I don't wanna mess up again." Emma grumbled. "I'd rather just take my chances at elimination."
"Just forget about the challenge, okay? It's okay if we lose. I just don't want you to lose because you're scared. I promise you'll feel better if you at least tried. I mean I had to be Bowie's model, and that took at least 3 hours of sweating bullets over." Harvey pointed out. "If you really want to sit this one out, then that's fine. Don't do it because you have to, do it because you want to."
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"No guy has ever been that nice to me. Especially not Chase before he apologized." Emma felt speechless at Harvey's speech. "But things are different now. I'm sure Chase feels awful about that prank. But this is my chance to show him I'm over what he did at the talent show back at high school."
Emma was then heard unlocking the door and pushing it open with a slam with a determined look on her face. "Get me a mic."
Harvey couldn't help but let out a smile of his own as he followed Emma back to the theatre, hoping they weren't too late.
Harvey and Emma both made it back to the theatre in time for the final acts to begin.
"Welcome back to the TDI talent extravaganza! It's sudden death time. Both teams are tied after 3 acts so it all comes down to who can outperform the other." Chris recapped. "First up, for the Frogs of Death, it's Emma!"
Emma walked up to the microphone and looked around, she had her guitar all set up in front of her. Chase was staring at her dreamily whilst Harvey was giving her a couple thumbs up. She then glanced at the song she wrote that she never got to perform, took a deep breath and started playing:
The times remain so difficult, yet you remain so confident.
I know I can't unwind the clock, it feels like your life is on lock.
I always used to look up to you, and now you have to look down at me.
And when you do you'll know how it's meant to be.
So take me back to the time of the good old days.
Where the twilight was always trimmed in purple haze.
And when the time comes down to the red, and I find myself in a hospital bed.
I hope you can let me back in to your loving, caring, warm and daring arms.
Everyone was silent after Emma was done and she gulped, thinking she might've tripped over her words at some point. To her relief though, everyone from the Frogs erupted in to applause. Even Cassie and Priya, who were on the other team, joined in and stood up.
"I don't know how you did it, but good job." Bowie whispered to Harvey.
"Oh she did it all by herself." Harvey responded.
"Not bad, not bad at all. Might've been better using autotune though." Chris laughed. "Now let's see if the Trout can beat that! Give it up for Ripper!"
Ripper and Zee were behind the stage where Ripper was shown chugging his 5th bottle of Zee's soda. Zee noticed Ripper's stomach gurgling.
"Hey man, you might wanna lay off that stuff." Zee warned him. "That'll go straight through you."
"Pfft, as if. I gotta have enough in me to knock this outta the park." Ripper finished the last bottle and tossed it aside. "Alright, I already feel a winner inside me. Let's crush this thing."
Ripper then went up on stage and started preparing himself. He walked up to the mic, took a deep breath and looked at Zee, who gave a thumbs up, preparing to start the stopwatch. Everyone else looked worried with some already realising what he was about to do.
"He's not gonna..." Cassie worried.
"Brace yourselves!" Priya yelled as Ripper started letting out 5 sodas worth of a long burp.
"Ew! Gross!" Julia held her nose and her breath, not being able to take the smell.
"6...7...8..." Zee counted as everyone had some combination of their eyes shut, ears covered and noses plugged. Ripper kept going, getting closer and closer to his limit.
Eventually he stopped and looked over at Zee.
"Dude! 15 seconds! You did it!" Zee showed the stopwatch as Ripper let out a cheer.
"Ha! In your face, Chase!" Ripper pointed to Chase who crossed his arms and rolled his eyes, clearly livid that Ripper managed to get a record before him. Ripper kept up his celebrations and it seemed as though Chef and Chris were easily impressed too before he felt his stomach go off some more. "Ugh, I don't feel too great..."
"I tried to warn you, man." Zee let him know as he ducked for cover before Ripper couldn't hold his lunch down anymore and his mouth started blasting like a tap all over the stage. This caused some others to run away to avoid getting hit whilst Chris and Chef screamed and ducked behind the table, waiting for it all to be over.
Eventually Ripper stopped and collaped after feeling light headed. "In your Chase, face... Chase..."
Chris then fell silent for a few moments, looking at the puke covered stage.
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"Yeah, this isn't even close. The Frogs of Death win immunity!" Chris declared in-between gags.
The Frogs cheered as much as they could amidst the vomit with Julia in particular letting out a sigh of relief.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"Yes! Tonight's vote could have gone so badly for me, luckily Ripper's gag reflex scored our team immunity." Julia sighed in relief. "Never thought I'd be saying that out loud."
Emma felt a massive surge of emotions, as if she was finally able to face her fear as she approached Harvey.
"Hey, thanks for what you said back there, it means a lot." Emma placed her hand on Harvey's shoulder.
"It's cool. You're a really great singer." Harvey told her.
"You're the best!" Emma then brought him in to a hug, relieved she was able to win it for her team after everything. Harvey was caught off guard, letting out a blush before returning it.
"Aw, you guys are gonna make me puke." MK sarcastically quipped before walking off.
"Gotta say, you make an awesome team captain." Bowie told Raj as they were both sitting together on the benches.
"Thanks. You weren't too bad yourself. Maybe I gotta let you try one of those makeovers on me one day!" Raj suggested, getting a laugh out of Bowie.
"Oh don't tempt me!" Bowie responded before glancing around. "You wanna maybe talk somewhere that isn't covered in vomit?"
"Yeah, good call. Don't wanna puke your dinner up after a rough game, learned that the hard way." Raj stated as he and Bowie walked out together.
CONFESSIONAL: RAJ
"I thought that kiss in the pudding was just a gut thing after almost drowning but I think I'm starting to like Bowie, like, in the same way you like someone you enjoy kissing." Raj did his best to explain his feelings. "Bowie makes me feel like... and I know this sounds crazy! But like, there might be more to life than hockey!"
Chris then walked up to the Trout that were on the other bench, minus Ripper who was still passed out. "Trout, what can I say? Elimination number 5. That's both hilarious and sad. See you guys tonight where one of you will be going home."
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"Chase and I might've gotten in to it at the challenge, but like I said before, pals before gals." Ripper emphasized by counting on his hand after the last three words were spoken. "I fight with my brothers all the time. We get over it eventually! There's no way he's gonna turn on me!"
CAMPFIRE CEREMONY 8: NIGHT #16.
Some of the Trout were still trying to hold down their lunch from the talent show as they all walked down the path to the elimination area where only Chris was awaiting them with 4 marshmallows on his plate.
"Chef had to stay behind to clean up the amphitheater so let's just cut to the chase, so Chase, you're up first." Chris stated as everyone got up to vote.
CONFESSIONAL: CHASE
"Ripper thinks he's amazing just because he can hold a burp for 15 seconds? Whatever, I'm not jealous. I'm the one with a girlfriend!" Chase said, clearly reaching his limits with Ripper and the alliance.
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Chase says Ripper deserves to go home but I still don't know how much I can trust Priya. If your best friend crossing you once is enough for you to vote them out, is that really a chance worth taking? Even if Millie did kinda deserve it..." Cassie trailed off.
"As you all know by now, if you get a marshmallow, you're safe. If you don't, then it's curtains for you." Chris pointed at the group as he picked up the plate. "Marshmallows for..."
"Zee."
"Cassidy."
"Chase."
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"Priya!"
"Seriously?" Ripper complained with his arms raised as he glared at his four teammates all holding marshmallows.
"Well I thought I'd be saying this on Day 1 but here we are." Chris admitted. "Ripper, please follow me to the dock of shame."
"This rots!" Ripper stood up and followed Chris out.
"Guess it's just the four of us now..." Priya pointed out awkwardly as the team was noticeably more quiet now.
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"My team probably thought they were better off without me but what do they know?" Ripper ranted to himself. "When I got here, I was just an awesome, super cool, good looking guy that everybody loved. But I think I showed the world I'm more than that! I'm leaving here an under 18 world record holder. So... you're not gonna see me crying. I'll wait until I get home."
Ripper looked down in defeat as the drone flew by and grabbed him in a wedgie as it took him off the island. "Ow! Ow! Chris! Help! Chris!"
"And there goes Ripper! And now only 10 kids I don't like remain. What'll happen tomorrow? Will yet another member of Team Trout see the dock of shame? How much longer will Emma and Chase keep up their budding grossmance? Will Julia find out who leaked that video of her? And will Zee finally run out of soda? Find out all the juicy details next time, on Total! Drama! Island!
VOTES.
Cassidy - Ripper
Chase - Ripper
Priya - Ripper
Zee - Ripper
Ripper - Priya
18TH - CALEB
17TH - AXEL
16TH - NICHELLE
15TH - LAUREN
14TH - MILLIE
13TH - DAMIEN
12TH - WAYNE
11TH - RIPPER
Don't think anyone will be upset or surprised about this one lol. Guess Chase did have the last say just like he wanted. Ripper lasted just as long as he needed to but did end up being one of the characters I changed the most, even if it didn't seem like a lot. And it might seem weird that I pretty much did a repeat of what went down in Episode 5 but it was really one of the only ways I could justify the Trout losing AND him getting the boot over the likes of Priya and Cassidy. Still though, his character was one of my favorite parts of the pre-merge and 8 episodes was enough for him without becoming too overbearing. And I still wanted a lukewarm ending for him by managing to beat that record.
And with that, we are officially halfway through the season. Really hope you guys are enjoying this story so far. It's been such a worthwhile use of my spare time as I try to balance work and everything else.
Until next time, see you whenever and Merry Christmas!