User blog comment:Cody Kins TD Fan/TDPI Episode 9 Discussion/@comment-1527105-20140716202349

Most of you aren't giving Dave enough credit. Yes, I agree he was 'dumbed down' but it was totally justifiable. Dave is a very paranoid dude. He spends most of his life being afraid of almost literally everything. Why he went on Total Drama, who knows? Maybe he wanted to prove himself.

The minute he gets there, he's greeted with the insane wizard, a human beatbox, some girl who thinks all of life is a pageant, a creepy zombie nut and a real life princess. 5 of the strangest people I'm sure he's ever met. But then he meets Sky, the only other sane person on the team. For the most part, Dave and Sky got along great. She was his safety blanket. Without her, he'd be lost in a sea of freaks.

And that's exactly what happened when she swapped teams and Jasmine forced her to shun him. He was lost and flipping out that the perfect girl who admitted she actually liked him wasn't giving him anymore attention. Dave's weird like that. He's clingy and emotional and actually pretty real in a sense. All Dave wanted was a companion who actually understood him. Once Sky was ripped away from him, he realized for his own mental health, the smartest decision he could make was to vote himself off.

He was going insane because she said no. He's not some Cody-ish brony friendzone nerd. He ultimately realized "Sky doesn't like me! I like her, but I understand she doesn't like me anymore. I care about her too much. I don't want to make her anymore uncomfortable. I'll vote myself off to help her out." Cody only cared about getting inside of Gwen. Didn't care about her emotions or opinions or how she was feeling in between boyfriends. He was persistent and constanty hit on her time and time again after she made it clearly obvious she wasn't interested. In Dave's defense, Sky was interested at one point. Dave valued her as a person, not as a sex device. When Sky made up her mind and chose the competition over him, he took the hint and '''GOT. OUT. OF. THE. WAY.'''