Dawn

Dawn, labeled The Moonchild, was a camper on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island as a member of the Toxic Rats.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Dawn makes her debut in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!, on a boat with the twelve other contestants, meditating on a railing next to B. She tells him the color of his aura is "exceptionally purplish-green" and that it suits him, which makes him smile. When Chris blows up the boat, Dawn is the first person to make it back to shore, somehow doing so without getting wet. This annoys Jo (who thought she was the first to make it to shore and was excited about it), and Dawn tells her that she took a shortcut. She is later seen with Mike and Zoey on the beach. When Zoey says she always used to watch Total Drama, Dawn says that she knows Zoey is an only child because her soul reads "like an open book." Dawn is later placed on the Toxic Rats, arriving after Mike and Zoey in the race. She seems to levitate to the finish line, scaring Mike. During the challenge, when B signals his team to do something, Dawn directs the others, as he doesn't speak. When her team loses the challenge and Staci starts rambling again, she was the only member of the team who didn't outright glare at her angrily; she gave her a more confused but still disapproving look instead. At the elimination ceremony, Dawn is given the fourth marshmallow.

In Truth or Laser Shark, she starts the episode by hanging upside down in her cabin, while talking to a bird, clearly worried about whatever it is saying. When Dakota complains about losing her beauty sleep, Dawn replies by saying that her desire for fame is a depressed cry for love, surprising Dakota that she knows so much about her. In the first part of the challenge, Dawn explains to Chris how B's aura shows his non-talking abilities, and did not do much otherwise. Later, she does well on her portion of the obstacle course, by taking advice from the mutated rat. Despite this, her team ends up losing, and Dawn convinces them that Dakota must go, saying that a great darkness is around her. Dawn is given the second marshmallow of the night.

In Ice Ice Baby, Dawn calmly saves Lightning from choking on his food by performing the Heimlich maneuver. She then finds the beetle Lightning swallowed and pets it to sleep. In the first challenge, Dawn struggles with climbing the mountain, being unable to even reach the lowest rock. She then senses B has a plan and decides to help him. B wanted to use the junk pile that a mutant beetle was guarding and Dawn said that it was angry. Later, Dawn realized it wanted to be with the smaller beetle she rescued that morning, she reunites them, and allows the Rats to win the first part of the challenge. Dawn tried to help Scott during the capture the flag snowball fight, by telling him which snowballs he should use. Scott ignored her the first time, which led to the snowball exploding in his face. She then asks Scott if he was held enough when he was younger, clearly frightening him. She later compliments him when he convinces the mutant beetles not to attack the fort. Dawn then manipulates the two beetles into assisting in attacking the Maggot's fort, but her effort is futile due to Scott making B melt their fort to reveal Mike (as Vito) with their flag, losing the challenge for the Rats. She received the first marshmallow of the night and was safe from elimination. She was also sad when B was eliminated from the competition.

In the beginning of Finders Creepers, Dawn is shown meditating in her cabin, when a firefly interrupts her, warning her that great evil is near. She takes this to be Chris, and is correct. Later, after Chris announces the challenge, Dawn and her team set out to find their first clue. After finding it in the base of a tree, Dawn reads the clue to determine where to go next. She identifies the next clue's location by the stars, and Scott deduces that they go northwest. Immediately afterwards, Dawn is taken by the "spider". The other Rats (aside from Sam) don't seem to care, and continue on without her. She is later shown in the spider's web, with the other captured contestants. She, along with the others were freed by Cameron, and her team wins the challenge due to Scott, and Sam.

In Backstabbers Ahoy!, Dawn spends most of her time collecting various pieces of nature, and puts them in a massive garbage bag. She then encounters Brick on his early morning run, and tells him that he was teased a lot as a child, thus resulting in his need to be dominated. At breakfast that morning, she tells Lightning that his chi has been shrunken. Lightning quickly denies this and steals her breakfast. While the first part of the challenge was underway, Dawn went off to collect more items, mostly seashells, and encountered Zoey, heartbroken over her situation with Mike supposedly liking Anne Maria. Dawn comforted her by telling her that she wouldn't be lonely forever, and that Mike liked her a lot. Dawn briefly mentioned that this was seen in his aura, or "the Mike parts of it." Zoey turned to question Dawn about this last comment, but when she turned around, Dawn had vanished. Dawn, along with Brick and Sam, was selected to be the water-skiers during the second portion of the challenge. She was noticeably horrified at the mutated seagulls, and ordered Scott to not fire anymore seagulls after two had already been shot. Nevertheless, the final seagull was fired when Scott aimed it at Sam's back while he was driving the boat. This caused their team to lose, and Dawn accused Scott of sabotaging them.

In the confessional, she declared Scott to be a traitor and vowed to expose his ways, unaware that he was eavesdropping on her from behind the outhouse. When Scott handed Dawn her garbage bag before the elimination ceremony, he dropped it and it spilled open, revealing all of the contestants' missing possessions. Thus, everyone in camp believed that Dawn had stolen their possessions, even though it was Scott who stole them and decided to make a last-minute switch to incriminate Dawn instead of Brick. Thus, at the elimination ceremony that night, when it came down to the bottom two of Scott and Dawn, Dawn was declared eliminated. Dawn frantically tried to save herself by revealing that she had found the McLean-Brand Chris Head, only to find out that it was a fake carved by Scott. She then frantically tried to warn her team about Scott, but Chef stuffed her into her own garbage bag and placed her in the Hurl of Shame, sending her flying off before she could warn them about Scott.

Dawn is mentioned by Scott in Runaway Model, when he lies to Zoey and tells her that all his team members voted off Dawn behind his back, and that she was the only one who could save Lindsay from Sasquatchanakwa.

Dawn reappears in Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown, where she supports Cameron to win. When the mutant animals begin to attack the cast, Dawn watches in horror as the Giant Tree Squid punches B repeatedly, causing her to question why her tea leaves couldn't predict the event would happen. She is later shown celebrating when Cameron wins the season, and leaves the island with the other contestants.

Total Drama Reloaded
Dawn was one of the only two contestants who had her name changed after Total Drama Reloaded; she was originally named Molly. She wore dark teal jeans and a white shirt. She had two red wristbands on her left wrist, light blue earrings (two traits recycled and given to Zoey). Some aspects remained the same, however, as both of her designs have pale skin and slightly similar facial expressions. Her jeans have been replaced by a black skirt over purple tights and her original white shirt was changed to a light blue dress shirt under a dark green sweater. Also, the brown shoes that she wore in her original design were changed to small black shoes, while her short, jet black hair was modified to long, light blonde hair.

Due to a tiny amount of similarities as well as a name change, the two may have been completely separate characters to begin with. Further evidence is that Caitlynne Medrek, Dawn's voice actor, mentioned in an interview that when she had originally auditioned for Molly, Dawn didn't exist, nor had she ever been mentioned yet.

Audition tape

 * View this video for Dawn's audition tape.

Dawn's audition begins with her greeting the "citizens of the universe." She then says her name and is recording this so she can participate in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. A squirrel jumps on her hand, and she calls it a blessed little one. Her tone of voice was noticeably softer at this point. She says that she had read her tea leaves that morning, and they said Total Drama would make her a lot of money. Then she states that money isn't important to her, and that nature and her animal friends are, petting the squirrel. She says she will win Total Drama and donate her money to help Mother Earth. Suddenly an eagle swoops down on them, taking the squirrel which ends the audition.

Trivia

 * Dawn is currently the first and only contestant in the series who has been implied to have supernatural powers.
 * She was able to make it all the way to the shore from the boat, far ahead of everyone else, and not get wet at all in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!.
 * In the same episode, Dawn seemed to levitate to the finish line.
 * She seems to have the ability to communicate with animals.
 * This ability allows her to make friends with the animals and mutated ones on the island.
 * She was able to detect which snowball is a regular snowball by detecting any presence of negative energy in Ice Ice Baby.
 * When Dawn cheered up Zoey over her problems with Mike in Backstabbers Ahoy, she seemed to show up instantaneously out of nowhere, and disappeared in the same manner.
 * In her Total Drama Online profile, she states that she is able to read one's future.
 * Throughout the fourth season, she reads her fellow campers' auras.
 * She has currently read B, Zoey, Dakota, Mike, Lightning, Scott, and Brick's aura.
 * Furthermore, the aura reading she does for Dakota in Truth or Laser Shark foreshadows her ultimate fate.
 * Dawn is the shortest of all the female contestants who debuted in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, and the second-shortest member of the new cast overall, being only taller than Cameron (the shortest contestant of the fourth season).
 * Dawn is the first new contestant to set foot on the island.
 * Coincidentally, Beth was also the shortest female out of the first generation cast, and was the first contestant overall to set foot on Camp Wawanakwa.
 * Dawn resembles Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series in terms of appearance.
 * Dawn is similar to the Marvel character Layla Miller, who also has the ability to see into the future. They have similar appearences and personalities.
 * Dawn is the fourth person to be seen meditating. The other three are Bridgette, Courtney, and Lindsay (who was taught by Bridgette).
 * She is also the first newcomer to be seen meditating.
 * She was the last remaining female on the Toxic Rats until Jo joined the team in Runaway Model.
 * Dawn is the only original female member of the Toxic Rats to not go bald.
 * Dawn, Gwen, Lindsay, and Izzy are the only female contestants to wear a skirt.
 * She is also the only one among the four that doesn't wear an outfit that exposes her cleavage.

Gallery
Overall=  tdri_dawn_174x252.png Dawn-Wallpaper.jpg Dawn14.png Total Drama: Revenge of the Island=  Vlcsnap-2012-01-07-00h25m31s76.png|Dawn in the opening. Dawn_on_the_Beach.jpg|Dawn makes it to the beach after the boat explodes without even getting wet... She_Took_a_Shortcut.jpg|...which she did by "taking a shortcut". Dawn_Knows_All.jpg|Dawn telling Zoey she knows that she had a lonely childhood. Dawn_the_Soul_Reader.jpg|Dawn says that Zoey's soul is an open book. Vlcsnap-2012-01-07-00h27m00s196.png|Dawn trying to comfort Zoey, but creeps her out instead. Wowamutantsquirrel.png|Dawn is noticeably upset when she sees how horribly mutated the squirrel is. Vlcsnap-2012-01-07-00h29m30s164.png|Dawn lands on Lightning's shoulder with ease. Vlcsnap-2012-01-07-00h30m00s201.png|Dawn holding the hacksaw. Glaring.png|Dawn glares at Staci along with the rest of her team. Image:Vlcsnap-2012-01-07-00h32m32s189.png|Dawn receives the fourth marshmallow in the first episode. File:Dawn_Upside_Down.jpg|Dawn speaking to a bird while hanging upside-down. File:Dawn_Knows_All_2.jpg|Dawn knows Dakota's desire for fame is a cry for love. File:Dawn_doesn't_eat_Worms.JPG|Dawn kindly declines the bird's offer of a worm. File:Dawn_Defends_B.jpg|Dawn points out to Chris that B never talks. File:Dawn_and_the_Rat.jpg|Dawn is handed the mutant rat. File:Dawn_and_the_Rat_2.JPG|Dawn understands the rat's warning about the cannon firing. File:Dawn_Dodges_Cannonfire.JPG|Dawn being successful in dodging. File:Dawn's_Pemonition.JPG|Dawn warning the others that something bad will happen to Dakota if she stays. File:Dawn's_Second_Marshmallow.JPG|Dawn receiving her second marshmallow. Image:Tdri.png|Dawn celebrating when the Toxic Rats win the first challenge in Ice Ice Baby. Image:Iceicebaby6.PNG|Dawn asks Scott if he is a beetle whisperer. Image:Dawn shocked.png|Dawn hears from Scott that B hates nature. Image:B may talk.png|Dawn watches B as he opens his mouth to talk. Image:Iceicebaby25.PNG|Dawn watches B take the Hurl of Shame. File:Dawnpj's.png|Dawn meditating in the cabin. Finders Creepers (2).png|Dawn is warned by a butterfly that evil is lurking. Finders Creepers (8).png|Dawn reads her team's clue. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (11).png|Dawn knows that Brick was teased as a child, which makes him embarrassed. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (16).png|Lightning steals Dawn's breakfast. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (37).png|Dawn comforts Zoey. BrickandDawn.jpg|Dawn skiing with Brick. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (47).png|Dawn vows to expose Scott for the traitor he is... Image:Backstabbers Ahoy.png|... but an eavesdropping Scott quickly learns her plan. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (52).png|The other campers refuse to believe that Dawn is innocent. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (53).png|Dawn and Scott are placed in the bottom two. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (55).png|Dawn glares at Scott, moments before... Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (56).png|...she is declared to be eliminated, and is given the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (57).png|Dawn reveals that she has found the McLean-Brand Chris Head, which turns out to be one of Scott's replicas. Image:Backstabbers Ahoy (60).png|Dawn takes the Hurl of Shame. Jo cheer.PNG|Dawn worries for Cameron. BVB19.PNG|Dawn didn't see B getting beaten up in her tea leaves. TDRI Alt. Ending 3.PNG|Dawn in the alternate ending.