User blog:CheeseBurgerGuy/Total Drama My Universe: The First Generation Cast Reveal

I want to welcome everyone to a new ambitious project of mine here on this wiki. After looking at the majority of My Way blogs, I noticed a pattern. Put simply, My Way series have always been our preferred elimination orders for a season.

Getting some inspiration from Flecther.wright2, I decided to present to you how Total Drama would look if I held the reigns on the franchise. This means that I can shift up the cast, add and remove seasons, and basically everything in-between. With the exception of the Total Drama unofficial rule of trying to keep contestants from getting the same placement twice, I will not really following traditional My Way blog standards. With that out of the way, let's get on the the cast reveal for the new first generation.

1. Duncan
Alright, let's get the obvious one out of the way. Everybody knowa by now that Duncan is my favorite first generation character by a longshot (I mean, even my profile photo is Duncan). Considering the first generation is going to consist of competitors who will most likely be getting the most screentime, this was inevitable.

It also doesn't hurt that Duncan is just generally one of the most versatile and complex characters in the entire franchise (granted, that's not saying much when half the characters are litteral gimics). Expect to be seeing a lot from the guy, but I will be trying to balance his screentime with other competitors.

2. Jasmine
Looking through all the characters, I wanted to pick those who would astheticlly fit in with the first three seasons' themes. Considering how Jasmine is an outdoorsy character, I thought she would make a great choice for the first season. Additonally, Jasmine fullfills multiple archetypes from the original Total Drama season. In particular, I could easily see taking some influcences from Bridgette, Leshawna and DJ's plotlines this season and adapting them to better fit Jasmine's character.

Unfortunatley, that also means that the three characters I mentioned above won't be competing. Furthermore, I also have no intention of including Shawn in this generation. While Shawn might be my favorite thrid generation character, I want the cast to start out as being more grounded than those that will follow. Shawn is anything but grounded. Furthermore, this will allow Jasmine to have more plot potential going into the second generation and beyond.

3. Owen
Much like Duncan, there was no way that Owen wasn't going to debut in the first generation. No matter your personal feelings on Owen as a character, you can't deny that Owen is in many respects the closest thing Total Drama has to a mascot. Additionally, Owen provides a type of gross humor that, while I am personally going to be toning down, really only ever worked with Owen. This also makes Owen an extremely versatile comic relief character that could both be a winner and first boot and nobody would blink an eye because of his archetype.

4. Izzy
I know I said I wanted more grounded characters in the first generation, but how could I not include Izzy? Not only does she fullfill a similar role as Owen with another type of humor, but asthetically she could only come in during a season with the Island asthetic. Futhermore, Izzy and Owen are a package duo. While you could argue the same for Jasmine and Shawn, both of these character's plots other than just being funny are revolved around each other in the earlier seasons (until Noah befriends Owen that is).

5. Ezekiel
I know a lot of people aren't a fan of this guy, but Zeke fullfils a unique purpose on this cast. The characters of this generation have to be both great early boots and/or have the potential for a lot of devlopment. As much as others might not agree (I'm looking one person on this wiki in particular), I think a redemption arc for Zeke down the road is certainly possible. Even then, his feral state would give me enough to work on if I decided to go that route instead. Overall, another versatile character (huh, I wonder if thers's a pattern).

6. Jo
I've always thought that Jo and Eva were basically the same character. While I would like to bring in the latter into the season, I think the first generation should go to the character with more too them. Addtionally, this will give me the ability to generally re-work Eva as a character so that she's more than just the She-Hulk.

As for Jo herself, she's another...do I even need to say it? She has great potential as a main antagonist but could kind of take any other role you offer her. One of the better OG Revenge characters in my opinion.

7. Lightning
Obviously, if I'm going to be doing a season like this, I needed either Tyler or Lightning to fullfill the traditonal jock archetype. I decided Lightning was a better choice considering, in my opinion, that his brand of humor is more needed in a season like this. I mean, I guess the whole dumber than a bag of bricks thing could be filled by Ezekiel, but we also will be having other characters that could be slapstick like Tyler.

I think the big deal breaker in favor of Tyler is that Ezekiel is going to be in the season. Generally, I wanted to avoid having even two of Pete's characters in the same cast due to similar sounding voices and similar asthetics.

Lightning also just has more of the v-word going for him than Tyler considering we've seen him go from winner to first boot of his team on the very next season in canon.

TBC
I wanted to establish half of the cast before taking a break, but it's around this time where deciding who comes in next is extremley difficult. As such, I'm going to be calling a break here.

If you guys have any suggestions on who you would like to see in this cast (ex. characters you think would work good with those already chosen), then let me know down in the comments. Until next update.