User blog comment:CheeseBurgerGuy/Total Drama My Universe: The First Generation Cast Reveal/@comment-24623255-20191128041713/@comment-24623255-20191128061806

With the premergers I went based off of potential interactions and shock factor, as well being realistic and later seasons. Noah is an easy first boot like you mentioned who could better things in a later season. Give Beth 4 or so episodes and a few people to hate on her and she's good to go. Like Noah, she could shine later on. Crimson is the first shock factor boot that can be expanded on in later seasons. Brick I intially had going farther but fourth boot I think fits because that's 9 or so episodes give or take, so that's enough time to flesh out his character. Izzy and Lightning are both gag boots; they can have a good amount of episodes of them being them and then you can send them home. Jasmine is the second shock boot. Like Izzy and Lightning, Owen is a gag boot, but has more to offer. I figured he works as a good late pre merger. Finally, Ezekiel is the last boot. He and Harold were initially swapped but I think the entire pre-merge, or half of that even (which I would prefer lol) works for him to have that redemption arc a lot of you guys want for him.