User blog:DJ Spenstar/Total Drama Insanity: The Final Three!

So, we're down to the final three on my pride and joy, Total Drama Insanity. I second guessed myself a lot throughout the course of the story, changing the intended final three countless times before finally going with what I had originally planned. Let's take a look at the three finalists left!

Let's start with the only girl in the final three, and come to think of it, the final five. Maya was meant to have a much sadder story at the beginning, becoming a mental wreck because of the eliminations of Sammie and her brother, Noah. This also fits her recovering goth style, as she has always wanted to put her past behind her and move on with her life, but her goth-hood constantly haunts her. In the beginning, she was merely a secondary character, shoved to the backseat by the twin villains and couples. I had at first planned for her to be with Tyler, but quickly rejected the idea as my attention was focused on other characters and I hadn't thought much of Maya.

Maya's time in the limelight came after many of the couples had ran their courses and were separated, including the time-consuming Julie-Spense-Halle love triangle which took screen time away from pretty much everyone else. After Halle's elimination, I decided to fulfill a promise to myself and develop more seemingly minor characters, one of which being Maya. After re-reading Chapter 15 shortly after putting it onto the wiki, I found that I loved what I had done with Maya's personality and decided to give her more screen time and more development. At that point, an idea came to my mind that had been put aside for months: the idea of a relationship between her and Tyler. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it, and before I knew it, I was sacrificing Julie's screen time for a breakup between Tyler and Lindsay, and Maya comforting him. And so, a couple was born! Maya became a happier person with Tyler, and an amazing character. Overall, I loved writing for Maya, and will enjoy it for the final two chapters.

Fun fact about Maya: Her name was originally Tori. However, this changed to Maya after finding out that the name Tori was already taken. Her name change also brought her recovering goth personality.

Moving on to the only "TDI person" left in the final four and three, Tyler. Tyler was actually the main reason why Total Drama Insanity was born in the first place. Tyler, in TDI, didn't get enough development and character from the producers, so I decided to take matters into my own hands by putting him into my own story, as a full and true jock with loads of athletic ability. I had a feeling that this was what Tyler was supposed to be in the first place. Tyler was always one of the characters to get my attention the most, and I loved working with his personality, molding it into whatever I wanted it to be. Tyler is pure awesomeness in my opinion, in my story at least. And slowly, he became almost nothing like the Tyler we knew before.

Tyler in TDI had four major personality traits: a love for sports, being bad at sports, an irrational fear of chickens, and his relationship with Lindsay. After nineteen chapters of character development, only one remains: his love for sports. From the very beginning, Tyler was a full jock. At first, I wanted to expand my hold on his personality by putting him in a relationship with Maya

So, we're down to the final three on my pride and joy, Total Drama Insanity. I second guessed myself a lot throughout the course of the story, changing the intended final three countless times before finally going with what I had originally planned. Let's take a look at the three finalists left!

Let's start with the only girl in the final three, and come to think of it, the final five. Maya was meant to have a much sadder story at the beginning, becoming a mental wreck because of the eliminations of Sammie and her brother, Noah. This also fits her recovering goth style, as she has always wanted to put her past behind her and move on with her life, but her goth-hood constantly haunts her. In the beginning, she was merely a secondary character, shoved to the backseat by the twin villains and couples. I had at first planned for her to be with Tyler, but quickly rejected the idea as my attention was focused on other characters and I hadn't thought much of Maya.

Maya's time in the limelight came after many of the couples had ran their courses and were separated, including the time-consuming Julie-Spense-Halle love triangle which took screen time away from pretty much everyone else. After Halle's elimination, I decided to fulfill a promise to myself and develop more seemingly minor characters, one of which being Maya. After re-reading Chapter 15 shortly after putting it onto the wiki, I found that I loved what I had done with Maya's personality and decided to give her more screen time and more development. At that point, an idea came to my mind that had been put aside for months: the idea of a relationship between her and Tyler. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it, and before I knew it, I was sacrificing Julie's screen time for a breakup between Tyler and Lindsay, and Maya comforting him. And so, a couple was born! Maya became a happier person with Tyler, and an amazing character. Overall, I loved writing for Maya, and will enjoy it for the final two chapters.

Fun fact about Maya: Her name was originally Tori. However, this changed to Maya after finding out that the name Tori was already taken. Her name change also brought her recovering goth personality.

Moving on to the only "TDI person" left in the final four and three, Tyler. Tyler was actually the main reason why Total Drama Insanity was born in the first place. Tyler, in TDI, didn't get enough development and character from the producers, so I decided to take matters into my own hands by putting him into my own story, as a full and true jock with loads of athletic ability. I had a feeling that this was what Tyler was supposed to be in the first place. Tyler was always one of the characters to get my attention the most, and I loved working with his personality, molding it into whatever I wanted it to be. Tyler is pure awesomeness in my opinion, in my story at least. And slowly, he became almost nothing like the Tyler we knew before.

Tyler in TDI had four major personality traits: a love for sports, being bad at sports, an irrational fear of chickens, and his relationship with Lindsay. After nineteen chapters of character development, only one remains: his love for sports. From the very beginning, Tyler was a full jock. At first, I wanted to expand my hold on his personality by putting him in a relationship with Maya, but I decided against it for fear of having too many couples going on at once. I put Tyler in a bromance-alliance called the "Shouting Brothers" with DJ and Spense early on because I liked writing for it, and also to parallel the guy's alliance in TDI. With each chapter I enjoyed writing for Tyler more and more, and especially after my love triangle was gone. When Maya became a major character, I decided to bring back my idea of a Tyler-Maya relationship, starting with his breakup with Lindsay, the only real obstacle, and then just creating the relationship with ease. Finally, I knew that I had to tackle the final test for Tyler: his fear of chickens. In my most recent chapter, I gave the fear a backstory and let Tyler conquer it. That was when I claimed full victory over Tyler's original personality. Overall, writing for Tyler made me grow as a writer in between the first chapters and now, and I'm glad of it.

Fun fact about Tyler: My portrayal of him won me a prize at the Wiki's 1st anniversary awards ceremony!

Finally, let’s talk about Damien for a while. Damien was created with the sole purpose of creating drama, and lots of it. His concept idea was an awkward nerdy guy, like a male Beth, and his storyline was nearly identical to the way it turned out to be: suckered into an alliance with Craig, and then breaking away. I decided that this would be too similar to Beth’s TDI storyline, and I just couldn’t turn my favorite TDI character (Trent) into a nerd, so I made him a Goth instead. Damien’s relationship with Daisy was created for the drama as well, and to give Damien a reason and motivation to rebel from Craig. And from the moment I created his character, I knew that he’d make it this far, and I knew exactly where he would place.

Unlike with Tyler and Maya, I can’t say much about Damien that I haven’t said before. Everything about Damien and his journey through the story, I had planned from the start. No uncertainty about his relationship with Daisy, no uncertainty about him rebelling from Craig and making it farther than him, no uncertainty about him changing his outfit, either. I did love writing for his development and how he changed so much from the start to now. He’s my most touched upon character, and one of my all-time favorites to writer for, the others being, well, Maya and Tyler! And Spense, too.

Fun fact about Damien: He is the first (and so far, only) character in the history of this wiki to undergo a permanent outfit change. If I am wrong about this, please correct me.

It has been so much fun writing for these characters, and I hope you guys enjoyed them as much as I did! Wait, there’s still two more weeks left! Rock on!! -- D J   Spen  star!  18:59, October 31, 2009 (UTC)