Daniel (SS)

Daniel, stereotyped as The Jock, is a character in the Second Season series by Fedora Kid. He was a camper in Total Drama Island: Second Season and was on the Flaming Bears. He is 17, six-foot two, perfectly tan, very muscular, has brown hair in a buzz cut, and piercing brown eyes.

The Campers
It is unknown when Daniel stepped off the boat, as he was instead introduced and described while the teams were being formed. Daniel was the one who caught his team's - The Flaming Bears' - banner, and seemed very enthusiastic. At lunch that day, Daniel confronted Chef on serving them milk that had expired in 2005, but Chef intimidated him into silence.

The 1,000-foot Climb
Daniel participated in the third round, facing off against Joshua. Both made it to the top, bringing the score to three to two in the Bears' favor. The Bears eventually lost that night, and Daniel was the 2nd to receive a marshmallow due to already having invincibility.

Don't Touch the Food
In the Starve-a-thon, Daniel was one of the last three campers remaining in the challenge, along with Matthew and Peter. Eventually, however, he caved in on the sixth day and ate some carrots and some pizza, leaving it up to Matthew to win for the Bears, which he eventually did.

Dodgebrawl 2
When it was revealed what the challenge would be, Daniel was one of the most excited for it, along with Matthew, while most others were rather upset about it. He subsequently participated in every round of the game, and was one of the superstars of the Bears in the challenge, along with Matthew and Ruth. The Bears eventually won the challenge thanks to Matthew.

Total Drama Island: Second Season
In the Bears' skit, Daniel offered to play the mountainous assistant, Cook Machete. Although his character rarely spoke, he was one of the most significant leading roles, although the role's influence - Chef Hatchet - didn't seem to catch the obvious parody. The Bears won the challenge once again.

The Island of The Dead
When the challenge was announced and the Bears were split into groups, Daniel was paired with Isaiah. They started some small talk discussing The House of the Dead, the game that was clearly the inspiration for this challenge, when Isaiah felt that he was being watched. Tim, who was watching them, eventually caught Isaiah, but Daniel shot both of them and ran. Before leaving the area, he snatched Isaiah's discarded gun and left with both of them in hand. Daniel didn't appear again until it was down to Matthew, Violet, and Samantha for the Bears, when the latter heard a bush rustling nearby and wildly shot at it, only to discover that it was just Daniel hiding behind it. When Samantha saw a shape dart behind a tree, she and Daniel moved to take it down, successfully eliminating Rachael, who had become a zombie. When Jeremy tagged Samantha out shortly after, however, Daniel took off with Matthew and Violet. They were soon confronted by the 12 previously-eliminated contestants, in which Violet and Matthew were eliminated. Daniel managed to shoot out Ruth and Peter before John suddenly appeared behind him and tagged him out, thus sending the Bears to te Bonfire. In the end, only Daniel, Ruth, and Jennifer had gained invincibility, and Daniel was the first to receive a marshmallow.

Not Quite Famous 2
At the end of the Bears' auditions, Daniel was selected as the third and final act for the Bears, having jumped over five consecutive hurdles and done 100 jumping jacks in under a minute. However, on the way to the amphitheater, Peter dropped a banana peel in front of Daniel, who was behind him. Daniel instantly slipped on it and sprained his ankle, thus forcing the Bears to replace him with Ruth instead. No one ever found out who the culprit was. This eventually led to the Bears' downfall in the challenge, as Ruth failed her act miserably (albeit, once Peter intervened for a second time), and the Bears lost. Daniel was the 6th to receive a marshmallow, and his replacement, Ruth, was the one sent home that night.

The UCC (Ultimate Crash Course)
Daniel, having recovered from his injury in the previous episode, volunteered to do the third and final part of the challenge for the Bears: The dive off the 1,000-foot cliff and the swim back to the Dock of Shame. In this episode, it was revealed in a flashback that Daniel and Matthew had shared a friendly conversation in which the latter gave the former a brief explanation of the true nature of sharks, and that they were generally only attracted to rapid splashing or blood. This information helped Daniel out greatly, as he found himself surrounded by sharks as he neared the Dock. By remaining calm and taking long, soft strokes, he reached the Dock of Shame without incident while his rival, Josh, was caught up in the shark frenzy, and Daniel won the challenge for the Bears.

The Sucky Outdoors 2
When the Bears arrived at their campsite, Daniel took the initiative to take charge, and he, Rachael, and Matthew began pitching the tent. Later, when the team decided that the only suitable source of food was fish, Daniel volunteered to go catch some fish. Matthew told him to take the compass in case he got lost, and Daniel headed off with the compass to catch some fish. Later, just as Daniel brought in a fairly decent bundle of fish, the team ran by as an angry bear pursued them. In his panic, Daniel dropped the compass, which the bear stepped on and destroyed before it stopped to eat all of Daniel's newly-caught fish. Eventually, the team lost the bear by luring it right up to Sasquatchanakwa, and the two started fighting. By the time the team began realizing that the compass was missing, they had run around aimlessly so much to escape from the bear and were thoroughly lost in the woods. This resulted in a heated argument in which the blame was put on Matthew, for giving the compass to Daniel in the first place, by Samantha and Jennifer, while Violet and Luke tried putting blame on Daniel for dropping the compass. The team lost the challenge to the Squirrels, who had a much better night with a decent shelter and little conflict, and the Bears went to the Bonfire. Surprisingly enough, the bottom two wasn't Daniel and Matthew, but Daniel and Samantha. However, Daniel received the final marshmallow, sparing him despite his mistake, and Samantha was instead sent home for antagonizing Matthew.

Wawanakwa Scavenger Hunt
Despite his rather poor performance and near-elimination in the last challenge, Daniel quickly regained his status as a strong asset when he was placed in the Bears' only 3-member group, with Rachael and Jennifer. He came up with a solution to win the challenge for the Bears once again: Retrieve Chef Hatchet's chef hat, the most valuable item on the list at exactly 1,000 points. He tried to scope out the main lodge, only for Chef to discover him and kick him out. But Daniel wasn't ready to give up. Although it was never clearly revealed how he and the two girls did it, it was shown that the scheme they came up with to retrieve Chef's chef hat involved Jennifer wearing some kind of bird-like outfit, Rachael holding a flute and with a giant pink snake wrapped around her, and Daniel with the prized hat in hand. This managed to bring the Bears up to 4,600 points; just 100 points ahead of the Squirrels' score, winning the challenge for the Bears and fully redeeming himself.

Phobia Factor 2
Daniel was the last person to admit what his fear was, and was noticeably reluctant about admitting it: Junk food. Although this seemed relatively insignificant to most of the others, Daniel was clearly deathly afraid of junk food, since it made him "out of shape." Fittingly, as Daniel was the last to reveal his fear, he didn't do his challenge until later in the episode, being the 12th camper to go and the 7th and final member of the Bears to go. His challenge was to eat an entire giant chocolate cake. While quite scared, he was determined to win and ate the entire cake in 10 minutes, bringing the score to four to three in the Bears' favor. Although Joshua managed to tie the score, Matthew was the tiebreaker and scored the fifth and final point, winning the challenge for the Bears.

Return to Boney Island
When Chris suddenly appeared and was "dying" in front of the campers, Daniel was almost instantly the first to call Chris's bluff, trying his hardest to convince the others that it was clearly a set-up for their next challenge and that it was fake. He got rather blunt with his argument, calling everyone else "saps" for believing it. Suddenly, at that moment, a "zombie" appeared from a bush behind Daniel. Many people instantly ran off, but Daniel was still not convinced. The zombie then came up to him and smacked him in the back of the neck, hitting a pressure point and knocking him clean out. It dragged him off into the bushes, eliminating the only skeptic to the whole ordeal. Thus, Daniel was absent for the rest of the episode until the very end, when the challenge was over and Chris and the eliminated campers appeared. When Chris informed them that it was just a challenge, Daniel simply said, "I told ya so!" However, it was this arrogance that sealed his fate, as the Bears lost the challenge that night when Isaiah, their last member standing, was eliminated. At the Bonfire, it was Daniel who was in the bottom two with Isaiah, and Daniel was voted off by the viewers due to being the first eliminated, never shooting a single zombie, and due to being so arrogant. As an infuriated Daniel left, he told the rest of the Bears that they had just lost their best player.