User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 4/@comment-1874924-20180706073556

I can generally take or leave most of the canonical pairings. I noted in TDI-G&amp;S that Gwen and Trent's relationship had a serious flaw, to wit:: despite their obvious attraction, they were all too ready to believe the worst about each other. I personally think pretty much every girl who's ever been on the show is too good for Duncan. (Well, maybe not Staci.) Geoff and Bridgette were cute for a while, but became one-note, and Harold/Leshawna never really got off the ground. Heather/Alejandro didn't do much for me, although it was fun to watch these strong villains go all googoo-eyed over each other at the end of All-Stars. Mike/Zoey was meh, mainly because I like Zoey but not Mike. Vito/Anne Maria could have worked well given more screen time, but would more likely have become as one-note as Geoff/Bridgette. Sam/Dakota was pure nerd boy wish fullfillment, although it worked well enough on its own merits. I like both Shawn and Jasmine, but their pairing struck me as less than the sum of its parts. Sky would have been a good catch for Dave, but it was not to be. Ryan/Stephanie were amusing, but nothing more, and Carrie/Devin took too long to get off the ground.

And so, largely by process of elimination, my favorite canonical pairing is probably 'Noah and Emma in The Ridonculous Race. Emma toyed with Noah a little too much, but that was because she (quite reasonably) feared the distraction in the middle of the competition.

As for fanon pairings, I'm not really into the whole shipping thing, although you'd never know it from reading The Legend of Total Drama Island. (Speaking of which--SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT--over on fanfiction.net, LTDI just cracked the front page, i.e. Top 25, in the Most Favorites listing under the default K-T ratings filter. LTDI currently has 163 Favorites and 158 Follows.) The closest thing I have to an OTP, which is to say the only fanon pairing that has been so much as teased in more than one of my stories, is Beth and Ezekiel, two socially awkward characters with broadly similar backgrounds. This pairing has been teased in LTDI, and in Legacy, they got married and promptly started cranking out children.