User blog:DJ Spenstar/Thoughts on eliminated TDIn characters, part 1, and other news!

Now, before we get to business, I'd like to mention my latest fanfic, Diary of a Quiet Goth. DoaQG is a fanfic about Dyl from his point of view, in the form of diary entries, taking place the day before, and during, Total Drama Paradise. It's so much different to write for than Total Drama Insanity because it follows one character exclusively and... IDK, it just has a totally different feel to it.

Anyway, about TDIn, and the 11 people who were eliminated before the merge. If you have been following the story, you'd know that in the latest chapter, (written in chunks, one bit at a time) someone returns, and that before that, someone else returned as well. I'm going to mention that, so if you didn't read those two chapters of Total Drama Insanity yet, I advise that you do so before reading this.

(this was inspired by a very similar blog post of TDIwriter's)

Matt Tollin: At first, it was such a great idea. A famous character from a well-regarded author in my fanfic would yield great results and let it be known! Then I found out from Zeke Guy that Matt could only speak Japanese, not English, and it all went downhill from there, not to mention the fact that he was a ten-year-old, and not sixteen like the others. I also realized that I knew little about his personality besides his liking Gwen and hating Trent. With all that against me, I decided early on that Matt would be first to go. It was more of a hindrance than a help to me, and when there's a hindrance in your way, you pitch it out! I had Matt come back in Chapter 11 similar to Izzy's return in TDA, where Danny found him and he spent the night with his former team mates. I redid his personality, giving him knowledge of English and the personality of an annoying little brother (mainly to Zeke) I like Matt more this way, it makes writing for him very easy. He's also now an assistant to Chris, alongside Chef. I hope Ezekielguy likes this, because I'm not changing it back!

Harold: Harold's elimination was spur-of-the-moment. I decided before writing chapter four that DJ would go, but as I was writing Halle discussing voting with Katie and Amy, I realized that there was no way anyone would vote out DJ this early on. He was an asset to teh Shouting Spiders, DJ, and really nice. Plus, I was developing his relationship with Katie at the time, and there was no way I could throw that away. So while I was writing Katie and Amy's disagreeing, I asked myself, now what? Who'd go in DJ's place. And then it hit me, just like it hit Katie: Harold. I HATE Harold. His skills are not that great, he's a nerd, he has an over-inflated ego, and he rigged Courtney out! So I got him out. Before, I wanted to showcase Harold's mad skills, but when I wrote his elimination, I really didn't care. Spense's hatred of Harold (shown when he gloats to Harold) is my own. Bye-bye, nerdy!

Courtney: My last elimination before I made an elimination order that I would go on to change many, many times. Courtney was, at the time, leading her team to an extent, and I wanted Craig to somewhat take over that role. I also wanted my first eliminations to be veterans with plenty of character development (and almost made it to the merge, like Harold and Courtney) so that I could develop more personalities. It was fun writing this chapter, and I'm going to go back soon and add detail to Courtney's scolding of Eva when she got out at the hands of Tyler. I wanted Courtney's elimination to be based off of something she did, and it was her yelling at Eva that gave me the chance I needed. At the time I didn't see any other openings for elimination on the Murderous Mosquitoes' part, so it was bye-bye Courtney! Courtney was kind of fun writing for at times, but I was glad to have her gone.

Sammie: By this chapter I had an elimination order set, but it was not final, as I changed it many times. I realized that I had to give Sammie a personality, so I made her into an overly-friendly phycho for fun. I have no idea what the "Strawberry incident" Maya mentioned was, but It sparked said personality. It was a lot of fun writing for Sammie, and for Maya being annoyed by Sammie, in the chapter she was voted off in. It was also fun picturing her talent of speed-eating ravioli in my head as I wrote it. I swear someone barfed seeing Sammie do that. Deciding who Halle would convince to vote her off was spur-of-the-moment, but her elimination as antagonist fodder wasn't. Now in retrospect I kinda wish that I, I mean Halle, picked a different victim, because writing for Sammie sure was fun! But I can't fix that now because it would require LOTS of editing to the chapters after it, and I already had someone else return.

I would be covering more, but I just realized I gotta go update my character pages! I have a LOT of catching up to do! see 'ya!