User blog:Indi26/Total Drama Menagerie: Concept announcement and auditions

4 authors, 1 zoo, 0 author collaboration after the characters are determined. One author's favorite to win could be the first another eliminates...

Welcome to the auditions and announcements for Total Drama Menagerie! This fic will be written by Mrodd, Jess, Bbhinton, and myself. I was nominated to write the starting blog for the sole reason that I have the least amount of stuff to do at the moment (unless you count the things I'm procrastinating on, but I digress.)

Now, the name is simple enough. This fic is going to take place in a zoo, emptied of visitors but not animals. Chris Maclean and Chef are going to be the hosts, with possible intern guest stars. Simple enough, right? Well, there are a few gimmicks...

One of the gimmicks to this fic is that once the characters are decided and their concepts finalized, there will be no collaboration between the four authors until the final two contestants are determined. This means that the only one who knows what will happen for the next chapter is that one author, the other three are clueless. There will be 22 contestants, a mix of audition-chosen and author-created. That means the authors will cycle five times around before the finale, which will be a collaborative effort.

Some reminders for the authors:


 * All challenges and major story action must take place inside or around the zoo. (Flashbacks and glimpses of home life are exempt from this rule.)


 * There must be one and only one elimination per chapter. No non-elims or double-elims.


 * No returnees or debuts.


 * No drasticly changing a character from the finalized characterization agreed-upon during the brainstorming process.


 * No revealing or sharing ideas for your current chapter until it is posted. One of the themes of this fic is that each author is solely responsible for the content in their chapters.

Now, to the characters! We're probably going to use around 10 characters from auditions. Please submit character information in a comment to the blog. Please include name, gender, stereotype, a brief description, and a reason for joining Total Drama. Any extra information is up to you, but if you give us a book of backstory don't be surprised if you're not picked. If your character isn't picked, it's nothing against you personally, but more like the character didn't fit with the others we decided on.

Also, the Indi clause, so named because Indi was the most adamant about it:

Please do NOT submit a character that was accepted into another story. Any character that has been accepted into another story will not be considered. Also, if your character is very clearly based off a celebrity or fictional character, it will be highly unlikely they will be chosen. (Using a different character for a basic inspiration is fine.)

Auditions will remain open for five days. On July 26th, the chosen characters will be posted, provided everything goes as planned.

Good luck and happy reading!

<3 Indi