Heather (TDI-G&S)



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Characterization
Heather is the resident “queen bee”. Ruthless and unscrupulous, she is the Season 1 villain, and the Guide to Incidents frequently refers to her as “the Dark Queen”. Her ethics do have one redeeming virtue, namely that she (sometimes) appears to draw the line at bloodshed. (When the horror movie challenge went awry, and her enemy Gwen  came into genuine peril of life and limb, Heather was as appalled as everyone else; but in the final challenge, Heather was clearly relishing the prospect of Gwen being eaten by sharks.)

Strikingly beautiful—probably second only to Lindsay  in this regard—it is somewhat surprising that Heather never feigned romantic interest in one boy or another to gain his cooperation. (The compromising incident she staged with Trent  had a different purpose.) Heather has the most expressive eyes of all the characters.

Haughty in the extreme, Heather’s attitudes toward her fellow contestants generally ranged from dismissive to openly contemptuous. She is the genre-savvy strategist, but her inability to view the other contestants with any genuine respect significantly impaired the effectiveness of her strategizing. Most notably, she threw away her best chance to send Gwen packing early in the competition, preferring to inflict a petty humiliation instead, and eventually paid the price.

Heather, like Courtney, became the leader of her team, and for the same reasons: partly by strength of personality, and partly by default. Heather is one of several TDI characters with a reasonably close analog (Scaphio in Utopia, Limited) in the Gilbert &amp; Sullivan  series.