User blog:Freefalling Lilacs/Possible New Story Concept (Oh, and a TDI:FYE Episode List)

This blog post surprisingly isn’t Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment related. I’m obviously still working on that story like crazy and it will always be my main writing priority, though I’ve kind of been thinking about starting a second, very different story to work on at the same time. TDI:FYE ended up getting a much better reception on this wiki than I thought it would, but I’m kind of interested in also writing something using the original Total Drama characters that isn’t a competition story. So I revived an old concept I’d thought about using when I was only on Fanfiction.net and decided I liked it enough that I might end up writing it. So I figured why not run it by you guys and see if anybody would be interested.

(Also, for anybody who’s here just for TDI:FYE there’s an episode list at the end of the blog post.)

Summary
See what’s to come before it happens, make you see what they wants you to see, die and come back, kill you with a single touch…

It’s an occurrence like no other: teenagers appear to be doing things that are beyond human capabilities. An organization known as The Producers is trying to keep these teens a secret for the general public’s safety. They are being gathered on a mysterious island known only as Camp Wawanakwa to be studied in an attempt to find the cure. Something sinister seems to be brewing on the island though, and soon the teens begin disappearing one by one. Left with no alternative options, the others have to find a way to escape what was supposed to be their safe haven without vanishing like the others.

Pretty much it’s an AU PG-13 story involving all twenty-two original campers (and eventually Alejandro and Sierra) told from the third person point of view. It’s dark and a bit creepy at times, but I personally think it could turn out well. While it starts with Gwen as the main character, as more of the cast comes into play the focus quickly covers everybody else as well, and by the end the main character is clearly somebody totally different.

So you guys can kind of get a peek at the way I'm thinking about writing this, I happen to have these two scenes written up for you to try and figure out:

Preview 1
''Tap tap. Tap tap.''

Fingers drummed against the thick table, the only disturbance to the long minutes of straight silence.

''Tap tap. Tap tap.''

A rickety lamp dangling from the ceiling swung slowly back and forth, the moving light reflecting off of the syringe lying on the floor. The needle on the edge of the syringe was bent in an unnatural zigzag.

''Tap tap. Tap tap.''

A thick eyebrow lowered over a pair of piercing amber eyes, and a hoarse voice snapped into the air. “Well?”

The angular woman sitting at the opposite end of the table put down the stack of papers she had been examining. She removed her reading glasses and slipped them into the breast pocket of her coat. “Eva, you know we’re trying. We have done a lot of research, but it is difficult to-”

“Try harder!” The muscular girl with the golden eyes curled her hand into a fist. “You’re supposed to be the best! Why can’t you fix it?!”

“Things like this take time, Eva-”

“You don’t get it!” She brought her fist down on the table. “I want it gone! I need it gone! I can’t live with this anymore!”

“Miss Rusenovski, please,” The mousy haired woman glared. “Have you not been working on controlling your anger? You know that we all want the same thing here-”

Eva snorted. “We. You always say that, but there is no ‘we’. You would never dare associate yourself with us freaks, and that’s why you trap us here.”

“It’s for the safety of-”

“What do you think we are? Weapons?!” Eva’s fingers curled around the edge of the table. “I was normal like you once! Normal until you stole me from my home and locked away on this piece of crap that you call an island! I am not a monster, and neither are the others out there!”

“All we want is to protect you and the general public.”

“There you go with that ‘we’ again!”

The irate girl clenched her fist, and a sickening snap filled the room. When the sound reached her ears, her narrowed eyes and bared teeth were replaced with a softer, dejected expression. Her shoulders remained tense as she lowered her head in an attempt to hide her face and headed for the door.

“You don’t get it…” Eva’s once strong voice had transformed into a whimper. “All I want is to go home.”

When she heard the door click shut, the older woman picked up a broom from the corner of the room and swept away the fragments of what had once been the end of a sturdy table that were littering the ground.

Preview 2
Her mother used to tell her that it was the angels telling her secrets. The secrets were for her ears only, her mother had said while her knuckles turned white around the cross dangling from her neck, so she couldn’t tell anybody else that they spoke or what they said.

“But Mama,” Her ten year old self had said one day. “I hear your voice too.”

“No, sweetie, you don’t.”

Afraid, the angel that sounded like her mother whispered in her ear. ''They will all be afraid of her. They’ll run away screaming.''

“You’re talking to me now, Mama.” The stupid little girl had said, disobeying her mother’s orders for the first time.

“You’re saying people will be scared. Scared of what, Mama?”

“Honey, the voices lying to you. They were-”

Her mother was blocked out by more whispers. “The angels are saying that you want to send me away. If you could just find somewhere to send me, you would-”

“Sweetheart, stop!”

''Lock the door. Throw away the key. They can fix her… somebody will fix her.''

“Am I broken, Mama?” Big, dark eyes stared up at her trapped mother.

“No, Courtney, you’re perfect. You aren’t supposed to be hearing any of this.”

“If I wasn’t supposed to hear it, then why would the angels tell it to me?”

Because the angels aren’t real, her mother’s voice snarled in her head. ''My baby will be alright. This is just a phase, it will all go away. Just blame the angels and the lie will be forgotten.''

“Why are you lying to me, Mama?” The little girl had sniffled.

“Don’t listen to that voice, honey!” Her mother had shouted. "That isn’t an angel, it’s a demon in disguise! She is the one lying to you!”

“O-okay. If you say so…”

From that day onward, Courtney Hillshire never believed in angels and demons. She also never believed in her mother, as it seemed whenever she listened to her she drowned deeper and deeper in her lies.

And when she was sent to the island three years later, there was only one good thing about it. She only heard the same few voices here, and none of them dared to get close to her. There were three others here who were trapped just like she was, and as the sarcastic monotone, menacing growl, and nostalgic wheeze echoed through her head she found herself happier and happier that they weren’t her mother. These voices remained in her head even when she was alone, though she eventually grew used to them.

More and more arrived on the island and she adjusted to the new guests in her head one by one. Most of the new arrivals were afraid of her, their voices screaming that they didn’t want her hearing their secrets.

Only one wasn’t afraid of her, a boy with brightly colored hair and a cold look in his teal eyes who arrived a year after she had. He wasn’t afraid of her hearing what his mind had to say, and sometimes it seemed like he wanted her to hear it. His voices always told her horrible things that he’d done in the past, and for the first time she hated somebody for not being afraid.

And On a Lighter Note: A TDI:FYE Episode List
I'm sure not all of you are into the style of my possible new story, so I figured why not add some TDI: For Your Entertainment in here too. Obviously I'm not going to spoil the challenges for you, but I can give you the names of the episodes and you can try and take a guess as to what the challenges are going to be.


 * 04: Safest Catch


 * 05: Sing Your Heart Out


 * 06: … (I’m not positive on this one yet)


 * 07: Fire Insults at Will


 * 08: Teeth


 * 09: Flashing Lights


 * 10: Thirteen


 * 11: All I Want is Revenge


 * 12: Wolf in Teen’s Clothing


 * 13: Model Madness


 * 14: Seeing Orange


 * 15: Welcome to Major City


 * 16: Flashback


 * 17: After Elimination


 * 18: Blackout

There's a total of 21 episodes, but I can't spoil the names of the last three for you. Obviously some of them are more obvious than the others as the what the challenge is (Sing Your Heart Out, Model Madness), but I think a few of the others are pretty vague so have some fun guessing as to what they are.

Oh, and I'd love feedback on the story idea!