A Total Drama fanfic by agreenparrot
The cast is comprised of twenty original characters, each trying to be the last camper remaining and winning the grand cash prize. Unlike the original Total Drama Island, the campers have to provide their own shelter and food. As an added twist, all campers eliminated before the merge are sent to a different island where they are given a chance to return.
The story follows a strong theme of Grey-and-Gray Morality with most heroes being flawed and no villains being purely evil.
The story is now complete and the author has started a sequel, Total Drama Strandarama, featuring twenty new characters competing.
It can be found here
Now has a character sheet.
In 2013, the author announced plans for an All-Star season, a Crossover of sorts between his first three seasons. Desdemona, Ilona, Jojo, Keith, Misha, Riley and Stanley from this story will be competing.
For the sister fanfics by the same author, see Total Drama Switcheroo, Total Drama Refresh and the currently in progress Uber Drama Island.
This fanfic Total Drama Stranded provides examples of:
- The Ace: Garfield. An overall nice guy with a vast array of skills.
- Aerith and Bob: Esme, Garfield, and Ilona are much more uncommon than Keith, Stanley, Chelsea and Riley.
- Alpha Bitch: Played with. Chelsea is a cheerleader who likes taking charge but she is not mean. Pamela however, firmly believes Chelsea is one for most of the story.
- Ambiguously Gay: Keith. He kisses Stanley to make him feel better, which is followed with a confessional where he states his own sexuality is "irrelevant" and that he just wants to keep Stanley on his side. Whether he is gay or not is never made clear.
- Anticlimax Boss: In-Universe. After building up the entire premerge that Misha has incredible strength and will be great at challenges, she is the first one eliminated at the merge. The author points out this was the intent of their arc.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Calvin wins, despite being a major Jerkass.
- Back for the Dead: Rusty. The author confirms he was only brought back so that he could screw himself over again.
- The Big Damn Kiss: At the end of a romance based challenge, the campers are all asked to kiss. Elijah and Desdemona make the biggest scene out of it.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Several characters use this tactic. Misha stands out as the prime example.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Nearly everyone has their flaws and sympathetic moments, as well s motivations for their various strategies. However, many contestants do have their especially relentless or rude moments.
- A Lighter Shade of Grey: However, some contestants are definitely portrayed as being nicer than others, such as Ilona and Garfield compared to Misha and Jason.
- Break the Haughty: Briony goes from bossy to broken pretty fast.
- Casanova Wannabe: Elijah flirts with every girl he sees.
- Cassandra Truth: Pamela seems to be the only one to see the true side of characters like Misha and Keith; yet since she's a jerk to everyone, they are hesitant to believe her.
- Character Check: After spending the last few chapters getting cuddly with Elijah, Desdemona regretfully uses him as another scapegoat like she had done with so many others since she does not want to lose.
- The Chessmaster: Keith will frequently remind you that he has everyone in his pocket.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander:
- Subverted with Desdemona who only acts that way to avoid attracting negative attention.
- Esme seems to be somewhat psychic and is very emotionally detached.
- Sasha behaves like a knight and is in her own world half the time.
- The Cloud Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Despite not really being a psychic, a couple of Desdemona's predictions end up coming true.
- Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Jason, who demands that everyone help him since he is blind but snaps at anything he construes as pity.
- Easily Forgiven: Desdemona admits to Elijah that she used him as a scapegoat. He forgives her instantly. Bonus points for also being the only one to forgive her for lying to all of them about being a psychic.
- Enemy Mine: Occasionally, certain characters will team up with others they don't like to get rid of bigger threats. Pamela is a prime example, as while she doesn't like a lot of people, she hates Keith even more.
- Elimination Houdini: Rusty thinks he's this. He's not
- Played straight with Keith, who is in the bottom two almost every challenge post merge.
- Everybody Lives: The reward challenges during the first third. These were added to give the characters time to develop instead of constant eliminations shrinking the cast too quickly.
- Expy: Shannon, like Justin from canon, thinks she can use her looks to get members of the opposite gender to do what she wants
- Freudian Excuse: Calvin explains his high school had a social hierarchy where showing weakness leads to getting crushed. He uses this as his excuse or wanting to have power over others.
- Freudian Trio: Calvin, The Superego, Jojo, The Ego, and Elijah, The Id.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Ten male Contestants and ten female contestants. The teams even start out an even 5-5.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Defied in the romance challenge in which Chelsea and Misha are paired up. When it comes time for the kiss they find it too awkward and don't go through with it.
- Graying Morality: Starts of with some fairly straightforward heroes and villians, before everyone begins to show flaws and sympathies. Chelsea stands out as a prime example, staring off as a conventionally good character, than becoming more rounded out.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Elijah realizes the consequences of his behavior, he vows to become a nicer person.
- I Did What I Had to Do: How Desdemona justifies eliminating Garfield as well as eliminating her own boyfriend.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Pamela says this a couple times. In a bit of a twist, it's not because she really wants to win, she simply just wants to screw everyone over.
- Incompatible Orientation: Shannon hits on Stanley the minute she sees him, unaware of the fact he is gay.
- Irony: Elijah, the guy who tries flirting with every girl he sees, rejects Shannon when she repeatedly tries to throw herself at him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Pamela, who is only a jerk to people who she thinks deserve it. Unfortunately, that's almost everyone.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Calvin, who admits that he knows bullying is bad, but still does it.
- Kick the Dog: When Jojo is depressed about losing his girlfriend, Keith takes the chance to taunt him, break his leg, and have him eliminated.
- Lady Killer In Love: Elijah likes all the girls, but eventually finds one he wants to start a real relationship with. It's Desdemona.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Desdemona backstabs her own boyfriend, Elijah. She pays the price and is voted off in the next episode.
- Like Is, Like, a Comma: Matilda, like, seems to, like, think this.
- The Load: Riley. He sleeps through nearly all the action. Jason as well, who justifies it as him being blind.
- Loners Are Freaks: Calvin claims that Keith could be "cool" if he wasn't such a loner.
- Perky Female Minion: Matilda, in a classic example. She's The Heart of the "villains alliance" while being only girl in it throughout the entire game and never engages in the more nefarious schemes they come up with.
- Pet the Dog: With some prodding from Elijah, Calvin agrees to use part of his prize money to get Briony a therapist.
- Revenge Before Reason: Chelsea. While both Desdemona and Matilda try to explain their actions, Chelsea refuses to accept them.
- Second Place Is for Losers: Desdemona states this is how everyone feels. Oddly enough, there is a prize for second place, although at $100,000 dollars it is only a fraction of what the grand prize is.
- Song Parody: Of sorts, to romance Desdemona, Elijah sings Rihanna's "Diamonds", changing the line "Shine bright like a diamond" to "She's bright like a diamond."
- Sore Loser: Played straight with all losing finalists. Chelsea only begrudgingly congratulates Calvin. Keith reacts with anger and congratulates neither winner nor runner-up, and Ilona calls Calvin completely undeserving, but does does congratulate Chelsea).
- Spanner in the Works: Keith underestimated Pamela and this leads to Stanley's elimination.
- Stoic Spectacles: Briony, who interestingly really starts losing it after their broken.
- Suddenly Fluent in Gibberish: Esme. Rusty picks it up too.
- Team Mom: Chelsea tries to be this for the Raging Rivers. Ilona attempts to be this for everyone.
- Team Pet: Aurelius, the racoon who helped rusty find an idol on Not Quite Loser Island.
- Tubsy-Wubsy, A bird that likes Riley that shows up in two challenges.
- The Not-Love Interest: Pamela and the Masked Boy feel like they're heading towards being a couple, but never suggest anything other than mutual attraction.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Chelsea once she learns that Matilda got Jojo before her.
- Briony could also count; after being pushed over the edge, she snaps and tries to take revenge on everyone.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Elijah realizes how much of a jerk he was and tries to change his ways.
- True Blue Femininity: Chelsea is described as having blue incorporated into having every part of her outfit, including her hair.
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What Could Have Been: The author occasionally comments at the end of chapter how certain certain ideas were changed or abandoned altogether during the writing process. - WILD/CARD: Riley, of all people. With multiple people thinking they can use him as an extra vote for their agendas, his vote ends up being very important in the power struggle. Unfortunately, he doesn't really to care.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Rusty. He believes that he is The Big Bad that this gives him immunity. Unfortunately there are much more competent villains than him.
The sequel Total Drama Strandarama provides examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Continuing from the first story, Aloysius, Renada, and Washington compete against Sandy, Betty, and Drew.
- Gender-Blender Name: Florence, a guy with a name usually meant for a girl.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble.: Once again, ten guys and ten girls. The teams are also an even 5-5.
- Hidden Depths: Aloysius can easily win any challenge...but only when he feels like it.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Sandy tries to keep Mel in the game to better her chances at winning, yet ends up getting eliminated because of this.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Mel is needlessly rude to everyone on her team, even Randall agrees that he is the most useless member of the team.
- Knight Templar: Linus, who vows he won't let the season he's in have an antagonist like all the others have. Played for Laughs, though.
- No Indoor Voice: Once again, Teddy. Everything he says is punctuated by an exclamation mark.
- Out of Focus: Washington hardly does anything and when he does, it's not shown. Justified as he is clearly an intended example.
- Pink Means Feminine: Portia, who wears almost nothing but pink.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Brienne claims to be a master strategist, but she's yet to have done anything particularly clever. The tone of the story implies this is intentional..
