Fanfic / Island of the Slaughtered

"It's been a while, McLean."

Island of the Slaughtered is a AU art piece created by Eavee-ry based on Total Drama, taking a much darker and horrific turn of the show.

Taking place in 2007, 22 teens come onto Camp Wawanakwa to compete in a reality show, however, things go immediately wrong when a Man living on the camp starts killing the campers. The teens are abandoned on the camp and left to fend for themselves.

One month later, Chris McLean, the host who abandoned the contestants on the first day, returns to the island to get the contestants back home, but discovered that most of them are dead, and have become restless spirits coming to take their revenge on him.

The first post can be found here.

Island of the Slaughtered contains tropes of:

• Alas, Poor Villain: Heather. As the narrator says, no matter how cold or cruel she was, she was just a girl who was scared and died horrifically.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Heather is revealed to have begged for mercy when the Man came for her.
• And I Must Scream: All the ghosts are not only unable to move on, but seem to be stuck in the same state they were in when they died.
• Anyone Can Die: The artist didn't shy away from killing major characters and the only survivors are Gwen, Duncan, Katie, Eva, Leshawna, Izzy and Cody.
• Asshole Victim: Chris himself, whose fate is portrayed as karma with no one missing him.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: According to “The Nature King” Chris regularly mistreated animals, evoking the wrath of D.J. and the animals of Wawanakwa.
• Benevolent Monsters: Yes and no. Aside from Chris, the 15 ghosts of the dead contestants (except Beth) aren't outright hostile towards anyone who comes across them. Eavee-ry has even said they'd be friendly to the survivors as long as they did nothing wrong but also said the ghosts will still be aggressive to anyone else if they feel threatened. Any stranger who enters the island could still die at the ghosts' hands if they break their boundaries, so following the rules or avoiding their territories is still essential.
• Berserk Button: The Man apparently despised Beth’s smile and made him kill her quickly in rage.
• Broken Bird: Gwen and Katie are shown to be this after surviving, with Gwen showing to be guilty for leaving Trent to die and Katie being completely broken after Sadie’s death.
• Bittersweet Ending: The spirits of the fifteen contestants attack Chris. They force him to stay on the island for abandoning them the prior month and swear to give him A Fate Worse Than Death. The whereabouts of The Man In The Woods, the one responsible for the killings on Camp Wawanakwa, are unknown. It's unclear if the ghosts managed to kill him or if he somehow survived and is still living out there somewhere. On the other hand, Alejandro, Sierra, and the seven survivors escape the island after the ghosts let them leave, but almost all of them are traumatized from what they've gone through.
• Body Horror: All the artworks have horrific imagery of the ghosts of the contestants: Most egregious being Owen and Geoff.
• Canon Character All Along: It's mentioned at the beginning that Chris brought two helpers along with him when he returned to the island. While they go unnamed, it's revealed from the pictures that these helpers are Alejandro and Sierra.
• Conjoined Twins: Invoked. The Man stitches Geoff's head and right arm onto Owen's body.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Pretty much all of them had a horrific end. Special mentions go to:
  • Sadie, who is fed to a pack of wolves as Katie is Forced to Watch.
  • Justin, who has his face ripped off and his corpse dumped into a river.
  • Tyler, who is horribly elongated and torn apart in a rack, notably with his neck having been stretched out gruesomely.
  • Bridgette, who gets burned alive in the campfire pit, with the area around her mouth having been mangled and burnt, and completely black eyes.
  • Owen and Geoff, whose bodies are sewn together to invoke Conjoined Twins. Additionally, while Geoff was already dead when getting sewn on, Owen was simply just knocked unconscious, and thus was still alive as he had to go through the sheer pain it likely would’ve taken.
  • Trent, who gets impaled by several meat hooks all across his body, with his ghost seemingly implying that his vocal chords flayed outward from his mouth.
• Dark Fic: The backstory was that 15 campers were horribly murdered by a Serial Killer and it doesn't get much better from there.
• Deadpan Snarker: The Unknown Narrator is a rather cold example, mostly mocking and insulting Chris about the deaths of the contestants.
• Death by Irony:
  • Justin, whose main trait was his good looks, gets his face torn off.
  • Bridgette, a surfer who spends most of her time in the water, was burned alive.
• Dirty Coward: The unwitting instigator is Chris, who flees the island with the crew and leaves all the contestants to die. The Narrator frequently points out how much of a coward Chris is.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The Serial Killer in the woods main motivation for stalking, brutally mutilating and murdering the contestants were simply because he didn’t want them on his island.
• Dwindling Party: Of the twenty-two contestants, only seven of them managed to escape the island.
• Eldritch Location: Camp Wawanakwa, which most of the ghosts of the deceased campers haunt the woods and waters in restless revenge.
• Eaten Alive: It’s stated that if someone doesn’t give Owen and Geoff some food, Owen will eat them.
• Empty Shell: Shown for Katie in the art “empty” showing her completely alone and barely recognizable as she mourns the death of Sadie.
• Engineered Heroics: Chris’ main motivation to go back to the island hinges on trying to make himself look good and a hero to save his reputation by saving whoever was left.
• Face Death with Despair: It’s made no secret that none of them were accepting of their demise, with the Narrator using this to insult Chris more.
• Failed a Spot Check: Chris and his superiors' negligence in surveying and checking through the island made it so they never saw The Man living in it, which ends as about as well as you imagine.
• A Fate Worse Than Death: Whatever the 15 ghosts plan to do to Chris in the final entry. Given how they swear he'll "never see heaven", it's not going to be pretty.
• Forced to Watch: Katie had to watch from within a tree as Sadie was eaten by wolves.
• For the Evulz: Some of the things the Man did, such as chopping Ezekiel into pieces, sewing Owen and Geoff together or elongating Tyler, seemed to be done purely out of sadism.
• Given Name Reveal: Each of the murdered campers has their full name revealed, mainly to underscore how much of a selfish coward Chris was for leaving 15 actual people behind to die.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Man In The Woods can be seen as this, as he’s the main cause of the Contestants to be ghosts, yet is nowhere to be seen in the present day.
• Hate Sink: Chris McLean is equally despised by everyone (excluding Beth) in every mention of him, with his cowardice and greed causing the deaths of 15 innocent campers.
• The Hermit: The Man in The Woods is this, who lived alone on the island while despising Chris and the campers being on his land.
• Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: The narrator reveals that there are different sets of rules to surviving each ghost and that breaking them will result in the ghost killing you (or in the case of Beth, something else killing you). Once it gets to Heather, her rule ends up being LEAVE THE ISLAND NOW in Zalgo text.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Trent violently goes out.
• It's All About Me: Chris only goes back to the island not because he was worried about the people he abandoned to die, but because he wants to look like a hero after his reputation suffers due to leaving 22 teenagers to horribly die.
• It's All My Fault: Gwen and Trent went to look for medicine after she fell on some leaves, which gave her an allergic reaction, but Trent stepped on a bear trap left by the Man. Gwen tried to get him out, but she heard heavy footsteps and realized the Man was coming; her fight or flight response kicked in, and she left Trent to his fate as he called out to her. The "shame" art piece shows she feels immense regret over leaving him.
• In Spite of a Nail: While the circumstances are vastly different, Ezekiel and Heather were respectively the first and last campers to get eliminated.
• Karma Houdini: The Serial Killer is never implied to have been punished for murdering 15 innocent teenagers.
• Karmic Death: After the first body turned up, Chris and his crew cowardly left the remaining contestants on the island and at the mercy of the killer. In the final entry, in a reversal of what Chris had done the month prior, the 15 vengeful campers attack and force him to stay on the island with them while letting the survivors go. The Narrator snarkily thanks him for acting as "bait" so that Alejandro, Sierra, and the seven surviving contestants can escape the island.
• Karmic Jackpot: Duncan and Eva did their best to keep everyone alive and both end up surviving.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Chris's death is left to interpretation, but it's stated that he won't reach Heaven or Hell, instead being forced to suffer as a ghost without rest for abandoning the contestants to die.
• The Leader: Duncan and Eva took charge of the campers when Chris abandoned them and bodies started hitting the floor and did their best to keep everyone alive. The narrator points out that the two were still teenagers, however, and deaths were still to be expected.
• The Lost Lenore: Trent to Gwen, Noah to Cody and Courtney to Duncan.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Only two male campers survived in contrast to the five girls.
• Misplaced Retribution: Averted for the most part, as, while the ghosts had no problem startling Alejandro and Sierra, they have no real issue with them and allow them to leave with the seven survivors while they keep Chris on the island.
• The Most Dangerous Video Game: Harold’s ghost appears in a TV, being framed in a video game.
• Nice Day, Deadly Night: Believed by Beth, she went to the confessional alone as she thought the daytime would be safer. Quickly Averted, as the killer was waiting for her there.
• Never Found the Body: Played Tragically, as when DJ is shoved down a cliff by the killer, no one found his body.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The Man In The Woods embodies this trope. Who he is and his past is unknown, and all that is known is he’s a violent Serial Killer who was living on the island and wants no one else on it.
• Off with His Head!: How The Man killed Heather.
• Revenge: The ghosts of the 15 contestants (except Beth) understandably hate Chris for leaving them to die on the island. In the final entry, they make him pay as they all attack him and swear he "never sees heaven".
• Rule #1: The victim entries reveal who they were, how and where they died, their new "identity", the place they haunt, and a rule for the readers of the entries must follow to survive an encounter with them. Some are easy, like don't hurt nature or don't take things from a shed, but others are a lot harder, like finding body parts hidden across the whole island, getting into a staring contest, or trying to find food to feed an impatient glutton.
• Shout-Out: Two in Harold’s art piece.
  • The narrator describes Harold’s eyes in the TV as hyper-realistic.
  • The narrator also says that after the screen goes black, the victim can’t help but feel as if they met with a terrible fate.
  • Heather's ghost is most likely a reference to the Junji Ito story "The Long Hair in the Attic".
• Sinister Suffocation: The killer kills Noah by strangling and later drowning him, which was clearly enough for him to become as vengeful as the other ghosts.
• Siren Song: Noah’s humming serves as one. Funnily enough, he’s also a water-based ghost.
• Survivor's Guilt: All of the survivors shown are shown to have insane amounts of guilt over how they got to live while their friends or lovers were brutally murdered.
• Token Good Teammate: While none of the ghosts are evil, Beth is shown to be the most benevolent ghost, actively trying to keep Chris alive and serving as a warning to him about danger.
• Too Dumb to Live: Yes Chris, abandon 22 innocent teenagers to a Serial Killer for a full month and then only go back to the island with two random teens instead of the authorities. Surely that won't backfire in any way, like costing you your fame and reputation or getting you killed by the vengeful spirits once you finally come back to the island.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: While looking for food, Duncan accidently got the group lost, but since they were in such a large group, the Man wouldn't come for them. Noah, however, couldn't resist snarking at Duncan's navigation, causing Duncan, out of a combination of stress and rage, to lead the group in abandoning Noah, directly resulting in his death, leaving Duncan with a huge amount of guilt once he realized what happened.
• Tragic Keepsake: Gwen has Trent’s shirt as shown in the artpiece “SHAME”.
• Vengeful Ghost: The Deceased Ghosts are simply angered spirits who want their revenge on the man who left them to die.
• Villain Protagonist: Chris McLean himself is this, as he’s the main focus on the story trying to get the contestants back home, but was the one who abandoned them in the first place.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: It's currently unknown about the whereabouts to Chef Hatchet, with no mention of him returning with Chris to help the deceased contestants.
• You Are Already Dead: The Narrator spells out as he's being killed that Chris returning to the island sealed his fate, as the ghosts were not going to let him leave.