Some degrees of character development? It has SHITLOADS of character development, especially for people you think they're simply going to be Ron The Death Eater for the sake of the main couple. It's one of the best romantic fanfics I ever read. My question is...why it doesn't have its own page yet?

Seconded by this troper, who initially looked into this fic because it was a deconstruction of sorts... and found herself loving every minute of it. It has great musical bits, plenty of hilarious moments, and even some degree of character development! All of this makes this troper eager for the next chapter, especially since the fic is starting to wind down...

To say that the break up between Duncan and Courtney disappointed some people, it would be an understatement and this fic was born as an one-shot due to the frustation of this event by a DxC shipper. But the most interesting thing is that this is not a bad thing, with Cody helping Courtney to get over it, and there is lots of appropriate angst and fluffines in their relationship. The fic was so well-received that the author decided to write a In Spite Of A Nail fic and it is awesome! The challenges in Australia and China are completely different than canon (and arguably Better Than Canon) and the author invested very well in Character Development and Crowning Music Of Awesome. The only point that most readers did not like was the reason of why Sierra liked Cody, it seemed an Ass Pull, but in this troper's opinion, this is a fic that is in the same level of Total Drama Comeback, sometimes better! And Alien Cody gets more screen time!