The fics include a veritable phalanx of stories, called "competition stories", that depict a new season at Camp Wawanakwa (the original venue) or elsewhere. The contestants may be canon characters, original characters, or any combination.
Crossovers are fairly common, pulling in characters from other works as contestants.
A common theme of Whole Plot References developed, the majority of which involve The Twilight Saga (usually using Gwen and Trent or Courtney and Duncan as Bella and Edward, respectively, then later with Gwen and Duncan filling the roles).
A lot of fanfics are about a season where reviewers can apply for a spot on the show.
Several fics also like to think about what the heck Mike went through in order to have multiple personality disorder.
It's common to see fics that feature Ezekiel and Dakota being cured of their respective mutations and becoming contestants again, since both characters have plenty of fans that believe they didn't deserve the fates they received in canon.
One popular fanfic concept is to take the casts of Island, Revenge of the Island, and Pahkitew Island, along with the two newcomers from World Tour (with characters from The Ridonculous Race and OCs sometimes thrown in for good measure), and randomly 'shuffle'note coined by the Total Shuffled Island Series their debut seasons around, leading to vastly different seasons and casts from canon.
Fix Fics of All-Stars and Pahkitew Island (the two most hated seasons) are incredibly common, improving upon and changing whatever the author didn't like. All-Stars fanfics in particular always make Mal's actions a lot more malevolent than they usually were, and take away everyone's Idiot Balls.
It's also common for characters to either have Took a Level in Kindness, have their character rewritten to make sense or have their characterization be written pre-Flanderization. Characters like: Courtney, Sierra, Dave and Scarlett are especially hit with this.
World Tour has also received its share of Fix Fics, with common "fixes" including the infamous Duncan/Gwen/Courtney Love Triangle, Ezekiel's transformation into a monster, Noah and Tyler's early eliminations, and the complete annihilation of Team Victory.
Reimaginings of the first season, Island, are pretty popular, often examining how the season would have been different if something was changed, such as the first elimination, the team compositions, the number of contestants (or if there were completely different contestants), the tone of the series, the stakes of the game (up to making it a flat-out Deadly Game where eliminated contestants die), and even using different hosts in place of Chris.
