Still Keep Thinking About This Concept Because It's So Funny To Me Because Like In This Au In My Head

still keep thinking about this concept because it's so funny to me because like in this au in my head they're legally required to not tell anyone that they were hired and were essentially the only contestants hired on the show (also idk where to add this but they weren't allowed to win the million either). Because of them being the only actors there they had to improvise sooo much of the interactions with the other contestants- mostly about their "romance"

like when Spud told Carrie about the 7 stages of heartbreak?? she told Devin and they fucking. they FUCKING ROLLED WITH IT.

the train slap/cuss out scene with the Sisters?? like the prompt just said that he had to find out abt her feelings for him that episode but this was so much funnier and they didn't even know they were acting they were just so irritated with their fucking will they won't they and Devin and Carrie just laugh about it afterwards

(also. him falling off a cliff was not scripted by proxy. it just happens. the drama network pays for his recovery I swear)

au/hc where the best friends subplot was SCRIPTED

well, less scripted and more prompt based. idk how these reality shows work when it comes to this but uh- they were given general prompts of their characters that they had to oblige to but otherwise could expand on them. it's why they play up their characters a lot, and otherwise are pretty much the same people as their characters- just not romantically interested in each other.

still. ew.

gym leader td headcanons (based more off the games)

gwen would be a ghost leader, her gym design would be a mini little murder mystery puzzle :)

izzy’s gimmick would be that her team would be pulled randomly from a pool of 20 or so possible mons with different probabilities of getting each one, with unique dialogue and a different persona depending on which mons were pulled that time (this is hypothetical and would be a nightmare to code im sure)

lindsay would make you go on a quest to help her with various tasks she forgot about or misunderstood, then turn out to be a surprisingly difficult fight with mainly fairies and “ugly-cute” pokemon like granbull

shawn would never be at the gym — why be in a place so predictable??? zombies could get you??? and you’d have to track him down in a nearby route. i’d imagine he uses grass pokemon but covers for weakness

tyler would ABSOLUTELY have a game show inspired fighting gym. fuck it maybe he and harold co-gym-lead as a sort of brains and brawn duo (though both are athletic in their own ways)

Yes to all of these!! They’re such fun ideas I would love to play those!

an assortment of unorganized total drama headcanons I have (some probably contradict the timeframe when the td timeline takes place in but whatever):

Courtney and Heather pretend to have refined taste in music but blast Mitski full volume when they're alone

Heather and Harold are still actually really great friends after TD and find that they have a lot in common. Exhibit A: Their MLP phases

Noah's 15th birthday gift from his mother was a Miku binder. Also yes Noah's transmasc keep scrolling

Izzy, Eva, Owen, Noah and Emma are all in a polycule and currently live in a big apartment. (for more info um here)

Prior to it, they'd been kicked out of 4 consecutively for 2 straight months due to a fire break out from an 'undetectable source'. Surprisingly none of them were caused by Izzy, but Owen repeatedly cooking/reheating food at 3 in the morning

The ROTI cast in comparison to the rest of the casts are incredibly tight knit and go out of their way to meet up and keep in contact with each other. Anne Maria and Dawn are definitely the mom friends of the group.

Scott can be slimy, but he sure do loves his family a whole lot, and even though there's a lot of them, they're all really close. Initial reasoning to going back on TDAS was to help them cover what the entire family had given to get him to recover from being attacked by Fang

After a recording of a season is over (other than TDI), all contestants- former, current, the ones who aren't arrested- are all invited to stay at Playa Des Losers for a week (a shitty excuse to get all generations of cast members to interact to each other in my head...why yes)

The pinnacle of wealth to Scott was watching Shrek the Musical live and his first thought in what to do with the million in ROTI after the vague idea of investing in stocks was to bring all his family (and briefly in TDAS as a date with Courtney) to watch it

Duncan has a soft spot for Izzy. She's one of the only people who visit him while he's in prison. She drags along Team E-scope (+ Owen and Emma) to her visits sometimes

Shawn's first exposure to zombie related media was Plants vs Zombies. He has several sunflowers, pea plants, potatoes and a couple of walnut trees outside of his house that he says will mutate alongside the zombie virus pandemic to protect him. He owns and plays a lot of zombie video games in general alongside his huge collection of zombie movies and other zombie related media- other than PVZ, his favorite's The Last of Us

At Playa, Courtney and Gwen talk. It's one of the rare times Courtney owns up to her faults genuinely. And she tries to do the same thing with Scott but she can't bring herself to knock on his door. The prospect of things turning out like Duncan- even vaguely- made her blood grow cold.

Jo, Lightning and Brick meet Sky while they're hanging at Playa after the TDPI finale and chat her up while she seemed really down abt it all. After some chatting, a bit of insults thrown (thanks Jo), Brick's understanding sympathy, seldom seen empathy from Lightning, and a lot of racing and competing with each other, they become quite close. They keep in contact with each other afterwards- which is more than Sky can say about most of her relations on her own cast.

Speaking of; Sky keeps in contact with Ella, Jasmine (and since they're kind of a package deal, Shawn), oddly enough- though they weren't in the same team and didn't talk much on the island- Sammy, even more oddly enough Beardo- who she finds out just had a hard time opening up, and most oddly enough Leonard- who she finds out doesn't actually think he's a wizard and was just playing up one of his characters since he wasn't skilled in much anything else and wanted to see how far he got into the show with his whole wizard act. He even went out of his way to try it again alongside his friend Tammy in TDRR.

The small group does online DND campaigns that Sky occasionally joins in on in between juggling Olympic training, but they're mostly dominated by Sammy, Ella, Shawn, Beardo and some of Leonard's irl friends. Leonard DMs.

Eva knows how to crochet. Beth finds out in one of the Aftermath shows backstage, and they actually bond together over it. Well, after Eva threatens to kill her if she tells anyone

Courtney's really into musical theatre (won't admit to it but love West Side Story and Heahers). So are Mike (who's fav musical is Les Mis and Hadestown) and Ella (duh) (her favorite musical is Robert and Hammerstein's Cinderella)

Ella and Gwen are close cousins (as seen in TDR, but is otherwise not canon), and most are kind of shocked to find out. Ella would often bring up how Gwen would always gladly play the Evil Queen to her Princess when they were younger, where Gwen would retort by bringing up how bad Ella's tantrums were when she didn't agree.

The Best Friends subplot was scripted. Carrie is a lesbian, and Devin's aroace. A couple of d-list actors who also coincidentally are best friends

The Drama Network (as I'll call it) gets sued hard after Pahkitew airs. Not only for what happened in the season but a lot of prior incidents that weren't brought up in court- like Dakota's mutation, Scott being attacked by Fang, and the general endangerment of minors that happened in ROTI. Ditto with Pahkitew. Since TD was still a big hit, it didn't make much of a dent with the Network but still made it so they were weary of bringing the show back- which is why there hadn't been a new season for more than a decade in universe

hello if we're twitter moots this might not come as a shocker because i've been bitching about them on there but i'm drawing dundie

im gay and i stayed up 2 hours to make this 

au/hc where the best friends subplot was SCRIPTED

well, less scripted and more prompt based. idk how these reality shows work when it comes to this but uh- they were given general prompts of their characters that they had to oblige to but otherwise could expand on them. they stay pretty much truthful to how they usually are as to not make the whole experience even more uncomfortable than it is- but also play up their characters because like. hey. if me and my best friend had to pretend to be in love even though we're not compatible sexuality wise I'd want to make it as silly as fucking possible.

still. ew. the prompts they were given for their characters especially