I think I prefer her rp canon, too lol. It has a very earnest lord of the rings power of friendship dynamic that I absolutely dig. I wanna ask about all your td OCs but for the moment, who has the most villainous or antagonistic attitude from your list? How did they get on the show and how well or bad do they do?
Hmm, I have about five or six from the bunch that could fit the antagonist label, but two in particular would probably take the cake: them being Astrid - The Alienated Analyst and Ophelia - The Stuttering Loner, who was recently revamped.
Astrid is probably one of my more unique characters in terms of origin, design, etc. She basically came to be after me and my friends asked something along the lines of "What would it be like to give birth/be born in space?".
What I came up with is that Astrid was the result of an experiment pertaining to zero-gravity childbirth and what complications could be expected from it. She was born with a handful of defects, primarily missing all of her toes, screwed up estrogen levels, and brown/green heterochromia. Those are merely physical, and the only ones they noticed initially, but further on she is proven to be both insanely clever, and a sadistic sociopath.
Despite all of this, her parents - who both live - take extreme pride in their daughter due to her circumstances, opting to both push her to be successful and giving her the freedom to accomplish that success in any way possible. They're too naive, however, and unintentionally nourish her sociopathic tendencies as well as implant a health dose of narcissism and a god complex, thinking she's superior to everyone because, well: She was born in space.
She's very good at hiding her intentions, and on the surface seems just like a quirky girl with a passionate love for science and a lack of good social skills. Once she finds out about TD, she sends in an audition for two potential reasons: the prize money in order to supply her personal "research", and to have a new experience, one filled to the brim with unsuspecting test subjects.
If she gets in, due to her physical disability (her lack of toes slowing her walking development as a child + slight limp), she would be less help in certain cases. However, as a mental/strategic threat, she'd be kept around because her words of advice were what kept the team afloat, and for merge she merely threatened and manipulated a good chunk of the cast. Easy top eight, even easier season's baddie.
The other girl is another of my ocs, I may elaborate on her later-
I'm just gonna copy-paste her history section from her bio:
Ophelia, on the other hand, was my most troublesome character to make thus far. She was originally a collab - still technically is - with my Amino friend, who wanted to make assassin ocs. Ophelia was a shy, formerly bullied and assaulted girl, who was harmed because she had a stutter. She was a "child assassin seeking revenge on her tormentors and an escape from her past" for a long while, but since I figured her character was too reliant on my friend's and he went inactive, I had to switch her up.
Ophelia isn't one to talk about her family, since most of her memories are either traumatic or she was too young to recollect anything.
Best she can give is that her parents were both severely ill from their poor living conditions, so they were unable to care for her that well. By the time she was five, her mother had passed away and her father was on his deathbed, his last action as about way parent being convincing his brother, who moved to Canada with his mother after his parents separated, to take her in. Ophelia was moved there, brother turned out to be a sick son of a bitch who molested her until she was eight and her school caught wind of it (only doing so because she acted up and got herself in trouble to the point of being sent to juvenile detention for a year, which warranted a house search), and once she was released, she was sent to a group home, where she remains to this day.
She absolutely hates it there, but due to her lack of family and being too young to get and sustainable income, she's stuck there. She is usually very blunt and vague when it comes to her retelling of her past, but the staff all know what's up with her, knowing well enough to leave her be.
Her main motif is now a recuperating abuse victim, someone shunned from most of society and who just wants to start over somewhere where her past won't haunt her. The stutter remains, but the entire assassin motif is now nothing but a facade she used one time to cover her tracks.
She was introduced to Total Drama through her group home, who basically forced her to audition with the other teens in order to get her socializing and not snapping at everyone. She only agrees because of the prize money, it being enough to get her out of here and into a new country, far away from everything.
On the show, she is very physically agile, and is a great asset in physical challenges, as well as rough survival. However, due to her lack of social willingness and her usual reflex being to pull a knife on people who approach her, she has a shit social game, and unless she's established as a primary villain, she'd be at most a third merge boot, top nine if you really push it.
The other three/four characters are antagonistic on a MUCH smaller scale than these two, thus Ophelia would be labeled as a Misunderstood Villain, while Astrid is just Pure Evil. They're both super fun to write for and play regardless.