Total Drama: Reinvention of the Island

The producers of the Total Drama franchise had a crazy idea for the new season – why not take the existing characters fans know and love, and switch around their “styles” a little bit? A few months, trial and error, and some questionable genetic experiments later, they’re ready to change their first subject – er, “new contestant”. And who better to start with than Cody, the striving-to-be-slick nerd who could use a bump in his “ladies’ man” cred? So, take some of Alejandro’s charm and a lot more of his body (I have a feeling people are going to see through that guy's tricks this season!), and you’ve got one heck of a new competitor who’ll be familiar, but very different – and I’m sure Cody won’t mind the changes at all…

I never watched the Total Drama series, but for some reason, I’m attracted to Cody as a great recipient of my not-yet-famous “sweet muscular redemption”. I have absolutely no clue why. Maybe it’s because he’s so scrawny? Not to mention I had no idea about his personality until I had to look it up so I could write this description. I'm sure you guys can tell me if I’m starting to develop a “type” or anything.

I've been trying to put up something new around here for a little while, so I decided to finish up this one today. Probably what's held this one up is getting the bulge done as well as the background I was planning on, which probably took more time than redesigning the base I've already used previously.

Plus, what's a reality show if not for people being radically different from how they usually are? I'm taking some art and design suggestions on this here Cody in the comments (here or on dA) or messages on DeviantArt. I might have an idea or two myself, but you guys might be a little more "creative" with him than me. Feel free to go nuts with this one -- I know there's a bit of a fandom out there.