Gwen/Trent

Gwen/Trent, also known as Gwent, is a popular pairing within Total Drama fandom. The ship is between Gwen and Trent, both prominent characters. It has been popular since 2007, when it was teased in-universe as akin to a, "massive crush," on both sides of the ship, though Trent's was bigger. Gwen/Trent became canon in 2009 and controversially broke-up up during the same year.
In early Total Drama fandom, Gwen/Trent was third only to Courtney/Duncan and Cody/Noah in terms of fanac. Although many Total Drama fans still like the ship, fanac specifically for the pairing past the completion of Total Drama: World Tour is considered uncommon.
As of October 2023, over 245 works on Archive of Our Own are of Gwen/Trent. On FanFiction.Net, over 55 fics under the Total Drama category have "Gwent" in their summaries and over 110 have either "GxT" or "TxG". 
==Common Tropes==
*Camp TV!AU - Gwen and Trent are one of the few couples to have been present in Total Drama's pitch, Camp TV. Some fanworks may explore the specific dynamic they could've had if Camp TV continued, which was more adversarial. In Camp TV, they were named Heather and Trenton respectively. Heather's name was later reused for Heather, a different character.
*Songwriter!Trent - emphasizing that Trent likes playing the guitar and writing his own songs. While some fanworks stick to canon, where he's a songwriter as a hobby, in others, it's his profession.
*Shared Hobbies - as Gwen is Goth and Trent is a Hipster, some fanworks may expand upon these subcultures. Referencing specific musicians and/or novels they both may enjoy within fanworks is not unheard of.
* Missing Scene - delves into how they became friends after breaking up.
==Gwen/Trent Fandom==
Gwen/Trent shippers may dislike Duncan/Gwen and prefer Duncan romantically with Courtney. This is largely due to Total Drama: Action, as Trent's behavior over being troubled at the idea Duncan liked Gwen and vice-versa during that season caused Gwen and Trent to break-up. World Tour, which canonized Duncan/Gwen, fueled some ship war between the two pairings, though the ship war between just Courtney/Duncan and Duncan/Gwen was far more prevalent in fanac. Because Duncan cheated on Courtney in World Tour, Gwen/Trent shippers may dislike his character overall. Fanon ships getting into the ship-war picture, whether Het, Slash or Femslash, is rare but not unheard of. 
Because Trent is not involved in any other canonical pairing, and their attraction was canonically stronger on Trent's end, fanworks for Gwen/Trent tend to focus more on Trent than Gwen. Early BNFs include GwennieBlackhttps://www.deviantart.com/gwennieblack. Modern BNFs include Syahazhttps://www.tumblr.com/syahaz and withjust-a-bitehttps://withjust-a-bite.tumblr.com/. Overall Total Drama BNF Kika-ilahttps://www.deviantart.com/kika-ila also produces fanworks for this pairing.
In October, Gwent Week is celebrated in r/Totaldrama. December 10th is Gwent Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar.
==Fan Opinions==
Because everyone who watches the show knows about Gwen/Trent, fan opinion regarding the pairing varies greatly. Trent's somewhat drastic character shift in Action is often a point of contention. The show's handling of his canonical OCD and the response to this fact by fans is discussed further on his page.
Perspectives are split into Watsonian and Doyalist for convenience on this article, as both are prevalent in meta.
===Largely Watsonian===
===Largely Doyalist===
==Example/Notable Fanac==
===Fan Communities/Fan Events ===
* , a community on Fanpop.
*, Gwen ♥ Trent Fanclub, a community on DeviantArt.
*, a fanweek hosted on DeviantArt. Ran from September 16th to the 22nd.
* , a fanweek hosted on DeviantArt.
*, a fanweek hosted on Tumblr. Ran from October 18th to the 24th
*, a fanweek on Tumblr. Ran from October 18th to the 24th.
*The Duntrent Den has a channel for Gwen/Trent.
===Fan Art===
*, Gwen and Trent playing Gwent: The Witcher Card Game by Total Drama BNF Kika-ila.
*, futurefanart where both Gwen and Trent are around 50.
*, an AU where both Gwen and Trent compete in The Ridonculous Race.
*, Genderbent AU.
*, Halloween fanart. Original lineart was by TDI-Exile, a very early BNF for Total Drama fandom.
===Fan Comics===
*, Camp TV!AU fancomic.
===Fan Fiction===
*, Camp TV!AU fanart and fanfiction in one Tumblr post. Syahaz has many other short stories for this AU.
*, written for Gwent Week 2020. Appears to be hosted on both Tumblr and FanFiction.Net.
*, a Spanish abandoned fic. It is one of the most reviewed Gwen/Trent fics on FanFiction.Net. Courtney and Duncan are also paired here. It's rated Fiction T and its genre is Drama/Romance.
===Fanmixes===
*, a playlist with 104 songs.
*Look For the Girl With the Broken Smile by DaydreamingNightmares, aka Rascally (2018)
===Fanvids===
*, a playlist on YouTube of mostly AMVs. It features 13 videos.
===Meta===
*, a discussion on Reddit.
*, a discussion on Reddit.
*, a discussion on Reddit.
*, headcanons.
==References/Further Reading==
* on Shipping Wiki
* on Total Drama Wiki
Category:Het Pairings
Category:Total Drama Het Pairings
Category:Total Drama Relationships