Janice

* S3: Tropics
* S5: The All-Stars

Janice is a contestant labeled **The Ventriloquist** on Total Drama Tropics and Total Drama: The All-Stars.

## Biography

Janice is the youngest of seven children. Janice was always a happy, nice girl. Nothing bad ever happened to her until the day her mother died. Her mother was ill, but was unaware of it until it was too late. It took Janice, and the rest of her family, by surprise. Janice finally had something bad happen to her and she found herself entirely unable to express how she felt on the inside. A school psychiatrist recommended that Janice try using an inanimate object to express her feelings. This worked. Janice thought that if that worked, she should get herself a dummy. Janice loves her dummy, named Violet, and takes her with her everywhere. She kind of weirded out some of her classmates at first, but they eventually got used to Violet, and find her to be pretty funny. With the help of Violet, Janice is able to say the things she never used to be able to say.

Janice joined the Total Drama series because Violet told her to. Secretly, Janice really wanted to.

## Total Drama Tropics

When Janice arrived on the tropical island, in Isle Be Seeing You, Violet introduced herself. Al shook Janice's puppet. Violet told him to stop. Violet introduced Janice, and told the others to make her feel welcome. Everyone just awkwardly stared at the girl. When Yancy announced that the female contestants' dream guy had arrived, Violet said 'where?'. When Beau arrived, Violet proposed marriage to him. When Chris said that the gorgeous hunk of a teen was his nephew, Violet asked if he meant Beau. When Chris said that he meant Topher, Violet said that that was far more believable. When teams were being chosen, Sebastian selected Janice to be on his team.

In Decathlon Days Journey Into Night, Janice offered to take Beau's things for him. Violet said Beau was humble, and volunteered to share a bungalow with Beau. Sebastian thought it would be a better idea for each gender to stay separate from each other. Upon seeing a shirtless Beau, Janice fainted. Violet slapped her in the face in order to try to wake her up. Janice was paired with Sebastian for the final part of the challenge, they were able to win, because Dante appeared to have kept his own team from winning. In Oh Say You Can Seashell, Violet volunteered for Janice to help Beau carry a barrel. In Trivial Pursuers, when Willow asked Beau if he wanted to make out with her, Janice whispered that she wished that she could be as bold as Willow.
 Janice walked onto the beach and told her teammates that Violet was missing, in The Tower of Doom. Janice was concerned as to how she would deal without Violet. Beau, Willow, and Marguerite volunteered to help Janice look for the puppet. After a conversation with Al, Sebastian went to join in the search for Violet. He quickly found the puppet under Janice's bed.

In Arts and Craftiness, when Marguerite and Willow were talking about their stay on the show, they asked what Janice thought. Violet answered for her. Willow said that she was asking Janice. Janice was embarrassed but said that she was enjoying herself. Marguerite and Willow looked at Janice strangely before going to bed. Janice then went over to Renee and asked her why she didn't talk much. Renee quietly said that she was afraid of saying the wrong thing. Janice said she felt the same way and explained that she was comfortable communicating through Violet, but felt like that didn't count. Janice won her part of the challenge of building a sturdy popsicle stick house when paired against Patsy. After losing the challenge, Janice stated that someone took Violet. The others helped her search for her puppet, and she was found under Marguerite's bed. Janice scolded Violet, and the guys slowly backed out of the girls' bungalow. At the campfire ceremony, Janice was voted out. Sebastian explained that it was because she framed Marguerite for stealing Violet. On the 'Boat of Loserdom', Janice said that she only hid Violet so that she would be encouraged to talk to the others more, without relying on Violet.

Janice was shown, in Whatever Happened to That One Person, uneasily rocking back and forth in a rocking chair at the loser's resort. Janice chose to support Yancy, in Win, Lose, or Die Trying, which disappointed Al, as he felt he and Violet were friends. Janice fainted when Beau removed his shirt to reveal that he had Yancy's name painted on his chest. Janice's challenge for Al was for him to do a sword swallowing routine. He passed his challenge, and moved on.

## After Total Drama Tropics

Janice was finally able to let go of her puppet, Violet. Well, she was pretty much taken from her grasp and sold on an online auction site for a pretty hefty chunk of change by one of Janice's brothers. She appeared on the Total Drama Tropics with a new male puppet, but he left her for someone else. Janice is now puppet free, and is attempting to be more social. She finds it difficult, but she tries her hardest, though sometimes she'll be with a group of people without ever saying a word.

Janice agreed to appear on Total Drama: The All-Stars, hoping that the contest will allow her to become more social.

## Total Drama: The All-Stars

After Janice arrived, in All-Starstruck, there was slight confusion over who she was, but Beau reminded Al that she had a puppet named Violet. Al stressed out wondering where Violet was. Janice said in confessional that she was nervous about not having a puppet to hide behind, but was determined to be more confident.

Once she heard that the prize for winning the season was ten million dollars, in Fatal Distraction, Janice fainted. After she woke up, she saw that Ivan was sitting next to her. He helped her up, and walked her to her cabin, making her blush and giggle. Janice fell from a tree, in Modest Muse, in front of Creigh and Sky Lynn. She insisted that she was birdwatching, and Creigh insinuated that she was stalking Ivan.

In Watermelon-choly, Janice met with Ivan who was carrying Hedda. Hedda had Ivan put her down. He explained that it was raining and he was carrying her back to her cabin, and that they weren't an item. Janice explained that she was outside because she saw him go outside, and she got worried when it started raining. She left after she said something that embarrassed her. Janice was paired against Al in the watermelon jousting challenge. She dodged his attack, and used her ventriloquism skills to make him believe that Violet was in the quicksand. He dived in to rescue her.

Ivan attempted to impress Janice, in Puppet Tears. Hedda continued to tell Ivan and Janice things she made up, like Ivan said Janice was beautiful and he wanted to kiss her. Janice leaned in to kiss Ivan, and he was hesitant. Hedda pushed his face toward Janice, and he ended up hitting his forehead against hers, knocking her unconscious. When she came to, she saw that she was in the medical tent with Ivan. He said he stayed with her all night, and she thanked him and asked if there was anything she could do to repay him. He told her that he was worried that Waterlily and Daniel's relationship was one sided and that Daniel was taking more than he was giving. When Waterlily was alone, she expressed being afraid that Daniel was trying to change her, with the help of index cards. Janice was nervous when the challenge was revealed as smashing puppets. Ivan helped her through the challenge, by helping her break one of the puppets. Janice ended up losing the challenge after getting lost when returning to the others.

In Environmentality, Ivan told Janice he was nice to her because he liked her, not meaning in a romantic way. She leaned in to kiss him, making him nervous. He got up and said he had to go back to his cabin. In LARPapalooza, Ivan took Janice aside in order to ask her to be his girlfriend. She attempted to kiss him, but he said they should go back to the others, leading her back to the other contestants. In the challenge, Janice won it for her team.

Ivan complimented Janice's role in winning the previous challenge, in Mystery Loves Company. They walked off together. Ivan and Janice almost kissed, but the moment was ruined by a loud noise. Janice went back to her cabin, after becoming worried. Janice threw the challenge in order to get Beau eliminated. Janice felt uneasy about voting for Beau, and Ivan finally kissed her. Janice ended up being eliminated, and it was later revealed that Hedda became jealous after seeing Ivan kiss Janice and got the others on her team vote out Janice. Jonathan then pleaded with Ivan to vote him out.

## Trivia

* Janice is one of five contestants in Total Drama Tropics to not use the confessional.
* Janice is named after my favorite Muppet.
* Janice's ventriloquist figure is named Violet because she is that color.
* Janice was inspired by Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Justice for All's Benjamin Woodman and his ventriloquist figure, Trilo.
* Janice and Al become a couple in their All-Stars story. Their couple name is Alice.
* Janice was originally going to make it further in Total Drama Tropics and become less dependent on communicating with Janice.
* Depending on whether user Cokeman chose a female or male character for winning the winner guessing contest, Janice was going to be either gender, but the ventriloquism would have remained either way. If Cokeman had created a female character, this character would have been a male in a suit and bow tie, with a male puppet.
* Janice was originally going to be named either Fran, a reference to *Kookla, Fran, and Ollie*, or Judy, a reference to *Punch and Judy*. Both of those names were already taken.
* In her match up against Patsy in the arts and crafts challenge, Janice originally lost against Patsy. It was changed, because The Epic Failures were supposed to lose 3-4. Certain characters had to win for comedic effect, so Janice's loss was changed.
* Janice's updated image has a differently shaped jaw from her original.
* Janice returned to All-Stars for having the most votes in a popularity poll for the early eliminated Total Drama Tropics contestants, and out of my needing a female Total Drama Tropics contestant eliminated before the final ten.
* I had planned for Janice to make it to the merge in All-Stars, but after looking at the cast as a whole, she was one I felt wouldn't add a whole lot to the later chapters of the story.
* Janice's crush on Ivan was slightly based on her crush on Beau in her previous season.
* Janice's storyline in All-Stars was about her becoming used as a puppet, in essence.