Hae Won

* S3: Tropics
* S10: WotW

Hae Won is a contestant on Total Drama Tropics and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Biography

Hae Won is the youngest of three children. She has lived in Canada all her life, though her parents moved there from South Korea just a few months before she was born. Hae Won loves her family, but prefers hanging out with her friends, which she has quite a few of. She's always the first to come to the defense of any of her friends when someone attacks them, either verbally or physically. Hae Won's always been very supportive when any of her friends are going through a problem, especially a relationship problem. She'll take the initiative in getting back at someone who hurt a friend or broke up with them, even when not asked. Hae Won usually takes things pretty personally even if they weren't meant to be offensive. She would never do anyone any harm if unprovoked, however.

Hae Won decided to join the Total Drama series in order to make new friends. She thinks of herself as a fairly strong-willed person, and is determined that she will win.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

Hae Won arrived into the competition as Chris described her as a bringer of vengeance who never had a chance to do anything on her first season, with being the first voted out. Hae Won seemed annoyed by the introduction, but before she could properly introduce herself, Skylar arrived and completely interrupted her describing herself as not being defensive for herself. She then tied his shoes together, making him fall to the dock. She then admitted that she supposed she did take vengeance for herself, at times.

In the second episode, Hae Won admitted in confessional that her time on the show had not been very memorable or impactful, hinting that it was because of Dante cutting her time short. She assured that her time after the show had very little to do with her current life. She went on to describe her accomplishments, which included teaching self defense classes, as well as online courses on how to spot an abusive boyfriend.

Hae Won seemed to be the only person to challenge Quimberly, who complained about how easy the competition was. Hae Won encouraged her to leave, which surprised everyone. Quimberly, however, seemed impressed. Later, during the treasure seeking challenge, Hae Won was among the contestants that stood in awe at an animatronic red dragon that was later revealed to be controlled by Herman. Herman was allowed back into the competition after another player was evacuated.

During the dunk tank building challenge, Hae Won and Zoe volunteered for the portion to carry a heavy crate over a balance beam. The muscular Zoe had no issue, but Hae Won struggled. Hae Won explained that she volunteered for that portion in order to prove that she was more than a brainy Asian. Zoe asked who thought that, which made Hae Won threaten to drop the crate on her. Hae Won and Zoe still cleared their portion of the challenge first, and her team ended up winning the overall challenge.

At night, Hae Won and Ruth headed to the confessional and came across Evan standing outside. He insisted that she use the restroom before him. He asked Ruth why she was there, and she stated she was there for protection. Later, Hae Won came across LeVar and Herman. When they stated they were executing revenge on Cary, she handed them an industrial sized jug of syrup with no questions asked.

Hae Won came across Patsy who was struggling with inspiration for her new book. Hae Won suggested looking to the other competitors for inspiration. As thanks, Patsy promised to immortalize Hae Won as a surprising early victim in her next book. After she was left alone, Evan approached her again and commented on the competition. She responded that she didn’t really have much to compare her new experience to with her time being so short the first time. After a laugh at Evan’s expense, involving his mother pulling him from the competition the first time around, Evan suffered a coughing fit and excused himself from the conversation, causing Hae Won to look after him in concern.

Hae Won next ran into Grace. She egged Grace on in order to admit that she was attracted to LeVar. After Grace did admit to this, Hae Won laughed at her since he wore elf ears. Hae Won then went on to warn Grace about LeVar, stating that she got a bad feeling about him. During the game show challenge, Hae Won got into an argument after she defended Blair from an insult from Quimberly. Hae Won began to threaten Quimberly, but then the fight was interrupted by a falling sign from the game show set. It almost hit Quimberly, but she was saved by Skylar. Hae Won later apologized to Quimberly, and the two made up. LeVar was ultimately eliminated after it appeared that he assaulted another contestant.

In the following episode, when Patsy suggested that LeVar was possibly innocent, Hae Won seemed fairly agitated. She seemed certain that LeVar was guilty, and prevented Grace from joining her in looking for clues. At lunch, Hae Won and Evan sat together. Hae Won defended Patsy, when Evan seemed a little annoyed with her personality when she offered to collect their dishes. Their conversation was cut short by the challenge announcement, and Hae Won abruptly leaving the table.

That night, Hae Won and Evan walked together while talking. They came across Dirk, and they argued with him when he was annoyed that Evan consistently fraternized with the women. When Evan insulted Dirk, Dirk gave him a wedgie. After Dirk left, Hae Won and Evan parted ways. Hae Won vowed to do something about Dirk. Grace followed Hae Won and spied her gathering different tools from a challenge construction site, including rope, a hook, and a pulley, with the help of Zoe. Zoe was under the impression that Hae Won was gathering the items for a workout.

Later, Hae Won left the sewing challenge. Patsy was spying on Hae Won when Evan joined her. Hae Won called out to them and just Patsy stepped out from behind the tree. Hae Won explained that she left the challenge because she didn’t feel she had anything to contribute. She also stated that she was glad it was Patsy and not someone else. When Patsy asked her to elaborate, she revealed that she meant Evan. She knew he was trying to ask her out, and she tried to avoid that. She also felt he kept following her, or inserting himself into her presence. Patsy didn’t seem to understand why Hae Won wasn’t interested in him romantically. Hae Won revealed that it was his bad reputation as a ladies’ man. She admitted that while she considered him a friend, she got a bad vibe from him.

At the fashion show challenge, a mustached person in cover alls approached Dirk in the audienceand put a hook through his underwear, and hoisted him in the air for a very intense wedgie. Most of the others laughed at this, including Chris, who almost got hit by a falling light. This was revealed to be done by a scorned former intern. Patsy, though, continued the investigation at her team’s cabin, revealing fabric from the men’s team under Hae Won’s bed, which caused them to lose the challenge. She accused Hae Won of being the saboteur who, among other things, gave Dirk the wedgie, almost hurt Quimberly with the falling sign, and for framing LeVar for hitting Cary. Hae Won denied everything but the wedgie given to Dirk. Hae Won was not disqualified, due to lack of evidence, but she was voted out at the next elimination. In a surprise twist, Patsy was also voted out in a double elimination. Hae Won was upset with Patsy as they rode The Boat of Losers, together.

## Trivia

* Hae Won is one of five contestants in Total Drama Tropics to not use the confessional.
* Her name is pronounced like 'Hey Juan'.
* Hae Won was my first Asian female contestant.
* Hae Won is targeted early by Dante, as he fears she would interfere in his plan to manipulate a female contestant to help him win the game.
* Hae Won has 'Won' in her name as a misdirect with her coming in last place.
* Hae Won placing last also was a juxtaposition to an Asian contestant placing first in the previous season.
* In the unfinished Total Drama: Worst of the Worst, Hae Won is the second contestant voted out. She is glad not to be the first voted out, until it is pointed out that she placed worse than her previous season that had fewer contestants.
* Hae Won’s costume in the treasure seeking challenge is a reference to Tiffany, a character from Daria. Specifically, it is a reference to Tiffany’s costume for a renaissance fair in the episode ‘Fair Enough’. Tiffany is my favorite character from the show, despite being incredibly minor. I knew this reference was obscure, and wanted to have a more known reference but ultimately decided that it was my story and I could do what I wanted.
* Patsy explaining Hae Won as an early victim in her next story is a reference to Hae Won being an intentional surprising first boot to readers in Total Drama Tropics.
* Hae Won warning Grace and Patsy about LeVar and Evan respectively was a reference to Dante being afraid that she would get in the way of his plan with Emmy,
* Hae Won was eliminated early in both seasons in very similar ways, being a target of another player.
* In the early version of Total Drama: Worst of the Worst, Hae Won was eliminated after the women seemed to win the challenge, only for it to be exposed that she spread butter on the men’s part of the challenge, causing them to lose. In the final version of the story, she is eliminated similarly after being accused of cheating, this time by stealing the men’s fabric and giving the women an unfair advantage.
* Hae Won’s elimination in the original version of Worst of the Worst was something I majorly disliked about that version. Even before writing it, I remember wanting to keep her longer to flesh her out more, but just couldn’t think of anyone else to eliminate over her. I wanted a chance to show her enacting vengeance in behalf of someone else, but didn’t give myself enough time to do that then. The second time around I made it a point to give an example of her doing so, with her giving Dirk the elaborate wedgie in Evan’s behalf.
* In Game Showdown, Hae Won is meant to seem like the player that was going to be eliminated. The chapter follows her as she speaks to Grace, Patsy, and Evan, as she has quite a bit of focus, as well as the argument with Quimberly.
* Hae Won being wary of LeVar to Grace was a way to make her seem to have a motive to sabotage him. So was her argument with Quimberly, even though it was impossible to target a specific player with the falling sign. I didn’t want either motive to be so over the top that Hae Won would be ruled out as a suspect.
* Hae Won is the first character to be eliminated from both versions of Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Gallery

Hae Won in her Renaissance gown.Tiffany in the inspiration for Hae Won’s costume, as seen on the far right.