Patsy

* S3: Tropics
* S10: WotW

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

## Biography

Patsy was a normal girl living in a quiet suburb with her parents and older brother. She always loved to write. She also loved reading detective fiction. One day, Patsy submitted a story for a class assignment. Her teacher encouraged her to enter the story in an amateur writing contest, which she did. It won the top prize and Patsy received offers to get the story published. She accepted an offer and that's how her career in writing detective fiction began at the age of thirteen. Patsy averages about three novels per year since her first story became a bestseller. She is now a millionaire because of her popular books. Unfortunately, Patsy has allowed her success to go to her head. She didn't become conceited, she became eccentric. She began to speak and act like a character from one of her stories, constantly talking in third person and narrating her thoughts and what goes on around her. This confused her childhood friends to the point of their avoiding her, but she doesn't seem to mind. She enjoys being in her own little world.

Patsy decided to join the Total Drama series because she felt like going on a real life adventure.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

Patsy arrived soon before Brent. She stated that Brent was perfect inspiration for her next novel. He seemed flattered until she stated that he had inspired her in describing a doormat. Later, when Brent was hit in the crotch by a loose plank of wood on the dock, Patsy went to investigate, but totally missed any hint of what actually happened. Later, Patsy saw that Skylar’s shoelaces had been tied together. Even after Hae Won admitted to the prank, Patsy still had no idea who did it. She then accused Holly, who scurried away to avoid conflict.

Patsy found a garment bag for the first challenge, that she mistook for a body bag. Tamira corrected her, but Patsy didn’t seem convinced. When a note fell from her team’s garment bag, Yuko nudged Patsy’s arm to get her to notice, which she did not. Later, Patsy claimed Yuko to be her partner in the challenge. Yuko protested, stating that she worked alone.

Before the following challenge, Yuko spied on Isabella and Angelo during a romantic, private moment. Patsy then appeared, and loudly greeted her. This unnerved Angelo and Isabelle who stood up and asked how long they were there. Patsy stated that they didn’t see anything.

In the dunk tank challenge, Patsy was paired with Blair to retrieve water from the lake and adding it to the dunk tank. Patsy seemed to lack confidence, but Blair’s positive attitude helped motivate her. They did faster on their portion of the challenge than the other team.

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 witnessing a prank pulled on Cary, Patsy correctly observed that there was a tree branch placed in front of the shower door where he had been held captive.

After it was believed that LeVar knocked Cary unconscious during a challenge when no one was looking, Patsy see,Ed to be the only person who was not convinced that he did it. She found it odd that he was so adamant about his innocence despite there being video evidence. LeVar went on to be disqualified.

With the earlier events, Patsy attempted to recruit Grace to help her investigate the crime scene. Hae Won seemed stubborn about LeVar’s being guilty, and she left with Grace. Grace later rejoined Patsy to help her investigate, with Tamira also joining them. While Grace and Patsy gave up on opening the door to the gameshow set, and started investigating outside, Tamira opened the door with a bobby pin.

During their investigation, Patsy found a piece of cloth stuck to the men’s podium, and they recalled LeVar holding his arm and that the fabric was from his sleeve. They determined that someone did not want the men to raise their paddle for the trivia challenge and stuck LeVar’s arm to the podium with glue. Patsy recalled other examples of challenges being rigged, and determined that their must be a saboteur on the island.

During breakfast, Patsy volunteered to collect people’s dishes. Evan seemed annoyed with her, as she interrupted him and Hae Won. She had Grace and Tamira help her bring the bin of dishes to her cabin, which she hid under her bed. After the challenge and elimination, she returned the dishes to the mess hall, explaining that Ruth helped her collect the fingerprints. She and the other women then observed an argument between Evan, Hae Won, and Dirk, ending in Dirk giving Evan a wedgie before walking away. Patsy had each of them split up to follow one of each of the three suspects. Patsy took particular interest in Evan after he mentioned an investigation, and she chose to follow him.

Patsy saw Evan attempting to break into the dressing room for the previous challenge. She confronted him, but he explained that he found a suspicious note given to Skylar, the previously eliminated contestant. Skylar had froze after reading the note, after remembering the trauma of falling into a pit on his last time on the show. This ultimately led to his elimination. Evan wanted to investigate the costumes from the prior challenge, as the bags they were in contained the note. There, Patsy and Evan realized that the note appeared to be intended for Evan, and not Skylar, as their costumes got mixed up. Evan admitted that he couldn’t think of a reason that someone might try to threaten him. Patsy suggested that Evan wrote the note himself, which she didn’t;t seem fully serious about.

After leaving the dressing room, someone else tried to enter the dressing room, a hooded figure. Patsy and Evan hid in order to spy on the suspicious person. Evan went to lock the person in the dressing room, but stopped to get a good look at them. The person overpowered Evan, and almost attacked him before police arrived, including Douglas from Total Deception Island causing the person to flee into the night. Patsy scolded Evan for being reckless and rude to Douglas. Tamira suggested telling the police what they knew, but Patsy seemed to want to solve things herself. When comparing notes, Patsy didn’t seem too open to listen to Grace and Tamira, despite seeing Hae Won and a member of the medical staff doing suspicious things.

When Hae Won snuck out of the challenge, Patsy followed after her. Evan met Patsy and spied with her. Patsy admitted to only finding Evan and Skylar’s fingerprints on the duffel bag. When Hae Won overheard them, Patsy joined her. Hae Won stated that she was not feeling useful in the challenge. She also stated that she was glad that Patsy was behind the tree and not Evan. She admitted that while she liked Evan as a friend, she got bad vibes from him and didn’t want anything to do with him romantically due to his bad reputation with women. Patsy felt bad, knowing Evan could hear everything. After Hae Aw on departed, Patsy returned to a downtrodden looking Evan. She assured him that she didn’t agree with Hae Won, but he still seemed upset. He excused himself.

After the challenge, Chris was almost struck by a falling light. After the culprit was caught, Patsy exposed him as a scorned former intern. Douglas took him into his custody. Patsy insisted that it wasn’t over. She had the contestants and crew join her at her team’s cabin. She accused Hae Won of being the saboteur. While Hae Won admitted to pulling an elaborate prank on Dirk, she didn’t do the rest. The men lost the challenge, and the stolen fabric, that hurt their chances of winning without, was found under Hae Won’s bed. While the women were announced as the winners, Chris changed the ruling after Hae Won was accused of cheating. Hae Won was voted out, but in a surprise double elimination, Patsy was voted out right after her. Some of her competitors held Patsy responsible for the loss for accusing Hae Won. Tamira also found Patsy’s notepad, which included Grace and Tamira as suspects. On The Boat of Losers, Patsy read the notepad, and found that some added to her notes about Tamira and Grace. She also found a message apologizing to Patsy for causing her elimination, but she was getting too close to the truth.

## Trivia

* Patsy is one of five contestants in Total Drama Tropics to not use the confessional, and one of two contestants to make the merge without using it.
* Patsy's personality is based on noir fiction character tropes.
* Patsy is partially inspired by famed mystery novelist, Agatha Christie.
* Patsy is named after the term referring to someone that is easily deceived. This is a typical term used in criminal noir fiction.
* Patsy was one of three potential winners for the original version of Total Drama: Worst of the Worst. I thought she would be unique as a winner being already wealthy.
* Her brown vest and scrunchie are meant as a reference to Sherlock Holmes’ costume.
* When Patsy arrives on Worst of the Worst, she references two lines from Casablanca.
* I had originally planned Patsy’s role in this story, she was going to team up with Yuko more. I just couldn’t quite fit it into the story as much as I had wanted.
* I had also planned to have a subplot earlier with a group referencing the Scooby Doo gang. Patsy would have been part of that.
* The titles of Patsy’s novels were meant to sound like Nancy Drew books, being ‘The Enigmatic Candle Locksmith’ and ‘The Mysterious Case of the Battering Ram Smashing Into a Door to Gain Access to a Locked Room’.
* The image of Patsy with Tamira and Grace is modeled after the iconic logo from the original Charlie’s Angels. Patsy, at the center, holds a magnifying glass instead of a walkie talkie.
* Patsy goes back and forth between incompetent and competent as an investigator. Part of this is because she allows her emotions to get in the way, as well wanting the crime to be more flashy.
* When Patsy retells the events of the intern accosting Evan, she leaves Evan out of the story entirely. This was intentional on my part, as it made her story seem more about her to give herself more credit. I also wanted the connection between her and Evan to be unknown by Grace and Tamira.
* The image of Hae Won and Patsy and Evan intentionally had Hae Won and Patsy together as they got eliminated back to back in the same episode.
* Patsy as the leader of the investigation with Tamira and Grace, was meant to make it seem like Patsy would make it further into the competition.