Angelo

* S2: Reality
* S10: WotW

Angelo is a contestant on Total Drama Reality and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Biography

Angelo has always been a great child. His parents were afraid that he would change when he became a teenager, but that didn't happen. He's perfectly balanced in his athleticism, academics, and personal life. He's his school football team's quarterback, captain, and head cheerleader. His team has never lost under his guidance. Despite his roles on the football team, Angelo maintains a perfect grade point average. He also volunteers with puppies with no limbs. He's popular and is nice to every student in his school. He can be firm when needed, however. His parents are concerned that if he should ever fail at something, it would devastate him.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

Angelo was the first contestant to arrive to the island. Zoe was the second. She commented on his physique and voiced her disappointment on not being able to inspire him to become more fit. When Evan arrived, Chris described him as polyamorous. Angelo was unsure what that meant, and Evan explained that he has publicly been in relationships with multiple women.

When Dirk arrived, he pushed Evan down and put his arm around Angelo’s shoulder. When Tamira arrived on the island, she noted Angelo’s lack of a shirt and asked for an explanation. He stated that he used his platform from being on Total Drama Reality to raise awareness for those unable to afford the cost of a shirt. He named his charity ‘Give a Shirt’ which incited some chuckles from his competitors. Upon Isabella’s arrival, Angelo revealed that he too knows sign language. The two bonded quickly, as Angelo explained through sign that he learned sign from helping an elderly deaf nun as a child. The others looked on in awe as the two silently signed.

Teams were divided by gender with Angelo stating that he was getting along well with Dirk. When the others didn’t want to bunk with Dirk, Angelo volunteered. Angelo stated that their team needed Dirk’s enthusiasm for the first challenge, and Dirk punched Angelo in the stomach, being unable to hide his excitement. Angelo admitted that he didn’t feel a thing, as Dirk held his hand up, throbbing in pain.

Angelo admitted in confessional that he had fallen for Isabella, despite being on separate teams. As the two sat together, they kissed. Unbeknownst to either of them, Dirk happened to see before leaving the area. Patsy walked up and exposed that Yuko was spying on the situation. Angelo and Isabella quickly called out to the two, and Patsy claimed to not have noticed the pair, which relieved Angelo and Isabella.

During the challenge that required the players to search for and gather the most treasure, Angelo was glad his costume didn’t include a shirt. Dirk also was glad and said he supported the cause for more men to be shirtless. Before Angelo could clarify, Dirk asked if he should reveal something that could hurt someone chances in the game. Angelo wholeheartedly assured that Dirk should be honest.

After splitting up from Dirk, Angelo helped Isabella in the challenge. She expressed concern about not having anyone she could openly communicate with on her team. Angelo assured that once her team got to know her, they would like her. He then heard some commotion and lead Isabella to a clearing where a large mechanical dragon was protecting some treasure. After the challenge time ended, it was revealed that Herman was the man behind the monster. Angelo greeted Herman.

The Raging Bulls won the treasure seeking challenge, and Angelo waited outside the elimination ceremony to see if Isabella was safe. He was disappointed to see that Isabella was indeed voted out. They explained that they voted for her because they didn’t have a chance to get to know her. He assured that there were no hard feelings from him, but proceeded to glare at Yuko and Patsy when they passed him by, suspecting that they had a hand in Isabella’s elimination.

Anders noticed that Angelo seemed despondent. Angelo admitted to feeling tense when describing being mad about Isabella’s elimination. Anders responded by giving Angelo a shoulder massage. Dirk later proposed that the three of them begin an alliance called ‘The Beady Eye Brigade’. The guys agreed.

As LeVar was taking part in the balance beam portion of the challenge, Angelo called out that LeVar stepped off of the balance beam, forcing him to return to the start of the balance beam. LeVar was livid. Angelo also tattled on the women, later, but they did not break any written rules. Angelo, Anders, and Herman participated in the dunk tank assembly portion of the challenge, and finished it quickly, overtaking the lead in the challenge. After losing the challenge, Dirk insisted that Angelo be less of a rule enforcer. Angelo defended himself by stating that if he hadn’t spoken up, they would have been disqualified after the challenge. Angelo was voted out, however, after Evan tried to shift the focus to his being hard to beat later in the game, and one of many Total Drama Reality returnees.

## Trivia

* Angelo is Italian.
* Angelo is based on Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn.
* Angelo is one of three contestants not to use the confessional in Total Drama Reality.
* Angelo is vegan.
* I consider Angelo as one of my most notable first eliminations.
* Angelo originally was going to lose his shirt to help a raccoon with a breach birth, but decided to do something new with his ‘Give a Shirt’ awareness campaign. This also explained why he didn’t pack any replacement shirts.
* Grace jokes that Angelo’s work out routine probably included helping puppies without limbs. I forgot that helping puppies with no limbs was mentioned in Angelo’s biography for Total Drama Reality.
* Angelo was originally going to place much better in the first version of Total Drama: Worst of the Worst. This changed after I struggled to think of storylines for him, and his role could easily be shifted to someone I was not struggling to write for. I also had a hard time deciding a tone or voice for Angelo this time around so writing lines for him was a challenge, too. I settled on him being good at many things, like languages and musical instruments, with him not viewing these things as major deals.
* I also struggled with Angelo being too similar to Quimberly, though she is far less humble than him.
* In the original story, Angelo and Isabella were going to be a couple a little later on. I did not like the idea of having Angelo in a romance, but decided to keep this element in to have a little more focus on the two characters.
* I felt bad for Isabella taking the heat for their relationship, as I feel that in my stories I had the women eliminated first often for being in a relationship with another contestant, so I decided to resolve that by eliminating the couple back to back.
* Before deciding to put the two in a relationship, Angelo was actually not going to know sign language. Luke was going to know sign language after studying it, and Skylar was going to know very basic words.
* Angelo makes an unnamed cameo in Total Drama: The Next Generation, as a shirtless doctor, showing that, many years later, he is still dedicated to his cause.