A Race To Remember

**A Race To Remember** is a Total Drama fanfiction by Feline. It is an AU of the Ridonculous Race's final week, and was one of Feline's first stories.

## Summary

It's down to the final six in The Ridonculous Race and two sisters are determined to make it all the way. But will Emma and Kitty be able to survive in the face of their enemies, even with their own bond being tested?

## Original Characters

While it was canon-focused, the story had a small team of OC interns and crew.

### Andy

"Cameraman Andy" started as a random name for a one-off gag, but developed into a happy-go-lucky intern and the narrator of the story's "intern-mission".

### Jayden

Jayden is a genderfluid Korean intern who knows their shit but is somehow still very chill. They are the only member of the cast that went on to be used for other projects.

### Mrs. S

Mrs. S, named for her apparently near-unpronounceable name, is a kindly middle-aged Indian woman and a member of the camera crew.

### Riley

Riley is a chaotic child and Andy's nine-year-old cousin. Who knows how she ended up along for the ride. She is arguably a prototype design of Mistral Rivera-Hwang.

## Plot

Each chapter is written in either Emma and Kitty's perspective. It's not quite alternating, but they were planned to get the same number of chapters in the end.

### Chapter 3: On Thin Ice

Ep. 22 How Deep Is Your Love, Emma's perspective

### Chapter 4: Out Of Reach

Ep. 22 How Deep Is Your Love, Kitty's perspective

### Chapter 5: Bringing The Heat

Ep. 23 Darjeel With It, Kitty's perspective

### Chapter 6: Hit The Rails!

Ep. 23 Darjeel With It, Emma's perspective

### The Intern-mission

Takes place right before Ep. 24 Last Tango In Buenos Aires, featuring Andy and the gang as they corral emus for that day's challenge...

## Lessons Learned

Cancellation notice:

"Regarding RTR as a whole, it's been basically abandoned for a year and I'm pretty much out of the Total Drama fandom now, but I wanted to at least let you guys know what my plans were. I recently reread it, and even though the first-person narration makes me cringe so much, there were some good bits too. I'm proud of A Race To Remember, and to this date it's still my most viewed story!

I mean, it was probably pretty obvious what would happen. A bit of shuffling around in the elimination order, the Sisters win, yada yada yada. The plan was to have the Surfers go home in the Bahamas and the Cadets and Sisters in the finale. They would possibly team up to take the Ice Dancers down. I actually considered having the Cadets win though, both because it would be better for Emma's development and because I love MacArthur and Sanders, but I figured that I might as well go all out.

Something I wanted to explore a bit was a possible Cadets/Sisters conflict, which I ended up doing in a one-shot of mine, 50 Words of MacArthur and Kitty. Something I didn't address in 50 Words, though, is Kitty helping MacArthur and Sanders get together, which I think would be adorable.

If I were to rewrite this story, one of the main things that I would change (besides the awkward use of first-person present tense) is to make my characterization of Emma more consistent. I would want a more defined arc between her and Kitty, because she seemed to change between snappy and affectionate randomly. I just couldn't resist the fluff moments…"