Seo-yeon

## Interactions

### Friends

Claude, Lance, Cherry Bomb, Zeke, Lincoln, Kokoa, Harley (CC), Rabbit (CC), Julian (CC)

### Roleplayed by

Stephen

**Seo-yeon An** is a contestant from *Total Drama: Enchanted Realm* and *Total Drama: Curtain Call.*

During Enchanted Realm, Seo-yeon's logical and opportunistic playstyle brought her Visus Cinerem alliance much of its strength through to the midgame, and her deliberately quiet behavior let her avoid being targeted. However, her strategy fell apart after Kurai's sudden challenge elimination and the consequential loss of their numbers advantage. In a final hurrah, Seo-yeon was just barely able to eke out a placement above Marina.

During Curtain Call, Seo-yeon forsook her characteristic cold logic, instead using most of her time on the show to improve or form relationships. Despite this, she performed fairly well in challenges and began to speak her mind more, two factors that allowed her to steer the direction of the game and even take the season's bronze.

## Audition Tape

The room revealed was bare, minimal. Almost uncomfortably so, with white, clean walls that didn’t seem befitting of a teenager’s room. Perfectly positioned and aligned with the wall, the camera reveals only one spot of color: a light blue stool in front of a wide, open window, overlooking the grey bustle of Maryland suburbanite life.
Such was the room of Seo-yeon An, the young woman who stepped into frame after just a hair’s breadth too long.
She sat down on the stool, face flat, un-energetic. Gently she pushed the black hair that framed her face aside—unlike the room her appearance wasn’t quite so meticulous, overall-clad and baggy-eyed. One leg crossed over the other, and the camera refocused as she adjusted herself, taking a few stutters to begin to speak.
“… Hello.”
So now what does she do? She steels her back, and the time it takes to do that is taken up by a loud *crack*. She winces.
“Seo-yeon An,” she fails to elaborate, looking down. Rather than shy, her voice is flat and forceful, and her eyes never seem to focus on the camera. “Nineteen years old. College student, undeclared major, recording from home at the moment.” She adjusts her shirt. “… east coast is the best,” she mumbles, trying her best at a silly joke, but it doesn’t seem to land even to herself, and her legs clench closer together.
“Oh, um.” Seo-yeon looks up finally now, swinging her legs a bit childishly. “I go by she/her, yeah. I live in Berlin, Maryland, and—here. Hey, watch this.” She grabs the camera and spins the whole world around her, over to a computer, the screen of which, even through the lens of the camera, reveals more color than anywhere else in the greyscale room. The camera shaking now, it focuses on a little cartoon dog bouncing about.
“I made this. I wanted t’ show you, uh.” Who’s *you?* She doesn’t seem to know. She taps a controller a few times, and the dog spits out a response.
“*Thanks—for—Thanks—for—wat’chin, yo!*” The dog spits out a nice little rhythm in time with her taps. “*Seo-yeon, Seo-yeon, brings it home!*”
She sets the camera down, angled and tilted. It can be seen out of the corner of the feed that she rubbed the dog’s head on her screen with her thumb.
“Thanks, P.”
The camera clicks off.

## Personality

Seo-yeon is a college student from eastern Maryland. She is quiet, logical, and pragmatic, as her title suggests, and prefers to work behind the scenes rather than be in the spotlight. Seo-yeon is not entirely as aloof and disaffected as she might appear at first, and she can sometimes openly become petty or spiteful, yet began to display a great amount of restraint and understanding with certain other competitors as the game progressed. However, she also has a more casual and youthful side to her, one that can rarely be seen when pressure is taken off of her. She occasionally says things offhandedly that end up having a great impact, but it is not clear whether she does this intentionally. She also has difficulty expressing her intent verbally, occasionally leading to misunderstandings. Seo-yeon's cooking ability was also noted through the season, multiple characters becoming fans of her potato soup. One of Seo-yeon's primary motivators was the cost of college, wanting her mother to be spared of financial concern. She intends to work as a programmer, but has a passion for music production. She speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent that varies in strength depending on her comfort level with the person or people she is speaking to.

Seo-yeon had significant difficulty understanding the emotions of others and her effect on them prior to her time on Enchanted Realm. Because of this, she had a tendency to run from or cut off emotional connections. However, the reward-based nature of positive connection in Total Drama encouraged her to reevaluate how she perceived and treated others, causing her to understand the flaws in her past patterns of behavior and how she previously caused harm to others both inside and outside of the game. She reflected on this in her final speech, considering the game a process of becoming a new and better version of herself. Throughout the game, she grew into confidence and acceptance of her past flaws while learning how to respect the struggles and feelings of other people, a surprisingly positive development for a character averse to social settings.

During Curtain Call, Seo-yeon displayed a great amount of new confidence and maturity amassed in the one-year gap between the two seasons. She formally declared her minor in music and encouraged others to pursue their dreams thanks to the influence of Cherry Bomb. Though she was quiet at the start of the game, she slowly overcame her anxieties about failing to conform to a certain image of beauty and speaking her mind within the setting, even being regarded as a threat for her ability to effectively push back on others at deliberation through her reasoning. Seo-yeon also managed to smooth over most of her loose ends from Enchanted Realm. Just prior to the elimination of both, she became good friends with Rabbit and Harley. She even opened up about her emotions to the latter, a rare feat for her. She has stated that she once considered Curtain Call a positive experience for such reasons, even if her focus on repairing relationships and hurting fewer people meant that her strategic game was minimal when compared with her previous season.

## Total Drama: Enchanted Realm

Seo-yeon started out Enchanted Realm with a mixed bag of luck. Early on, she along with Kurai were pulled into the Winners Alliance by Claude, who himself sought voting security. Joining the alliance quickly proved useful for Seo-yeon, helping her narrowly avoid becoming the first boot of the season after her failure in the Hide and Seek challenge by shifting the vote onto Izanami. Now a five-person team, Visus Cinerem fell under the hegemony of the Winners Alliance, something that comforted Seo-yeon while eliminating Mercury and jeopardizing Cathy. She and Kurai formed a sort of friendship during the time, being mutually suspicious of Claude's opportunism though they themselves exhibited the same traits. Before the team swap, she would take the MVP for the songwriting challenge, helping her to feel more secure in the dream of music production that she had confessed to host Cherry Bomb.

During this period, Seo-yeon's personality was largely cold, impersonal, and calculating. However, opting into an interview with Cherry Bomb helped her to confront some of her motives for behaving in her impersonal way and why she tended to feel a lack of responsibility towards others. Her friendship with Cherry Bomb began to develop during this time, but she was largely closed off towards members of other teams even when she talked with them.

The team swap granted Seo-yeon some more stability, and her votes and prodding questions often aligned with an understanding of the game; for example, she became involved in a mishap between Cathy and Claude, encouraging Cathy to indebt Claude to her so that Seo-yeon could more reliably secure Claude's vote through Cathy. However, while Claude made too many allies and spread himself too thin, Seo-yeon stayed too internal and made few friends during this period, refusing to do so for a combination of dislike for others, general introverted personality, and a developing moral opposition to befriending people for the sake of their vote. Unfortunately, her alliance was revealed to Julian as a result of Kurai's proximity to him, which would leak out to Zinfandel and eventually to the whole group during a high-stress elimination ceremony. From then on, Enchanted Realm's elimination ceremonies would be characterized by accusations and anger, overwhelming and frustrating Seo-yeon. Knowing that her losing place in the game was finalized from the moment Kurai was eliminated, Seo-yeon lost her view on the game as a whole, instead taking it day by day to try and push through to the highest placement she could possibly achieve despite Julian and Zinfandel's antagonization of her. She formed a friendship with Lance at the time, who also felt expendable to the growing Julian-Zinfandel majority; though she also befriended Rabbit, he would not ally with her as strongly due to having a more advantageous position by allying with them. Enchanted Realm developed into a bipartisan game, the only person to truly avoid picking for or against Julian being eventual finalist Harley.

Seo-yeon began to feel regret and discomfort with the cerebral and sometimes callous elimination process, hypothesizing privately that she may have subconsciously joined the show to begin to understand empathy, as negative emotional consequences on others would have strategic consequences for her. This would come to a head when Harley accused her of manipulating her by stating something false about Marina, which Seo-yeon had believed to be true at the time. Accepting that her loss was inevitable, she instead spent her last elimination ceremony apologizing and clearing up things to Harley, demonstrating her emotional growth. Seo-yeon placed 7th, voted out by a majority, and better befriended Claude at the loser's villa.

### Voting History

This is where I'll put a table of where your character has voted, and who your character has been voted by. I'll usually handle this but tables take a tediously long time to make, especially since they can't be made during the season.

## Total Drama: Curtain Call

### Voting History

This is where I'll put a table of where your character has voted, and who your character has been voted by. I'll usually handle this but tables take a tediously long time to make, especially since they can't be made during the season.

## Trivia

### Competition

* Seo-yeon is the highest-placing member of the original Visus Cinerem team.
	+ Similarly, Seo-yeon is the highest-placing player from Enchanted Realm in Curtain Call, while also being the lowest Enchanted Realm placement in the season.

* Seo-yeon is one of only four Era 3 contestants to achieve a higher placement in her All-Stars season than her original season. She shares this trait with fellow Curtain Call podium members Ryker and Lincoln, as well as Kokoa.
	+ Seo-yeon is the first—and so far the only—contestant to outlast the winner of their original season in an All-Stars season.
* Both episodes in which the voting went to a rock draw were episodes in which Seo-yeon won MVP, making her the only member of the Enchanted Realm Jury never to have been subjected to a rock draw.
* Seo-yeon ties with Julian for the most episode appearances of any Enchanted Realm contestant, with 26.
	+ The pair have inverted matching episode counts: Seo-yeon appears in 11 in Enchanted Realm and 15 in Curtain Call, and Julian appears in 15 in Enchanted Realm and 11 in Curtain Call.
* Seo-yeon’s team placement in both of her seasons have significant similarities:
	+ Her first team (Visus Cinerem, Contorted Bones), containing six of the eighteen participants in the season, would lose at least one challenge and eliminate at least one member during the first phase, while another red-themed team of six (Twist of Fate, Ring of Fire) would dominate the competition and not lose any members.
	+ Her swapped team (Twist of Fate, Ring of Fire) would be the previously well-performing team and continue its streak, losing no members during the swapped team phase.
	+ Seo-yeon would make it to merge (Soul Survivors, Stars of the Show) and the merge team would be named by Harley.

### Character

* Seo-yeon is bisexual.
* Seo-yeon's favorite food is garlic chili shrimp.
* Seo-yeon's birthday is March 31st. She is an Aries.
* Seo-yeon stands at 5'2".

### Miscellaneous

* Seo-yeon's twitter handle is @unjammerseo, referencing her interest in the PaRappa franchise.
* Though not explicitly mentioned to be such in-text, if one replicates Seo-yeon and Lance's communicative hand gesture, it forms the letter J, representing Julian.
* Seo-yeon was assigned The World tarot card by Cherry Bomb. The World is associated with achievement, fulfillment, and wholeness.
* According to off-season tweets, Seo-yeon hosted a successful GoFundMe to settle a court case levied against Zeke before his appearance on Total Drama. The two also briefly co-habited after Curtain Call.
* Seo-yeon has occasionally performed at music venues with Rabbit after Curtain Call.