Isabella

* S6: Athletics
* S10: WotW

Isabella is a contestant on Total Drama Athletics and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

When Isabella stepped off the boat, Chris didn’t seem to remember that she was deaf. Luke attempted to sign to Isabella, though not doing so too accurately. Isabella did commend him for his efforts. Angelo was fluent in sign language, and Isabella was very impressed. As they conversed, he explained that he learned sign language in order to communicate with a deaf nun. Isabella seemed to think he was joking. The others present looked on in a daze, as the two were not speaking verbally. Later, Isabella looked on as Hae Won caused Skylar to fall down.

Isabella was on a team with the rest of the women called The Black Swans. She was also nostalgic about living in a cabin, once again, though some of her teammates had different lodgings during their original season. Her team lost the first challenge, but Isabella was safe.

The following day, Isabella and Angelo went on a walk together. Isabella expressed that it was nice having Angelo being able to understand sign language. She also wished that they were on the same team. She also said that she felt isolated on her team. Dirk, a member of Angelo’s team, caught the two sharing a kiss. He backed away without the pair noticing him. Yuko was also secretly spying on the situation, but her cover was blown by Patsy who loudly greeted Yuko. Angelo alerted Isabella and the two stood up as Angelo asked if the two had been their long, to which Patsy replied that they hadn’t been.

Isabella and Angelo worked together for the challenge, as well. Isabella admitted to him that she found it a struggle to fit in with her team. He assured her that they would like her once they got to know her. They also noticed a helicopter flying overhead. Angelo also offered a gold dipped rose that he found. Isabella was weary of Angelo helping her for the challenge, but she accepted the gift. The pair noticed some commotion nearby and found several contestants standing in awe at an impressively crafted dragon.

At the elimination ceremony, Isabella was eliminated. She assumed it was because of her budding romance with Angelo, to which it was revealed that the others mostly did not know about. Hae Won did note that that explained where Isabella kept disappearing to. Hae Won admitted that they voted for Isabella due to not knowing her as well as the others. Isabella realized that she could have tried harder to connect with her team, but admitted that Angelo was distracting. She hoped to reunite with him after the show.

## Trivia

* Isabella’s Worst of the Worst t-shirt design was based on a ‘Run, Forest, Run’ shirt my sister owned which showed a group of trees running from a bulldozer.
* ‘The Tree Stooges’ are based on The Three Stooges.
* I admit to struggling with writing for Isabella this time around. The signing and speaking at the same time was what was the biggest challenge, as it felt a bit convoluted. Using Angelo as a way to have Isabella simply sign was a relief on writing for her. Unfortunately, the difficulty to get Isabella’s conversing to flow ultimately led me to decide to make her an early out. I also felt that she couldn’t contribute to the story as much as some other characters with more dynamic personalities. Trust me. I felt bad about not feeling Isabella this season, but I definitely feel that her elimination feels natural, definitely more so than any elimination in the first iteration of this story, which I didn’t feel confident in any of them.
* Isabella and Angelo’s image of their kiss holds the distinction of the first depicted kiss in an episode image that survived the purge.
* I was attempting a more dynamic pose in that image, and am pretty satisfied with it.
* I considered giving Isabella a different shirt in the episode three episode image. I failed to think of anything decent, and also decided to have her character image shirt, since it was blocked off in the first episode image she appears in.
* Isabella being dressed in red armor for the second challenge was meant as the red cavalier to Brent’s green cavalier. This was never spelled out in the story, though.
* I did not want to reduce Isabella to just a love interest storyline, but I have felt that she and Angelo would be a ‘perfect couple’ for many years. Part of creating the relationship was the perception of Angelo’s perfection, and Isabella’s so called ‘imperfection’ with having a disability. I feel, however, that Isabella is one of my most flawless characters. I ended up accelerating the romance with her elimination being earlier than I originally planned.
* Isabella was known in her first season for being attracted to the hot guys. Angelo as one of the most in story attractive guys made it feel like a natural pairing, and natural for Isabella to be interested in him, as well as his being able to use sign language.
* Isabella’s elimination was a call back to Christy from Survivor Amazon, a deaf contestant. She could read lips, but didn’t exactly fit in with the ‘popular girls’. Christy made it far, but never really fit in anywhere, as no one made an active effort to include her, the show being a competition setting. I wanted to avoid Isabella being eliminated for being in a relationship with Angelo. This feels like something I did too often in my older stories, and in retrospect it feels kind of cheap, especially when it happens to the female characters.