Wolf

Wolf is a contestant in Total Drama: The Next Generation. He is labeled as **The Science Nerd**.

## Biography

Wolf has been interested in science since young childhood. He has won many awards for science projects and essays. After reaching puberty, Wolf has been considered as a bit of a hunk by many, but he remains completely unaware of his appearance and popularity. He has no interest in dating or sports. Whenever problems arise, he firmly believes that everything can be solved through science.

Wolf joined the Total Drama series in order to win the prize money. He plans to use it to fund science projects.

## Total Drama: The Next Generation

Wolf arrived to admiration from Romelio, Yolanda, and Clara due to his good looks, while Andrea seemed disinterested. Wolf stated that he prefers going by ‘Wolf’ over ‘Wolfgang’ due to a gang of wolves not being the scientific term.

When in their cabin for the first time, Romelio asked how Wolf got his build. Wolf explained that he created a salve to fight the common cold, and that it expanded his muscles when he left it on his torso overnight. He added that he threw away the formula since it didn’t have the desired result. During the challenge that required the players to dress as past contestants, Wolf complained about Doyce’s pro wrestling costume, citing it as ridiculous. His wearing the scant costume served as a distraction to the opposition, including Vivi. At the campfire ceremony, Wolf was still dressed in Doyce’s gear. He explained that the other contestants told him he was supposed to keep wearing it, despite that not being the case.

During the next challenge, Wolf earned a point for his team hen he was tasked to make a Swedish person’s face turn the deepest shade of red. Wolf took a scientific approach, and had the man hold his head between his knees until his face turned red.

When the rest of the team wanted to go for a swim, Wolf passed, claiming to be a poor swimmer. He stated in confessional that he was more interested observing Tiffany and her boyfriends. For the superhero cosplay challenge, Wolf was adorned in cyan body paint, and a tattered lab coat. He lamented the destruction of a nice lab coat. He met up with Andrea, who insisted on not working together for the challenge. The two parted ways. The Chilly Dogs won the challenge, and Wolf recounted how his team was able to win, and the various obstacles the other team presented them. Wolf was instrumental in the teams victory, as he found most of his captured team members.

After waiting for Andrea for a few hours, Wolf explained that whatever Andrea was searching for was more interesting than the other competitors. They were harsh with Wolf, making it clear that they were not interested in help from the muscular science enthusiast. Wolf left Andrea on their own.

The next challenge involved the contestants standing on a platform in the water. Wolf had obvious trepidation in the challenge, assuming it involved swimming. Jack insisted that it did not, necessarily, and that it involved the contestants to try to stay on the platform, while pushing the others into the water. Wolf was then unbeatable in the challenge, as no one was able to move him. Tragedy struck, however, as Eddy nearly drowned. Wolf was the one to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation on Eddy, successfully reviving him. Wolf was among the players Eddy requested to say goodbye to after learning that he had a rare heart condition that would need further examination, meaning his elimination from the competition.

Andrea made amends with Wolf, admitting that they were scared when Eddy was in danger. Wolf simply stated that he implemented the knowledge needed for the situation. Andrea invited Wolf to help investigate paranormal activity, too. Wolf agreed, under the understanding that he would join with the intent to disprove the involvement of anything of paranormal nature. Andrea led Wolf to a rusty vault handle leading to an underground bunker. Wolf had a solution prepared to remove the rust, and the pair were able to open the vault.

Wolf drank something that made his skin glow, so the pair could see clearly in the dark. They discovered a strange bunker that someone had been clearly residing in for some time. The walls were adorned with 90’s boy band posters. Upon further investigation, the unlikely duo found a safe with a red haired doll in it, as well as a purple liquid in a bottle. They also found a red journal before leaving the bunker.

At the challenge, Wolf’s team had to solve an escape room. Wolf did his share, even being lifted up by Declan to investigate a ceiling fan. The team did not win the challenge, however.

That night, Wolf expressed to Andrea that he noticed that Declan wore colored contact lenses. Andrea insisted that this proved her theory that Declan was indeed a banshee. Wolf refused to humor the theory with a response. The host, Jack, showed up and asked how his journal that he gave to Andrea earlier was helping them. He explained that it would help if he could read his own handwriting, which neither Wolf or Andrea could understand. While Andrea gave the journal to Suzy to translate, Wolf questioned Declan in their shared cabin, though he failed to learn anything. During the challenge, Declan revealed that he was actually the son of a former contestant. Wolf commended Andrea for knowing Declan was hiding a secret, but Andrea was disappointed that he was not a banshee.

While Suzy worked on translating Jack’s bad handwriting, Andrea went over the red journal found in the bunker, which they thought were drawings of monster sightings including a mummy and golem. In Andrea’s messenger bag, Wolf discovered a piece of wood with a strange pattern broken off of it. He seemed transfixed by the object, but Andrea seemed reluctant to talk about it. Then, Max, Naveen, and Gabe walked up, both from the other team. Wolf found the red haired doll from Andrea’s bag. He seemed attached to it, even naming it ‘Newton’. Max picked it up, pricking himself with a needle left in it after Suzy sewed the doll to repair it. Gabe also could not hide his attraction to Wolf, due to his head injury that makes it impossible for him to lie. Wolf seemed fascinated by Gabe. At a merge feast, Wolf observed Gabe and took notes.

After the elimination, Gabe joined Wolf and Andrea. Andrea felt trepidation on including him in their duo, but Wolf’s fascination with Gabe made him push for Andrea to accept the idea. In their newly shared cabin, Gabe found a bottle of a purple liquid that Wolf found in the underground bunker. Gabe convinced Wolf to drink it, before leaving to go explore. Outside, Wolf and Gabe insisted on investigating the lake and piece of driftwood with the strange markings on it. Wolf blushed at some of Gabe’s comments, as well as his wrong assumption that they were skinny dipping. As Gabe left to find his swimwear, Andrea teased Wolf for having a crush on Gabe. Wolf insisted that he did not. Andrea bowed out while the guys swam out to investigate, after Gabe instructed Wolf on his swimming.

When they took time to rest, Gabe opened up to Wolf about his injury, and how he lost friends after being forced to tell the truth at all times. The guys swam to Boney Island, and found an amphibious vehicle that left the markings on the piece of wood. The host, Jack, appeared and explained that it was abandoned on the island. He drove the pair back to the island. During the ride, Wolf felt he was developing feelings for Gabe. When they got back, Gabe left to avoid telling Andrea what they discovered. Wolf got frustrated with Andrea’s theories, including that he drank a love potion, and told them what they found and that there were no sea monsters. He also said he wanted to take a break from their investigations in order to develop a relationship with Gabe.

During the challenge, Wolf was tasked with capturing Tiffany. He made a lot of progress, but passed out when he was almost successful. Wolf was sick with a fever, and unable to participate in the elimination ceremony where Gabe was voted out.

Wolf requested to see Andrea in the medical tent. There, he professed that he now believed what Andrea had been telling him. He now believed that he only was attracted to Gabe due to the alleged love potion. Andrea seemed conflicted, however. During the challenge, Wolf was fully into it. He eliminated Andrea early from the laser tag competition, not thinking alliances had anything to do with it. He was a force to be reckoned with, as he was then targeted by Yolanda and Suzy with a rope trap. While suspended, he still was able to fire at them. He eliminated Yolanda, but was eliminated abruptly by Naveen.

That night, Andrea explained that she thought Newton was a voodoo doll, and that they let it get singed in a fire, explaining why Wolf got a fever. It got thrown out, and they dug through a dumpster to find it. Mr. Armstrong, a counselor, ran up and questioned what the teens were doing. They showed him the doll, and the bottle. He explained that it was a doll made by Fiona, and the alleged potion was a discontinued soft drink. The book of drawings of monsters was just drawings of past contestants. Despite the theories being disproven, Andrea did not seem dissuaded by other theories citing the aforementioned items as false leads. Andrea now was focused on Jack’s journal. Wolf later discussed with Declan having to confront his feelings for Gabe. Declan assured him that he was still young, and had time to learn more about himself and feelings. During the croquet challenge, Wolf hit his ball off of the course and was essentially a nonentity.

The next day, Andrea and Wolf received the translated journal from Suzy. Wolf seemed hesitant to join Andrea to look for a treasure marked on a map. Though Andrea did not want to go back, the pair was forced to stop their exploration just before reaching the x on the map, in order to compete in the challenge. It was revealed that the challenge was a couple therapy session with Mr. Armstrong and Ms. Mann. Wolf and Andrea were paired together. While Andrea denied that they had anything to work out, Wolf admitted to feeling like his interests were pushed aside by Andrea, so that they could do what they wanted to. Andrea ultimately acknowledged Wolf’s feelings and agreed to listen to Wolf more. The duo was deemed safe for the challenge. After the elimination, Wolf and Andrea went back to follow the map and found that the treasure hidden in the abandoned mine was already found.

Kirika and Tiffany implemented a strategy to divide Wolf and Kirika. They kicked Wolf out of their cabin. He admitted to the confessional that he found a newspaper clipping of a legend of a cryptid called Camptroopacabra spotted at Camp Wawanakwa. He later was approached by Kirika and Tiffany with a photo of him with his family. He revealed that he is an identical triplet, with a single father that also looked much like him. He explained that he was a test tube baby and had no mother. He then left to take a shower.

Wolf was pulled from the shower to compete in the challenge, wearing only a towel wrapped around his rib cage. Each contestant designed a plush. Wolf’s was based on his crush Gabe, a factor the judges did not seem to want to reward outside of pride month. Wolf also lost his towel, Andrea noticing his lack of a belly button. When she confronted him about it, he was very evasive and walked away.

After being separated from Andrea by Tiffany, Wolf decided to search for Camptroopacabra himself. He admitted that the howling he heard on the island did not match any animals calls he had heard. Wolf found himself following the howling to the area used for the laser tag challenge. He lost his messenger bag to a rope trap set by Yolanda and Suzy. He then rescued Camptroopacabra from a similar trap, and the creature left into the night. Wolf believed the creature to be someone in a rubber suit or an animatronic. When trying to knock down his messenger bag, a can of beans fell and hit Wolf in the head rendering him unconscious. He woke up in the medical tent, and admitted that he had met Camptroopacabra, who tended to his wounds and fed him beans. He thought he was speaking to Andrea, but it was Tiffany disguised as Andrea. He saw through the disguise.

The furniture renovation challenge left no winner. Tiffany told Wolf that she was the real Andrea and that Andrea was another life form and that they should not let Andrea win the money. Wolf considered voting out Andrea, but ultimately voted out Tiffany. This left the final two of Wolf and Andrea.

Before the finale challenge, Andrea admitted to being non-binary and preferring they/them pronouns. Wolf was receptive to this, surprising Andrea. Andrea also asked if Wolf was a clone. He explained that he had a surrogate mother, and took after his father. He did not have a navel, given that he had stomach surgery as a baby. It was something he was sensitive about, with it being a serious circumstance.

During the obstacle course challenge, Wolf did well at first, but ended up getting stuck on a puzzle. The puzzle required the contestant to think outside the box for the answer, and he ultimately was not able to get passed this obstacle. Andrea was declared the winner. Wolf was supportive of Andrea’s victory.

## Trivia

* Wolf's full name is Wolfgang.
* For a while, I debated making Wolf an aromantic asexual or a homoromantic asexual given his possible crush on Gabe. Though not officially stated in a story at this time, I now consider him as a homoromantic asexual. In part for representation, and in part to differentiate him from Declan who is an aromantic asexual.
* Wolf was designed after David Duchovny, specifically for his character Agent Mulder from The X-Files. Wolf has red hair in reference to Gillian Anderson who portrayed Agent Scully. His personality and general character were based on Agent Scully.
* Wolf’s last name is Scaulder, a reference to the iconic duo from The X-Files.
* The other characters consider Wolf to be very attractive. This is a reference to a few times where Agent Mulder is stated to be extraordinarily handsome by a few characters from The X-Files.
* Wolf is dressed as Doyce for a challenge. I chose Wolf to represent Doyce given their red hair and similar builds.
* Wolf references The Incredible Hulk in the superhero cosplay challenge. It seemed a fitting choice with Bruce Banner being a scientist that gains muscle mass after an experiment.
* Wolf portrays a reference to Mr. Green from Clue in the escape room challenge. This was intentional as Mr. Green comes out as gay in the Clue film from the 80’s. Wolf was referred to as a ‘secretive businessman’ in reference to that film. This was also a hint at Wolf’s storyline with Gabe where he questions his own sexuality.
* Jack calls Wolf ‘Wolfenstein’ a reference to the PC games.
* The ‘monster ‘drawings in the red journal found by Andrea and Wolf in the bunker include a mummy and a golem. These drawings were made by Esme during her time hiding on the island after Total Drama: Worst of the Worst. The mummy was meant to be Evan after his bandages from his serious injuries. The golem was meant to be Dirk, based on his bulky frame. With this story being written before Worst of the Worst, this was a sort of preview of the upcoming story as well as a tie in of the two stories.
* The red haired doll, thought to be a voodoo doll, was named ‘Newton’ by Wolf. This is a reference to Sir Isaac Newton.
* When Gabe and Wolf swim out and talk, I originally wrote that Gabe called out Wolf for lying about himself, such as the story about how he spilled chemicals on himself and became muscular. I left that out because I didn’t want to take the lightheartedness from Wolf’s character.
* In the horror themed challenge, Wolf is dressed as a Chucky doll in a Herbert West, from Reanimator, costume.
* Wolf’s loss was meant to be anticlimactic, but also suggest that perhaps he could win in a surprise comeback. His losing by a considerable margin was also something I hadn’t done before and wanted to do.
* The puzzle Wolf got hung up on literally required him to think outside the box, as the answer was provided on the bottom of the box. This was a reference to how Wolf is not a creative thinker, and was unable to solve the problem.
* I made a fake image of Wolf winning and receiving the check from Jack so if someone saw the image of Andrea receiving the check in the uploaded images before reading the chapter, they wouldn’t be spoiled. This was also a reference to the official Total Drama series considering all finalists as winners of the season.

## Gallery

Wolf in his sleepwear.Wolf in his swimwear.Wolf’s original image.An alternate image had Wolf been the winner of Total Drama: The Next Generation.