Suzy

Suzy is a contestant in Total Drama: The Next Generation. She is labeled as **The Tutor**.

## Biography

Suzy is a straight A student. She is more than happy to share her knowledge with others. That's why she enjoys her work as a tutor. She loves each school subject, but especially language studies and home economics.

Suzy joined the Total Drama series in the hopes to educate others.

## Total Drama: The Next Generation

Suzy arrived with the host Jack wanting to allow Suzy to introduce herself. She seemed annoyed at first, but later seemed to take great pleasure in showing off her vocabulary. She also viewed the cast as a challenge in terms of her tutoring. Suzy seemed most interested in correcting Byron’s grammar over the course of the series.

In the following episode, Suzy seemed most upset with Jack’s team names being so basic. She encouraged him to be more creative with the names, like season’s past. In the first challenge, Suzy’s strength came into place as she helped capture Clara. Unfortunately, her overemphasis on grammar caused her to correct Declan’s guidance, as opposed to follow it, and she was eliminated by Tiffany who purposely used improper grammar to annoy Suzy. This had the desired effect, as Suzy needed to be held back from potentially harming Tiffany.

In the following challenge, Suzy was matched against Kirika in a task to to see who could move a prop boulder the furthest distance. Suzy’s impressive strength was no match to Kirika’s quick thinking in having members of the crew transport the prop for her.

In the pie eating challenge, Suzy seemed unimpressed by the lack of use of utensils. She also held Jasmine back to deter her from throwing a pie at Tiffany. Her concerns were mainly on winning the challenge and the artistry of baking, however.

Later, when Jasmine expressed concern over her brother, Suzy reassured her that he would be okay. When Jasmine began to talk about why she was so overprotective, Suzy assured her that she didn’t need to relive the trauma. When Byron attempted to be nice to Suzy to get on her good side, she had no interest in hearing him out.

Suzy was dressed as a power stealing super heroine named Bandit in the cosplay challenge. She explained to Andrea that her power in the challenge was to steal someone else’s ability, after Andrea found her in a cage. Just before she let Suzy escape, Andrea was distracted by a howling noise leaving Suzy without freeing her. Suzy angrily shook her cage as she yelled out. Their team won the challenge, however, as Wolf freed Suzy a little later on.

In the next challenge, Suzy and Jasmine schemed to push Tiffany in the water, which they pulled off successfully.

For the escape room challenge, Suzy volunteered to sit out of the challenge. She seemed particularly annoyed with Orlando for protesting allowing Jasmine to compete in the challenge. She glared at Orlando after hearing that Jasmine stayed out of the way during the challenge.

Suzy was annoyed when she was woken by Andrea. She then was excited to learn that Andrea wanted her to translate Jack’s journal, and went to work. She got distracted, however, when finding a discarded doll that she went on to clean. Andrea explained that doll was from Wolf. Suzy also explained that translating the journal would take a while, as she would need to practically rewrite the whole thing.

In the game show challenge, Suzy tried to reassure Declan when he was being particularly hard on himself. After voting out Jasmine, however, Suzy expressed her dissatisfaction to her friend Yolanda that they kept Declan over Jasmine, as Jasmine was their friend. Yolanda assures that Jasmine throwing the challenge was unfair and they couldn’t just let that slide. Suzy assured that if Yolanda thought that they could trust Declan she would accept it.

The merge was announced. The challenge was to distinguish real items to cake posing as real items. Suzy was the winner of the challenge, earning the first individual invincibility. She also earned an extra reward of the leftover cake.

When Tiffany expressed interest in Declan, Suzy teased Yolanda about liking him. Yolanda insisted that their relationship was strictly a mutual respect. During the challenge, which required the contestants to attempt to capture Tiffany, Suzy told Tiffany that she decided not to participate, with this challenge not being in her taste. Suzy passed on a challenge item to Tiffany and told her she was heading to their cabin. Later, when Tiffany was trying to escape from Yolanda, Suzy emerged from their cabin to drag her inside. She stated that she decided to compete after Tiffany failed to thank her for her help. Suzy was the winner of the challenge.

During the laser tag challenge, Suzy reluctantly made an alliance with Tiffany after finding her. Suzy quickly turned on her alliance when they came across Yolanda, eliminating Tiffany from the challenge. This angered Tiffany as she was dragged off by the crew. Suzy and Yolanda set up a trap which successfully left Wolf hanging from a tree. He still had his hands free in order to fire his laser guns. Yolanda tackled Suzy in order to protect her, but Wolf then eliminated Yolanda from the challenge. Suzy then got out of his line of vision, but he freed himself from the trap. He didn’t have enough energy in his laser gun to eliminate Suzy, however. Just then, Declan and Naveen appeared, with Declan eliminating Wolf from the challenge.

With Suzy, Naveen, and Declan being the last three remaining in the challenge, Suzy taunted Declan that his eliminating her over Naveen would show his lack of loyalty to their alliance. Declan then eliminated Naveen, but was also able to quickly eliminate Suzy, winning him invincibility.

Given the circumstances of the previous challenge, the alliance between Declan, Yolanda, and Suzy was stronger than ever, their goal being the final three. When Tiffany walked up, Suzy excused herself, mysteriously being away for most of the evening.

During the croquet challenge, Suzy gave Declan a hard time for being a sore loser. Yolanda seemed genuinely sorry for him, which seemed to bother Suzy, something that Kirika observed. Tiffany offered to let Suzy win the challenge in exchange for a spot in the final two. This triggered Suzy, who thoroughly insulted Tiffany, telling her that no one likes her and that she was always disposable. Suzy then went on to win invincibility. Despite her anger toward Tiffany, Kirika was able to convince Suzy to vote out Declan, noting her jealousy of his friendship with Yolanda.

After the elimination, Yolanda assumed that Suzy was responsible for Declan’s elimination, which Suzy immediately denied. Yolanda apologized for distrusting her. Kirika later spoke with Suzy about her many challenge wins. She then assured her that three wins wasn’t as serious as having four wins, historically people being voted out after their fourth challenge win. Suzy finished her translation of Jack’s journal and gave it back to Andrea, though Wolf found it odd that she was packing her luggage full while her clothing was laid out on her bed.

During the therapy challenge, Suzy and Yolanda were paired together. They seemed to get along well, Yolanda revealing that Suzy was her closest friend since the start of the competition. This surprised Suzy as she was unaware of that. Suzy later assured Yolanda that doing well at the challenge put a target on their back and they shouldn’t try so hard. She also told her there was something she wanted to tell her, but it would need to wait. Later, when Yolanda assured Suzy that she could tell her anything, Suzy admitted to having voted for Declan. This really upset Yolanda, who stormed out of the therapy challenge. Yolanda remained mad at Suzy, and the two were in the bottom two at the elimination ceremony. Jack then revealed that the challenge loss was actually cause for a surprise double elimination, both Suzy and Yolanda being eliminated. The girls both rode the Boat of Losers, with Yolanda refusing to speak with Suzy.

After arriving at Playa des Losers, Orlando helped her with her luggage, to which she tipped him with a gold coin. After being alone in her room, Suzy opened her luggage causing loads of gold coins and jewels to spill out. She laughed as she swam around in her treasure. She found all of these riches after sneaking off once she translated the treasure map from Andrea, without anyone knowing.

## Trivia

* Suzy is named after the ‘Suzy Homemaker’ brand of toy appliances.
* Suzy is partly inspired by Martha Stewart.
* Suzy was originally going to be homophobic in her traditional values, but I wanted to avoid that trait. Later, when speaking about Andrea possibly being attracted to girls, she assured that she didn’t judge. She was originally going to have a conflict with Romelio.
* Suzy correcting people constantly was sort of dropped a bit as the story progressed.
* Suzy started off as sing songy and condescending, but she became more stern later on in the series. She was always meant to be more strict, though she seemed more lighthearted early on.
* Suzy’s strength is based on her disproportionate arms in her character image. This became a running gag early on in the story.
* Suzy shaking her cage and yelling ‘let me out!’ was a reference to the meme of Eric Andre yelling ‘let me in’ while shaking the fence outside of the Democratic National Convention.
* While I considered having Suzy eliminated before the merge, this was never concrete. I wanted her to last longer as she didn’t have much of a chance to do anything. Suzy’s story picks up more after the merge.
* Suzy is actually very supportive of Declan early on, while Yolanda is more annoyed by him at points. This reverses after the merge as I didn’t quite notice this dynamic as the plot progressed.
* Suzy being dressed as a Leatherface reference was supposed to be a character completely different from her for comedic effect. It also leant to the reference of the iconic moment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of Leatherface pulling a woman through the door after her near escape, and also another reference to Suzy’s strength.
* Suzy is wearing hair extensions as Katniss in the laser tag challenge.
* Suzy is the White Queen in the Alice in Wonderland challenge. The cape was inspired by Emma Frost, but the overall costume was inspired by the character in Alice in Wonderland.
* During the therapy challenge, Suzy intended to tell Yolanda about her discovery of riches, and share it with her, but she changed her mind after Yolanda was so upset with her voting out Declan.
* Suzy is an example of a character that does bad things still getting rewarded with her finding the treasure. This is a reference to my view that reality series just show what happens, as opposed to the most deserving people doing well.
* Suzy swimming and doing snow angels in coins is a reference to Scrooge McDuck.
* The crown in the image is based on Princess Peach’s crown.
* I originally planned for Suzy to be eliminated in sixth place after throwing a challenge where the last place finisher received an automatic elimination after Kirika and Tiffany convinced her to do so. This was a throwback to Lindsay’s elimination in the original Total Drama Island. The challenge was going to be based on the show The Floor is Lava. Yolanda would have been voted out in the same episode. I decided to do it differently to make a more dramatic story, though I was a little disappointed that it made the mind games of making Suzy throw the challenge less impactful.
* Suzy winning a lot of challenges was based on her strong arms gag. I wanted to spread the love a little bit, though, so she didn’t completely dominate.

## Gallery

Suzy in her sleepwear.Suzy in her swimwear.Suzy’s original image.