Yuko

* S8: Deception Island
* S10: WotW

Yuko is a contestant on Total Deception Island and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

On the introductory episode, Yuko stowed away on Anders’ boat to draw attention away from herself. When Anders accidentally hit Brent in the crotch with a plank on the dock, he saw Yuko and pleaded for help. Yuko apologized and said she could not help in her role as a casual observer. She then continued to hide behind Anders.

When receiving a costume for the first challenge, Yuko noticed a note fall from the garment bag. As no one noticed it, after some time, Yuko nudged Patsy in the arm in the hope that she would notice. She did not, but Zoe eventually noticed it while doing push ups. Yuko was later chosen by Patsy to team up in the searching challenge. Yuko admitted to not wanting to alert Patsy to the note, earlier, but also didn’t want her team to miss the note.

Before the following challenge, Yuko spied on Isabella and Angelo during a romantic, private moment. She noticed Dirk looking disappointed and leave when he saw the pair kissing. This made Yuko excited to the potential drama unfolding. Patsy then appeared, and loudly greeted her. This unnerved Angelo and Isabelle who stood up and asked how long they were there. Patsy stated that they didn’t see anything.

During the treasure seeking challenge, Tamira bumped into Yuko. Yuko admitted to losing Patsy, and then stated that she would just be hiding behind a boulder. After an accident where Frederick fell, Yuko stated that help was on the way. Then she noticed that Frederick was on top of an unconscious Tamira. The medics and interns arrived and spirited away Frederick. When Tamira awoke, she asked Yuko what happened. Yuko just said that it didn’t look good. Cary walked up, curious at what happened, but Tamira ended the conversation abruptly.

After Isabella’s elimination, Angelo seemed to think Yuko exposed his relationship with her. While Grace was standing in a field, Yuko called out to warn her about a chainsaw killer behind her. It was only Ruth carving a stump with Grace as her model. Grace seemed suspicious that Yuko was spying on them. Yuko apologized and left abruptly. Cary later asked Yuko what she saw regarding Tamira and Yuko. Yuko explained that it was against her code to report what she observed. Cary insisted that whatever happened seemed serious. He encouraged her to report it to someone. She replied that she would think about it.

During the challenge, Yuko was placed on the puzzle building part of the team. She just stood to the side and stated that she had a personal code not to effect the outcome in any way. This seemed to annoy her team members, as they struggled to assemble the structure with Ruth doing most of the work. Her team won the challenge, however.

After witnessing Cary getting pranked, Patsy asked Yuko her thoughts. Yuko seemed distracted. Patsy pointed out that the log used to block the door that Cary was trapped behind was placed there purposefully. During the game show challenge, a prop fell and almost hit Quimberly. After the dust settled, Cary was found unconscious on the floor. Yuko admitted to have witnessed what happened. She accused LeVar of punching Cary, after realizing that she could not stay silent on the matter. After other evidence was reviewed, LeVar was disqualified from the completion. After this, Yuko also admitted to Tamira that she found Frederick sprawled on top of her when she was knocked out a few challenges prior, before his evacuation.

Feeling unable to hold to her strict code of being a casual observer, any longer, Yuko requested for her team to vote her out of the competition. They complied with her wishes.

## Trivia

* Yuko was dressed as a beholder from Dungeons and Dragons for the challenge in Total Treasure Island.
* In the image where Yuko spies on Isabella and Angelo, I cut the tree she’s hiding behind from another background image.
* I feared I had Yuko far too involved in this story, but tried to make that make sense by her feeling off after struggling with reporting things she felt she needed to.
* Yuko and Patsy were going to originally be a classic spy duo, but it didn’t quite fit the story. I wanted to try something a little different. I still had them interact quite a bit, though.
* Yuko was always going to be eliminated before the merge in this story, though in the original story she was going to place a little better than she did here. This was partly due to her being a fan favorite that I was reluctant to eliminate her earlier.
* Yuko was eliminated for feeling she was unable to fulfill her objective. This was a method to make her more involved in the story, give a way to move the story along as a witness to events, and to provide a reason for her early elimination.