Esme

Esme is a contestant on Total Drama: Boney Island, labeled **The Flirt**. She also returns as a co-host of Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Biography

Esme is the middle child of three girls. She was the kind of young girl who punched boys she liked, until she reached the age of 13. Now she leaves love notes in boy's lockers (with her name, phone number, and address on them). She is very trusting (especially if the person she is dealing with is a good-looking male teenager). She is the president of twenty-seven fan clubs of her favorite teen actors. She also sends them letters. She has yet to have a boyfriend as she scares nearly every guy away. She doesn't realize that they are rejecting her, though. The guys she doesn't scare away and that are interested in her, she isn't interested in.

Esme joined Total Drama to be so famous that she can attract the perfect boyfriend... And meet guys.

## Total Drama: Boney Island

Esme is the third contestant to arrive, in Let the Games Begin... After You Meet the Campers, That Is, and immediately comments that host Chris Mclean is the cutest guy on the island, much to her disappointment and Zane's chagrin. Later, when Lisa begins crying at the mention of Heather 's name, Esme is the one to console her. She finally sees a male contestant to her liking when the trendy Levi arrives, but her excitement is quickly shut down by an annoyed Chris.

In the next episode, The Island of Screams, Esme is assigned to the Prehistoric Geese team originally. However, when Katrina and Sabrina insist that they do not want to be on the same team as each other, Esme takes advantage of the opportunity to be on Levi's team and offers to switch places with Katrina. Now on the Screeching Spiders, Esme fawns over Levi after his rescue of Waterlily from a pit of quicksand. She suggests that he be the team's leader, something that he himself is hesitant to do at first. As the Screeching Spiders are heading through the woods to their campsite, Esme makes a point to ask Levi about his favorite hobby. When he answers that he enjoys swimming, she agrees that she, too, also enjoys swimming. She then admits in the confessional that while the rest of the team thought her willingness to switch places with the unhappy Katrina was done out of kindness, that in reality she had done so only to get closer to Levi. Much later, during the first challenge of the season, the teams must row out to a buoy and back to shore, Esme feigns a loss of balance and falls from her team's raft into the water. She then pretends to have trouble keeping herself above water, and eagerly awaits Levi to come to her rescue. Before he can, Sabrina attempts to pull her back on the raft, prompting Esme to chastise Sabrina and refuse her assistance. While Esme is eventually rescued and pulled to shore, she is distraught to see that Lisa, not Levi, was the one to make the rescue. In a moment of sheer disappointment, she declares that it was her intention to be rescued by Levi, specifically. This admission upsets the rest of the Screeching Spiders, as Esme's dive in the challenge cost them the win, and she becomes the first contestant of the season to be voted out. As she leaves the contest, Esme briefly reflects on her actions, and declares that she needs to exercise better self control--before hitting on the intern driving the boat.

Esme is next seen many episodes later at Playa Des Losers, in The Biggest Losers. After a botched attempt at flirting with Autumn, Quintin remarks that he should leave that tactic to Esme. Esme immediately appears behind Quintin, reprimanding him and insisting that she's no longer the boy-crazy girl that she was when she first arrived at the competition. Quintin calls this into question when he notices her holding a pair of binoculars, and Esme makes a quick exit after claiming that the binoculars are for bird watching. Later, when Dirk declares that a male will win the contest, despite his personal desire to see Missy win, Esme states that she doesn't know what Missy ever saw in him, before going off into a brief flirtatious ramble about Dirk's physical attractiveness. When discussing who she would like to see win, Esme gives the obvious answer of Levi, and though she tries to give a legitimate reason for wanting to see him emerge victorious, it quickly becomes apparent that it is just because she's still attracted to him. At the end of the episode, after Chris announces that two of the eliminated contestants will be voted back into the game, Esme is the first to plead her case. She sums up her case as being that she deserves a chance to redeem herself after her poor showing, but, ultimately, she is not selected to return to the game.

Esme reappears in the finale, Won for the Money, in which she congratulates Katrina and Sabrina for making it to the finals. She decides to support Katrina, stating that if she hadn't switches teams with Katrina, she never would have been on a team with Levi and realized how foolish she was to act the way she did. A few moments later, when the sexist Dirk states that he's supporting Sabrina because she conforms more closely to his idea of a female role, Esme kicks him in the shin, before returning to Katrina's cheering section.

Esme reappears again in Reunion'd, one year after the competition. When asked if she's still madly in love with Levi, she denies it, and states that while she likes Levi, she was acting foolishly and should have treated him with more respect. She goes on to say that while she still has a healthy appreciation for the male gender, she has calmed down considerably in her pursuit of them, and, ironically in doing so, has found a steady boyfriend.

## Trivia

* Esme is one of five contestants from the main canon to return as a season's host, along with Nolan, Zane, Melinda and Jack.
* Esme was the first character to be eliminated from Total Drama: Boney Island. She never received a marshmallow.
* She was originally on the 'Prehistoric Geese', but switched teams with Katrina.
* This character's name was not originally going to be Esme (another character was going to be named that), but when searching for a name for her I found out that Esme meant "to love". It seemed appropriate for her character.
* Esme's hair and skin color are based off of the color palette of Melissa from *Home Movies*.
* In my rough draft of the teams (on notebook paper), Esme was the last character drawn for the 'Screeching Spiders' team and she was always going to be the first character voted off (she also has her hand on Levi's arm in the rough draft).
* The raft challenge was originally going to be a canoe challenge, but canoes were a part of "Up the Creek" and the now canceled fanfiction *Total Drama Race*.
* Esme originally wasn't going to reveal that she faked her drowning. It was going to be deduced by her teammates after they put together the fact that she said she loved swimming and wouldn't grab onto the board. The actual ending was easier to explain.
* Esme has an updated image. Her original image was moved to her gallery.
* Esme's sleepwear had a reference to TDIwriter and his Total Drama style image of himself.