Harley

## Harley Birch

**Harley Birch** was a contestant in *season four* of Total Drama Remix. She competed alongside twenty other competitors to win the prize money of one million dollars. She was placed on the *Walleyed Whales* with six other contestants, quickly making friends with many of them as well as members of the other teams too.

## Personality

Harley is a humble farm girl who originates from a ranch in Texas. While it is unknown how she learned about the Total Drama competition in Canada, she has stated that her motivation for winning the prize money is to support her family back home and raise money to improve the quality of her farm. She takes animal and plant life very seriously and her main goal with the competition is to win so that her crops and barn animals can live happily and healthily. Growing up in her poverty-ridden home, she knows what it is like to struggle with money and finding food for the night. She happily ate the provided meals at camp during her time on *Total Drama Remix: Frozen Island* due to her familiarity with going hungry back home, no matter how disgusting *Chef Hatchet's* food was. She often expressed how thankful she was to be on the show in the first place, mentioning how lucky it was that she got picked due to her location in Texas rather than Canada.

Harley often shows disapproval of the common backstabbing that took place on the season she originated in. She values relationships and bonds over strategic moves, only creating two alliances throughout her seventeen episodes on the show in which she was a competitor, not including her appearance in the finale in which she spectated the two finalists, *Richard* and *Mike*. Her alliances consisted of *Iris*, her best friend that she met on the season, and *Lill*, a strong strategist that was placed on the Walleyed Whales alongside Harley in the beginning of the season. Her other alliance was made out of desperation to protect her best friend, Iris, from elimination in the final seven. She made this pact with Richard, asking him in his cabin room to avoid voting for Iris and herself. She told Richard she would talk to Iris about not voting for him as well. Harley actively stated during her time on the show that she tends to become angry when her close friends are targeted, bullied, or picked on, commenting that she lets her emotions get the better of her when this takes place. Other than her outbursts when her friends are messed with, she is a sweet and kind girl who values her friends and nature over many other material things.

## Total Drama Remix: Frozen Island

Harley was one of the competitors introduced in the first episode of the season, *Icebreakers*. She instantly bonded with her team members, especially Lill and *Quinn*, whom she had met previously at the *Casa De Losers*. Using her country charm and kind personality, her teammates grew affection for her. She didn't create her alliances just yet however, relying on her genuine persona to create lasting bonds with other competitors on the island.

Her team was the first to win a challenge in the season, creating the best ice sculpture in *Sculpture Culture*. While taking up a minor role in the challenge at first, she participated more and more as the challenge went on, offering to lend a hand every chance she was offered. Luckily, her team won, and she was not sent to the campfire ceremony in the first challenge episode. In the second challenge on the island, *Cool Runnings*, she took up a major role in which she was the final competitor to compete in the relay race style challenge. She was the second of the three teams to win the challenge, finishing after *Harold*, who won only minutes before her. Due to her victory for her team, the *Daring Dragonflies* were sent to the campfire ceremony and the Walleyed Whales avoided eliminating a team member once more.

In the next episode, *Sweet Rewards*, she took on a minor role once more due to the rest of her team's focus on creating the perfect cup of hot chocolate to be judged by Chris. The Walleyed Whales lost the challenge, however, and were sent to the campfire ceremony. Even though she didn't help out in the challenge much, she was one of the first to receive a smore due to her previous victory in Cool Runnings and her bonds with her teammates. *Ollie* was sent home instead due to his antisocial personality, becoming the first one to be voted off of their team.

In the next team focused challenge, Harley took up a major role once again in which she and Lill strategized to get the *Bogus Buffalo* out due to their tendency to target one member of the Daring Dragonflies at a time. As Iris fought off a lake crocodile, the members of the Bogus Buffalo closed in on her, but Lill and Harley quickly came up with a solution to save the helpless Iris. While Harley wasn't too accepting of the plan, not wanting to make enemies due to getting a competitor eliminated from the challenge, Lill threw Harley along the ice towards *Wayne* and *Raj*, knocking them both in and staying on the ice at the same time. The Walleyed Whales then closed in on the rest of the Bogus Buffalo and knocked them into the water one by one, saving Iris from being knocked in, whom was the last member of her team left on the ice. The Bogus Buffalo was sent to the campfire ceremony in which Raj was voted off due to a tie coinflip, eliminating a potential enemy of Harley.

Her next major role in a challenge, *Traditional Yolk-lore*, she was a strong force in the competition, quickly making enemies with *Xander*, a member of the Bogus Buffalo. The two fought over an egg under the ice of a frozen puddle, attacking each other along the way with snowballs and other makeshift weapons. Xander, due to being a baseball star, hit Harley straight in the gut with a snowball at high speed, harming her intensely. She was able to overcome her injuries and secure the egg, however, due to Lill stepping in and distract Xander with her bear repellent, allowing Harley to escape. The Bogus Buffalo lost the challenge once more and Xander was sent home due to Harold's scheming, which Harley was slightly happy about once she heard.

Harley didn't take on another major role in a challenge until Episode Ten, *Crawlway, Walkway, Runway*. In this challenge, the teams were tasked with creating ugly Christmas sweaters. Harley, who had engaged in lots of sewing back at her home on the farm, was confident in her ability to make a sweater, in which she created one that embodied the ugly sweater theme in a "Christmas Tree Farm" inspired design. Her team won once more, partially due to Harley, as well as Richard, who both scored highly.

Harley didn't take up a major role in the next episode, *Best Served Cold*, but her team still won immunity. At this point in the game, The Walleyed Whales had only been to the campfire ceremony three times, Harley not being a target at all so far due to her bonds with Lill, Quinn, and Richard.

In the next episode, the teams merged, leaving Harley more vulnerable due to her lackluster bonds with members of the other teams minus Mike and Iris. She had bonded with Mike many times up until this point outside of challenges due to the point of Harley and Mike agreeing on being "brother and sister". Harley mentioned her two other brothers back home, stating that she didn't mind having another. *Zee* won immunity in this challenge, *Boo'd Off the Stage*, after Harley fell of due to being hit with thrown items while trying to sing karaoke. Wayne ended up being eliminated in this episode, Harley still not targeted at all.

In the next episode, *Monday the 18th*, she hid in the *abandoned church* with Iris as they attempted to avoid *the creature* that was sent to capture the competitors. The contestants initially thought that the creature was a real threat, an actual monster on the island, but it was revealed after the challenge that it was a fake. Harley and Iris were almost caught in the church but were saved by a turn of luck. Unfortunately, the two were split up later on, Harley hiding in the woods as Iris ran down the path. Harley was caught soon after, brought back to the capture zone and losing her chance of immunity. *Duncan* was the last contestant left and won immunity. Zee was sent home due to not making many strong bonds with other contestants and Harley remained an untargeted contestant.

The next major role Harley played in a challenge was after Priya and Duncan were voted out in that order. She won the challenge in episode sixteen, *Winter Wipeout*. She won with minimal struggle, potentially placing a target on her back due to her strong challenge winning capabilities. Lill and Quinn were sent home this episode, leaving Harley without an alliance member and a friend. After the elimination, Richard was quite upset with his love interest's elimination (Quinn), so she also created an alliance with Richard in this episode to keep Iris in the game for as long as possible. Richard was shaken up at the time, so he reluctantly agreed to the alliance with an unsure answer.

In Harley's final episode of the season (as a competitor), she lost the challenge to Iris in which the contestants searched the island for objects which reference past contestants. After Harley's loss, she approached the campfire ceremony confidently, believing she had major bonds with Iris, Richard, and Mike. Unfortunately, she was backstabbed by not only Richard but also Mike. Richard had not stayed true to his alliance and Mike voted for her due to his preexisting alliance with Blue and Richard. Harley stood up, shocked at the vote, being a known three to two vote, Harley closely losing out over *Blue*. Though the elimination was set in stone, Mike also stood up with a fake immunity idol with intention to play it on Harley after voting for her. The idol was revealed as a fake, breaking Harley's bond with Mike even more. Harley was sent to the dock of shame and shot out of the *moron mortar* with a confused expression why she was betrayed.

## Episodes

Harley ended up participating in eighteen episodes throughout her time on Total Drama Remix: Frozen Island. Her time on the island consisted of minimal strategic plays, relying on strong bonds rather than alliances. She placed fifth out of twenty one contestants, returning in the finale episode to watch as the two who betrayed her compete to win the million.

## Trivia

* Harley's alliance members, including herself, were all eliminated back to back in consecutive episodes, Lill placing seventh, Harley herself placing fifth, and Iris placing fourth (excluding Quinn's elimination due to medical evacuation in which he placed sixth).
* Harley was placed on the Walleyed Whales, the team that lost team challenges the least.
* Harley only appeared in one episode recap, that being episode five, Under Pressure. She was referenced for her eliminating Wayne and Raj from the challenge at the same time. The recap stated "Harley the Human Missile."
* Harley is the only contestant throughout all Total Drama Remix seasons to be eliminated after an idol was played on her because the idol turned out to be fake.
* It could be argued that Harley created bonds with the following characters: Iris, Lill, Quinn, Richard, Mike, Harold, Jude Love, and Blue, challenging other members of her season in terms of number of bonds.