Ophelia

* S2: Reality
* S5: The All-Stars

### Friends

Angelo, Uriah, Dinah, Melinda, Tsuyoshi, Libby, Priscilla, Irene, Naomi, Micky D., Grant, Jonathan, Yi Min, Reeve, Kristy, Brent, Fiona, Beau, Francesca

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Ophelia is a contestant labeled **The Matchmaker** on Total Drama Reality and Total Drama: The All-Stars.

## Biography

Ophelia thinks that love is a beautiful thing. She has successfully matched fifteen couples, including her mother and stepfather, her sister and her husband, her stepsister and her husband, and two of her teachers. Ophelia finds great joy in helping two people begin a relationship. She hopes that some day she finds true love for herself, but she hasn't, so far. She knows that she's still young, but she suffers from severe feelings of loneliness, and just wants someone she can share her feelings with. She hides her feelings of loneliness very well. Her family wants to do something nice for her, since she is always doing nice things for others.

## Total Drama Reality

In Idle Talk Show, Ophelia appeared on Leshawna's talk show as an interpreter for Uriah. After the interview with Uriah was over, Leshawna asked Ophelia about herself. Ophelia said that she has a good eye for what kind of people are good for each other, but that she hasn't found a boyfriend, yet. Leshawna confidently told Ophelia that she was sure she'd find love. When Chris Mclean revealed that Leshawna's talk show was actually the end of the auditioning process for the new Total Drama series, he baited Ophelia to sign her contract by eluding that she might find true love in the competition.

During X-treme Home Takeover, Ophelia expressed that it would be difficult to be on a team with someone who had to rely on the rest of the team at all times, when talking about "iRene". When required to vote someone out, Ophelia told "iRene" that she wasn't a huge help to the others. "iRene" was able to get the rest of the girls to not vote for her. When the popular Angelo was eliminated, Ophelia translated Uriah's sign language when he explained why he voted for him. In Mission Catwalk, Ophelia rode with the male contestants of her team in an attempt to get to know them in order to begin matchmaking. Ophelia attempted to communicate with Uriah. He told her that she wasn't the kind of person he would normally hang out with, and that he didn't need her to translate for him.

In Bronze Cook, Ophelia talked to Grant after seeing his brother, Cary, be rude to him. She tried to encourage Grant to stand up to his brother, but he told her not to interfere. When Libby called Sheena nice, Ophelia was watching. When deciding who would act as judges for their team, Ophelia went against what was decided after seeing that Tsuyoshi and Grant had been chosen to sit out for the other team. She told Chris that the team decided on Dinah and Sheena. "iRene" nominated Ophelia as the head chef for the challenge as she didn't understand why she made the change she did. Ophelia then made something she had before with granola, the special ingredient, making a fish casserole. Her team won. In Last Comic in an Upright Position, Ophelia revealed in confessional that she chose Sheena to be a judge so that she and Grant could interact. She thought that, despite the fact that Grant was eliminated, they hit it off. Ophelia gave Libby relationship advice, telling her that the boy she liked, Jonathan, wasn't right for her. Libby thanked Ophelia and hugged her. For the stand up comedy act, Libby made fun of Cary. When told to do more mean jokes, she targeted Ophelia, which hurt Ophelia's feelings. When Libby was eliminated, Ophelia forgave her for the mean joke she made about her.

Ophelia was worried that she wouldn't meet the others expectations in the weight loss challenge, in The Smallest Winners, but her team won the challenge. In I Endured a Japanese Game Show, Tsuyoshi and Melinda both approached Ophelia, at separate times, asking her if she could find out if Brent liked either of them, due to comments he made to them, earlier. Ophelia was afraid that Brent was trying to flatter them in order to get ahead in the game. During his part of the challenge, Brent lost to Sheena, and he had to sit in the 'Loser Bin', where Ophelia was, because she sat out of the challenge. She bombarded Brent with questions about himself, and despite his answers, she couldn't get a good indication of him liking anyone. She then blurted out some uncomfortable questions, but figured that Brent didn't romantically like anyone, especially Tsuyoshi. Brent was made uncomfortable, thinking that Ophelia was hitting on him. Ophelia was confused when Brent flattered Herman, as well. When Tsuyoshi joined the group, Ophelia informed him that she didn't think Brent liked him, romantically.
 In Boy vs. Wild, Sheena accused Ophelia of switching her shampoo with green hair dye, but quickly changed her focus. In Porpoise Aquarium, Ophelia confronted Dinah about thinking that she was the one who sabotaged Sheena in order to keep Jonathan on the show. Ophelia also told Dinah that she knew she liked Jonathan. Dinah denied everything. Dinah finally admitted to liking Jonathan, and asked for Ophelia's help in setting them up. Ophelia had Uriah bring Jonathan to a romantic spot where the sun was setting. Dinah met him and they bonded. Ophelia went up to them to tell them that it was time to vote someone out.

Uriah admitted that he needed help, in Astounding Race, and selected Ophelia as his team member for the race. Yi Min left them behind, both teams missing out on getting a Winnebago. Chris and Chef Hatchet then appeared, each driving a convertible. Ophelia and Uriah took the car, and Uriah waved at Yi Min as he rode passed him. After finishing the sushi eating part of the challenge, Uriah took Ophelia by the hand and gave her the clue before walking toward their car. Uriah's action made Ophelia blush. Ophelia read the next clue, about carrying a hundred bricks to a nearby location, and asked Uriah if he understood. Uriah nodded, and stripped down to his underwear. Ophelia's face turned read as she signed for him to explain himself. He signed that he didn't want his clothes to get dirty. Ophelia's face was read the whole time. After finishing, he hugged her, making her face turn even more red. The two teens left the area and made it to the finish line first. Chris announced that they got a prize for finishing first that would be revealed in the next challenge. The two teens then went into their convertible and signed to each other. Uriah signed that he felt scared during the Boy Vs. Wild challenge, and that he wrote a note to Yi Min during it. Ophelia signed that Yi Min must have been reassuring. Uriah then hesitated and signed his suspicion to Ophelia that he didn't think Yi Min knew how to read.

In Spite & Hate Plus 8, Uriah signed to Ophelia, thanking her for being a great partner in the previous challenge. He than signed to her that she might find love on the show. For winning the previous challenge, Ophelia and Uriah got to select the teams in a challenge involving taking care of eight children. Uriah insisted that he be paired with Val, as he was attracted to her. This disappointed Ophelia, who was developing feelings for Uriah, but Ophelia paired the two together, despite her apprehensions. Ophelia announced the teams as Melinda and "iRene", Micky D. and Naomi, Yi Min and Priscilla, herself with Tsuyoshi, and Uriah and Val, like Uriah requested. Leshawna brought the teens to each home in the official host limousine. Each family had eight children. Val said in confessional that she wasn't going to treat Uriah any differently than anyone else. Priscilla assigned Yi Min to do absolutely everything, while she took a nap. Yi Min told her that if she felt that was a good idea, he was fine with it. The children that were assigned to Ophelia and Tsuyoshi instantly took a liking to Ophelia, while Tsuyoshi failed to make a first good impression with the children. The children all opted to help Ophelia make breakfast, while one girl, Joanie, felt sorry that no one would help Tsuyoshi, and agreed to help him set the table. The challenge ended early as one of the children Uriah and val were watching had an allergic reaction under their care. Leshawna told the contestants that Abby was okay, and that Val called the paramedics in time. Val and Uriah explained what happened, Uriah with Ophelia's help. Val said that she took full responsibility for what happened. Ophelia volunteered for herself to go home for choosing the team. Uriah signed that that wasn't what happened, and Ophelia chose not to translate for him. Leshawna then discussed with her friends who to eliminate, and they agreed that it should be Val.

In The Vole, Priscilla told Ophelia that she shouldn't have paired her with Yi Min in the previous challenge. Ophelia said that she thought they'd hit it off. A garbage can told the teens that Leshawna would explain their next challenge, a series of events that could easily be sabotaged. One of the teens was given an indication that they were to sabotage the challenges, and they would receive money for it, if three people found out their identity. The first challenge required the contestants to wear strange costumes for the day. Ophelia was presented with a bikini, and she declined to wear it. The second challenge was to run across a bridge to push a button. Ophelia attempted the challenge, but froze midway and failed at completing the challenge. Ophelia was revealed as the spy, and she earned ten thousand dollars for not being correctly guessed by three other contestants.

In A Vapid, Self Absorbed Celebrity is My New Bestie, the challenge was to spend time befriending international celebrity, Karina Hamilton. Uriah signed that he was a big fan of hers, as Ophelia translated for him. Karina commented that is was so cute that he was deaf. Karina chose to spend time with Uriah first, and she encouraged him to put his clothes on, as the contestants were assembled outside in their sleepwear, Uriah's being his underwear. Uriah requested for Ophelia to go along with them for the challenge, and Karina allowed it. Karina had Uriah and Ophelia shake her chihuahua's paw. When Uriah and Ophelia got into her limo, Karina asked Uriah what he liked doing, with Ophelia's help he replied that he liked hanging out with his friends and looking good. The questions then got very personal as she asked him how he became deaf. Uriah was hesitant to reveal it, and Ophelia signed to him that he didn't have to reveal anything he was uncomfortable with. He signed that he was hesitant not because he wanted to hide the truth, but because it was a traumatic experience. He signed as Ophelia translated that he was born deaf in his left ear. He had heard about a new surgery with a low rate of success that could possibly restore the hearing in his bad ear. He begged his parents to let him have the surgery, and he went as far as offering to take money from his college fund for the surgery. His parents finally agreed, seeing how much it meant to him. Uriah began to cry while recounting the events, and Ophelia stopped translating as she cried, as well. Uriah then revealed, without translation, that the doctor who operated on him was drunk during the surgery and severely damaged Uriah's working ear to the point of it no longer functioning. Uriah then cried into Ophelia's shoulder. Karina said she was bored and started asking Ophelia questions, instead. She started calling Ophelia 'Chrissy', because she liked that name better. She asked Ophelia to set her up with Tsuyoshi, but Ophelia told her that he was gay. After Tsuyoshi's time with Karina ended, he was distraught over the insensitive things she said to him. Ophelia went to comfort Tsuyoshi. In the end, Karina announced that Uriah was safe, but called him 'the deaf one'. Ophelia shouted that his name was Uriah.

In Canada's Next Big Supermodel... But Probably Not, Ophelia expressed to Priscilla that it was her fault that the guys were outnumbering the girls, when Priscilla mentioned a girl's alliance. The photographer said that he didn't shoot plus-sized girls, and Ophelia almost walked off set until Chris turned her back around. After Ophelia's photo shoot as Katrina, she asked Uriah about the story he told about losing his hearing. She inquired as to whether his family sued the hospital where the malpractice happened. He signed that they did, and he won twenty-seven million dollars after taxes. He signed that the competition wasn't for money with him, and that he wanted to prove himself as capable despite his disability. Ophelia simply smiled at him. At the judging, Ivan, a guest judge, said that her photo wasn't great but it reminded him of Katrina. Ophelia was safe. In Taste of Friendship, the challenge had to do with having one on one time with each other contestant. Uriah went with Ophelia first and signed to her asking why it didn't bother her that he was in the competition, despite him having a lot of money. Ophelia signed that she was fine with whatever his reasons for competing were. He then signed, asking her why she was always nice to him. She signed that it was because she saw the good in him, and she also revealed that she had a crush on him. This surprised Uriah. She signed to him that she respected that he didn't like her back, and that she would move on. Ophelia spoke with the others to try to get them to eliminate Priscilla. When her turn with Priscilla came, Priscilla told her to go with the plan to eliminate her. The others complied and Priscilla was eliminated. Priscilla then thanked Ophelia for originally setting her up with Yi Min.

In Reform School, the teens went to the location of their next challenge, a school. Chef Hatchet was inside, and he was in charge of the challenge. He sat at a desk and read the life stories of each contestant. He cried at each one. Chef then announced that he would be giving each contestant a challenge. He set a glass of blended grasshoppers on his desk during Ophelia's challenge, and had Yi Min stand up. He asked Yi Min to drink the concoction, but Ophelia stopped him before he drank it and offered to drink it in place of him. She did so. After the challenges, Chef had the teens meet him outside. Uriah and Ophelia failed their challenges, Uriah's was to put others before himself and Ophelia's was to put herself ahead of others. Uriah then signed for himself to be eliminated when he saw Ophelia in the bottom two with him. She didn't translate for him, but he insisted that she translate for him. She complied at his urging. Chef agreed and Uriah was eliminated. Uriah was being interviewed by Leshawna with the help of a translator. Leshawna said that Uriah must have volunteered to be eliminated because he cared about his other competitors. Uriah was confused until he thought about it. He then rolled the window down in the taxi that was nearest to him, and tried to sign something. Seeing that Ophelia wasn't looking, he shouted that he loved Ophelia. Ophelia was moved to tears and asked Chris to eliminate her. He refused, saying that there had to be a challenge and a vote. Ophelia then had a rigged match of rock, paper, scissors with Yi Min that she lost. She then got the others to agree to vote her out. They did so, and Chef drove her to be with Uriah. He told her that she and Uriah passed their challenges, though a little late.

In Outlaster, Ophelia supported "iRene" to win.

## After Total Drama Reality

Ophelia continues to set people up, as that's something she really enjoys doing. She runs a popular matchmaking service, with a high success rate. A lot of people who saw her appearance on Total Drama Reality, look to her matchmaking business. She is still engaged to Uriah, though they have yet to be married. Ophelia is particularly busy with her job, and they have yet to set a wedding date. Uriah is also off to college, where he hopes to become a teacher for deaf children, specifically.

Ophelia agreed to appear in All-Stars to win the money this time, as she already found love. She also hopes to see some of her old friends, and help people, again.

## Total Drama: The All-Stars

Ophelia told Sheena to be nice after she insulted Jonathan, in All-Starstruck, and Sheena told her she looked good. Ophelia said in confessional that it was hard for Sheena to be positive, but that they were friends since she set her up with Grant. Ophelia said her motives for setting up couples was that she just liked to see people happy.

Yi Min seemed to ignore Ophelia, in Fatal Distraction. In Modest Muse, Ophelia sat down next to Yi Min. He tried to leave, but she asked him why he was avoiding her. He said that he didn't want to talk about his relationship with Priscilla, and she assured him that she was fine with that. Ophelia asked Melinda if she planned to talk to Brent when he was present for the challenge. Melinda was hesitant, until Ophelia set up a makeshift therapy session. She admitted that she and Brent broke up, because she felt that she bored him after he said he missed the old her. Melinda left, and Ophelia looked up to see a long line of contestants seeking relationship advice. She got up and left.

In search of a bucket for their leaky roof, in Watermelon-choly, Ophelia went to the boathouse by herself in order to find it. She met Brent there who had been dumped off at the boathouse by an intern, after the last challenge. He explained that he also wanted to get back together with Melinda, but he felt that he bored her. He explained that he said he missed the old Melinda, as in he missed his opportunity to tell the old Melinda how he felt. Ophelia encouraged him to talk things over with Melinda. In the challenge, Daniel was matched up against Ophelia in a jousting match. After he won, he got many disapproving looks from the others. Ophelia encouraged him not to worry about it.

In Comic Mischief Makers, Ophelia felt bad that Creigh was alienating himself. She encouraged Yi Min to befriend him. He agreed to try, and Ophelia said she just made her first platonic same sex couple. Reeve then said he wanted to talk to Ophelia about Celia. He admitted that he felt bad when people mistook her for his wife. He admitted that the times he tried to propose didn't work out, and he was beginning to feel that there was a reason the proposals didn't work out. Ophelia reminded him that he loved her, and that the failed attempts shouldn't stop him. He thanked her for the advice and hugged Ophelia. After Sheena upset Jonathan, Ophelia encouraged her to apologize to him.

Ophelia mentioned to Melinda the misunderstanding with Brent, in Puppet Tears. Ophelia encouraged Kristy to talk with Brad about how his being cold was affecting her. Ophelia spoke with Jonathan, and he admitted that he kissed Sheena. He explained that he didn't feel like Dinah could be attracted to him, anymore. Ophelia assured him that he was probably wrong. He said that the kiss meant nothing. Ophelia noted that he seemed genuinely sorry, and that Dinah would likely forgive him, as long as he didn't do it, again. Ophelia came across Al looking at Francesca during the challenge. He asked how he could attract her attention, and Ophelia told him that girls like guys who complete challenges, so he did so. Ophelia spoke to Francesca about Al liking her. Francesca asked why she attracted weirdos, and Ophelia insisted that Al was sweet.

In Embar-Razzmatazz, Ophelia noted that Francesca described Al when describing the kind of guy she likes. Francesca said that she and Al were going to date after the competition was over. Ophelia was a little surprised over the relationship. Uriah was present to tell an embarrassing story about Ophelia for the challenge. He told about her vomiting on a waiter at a restaurant. He then stepped from behind the podium with his fly down.

After Anders was allowed to stay a night in the competition, in Attack of the Deadly Tree Frog People, Ophelia asked Francesca about his proposal of marriage to her and how she felt about him. Francesca denied having romantic feelings for Anders, but accidentally slipped and said she was attracted to him. When Ophelia called her on it, Francesca denied having said it. Later, after Francesca got annoyed when other contestants laughed at something Anders said, Ophelia was told by Francesca that she liked Anders, but felt bad about the situation with Al.

Beau asked Ophelia about what he should do about Ivan cheating on Janice with Hedda, in Me, Myself, and Ice. She told him to do what he feels he must after getting things clarified. She tried to stop him when he insisted on giving Ivan a beating. After finding out from Hedda that Jonathan lost his bipolar medication, in Some Children Left Behind, Ophelia sat next to him instead of doing the challenge.

Desperate to make a new friend, Beau attempted to set up a couple with Ophelia, in Riled Animals. His attempt was poor, however, and after he got hit by Fiona's glitter, again, Ophelia helped him to the medical tent. For the challenge, Ophelia was asked to bring a squirrel back to Chris. She failed at her attempts, but she captured a grey chipmunk and chihuahua back to Chris.

Chef Hatchet was put in charge of the contestants, in Test Subjection, and Ophelia discerned that it was a challenge like on her season. She told the others that Chef would be giving each of them individual tests. When Chef was looking at pictures of a beautiful woman, Ophelia gave him relationship advice. After the challenge was over, Chef revealed that Ophelia failed her challenge, which was staying out of his personal matters. In the end, Chef Hatchet chose to eliminate Ophelia, as he is a sad man who doesn't want anyone to be happy if he isn't.

## Trivia

* Ophelia was the seventeenth character eliminated.
* Ophelia's character model is based on Total Drama Island's Sadie quite a bit.
* The original concept of Ophelia's character came from Fiona unsuccessfully attempting to play matchmaker in Total Drama: Boney Island with Tommy and Katrina.
* When creating Ophelia, I made her with the intention of making her a really popular, though understated, character.
* Ophelia was named 'Ophelia' because it means "help" or "aid".
* Ophelia wasn't a guest on Leshawna's talk show in the first chapter. She was a translator for Uriah.
* Ophelia's relationship with Uriah took a long time to develop. This began fairly late in the story so the other couples could be highlighted, and for the dramatic realization of Uriah.
* Ophelia was chosen to dress as Katrina for the modeling challenge, because she seemed to suit her best of the choices. She was originally going to dress as Grace because they both have decent fashion sense.
* It was highlighted in the Reform School chapter, but Uriah and Ophelia are opposites, both in appearance and personality. Uriah is concerned with himself, while Ophelia is concerned about the happiness of others.
* Ophelia paired together every couple of the season, except for the herself and Uriah.
* In All-Stars, Ophelia was chosen as the killer in the 'mafia' game inspired challenge, because she was 'The Vole' on her original season. I considered someone else to be the killer for the mafia challenge, but remembered her being The Vole and thought it would be funny.
* I considered eliminating Ophelia at the final nine, but didn't. If she had been, it would have been The Vole challenge, again, and she would have been The Vole. The majority would have chosen her as The Vole due to her getting that role before.
* Ophelia's surprise over Al and Francesca's relationship was to hint that they weren't right for each other.
* Ophelia made it as far as she did, because she's one of my favorite characters to write for. I wanted to have her place as far as I could.
* Ophelia and "iRene" were going to appear in All-Stars until TBTDIF changed his choice from Ruth to Melinda. Ophelia was left in the story, while "iRene" was replaced.
* I shortly considered having Uriah cheat on Ophelia for part of her All-Stars storyline, but decided not to go with that.