Clara

Clara is a contestant in Total Drama: The Next Generation. She is labeled as **The Sweetheart**.

## Biography

Clara might be described as flighty by some, but her heart is always in the right place. She enjoys helping people, and is bubbly and friendly. She tries her best to look for the good in people. Notably, Clara founded her own charity to help those less fortunate find suitable work and temporary housing. Clara tends to put other's needs ahead of her own.

Clara joined the Total Drama series to prove that nice people can finish first. She plans to donate her winnings.

## Total Drama: The Next Generation

Clara was the first competitor to arrive on the island. She and Max were quick to bond, both sharing positive personalities. Clara also encouraged Winnie to engage in conversation. Declan arrived, and Clara noted a connection between his appearance, dyed pink hair and his clothing style, and K-Pop. When she asked if he was a fan, he chastised her for calling herself a fan and not knowing Korean.

When Kirika arrived, and was tripped by Tiffany, Max helped her and immediately introduced her to Clara, who was extra pleasant to the newly arrived girl.

In the first challenge, Clara was eliminated due to a team up between Orlando and Suzy. Clara was dressed as Janice and lamented dropping her puppet. Her team ultimately won the challenge, thanks to Kirika.

That night, after commending Kirika on her challenge performance, Clara attempted to draw out Tiffany. She learned that Tiffany effectively caused her ex-boyfriend to be shamed from his town, as Tiffany seemed proud. This disturbed Clara, and caused her to state in confessional that Tiffany scared her.

At the challenge, a series of individual match ups, The Cool Cats lost their first challenge. While Clara's portion of the challenge was not shown, she lost her match against the other team.

Winnie was eliminated from the team, and in the next episode, Clara was saddened by the elimination, eluding to not liking that people that weren’t nice were not voted out.

During the pie eating challenge, Clara attempted to plead with Tiffany in an attempt to get the girl to help in the challenge. Tiffany ultimately refused and The Cool Cats lost their second challenge.

In a discussion with Vivi and Kirika, Clara decided to speak with the team's male contestants in an effort to get more votes on their side. Gabe accidentally let it slip that they were voting for Kirika. This upset Clara, and she made a deal with Eddy that if she could guarantee Max's vote, he would vote with her.

In her conversation with Max, the popular guy agreed to vote with her, especially not wanting to see Kirika sent home. She commended him for doing the right thing. At the campfire ceremony, Kirika was safe, but Clara was blindsided and voted out of the game. It was revealed that Max and Tiffany were now in a relationship, and that he had betrayed Clara. Clara was disappointed with Max, before leaving the island.

## Trivia

* Clara was inspired by Milly Thompson from Trigun. This is highlighted mostly by her positive attitude, and speech patterns.
* Clara was the first of attempts of exploring different types of character design for a female character. I do like her design, though it is admittedly sloppy with having been a digitally colored sketch.
* I had a hard time labeling Clara, and was going to go with The Nice Girl, but felt that was a little too basic.
* In the first challenge, Clara was going to be dressed as Esme. This felt a little too obvious, due to their similarities in appearance. I had her dress as Janice, instead, to have three Total Drama Tropics characters represented.
* In the second challenge, Clara's segment was going to be shown, even after the team's loss when it didn’t matter. Ultimately, it was excluded due to being deemed the least interesting or necessary to the story.
* Clara's placing wasn’t guaranteed from the beginning. I had characters I wanted to explore more, and felt that her time in the story could be wrapped up early with no major story arcs revolving around her.
* Clara was going to place 17th, but I needed a little more time to develop Tiffany's alliance. Winnie was less consequential to developing it, and it was easier to explain with eight characters on the team.
* Clara also served as an example of the dangers of targeting Tiffany, as Kirika was the original intended target.
* It was meant to feel natural for Clara to approach and trust Max to align with her, as they bonded very early in the story.
* I was debating between an episode image of Clara with Max, or with Kirika and Vivi in the cabin. I went with Clara and Max since it was simpler, and I had drawn images featuring ten other characters already for that chapter.Clara in sleepwear.Clara in swimwear.Clara’s original image.