Vivi

Vivi is a contestant in Total Drama: The Next Generation. She is labeled as **The Psychology Major**.

## Biography

Vivi is a good student. She has a particular interest in people and how they work. She has a fairly good grasp on why people act the way they do, and enjoys helping others. She doesn’t live in a great neighborhood, but tries to be positive about her situation. Her goal is to go to college, and use that education to help her family.

Vivi joined the Total Drama series in order to put her psychoanalyst skills to use with the presumably diverse cast.

## Total Drama: The Next Generation

Vivi was the final contestant to arrive on the island. She voiced her disappointment, having wanted to be able to psychoanalyze the others as the first to arrive. When describing herself as enjoying picking people's actions and motivations apart, she added that she loved pizza to get a positive response from the others.

After teams were selected, Vivi was concerned about being on a team with Tiffany and Kirika, who openly disliked each other. She chose not to make waves herself so early on, but looked forward to seeing things unfold.

During the challenge, where she was dressed as past contestant Sky Lynn, Vivi was rendered useless due to her attraction to scantily clad opposing team member Wolf. She was quickly eliminated. Despite this, her team was victorious.

That night, Vivi attempted to draw out horse enthusiast, Winnie, though the conversation only centered on horses. In confessional, Vivi was concerned that Winnie was the type who would be easily taken advantage of.

Her portion of the challenge proved confusing, as Vivi needed to identify the personal items of her team members. With two horse themed objects, she was flustered and ultimately failed her task, as one of them belonged to closeted horse fan Tiffany. This sparked a one sided friendship between Winnie and Tiffany, which ultimately eliminated Winnie from the entire competition.

The next day, Vivi and her friends, Kirika and Clara, were outnumbered by Tiffany and her alliance of boyfriends. Clara attempted to recruit some male team members to their side after losing the challenge, but this led to Clara's elimination.

That night, Vivi came across Naveen as he did Tiffany's laundry for her. She voiced her concern for him and his relationship with Tiffany. He got defensive, feeling that her concern was feigned and an attempt at strategy. When Yolanda, a rival team member, attempted to enforce curfew. Vivi came up with a story about cleaning the polluted lake. Yolanda commended them, before they departed whilst holding hands.

Tiffany attempted to throw the challenge in an effort to vote out one of her enemies. Kirika led Vivi, virtually by themselves, to victory in a blindfolded puzzle piece collecting challenge.

That night, Vivi was joined in her cabin by Naveen, who had been ordered by Tiffany to clean her side of the room. The two had a conversation where Naveen opened up about his sister Jasmine making him feel incapable. He also stated that he felt trapped in his relationship with Tiffany, and expressed that we wished that someone like Vivi liked him, as she downplayed her appeal. The conversation was interrupted by Tiffany who complained that Naveen did too good of a job cleaning her space.

During the challenge the contestants dressed as popular comic book characters. Naveen was selected to begin the challenge, which required retrieving their team members from cages. Naveen was able to rescue a team member remotely, and quickly chose Vivi. The two spoke more, and saw that they had more in common. Naveen ultimately decided to break things off with Tiffany. Vivi notes that she herself wasn’t ready for a relationship, but Naveen agreed to wait for Vivi to be ready to date him. The two were distracted, and when they returned to the base where the challenge had already been completed, and their team had lost.

Naveen never had a chance to break things off with Tiffany, and at the elimination, Vivi was voted out, as Tiffany felt she was causing her hold on Naveen to weaken. Tiffany could sense that Naveen was going to break up with him, which she would not accept. Vivi and Naveen said their goodbyes, as Naveen was especially upset.

## Trivia

* Vivi was the final character created.
* Vivi was going to be named Yvonne. I forgot and created the page for Yolanda first, and didn’t want two names that started with the letter y in one story.
* Vivi had a lemon on her shirt originally, as a tribute to the apples on Leshawna's shirt. It was removed as her shirt looked better plain.
* Vivi was created initially as someone who could predict other people's actions very successfully, almost like she had a psychic sense, but instead through psychoanalysis.
* Vivi was going to make the merge, initially, but when deciding boot order she did not end up making it when narrowing things down among the other characters.
* Naveen and Vivi were decided to have mutual interest in each other after assembling them in the full cast image. Max is standing between them, but it’s meant to appear that they’re looking right through him And at each other. This is a reference to Max's inspiration, My Hero Academia's Mirio Togata, who has the ability to pass through solid objects.
* Vivi was the last character to arrive in the first chapter. This was purposely because she would have enjoyed being first, and to portray her lamenting over the fact that she wasn’t.
* Vivi's psychology background was reflected subtly. She can read people fairly well, but it is mostly apparent in her manner of drawing out people's feelings.
* In the first challenge, Vivi is dressed as Sky Lynn from prior stories. Vivi is black, but I didn’t feel the need for her to dress as another black character.
* I considered making Vivi transgender, even writing her elimination chapter to include the revelation. However, it felt forced that she would tell Naveen so early on in the relationship. I also didn’t want her to be eliminated the same chapter that it was revealed. I also considered Naveen having realized that she was transgender before she told him, allowing him to reflect on his feelings before she told him. This felt awkward when writing it. Ultimately, Vivi being transgender was not included in the story at this point, though it may be explored in the future. It is not canon, however.
* Vivi portrayed a reference to Harley Quinn in the superhero cosplay challenge named Courtney Jester, a play on 'court jester'.
* Her face paint in that costume depicts a heart and a diamond, a reference to playing cards.
* Vivi's cosplay was going to be full body tights, but it looked too silly when I attempted to draw it that way.
* In the superhero challenge, Vivi was going to be dressed as a reference to Mystique, mostly to pair with Naveen as a Magneto reference. I decided against it if Vivi were to be transgender, as it felt that it might be perceived as disrespectful to portray her as a comic book character that can change her form at will. She would have been named Ms. Terry, a play on 'Mystery'. The characters were written to be confused by the name. Kirika was originally the Harley Quinn character. When I switched them, I didn’t feel the name Ms. Terry worked as well with Kirika, so it was changed to Ms. Direction.Vivi in sleepwear.Vivi in swimwear.Vivi’s original image.