Dulce

Dulce is a contestant in Total Drama Lodge. She is labeled as **The Heiress**.

## Biography

Dulce was always a sweet girl. She was born into an ice cream empire, her family owning one of the largest manufacturers of ice cream treats in the world. Dulce loves ice cream and has been contributing flavor ideas from an early age, many of which have become long lasting favorites among consumers. When she turned eighteen, her parents felt she was ready to look after her first factory. She is a natural. While her methods for running the factory are considered revolutionary, many people consider her eccentric, to say the least.

Dulce joined Total Drama as her family’s company is a sponsor. They thought her inclusion on a season would be a good promotion.

## Total Drama Lodge

Dulce was the twenty-second player to arrive. She sang a song as her introduction, referring to herself as The Ice Cream Woman. Dulce took an immediate interest in Mason, and told him she was looking for a prince to join her in her ice cream empire. She quickly realized that Mason was gay, given his comments about the other guys in the competition. She seemed disappointed at the revelation.

Dulce crept up behind Gage in the kitchen, and attempted to get him to try her family’s ice cream. He refused. In confessional, Dulce mentioned that getting the others to try her ice cream was a part of her strategy.

The first challenge required each team to put on a musical for the hosts. Dulce was in charge of catering, writing the songs, and playing a nursemaid. Dulce tried to get some of her team members to try her ice cream, but they refused her, as well.

During the play, Dulce changed her role to an owner of an ice cream factory who attempted to lure the main characters into her factory. Backstage, Dulce came across the nervous Hoagie. He wanted something to serve as a distraction to his problems. Hoagie was later found unable to perform in the play, having eaten too much ice cream. Dulce denied being involved.

After losing the first challenge, Hoagie begged Dulce for more ice cream. She agreed on the condition that Hoagie do everything in his power to keep her in the competition. Their conversation was overheard by a pair of their teammates. Dulce, Hoagie, and JJ were the bottom three at the elimination ceremony. Dulce tried to blame JJ for the team’s loss, with his freezing on stage, but Dulce was the first to be eliminated from the competition. Hoagie begged her to stay, but she was unable to. Before leaving, Dulce went to collect her family’s ice cream from the kitchen freezer, but she was surprised by a shadowy figure from behind.

## Trivia

* ‘Dulce’ is Spanish for sweet.
* Dulce was inspired by Candyland and Willy Wonka.
* Dulce’s color scheme is a reference to Neapolitan ice cream.
* Dulce is my first character model to have defined fingernails.
* Dulce often speaks with puns related to ice cream or sweets. My favorite of which probably being ‘all in good humor’, a reference to the Good Humor company.
* Dulce’s parents’ company is called Jen and Berry’s, a play on Ben and Jerry’s. Another reference to the company is the pop culture themed ice cream names, like Robert Brownie Jr, Caramelissa McCarthy, and Mistress of the Dark Chocolate, a reference to Elvira.
* The name of Mistress of the Dark Chocolate was changed from ‘Spooky Cherry Skeletons’, a reference to Spooky Scary Skeletons.
* Dulce’s strategy was to get her competitors addicted to her family’s ice cream, and then promise to give them more after they kept her each round. This failed, given that Hoagie was the only character to partake.
* JJ suspecting Dulce’s ice cream of having a ‘supernatural hold’ on Hoagie, was a reference to the movie ‘The Stuff’, where an ice cream like substance is found and marketed as a healthy alternative to ice cream, that ultimately hollows out those that eat it and controls their bodies. Dulce recites a slogan for her company, being ‘Enough is Never Enough’. This is a direct line used in The Stuff.
* Dulce’s costume was so detailed because I did not intend for her to make it past the first round, meaning I wouldn’t have to draw her often.
* In the image where Hoagie binges on ice cream, one container is strawberry, another container is blue moon, and the other represents Superman ice cream. The initials ‘KC’ on that container are a nod to Kent Clark.

## Gallery

Dulce in her sleepwear.Dulce in her swimwear.The Bewildered Bears, Dulce’s team.