Melody

Melody

**Melody Kitty Hernandez** was a contestant on *Our Starlight Savannah*, *Our Back in Action*, and *Our All Star Cruise*. In *Our Island Homecoming*, she returned alongside Ash as a co-host for the season-long aftermaths. She was a member of the Barbaric Bones, Fighting Spirits, Daring Directors, and the Villainous Villains.

## Starlight Savannah

Being the eighth camper introduced in *Call It A Comeback, Part One,* Melody chose to head straight to the huts of the Savannah, not doing much else. She spends the rest of the episode getting acquainted with the other contestants, such as Cordelia and Jazz.

During the challenge in *Call It A Comeback, Part Two,* Melody chooses a tree as her hiding spot for the challenge. She is eventually tagged by Woods and Chefette, placing fifth in the challenge. She was later selected by Cordelia to be a member of the Barbaric Bones.

Melody doesn't do anything noteworthy between the events of *The Legend of Harambe* and *What Lurks Beneath*. However, she ends up swapping from the Barbaric Bones to the Fighting Spirits in Be Very Very Wary. Emanuel asks Melody to join him in an alliance, and she accepts. When it is time for the challenge, she is one of the only 5 people to finish it before the time expired.

Between *Be Very Very Wary* and *Look Here, Look There, Look Everywhere*, Melody tells Damia and Daisy that Emanuel had asked her to join an alliance with him.

Melody teams up with the pair for the challenge in *Look Here, Look There, Look Everywhere*, finding a wild purple flower for the Fighting Spirits and bringing it back to Kassondra. She is originally happy about her team winning the challenge, however, it was revealed by Kassondra that Nathan and Woods didn't make it back to Kassondra in time, so the Spirits ended up losing. Melody unintentionally causes Emanuel's elimination, due to telling Damia and Daisy about the alliance that Emanuel had proposed to her.

Melody and Branden decide to pair up for the water skiing challenge in *A Whole Load Of Bull.* Melody drives the boat for the Spirits against Wyatt, while Branden ski'd for the Spirits against Bebe. Melody and Branden win their leg of the challenge, resulting in a tiebreaker.

In *A Brace For The Race,* Melody used her Advantage tiki, giving her team a 1-minute head start. She Melody swam the lake relay, facing off against Archie, and finished the relay prior to him.

Melody makes a Chocolate cake for Chefette to eat in *Converge At The Merge*. When she slides her cake pan into the oven, she forgets to preheat it. Upon realizing this, Melody sets the timer for an extra 10 minutes to account for it. When the cake was ready, she spread frosting around the top of the cake, presenting it to Chefette, only to soon find out that Chefette hates chocolate. At the elimination ceremony, Melody decides to vote Bebe, with Damia and Daisy's advice to do so.

Melody easily wins against Derek in round 1 of the challenge in *Fools That Duel*, but she quickly loses to Jackson during round 2, after seeing a light flash from a bush, which was made to distract her. She was initially a bit surprised to hear how she had received votes at the ceremony, as Dixie was eliminated.

Melody selects the wand as her weapon of choice to hunt the werewolf in *Were's The Wolf*. The wand leads Melody off a cliff, and into the lake, due to Melody seeing the werewolf as it jumped off the cliff, with Damia in its arms. As the werewolf drops Damia in the lake, Melody carries Damia out of the water. Kassondra later gives Melody immunity for saving Damia's life. Damia later mentions to Melody that she owes her a favor for her saving her life.

Melody chooses to make Damia repay her favor in *Tongue, Tied, and Twisted,* by having Damia help her with the challenge, knowing that it is an auto elimination. Melody finishes second in the challenge, during the song, something that she was happy about.

Melody learns that Daisy, Damia, and Branden are in an alliance In *Are You Smarter Than a 5th Placer,* as Kassondra was reviewing some old footage in the control room with the contestants. Melody isn't able to answer any of the questions during the challenge in time, as Damia wins immunity. At the ceremony, Melody votes Damia with Cordelia, despite Damia's immunity, and Melody gets eliminated in return.

Melody returns in *Party Under The Stars - The Finale* to sit in the peanut gallery, to cheer for a finalist. Instead of cheering for Daisy or Branden, Melody opts to cheer for Woods, and tells him to steal the money, which he tries to do. When Derek tries to tranquilize Woods, Melody ends up taking the shot for him. Melody is one of the people Kassondra selects to compete in *Back in Action* at the end of the episode.

## Back in Action

In *Let's Get Physical,* Melody performs well in the dodgeball challenge, hitting Valerie, Budo, Chloe, Dillon, and Damia. After hitting Damia, Melody wins the challenge, becoming the captain of the *Daring Directors.* She chooses her team members to be Branden, Daisy, Dillon, Kensly, Eugene, and Emanuel.

Between *Let's Get Physical* and *One Beach Is Enough*, Eugene gave Melody a bottle of Eugenius Juice to drink for the next challenge.

During *One Beach Is Enough,* Melody had drunk the Eugenius Juice that Eugene gave to her in between episodes, in preparation for her leg of the relay, as it was a race to the finish against Derek. When it was time for her leg to begin, the juice started to take effect. Melody could not focus on the race, occasionally tripping, and ultimately losing to Derek.

In *Zero Gravity Games,* Melody was the very first person who had thrown up in the challenge. When Kassondra swaps Ash and Eugene's teams, and introduced a newcomer, Rich, Melody welcomed the two.

In *From Trash To Treasure*, Melody defends her team's treasure from Eugene and Valerie. The latter tries to elbow Melody in the face, and soon gets tackled by Branden, and pinned by him and Rich. She is elated when she hears that Daisy won the challenge for her team.

Throughout *Alienating The Enemies*, Melody and Ash work together, searching for the eggs. As the duo enter the boiler room with Rich and Emanuel, they all found 2 eggs and Mr. Coconut. She saw Ash and Emanuel took the two eggs, as Rich took Mr. Coconut. Chefette soon arrives, shooting Ash. Melody confessed to Ash that she does not like green shinies, as she found out Ash's favorite Shiny Pokemon was Espeon.

During *Love Doctor,* Melody searches for the cadaver pieces for her team during the first part of the challenge, eventually managing to recover the head and torso pieces for her team's cadaver. At the ceremony, Melody voted Emanuel once again, and there was a tie between Branden and Emanuel, where Daisy ended up eliminating them both. Melody didn't mind, however.

Melody does well during the challenge in *Dodging a Disaster,* making it to the final section with Budo, in the blistering heat, and she decided to push Budo to the finish line right before Chloe was to cross, to secure her team's victory for the challenge. The Daring Directors won a dinner reward.

Melody faces off against Chloe in *The Karate Kids,* getting pinned by her relatively shortly. She is disappointed when her team loses once again, and votes Budo at the elimination ceremony, with Daisy. The vote results in a tiebreaker, and she sees the Proud Producers break the tie, eliminating Budo.

Melody was happy when she found out that Ash returned in *Total Drama: The Musical*, but she soon was caught in the middle of a feud between Ash and Derek, because Ash believed that Derek rigged the votes against him when he was originally eliminated, and he told Melody as such. During the actual challenge, she sang a duet with Chloe and was annoyed when Chloe and Rich won immunity, but not her. When she voted for Derek with Ash and Daisy, she was shocked when Cordelia was eliminated instead, due to Damia rigging the vote.

In *Locked Out For Good, w*hen looking for a way out of her cell, Melody decides to climb up to the top bunk in her cell, pry open the vent, and crawl through the said vent, soon falling through it onto the ground, finishing the challenge in fourth place. She is disappointed when Daisy and Damia are eliminated, and when Daisy exposes herself as the person who had rigged out Ash, Melody still believes Daisy can be good.

Sometime between *Locked Out For Good* and *005: Gilded Eye,* Melody decided to pull Chloe aside, asking her to team up, and solidifying an alliance between the two, despite their differences.

Melody performed well in *005: Gilded Eye,* as she snuck past Chloe, Derek, and Ash during the challenge without effort, as Chloe was distracting the duo so neither Derek or Ash would win immunity. In the end, Melody just barely lost immunity to Rich. When it was time to vote, Melody ended up siding with Chloe and Rich over Ash and Derek, eliminating Derek.

Melody's animal buddy in *You've Got A Fiend in Me* was a Platypus, who she had named Barry. She was training with it for the talent show, to sing 'The Barry The Platypus' theme song. After singing it, she receives an 18 out of 30 by the judges. Later, when Rich wins immunity and the sole vote, he decides to eliminate Melody, upsetting her and Ash.

In *Aftermath IV - Friendly Tensions,* Melody appears as the final guest, and not many people were happy to see her. Due to Cordelia getting irritated by Melody's presence, Melody decided to intentionally annoy them, much to their dismay. Melody was first disappointed to find out that she is not competing in Island Homecoming, but that disappointment soon faded away, when she found out that she was going to be one of the Aftermath Hosts for the aforementioned season, alongside Ash.

Melody cheers for Ash at the end of *The Finale Won't Solve Itself.* As Derek and Ash kiss at the end, Melody decides to tease Chloe, to little avail. After Chloe got up and ran away, Melody was taken completely by surprise when Chloe returned to kiss her. Melody quickly ran away.

## Trivia

* Melody currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
* Melody's birthday is October 21st, 1996. This makes her a Libra-Scorpio cusp.
	+ According to the Chinese Zodiac, she was born in the Year of the Rat.
* Melody is 5'4".
* Ironically, Melody is tone-deaf.
* Additionally, Melody is the only contestant in Total Drama: Next Generation to compete in more than one season, while simultaneously making the final 5 in every season she competed in.