Skylar

* S6: Athletics
* S10: WotW

Skylar is a contestant on Total Drama Athletics and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

When Skylar arrived on the island, he stepped in front of Hae Won, and interrupted her. As he balanced his luggage, and introduced himself, Hae Won tied his shoelaces together. He fell and dropped his luggage, as the others recounted his history with falling.

During the first challenge, Skylar took note of special tasks that each team was given, announced in notes given to each team. Esme, one of the show’s assistant hosts, was unaware of these extra assignments.

Skylar and Dirk spoke while Zoe led a group in aerobics. Skylar noticed that Isabella had left. Blair tattled on Dirk and Skylar for not exercising as hard as the others. Zoe scolded them, referring to Skylar as Pitfall. Dirk confirmed that everyone called him that, which was news to Skylar. He had admitted in confessional to wanting to change his legacy on Total Drama, wanting to unite people, instead of being known as the guy that fell into a pit.

Skylar was also among the players who marveled at Herman’s impressive mechanical dragon. Skylar asked LeVar about what his costume for the challenge was. LeVar explained that it was a seafaring prince that was into mermaids. Skylar confirmed that he was okay with that. After Frederick’s surprise evacuation from the game, Cary seemed to take it hard. Skylar consoled him, and assured him that he was a good friend.

Skylar attempted to welcome Herman to the team by offering him a root beer. LeVar, though, pushed him away, and even got Herman to start calling him by his nickname, Pitfall, much to Skylar’s dismay. To add thievery to insult and injury, LeVar also stole Skylar’s root beers. In confessional, Skylar admitted to feeling on the outs. He stated that he would seek to create an alliance. Skylar approached Dirk, and his approach made Dirk think he was flirting with him. After proposing an alliance, Dirk said it was a good idea. After Skylar left it was revealed that Dirk wanted to steal the idea, not including Skylar. He also offered an alliance to Angelo and Anders, who mistook the offer for bottles of the root beer named ‘Alliance’.

During the dunk tank building challenge, Skylar volunteered his Total Drama Athletics friend Evan to join him in running to fill the dunk tank with lake water. Evan got winded, and to help take the blame off of him, Skylar pretended to injure his ankle, to shift the focus off of Evan. After again saying not to call him Pitfall, Skylar started getting called ‘Skyfall’. He hobbled along during his part of the challenge, and seemed to accept his nickname after tripping and dumping water on LeVar. Despite this, Evan ended up protecting Skylar from being voted out.

Skylar, Cary, and Luke walked along after the elimination. Skylar admitted to disliking the voting out part of the show. Cary left them to take a shower. When he did not return, they were going to check on him but got distracted by wrestling a pig. After a disastrous malfunction of the set, Skylar rescued Quimberly from being hit by a large, falling sign.

After being presented with a messy obstacle course challenge, Skylar asked if he would be expected to compete in his suit. The contestants were presented with a change of clothes. Skylar noted that his was tight. He also volunteered to sit out of the challenge to give others a chance to perform, but the others insisted he compete. He also quietly asked if Evan wanted to sit out, but Evan declined. Skylar also revealed that he was dating the bearded lady, again, and was considering moving in with her. Evan tagged Skylar to do his portion of the challenge. Skylar reassured an embarrassed Evan after his pants fell down.

After reading his challenge instructions, Skylar found another note. He then looked on at the ball pit gum ball machine and started having a severe panic attack. Blair and the others showed concern, but he insisted that he just needed time to calm down. Ultimately, Skylar froze and was unable to complete his portion of the challenge, leading to the women’s tribe to win. Skylar was voted out, with him handing off the ominous note to Evan, asking him to find out who slipped it to him. Evan read it aloud, it claiming to know what really happened on Skylar’s season.

## Trivia

* Skylar tends to want to unite his teammates, either with alliances or just wanting everyone to be friends. This harkens back to his claim of getting along with all kinds of people.
* Skylar having more body hair than his first season was an attempt at more body diversity. It was meant to imply that he used to shave his body hair to be more aerodynamic.
* Skylar ‘s treasure seeking costume of the seafaring prince into mermaids is based on Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid. I originally was basing his costume on Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series, but ended up feeling it looked more like Prince Eric.
* Skylar’s nickname of Pitfall is based on the classic Atari video game.
* Skylar’s nickname of Skyfall is based on the James Bond film of the same name.
* In the original version of the story, Skylar was one of the potential winners.
* Skylar was going to last a few more episodes on the reboot, but a storyline was taking longer to develop, and Skylar’s elimination was pushed up with him feeling the most dispensable.
* He was going to be eliminated after forming a majority alliance and someone else wanting to usurp him to become the new leader.
* Skylar was a challenge to write for. His jokes flowed naturally, but finding a plot line for him was not easy for some reason.
* Skylar rescuing Quimberly was a misdirect at a further plot line. I did consider making the other contestants think they were a couple, but instead decided to have it lead nowhere, to perhaps suggest that his story line was not over.
* Skylar experiencing PTSD, seemed like a storyline that suited him and also was a topic I wanted to explore a little. Originally, everyone was going to be supportive of him, but Dirk being more critical of his reaction seemed to be more appropriate if the story was meant to take place ten years in the past.
* The image of Skylar freezing during the ball pit section of the challenge was meant to be disorientating with him standing straight and the background looking off balanced.
* I considered making Skylar and Blair a couple.

## Gallery

Skylar during his time on Total Drama Athletics.Skylar in his seafaring prince costume.