#heatheva

Surprised more people don't make edits with this specific screenshot from the reboot tbh...

Okay but I genuinely want to hear your answer to this question I found on the confessions blog (with all the F/F ships you ship from this show).

(you asked for it)

og text for reference: "the real question one must ask themselves regarding every TD f/f ship is “which one would get randomly shot by a stray bullet in a gay-burying mainstream network show?“"

I'll go in preference order, but be warned i've only been exposed to shows like these via osmosis so my judgements may be flawed ^^

(also these are only ships that weren't mentionned in the reblogged post)

Courtzzy: It's 100% Izzy. She's got too much neurodivergent swag to not get fridged by such shows, plus they'd probably prefer to focus on Courtney fucking snapping once she's gone. That or they ax Courtney and sideline the hell out of Izzy

Heatheva: Eva. Out of network demand. To give Heather a character arc. Next question.

Zoerra: Zoey's got too much "girl next door" charm to get axed. I vote they're a couple that show up for one episode, Sierra gets shot and Zoey shows up two seasons later after everyone's stopped watching with a boyfriend or something

Scamy: They're vilains and lesbians, both could get axed very easily, but also Amy's 100% the one taking a random ass bullet. Scarlett's too important to die like that, plus they would make Amy a dead backstory girlfriend (for both Scarlett and/or Sammy's development. i guess)

Scariya: Either Priya gets killed so Scary can own up to her name and fuck shit up, or they kill Scary Girl and Priya tries destroying the world but gets talked down by her friends somehow

Midnight Surfing (Gwidgette) + Gwendsay: Im grouping these two together because they've got similar judgements, I.E the blonde one is more likely to die for Gwen's character development, unless the show wants to milk the tragedy which in that case they will ax Gwen, have the girlfriend grieve for half a season then demote her to background extra and everyone hates it

Gwaurie: Laurie 100%, she doesn't have enough fans for the network to justify keeping her around in the story and they'd want you to sympathise with Gwen

OK. ok im actually on my computer so it's time to attempt to be articulate!!!

So my memory is uh. shit. and i don't remember when i really started thinking about them? I know it was AU related however, since i said so in my reblog of this post but im unsure which one it was??? (like it def wasn't my swap au but i don't think any other ones i had running around my head had them at the time) And it was just a pairing i thought was neato at the time. i was uh, a little more focused on other ones (courtzzy. and alenoah.) + i hadn't looked into Heather's character yet so it got sorta put on the backburner.

I had to dig up rambles i left in discord wayyy back in june to clean em up a little to try and explain what scratches my brain about em!!!

Funnily enough it's got very little with the few canon interactions they have - which mostly consists of Heather stealing Eva's MP3 player then giving them back after the challenge's over, Eva ranting about her dislike of Heather during Haute Campture, and one or two moments where she's just part of a crowd.

The thing that drew me in at first was just how opposite they are:

Like you have manipulative, pushes everyone away, has huge trouble being genuine Heather, and then you have blunt, straight-foward, values honesty Eva. You have Heather who places both alot of importance and feels alot of resentment towards her feminine presentation, while Eva seemingly doesn't care and presents more masculine (for this show at least).

They do have some things in common however; they've got alot of anger in them for one! They're both interested in leadership positions, and both fail to reach them for different reasons. I also headcanon both of them as neurodivergent and neither are super aware of it. They also don't have many friends, but would definitely get attached to the ones they make.

I have the very specific vision of eva being the first girl heather crushes on and her not knowing what those feelings are or how to deal with them and assumes they're fully negative and it must be hate because she's not acting how "a girl should" and she's fine with it so there has to be an issue with it (and it's definitely not because heather's lowkey jealous of Eva's ability to just be herself or to admit to and work on her own flaws without getting shamed for them by the people closest to her, totally not. It's not that eva gets genuine connection that is completely alien to Heather at this point, no)

Meanwhile Eva is not remotely aware of Heather's inner termoil and doesn't like her for her scheming and dishonesty but will admit that she is pretty, even during her bald era. (This would probably fuck with Heather's feelings for the girl even more, because what do you mean the literal manifestation of her insecurities still thinks she's hot like this. That must be a trick of some kind, no one could think she's even remotely beautiful like this and not be lying out of their ass to make fun of her but this is Eva. Straight foward, blunt Eva. Why would she lie?)

Also i genuinely do belive that Eva's female bully label mostly to fully originates from her anger issues and the complete lack of acomodations or therapy for it, most likely worsened by her status as an immigrant (remember the Island bios?) and the bullying she most likely received as a child for it. Guess who was also most likely bullied growing up for not fitting it? Heather.

I've been developping an AU alot that is currently stuck in the interns server/astrokyle's server limbo because there's a couple parts i wanna get out before i start talking about the actual fucking meat and bones of the au but what i can say is that heatheva happends in it and it's been a blast both figuring out what happends and Heather's arc in it as a whole. I have talked about them in the context of a no Total Drama AU before however, so uh. Feel free to read it ig.

Yeah so i drew them in that one ship pose??? just thought it was neato!

Designs are from @total-drama-is-bad-actually! Pretty sure they're inactive now but the designs used rule!

HEATHEVA EDIT?? IN THIS ECONOMY??

Yeah i have, in fact, gotten brainworms for them. lesbian situationship where one dislikes the other but still thinks she's hot while the other has no fucking clue what she's feeling for this girl but she knows she's mad about it

og screenshot under the cut :p