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My horrible terrible no-good nightmare timeline Total Drama Reboot Season 3 bingo board! Just in case you needed to feel despair about a hypothetical Season 3!

ALSO here is how likely i think they are to happen + a template so you too can elaborate on how likely you think the season will make you feel despair!

It's technically set within my Altered Arrangements au but isn't part of the series rewrite so to say. I also have talked about it before but I don't remember what I brought up then so yeet !

The season is expanded to 20 episodes with the in-universe explanation being that season 1 was a bit of a test run to see how well a reboot would go and all that. With it being a success, season 2 has a bigger budget to work with.

As seen in Feeling Like A Failure, Nichelle doesn't do any training in between seasons. Because they both want to do better this time around, Nichelle and Damien form an alliance early on.

Lauren stays as the first boot, BUT comes back to hijack the horror challenge which is fittingly circus-themed. She gets to torment the merge players as a treat <3

Said merge players being Nichelle, MK, Damien, Axel, Wayne, Caleb, and Raj. (only 7 because I want the teams to go on for longer)

MK is, naturally, the season's main villain, still going with her season 1 strategy of flying under the radar but doing so more successfully. She'll still team up with Julia but won't be as open about it since people are mad as hell at Julia, as they should've been in canon lol

A big part of MK's strategy will be 'befriending' Nichelle. Not actually becoming friends but apologizing for what she said during the obstacle course last season. And Nichelle will accept because she will believe it to be a genuine attempt at doing better (which she is trying to do) and not some form of manipulation. Surely this won't come back to bite her in the ass.

Ripaxel and prialeb are still technically gonna be here but trust me, I'm gonna make 'em interesting.

Prialeb is unrequited, because aroace Caleb canon king, and it's going to be a mess and a half because you know Priya is hella rejection sensitive.

Ripaxel is requited, but they won't become a couple. Ripper starts the season with a small crush he isn't sure what to do with, and over the course of the season falls more in love as he, and by extension the audience, learns more about Axel. This also includes him befriending Millie as a "Girl, help me" kinda deal. (it starts off as you'd expect but end up with them becoming genuine friends. This is also where Ripper is introduced to poetry)

Keeping those short, but it's very epic in my head trust.

Axel will also befriend Nichelle, which is how her training begins, and MK who I believe she'll end up favoring but I can't really explain why so just trust me. Does she know MK is manipulative ? Not really, so that's gonna be fun. We also have Caleb befriending Millie, along with Damien and Nichelle who he ends up being dragged into a trio with (because chronically offline dad friend Caleb and avid memers Damien and Nichelle my beloved)

Caleb does also evolve into a proper dad friend after he, for a lack of a better term, calms down a little. Basically instead of trying to form an alliance with Priya, guy's working overtime to try and prove himself useful to avoid an early elimination. This includes stuff offering to carry everyone's bags when they first arrive, helping everyone to shore and being more like a medic during the rim reaper challenge, and effectively just reducing himself to a doormat.

What gets him to calm down is Priya telling him something like "You don't have to do all this, it's fine. I chose you to be on the team for a reason." and basically just quells his anxiety. This is important to their relationship and has a parallel scene in the episode where Priya confesses. (said episode goes so hard in my head btw)

Emma and Nichelle are going to have tension with Emma, due to the whole Chase situation and still being upset over her ruined friendship with Bowie, being very dismissive and at times even passive-aggressive towards Nichelle. This will be resolved featuring a lot of venting (Nichelle's self-esteem struggles being exacerbated because of this treatment, Emma not knowing deal with her emotions in a healthy way)

This season also features a team swap, wherein Emma joins Bowie's team (don't know which yet) and of course, the besties will reconcile <3

Damien friendship with Priya will properly continue and with him stepping up his game to do better this season, he ends up as co-captain of their team. Given he's smart and creative (and plays dnd) I can see him being a beast at strategy.

Will Damien scheme ? Not exactly. He's going to be a sorta parallel to MK, after all :3

We're doing the drag challenge, which will be held by only Chef who is in full drag the entire time. With him are legacy players Brick and Anne Maria, who will also be in drag (queen and king respectively). Episode is called Chef Hatchet's Drag Race because I think that's funny

theyre ice skating :)