#And it's the silliness of his character pre-WT that makes him fun to write.

[total-drama-brainrot]

Is Ezekiel one of your favs? You talk a LOT about him and pick that little feral farm boy apart several times over (love seeing dissections of him don’t get me wrong)

Not really. He's just interesting to think about.

Ezekiel’s character is probably the most tragic one out of the whole series; he enters the show incredibly naive and sheltered, gets eliminated first for parroting misogynistic views he obviously internalised from someone else (most likely an authority figure in his life, and given the nature of his incredibly isolated upbringing that's most certainly his dad) and is immediately universally disliked by the people around him.

He fundamentally changes himself to be (what he believes is) more appealing to the world at large, only to be faced with the same treatment.

And then he literally goes feral. Not even in a metaphorical sense - this kid goes full Gollum Mode and starts living underground with mutated gophers after throwing himself into an active volcano.

His whole story arc on the show is objectively a tragedy, which is free real estate for things like AUs and, in my case, character analysis.

What could he have done differently to prevent his fate? Why was he so hellbent on winning in World Tour to the point his body and mind started to decay?

Why he geen? 🟢