#I mean it's obviously going to be Jake and Alec but I don't wanna be the nerd that goes into reddit theory territory

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The finalist duos: Hero vs Villain

In both the previous seasons of Disventure Camp, not taking Adventure since it was still quite not in the quality that the other seasons have, we have the finalists be opposites to each other in their narrative.

Miriam and Fiore.

This is probably the easiest one... Miriam came to the show just to get herself a quick distraction, not interested in making bonds or connections (connection being a key word when talking about relationships in DC) she acted rude to characters and dismissed all chances of approach that until Jake's meltdown after hearing the news of his grandmother's passing which this time Miriam was the one that approached Jake she was the one that made the first step and then she connected with Tom too. Not only did she bond with Jake and Tom but her sympathetic new outcome let her convince Ellie to join her to take down Alec which led them to convince Fiore later on.

Fiore on the other side? She was the extreme opposite of Miriam, where Miriam came shrewdly? Fiore came with fake smiles and her innocent little girl persona. She made fake bonds with all her teammates that quickly crashed down since they weren't built on anything. The only real bonds she made were with Ellie, Grett and Alec characters that she did have some common ground with and in the case of Ellie and Alec we know she has some consideration especially for Alec as she grew to actually care for him. And what happened to that? She threw all of them under the bus. She severed all her ties with the people she had connected with through the show.

This easily puts them as obvious narrative foils, Fiore couldn't access anyone's help in the finale meanwhile Miriam's bonding easily led her to winning.

Miriam started at her lowest point after the death of her husband and son but after opening up she found a new family and people that helped her to win which she is shown to enjoy the money with Jake who stayed at her side.

James and Riya.

James and Riya's opposition is more symbolic than literal since they're characters that both started in similar spots but ended on opposite sides.

James entered the show desperate for more attention, attention that he craved desperately after feeling invincible all his life which is weirdly similar to Riya since she never got a chance to showcase her talent as an actress leading her to take whatever roles she could just to keep her career as an actress. They both even entered the show for the same exact reason, exposition on TV.

But what happened in the middle of their stories? Riya was left alone and disconnected from the groups until she found herself befriending Rosa María and Lake but the game got to her, she severed such bonds to the point of making what's considered by me the lowest act somebody had done in the show which was accusing Rosa of theft. Riya got infected by Karol's anger and she let herself be influenced into making wrongs just for the win to the point of ultimately severing her relationship with Connor during the finale even when he gladly joined to help her.

And on the other side you have James, James who attempted to enter a romantic relationship with Aiden (a literal showmance for the reality TV aficionados) just to get more following after finding out that Tom and Jake had gotten popular online thanks to their relationship in the previous season. This led to James bonding with Aiden genuinely as he was approaching the other guy and that relationship became genuine, James started actually falling for Aiden which led to the one thing he had always looked for which was to be seen.

After Riya exposed James he was left at his lowest point which led to Rosa María helping James as she couldn't stand the idea of somebody being left on their own and thanks to her encouragement and later that true bond between him and Aiden, which led Lake to help James, he was given the last push to win the competition.

Now, we are left to see who will rise to become the ultimate villain and hero duo of All Stars. Who will serve as narrative foils to each other's journey throughout this season of Disventure Camp? I don't think that the writers do this with full intentions of leaning into it but since the themes of the show are set to be about bonding, connection and what people do with such it seems appropriate that the characters that end up in the final are the ones that oppose each other when it comes to those topics.