June Something Day 9

June Something Day 9: Drop the cast of a fandom you follow into a reality tv show - who/what/why?

i'm gonna use this prompt to talk about a crossover i had kicking around my head a while back: Danganronpa/Total Drama Island. (okay, so i'm sort of stretching the "reality tv show" thing -- Total Drama is a cartoon parody of reality tv shows.)

now, i'm hardly the first person to think of this crossover. just look at any of the memes comparing Chris McLean to Monokuma. and on top of that, both canons involve an eclectic cast of teenagers who are slowly whittled down one by one... it's just that one of those scenarios involves death, and the other one involves being voted off the island.

but as far as i'm aware most of the crossover fics currently out there put the TD kids in a DR context (aka the TD characters are forced into a DR-style mutual killing game.) so i think a fun subversion of that would be to put the DR characters in a TD-style harmless reality tv show.

back when i was into TD (the second time, around 2016-17; i first got into the series in like 2010) i even planned out a vague timeline for a potential crossover series with this concept. the first two fics would be analogous to the first two seasons of Total Drama, featuring the casts of the first two DR games. and then the twist would be that during the climax of the third "season," Junko would hijack the plane and crash it on an island, turning it into an old-fashioned killing game after all.

...or something along those lines. not sure if i'll ever write this (after all, i didn't write it even when i was enthusiastic about Total Drama, whereas these days i occasionally poke at fic or art but mostly have moved on. but maybe it'll creep back into my head!)