Candy for Your Thoughts/Characters

Courtney, the Counselor in Training

• Action Girl: taken Up to Eleven: you can see her karate chopping alligators and roundhousing sharks.
• Character Development
• Love Triangle: with Cody and Duncan.
• Odd Friendship: wth Ezekiel.
• Shipper on Deck: supports Noah/Sierra, much to Noah's dismay.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man
• Tranquil Fury

Cody, the Geek

• Berserk Button: if somebody insults Courtney.
• Blatant Lies: when he told Sierra that Noah liked her.
• Catch Phrase: "So, wanna make out?"
• Character Development
• Heroic BSOD: after Courtney is eliminated.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Deconstructed.
• Love Triangle: with Courtney and Duncan.
• Second Love: to Courtney.

Duncan, the Delinquent

• The Atoner Towards the end.
• Character Development
• Honor Before Reason: his self elimination in Africa
• Idiot Ball: he should had known better than trust Alejandro.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Played straight.
• Love Triangle: with Cody and Courtney.
• My God, What Have I Done?: after learning the truth behind Courtney's elimination
• Odd Friendship: with Bridgette, near the end.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: though he gets better later.
• Unwitting Pawn: becomes one for Alejandro.

Sierra, the Uber-fan

• Action Girl: less than Courtney, but she has her moments too.
• Big No: at the end of the Niagara Falls challenge.
• Character Development
• Hopeless Suitor
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Played straight.
• Shipper on Deck: ships Cody/Courtney when she finally accepts that Cody will never return her feelings.
• Single-Target Sexuality: like in canon, but the difference is that she can change the target.

Ezekiel, the Homeschooled guy

• Dark Horse Victory
• Guile Hero
• Odd Friendship: with Courtney.
• Sanity Slippage: like in canon, only toned down: he still retains some human intelligence, the ability to speak and his hat.
• Shipper on Deck: the first Cody/Courtney shipper of the fic.

Alejandro, the Archvillain

• Animals Hate Him
• Animal Motifs: snakes.
• Big Bad
• Hannibal Lecture: delivers one to Duncan in the final challenge.
• Knife Nut
• Sanity Slippage: during the final challenge.
• Screams Like a Little Girl
• The Ubermensch

Gwen, the Goth

• Character Development: Eventually.
• Ship Tease: With Trent, after she and Duncan's relationship is over.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: though she gets better.
• The Vamp: tried to charm Cody into voting for Courtney in Australia. It didn't work.
• Villainous Breakdown: she isn't exactly a villain, but she certainly loses it when she finds that Cody voted against her instead of Courtney, causing her elimination

Owen, the Big Guy

• Comically Missing the Point: as Noah points out, he really misses the concept of FAKE wedding.
• Shipper on Deck: supports Cody/Courtney.

Noah, the High IQ

• Butt Monkey
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: In universe. Though he resents that most ships are with other guys.
• Shipper on Deck: like Owen, he ships Cody/Courtney, only with less enthusiasm.
• Ship Tease: In universe, with Cody, Owen and Sierra. (Of the three, Sierra is the one that he's most enthusiastic about. But not very.)
• Sick and Wrong: what he thinks of the Cody/himself pairing.
• Spanner in the Works: becomes one for Duncan and Alejandro.
• This Is Gonna Suck: when Sierra sets him as the new target of her affections.

Heather, the Queen Bee

• Dark Mistress: to Alejandro.
• Flat Character

Geoff, the Party Guy

• Shipper on Deck: supports Duncan/Courtney.
• What the Hell, Hero??: his initial reaction upon meeting Duncan for first time in the fic, since he wasn't happy with the way he treated Courtney.

DJ, the Brickhouse with a Hart

• Shipper on Deck: supports Duncan/Courtney.

Bridgette, the Surfer Girl

• Odd Friendship: with Duncan.

Harold, the Uber-Nerd

• Blatant Lies: he claims that he knew that Cody and Courtney would end up together since the first day of TDI.
• Shipper on Deck: supports Cody/Courtney.

Alien Cody, the Geek from Outer Space

• Aliens Speaking English
• All Aliens Have Superpowers
• Ascended Extra: The author thought a thirty-second one-off gag wasn't quite enough for this character.
• Evil Twin: of Cody, obviously.
• Galactic Conqueror: or that's what he claims.
• Green Eyes
• Large Ham
• Sophisticated As Hell
• Superior Species: well, he constantly refers humans as primitive and less intelligent.
• Weaksauce Weakness: He inherited all of Cody's allergies, which apparently also take away his superpowers.