Stop Villianizing Sierra

Sierra in World Tour

⚠️IF YOU ARE HERE TO ARGUE PLEASE STOP READING NOW. I AM NOT EXCUSING WHAT SHE HAS DONE I AM SIMPLY EXPLAINING WHY PEOPLE SHOULD STOP VILLIANIZING HER.⚠️

World Tour is the first whole season Sierra makes an appearance in. Immediately she comes off as unsettling and very similar to a stalker. She knows a lot about the cast and about Cody in particular and she obviously has feelings towards him. She often tries to show her affections in what would be considered in gross or creepy ways. However I believe there is much more to Sierra than meets the eye that some people either don't notice, or care to notice.

Before I continue, THIS IS NOT TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU TO LIKE SIERRA. You are allowed to have your opinion of her. However I am analyzing her actions and the influences and reasoning behind her actions.

Now, I'm moving on. In the episode linked above at the beginning of the chapter; Niagara Brawls, at around 2:44 in the episode, she mentions how her mom has a crush on Chris. Now, that's a little odd on it's own considering, how Chris is but that statement isn't the only thing she mentioned about her mom's crush on Chris. She mentions her mom has a Chris museum/guest room in the episode Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles at 4:23. (Link to episode down below)

So it is shown her mom has an obsessive crush on Chris, similarly to how Sierra has a crush on Cody. An adult mother should know that this is unhealthy behavior. But Sierra, A CHILD, wouldn't know it was unacceptable if she was raised in a household where her mother had this type of constant obsessive behavior, which is exactly what happened. And imagining Sierra as a parent for a moment, would be terrible, so assuming her mom is similar in that aspect considering how similar they are to begin with, her mom is terrible at raising a child and is mostly focuses on the object of her obsessions. My guess is that Sierra, as a child, wanted to bond with her mom like most young children do, and the only way to do so was to talk about/watch Total Drama with her, leaving her just about obsessed and fixated as her mom. Wanting to learn more, she tries to find out as much about the cast as she can, and also asks Izzy for information, because she wants to know as much about everyone as she can, much like a hyperfixation. But growing a crush on Cody is something she did completely on her own, however, seeing as her mom engages in creepy and strange ways to show affection, she was never taught that this was unacceptable because her mom also engaged in this behavior. And her mom is the only parental figure she mentions, so her mom is the only one she has for role models to go by. So she slowly began an obsession with Cody, showing her affections in ways she didn't know was unacceptable because she wasn't taught better. (Cody also doing similar things to Gwen probably didn't help in discouraging this behavior either..) More proof of this is in the "Paris in the Springtime" song, she refers to her behavior as "kissing up". If she knew this behavior was wrong she wouldn't have called it that and would've been more direct and called it stalking or anything at all that shows she knows it's unhealthy and wrong, but she doesn't.

She is also obviously has untreated mental illness along with being the subject of bad parenting, and going onto Total Drama did not help. She had so many ideas about Cody and knew so many things about him, so she obviously felt the need to express these things and she did, not knowing that it was not okay due to bad parenting. However, when Cody reacted negatively, she didn't understand because her fantasies were much different and that was how she was raised to show affection so when it didn't work, she was confused.

However, Cody is as nice as he can in forms of rejection and even tries to comfort her when she's sad, because Cody is generally good natured, which was the right thing to do instead of being straight up rude, because Sierra would not take that well at all, judging by her reaction when Cody votes for her where she cries almost the whole episode, she would not take it well. So when Cody decides to gently but firmly tell Sierra that they are just friends and nothing more. Sierra comes to the realization that people are allowed boundaries, which she was never taught in her childhood. So becoming friends with Cody was a step in the right direction, which she definitely needed. And it helped teach her boundaries and how to properly behave and slowly get better. I am in no way excusing what she did to Cody, but it gives the influences and reasoning behind her actions that most people overlook.

In summary: Stop villianizing her. She wasn't taught her behavior is unacceptable and she was a result of bad parenting and she is slowly on the steps to get better. She will need more help than Cody becoming friends with her or simply telling her no, because this was years of influence but becoming friends with him did help.

In the next chapter I will talk about Sierra in All Stars. If you disagree this far, simply leave the story instead of arguing. Thank you.