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Bowlia is the friendship between Bowie and Julia from the Total Drama fandom.

Canon[]

Overview[]

Bowie and Julia are bitter rivals and occasional vitriolic allies in the grand scheme of Total Drama Island. They endlessly compete to be the "big bad" of the game, trying to one-up each other in feats of villainy, form alliances with each other only so they can betray each other, and plot to have the other eliminated. Although it's debatable which one of the two schemers is worse, as they've both gotten the drop on each other an equal number of times, it can be agreed that Bowie and Julia can be tied for the two baddest villains in the fourth generation of Total Drama history.

Total Drama Island (2023)[]

In the first 4 episodes of Total Drama Island (2023), Bowie and Julia never interact because Julia was more focused on her cell phone and Bowie was more focused on forming an alliance with Emma. They begin to interact in "Jurassic Fart" when Bowie discovers Julia's true personality after she emotionally denigrates the velociraptor. When he confronts her, she threatens him, but Bowie calms her down by promising to keep it a secret, to which Julia calms down and they run together to the finish line.

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Julia slaps Bowie with his own burrito.

In the next episode, Julia angrily enters the camp dining room demanding the identity of the camper who posted the video of her yelling at the dinosaur. Bowie mocks her to which she hits him with his own burrito. Later in the episode, Bowie gets on the catapult and asks Julia to aim it straight at the pudding, but Julia ignores his request. At the elimination ceremony, Julia exposes MK that she was watching everyone's confessionals, removing her stolen cell phone as evidence. Almost instantly, Bowie snatches the phone and throws it into the sea to protect everyone's secrets.

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Julia shoves Bowie.

In "Severe Eggs and Pains", Bowie and Julia form a temporary alliance to eliminate Chase from the competition. Then they find the eggs, only one can win immunity to which Bowie proposes a fair way to break the tie, but Julia pushes him away and proceeds to race to victory. In "The Wheel of Vomit", Bowie cannot sleep because of Julia's constant cell phone notifications so he demands that she turn it off. Later in the episode, Julia enters the dining room ready to put everyone in their place, Bowie approaches her and begins to criticize how she lost followers. Julia pushes him to the ground mid-sentence, leaving him with gum in his hair.

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Julia throws Bowie into a honey pit.

In "Paddle Field Earth", Bowie forms an alliance with Emma, ​​Chase and Zee to eliminate Julia. The rest of the episode Bowie spends fighting and following Julia to take away her chance to win immunity and get it instead. However, she throws him into a honey pit as revenge after he commented that 95% of her followers were bots. Julia wins immunity and is ready to eliminate Bowie. In the end, Zee was eliminated after proving that he was not trustworthy for an alliance. In the next episode, Bowie sees 'MK's' phone and decides to formulate a new plan against Julia.

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Julia threatens Bowie when she is eliminated.

In "Tortoise Rigamortis", Julia manages to break up the friendship between Bowie and Emma. In the next episode, Bowie teams up with Millie and Priya to eliminate Julia. Shortly afterwards, Julia and Bowie meet again and he lies to her about his alliance with the other contestants. Bowie suggests that he and Julia should consider forming an alliance, to which Julia laughs in his face, but then accepts the proposal after some thought. However, during the challenge both show little interest in the other's well-being. At the end of the challenge, Priya wins immunity. At the elimination ceremony, Julia is confident that she will not be eliminated, but Chris reveals that she had 3 votes against her, to which she is surprised and claims to the host that she and Bowie voted for Millie. At that moment, she realizes that Bowie voted against her so she tries to threaten him, but is stopped by Chris.

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Bowie has to work with Julia.

In the last episode of the season, Bowie gets Julia as his partner, but she refuses to help him unless he signs a contract that if he wins he will receive 50% of the prize, which Bowie reluctantly accepts. After Julia moves too slowly and insists on renegotiating the terms of their deal, Bowie breaks the contract and says he will win without her. Despite the setbacks, he manages to get back into the game, forcing Julia to try to tape the paper back together in case she wins. After Priya wins, Julia cheers her on, solely out of her growing hatred for Bowie.

Total Drama Island (2024)[]

In "The Pink Painter Strikes Again", Bowie picked Julia to be on Team Skunk Butt, which could easily be just as stupid as it was strategic. Bowie thinks that having Julia on his team would give them a serious advantage in manipulating and dominating the other team. However, this also runs the serious risk of biting him in the butt as Julia could betray Bowie and have him voted off any time she wants.

In "Canoe Believe It?", right after the merge, Julia lies to the former members of Team Rat Face and says that Bowie is the one who told MK to cheat. Not her. This successfully gets Bowie eliminated. Bowie admits that he deserves this fate, especially after his recent performance and doesn't hold a grudge against anybody who voted for him ... except Julia. This currently gives Julia the last laugh in her everlasting bout with Bowie.

Fanon[]

Some fans ship Bowie with Julia because they both share several elements in their personality: manipulative, intelligent, and strategic. On the one hand, some think that if they formalize a relationship they could become a functional and powerful couple because they have a similar personality. On the other hand, others believe that a relationship between both characters would end like Aleheather. That is, it would not be a lasting relationship because his villainous and competitive idiosyncrasy would contribute to the failure of the relationship. However, some believe that if Bowie and Julia were to be taken out of game, this could majorly change the playing field for their relationship. If they're not competing for a cash prize and instead live in a real-world situation with no unnecessary challenges or reality TV drama, they could focus on themselves as a couple and actually get along quite well.

Bowlia is not one of the most popular pairings in the fandom. In fact, it is one of the most controversial and hated ships in all of Total Drama Island (2023). Almost all non-ironic fanart/video/AMV is disowned by the fandom in general, especially by Rajbow fans who allege the incongruity of pairing a canonically gay man with a woman, calling them "homophobic" or "indoctrinating." However, many will argue that several canonically straight characters (i.e. Tyler and Wayne) are constantly shipped in gay relationships, (i.e. Aletyler and Damiwayne) so this shouldn't be any different. Other fans simply like the ship ironically or to troll other fans. It is important to note, however, that most Bowlia shippers aren't like this and just genuinely find this couple to be endearing, regardless of whether it's canon or not.

Rivaling ships include but are not limited to; Rajbow, MKulia, Bowiemma, and Juliayne.

Fandom[]

FAN FICTION
Bowie & Julia tag on AO3
INSTAGRAM
Bowlia fanart on Instagram
Bowlia fanart on Instagram
TIK TOK
Bowlia posts on TikTok
Bowie and Julia posts on TikTok

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