Now... it’s time for the Finale Ball!

Category is...

🔲 BLACK & WHITE

Shanita

Look : https://i.imgur.com/8UNcx5C.jpg

VoiceOver : Baby for this look I’m giving you art, I’m giving you shapes, I’m giving you dimensions and I’m giving you a fantasy! I love this look so much and I’m so happy I got to present it here at the finale stage!

Eden Gardens

Look : https://i.imgur.com/UB0GnjN.png

VoiceOver : My first look is based around the queen in a game of chess, ruling over the pawns, taking charge of the palace, using the knights to her protection. She's a queen of tactics and strategy and unyielding power over the rest of the board.

Not Rita pulling a Catalina

Category is...

🟥 RED ALL OVER

Shanita

Look : https://i.imgur.com/mv843PB.jpg

VoiceOver : Red is a colour which you can take so many different ways as it just works for pretty much everything! I think for S13 this category was definitely the weakest of the three and so I wanted to find a way to elevate it and make it breathtaking and girl I think I did just THAT!

Eden Gardens

Look : https://i.imgur.com/nH4VMRj.png

VoiceOver : My second look i wanted to be bolder and put a twisted spin on a classic character- the queen of hearts. Combined with some elements of leather and bondage, this queen not only ready to take of heads, she wants to chain them up and force them to submit first. She's daring, deadly and always ready!

Not Shanita pulling a Mesothelioma

Not me shedding tears from my eyes

And finally. The last runway of the season.

They fought like never before. They’ve been through hell and heaven just to be here standing in the final 2.

Category is...

👑 CORONATION LOOK


Eden Gardens : https://i.imgur.com/1GVRpCi.png
VoiceOver : My final look is mythical and legendary. Inspired by the Valkyries, she is the queen of all consuming war, working with gods to ascend people to eternal excellency. She's laced in gold and silver but this queen still needs her crown!

Shanita : https://i.imgur.com/MRx2Qzx.jpg
VoiceOver : And here we have my crowning look ahh! I really wanted to go ALL OUT and be completely over the top drag and I thought what would a winner look like in the HoF and this is exactly it! I’m going for gold but also you have no choice but to crown me because I am out of this world! This is stun-ning...seriously though, try and disagree!

*the stages opens and reveal Eden and Shanita standing there looking like goddesses. The crowd lose their shit. Grandma is also somehow interested for once. Thanks for nothing, grandma*

Now, my queens. I have to ask :

Why should you, and not your fellow queen, deserve to win this season and become Tenagaged’s Next Drag Superstar?

nateclove
Not Shanita pulling a Mesothelioma

Plss

The coronation looks are stunning for both queens. Both would be great contenders for the crown.

The coronation looks are stunning for both queens. Both would be great contenders for the crown.

Eden Gardens is a queen that came into this competition with a lot of experience and a lot of expectations. She debuted several years ago, not knowing what races were about, how to use her own personality to shine through and certainly without the knowledge of how to create looks that would help her stand out from the crowd. The race is the culmination of years worth of learning and growing and blossoming into a well-rounded and defiant queen. I knew this would be a season of fierce competition and I wasn’t wrong, so to even be standing here is an amazing feeling, with Shanita who is a tour de force in all areas and the hilarious and quirky style of drag that Rita brings, I’m honoured to be in this final 3. I found myself with a good start in this race and felt the pressure of trying to maintain that throughout and for the most part, I feel like I did. I feel like I rose to every occasion, no matter how difficult it seemed at the time. I have 4 wins this season and for me, the wins don’t matter as much as being able to show myself off to the FULLEST. That can be seen in the range  and diversity of challenges this seasons; not only have I excelled in challenges comprising of runways, comedy, verses writing and even coming towards to top in the first ever video challenge, I am also one of the only queens, maybe the only, in history to win challenged on my own, in a duo and in a 4-piece. I have shown throughout that I am flexible, varied and able to turn my hand to any challenge and along the way, support and promote growth in other queens. I feel like we have seen the best from so many queens in this season but most significantly, I don’t feel like I could have given anymore; this season has been pure un-edited and unapologetic Eden, holding onto the top spot all season and bouncing back when my sisters turned up the heat, and for that reason I feel like I am the queen of queens this season.  I wish my sisters all the best in this finale.

My journey in this competition has been an experience that I have absolutely loved. This season has honestly been one of my favourite seasons to date just because of the amount of fun I had producing some of my favourite looks ever as well as allowing myself to venture out of my comfort zone in various different ways whether that be comedy or runways and even lipsyncs! I think that I am Talian’s Next Drag Superstar because I believe I have the IT factor that it takes to carry the crown and most importantly the title of a winner. I believe that I exceeded in areas that I’ve never succeeded in before and I’m proud of that. I deserve this title because honestly I feel like a winner...I’ve reached new heights in my artistry and overall my charisma. Before I would say there was something lacking but now I can wholeheartedly say I am an all rounder and threat in whatever you throw at me. Give me anything, I will run with it, find a way to make it fun and most importantly find a way to make it authentically me! I’ve loved competing this season with all my sisters and it was a struggle especially being the last Hell queen left but I said at the very start that I was winning this season and still today I stick by that same motto! I feel like a winner needs to have the nerve to take risks and I do just that. I feel like a winner needs to be confident but know the depths of their abilities and I do just that. I feel like a winner is someone who is relatable and has an understanding of who they are and what they do that makes them...them and I know exactly who Shanita is; a star. And well what do I do that makes me Shanita? I shine bright like a star mama! I take pride in everything I do but most importantly I don’t beat myself up when things go badly or unexpected, instead I channel whatever emotions I’m feeling into my performance and figure out what it was that needed tweaking to improve and better myself for the weeks to follow and that is exactly what I did. For those reasons, I am Talian’s Next Drag Superstar and if I’m not then Talian girl you really need to get prescribed for those glasses!

Thank you ladies! I swear I love the both of you. But it’s time to say hello to another legend.

Here to crown one of you, let me welcome to the stage one last time Talian’s Drag Race season 8’s winner.

The one and only...

Avra K. Davra!


Look : https://i.imgur.com/tX7wRuS.png

*Avra reveals herself to the stage. The crowd go apeshit. I mean... look at that and then tell me you don’t feel useless*

So... my beautiful child.

How has your last year as Tengaged’s Next Drag Superstar been?

This year being Tengaged's Next Superstar has been incredible! I've met wonderful people, traveled around the world, and I also enjoyed my money to the fullest .... It's what I would've said if I hadn't been stuck eating Doritos and watching Nextflix medical series all year long.

But, seriously, this has been the best year of my life. It was an incredible journey that I'll never forget. I've received a lot of love and I've been able to show that there's a place in this world for all the POCs who belong to the LGBTIQ+ community to receive our crown and have our place under the spotlight. And I hope I've been able to accompany on social media, as well as in the places to which the pandemic has allowed me to travel, all young Latinxs who live in fear to not being accepted by a society that rejects us constantly. But step by step we're turning this world into the place of love, acceptance and freedom that it always should've been. So thank you, Mother Talian, for giving me that opportunity to make this world a better place.

Thank you Avra! You surely made mama proud!

And speaking of thanks. I’d like to thank everyone for making this yet another amazing season. We’ve had good moments and bad moments, but we surely made a season worth remembering.

Thanks to the judges. You were beasts to handle and made no sense ever, but if anything, you were always there to remind me... that at least were better than these other girls. Was I supposed to say that? Oopsies! But seriously thanks for bearing with me and beating me to sense and all the support!

Thanks to our BO, FPR, LSD hosts! Thanks Amanduhh, Litter Alley, Ruby Velvet and so far and so forth. I can’t believe the amount of recorded series and that I had to go thru all of them! But it was so much worth it. Your words will always resound in my head *gets emotional* : Muyo Mano. No wait... Mae Muwi. Ok now I have it... Moe Mary.
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And finally, thanks to our amazing queens. You did your best and when queens are willing to put so much into the race, it makes the judging much harder, but so worth it and rarely we saw such a close and fought for season and I can’t thank you enough for that. But also... thanks for learning the most important lesson : NEVER look better than I do. *cries*

We are an amazing family, now let’s all fight over Plai Statión’s will!

But now... it’s time to get serious.

Ladies.

I’ve consulted with the judges and I’ve made my decision.

The winner of Talian’s Drag Race Season 9...
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