LeVar

* S8: Deception Island
* S10: WotW

LeVar is a contestant on Total Deception Island and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

LeVar arrived and immediately referred to his opponents as losers. Dirk brought up that he was also on the loser season. LeVar intimidated him into backing off. He settled his things next to Frederick, Grace, and Tamira, and began to flex in an effort to impress Grace, who was thoroughly not impressed. Quimberly looked on in bewilderment after she arrived. LeVar and Frederick groveled at her presence. He then granted her request that he avoid eye contact with her.

When teams were decided, and revealed as men against women, LeVar lamented that the men had no chance at winning against Quimberly. LeVar refused to wear the special Minotaur costume for the challenge. Due to a technicality, the men won the challenge.

When learning that the second challenge involved live action role playing, LeVar was particularly excited at the prospect to dress as a dark elf. LeVar also had extensive knowledge of what everyone was dressed as. Jerome and LeVar teamed up for the challenge. They worked together to find treasure, and Jerome admitted to having more fun than his first time out. He also protected LeVar from a potential trap. LeVar stated that he wished Jerome was his stepdad. After realizing that someone had cut their bags for collecting treasure, Jerome used a sewing kit to fix them.

After hearing some commotion, LeVar left Jerome to see what was happening. He stood in amazement at a fully operational, mechanical dragon. Past contestant, Herman, was revealed to be the one operating the dragon. LeVar was in awe when he learned that Herman built the dragon himself. When it was revealed that Frederick left the game, LeVar protested that it was unfair that they were down a team member. Chris then invited Herman to compete, again. Herman accepted.

LeVar was excited to have Herman on his team, requesting that Herman show him the way of the nerd. LeVar and Luke were paired together to carry a crate across a balance beam for the challenge. LeVar was pushy with Luke in giving direction, and was upset with him when he messed up. LeVar accidentally stepped off of the balance beam, and tried to hide it before being exposed by his team member Angelo. This further angered LeVar, as well as Cary refusing to finish the challenge. The Raging Bulls lost the challenge, and LeVar was in the bottom two, but was ultimately safe.

As LeVar shared his trading card collection with Herman, he learned that Cary had bullied Herman on their previous season. This upset LeVar, and he hatched a plan to get revenge on Cary in Herman’s behalf. While Cary took a shower at night, Herman stole his belongings and replaced them with a pink dress. LeVar then propped a log up to the door, so Cary couldn’t escape. The next day, the contestants checked up on Cary at the shower. When he walked out of the shower, a jug of syrup dumped out on him, while most of the others could not contain their amusement. LeVar and Herman celebrated privately over the success of their prank.

During the throwback game show challenge, LeVar was paired against Quimberly, which made him nervous. Ultimately, he won his round, and the challenge for his team. However, a large sign fell from its place, almost hitting Quimberly. When the dust settled, and the others turned back toward LeVar, they saw that Cary had been knocked unconscious. LeVar claimed not to know what happened. When reviewing video footage, it captured LeVar hitting Cary, though the video was not in focus. After reviewing other footage, revealing that LeVar had expressed a desire to hurt Cary for what he did to Herman, LeVar was disqualified from the competition, despite insisting that what happened was an accident. Before leaving, he pleaded with his friends, Herman, Grace, and Jerome to believe him, but they were not able to look him in the eye.

## Trivia

* LeVar was originally going to dress as the Minotaur for the first challenge. His being chained up upset him because of the cultural implications. This led to a big discussion, with LeVar and Jerome calling out production. This was eventually changed, because of the tone. I also didn’t feel qualified to tackle this topic. The original idea was hinted at by LeVar not wanting to wear the costume. Originally he was all for it, as he liked the idea of a special role in the challenge.
* LeVar has a rainbow tattoo with a book under it. This is a reference to Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar’s namesake LeVar Burton. The book contains the lyrics to the theme song. This tattoo, as well as his being introduced as a recently outed nerd, was going to lead Dirk to believe LeVar was gay. This was scrapped for more important storylines to be the focus.
* LeVar was dressed as a dark elf for the second challenge. His costume was specifically a reference to Dark Link from The Legend of Zelda. This was also an indication at Herman being involved in the challenge.
* LeVar wearing a red shirt for the dunk tank challenge was meant to be misdirection that he would be eliminated that chapter. Red shirts on Star Trek typically were worn by side characters that did not survive the episode.
* In the game show challenge, LeVar is dressed as Han Solo. This was meant as a reference to the 1970’s, the time period the game show challenge was based on.
* In the original version of the story, LeVar and Frederick were going to be more involved as friends. They were going to bully Anders specifically, but this was all changed this time around. It made more sense for LeVar and Herman to target Cary with his history with Herman.
* In the original version of the story, LeVar and Grace were going to be a romantic item. There were some hints to that in the reboot, but I ultimately decided not to make it a major story element.
* In the original version of the story, LeVar was still going to be an early exit, though a little later than when he was eliminated here.
* LeVar stating that he can’t stand bullies was meant to show that he does not consider himself a bully.
* For the game show chapter, LeVar was originally going to be voted out due to the Cary incident, with Yuko pulling herself from the game over not being able to be an objective observer. This was swapped around because a male contestant was set to replace LeVar. This made the evidence against LeVar more damning so he could logically be disqualified.
* LeVar was featured in four images (five if you count the close up shot of the dragon image) out of the five chapters he appeared in. I didn’t intend to have him in an image for his elimination chapter, to make his elimination less obvious, but ultimately decided that events were too important not to feature him, again.

## Gallery

LeVar in his dark elf costume.A close up of LeVar and the others gawking at the dragon.