Gabe

Gabe is a contestant in Total Drama: The Next Generation. He is labeled as **The Straight Shooter**.

## Biography

Gabe was your average teenage boy, doing average teenage boy things. He wasn’t a bad kid, but would avoid the truth when it would cause him embarrassment or hurt other people's feelings. Unfortunately, while working his pizza delivery job, an accident caused a brain injury that completely eliminated Gabe's ability to lie. Many of his old friends abandoned him when they felt he had become far too blunt.

Gabe joined the Total Drama series to play an honest game.

## Total Drama: The Next Generation

Upon arrival, Gabe stayed that his ‘balls itched’, disturbing a few competitors. Jack, the host, explained to them that Gabe couldn’t help but being honest. He then expressed his attraction to both Yolanda and Wolf, the latter attraction causing him to question his sexuality, quite publicly.

The others were concerned that Gabe was going to say something offensive to Jasmine, but he was simply stating that he liked her necklace and commenting on the solidity of the biscuits he was eating. Upon Byron’s arrival, Gabe complimented the Brit’s Mohawk, only to be insulted in return.

During the initial challenge, Gabe was tackled by Yolanda who straddled him face down and placed a name tag on his back, effectively eliminating him from the challenge. Gabe then stated that he was aroused with Jack responding that he would find someone to douse cold water on him. In the end, Gabe’s team, The Cool Cats, was victorious and spared from eliminating a team member.

Overnight in his teammates’ cabin, the guys talked about who they were attracted to. Gabe admitted that he was attracted to all of the girls, as well as Wolf. He also revealed more of himself, as he slept in the nude. Eddy, one of Gabe’s team members, was quick to go to sleep when the guys asked him about his romantic interests. In an effort to seem cool, Eddy began to do the floss dance move before going to bed, and a naked Gabe joined him.

In his part of the challenge, making a fair skinnes Swedish man blush, Gabe‘s statements were censored out due to his obscene language. This shocked the Swedish man to the point of making his jaw drop. Gabe lost, however, as his opponent, Wolf, used science to make the man’s face turn red. While his team lost the challenge, Gabe was not eliminated.

That night, Gabe, Eddy, and Naveen joined Tiffany for a late night swim. They failed to do much swimming, however, as Tiffany protested anything that might get her hair wet. During the excursion, Tiffany steadily insulted her male teammates. In particular, she made Gabe feel self conscious about his ample body hair. He proceeded to tearfully shave the following day to appease her. After losing the challenge, Gabe was recruited to be a part of Tiffany’s alliance of boyfriends, and Eddy. In the following challenge, Tiffany wanted her allies to throw the challenge to vote out her nemesis, Kirika. The plan backfired, and the guys convinced her to stop trying to throw challenges.

During the superhero cosplay challenge, Gabe was dressed as a clown themed gangster. He was tied up by Yolanda and made to reveal what he knew about the challenge. He didn’t stop there as he spoke about his entire life.

In the next challenge, which involved pushing the opposing team off of a platform and into the water, Gabe refused to wrestle with Wolf due to his uncontrollable attraction to him. This frustrated Max, who instead had Gabe grapple with Declan. As Declan held Gabe in a headlock, the honest teen started becoming enamored by Declan, in particular his abdominals. Declan successfully pushed Gabe into the water.

Events took a dark turn as Eddy nearly drowned during the challenge. Yolanda and Wolf took a crucial role in rescuing him. As Eddy was announced to be medically evacuated from the competition for breathing abnormalities, Gabe was visibly upset by the circumstances. He rested his head on Wolf for comfort, as the muscular science enthusiast felt slightly awkward.

After Tiffany appeared insensitive about what happened with Eddy, the guys broke up with her. She broke up with Gabe before he could, which he felt relief over. During the challenge, an escape room, Gabe was sad that he didn’t get to play a character named Scraggly. He and the other guys were supportive of Kirika, as they worked through the amusement park themed escape room. When he hit his head, Gabe momentarily thought that he was cured of his truth telling, but proceeded to mention his crush on a rabbit commercial mascot. Gabe was insistent that Tiffany was destined to be the next contestant voted out, so they didn’t need to put in much effort into the challenge. The team ultimately won the challenge, however.

When out one night, Gabe and his teammates came across Wolf and Andrea. Gabe commented on Wolf’s crotch, which did not seem to rattle Wolf. When leaving the area, Gabe protested walking away from his crush. Max responded by putting Gabe’s hoodie on him backwards and pulling him away by the drawstrings. When talking about the merge, Gabe looked forward to spending time with his multiple crushes.

After the merge was announced, Jack allowed for the teams to intermingle. Gabe and Declan spoke, Gabe revealing that he also was attracted to Declan. They both admired the other’s honesty. Declan went on to reveal that his father was previous contestant, Beau. Declan admitted that he has yet to experience sexual feelings, as well as wanting to make his family proud. Noticing the conversation, Max pulled Gabe aside and recommended that Gabe stop getting so close to members of the former opposing team. Gabe was not voted out, however, and Max was instead, surprising several players.

Gabe attempted to get chummy with Wolf and Andrea. Wolf found Gabe to be fascinating and finally convinced Andrea to allow him to join on their exploration. Before the festivities began, Gabe and Wolf drank from a mysterious bottle that Wolf and Andrea had found on a previous excursion. When Wolf insisted that the three of them swim to find the source of a strange, Andrea declined but allowed the guys to go on their own. Gabe helped Wolf improve on his swimming, and during a break the guys had a deep conversation. Gabe told Wolf that he lost a lot of friends when his head injury made him overly honest. He also revealed that his feelings for Wolf were genuine and not a phase, his rescuing Eddy reassuring him of the nature of those feelings.

Wolf began to feel like he reciprocated Gabe’s feelings, but they were interrupted before Wolf could confess. They followed a sound they heard to Boney Island and discovered an amphibious vehicle owned by Jack. Jack brought the guys back to the island where Gabe quickly returned to his cabin when he was afraid of revealing their discovery to Andrea. During the challenge, Gabe and Declan almost successfully captured Tiffany, until she caused Gabe and Declan to argue over who should get invincibility. She got away, as Gabe was struck by a falling cardboard television set containing Kirika, leaving him incapacitated.

As the results of the challenge were being discussed, Andrea and Gabe grew concerned as Wolf seemed unwell. Gabe took Wolf’s hand out of concern. Wolf was escorted away by the medical staff. At the elimination ceremony, Gabe was the one eliminated. Jack gave Gabe one of Wolf’s lab coats, before he left, unable to see Wolf before he left.

## Trivia

* Gabe’s appearance is based on trends among teenagers around the time of his image being created.
* Gabe’s appearance is also one of my favorites, as he looks Very much like a teenager to me.
* Gabe is named as a reference to Abraham Lincoln, also known as ‘Honest Abe’.
* Gabe’s character is based on Sophia Petrillo, a character from the classic 80‘s sitcom, The Golden Girls.
* A line where Max and Naveen state that Gabe suffered an injury that left him totally annoying is a direct reference to a line about Sophia, though she suffered a stroke that made her unable to control her speech.
* Gabe reveals in story that the accident he was in was when he was riding his scooter.
* For the superhero and villain challenge, Gabe was going to be dressed as the Riddler, but I felt The Joker needed to be referenced, especially with Harley Quinn being represented.
* Gabe stating ‘Oh, no. She’s hot!’ about Kirika was a reference to an infamous line from Spongebob Squarepant’s Squidward.
* Gabe lamenting not being dressed as ‘Scraggly’ was put in the story because he originally was going to as he resembles Shaggy from Scooby Doo to a degree.
* Gabe was not always meant to be bisexual. A comment he made about being attracted to Wolf was going to be a throwaway joke displaying his inability to keep his feelings to himself, but this attraction became a recurring theme as I felt this progression seemed organic. I also enjoyed writing someone discovering their sexuality, as I had already written characters that were already fully aware of their sexual orientation.
* I also did not want Gabe’s comments to be overly sexual, but this too felt organic and embarrassing for him, while I tried to keep it tame. I didn’t want to direct these comments too much toward Yolanda so he didn’t come across as a sex pest. This is partly why I focused more on his attraction to Wolf, which felt less like harassment to me, especially with Wolf being unfazed for the most part.
* Gabe doesn’t even consider it possible for Wolf to be attracted to him. This is due to Wolf’s assumed asexual nature, and also a hint toward his own feeling unworthy due to low self esteem and his high regard toward Wolf.
* Gabe not being attracted to other male characters, besides Wolf and Declan, was included to show that he could believably just be discovering his sexuality. He does however express attraction to every female contestant.
* I considered having Wolf emitting pheromones due to a science experiment, but instead decided to keep his inexplicable attractiveness completely natural. This also doesn’t cheapen Gabe’s feelings.
* Gabe naming his manhood Peter was a reference to musician Peter Gabriel, as well as a common euphemism.
* Gabe ‘breaking up’ Andrea and Wolf is a reference to Yoko Ono.
* While I considered eliminating Gabe before the merge, this was never a concrete decision. His interactions with Wolf after the merge solidified his placing.
* Gabe being dressed as Ghostface for the scary movie challenge was meant to be a reference to Stu.
* I considered having the scary movie challenge being during chapter 13, but I really liked the idea of Gabe and Declan referencing Stu and Billy Loomis, with Gabe was going to solidly place 9th.
* Gabe was originally going to play a reference to Shaggy and then Stu. Both characters have been played by Matthew Lillard.

## Gallery

Gabe in his sleepwear.Gabe in his swimwear.Gabe’s original image.