Love Possum

Love Possum is a contestant on Total Drama Time Travel, labeled **The Flower Child**.

## Biography

Love Possum has immersed himself in the laid back lifestyle of the sixties. His parents, especially his father, really do not approve of his lifestyle, self-applied nickname, attitude, or hairstyle. Love Possum just thinks his dad is way too uptight, and that he doesn't understand what being a teenager is like. Love Possum is heavily involved in non-violent protesting, whether it be a love-in, sit-in, or picketing. Love Possum's father insisted that he get a job, but no place of employment would hire him because of his long hair. Love Possum refuses to get a haircut, and views anyone who wants him to get a haircut as a discriminator. Among his peers, Love Possum is famous for his unashamed streaking at school events. Love Possum has been arrested several times for protesting and public displays of nudity.

## Total Drama Time Travel

Love Possum arrived in Welcome to the Present. Love Possum bumped fists with Florence when meeting her. He then told everyone to hold hands and feel the love. No one complied. [[Roxie asked him about his name, and he explained that the possum was his spirit animal, and that love was what made the world go round. El Serpiente declared Love Possum as the weirdest person he ever met, until Xiomara arrived. Love Possum asked if she ever got up from her chair, and she told him that walking was done away with in the future. He compared it to a permanent sit in.

Love Possum noted that Quog was urinating on the floor, in Central Theme Park. Love Possum was paired with Cleo for the challenge. Flocks of children surrounded Cleo, and Leopold wondered if any of them were the boy they were searching for. Love Possum ran around in circles naked, in Total Drama Time Travel and the Quest for the Holy Grail. Therese protested his nudity, and Chris said it was good for ratings. He told Love Possum that he had to wear something, though it saddened Love Possum. Chris explained that he might get executed if her didn't wear clothes in the middle ages, and he quickly got dressed. Love Possum called out to Quog and Ira to stop Millie from getting away with the Holy Grail. He was disappointed when Mark handed the Holy Grail to the other team, not realizing what it was.

In And Then There Were Eighteen, Love Possum was disappointed that they never went anywhere where streaking was a fad. Chris assured him that they would if he behaved himself. Love Possum suggested that Chris use his time travel device to keep his favorite hair gel from being discontinued, in Hair Today, Gone Last Week, giving Chris the idea for the next challenge. Love Possum suggested that his team hold a protest with picket signs and chanting. He suggested that they split up in teams of two, forgetting that their team had an uneven number of contestants.

When Inga refused to take part of the challenge which involved her to repair her enemies' village, in Pillaged Village People, Love Possum told her not to let the man tell her what to do. Daisuke mistook Love Possum's words as strategy. When Robert revealed that he was lying about being a war hero, Love Possum patted him on the back as he cried. Love Possum claimed that he could dance for hours, in So You Think You Can Hop?, but almost immediately fainted. He began undressing at the school dance, and was sent in the future early by Chris.

Love Possum volunteered to investigate The Time Share girls' room, in We Interrupt This Challenge to Bring You Something Completely Different, when El Serpiente and Bianka went missing. Love Possum rushed into the room before Inga could stop him. From the inside, Love Possum commented on one of Inga's bras. She angrily broke down her door, and caught him holding one of her bras. She then charged at him. He was eventually thrown out of the girls room. In Prom and Circumstance, Love Possum noted that a woman he held a picture of was beautiful. Chris realized that it was a picture of his mom, and he put it away. Love Possum, dressed as a preppy, was jealous that Quog got to wear a cool rocker outfit. When young Chris walked out of his shower naked, Love Possum told him to let it all hang out. Love Possum checked up on Mark and Ira, and Ira told him that they were talking about puberty, which concerned Love Possum.

Love Possum hugged El Serpiente, in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Slob, and said they were teammates, now. El Serpiente told him he would room by himself, and slammed the door in his face. Love Possum then went to the girls room, and was punched in the face by Inga. Love Possum was randomly naked, and Chris told him to put his clothes on. Love Possum said it would work for the challenge, and he could pose as a nude model. Chris told him that he couldn't, and threw him his clothes. Love Possum removed his clothes in an attempt to inspire Jon Pierre to start painting, again. Jon Pierre began crying. When Chris was carried off by the authorities, in Stolen Goodies, and Love Possum suggested that they not help him. When a member of the RCMP came to talk with the contestants, he told them to call him Rex. Love Possum told him that his spirit animal was the emu, but Rex didn't want to be called that. When Mark was saying things that didn't add up, Love Possum was upset that he had them vote out Robert for lying.

In Animal Distraction, Love Possum squealed when he saw the tiny fur loincloths they had to wear for the challenge. Love Possum noticed Lady Perlative sadly standing by herself. She stated that she'd been acting like a male for so long, that she forgot how to be feminine. Love Possum demonstrated for her. She thanked him and left. When he turned around, he saw a large group of cavemen that started fighting over him. He'd attracted about twenty males, but he was supposed to attract females, so he lost the challenge. He later noted that the challenge freaked him out a little bit.

Love Possum comforted Ira after Quog was eliminated, in Streak Out. When Chris was announcing the challenge, Love Possum vocally hoped that it would be streaking. He excitedly whipped off his clothes when Chris said that the challenge would be streaking. Chris told him to save it for the challenge, and Love Possum got dressed. Love Possum started removing his vest for the challenge, but stopped when someone called out to him, his mother. He said that he couldn't streak in front of his mother. She told him to go inside for lunch, and he said he wouldn't unless his friends could come, too. She agreed. When his mother was out of the room, Love Possum asked why Chris couldn't bring them somewhere less traumatizing for him. Daisuke reminded him of Chris' sadism. When she got back to the dining room, she told Love Possum to get his elbows off of the table and to pull his hair back, calling him by his name; Chet McLean. Chris began choking on egg salad sandwich. They eventually left, and Love Possum began to take off his vest to do the streaking challenge. Chris scolded him, saying he couldn't do it, as he would catch cold. Daisuke streaked, and said how awesome it was. Love Possum agreed with him. Chris made sure to tell Love Possum that streaking was wrong at the elimination ceremony.

When visiting Mark in the nineties, in Leaving Your Mark, Love Possum caught the eye of one of Mark's friends, named Andre. When leaving to go home with Mark, Andre stated that it was feeling a little crowded, and took Love Possum to go get a smoothie. Chris followed after them. Andre shared a smoothie with Love Possum, and told him he was beautiful. Love Possum returned the sentiment, and made Andre sigh. Chris stood up and dragged Love Possum away, making Love Possum miss his smoothie. Chris yelled that Andre wasn't his mother.

Chris called everyone out of their rooms, in Expiration Dating, and he shuddered at seeing Love Possum naked, again. He told everyone that he was leaving, as he had a date, and would be gone for a week. Love Possum threw his arms in the air, and Chris told him to put some clothes on. Love Possum comforted Chef Hatchet when he was upset that Chris was going to get married. Love Possum suggested using the time travel device to make Chris' first meeting with his girlfriend a bad one. When meeting Regina, Love Possum introduced themselves as Chris' children. Regina said that everyone was wearing interesting outfits. Love Possum offered to remove his. Chris dragged Love Possum to the living room, where Chris was harsh with Love Possum, saying that he was selfish, and never considered how his parents must have worried about him and his safety. Chris told Love Possum that the hippie movement, and protesting never worked. He told Love Possum to become an adult, and stop being a loser. Regina heard Chris, and told him to leave. After returning to the present, Love Possum cried into his pillow saying that he hurt Chris. Love Possum was eliminated and stated that he had to grow up, and act more like a man. He was sent home, and began shaving off his long hair, crying as he did so.

## Trivia

* Love Possum was the eighteenth character eliminated.
* Love Possum is from about 1967.
* Love Possum was named such as it rolls off the tongue. An opossum may be a more readily known animal, but 'possum' sounded better to me.
* Love Possum is Chris McLean's father. This fact wasn't revealed until chapter fourteen, but was planned from the beginning.
* Love Possum was drawn similar to Chris. He shares his body shape, and head shape.
* To keep people from guessing that Love Possum was related to Chris, his hair was colored lighter, his eyes were covered with his bangs, he has no abs, and his chin is covered by a beard (which hide the shape and possible dimple), all to make him look less like Chris, while still making it possible for him to be Chris' father.
* Love Possum's real first name, 'Chet', was picked by TDIwriter. I went with it as it sounded believable as Chris' father's name.
* Love Possum's nudity and the fact that other males were attracted to him in a few chapters were included to freak Chris out after learning the truth about Love Possum. While those things didn't bother him earlier, they really bothered him once he realized who Love Possum was.
* The indications of Love Possum being Chris' father is the way Chris supported his nudity early on, and the way Love Possum commented on Chris' mom being attractive.
* After Chris learns who Love Possum is, he begins treating him the way a father might treat his teenage child, as opposed to how he acted more like a friend earlier on.
* Love Possum would have come to the conclusion that he had to change later in his life, but the fact that Chris was seeing his father the way he was before he knew him, bothered him so much that he tried to make him become the way he was later in life, far more serious.