User:Juan Jose Rodriguez/Sandbox

Jose takes the place of Noah in this fanfic. This fanfic also has a changed elimination order.

In Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, he stepped off the boat happily after LeShawna had arrived. José talked to Gwen and DJ about why they were here, however, José left out the fact that his girlfriend had died. Jose was saddened to learn he would not land on DJ's team, the Killer Bass, so he suggested a healthy alternative - making a cross-team alliance. DJ accepted the deal. He cannonballed off the cliff and landed in the safe zone. When the Gophers would've won the challenge, Owen chickened out. Leaving the Gophers in a tricky situation without carts, Jose shut his mouth & pushed his cart ahead of the complaining Justin. Unfortunatley, Eva lead the Killer Bass single-handedly to construct the hot tub first, landing the Gophers at the Campfire Ceremony. Jose casted his vote for Owen to go home, which with the majority doing likewise, Owen was the first loser in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2.

In The Big Sleep, José grew extremely tired in the run, but his skill in soccer kept him going at a fast pace. Jose opted to DJ at the start of the competition that he had troule going to sleep some nights, let alone staying up & outlasting people. Thus saying that, José was one of the last to fall asleep in the actual competition. Jose grew suspicious of Heather when she took away Lindsy and Beth, endangering Jose & DJ's chance of outnumbering them, so he asked DJ to scout the remaining Bass for a suitable alliance member. He fell into a deep sleep inside a tree in an attempt to stay awake longer, to the advice of then-eliminated DJ. He came in 6th place in the competition, after Heather, Eva, Ezekiel, Duncan and the eventual winner, Gwen. He then asked Chris for the history book, before hitting him on the head with it. After the ceremony, DJ informed Jose that Sadie had been eliminated & he planned to ask Bridgette to join, much to Jose's pleasure. DJ mistook this for Jose having a crush on her, to which Jose quickly denied.

During the events of Dodgebrawl, the Gophers seemingly had the upper hand, as Harold & Tyler were quickly eliminated. However, Katie, surprisingly calm after her friend left the island, proved to be a thorn in the Gopher's plan of winning. To eliminate this threat, Jose debated with the other impromptu Gopher leaders (Heather, Trent & LeShawna) and revealed his good strategist role, ordering the guys to lob light passes and then throw hard dodgeballs at the stunned Bass, earning them a winning round. Eentually, Katie & DJ lead the Bass to a rally ending with Jose being 'sniped' & eliminated, winning the game for the Killer Bass. Jose was temporarily unconscious to the worry of a few campers, but he rose and José congratulated DJ for his skills. After the challenge, Jose, LeShawna, Trent & Heather planned to eliminate Justin, on account that he didn't aid the Gophers in fear of getting messy. Justin, in fear of getting eliminated, got the girls (Heather, LeShawna, Beth, Lindsay, Izzy & Gwen) to vote off Trent, for no other reason but Justin's seemingly competition with Justin having complete control over the girls. Trent was eliminated. Bridgette accepted DJ & Jose's offer at an alliance, hoping that with three people watching eachother's backs, it would be harder to take them down.

In Not Quite Famous, José was happy to find out the challenge was a talent contest. He quickly narrowed down his talents to either singing or blocking goals. The talents chosen for the teams were:
 * Killer Bass
 * DJ performed a reggae song to the tune of Bob Marley. He was rated six out of ten.
 * Courtney played her violin to "The Prayer". She was rated eight out of ten.
 * Harold did professional beat-boxing. He thought he did amazing, but in reality, he simply managed to fail & bring down his team's chance of winning, rated zero out of ten.
 * Screaming Gophers
 * Heather read out Gwen's diary, showing her crush on an unrevealed member of the Killer Bass team. She went unrated.
 * Izzy & Beth twirled flaming batons, which due to some 'technical difficulties' were rated five out of ten.
 * Jose sang in a ballad of Santana hits dedicated to his girlfriend. He was rated ten out of ten. Gophers win.

When Jose finished his song, several girls swooned, not at Jose, but simply at the message he conveyed. However, no-one payed attention to the fact he dedicated it to "someone gone". In the confessional, José said "I'm not here for a relationship. I really can't, after... that happened." He, however, high-fives DJ for putting up an excellent effort. Harold was eliminated that night, & the last remaining question of the day was "Who was the guy Gwen was crushing on?"

In The Sucky Outdoors, DJ complained that they needed a win, to which Jose agreed. He then followed Izzy around, found her hidden stash of animal costumes & dressed up as a Moose. He & Izzy spooked the entire Gopher team until the real bear arrived. He fell asleep in the tree while the Killer Bass had come prepared with Katie's expert sewing skills, keeping the burnt tent intact. Jose slowly carried Lindsay back to camp to find that DJ led the Bass back first. at the ceremony, Jose landed in the bottom 2, but the RCMP intervening prevented him from getting eliminated. Izzy 'left' the island.

In Phobia Factor, José reveals his case of hemophobia, or fear of blood, to everyone listening. Duncan and Gwen laughed at the idea, to which Jose took offense, as they did not know what he went through. He grew incredibly nervous during the challenge until he came across the ratings of the series thanks to a camera guy. Halfway through the competition, he laughs at Chris for not being able to show him blood, due to the TV producers giving the show a PG-rating it was not allowed. Chris gets upset, then plays a flashback of José and Beth exchanging iPod earphones, and José running screaming at Beth's country music. Jose runs away as Chris takes out a banjo, essentially failing his challenge. He tries to get other Screaming Gophers to complete their phobias, such as LeShawna's arachnophobia and the aerophobia of Izzy. He told her that for some reason, he could not stand Owen and never trusted him.

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In Up the Creek, José went in Beth's canoe and asked her about her alliance with Heather. He pulled out his iPod and tried to ignore his surroundings, but he eventually turned it off to talk to Cody. On the way back, he went with him and congratulated him for not taking the so-called break-up with Gwen hard, and says that he knows how it feels. Cody asks José what happened, but José never answers him about his girlfriend's death.

In Paintball Deer Hunter, José is revealed to love playing paintball, and again, uses a strategist role. He gives LeShawna and Lindsay self-made paintball grenades before taking off as a deer. He comes back a few minutes later covered in ticks. He aids Beth and LeShawna in shooting Heather, stealing Lindsay's paintball gun and giving her a charlie horse. In the confessional stall, he says "I'm tired of Heather. Mira, she's a low-down user and she needs to go. " He also says "Madre del Diablo!" (Mother of the Devil!) when he sees Cody, but it is edited in the United States version to him saying "Ay carumba!"

In If You Can't Take The Heat, José helped LeShawna and Beth make the pineapple and mango salad after she tells them she has allergies. He gives Heather a small taste of several ground-up Haberno peppers in revenge for her mouthing off LeShawna. His spices that he gave Gwen to use didn't help much, as Chris had to drink several glasses of water. He pelts Heather with a mango when she isn't eliminated, implying that he voted for her.

In Who Can You Trust, José got hit in the eye with a crabapple, but then got the arrow knocked off of his head when he and LeShawna were paired for the blind William Tell challenge, and they high-fived after. He laughed with Duncan when Gwen lost her skirt, and tried to comfort DJ about DJ's Bunny, to no avail. Heather tried to get him to stop talking to the Killer Bass, before José told her off and walked away with a satisfied look on his face.

In Basic Straining, he fell asleep holding up the canoe, but he moved on to the next round. He failed to complete the 300 words about Master Chief Chef Hatchet, instead writing sad poems to his former girlfriend. No-one asks him about it, save Bridgette, but he doesn't reply. This is the first episode that José is seen almost depressed unlike his usual happy-go-lucky personality. He tried to say goodbye to Courtney, but was ignored when she was dragged to the boat. He walked into the confessional and found out that Harold switched the votes in a little while.

José did not see action in X-Treme Torture. Instead, he went into another depressed state inside the cafeteria. Bridgette came in and asked if he liked any girl on the island after showing him the letter, and he finally cracked and revealed to Bridgette that he met a girl named Maria, and that she died on her 16th birthday by a drunk driver, outside of a concert that she went to with José. For the first time in years, Bridgette made him feel better about it, showing that him and Bridgette are good friends. (See http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5004256/1/Into_The_Night) He then volunteered to ask Harold. This was only a plot to push him off the dock in retaliation of getting Courtney off, so he did not find out that Harold wrote the note.

José ate several dishes in Brunch of Disgustingness with ease, such as the pizza, but threw up after hearing about the bull testicles and sniffing one. He, however went to the spa, to his and the guy's delight. José had no lines in this episode.

No Pain, No Game was an average episode for José. His first challenge was to eat incredibly spicy Haberno peppers. He did so without hesitation and with ease. He then had to get punched by Eva in the stomach repetitively after he defended Bridgette over the conflict in the episode. He said "What? Get punched by Ev - OOF!" José took 2 punches to the stomach before he used Owen to defend himself. He tried to use the opportunity to vote off Heather, but everyone voted off Eva.

In Search and Do Not Destroy, José's key was on the antler of a wild moose. He got DJ to coax the moose so he could grab the key. However, while José was returning the favour to DJ, Owen accidentally shakes the tree after seeing a chocolate bar that slipped out of José's pocket. He then tried to comfort Gwen along with LeShawna after Heather kissed Trent and tripped Heather when she was walking away. His chest had an art kit, which he gave to Gwen, as José stood up for her after LeShawna asked him to vote off Trent. He apologized to Gwen with LeShawna after Trent was eliminated.

In the next episode, José, DJ and Geoff were all nervous about Duncan's suggestion to vote off Bridgette, but he eventually complied. He then crawled off to his hiding spot in Hide and Be Sneaky was in the confessional stall, grabbing onto the roof from the inside. Chef found him while talking in the stall, with José ending up being one of the first eliminated. He laughed, and helped Chef try to find people. He found Bridgette before she was caught by Chef Hatchet, but swore he wouldn't give her spot away. At the campfire, José received a marshmallow instead of Bridgette, and hugged her, even though Geoff, her boyfriend, wouldn't kiss her. José said that he should have been eliminated instead of her, implying a strong friendship.

In That's Off The Chain, José did not know how to ride a bike, much to the laughter of the other contestants. He explained to DJ that he grew up almost in poverty in Mexico, so he never got a bike, only a scooter. He ignored some of the campers for the rest of the episode, building a wooden scooter, under the permission of Chris. He surprisingly came in first place, after jumping off a cliff, taking a shortcut, and Chris announcing that anything goes. He would have won invincibility, but Chris changed the rules as he crossed the finish line ; thus meaning that José was instantly eliminated. He said goodbye to DJ, LeShawna, Gwen, Duncan and went on the boat with Lindsay. As they left the island, she called him "Mohammad". José's final moment in the confession stall was: "Mohammad. I spend over 5 weeks enforcing my status as a Mexican, and she calls me Mohammad. Heh. All I hope is that you guys can take down Heather. Adios!"

In Haute Camp-ture, José was relaxing and making friends with many people. He said that he would probably vote for either LeShawna, Duncan or Gwen to win. His dare in I Triple Dog Dare You! was to eat several Habanero peppers. Owen ended up doing it.

In The Very Last Episode, Really! , José chose Gwen's side from the beginning, and said in the confessional stall that he simply hated Owen. In the Norweigian ending, he lifts Gwen on his shoulders with Eva. In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, he went with Trent, LeShawna and Gwen. He landed on the dock when it collapsed, allowing him to compete in TDA. However, for reasons unknown, he would not be allowed to enter TDA. In the Mexican version of Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, he finally managed to grab the case, and finally sang a song at the stage for the entire cast and viewing world.