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"Drop acid, not bombs!"

Susan “Flower” Montero is the ghost of a hippie from the 1960s. She appears in the American sitcom Ghosts.

Biography[]

History[]

She had three brothers growing up and was on her high school basketball team, as mentioned in the episode Ghostwriter. At one game, she had 20 points in the first half, but then didn't score any after that due to getting high halfway through the game. She fouled out of every game because she can be very aggressive and has sharp elbows.

Her oldest brother, whom she called Robby, fought in the Vietnam War and she believed that he was dead due to thinking the acronym MIA meant "Murdered In Action". She expresses remorse about their last encounter since she choose the cult over her actual family, which she talks about in Jay's Friends. Flower says that he showed up, and he tried to get her to come home, resulting in the cult banning him from the property and barring Flower from ever speaking to him again.

By her own confession, she has been part of several communes and cults in her lifetime and has enjoyed experimenting with recreational substances, such as weed and cocaine. She states that the main differences between the two was that the commune still let her wear shoes and contact her family, whereas the cult did not.[2] In both communities, she was married and in a throuple (a romantic relationship between three people).[3]

Once, she took acid to save the snow leopards as a protest, as stated in The Tree. She was always finding ways to protest and save the environment. She also supports women owning businesses. Flower also talks about protesting the war in Vietnam.

In 1968, while a part of the commune, Flower took part in a bank robbery with the objective of giving the stolen money to the poor. Afterward, they made her take an "eternal blood oath" to never talk about it, although she's repeatedly shared the story with her fellow ghosts since her death.[2]

She mentions she used to be whippets from a Danish guy at Dead shows. She also mentions that she's never been to Denmark in The Baby Bjorn and that she met David Crosby.

She dated a man named Michael while she was in law school. On her last one-on-one date with him he was in the hospital dying. They were planning on getting married once they graduated, but it is implied that Michael died during her time in the hospital which affected her severely. Flower mentions that she had a fear of someone else leaving her, which is why she's been a part of throuples as mentioned in A Date To Remember. She mentions since then she's been on dates with multiple people at a time including as many people you can fit into a VW bus.

Flower thinks that more drugs is usually the answer. She claims to have been a muse for David Crosby and that his back hair looked like a sweater vest in Weekend From Hell. She also notes Vitamin C enhances the effects of when someone walks through her.

In the cult, her thing was interpreting dreams and tracking down runners as noted in The Christmas Spirit.

Death[]

Not long after the bank robbery, while at a music festival, Flower (under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms) and her boyfriend Ira wandered through a forest and ended up on the grounds of Woodstone Mansion, where they came across a bear. As it raised its arms to attack, Flower, being high, thought it just wanted a "bear hug." Her boyfriend warned her not to approach, to no avail. Instead, the bear slashed and killed her, which was witnessed by Sasappis, Thorfinn, and Alberta.[4] Flower also mentioned the bear's cubs joined in and ate her corpse.[5]

In "Possession", Flower reveals her ghost ability, which leaves the people she passes through in a temporary psychedelic experience or "trip". This condition only seems to last an hour. If she attempts this power on the same person too many times, they start to forget memories from their childhood.

Appearance[]

Flower has long dark brown hair, generally a bit wild and not brushed. She wears rose-tinted glasses with oversized round frames, a blue necklace, a red ring on her left middle finger and turquoise ring on her right index finger, dangling silver earrings, and several bracelets on her left wrist made of various beads, fabric, etc. Her skirt is long and full-bodied, the fabric patchwork from many colorful and patterned fabrics. Her top is a crocheted tank-top with a blue flower or sunburst shape on the chest. Her shoes are brown Birkenstock-style sandals. She sports unshaven armpits, a coral pink lipstick, and is usually smiling crookedly with a spaced-out look on her face.

Her death is visible on her body in the form of bloody bear claw marks on her back and right shoulder. She has blood under her right jaw and on her fingernails, and her upper arms are smudged with dirt.

Personality[]

Flower was a member of the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, typically identified as a "hippie" or "Flower child." In D&D she says that she is a pacifist. She died trying to hug a bear while high on acid, so she remains forgetful and in a sort of drugged-out bliss in her afterlife. At one point, Alberta remarked on how she lived so long in the first place.

She can have moments of intelligence, as she was the one who suggested trapping Elias to save Jay's soul.

Quotes[]

  • "Why do we have to make the livings leave? It just seems like such a bummer." (Hello!)
  • "Yeah, and the Man tried to make us wear bras and shave our pits. Drop acid, not bombs!" (Viking Funeral)
  • " That was tough to watch, and I watched a bear eat my corpse," (St. Hetty's Day)
  • "Ice man is having a meltdown."(St. Hetty's Day)

Trivia[]

  • Opening intro objects:
  • She is noticeably absent in the episodes:
  • Flower's actress, Sheila Carrasco, allegedly fought to keep her armpit hair for the part.
  • Cover images feature Flower with hairless armpits, which would be actually impossible for the ghost to have.
  • Her real name is Susan Montero.[2]
    • The surname was on a shortlist of last names that Sheila sent into the producers when asked for input. Montero was a family name she included to honor her Chilean heritage.[6]
    • In the older draft of the script for the Pilot. Flower had a different last name and her ghost power was revealed much earlier on.
  • In the episode The Perfect Assistant she mentions she had an uncle that ordered her weed, gives her advice, and stared too long at her friends.
  • She doesn't like tomatoes which is first mentioned in Flower's Article.
  • Flower has slept with a bass player before saying that he had incredible nimble fingers in The Christmas Spirit.
  • She like horses[7]
  • Flower is a fan of Country Joe, and the Fish as mentioned in Alberta's Descendant.
  • In The Owl, the basement ghosts mention that Flower would come down to visit them.
  • She frequently gets the names of her fellow ghosts wrong, in The Owl it was mentioned that she called Pete both Tom and Dave.
  • In the season two episode Spies, she mentions having spent a night on a boat tarp with multiple members of the band Fleetwood Mac. It is implied they had a sexual encounter as she says the boat tarp made for "easy cleanup."
  • Flower was mentioned to be in a cult that she couldn't leave as mentioned in Sam's Dad.
  • In the episode Patience, it was revealed that she named a worm Patience, after the Puritan Patience.
  • Flower is most likely queer, as she has mentioned being in romantic relationships with many women as well as men.
  • Sheila speculated in an interview that if Flower walked through a living who was already high on drugs, the consequences would be fatal since Flower was not just on weed when she died.[8]
  • Due to her actress being on maternity leave, Flower disappeared for a while and was trapped in a well until rescue.

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References[]

  1. ↑ The Owl — her dob is in her mug shot.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Flower's Article
  3. ↑ Pilot
  4. ↑ "Hello!"
  5. ↑ St. Hetty's Day
  6. ↑ https://www.tvinsider.com/1021579/ghosts-season-1-episode-7-flower-sheila-carrasco-robbery-daisy-coffee-ira/
  7. ↑ https://tvline.com/2023/03/22/ghosts-season-2-final-episodes-trailer-video-crash-returns/
  8. ↑ https://www.tvinsider.com/1188438/ghosts-season-4-flower-pete-420-holiday-episode/
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