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| Julia, you're a fucking gem, and you cracked me up all the time. I hope I can be friends with all of you after the game because I genuinely enjoyed talking with you. |
Dana, that means a lot coming from someone who I was fully expecting to rip my head off and feed my decapitation to a pit of alligators so I’m psyched that this wasn’t the case! I think you and I would’ve been together had you started on
Sakai or I started on Ozato. Unfortunately, our games never, ever matched up and we were at times at odds with each other or just kind of awkwardly floating around. Despite any of that, I know every time we did manage to talk it was always positives whether it be about being useless in life or just talking about the larger than life personas in this game. I could totally seeing us hit it off outside of this and I look forward to it. You still have to show me the ghetto knock-off Pokemon emulators you play that you “claim” are as good as the real things. I’m actually interested because just HOW is that possible?! Hahahhaa.
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| Julia, you're a delight of a person, but I'm not sure you managed to keep any agency in the game whatsoever. Instead, you seemed to keep handing control of your game to others until there wasn't much room to take it back for yourself. No hard feelings, guys! Just how it looks from my end in this moment. I look forward to seeing you guys prove me wrong, whether it be here or in other questions. |
Fair point, and I think it comes across like that because I was much more in a power position pre-merge than I ever was in post-merge. I had my allies and we had our obvious targets so it was easier to stay afloat. When merge came around and I tried to continue to straddle two alliances it ended up blowing up in my face almost immediately because the two sides I was involved in wanted nothing to do with each other and tried to attack each other round one of merge. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but Gervase ended up taking the fall because neither side felt comfortable enough to make a move. After that round I spent the rest of the merge doing damage control and trying to figure out who I could trust and who I could play with. I think when my game seemed almost certain it was going to be over I was able to bounce back with the help of anyone I could latch onto. This may seem like a con to someone’s game rather than a pro, but it does give you the opposite flavor of someone like Spencer. Someone who was in a position of power from the start of the game until the end of the game, someone who didn’t really have to adapt to anything and didn’t really have to change their game. I guess I can totally see where you look at my game like that, but I also seeing it as me having to make do with what I was given and having my own game evolve from Day 1 to Day 39.
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| What I would like for you three to do, is to tell the story of Survivor Twisted 7: Ukiyo as if it were airing as the actual show. |
Beginning in the rough terrain of Japan, 24 players join the highest ranks to battle it out with each other to claim the title as Sole Survivor. Immediately, they were branched out into two separate factions: Coast vs Mountains and beyond that they were each grouped up into different tribes. The Coast containing the tribes of
Ozato and
Aso and the Mountains having
Sakai and Ki. The game begins and has a positive turn out for the Mountains surviving the first two tribal council where Chicken and Tom were the first to be sent out. An alliance blossoming out of
Sakai with the three girls, Eliza, Jefra and Julia, coming together and creating a strong pact to go far in the game with each other. They needed a fourth member to create majority and pulling in Caleb was exactly what they need. Gaining the idol round one bonded the foursome together and
Sakai soon became the love tribe where nothing would essentially go wrong. With
Sakai continuing on their winning streak, it was
Ozato and
Ki that were sent to tribal council where Alexis and Baylor’s torch for ultimately snuffed.
Talk was heavy with the idea of a swap or a tribes dissolving and the chatter finally came to a close when everyone was proved right. Factions were no more and we were all either
Ki or Sakai. Julia, Eliza and Jefra chatted about who should go with who and the worry came up about them three becoming separated. Deciding it was best to branch off in pairs, Eliza and Jefra exiled themselves along with Brad, someone who Julia and Caleb did not get along, while Matty went along with them. On top of that,
Ki had to figure out who was getting exiled from their side. JFP, Spencer and Marisa stayed, while they sent out Michele and James. Each tribe was met was positives and niceness, but also desperation and lies. The mountains knew they needed to stick together and the coasts knew they needed to get in with the majority. Round after round proved hopeless to the ex-Coasters as they were ousted in the following four tribal councils.
New light was shed on the game when the Final 15 was broken down into three separate tribes. This especially proved hopeful for the likes or Dana and Gervase, people who knew they had an expiration date had their old tribes have stuck. With the first loss coming from Ozato, another Coast bit the dust and Reynold was sent packing. The relationships of
Ozato grew as Kat and Caleb became imminently closer and Eliza and Sydney agreeing to take each other to the end. These dynamics would wind up proving to be the saving grace of the whole game.
Ki lost the nest challenge and Matty fell victim as the first OG
Sakai to be sent out. Perhaps people thought
Sakai needed to get cut down a peg or two, but it definitely sent a message to the likes of Caleb and Julia who
did have an alliance with Matty. At the double tribal council,
Ki lost again and it was
Sakai this time who lost. Ozato’s attempt at throwing the competition backfired from Eliza and it sent her two closest out into peril and having them at the mercy of OG Ki. Julia and Jefra agreed that it would be either of them because they were not budging and just deciding to vote each other. Julia, using her social skills and wits, was able to pull the numbers on her side and make it out of that stick situation and making it to merge where she was able to regroup with Caleb and Eliza.
With the game going from 0 to 60 in one round, the players began to pick their side with one player riding the middle. Julia had strong ties and bond to the members of
Ki who she pledge loyalty to, but she also had her deals with her people from Sakai, especially her ride or die with Caleb. Battling back and forth, she tried to switch the vote to the harmless Gervase because it was the one person in the whole game she didn’t have ties to or an alliance with and with him being the final
Aso member she thought she’d be able to pitch it. With Kat targeting Spencer and Spencer targeting Sakai, and this round being on the brink of a blindside, everybody’s spot was blown up and Gervase was sent out and Julia was left, mist gone, and seeing everyone for what they truly were.
She ran back to the likes of Kat and Caleb and apologized profusely for ruining everything and missing an opportunity that could’ve changed the entire game, but she made do with the mess she created and acted on it.
Ki attempted an identical move from the right before and told people like Julia and Caleb that they were voting Sydney. This proved to not work once they caught on to their game. Julia sat back, told
Ki exactly what they wanted to hear, and waited for the results to surface. Unfortunately Fairplay took the fall for
Ki in that vote, and the side of
Sakai was up 5 – 4. The next round ended in the fall of a major character in this game and that person is Caleb. Someone who had the biggest heart of anyone here, but also the biggest temper, he stuck with his allies through thick and thin and would’ve never turned on any of them. With
Ki predicting the vote accurately, Caleb was idol’d out of the game and their lead was lost. Coming back from the ashes and putting her head back in the game, Julia approached Kat and they talked about the options they had. They both talked about how Spencer and Dana approached them about flipping, but they weren’t sure if that was their best option. With Marisa immuned and James doing whatever he was told to do, it didn’t leave them with much of an option. Regrettably, they decided to roll the dice and go with the gamble and they voted against their longtime allies, Sydney and Eliza, and they were sent to the jury.
Julia’s hope had gone out and she pretty much realized she was going to get 6th place, that or it was going to be Kat. The beacon of light came through for us and Dana saw through the ways of Ki, with the help of Kat, and she sided with Julia and Kat to blindside
Ki and take out Marisa. Bringing us down to Finale night it was left with James, Spencer, Dana, Kat and Julia. Kat pulled off her first immunity win of the season and the pairs left in the game were both pleading with Julia to side with them on the vote. She confirmed with Spencer that she would be writing down Dana’s name, while also telling OG
Ozato that she would be writing Spencer’s name down. Ideally both were a win/win situation for her, but she knew she was playing to win and had to go with the best decision. In a turn of events and embracing her inner villain, Julia sided with
Ki and the last pure player was sent out of the game. Now that it got to the Final 4 and Julia had to make amends with Kat who was pretty heated after the results. Inside she knew why she voted out Dana, she was going to win this whole game if she didn’t! She also sent out Dana because of Kat and Spencer’s history. She knew they would target each other at Final 4 and she knew she would be safe if she brought the two biggest rivals to the end with each other. Not that is really mattered, but Spencer became victorious in his first immunity of the game and had his sights set on Kat, as did James. Julia’s groundwork of telling them that Kat was the true threat and how she had little to NO votes waiting for her would soon pay off as her name wasn’t even thrown around and she was able to hold on to power. Tying the vote for her own security and planning a way to make FTC as successful as possible, James VS’d Kat in a final showdown which James walked out on top and Kat became the final jury member of Twisted 7: Ukiyo.
With FTC here and each player thinking of ways to win of the jury, the questions were shot out right and left. Some jurors were excited for their allies to make it to the end, while other jurors had reality checks they needed to give some people. James, being looked as a follower and nothing more, was blasted by the jury for the way he played. Showing that he made little to no moves to advance anyone’s game, but Spener’s. Julia knew going into this FTC she would be the underdog compared to Spencer, who would be the obvious one, but she proved to quite the firecracker. She was able to tell her narrative of going from the top to the bottom back to the top and was able to highlight the subtle moves she made. Her social game was commended, despite burning a few people on their way out. In the end, the jury decided to reward Julia the winner of the game with Spencer coming in a close second.
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| Who are the standout characters? |
- Spencer: Charismatic, villain who did what HE needed to do. Backstabbed and lied his way to the top.
- Julia: Ditzy, personable character who used her social skills to the extreme. Making the fluidity of the game her’s to pick from.
- Caleb: Headstrong alpha who did whatever he wanted and made sure himself and his allies were safe
- Eliza: Smart, calculating and early threat in the pre-merge area. She founded the idea of Mountains staying strong and taking out the Coasts
- Kat: Bubbly and stubborn, she did what she thought was the best for her game and was always playing two rounds ahead
- Dana: The hero, the person who everyone at home on the couch is rooting for. The underdog who couldn’t catch a grip and continuously won immunities and won powers to keep herself safe in the game
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| Who does the audience root for, and who does the audience love to hate? |
Root for:
- Julia
- Kat
- Dana
- Sugar
- Jefra
- Eliza
- Caleb
Hoping they fall on their face:
- Spencer
- James
- Marisa
- JFP
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| What are the most important plotlines? |
- The rise and fall of the Spencer/Caleb/Julia trio
- Three 3 girls from
Sakai and Julia ultimately voting them both out under survival circumstances
- Spencer vs Kat during the merge
-
Ki expecting to run the entire game
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| What are the biggest moves? |
- Sugar blindside
- Butch blindside
- Dana taking out Brad
- JFP blindside
- The flip from Kat and Julia
- Julia voting out Dana
- Julia tying the vote at the Final 4 Tribal Council
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| how does the edit of the show explain you as the correct winner of the game? What does it highlight, and where do you shine? |
Okay, so my summary of the entire game is mostly reflective of myself and my own game, because everyone is the hero of their own story, right?! I think my winner's edit would definitely highlight my social skills and how I used them to build relationships and alliances that would help me get to the end of the game. I think it would emphasize on how I haven't won a single immunity since I've been here, but in that same breath I think it would show that I didn't
need to win a single immunity to stay in the game. It would show my self-awareness of the game and the humbling side of me, in contrast to Spencer's arrogance.
It would be showing me fall from grace at the start of merge where I came from a super good position, to being able to re-integrate myself back into a new alliance and creating tighter bonds (Kat & Dana) to help get to the end while not losing sight of the ultimate the prize.
PHEW.
This entire post is just coming from my perspective and how I think it would be perceived if I were to win. Hopefully this is everything that you asked for and I appreciate you giving me a chance at your vote! Good luck! :)
