Shirin's OS
Aug 25, 2015 22:33:56 GMT -5
Post by Shirin on Aug 25, 2015 22:33:56 GMT -5
hey y'all.
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. I'm terrible at talking myself up and I feel like a deer in headlights right now, so bear with me.
Colby and I are kind of like two sides of the same coin. We both started out in an extremely powerful original tribe and were both able to ride the Chencha wave all the way up until Morgan's boot. Neither of us were ever really in any major danger prior to that point. For this reason, I can admit that I don't have quite the glorious fighting resumé that someone like Cassandra would have if she had made it here in my place. My playstyle was almost excessively under the radar, to the point where people no doubt came to think of me as nothing but a goat, ideal for slaughter at FTC. Perception is reality in these games, and it is what all of you think that matters in the end, so my job is to convince you guys to see me and my game the way that I have come to.
Prior to the merge, I was kind of on the outside of things. In an annoying and inconvenient twist of fate, Ethan was the person I clicked best with of everyone on the cast at the very beginning, and he went ahead and died on me. I had relationships with others, but they were nowhere near as strong. The pre-merge for me was basically challenge win after challenge win, and I'm pretty sure I never saw a tribal council the entire time. I'd like to think that for the most part I helped my tribe to win these challenges, even if I didn't show up sometimes, and I was helpful around camp, remaking the fire and collecting food. I will openly admit that I am lucky to have been on the winning side of things for the entirety of pre-merge. I do not think I was seen as being as valuable to my tribes as some others, so I can only assume I would have been screwed if we had lost half as much as we had won.
Early in the merge, I built a bond with Alina, and she became my number one. Everything I did from that point onwards was dedicated to advancing the two of us towards the end. I trusted her implicitly and every move we took part in was made in our combined best interest. On a wider scale, I was committed to sticking with Chencha, and especially the Chencha four (me/Erinn/Colby/Alina), but I also grew to adore Cass over the few conversations we had and could not bear the thought of voting her out as soon as she was vulnerable. While I didn't have massively lengthy conversations with many people, I tried to be as pleasant and non-committal as possible in order to avoid building bridges that I knew I would have to burn later on. I let Alina kind of be the one who was out there making and breaking bonds while I plotted away behind the scenes. I played a vital role in Morgan's blindside and although Cass didn't actually NEED our help in the end (that idol tho), I jumped ship for her at F5 and pulled Alina along to try and give myself a better chance of making it to the end, knowing that Colby and Erinn had become an unbreakable duo, and that Colby was a monster in immunity challenges. Flipping on Erinn did reveal mine and Alina's hand, though, and so we had no choice but to force the tiebreaker against Cass at F4, which Alina unfortunately lost. I fucked up really early on in the FIC but I think I would have had a good shot if I hadn't had a momentary lapse in concentration lol. Either way, I'm here now, so it all worked out.
I'm pretty sure Colby brought me here because he thinks he can beat me easily. I certainly talked up my goat status a lot so that people would think I had no shot at winning at the end. Whether I actually do have any semblance of a chance is totally up to you guys. In any case, thank you all for the game. It's been chill.
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. I'm terrible at talking myself up and I feel like a deer in headlights right now, so bear with me.
Colby and I are kind of like two sides of the same coin. We both started out in an extremely powerful original tribe and were both able to ride the Chencha wave all the way up until Morgan's boot. Neither of us were ever really in any major danger prior to that point. For this reason, I can admit that I don't have quite the glorious fighting resumé that someone like Cassandra would have if she had made it here in my place. My playstyle was almost excessively under the radar, to the point where people no doubt came to think of me as nothing but a goat, ideal for slaughter at FTC. Perception is reality in these games, and it is what all of you think that matters in the end, so my job is to convince you guys to see me and my game the way that I have come to.
Prior to the merge, I was kind of on the outside of things. In an annoying and inconvenient twist of fate, Ethan was the person I clicked best with of everyone on the cast at the very beginning, and he went ahead and died on me. I had relationships with others, but they were nowhere near as strong. The pre-merge for me was basically challenge win after challenge win, and I'm pretty sure I never saw a tribal council the entire time. I'd like to think that for the most part I helped my tribe to win these challenges, even if I didn't show up sometimes, and I was helpful around camp, remaking the fire and collecting food. I will openly admit that I am lucky to have been on the winning side of things for the entirety of pre-merge. I do not think I was seen as being as valuable to my tribes as some others, so I can only assume I would have been screwed if we had lost half as much as we had won.
Early in the merge, I built a bond with Alina, and she became my number one. Everything I did from that point onwards was dedicated to advancing the two of us towards the end. I trusted her implicitly and every move we took part in was made in our combined best interest. On a wider scale, I was committed to sticking with Chencha, and especially the Chencha four (me/Erinn/Colby/Alina), but I also grew to adore Cass over the few conversations we had and could not bear the thought of voting her out as soon as she was vulnerable. While I didn't have massively lengthy conversations with many people, I tried to be as pleasant and non-committal as possible in order to avoid building bridges that I knew I would have to burn later on. I let Alina kind of be the one who was out there making and breaking bonds while I plotted away behind the scenes. I played a vital role in Morgan's blindside and although Cass didn't actually NEED our help in the end (that idol tho), I jumped ship for her at F5 and pulled Alina along to try and give myself a better chance of making it to the end, knowing that Colby and Erinn had become an unbreakable duo, and that Colby was a monster in immunity challenges. Flipping on Erinn did reveal mine and Alina's hand, though, and so we had no choice but to force the tiebreaker against Cass at F4, which Alina unfortunately lost. I fucked up really early on in the FIC but I think I would have had a good shot if I hadn't had a momentary lapse in concentration lol. Either way, I'm here now, so it all worked out.
I'm pretty sure Colby brought me here because he thinks he can beat me easily. I certainly talked up my goat status a lot so that people would think I had no shot at winning at the end. Whether I actually do have any semblance of a chance is totally up to you guys. In any case, thank you all for the game. It's been chill.
