Board Thread:Survivor 39: Poveglia/@comment-35122573-20190604124406/@comment-38856411-20190605043448

'''I know you said I didn't need to answer this part but I wanted to just clarify a bit. I still feel like it was the right decision to go to rocks and here’s why. Dani and Jon had made it so blatantly obvious that they had no interest in working with us, and if one of you or Abi had flipped on me to save yourselves from potential rocks than you would have faced the same stigma that Jino faced for flipping in the first place. I think that drawing the line at that vote made it easier for us to throw the following challenge to get rid of Jon and get rid of the people who were 100% just going to go back to the Padua people at the merge. '''

'''As far as being a goat, I don’t agree that I accepted anything like that. I’m curious as to what you’re basing that off of, but I’m going to take a guess and say that Natalia came in to the jury the same way she left the game; with plenty of things to say about all the players in the game. I had to lie and play Natalia on her way out so I understand why she would be more inclined to trash my game, but I’ve gone in to a lot of detail in my other answers about what exactly I was thinking during each vote and how I was trying maneuver myself in to a position where I could get to the end and win. '''

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'''Ok for starters thank you for giving me pokemon instead of anime characters, because I would have seriously floundered coming up with even a single anime character. I played the games much more than I ever watched the anime, so Ash Ketchum won’t factor in to any of my examples. On the other side, my pokedex for my copy of Pokemon Pearl was only four pokemon away from being complete. Most of my examples are gonna come from Gens III and IV because those are the games I played the shit out of in high school. '''

Jino - Spiritomb

Your game was all wrapped around the curse bestowed on you by the keystone (rock), and it’s something you carried with you the remainder of the game that you played like the many spirits bound to Spiritomb.

Alex - Gardevoir

(I really wanted to pick a pokemon that was female only for you, but Pokemon’s history of those are either super yikes (Jynx) or just stereotypes of motherhood/caregivers (Chancey, Miltank)) 

'''You used your powers to protect and bring people together rather than to break them apart. You laid your life on the line for me and I will never forget that. I don’t know what you look like, but in my head you have the same elegance and poise as Gardevoir, and maybe with the little emo hair swoop too. '''

Abi - Mismagius

'''I have no problem imagining that you had a sweet goth look like this when you were a teenager, or that you wanted at some point in your life to be a witch for halloween. I know you believe in spirits and that sort of stuff, so I feel like you would be in tune with ghosts and their lingering influences on this world. You uttered some pretty sick curses to your opponents on your way out with the sick gif smackdown, and you certainly knew how to throw shade like a true ghost-champ. '''

Natalia - Honchcrow

'''This may be more of the internalized image I had of Natalia, but I always saw you as confident and in charge. It doesn’t matter what situation you were in you were owning the room and commanding your minions to fly and attack. You also have some pretty sweet style and a flair for the dramatic. '''

Scott - Exploud

'''Despite being fabulously pinky-purple on the outside, you still manage to be pretty normal on the inside. You’re loud and maybe a little bit obnoxious at times, but that only serves to amplify your unique personality. Also much like my first playthrough of Pokemon Emerald, I thought you were super cool and fun in the beginning of the game but as it progressed I realized that you were ultimately not as useful to me as I needed you to be. '''

John - Metagross

'''Super intelligent as well as very sturdy, I kept trying to take shots at you and you just wouldn’t die. Your arguments as well as your nerve were always solid as steel, and you seemed to have a psychic read on some of the other players and their motivations. '''

Jackson - Sudowoodo

'''People thought you were just a simple tree, waving carefree in the breeze, but in reality you were hard as a rock. You camouflage yourself in this game as something non-threatening until people got within your grasp and you struck with ferocity. '''

Jordan - Garchomp

'''While fearsome and intimidating, you tend to be overrated. Your allies may think you’re cool, but when they got too close sometime they get burned by your rough skin. And while you maye look impressive to a lot of people with your high physical prowess, hit you with a good ice attack and you’ll crumble with the best of them.'''

Devin - Heracross

'''After Natalia called me a “persistent little fruit fly” I knew I had to be bug because that fit too well. I also was always a fighter, trying my best to get my way into as many groups as possible. But when push came to shove my strengths wasn’t in brute force or fancy weapons, but in using my opponent's weight against them. I knew the big dogs were the ones who were gonna take the heat so I levergered their strengths as weaknesses to toss them. Also I really like Heracross because like me most of the time it’s just happy and chilling, but when push comes to shove it strikes back with great force. Also he’s such a cute lil guy. '''