Board Thread:Survivor 21: Kerala/@comment-30131690-20161211082718/@comment-27707100-20161211085116

Hi Violet!!!

First thing I wanna say is that I never claimed to destroy the all-girl's alliance at any point in the speech, just that I didn't think it was going to last because two people told me about its existence within a couple days of it being made. Y'all wouldn't tell me about its existence if you expected it to last forever.

Onto your question, I think it's kinda crucial that you take control of certain situations to get to where you are, because it's not like the votes that you push are going to be taken from a neutral situation at all times. To answer your question though, getting Catherine out at f6 was 100% my idea, and it's why I'm here. Kon wanted to vote Julia out but I got him to vote Catherine instead. You could also argue that I was the swing on the Julia/Asa vote at f5, but I'm sure a lot of y'all would consider Kon to be the swing there even though he was the first person to vote.

Any moves that I made to push a vote were made while I was immune so that in the worst case scenario, it wouldn't come back in a way to fuck me over. I'm sure it just seems like luck got me here or whatever, but I was unvoted until f4. That doesn't just happen on accident. Even if you had no control over the game and no one perceived you as threatening, you would still receive votes on other grounds (i.e. Asa got a few votes at random times in the game despite not really having much control). I made moves when the situation was right. It wasn't always smart for me to push for votes because that would have been more of a way to give people opportunity to shit on my name and would jeapordize the shields that I had made in the game in yourself, Kon, and Julia. It was only when I lost a shield that I thought it was necessary to have to push  my own agenda to get someone out (i.e. Cathy) because I thought I may get targeted soon without you covering that base for me.

Thanks for your question and I'm sorry that you thought I was trying to claim that I controlled everything, but that's not really what I was going for at all. I just presented the situations as I saw them and gave reason for why I did what I did in each situation. I wasn't necessarily saying I caused them or that everything was my doing,  but I think I made the best decisions I could and made moves at the most optimal times in my game.

I'm glad you thought I was your closest ally, I was never really sure, and I hope you like my answer! <3