History Characters / Survivor41

* BigBad: She's been built up as the villain of the season, and has established herself as a massive threat by becoming the center of the dominant alliance at the very beginning of the merge.

* TheHero: The closest thing to a heroic player in this season after Naseer's elimination aside from [[TokenGoodTeammate Danny]], being the underdog who always seems to find a way out of a sticky situation, including still having an idol as of Episode 11. Of course because of his likeability, genuinely nice nature, amazing social game, and challenge skill have made him [[TallPoppySyndrome too big of a threat]] compared to more under the radar players like Heather or Erika. He's aware of this, and after Shan's elimination made an alliance with Ricard to use as a shield. Unfortunately, he incorrectly believes Ricard is the only threat to him, which he finds out the hard way at the final tribal council.

* TheFakeCutie: She looks and acts adorable... on purpose. She is in fact intentionally playing up her cuteness so that the others would less likely to view her as a threat.
** Subverted in that she is in reality a really sweet woman, taking Heather on the final reward and admitting she couldn't have gotten that far without her.

* TheDreaded: Ironically, despite her limited screen time and cute appearance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugNGdlFECpY&t=1s most of the cast seem to feel this way about her]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: He comes across as a bit of a surfer bro and doofus, but he is surprisingly insi

* AdvantageBall: After the winning half of the merge tribe becomes safe from the merge tribal council, she gains the advantage to "go back in time", reversing the outcome of the immunity challenge, allowing herself and the losers of the challenge to be safe from elimination instead.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: He comes across as a bit of a surfer bro and doofus, but he is surprisingly insightful and cunning.

* {{Determinator}}: Despite being unable to perform a required task for a reward challenge, she never gave up and kept trying till the end. Though she wound up breaking down crying after, her tribe was able to reassure her with this fact.

* DarkHorseVictory: With the flashy games Evvie Shan and even Deshawn (in spite of not playing as well in the merge part) who was expecting the small philippine-Canadian girl to win it all?

* SmugSnake: Comes across this way as her first attempt at strategizing turns her entire tribe against her, all while she arrogantly brags about how well she is playing.

* TookALevelInBadass: During the premerge, Erika was something of a SmugSnake who believed she was much smarter than the other Luvus, which resulted in her being on the outs. However, after a few lucky breaks and gaining momentum, she managed to become a much more savvy and dangerous strategist after the merge.

* TheAce: Is shown to have good challenge performance, is described as the tribemate that everyone trusts, has good social graces, early advantages, strategic skill, and potential allies on opposing tribes. Interestingly enough, he describes himself in his bio as a "jack-of-all-trades". Also was the last person standing during the endurance competition that had two winners, thus winning his "team" chicken soup, giving the guy his first good meal in a while.

* FailureHero: Positioned as the hero of his tribe early on, doing an early challenge for camp supplies, building good relationships with his tribemates, is described as the tribemate everyone trusts, easily gains potential allies on opposing tribes, and starts to stack advantages. Then his advantages remove his ability to vote, his two most trusted allies turn on each other, he found an idol too early and has to wait until other tribes find theirs, his potential ally Brad on the opposing tribe is eliminated, and he becomes the last man left against an all women's alliance. By the merge, he has regained his ability to vote and his advantages. However, his ally Liana defects to the majority alliance in order target him, his advantages, and his closest ally Evvie. He manages to save his advantages and Evvie, but is still in the minority alliance.
* FatalFlaw: His poor reads on the Jury's opinions. He ''severely'' underestimates how much the jury respects Erika's game, and thus brings her to the end while leaving Deshawn and Heather to fight over the third [=FTC=] slot. Shan and Liana even comment on how poor a read it is as he's saying it, and it leads to him getting zero votes to win while Erika gets all but Danny's votes.

* LastOfHisKind: He's the last man on Yase after Evvie and the two girls formed an alliance that took out the other two men. After Evvie gets voted out having Xander won immunity, he's the last original Yase member who didn't defect to the other side. With Liana's elimination, he is the last member of Yase in general.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Becomes this early on with Danny.

* TheHero: The closest thing to a heroic player in this season after Naseer's elimination aside from [[TokenGoodTeammate Danny]], being the underdog who always seems to find a way out of a sticky situation, including still having an idol as of Episode 11. Of course because of his likeability, genuinely nice nature, amazing social game, and challenge skill have made him [[TallPoppySyndrome too big of a threat]] compared to more under the radar players like Heather or Erika. He's aware of this, and after Shan's elimination made an alliance with Ricard to use as a shield. Unfortunately, he incorrectly believes Ricard is the only threat to him, which he finds out the hard way at the final tribak council.

** In episode 10, succeeds in betraying Shan (and by extension Liana). However, as Shan leaves she vocally calls him out by declaring him a "snake" in front of the remaining players and ''jury'', potentially damning his game.

* TheChessmaster: Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] past the merge. Though he's shown to leverage his idol to great effect around the merge and successfully dodge Liana's Knowledge is Power advantage, afterward he's shown to have no real sway or agency whatsoever, failing to mastermind any votes and largely being dragged along to the Final 5 with his idol being basically forgotten.

* GenreSavvy: Has previous game knowledge, pulled off a strategic gambit reminiscent of earlier players, namedrops past seasons, looks for advantages in previous season's hiding spots, and correctly sees through strategic plays to get him to waste his advantages during the early merge.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: While playing a strong flashy game and going in with the best resume he manages to lose to even Deshawn.
* IWorkAlone: Ultimately what his strategy is for, all the times he allies with the Yase is more out of convenience and plays a game that gets *him* farther which could backfire.
* TheHero: The closest thing to a heroic player in this season after Naseer's elimination aside from [[TokenGoodTeammate Danny]], being the underdog who always seems to find a way out of a sticky situation, including still having an idol as of Episode 11. Of course because of his likeability, genuinely nice nature, amazing social game, and challenge skill have made him [[TallPoppySyndrome too big of a threat]] compared to more under the radar players like Heather or Erika. He's aware of this, and after Shan's elimination made an alliance with Ricard to use as a shield. Time will tell if he is blindsided because of his fluttering loyalty.

* NiceGuy: So far, all signs point to him being an easy-going, honest, decent guy. Come the merge, he volunteers to use his idol to save his ally Evvie, despite her having played both sides. One episode later, he gives up his chance at winning a reward so that Erika doesn't get screwed by luck twice in a row ''and'' gives up a shot at immunity to give the whole tribe rice. Also, during Liana's boot episode, he admits he can't possibly understand what Liana is going through, but he honestly respects her as both a player and a person of color, and buries the hatchet with her after voting her off.

* IworkAlone: Ultimately what his strategy is for, all the times he allies with the Yase is more out of convenience and plays a game that gets *him* farther which could backfire.

!Castaways

[[folder:Deshawn Radden]]

[[folder:Erika Casupanan]]
->'''Tribe:''' Luvu
->'''Age:''' 32
->'''From:''' Toronto, Ontario, Canada
->'''Occupation:''' Communications Manager

* AdvantageBall: After the winning half of the merge tribe becomes safe from the merge tribal council, she gains the advantage to "go back in time", reversing the outcome of the immunity challenge, allowing herself and the losers of the challenge to be safe from elimination instead.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Is tiny, and has a kind and sweet personality. She also gains a game changing advantage that reverses the outcome of an immunity challenge, forcing all winners to lose their immunity instead. Said winners comprise of four of her own tribemates.
* BornUnlucky: Zigzagged. Ends up drawing the wrong rock twice in a row, sitting her out of two important challenges. However, both challenges came with the opportunity for the player who drew the wrong rock to gain an advantage.
* ChekhovsGunman: She has less screen time than the other players, and her first notable scene is her strategizing against Sydney. Come episode 7, she gains a huge advantage and promptly reverses the outcome of an immunity challenge. In the ensuing chaos, the person eliminated...is Sydney, who she had targeted episodes prior.
* TheDreaded: Ironically, despite her limited screen time and cute appearance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugNGdlFECpY&t=1s most of the cast seem to feel this way about her]].
* TheFakeCutie: She looks and acts adorable... on purpose. She is in fact intentionally playing up her cuteness so that the others would less likely to view her as a threat.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She's on the bottom of her tribe due to not being trusted, which is reflected when, once the choice is between her and Naseer, she is the one sent to exile.
* InformedAttribute: Describes herself as a strategist, and is targetting by Shan who calls her the "mastermind" behind Heather. However, outside of her strategy session with Deshawn and the Hourglass Advantage, her strategies have yet to affect the game.
** Specifically with the Hourglass Advantage, despite it being a huge moment that shifted the momentum of the game, with Erika worried of the enemies it would make, most of the strategy and eliminations that resulted from it seemed to occur independently of Erika. She has yet to be shown directly influencing an elimination.
** This is subverted episode 10, where she strategizes with Deshawn to get rid of Shan. And when Ricard finally convinces the men of the black alliance to vote for Shan, Erika manages to convince the group to split between Liana and Shan, as if Shan played her idol Erika would have been the one to go home. She got her way, ensuring her safety and fracturing the black alliance by having Deshawn and Danny alienate Liana.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 32, and she looks like she's in her early-mid 20's.
* OutOfFocus: Didn't receive a lot of screentime prior to her DayInTheLimelight moment in Episode 4.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the first six episodes, she doesn't receive a lot of screen time compared to the other players. Come episode 7, she reverses the outcome of an immunity challenge forcing the winners of the challenge to lose their immunity. Had she chose differently, the first merge elimination and the momentum of the game may have gone completely differently.
* SmugSnake: Comes across this way as her first attempt at strategizing turns her entire tribe against her, all while she arrogantly brags about how well she is playing.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Becomes this to Sydney. She identifies Sydney as a threat early on. At the merge challenge, Sydney earns immunity during a team challenge. Erika then uses her advantage to reverse the outcome of the challenge, causing the winning team to lose their immunity. Sydney is eliminated in the ensuing chaos.
* TheStrategist:
** Shows shades of this in Episode 4, reading that Sydney is a threat and a loose cannon, and realizing that Deshawn is also a fellow strategist. Unfortunately, this show of strategic skill prompts Deshawn to turn on her instead.
** After she uses her advantage to force the winners of the challenge to lose their immunity instead, she immediately sides with the majority alliance comprising of most of the allies who's immunities she had just robbed. Together they eliminate Sydney, who she had targeted episodes earlier.
** It was her initial idea to take out Shan, though Ricard managed to get the plan into motion. And when she realizes that she is in potential danger of being voted out if Shan plays an idol, convinces ''Danny'' and ''Deshawn'' (who have had it out for her since the beginning) to split vote for Liana as well as a back-up plan. The end result sees Shan go home, Liana alienated by her former allies, and Deshawn being called a snake as Shan leaves the game.
** After Shan's elimination, she becomes the swing vote between Liana and Ricard, and ensures the elimination of Liana, further crippling the once dominant majority alliance.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the premerge, Erika was something of a SmugSnake who believed she was much smarter than the other Luvus, which resulted in her being on the outs. However, after a few lucky breaks and gaining momentum, she managed to become a much more savvy and dangerous strategist after the merge.
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