Characters / Survivor Fan Characters Season Twenty One

Sole Survivor

Grace Rivers

No, I simply have zero faith that you'll last over a week. So I'm not bothering with you.

An immensely wealthy widow whose husbands' mysterious murders have granted her infamy, despite being cleared of all charges.

First Criminal Minds fan character.

• Ambiguous Situation: Did she kill her husbands? Grace will tell you no, the criminal justice system will tell you no, but a sizeable chunk of people do believe she's guilty, and it's not like she puts up much evidence to defend herself. The question goes unanswered throughout the entire season and proves to be the only real doubt as to whether people would want to vote for her to win at the end.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Even with the ambiguity over whether she's actually a murderer aside, she's unambiguously the most villainous person post-merge, even exceeding Mooks for evil armies like Crab Rangoon and Orpheus's Arc Villain status early on. Nevertheless, her strong strategic acumen and uncanny ability to lie mean she's able to take the victory in the end over the aforementioned Crab and the much more well-liked Bria.
• Black Widow: People allege her to be this. She's had three husbands die, and yet when she was tried she was ultimately acquitted despite popular opinion largely being against her.
• The Chessmaster: Of everyone in the game, basically no one has as much of a control on the votes and dynamics as Grace, whose Jerkass personality and physical weakness help her to be seen as little more than a goat.
• Classy Cane: Uses a cane to help her walk. When Bria singes it at one point, she's absolutely livid.
• Cool Old Lady: She's 72 years old, making her one of the oldest players to ever compete, and is able to hold her own strategically with everyone else.
• Cool Shades: Ones she rarely uses properly and instead usually has lifted up, but they do still look very nice.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often comes through with a snarky quip whenever she appears onscreen.
• Enemy Mine: Invites Bria into an incredibly fruitful final two deal knowing that they have a better chance against each other than against anyone else, with Crab Rangoon as their third. Thanks to their hatred for each other, by the time anyone suspects a thing they already have a majority and their tickets to final tribal council punched in.
• It Amused Me: She starts bullying Bria at the merge basically for this reason alone. She claims suppressed negative emotions aren't good for her and so regularly takes them out on people she doesn't like, usually her husbands.
• The Load: Is quite literally physically incapable of performing the first immunity, requiring Trella to help get her back to the rest of the tribe. Turns out being old has detriments. As a result, she's the one who's most frequently seen on the sit-out bench in future challenges.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Doesn't do much strategizing on her own early on, more willing to go with the flow and take advantage of recent events, such as clinging to Amika when she takes control and preferring to more subtly influence things in her direction rather than snatch control for herself.
• Rich Bitch: Incredibly wealthy to the point of being willing to spend $25,000 on acting classes, but that doesn't prevent her from being incredibly callous to her tribe.
• Right-Hand Cat: Her family visitor, and the only one she deems worthy of receiving her inheritance, is her pet cat Ms. Fluffy LePurr, who turns out to be just as high-class and spoiled as she is.
• Sole Survivor: The 21st overall, winning 6-3-0 over Bria and Crab.
• The Strategist: Out of everyone in the game, Grace arguably has the best strategic reads out of everyone. Even other solid players like Crab or Haru are completely trounced by her strategic game.
• Treacherous Advisor: For Crab, as she helps him get out of binds regularly and even enables him to play the more villainous role he wants to... only to use this to build a resume specifically built to tear him down with the help of Bria.

Runners-Up

Bria Melisma/"Glissanda"

Of course I am [a woman of color]! I'm purple! It's one of THE most iconic colors out there!

A pop star looking to take a break from the life of a celebrity through the game of Survivor.

First No Straight Roads fan character.

• Aborted Arc: Her desire to keep her Glissanda identity secret is forgotten about pretty quickly, as shortly after Masanari figures out who she is she just sort-of gives up on pretending she's not Glissanda.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is purple and her hair is a bright blue. She's even able to talk her way into a women-of-color alliance with Geneva and Saroka by bringing this up.
• The Dog Bites Back: After about a week of being tormented by Grace, she goes for a fairly simple form of revenge when everyone is distracted.
• Enemy Mine: At the final third of the game, Bria is invited into a secret final two deal with Grace, whom she vocally hates, with it later turning out she accepted said deal; the partnership proves fruitful, as their vocal disdain for each other means that no one suspects their partnership until it's too late for anyone to stop them, and each is a controversial enough player that bigger threats would easily win against them if they didn't take them out... which they did.
• Face–Heel Turn: Following the Stone boot, she began working behind the scenes with Big Bad Grace; it was just that no one realized it until it was far too late.
• Fatal Flaw: Her inaction was one that got her in hot water multiple times. She was inactive when it came to making deeper connections, she was inactive when it came to making moves, and when it came to her alliances she continued to be inactive and let her other allies take charge while she hyper-focused on banking on being the "nice one". So despite going into Final Tribal Council with a few locked votes, she was unable to procure enough to win due to being perceived as someone who did nothing strategically.
• Identical Stranger: Looks almost identical to Celine, a minor character from No Straight Roads. This resemblance is never brought up, nor is it indicated that the two ever knew each other.
• Lethal Chef: It turns out that she absolutely cannot cook rice to save her life. Grace loudly insults her cooking, but since Bria assumes that Grace's palate is overly refined due to her wealth, she has Gaylen try it; though he manages to force himself to be polite for once, turns out he hates it just as much.
• Nice Girl: Thoroughly pleasant to everyone, with the only things that cause her to break from this being Geneva's and Grace's behavior.
• Prayer Pose: Something she does regularly, often when she's pensive but also at other random points.
• Replacement Goldfish: Karen designates her one for Amika when the latter is voted out right before the merge. She gives up on this before the merge episode's even over.
• Running Gag: From a few episodes in, it becomes a regular point to bring up her comically large "man hands".
• Secret Identity: What her going by Bria effectively counts as. The Glissanda name is far more well-known, her playing as Bria makes it clear she's trying to keep her pop star baggage out of the game. It's broken come the swap, when Auriya openly refers to her as Glissanda when they meet.
• Stage Names: More popularly known as Glissanda outside the game, but she's going by her real name on the show to distance herself from her celebrity lifestyle and an unknown offscreen controversy (later revealed to be her mentor, canon character Eve, tampering with her voice in post against Bria's wishes along with the latter's retaliatory revealing of this fact publicly).
• The Social Expert: Is able to get herself to be trusted by just about everyone extremely quickly, to the point where Electra tells her about an idol she found almost immediately after she finds it.
  • Ultimately Downplayed, however, as even though she's able to get into many surface-level alliances, outside of ironically Grace she's really unable to build any deeper, more meaningful connections with her tribemates, leading to allies like Gaylen turning on her and this combined with her more reserved strategic game led to people like Trella claiming that she never "did anything".
• Token Good Teammate: For the post-merge Eraqus, being the only one who isn't a Hypocrite or Jerkass in some capacity. The worst thing she really does by comparison is get back at a bully... at least until she begins to work with said bully and allow herself to play a more morally-grey game.

Crab Rangoon

I may only be a lowly henchman, but I have the HEART of a true villain!

A crab rangoon Foodon fighting for the Glutton Empire with aspirations of becoming a major villain.

First Fighting Foodons fan character.

• Anthropomorphic Food: An anthropomorphic crab rangoon, hence his name.
• Batman Gambit: Karen's hatred of him becomes so ingrained that he makes a last ditch effort to weaponize it once the second merge tribal comes down to two obvious targets, simply by begging her to vote for the opposite of who he wants to go home and banking on the fact that she would do the opposite of what he told her out of spite. It goes off without a hitch, and his target Masanari is sent home in a tribal that's Decided by One Vote.
• Big Bad Wannabe: His entire run is about him desperately wanting to prove that he's really got the potential to be a top-notch evildoer. Ultimately however, despite his clear game sense, he still gets circles run around him by his own allies.
• Butt-Monkey: Is pretty constantly tormented by his tribe, from Amika threatening him to Karen dedicating herself to making his time on the island miserable because she assumed he called her fat during the first immunity challenge. Even when he swaps over to Eraqus and later makes the merge, nothing really goes better for him.
• The Dog Bites Back: Though he remains loyal to Nyles for the swap portion and most of the first round of the merge, once it becomes clear that Nyles just sees him as a number he rather swiftly jumps ship, aiding in the plan to take him out shortly after.
• Elite Mook: When Clawdia shows up for the loved ones visit, she claims that Crab was cooked up using the finest ingredients available^note Foodons are food items which have been magically granted life and anthropomorphic forms.. He's immediately filled with a sense of pride that only boosts his ego further.
• Fatal Flaw: His developing ego completely prevents him from seeing his biggest competition for what it is, leading to players like Grace and Bria squeaking by and making moves while he's left none the wiser, and his verbal undressing by the pair and Haru at the final four as a result of his demeanor almost completely decimates his winning chances.
• Final Boss: Grace and Bria specifically designated him as their final obstacle for them to take down at the end, figuring it’d be easier than trying it with, say, Trella or Haru, while being more impressive and respectable to the jury than simply taking a goat like Gaylen to the end.
• Gaslighting: Becomes a victim of this via Grace and Bria at Haru’s boot plus the final tribal council. Grace in the first instance accuses Crab of helping her create a fake idol, even presenting a fake she made as “evidence” that Bria corroborates, and then at FTC she claims that Bria was responsible for the Masanari boot all along, which while untrue is spoken with such conviction that at the very least some of the jury buys it.
• Groin Attack: Receives one from Karen after the latter is voted out.
• Hopeless Suitor: Is deeply attracted to Clawdia, a character from his franchise of origin, and is hoping that winning and proving his villainy will win her over.Given she's a canon character and he's very definitely not not to mention her going through a Heel–Face Turn by the end, it's safe to say it's not going to work out.
• Humiliation Conga: A rare instance where a finalist is forced through one not only by the jury, but by his fellow finalists as well, who tag-team to downplay and gaslight him at every turn.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: As it turns out, when he's given a chance to play the game, he's able to maneuver pretty damn well, down to partially orchestrating Masanari's elimination by reinvigorating his feud with Danger and faking an advantage to convince everyone he'd lost his vote.
• Minion with an F in Evil: A minion for an evil empire, despite wanting to go on the show to prove his villainy he has failed time and time again to do so thanks to both failing to earn his tribes' respect along with being the designated Butt-Monkey.
• No Mouth: A common design element of Foodons in his series, carried over to his design.
• Power Pincers: Has a crab-like claw (get it?) replacing one of his hands. He claims it can “snap metal like chopsticks”.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Once he gets some moves under his belt (albeit without the earned respect of his peers yet), he starts to think much, much more highly of himself and his abilities as a player. It's this ego that prevents him from seeing how blatantly Grace is using him for her own goals.
• Villain Protagonist: Though he's not super-relevant in the pre-merge, once major characters Sally-Anne and Amika are gone he becomes the primary strategic focus of the merge half, with his rise to power and eventual fall from grace becoming the primary storyline.

The Jury

Haru Oukuchi

*DEVIOUS GIGGLING*

A ghostly youkai who dreads social situations, but loves scaring people.

First Touhou Project fan character.

• Bittersweet Ending: She's sniped at the very end, unable to overcome the power trio that made up the rest of the final 4, but despite her wounded ego she's able to leave with her head held high and without any regrets, not to mention having some of the season's most drastic personal growth going from being a social pariah to having actual winning equity.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Once Grace and Bria have control and Haru is unable to stop them, they decide to take out her goat in Gaylen first knowing that they need her help to set up Crab's downfall. Turns out they wanted her to set him up as a goat, not as the final 4 vote, and Haru was always doomed to go here; once she realizes what's going on, it's too late.
• Creepy Loner Girl: Especially in the first two episodes, she all-but avoided talking to people and just made herself known as the scary one around camp. Once she went to her first Tribal Council, she finally became dedicated to turning this perception of hers around.
• Cute Ghost Girl: Yep, she's a ghost, having died in a way she doesn't feel like disclosing.
• Demonic Possession: Well, more spiritual possession, but it turns out she's able to do this, demonstrating with Danger after the latter learns that Joey's dead. Turns out she really doesn't like doing it.
• Final Boss: If one doesn't wish to count Crab as such, she's effectively the Mele to Crab's Jenny.
• Giggling Villain: She's frequently seen giggling deviously, complete with a creepy font.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Says this verbatim after voting out Amika. She's almost immediately horrified when she realizes what she completely unironically said.
• Improvised Weapon: At one point uses her bag to bludgeon Crab.
• Laughably Evil: A self-described "scary evil yokai" who has fun cracking jokes and puns whenever possible no matter how lame or corny they are.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to much of the Xehanort (Villains) tribe. Sure, she's a Creepy Loner Girl with a spooky laugh and unsettling affinity for scissors, but she proves to be much more socially amicable and well-liked than her anxious personality would suggest, even becoming the closest thing the season has to a hero by default once Bria undergoes her Face–Heel Turn.
• Odd Friendship: All of her friendships are this; first was the bond with Amika and Karen, then was her close friendship with Orpheus, before developing a shockingly earnest bond with Gaylen of all people by the end. And then there's her family visitor in Marisa, who is remarkably higher energy than Haru can handle yet is still noted as being someone that Haru likes.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: She's both a ghost and youkai in equal measure. It grants her invisibility and levitation, the former of which she uses primarily for scares or to avoid people and the latter of which she uses in challenges.
• No Mouth: The lower half of her face is hidden by a scarf.
• No Social Skills: Suffers from a form of social anxiety, and as such she spends most of her time wandering invisibly around camp, giggling and scaring people, which ultimately makes her an early target. It's bad enough that she feels more comfortable talking to Skippy than anyone on her actual tribe, especially early. Even when she develops some social skills down the road (to the point of briefly aligning with Stone and teaching Danger the basics of Survivor strategy over checkers), she still finds herself clinging to Orpheus as the one person she actually seems comfortable being around despite her desire to talk to whomever she feels like.
  • The Social Expert: She slowly but surely becomes this as the game wears on, as despite having trouble with social interactions she's able to routinely build alliances with people and gain their trust, something her ally Orpheus simply isn't able to do effectively. Hell, when a vote comes down to the two, she manages to survive by virtue of being less annoying than him.
• Rage Quit: Not from the game itself, but during the loved ones reward, she grows increasingly agitated by the constant chatter from both the players and Jeff and, after snapping at Crab and then Jeff, quits the challenge before sitting by some stairs alone and going invisible.
• Shear Menace: Her bag has scissors in it, and based on her dialogue, there's reason to believe she has used them as weapons before.
• Tears of Blood: At one point, she attempts to force herself to cry to sell her emotional vulnerability to her tribemates. Given that she is, well, dead and no longer has functioning tear ducts as a result, this happens instead. Cue calls for medical.
• Unreveal Angle: The only time someone (Amika and Karen) actually sees what's under her scarf, Karen's head is blocking the view. Regardless, whatever it is is apparently horrifying enough to invoke Color Failure in the two.
• Visible Invisibility: Can go invisible, which is depicted by a transparent sprite. She seems to use it mostly to scare people for fun or to hide from others.

Gaylen a.k.a. Galen

I'm used to attending ceremonies celebrating my greatness, not taking part in the ceremony of losers known as Tribal Council.

A former Rito warrior with a distinctly un-warriorlike physique.

Second The Legend of Zelda fan character.

• Asshole Victim: Though he is undoubtedly the victim of Geneva and Saroka's harassment, plus the victim of a curse, he's still an absolute jerk to everyone around him, even when people are trying to support and work with him.
• Curse: His current physique is a result of him traveling to the Dark World at one point. He once had a more warrior-esque physique before the curse took hold. Suffice to say, he's deeply insecure about his appearance.
  • A later comic explains this further: The reason for the way he looks has less to do with his true nature and more to do with his own homophobia (specifically his belief that All Gays are Promiscuous and Camp) affecting how he perceived homosexuality. He was then cursed further to prevent this from being fully undone when he proceeded to break into an old woman's house and insult her to her face.
  • By the time he's sent to the jury, the curse is at least partly broken: He's able to use his original name Galen again, and while he's still pink and feminine-looking, he gets to wear different clothes.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Is mistaken for a woman by both Aurora in the cast reveal and Masanari in the premiere.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: A rare male example.
• Jerk Jock: He was something of one before he got afflicted with his curse from the sound of it.
• Malicious Misnaming: Geneva begins referring to him as "Gayboy" early on. Saroka immediately picks up on it, as does Masanari later while not realizing that Gaylen's not comfortable with it.
  • Turns out his name is this as well. Originally his name was simply Galen, but somehow, his curse changed his name to ensure there was a "gay" in there.
• Mistaken for Gay: Saroka and Geneva harass him over thinking he's an extremely flamboyant Camp Gay with a Transparent Closet, and once he clarifies it again they start openly mocking him for appearing feminine.
  • Except it eventually turns out he's not even straight, developing an attraction to Masanari shortly after the pair have heart-to-hearts about their shared sense of body dysmorphia.
• That Came Out Wrong: His attempt at teaching his tribe how to make fire is described by Electra as "the sluttiest god damn tutorial I have ever experienced in my entire bloody life".

Estrella "Trella" Noir and Auriya

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I don't really consider myself a villain, but rather as someone who's smart enough to know when it's right to play outside the rules.

A prominent citizen journalist who's not afraid to get her hands duty for a scoop. She brings along her jovial FM-ian companion, Auriya.

First Mega Man Star Force fan character.

• The Ace: Is repeatedly pointed out as one of the strongest players physically in her season, both with and without Auriya's help, and currently ties the record for most challenge wins in a single season.
• Anti-Villain: She is a journalist at the end of the day; she's just not afraid to break a few rules and/or laws to make sure her stories get out.
• Deadpan Snarker: Trella let's out some wisecracks here and there, much to the chagrin of her tribe members.
• The Dividual: Like Parmesan and Ghost Bro/Alfredo before them, they're essentially two people acting as a single player in the game, although Trella is recognized as the primary player.
• Freudian Excuse: Her parents ran a crime ring. Her refusal to tolerate this, including assaulting her own family members, helped to develop her into the deeply controversial person she is today.
• Given Name Reveal: Using leaked information from Auriya, Amika reveals Trella's first name is actually Estrella at the Day 11 Immunity Challenge.
• Henshin Hero: Heroism is ambiguous, but it turns out she can perform an EM Wave Change with an entity in her wristband, taking on the moniker Starri Knight when she does so. She first uses it to help her tribe win the first immunity challenge and it then appears every few challenges or so afterward.
• Jerkass: Trella lacks much of the humor of the other antagonist characters, instead coming off as regularly callous and confrontational.
• Never My Fault: Tends to respond rather poorly to criticism, or even positive pointers from people like Grace, whom she insists "blew her jury vote" when she briefly insinuates that the two are in any way similar. Far earlier in the game she also refused to take accountability or even try to understand why she was on the outs of her tribe to begin with; namely, openly targeting Amika and refusing to either apologize or own up to it.
• Obviously Evil: Subverted in the case of Auriya, who ends up being one of the most pleasant and sincere characters of the cast despite his threatening, demon-like appearance.
• Sentimental Drunk: She's much more pleasant though still albeit blunt when she's drunk. After winning the Reward challenge on Day 32 and bringing the women on reward, she admits to her faults in a confessional and apologizes to Bria for her betrayal of Stone.
• Spock Speak: Auriya tends to speak in this matter.
• Intrepid Reporter: Known for getting in trouble with authorities in her pursuits to get scoops.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: She was targeted pretty much regularly the moment Stone was gone, and it was only through winning immunity or risky idol plays from other players that she was able to make it all the way to the final 6... but of course, luck could only carry her so far.
• Troll: Lies to Grace about voting for her at Ponderosa, just to make her panic at a third vote for Bria at the live vote reveal.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Downplayed. Other than being on the villain tribe, Trella herself is merely a cynical and callous individual while Auriya is sociable and jovial, albeit grandiose.
• Virtual Sidekick: Auriya, a large, blue, monstrous looking FM-ian living in her wristband that she's able to summon at will.

Danger Roo

Follow your dreams kids, turn them into a reality! You can do it! I believe in you!

An imaginary friend resembling a kangaroo who hopes to reconnect with the child who imagined him up by appearing on Survivor.

First Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends fan character.

• Actually a Good Idea: After Haru teaches him basic strategy on a whim, he proposes a plan to Auriya to flush out Nyles's idol by voting for Crab instead. Though the plan ultimately never goes through and they instead split the vote between Nyles and Karen that round, Auriya is visibly stunned by his sudden bout of competency and wonders if Danger is dying.
• Bag of Holding: His pouch can carry an assortment of things that don't look like they should fit, from a giant mallet to a gun.
• Good Is Dumb: Has easily the biggest heart on the Eraqus tribe but due to his Honor Before Reason / Ideal Hero mindset he gets easily taken advantage of by players who are more Pragmatic Heroes at best and Nominal Heroes or outright villains at worst. Is also noticeably one of the few times a character of this archetype is explicitly called out for being dumb in-universe.
• Heroic BSoD: Oskar's elimination completely and utterly breaks him. He almost disappears from reality entirely until a pep talk from Auriya post-swap improves his spirits.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Is utterly convinced that Oskar is an innocent kid who just needs guidance in life. This is despite the fact that he is both 18 and an unrepentant Jerkass who constantly belittles his tribe, allies included.
• Hypocrite: Gets angry at people for playing traitorous, villainous games... yet this is the person who works with and makes excuses for Oskar, goes on a deeply irrational anti-Masanari campaign, and later tells Trella to her face that he's going to vote her out. After being one of the seemingly most heroic members of his tribe pre-merge, he emerges as being just as unheroic as the rest of his tribe.
• Kangaroos Represent Australia: Occasionally speaks with an Australian accent, complete with assorted mates and g'days thrown in. It regularly slips, bewildering his fellow players.
• Keet: A very excitable lad.
• Kid Hero: He's apparently only six.
• Nice Guy: Incredibly friendly, and is one of the few members of his tribe who are willing to keep being nice to Sally-Anne once her horse talk wears out its welcome. However...
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: It's a slow progression where he grows more and more hypocritical as the game goes on, but once he learns about Joey's passing he makes a pivot to either antiheroism or full villainy depending on who you ask.

Orpheus Re

I GROW TIRED OF THESE GAMES! EMERGE AND FIGHT ME WITH HONOR YOUR SCOUNDREL!

The "Prince of Darkness", a monster with a bombastic voice and delusions of grandeur.

First Undertale fan character.

• Arc Villain: For the first half of the merge and ultimately for Haru's story arc.
• Cartoon Creature: He's some kind of anthropomorphic animal-like being, though he doesn't appear to be any specific animal.
• Chuunibyou: Downplayed, as he actually does have the level of influence and ability that he claims to; he's simply very, very dramatic about it.
• Control Freak: Though lacking in Nyles's Sanity Slippage, he's still evidently quite angry when things don't go his way, especially when Amika takes control of Xehanort. This extends to his treatment of his allies, from turning on and trying to vote out Stone for pivoting the final pre-merge vote to Amika, to effectively coercing his only close ally Haru into an alliance she doesn't want to be a part of and altogether being incredibly possessive of the latter.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Goes on a rant about this at the second tribal council, pointing out that when you turn out the light in your bedroom, you are not immediately surrounded by evil. It's a sore point for him.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Haru is the only person willing to tolerate him. It's to the point where at the Final 8, when Haru practically shows her entire hand to the remaining cast, Orpheus still gets voted out because of how annoying everyone thinks he is.
• Large Ham: Almost every sentence out of his mouth is in all caps.
• Light 'em Up: Ironically, his signature ability is conjuring floating blades made of light.
• Power Nullifier: Null Envoid, an ability which can undo or reverse any superpowers being used within a radius of himself. It's shown to work both on Masanari's form change and Trella's henshin-styled transformation.
• The Proud Elite: His family's role in regulating the Underground's darkness and his own "Prince of Darkness" title have given him a heavily inflated ego, though how elite he actually is has yet to be seen.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Making it to the merge makes him more and more irrational and possessive of his only ally. Once Haru tries to build other alliances away from him, he basically snaps and starts paranoiacally claiming that she's trying to vote him out.
• Weakened by the Light: Subverted despite his own beliefs before the merge. He's resistant to moving to Eraqus's camp at the merge feast due to his fear that the sun will harm him. As it turns out however, he was just staring directly at said sun and hurting his eyes that way. Naturally, no one lets him live this down.

Karen (formerly Nyako-Chan)

Note to self... I am not immune to peer pressure, manipulation... or abject terror...

A Ridiculously Human Robot created by one Dr. Haisha, she rejects her programming quickly and resolves to become her own person.

First Nichijou fan character.

• Best Friend: Becomes one for Amika almost immediately, and their bond proves to immediately be one of the most wholesome of the season.
• Cat Girl: In a bid to be more appealing to humans, she was given cat ears, paws and a tail.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: A platonic version of this, as she becomes incredibly possessive of Amika when she starts spending more time with Saroka, to the point where she wound up leading the charge against her at Tribal Council to near-unanimous success.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Deeply resents her creator and the role that was thrusted onto her, and dearly wishes to carve her own path in life.
• It Amused Me: By the Final 9, she's completely forgotten why she hated Crab^ReasonIt's because he called her heavy., and only keeps doing it because she finds it fun.
• Meaningful Rename: Came up with the name Karen on her own when Mystic Manager suggests a rebrand. It also helps symbolize her desire to become an independent person by no longer going by her model name.
• Only in It for the Money: It turns out at the reunion that she started selling plushies after the season. When asked why she chose to do so, she responds plainly with a single word: "Money."
• Plucky Comic Relief: Brings a level of deadpan (albeit not snarky) humor to the proceedings whenever she's on screen.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: She's a robot designed to be appealing to humans; a mechanical waifu, basically. She's more than capable of fighting against her original purpose and developing her own thoughts and desires instead.
• Robot Girl: Well, of course, she's a girl who's a robot.
• Robot Maid: The maid dress is part of her shtick to be more appealing.
• The Stoic: When not doing the fake cutesy mode, Karen is actually only slightly less stoic than Season 17's Joy, with an unchanging expression and her expressing her thoughts and feelings in a relatively monotone, deadpan tone.
  • Not So Stoic: Later events prove to break this down bit by bit, notably when Saroka starts to bond with Amika and when Amika is voted out.

Stone

At least I won't have to worry about any imposters backstabbing, lying and manipulating us... why are you laughing?

A crewmate and single parent coming into the game with a lot of baggage from a traumatic event they endured.

First Among Us fan character.

• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a snazzy white suit and a fedora, and can hold their own with the rest of their tribe well.
• Determinator: Even when they're left as an underdog by their own doing, they refuse to give up at any point, successfully deflecting the target away from them multiple times until early on in the merge when their luck finally runs out.
• The Faceless: Is seen with the helmet slash mask of a typical crewmate on at all times. Doesn’t stop them from being expressive when they need to be though.
• Floating Limbs: As with the crewmates in their series, whenever they need hands to hold or gesture to things they’ll appear floating to their side. Somehow they never realized this was how their hands worked until Auriya pointed it out.
• Honor Before Reason: Refuses to join the majority villain alliance in fear of falling victim to the hive mind, and due to a similar traumatic experience in their past. It pretty much immediately leads to them being on the outs of the tribe once Amika starts calling the shots.
• In-Series Nickname: Is regularly called a bean due to their shape.
• Only Sane Person: Was first this on Xehanort, and very quickly became this for the merged tribe once it became clear that everyone else was either unhinged, an idiot, some manner of Jerkass, or Bria.
• The Paranoiac: Is quick to question people with little evidence if they think something is off. They eventually become aware of this and attempt to reign it in, but the damage to their game is done.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: A survivor of a mission gone south, they went into the game with some rather hefty emotional baggage.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Evidently, their Determinator nature and ability to flip votes off of themselves so expertly made them too much of a threat to keep around, and they only barely squeaked into the top half of placements.
• Token Good Teammate: Probably the only member of Xehanort without any actual villainous qualities, mainly just being a paranoiac who's prone to making irrational decisions.
• Tragic Keepsake: They wear a Jade Diamond on their hat as a reminder and a memento to their partner/lover who shares the same name as the diamond who died during "The Polus Tragedy".

Masanari Tategaminu

They can have all the best plans in the world, but nothing can stop brute force baby!

A rough-and-tumble superhero with a love of metal music and strength.

First Live A Hero fan character.

• Cast from Calories: His stout physique is actually a form he assumes when he's well-fed, specifically on protein-rich food.
• Fatal Flaw: His insecurity forces him to retreat into a shell of toxic masculinity and bro-iness. Though this act is what makes him feel most comfortable, the irony is that people far preferred being around him when he wasn't pretending to be so macho, not to mention him being far easier to manipulate when wearing this persona (as exemplified by Crab's relatively simple lie that Danger was still targetting him being what causes his game to spiral).
• Fun Size: He's one of the physically weakest and smallest competitors on the season when he's not well-fed.
• Heinous Hyena: Downplayed, as while he's not exactly a cheery or overly pleasant individual, and is prone to meatheadedness and playing into tropes of toxic masculinity, he's not outwardly malicious, and when he realizes what Geneva and Saroka are doing to Gaylen he loudly berates them.
• Hidden Depths: As it turns out by Episode 5, he's not nearly the meathead he acts like around others, having put on the persona after gaining weight as he got older. He actually used to be a quiet, meek band kid.
• Large Ham: Has a big personality and is rather vocal, to the annoyance of some members of his tribe.
• Manly Gay: Has a boyfriend back home, which he explains after Felix admits to having concerns about his comments toward Gaylen.
• Metalhead: A big fan of the genre, but admits he's only a small-time musician.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Though he's mostly a fan of metal, he proves to have a soft spot for Bria's work as Glissanda, which is implied to be incredibly poppy.
• Stout Strength: One of the strongest competitors on Eraqus alongside Geneva.
• The Twink: In his true form. Amika even tries to enlist him as a friend since she apparently always wanted a twink best friend.

Nyles Ariva

I'm a prosecutor. We're already villains in the eyes of the general public, but that doesn't bother me.

An undefeated prosecutor looking to extend his winning record to reality television.

Sixth Ace Attorney fan character.

• Crazy Enough to Work: Learns that Danger is in possession of Sally-Anne's idol and concocts a plan to take it for himself by claiming Crab found a Knowledge is Power advantage at a challenge (as seen in Survivor 41 and 42; in actuality, Crab was coerced into burning the advantage he found at the challenge Nyles was referring to). Nyles doesn't think it'll work, but Danger, being himself, somehow falls for it and gives away the idol with no strings attached.
• Control Freak: His slipping sanity has much to do with his inability to take control of the tribe or make any grand plays due to others on his tribe being far more competent than he anticipated.
• Doing Research: Apparently did some research on some of his fellow contestants before the game started to prepare beforehand. This extends to Grace, for example, with him knowing about a courtroom trial she was the defendant in.
• Face Elimination With Dignity: Once it became clear that he was on the chopping block, Nyles decided it'd be easier to just take the gamble and avoid playing his idols in the hopes that his plan to vote out Stone would work. If it did, he'd still have two idols. If not, he would basically get to go on a sixteen-day, all-expenses-paid vacation.
• Graceful Loser: Shockingly so, as after he's voted out he seems quite relieved to be out of the game, so much as to gloat in everyone's faces about the fancy food and drinks he'll be enjoying at Ponderosa.
• Honor Before Reason: Is convinced that Grace murdered her husbands, and as a result becomes obsessed with the idea of being the one to take her out of the game even when there are other, far more popular options to boot, even willingly working with an openly racist Yeefrey for a round.
  • This attitude of his comes back to bite him in the rear once more at the merge tribal council, where he refuses to use his idol out of anger at being told what to do, resulting in his elimination.
• Mask of Sanity: Even as the cracks in his facade start to slip in confessionals, he acts ever courteous and confident when dealing with his fellow contestants.
• Middle Name Basis: Turns out Nyles is his middle name. His first name is Dumphrey.
• The Perfectionist: To an absurd degree. Is bent on making sure his perfect courtroom record extends to his Survivor game as well. It's to the point where even though he's in a perfectly healthy game position, he's ranting and raving to the cameras because he's not The Chessmaster he wants to be.
• Punny Name: "Nile's a river." Well, he is an Ace Attorney character.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: As is fitting of a prosecutor, his suit is very neat and professional-looking.
• Sorry, I'm Gay: How he ends up turning Sally-Anne down when she attempts to very forwardly flirt with him. He was also completely truthful.
• Villainous Breakdown: It takes shockingly little time for him to snap after his first attempt to get Grace out falls through. Specifically, when Orpheus reveals to him after he approaches him about an alliance that he already has an alliance. By the time Haru shows up to reveal she recruited Grace into said alliance as well, he's reduced to sobbing.
  • Has multiple more throughout the game, but the final one happens right before he's voted out, where he quite literally passes out due to how angry he is at people telling him to just use his idol. He wakes up soon after and is calm enough to avoid freaking out again by the end of tribal.

Eliminated

Amiyo "Amika" Mikanao and Mystic Manager

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It wasn't even that toxic... V-BABEY98 is a trashy, hot mess express, and someone had to say it.

A Pro Hero who doubles as a social media influencer with some mild controversy. She is joined by the manifestation of her Quirk, the rabbitlike and robotlike Mystic Manager.

Second My Hero Academia fan character.

• Bad Influencer: Turns out she's got a manipulative streak, which probably explains why, despite being a superhero, she's on the Villains tribe.
• Best Friend: For Karen shortly after the game starts, thanks to her helping the latter with forming her own identity and the two just generally getting along very well.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Prior to Episode 3 she was viewed as a quirky but otherwise well meaning person who couldn't view herself as a villain in the first place and would rather pushes people like Stone as the untrustworthy ones due to the series they're from, but once she founded out that Trella was attempting to blindsided her for thinking she's pulling off an act; Amika shows off her true self when confronting "Crabby" about it (His name was listed as people Trella talked to before tribal) and started gaslighting him into given her the info she wants and seeing him as someone she can easily manipulative into being her friend and ally, cluing the viewers why she got put on the villains' tribe in the first place.
  • It ends up being Downplayed to an extent, as at some point it becomes clear that she's not actively trying to be malicious, she just has the capacity to be given enough pressure.
• Disc-One Final Boss: The leader of the Xehanort establishment, suddenly taken out right before the merge in a last-ditch effort by Stone to save themselves.
• Genki Girl: Even with her occasional villainous tones, she's a rather energetic and bubbly character who tries her best to be actively sociable.
• Irrational Hatred: Because Stone is from Among Us, she is immediately convinced that Stone is an imposter (the villainous aliens from the game) and uses this to excuse excluding and targetting them, along with openly accusing Stone of murdering their partner at one point.
• The Leader: Of Xehanort, being at the center of both the social and strategic dynamics on the tribe.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: How she frames her interactions with V-BABEY98, which she says are all anyone knows her for anymore.
• Summon Magic: Her power/quirk is the ability to summon "Mystic Manager" (also nicknamed Mystie or Bun-Bun), a rabbit-like robot who also acts as her social media manager.
• Translator Buddy: For Mystie, who only speaks in rabbit noises.
• Vague Age: Her being a Pro Hero indicates she's at least graduated high school, though she mentions U.A. at least once in a way that implies she still attends.
• Villainous Breakdown: She's initially able to brush off Stone's attempt at gunning for her at Tribal Council. Though Gaylen flipping ticks her off, it's ultimately Haru openly and blatantly turning on her that gets her to snap. Then learning that Masanari and Grace both voted for her as well causes her to break into a screaming fit which eventually switches to crying, forcing Mystic Manager to drag her off.

Sally-Anne Mabel

Am ah a hero? I reckon so.

A horse rancher whose single-minded interest in horses makes her a social pariah on her tribe.

First Stardew Valley fan character.

• All Girls Like Ponies: Has a rather single-minded interest in her horses. It very, very quickly gets on her tribe's nerves.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It's been shown throughout the pre-merge that anyone who's looking to cross her, specifically Electra and Oskar, is bound for a trip out of the game by her hand.
• Motor Mouth: Once she gets talking about her horses, she just keeps going.
• Nice Girl: At the start, she's one of the few genuinely pleasant people on her tribe, single-target interests aside. She does, however, progressively get less and less nice as her time on the season continues.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: Is officially medically evacuated after a leg injury, but the medic, Bea, describes it as Munchausen syndrome due to the lack of an actual injury, and given how quickly she recovers it's heavily implied she actually quit and only made up the injury.
• Polyamory: Her fiancé seems to have suggested they make their relationship open. Sally-Anne is using it as an opportunity to try and find someone she likes on the island.
• Sanity Slippage: Starts to grow irritable once she becomes dedicated to trying to find a romantic partner on the season. When it's clear she's not finding anyone, she basically snaps, and one of the last things she does before she's eliminated is throwing a tribe reward challenge.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Effectively gives up on the game after the swap due in large part to how her tribe treats her, along with her failures in finding a suitable romantic partner. It culminates in what is heavily implied to be a quit right before the Episode 7 immunity challenge when she learns Danger gave away her idol to Nyles.
• Wall of Blather: Once she gets to camp and gets to talking about her horses, her speech starts to take up most of the screen.

Absaroka "Saroka" Sunie

Hey, I wasn't asking for permission... I was asking if it'd be funny, and I think it will be.

A player with some particular similarities to former contestant Montana Raines, which remains a sore point for her.

First Paralives fan character.

• Always Someone Better: Is convinced that no matter what she does, she'll always be convinced to Montana and that everyone will prefer the latter over her.
• It's Personal:
  • Takes it incredibly personally when her ally Geneva is voted out.
  • Likewise, her hatred of Montana is also deeply personal; her desire to get onto the show in the first place and do better than Montana is built on her being cast for Season 3, only to be dropped at the last minute in favor of someone else; she believes this someone else to be Montana due to their similarities.
• Jerkass: Frequently insults people and openly contributes to Gaylen's harassment.
• Let's See YOU Do Better!: Was reportedly pretty unimpressed with Montana, calling her a "privileged little bimbo", and signed up to prove that she could, indeed, do it better. She could not.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Came out as gay a year before the season started.
• Sincerest Form of Flattery: Subverted; she's very explicitly modeling her game off of Montana, previously of seasons 3 and 20, though she's actually not a fan of all, if anything she outright dislikes Montana.
• Straw Hypocrite: Claims to be taking a stand against 'Hatred and Bigotry on a Daily Basis' but is very judgemental to anyone that isn't apart of her inner social circle and regularly harasses Gaylen for his appearance combined with his sexuality.

Oskar Nilsson

...and quite frankly, I do genuinely think that all of my tribemates are below me.

A prodigious student whose intellect doesn't make him any better at handling people.

First Degrassi: The Next Generation fan character.

• Insufferable Genius: Incredibly smart, and because of it he’s convinced he’s better than the entire rest of his tribe.
• It's Personal: Targets and manages to narrowly take out Felix because of comments the latter made about his challenge prowess at the previous tribal.
• Jerkass: Takes advantage of Danger's Ideal Hero mindset and has no issues with insulting his fellow teammates with little reason beyond just feeling like it.
• Nominal Hero: If anything, he resents being on the heroes tribe, finding them all to be below him.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Whether he’s a genius or not back home, he’s still just another contestant at the end of the day.
• Sore Loser: Gets angry at production because the swap wasn't on episode 5, going as far as to claim production is rigging him out when they refuse to let Danger quit in his place once he's idoled out by former ally Sally-Anne.
• Starter Villain: The overarching antagonist of the pre-swap portion of the game, though he ultimately doesn't even pass the first quarter of placements.
• Teen Genius: A brilliant academic and one of the youngest members of the cast.
• Villainous Breakdown: Starting from his boot episode, when the swap doesn't happen at the usual time he starts to slowly break down throughout the episode. By the time of tribal, he's more irate than ever, with his behavior being what causes Sally-Anne to turn on him.

Felix Gesse

You kiddin' right? I've been insecure plenty in life... especially out here.

A librarian and amateur mystery solver who ends up being one of the most grounded people on an otherwise volatile tribe.

First Nancy Drew fan character.

• Amateur Sleuth: Frequently aids his local detectives with cases, despite only being a librarian.
• Fatal Flaw: He is very wishy-washy, being unable to commit to making the right decision due to worrying too hard about making conservative game moves. It leads him to voting to save Geneva at her boot episode, only to lie about it later... with him having to come clean being what solidifies Oskar targeting him due to wanting to target the jocks' alliance that tried to save Geneva.
• The Generic Guy: Just a generally pleasant, agreeable person who only really gets annoyed with Sally-Anne and general bigotry, though as a result he doesn't prove to stand out much outside of being, well, the normal one on Eraqus.
• Only Sane Man: Stands out as this extremely early, leading to him being one of the quieter, least volatile members of his tribe.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Openly admits he’s not as strong as his physique would suggest.
• Straight Gay: If he hadn’t outed himself during his team's first tribal council while defending Gaylen for Masanari's earlier comments about the latter no one would had notices at all that he was into guys.

Geneva Weller

Let me guess, the same "Curse of the Sissy Femboy" applied all that makeup too?

A member of Overwatch whose narrow-minded world view leads to her clashing with multiple members of her tribe.

First Overwatch fan character.

• Action Girl: She's a member of Overwatch, after all.
• Arm Cannon: See Determinator below. It apparently shoots lasers.
• Determinator: Described by Jeff as the type who would look at a missing arm and just replace it with a laser cannon two days later - and as it turns out, she quite literally does have a laser cannon.
• Good Is Not Nice: See Noble Bigot below.
• Jerkass to One: Is otherwise decent to everyone on her tribe, though she's made a habit of bullying Gaylen due to viewing him as a Camp Straight, including giving him the insulting nickname "Gayboy".
• Never My Fault: Even when she understands that her tribe is mad at her and that she messed up somehow, she seems to be unable to comprehend the idea that she could possibly be a bigot or a bully, and even when she's voted out she insists that it was all a misunderstanding.
  • Heel Realization: It took her getting home after the game and being confronted by her comrades about her behavior for her actions to finally sink in. That combined with sensitivity training forced her to confront what she did, and unlike other premerge villains she's shown to be actively remorseful for her behavior; she's even one of the few people who are friends with previous victim Gaylen outside of the game.
• Noble Bigot: Part of the Overwatch group that fights the Bad Guys for the sake of mankind... but has also acted heavily homophobic toward Gaylen (who isn’t even gay; she insists he’s acting as an offensive stereotype while ironically stereotyping him herself) and states in confessional that if the show would allow it she would use her Arm Cannon to blast him into the sky.

Yeefrey

that hurt but like... *Belch* a good kinda hurt y'know...

An NFT who is repulsive in just about every aspect.

First The Red Ape Family fan character.

• Black Comedy Cannibalism: In order to try and get everyone to respect him, Yeefrey decides to tell a story about eating someone because they called him cringe. After he clarifies that this actually happened, the tribe calls a truce and votes him out immediately.
• Gasshole: Belches at least once per sentence. It's rather repulsive.
• Epic Fail: In an attempt to get his tribe to respect him, he tells a tale about how he ate someone's face because they called him cringe. This causes the entire tribe to immediately vote him out.
• Hated by All: The production crew begged Jeff not to cast him, and Jenny of Season 17 is immediately repulsed by him during the cast release, but Jeff just saw it as a sign of a great villain and put him on anyway.
• Hate Sink: Pretty much no redeeming qualities to speak of, he’s deliberately designed to be as repugnant as possible in both appearance and personality as a simple Take That! to the whole NFT trend.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Auriya is quick to exclude him from the pool of "interesting and compelling characters" out of the villains.
  Auriya: THIS TRIBE IS FILLED WITH UNIQUE, INTERSTING AND COMPELLING CHARACTERS, AND YEEFREY!
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Sexist toward Amika and Karen, and racist toward Nyles, all within the span of one episode.
• Straw Misogynist: When we actually get some words out of him, he turns out to be rather degrading to the women on his tribe, and describes Amika trying to be nice to him as "a woman actually making a good point for once".

Electra Johnston

What the hell is this, the "Great Outdoors?" Yeah right! Can't be that great if it doesn't even have Wifi.

A professional hacker whose skill with a computer is only matched by her boldness and her ego.

First Cyberpunk 2077 fan character.

• Big "SHUT UP!": Delivers one to Sally-Anne on Day 2 after the latter accidentally runs into her, followed by a lengthy, insult-laden rant.
• Delinquent Hair: Though older than what most would consider a delinquent (she's 31), she does still sport a mohawk to go along with the cyberpunk, vigilante aesthetic.
• Sore Loser: Her Fallen Comrades segment is dedicated to her cussing out Sally-Anne for getting her eliminated and wishing she could make her life a living Hell, lamenting her inability to do so due to Sally-Anne's low-tech lifestyle.
• Tomboy: Has a rather boyish hairstyle and speaks in a very informal, brash tone.
• Too Clever by Half: Is absolutely convinced after she finds a hidden immunity idol that she can use it to pull a big move by taking out Danger. She ultimately blunders, however, when she attempts to hold Sally-Anne's vote hostage in exchange for using the idol on her, leading to Sally-Anne voting for her and Electra being taken out on the revote. Whoops.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: In the grand scheme of the season, where most boots were incredibly important to the story or simply over-the-top presences, Electra got very little time to show the audience much about her aside from her cockiness.