Rye

Rye, otherwise known as RyeWritesAF, is a contestant from Survivor: Kgalagadi and Survivor: Abruzzo.
==Profile==
===Survivor: Kgalagadi===
Name: Rye (16)
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers​​
Current Residence: I live in Canada, and my timezone is EST!
Personal Claim to Fame: I think my personal claim to fame is that I'm a creative performer who just wants to put on a show and make people happy. As a big arts student, not only do I do visual art, but I also do musical arts and dramatic arts! As a dramatic artist, I love being dramatic and creating stunning performances! I think my favourite thing I do in drama is monologues, because they require a lot of emotion and characterization. You can't move around too much on stage without your words getting lost to the audience, so you have to get creative with your mannerisms to make sure your character really shines through.
And tying back into what I said earlier about visual arts, I think this is something really special about me because everything I do and everything I love all relates back to just wanting to entertain people and make them feel content. With my characters and stories, I put them on display and show them to people in hopes that they can get into and enjoy what I create! I want y work to give people a sense of happiness whenever they see it/read it/watch it/however they intake my content. In ORGs? Yes, I play to win and but I also play to have fun and make sure others around me are having fun. If they're not? Then I try my best to comfort them and support them so they ca enjoy the experience again! I speak through my confessional in a fun and engaging way so that even when there's drama going on in the game, I can be that fresh breath of air that every spectator and player needs every once in a while. Even if I flop in an ORG, I try to at least make sure my name is one that will be remembered from that season through my personality and mannerisms!
All I want is to help people be happy and feel inspired through my characters, my stories, my peformances and just through being around me, and I think that is what my personal claim to fame is.
Hobbies: Well, nowadays, thanks to Corona, I can't do half the stuff I used to. I used to be actively involved with Archery and Broomball (a canadian sport) around my school, but those kinds of things are off the table now. Despite playing a few sports though, I wouldn't call myself a sporty person by any means, because most of my hobbies revolve around english and the arts! I adore writing stories and creating fantasy worlds inside of my mind to translate onto paper in hopes other people will see and appreciate my work.I love world building specifically, because there's no rules when it comes to world building! You're the god and you get to choose what goes! (I don't have a god complex I promise I just think it's fun having creative liberty :dance:) And while we're on the subject of creation, another big part of writing I enjoy is creating characters! I love starting with a simple concept, and continuing to build and build onto it until I've got a fully established character that I can enjoy and share! I think my favorite part of character building is making their personality, their rights, and their morals, and seeing how they conflict and interact with other people, their environment and different situations that happen to them! As an added bonus, I also tend to draw a lot of my characters! I love art and I love getting to design things, so since grade 6, I've been self teaching myself art! However, I don't just do all of this creative stuff! After all, I'm out here applying for this ORG, aren't I? I'm not sure if playing in ORGs require a lot of creativity LMAO But luckily enough, I'm not just a creative person! ORGs is currently the biggest hobby of mine, because I enjoy how time consuming they are and I love how most of the time, putting in effort will give you positive results. As I mentioned in my app, I usually work very hard socially in ORGs to ensure that I"m not before the merge. I put in the effort to ensure that people will want me to stick around. I love that an ORG can sometimes take up most of my day, and then I don't have to worry about feeling bored throughout the day or trying to decide what I'm going to do.
I also really enjoy the gameplay part of ORGs, specifically the strategical side, because most of the time if you're being strategic, you have to be sneaky and deceitful, which leads into another big hobby of mine: Playing games! Whether it's by myself or with friends, I love a good game every once in a while. However, my favourite types of games overall are games that involve strategy and deceit! Things like Town of Salem, Secret Hitler, Among Us, all of them are enjoyable to me because there's a lot you have to keep track of, and only the masters of manipulation and detecting lies can really succeed in those kinds of games. I also like playing other games like Bonk and Codenames with friends, that don't really involve lying, but often use strategy or just have fun concepts in general! And finally, if I'm stuck playing by myself, I tend to play horror based games like Until Dawn and Telltales TWD, or games similar to that!
I've made the grave mistake of letting myself become interested in way too many things, and therefore I've picked up a lot of hobbies that I sometimes struggle balancing :toaddistressed: But I wouldn't give up any of my hobbies for the world. I adore doing them all and even if it can be stressful, I know I can make time for all of them
Pet Peeves: t took me a minute to think of things that genuinely annoy me, because I'd like to think that there aren't many things that really grind my gears. I'm really good at tolerating things that come my way, for example, people I don't like, despite wanting nothing more than to be away with them.
I think my pet peeves are much more common ones that everyone has, like for example, when someone doesn't respect other people's triggers. I've had a personal experience with this actually. I told my friend about how fish trigger me (stupid I know) and asked them if they could refrain from posting realistic fish images in the server we shared. He then proceeded to spam our DMs with photos of fish after I just asked him not to and gave valid reasoning for doing so. That kind of stuff pisses me off, because I know it isn't so hard to respect people's triggers and avoid them.
I think the rest of my pet peeves just stem from living in a house with a lot of people honestly. I can't stand it when people leave my room without closing the door, mainly because my siblings do it all the time. I hate it when I'm sitting in a room with the lights off, and someone comes in, turns on the lights, and then later leaves without turning them off again. When your parents call you after you've just sat down and got comfortable, or when they shout at you to come to them when they could've just told you what they wanted to say from across the hallway? That's annoying as hell!
Oh also, whenever a show/movie/book series/etc. start making new content but keep breaking canon and make unnecessary changes? 🤢 I'm looking at you Monster High stick to the program dammit
3 Words to Describe You: Creative, Diplomatic, Extroverted
Favorite Season of Survivor: I don't know much about survivor, so I'm going to go off what I know about the survivor seasons, or at least the twists in each season and how their formatted. 
Clearly my favourite season is winners at war because I'm a winner bab- gets shot
I think my favourite season would have to be Blood vs Water. Out aof all the different survivor formats, this is the one I've played the most frequently and the one I feel like I relatively enjoyed the most. Something about getting to play with a loved one is super satisfying, and overall rewarding, even if you don't get to be in the game for long. It's like coming into the game with a free ally, since from my experience, most of the time your partner doesn't turn on you. Something big I value in survivor/ORGs it that you have the opportunity to meet so many new people and form so many great personal connections, and I can't stand it when people think they can treat others poorly because they feel as if they're in the minority or they're just against them in the game. Because of this, I love getting to be allies with all sorts of different people and players, as well as meeting familiar faces in ORGs and getting to play with them again! Connects are just a really big thing for me and I think BvW is the perfect example of that.
I also love the Redemption Island twist in it because I always jump at the chance to fight and get myself a spot back in the game. I may not be good at challenges, but just having the opportunity to return and finish up any unfinished business could be very rewarding. ALSO CAN I SAY I ADORE THAT YOU'RE ALLOWED TO SWITCH PLACES WITH YOUR LOVED ONE ON REDEMPTION I THINK THAT'S SO CUTE
Survivor Contestant You Are Most Like: This one is especially difficult because I've never seen a season of Survivor. I asked a friend real quick who they thought I related to, and they told me Colton Cumbie :dead: I did research on him real quick and proceeded to block said friend LMAO
But then they finally gave me a serious answer and told me that I reminded them of Debbie Warner, mainly due to her eccentric personality. I did a bit of research about her game, and although I may agree with the eccentric personality, it mentions a lot in her wiki that she was seem as unstable and got into a few arguments with others, which I feel like I barely do. HOWEVER something that I particularly liked while reading her wiki was this sentence:
However, she used others' perception of her to her advantage by downplaying her strategic acumen.
I feel like that definitely describes me in a sense because in ORGs, I often find myself being seen as a threat or being perceived in many different ways that are generally seen as bad. However, like Debbie, I find ways to twist this perception of myself and use it to my advantage, and help downplay my threat level in order to keep me alive longer in the game.
Honestly, I'm not sure if there are other survivor contestants who are more like me than Debbie, but that's okay! That just means I'm my own original character with a lot to offer that hasn't been seen before!
What’s your strategy coming into the season? Like I mentioned in my app, my strategy is going to be to play to my strengths socially, while working on finding a good balance of strategical game to mix in! Every ORG that I've won, I was able to do it because I played hard socially and put hours into making sure I had connections with everyone in the game. I plan to do the same here, by making sure I get an upper hand socially over others. Meanwhile, I really want to work on strengthening my social game, and finding a good balance between strategical and social this season. In the last ORG I won, CriminORG, I played like a strategical mastermind and took the entire game by storm, blindsidng anyone end everyone just because I could, and causing havoc across the entire game. I ended up winning Villain of the Season at the end of the day too! However, as fun as it was to be villainous like that, I know that if I try it again, it's just not going to end up as well as it did the first time. I need more of a balance if this strategy is going to work, and therefore, I want to use this opportunity to concoct a perfect balance between the two. You can have a godly strategy and plan to take over the game, but if you don't have the connections and if you don't have people willing to do it, it's never going to work.
Tl;dr: I'm going to continue to play my powerful social game premerge, and gain enough connections that come merge, I can pull out the strategic side of me and mastermind blindsides in order to seal my victory: The perfect balance of social and strategical, or heroic and villainous.
==Survivor: Kgalagadi==
===Season Summary===
===Voting History===
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Voted Out, Day 8 	Voted Out, Day 8 	Voted Out, Day 8
==Survivor: Abruzzo==
===Profile===
Name: Rye (17)
Prior to the beginning of Abruzzo, Rye didn't finish her pregame questions on time.
===Season Summary===
===Voting History===
==Trivia==
*Rye is the only female contestant from Udumo to not reach the merge phase.
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