Talon Rowe

**Talon Rowe** is a contestant from *Survivor 25*.

As one of the oldest contestants on the Fans tribe, Talon was relegated to an early outcast, but he found himself in a majority multiple times. Including after the merge, Talon had a hand in a game-changing blindside, flipping on Ben Dubois and the majority alliance in order to better his position. After the flip, Talon attempted to play the middle, which blew up in his face, putting him on an island alone until his eventual elimination.

## Profile

**Age:** 40

**Current Residence:** Vero Beach, Fl.

**Occupation:** Firefighter

## Survivor

Talon was a member of the Pemuja tribe, consisting of fans of the show. Talon started the game on the outside of a Fan's majority alliance alongside Clara Souza, Danica Boiko and Francine Lamb, but due to the Fan's ability to win challenge, they were able to survive for the first seven days of the game.

When the Fans lost their first immunity challenge on Day 8, the majority alliance set their target on Clara, luckily for Talon. The lines in the sand became more clear as the day went on, the minority members rallied to go against Alex. At Tribal Council, Talon was able to survive when Jalen Bailey and Malayiah Howard flipped in the minority's favor. Heading into Day 9, Talon found himself in the majority. However, after Vinh's evacuation sped up the pace of the game, the tribes were surprised by a tribe swap on Day 10.

Talon remained on the Pemuja tribe alongside original tribe members Adrianna Crawford, Clara and Phenix Hernandez. The new Pemuja tribe saw early success winning three challenges, one reward and two immunity challenges. Throughout his time on Pemuja, Talon was brought into an alliance including his former fans tribe mates that also included Sammie Woodside. Talon rode with this alliance through the Tribal Council on Day 17 where he voted with the alliance which would be the only time he would vote during the pre-merge as they won the final challenge on Day 19.

The two tribes came together on Day 20 as the Alyak Tribe. The Pemuja tribe had the number advantage against the Berhala tribe in a 7 to 5 ratio. Talon was forced to stick with his swapped tribe when the opposing alliance decided to target him at the first vote. However, with the numbers advantage, the swapped tribes stuck together to vote out Kenza Bannani. Talon would come to realize quickly that he sat at the bottom of his alliance, and wanted to change his position in the game. Molan Bai and Ziya Bakshi approached Talon with the plan to blindside Ben Dubois if he flipped against his alliance. At Tribal Council, Talon decided to betray his alliance to vote out Ben, blindsiding him with a Hidden Immunity Idol. The following day, Talon wanted to hop between two alliances and continue to pick one member from each side rotating. With the swapped Berhala tribe realizing that Talon burned bridges with the other side, they would no longer need him for majority, especially with Kasey Portero on their side. Talon approached the swapped Pemuja tribe to regain trust with vote out Francine Lamb, but as expected from the other side, they no longer trusted him. At Tribal Council, Adrianna was voted out in a 5-4-1 vote, with Talon being the only vote against Francine.

The next day, Talon became the loner of the tribe with no real allies or support from his tribe. He wasn't able to win Immunity from the Survivor Auction or win immunity during the challenge. He went into Tribal Council wanting to get revenge on the swapped Berhala tribe for screwing him over. When Clara and Sammie presented him with an opportunity to vote out a member from the other, he took the opportunity. Feeling as he was gaining agency within the alliance again, he attempted to push to send Molan out behind her best friend in the game. However, deals made between Molan and members in the swapped Pemuja Alliance halted his push, and they decided to go with Francine, despite his efforts to still throw his vote her way. When his vote against Molan showed untrustworthy between Talon, the swapped Pemuja alliance decided that he was no longer needed for them. Kasey began to push for Talon as the next target as an attempt to continue to play the middle and protect her alliances. With his bridges being fully burned, Talon was finally voted out in a 5-1-1 vote, becoming the sixth member of the jury.