Paris

**Paris** (parislives#1712) placed 9th in Season 9.

Starting her first org off as a social butterfly on the Drega Tribe, Paris would be well integrated into the majority of her tribe very quickly. She would quickly bond with Robert and Horhe in particular, and her social ties led her to being the sort of “leader” of the Drega Tribe. At the swap, Paris would initially find herself on the bottom when she wanted to “not be social to not be a threat,” leading swing vote Denim to consider her as the first boot should they lose. However, she quickly ditched this plan and became more active, winning over Denim and OG Tovui Skylar to form a new cross tribal majority “The Wackos.” This alliance would successfully eliminate Akira, but the following Tribal Council Paris was struggling with booting her OG Drega Robert next as planned. Despite wanting to keep him and planting seeds with Denim who already thought a Drega might be more useful at the merge than a Tovui, they would initially stick to the Wackos and vote for Robert. However, after Skylar stated they were sick (whether related or not), Paris would quickly ask if they could change their votes and go to Denim to flip, something that Denim was receptive to due to his own strategy. This would save Robert going into the merge, and essentially brand the three to the rest of the game moving forward as a trio. At the merge, Paris was initially in a very good spot. She had people from all angles coming to her, with a vast majority in the game wanting alliances and sub-alliances with her involved. This would see her as a power player in the initial round, something she seemed to have felt used to at this point. The following rounds, she would begin to confessional less and less, however, and took a more backseat approach to the game. As many were having idol-fever and wanting Ripple out due to her threat status and known idol, Paris seemed to be completely against this and wanted the she/her/they’s to stick together. She felt Ripple was good for her game until rounds later, not knowing like most of the game that Ripple actually possessed THREE hidden immunity idols. She would join Ripple and Zheema in their plan to flip on the “Blackpink in Your Area” alliance members after Zheema ratted, forming a voting bloc of these three plus Denim and Robert. At the last minute, they would also bring in Dar, leaving Kyle, Tye, and James completely blindsided and bitter. With her game already being clocked as a social threat due to her early merge success in alliances, Paris further felt her best avenue in the game would be to just stick with Ripple despite all the others minus Zheema wavering. While the others would voice their concerns of blindsiding Ripple, Paris would not be her social self this round to the full extent, especially due to also feeling a bit bitter at those who left her out of the previous vote. When seemingly unanimous target Tye won a clutch and surprise immunity at the auction, Paris’ alliance would seemingly shatter, with Denim, Dar, and Robert all initially defecting to a Ripple blindside. However, when Ripple stated intention to play her idol on herself and the players on the bottom were pitching, taking someone else out just in case, Denim and Robert would put their allegiance back into Ripple’s hands. This alliance would get paranoid, incorrectly assuming that Tye had the Tovui Idol and that she would definitely be playing it on one of their backup targets, leading them to split the votes onto Kyle and Dar. The minority (with Dar flipping back) instantly took hold of this, knowing they’d have the votes then to send someone packing. With James playing the middle, he was able to get Ripple to promise to play her idol on herself while they decided on voting between Zheema, Denim, and Paris. In the end, Paris was selected due to her social threat status as well as being one of the two in the majority to not express wanting a Ripple blindside at all to them. In the end, a 4-3-2 vote would send a shocked and bitter Paris to the Jury… Or so everyone thought. Paris would go on to leave the Jury and the server, breaking the game rules about picking bitter fights with players still in the game and calling Tye & Kyle sexist seemingly at random in a barrage of post TC messages. Due to this breaking of rules, negativity, and bad ORG etiquette, Paris was promptly banned from the server.