Rhea Sunshine

**Money Won:** | $125,000

**Rhea Sunshine** was a female contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. She first appeared on the second season, The Royalty Challenge: Blood vs. Water, with her pair Ludvig Karlsson where they were the fifteenth pair eliminated; placing in 5th place. She returned in The Royalty Challenge: Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty with her team **Beauty** where she finished in 2nd place.

In **Blood vs. Water**, Rhea came into the season with her partner and they instantly set the tone for the season by being the first rookie/veteran pair to win a challenge in Round 1. Whilst playing low in the first-half of the game, Rhea's personality made her social game strong and managed to get her close with Derpy Yerger/TN Tea and Emily Finch/Randi Smith in the Best Accents alliance. She also had a close relationship with Nathaniel Santos. After siding with the veterans in the Round 7 public vote to send Blake Sanders/Tasha Gaspard into elimination, Randi exposed the veteran/rookie alliance Blood Ring to Rhea; leading to them creating a plan to flip on the majority and throw the daily challenge to Blake/Tasha. She received praise and joined forces with the rookie/rookie pairs in the Praise Queen Rhea alliance. Once Blood Ring caught wind of the rookie's plans, they decided to turn on Ludvig/Rhea for their decision to side with the rookie pairs. After crushing and winning their first elimination, Rhea/Ludvig became targets for the following rounds. Eventually, they lost the Round 11 daily challenge which resulted in them being in the Warzone. After Andy Cook/Malik Cordova were voted in Rhea/Ludvig continued their streak and won against them. During the finale, Rhea emotionally pulled her team from the race after Ludvig disappeared with little communication; placing them in 5th place.

In **Brain vs. Brawn vs. Beauty**, Rhea started the game representing Team Beauty. Rhea found herself not included in Nick Miller's majority alliance on original Beauty; and she was suspicious due to his online activity without responding to her. Regardless, she remained social with the rest of the team and targeted the inactive players such as Max Tshife and Callie Jones in the early stages of the game. A few days in, she became a part of the cross-team alliance with Brawn created by Nick; Beauties and the Beasts. Rhea adopted the under the radar strategy; wanting to not be seen as a threat but also not being seen as week to her team. During the swap, she was placed on Brain with the player she felt closest to on her original tribe; James X. She was also reunited with her former allies from the previous season Julien Hiraga and Lex Quinn; forming the New Brain Power alliance. She intentionally didn't speak to Christian Cruz as she wanted to vote him into elimination. Trying to play in the middle of both sides; Rhea had to eventually make a decision to turning on one of her allies. She flipped on Julien and voted him into elimination. James and his ally Joshua Williams became wary of her strategy and left her out of The Revolution alliance; believing she was too connected to OG Brawn. Rhea eventually got a position of power when Liam Lovelis and Otto O'Reilly invited her to join the Leaders; leading to them voting in Joshua and him calling her fake. Liam and Otto's decision lead Rhea to be bombarded with messages about how she's being used as a pawn in someone else's game; including OG Brawn member Ben Gaspard. Believing her capabilties were being underestimated, Rhea proved herself in her only elimination of the season against Isabel Banks when she was voted in by new Brawn; winning and returning to the game. She managed to survive the final vote for the final elimination of the season and guaranteed her spot in the finale. During the finale, Rhea and team members James and Otto just lost-out and finished as the runners-up of the season.

## **Trivia**

* Rhea is the first person to be pulled out of a finale due to their partner not being able to compete.
* Rhea is the first rookie to win a challenge with a veteran partner.
* Rhea is the first Australian challenger.
* Rhea is the first female challenger to have 3 overall elimination wins without a loss.