Jack

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Jack was a contestant on Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms. The lovable underdog, Jack had to fight from the bottom for virtually the whole game, but despite that made it all the way to F4, where he lost firemaking against Dawson to become the final juror. He captured the hearts of many of those watching, and thus was named Fan Favorite.

## Trevor's Cast Assessment

*A fellow Rem 5th place brother, I’m super excited to have him here! He’s definitely a social player and is a super likable dude, I just hope that he can manage to get a good fitting in and not get blindsided because from what it seems he does seem to go with the loyal approach when playing.*

## The Nine Realms

Sorted onto the Midgard tribe, Jack got off to a very slow start as he struggled to make connections with his tribemates early on, leaving him outside all the early alliances and seen as a strong candidate to be voted out should they lose the first challenge. Midgard did indeed lose the first challenge (Wrassling), and with the lowest score on the tribe, Jack looked like he could easily be the first boot of the season. Knowing he was in a lot of trouble, he scrambled to try and save himself, which included going to Adam - one of the leaders on the tribe - and expressing that he really wanted to work with him and that he'd be very grateful if he was saved. This helped push the target onto Shray instead, who was also seen as somewhat inactive and disliked by Tyler in particular. Shray was then eliminated unanimously, with Jack receiving her vote on the way out.

This by no means meant Jack was in a strong position on Midgard, with many still seeing him as the logical next boot, and Jack himself scared of the prospect of going to tribal again. Luckily for him, Midgard won the next challenge (the arena battle Hnefatafl), and he survived to the F18 swap. Sent to Vanaheim along with Adam and Tyler, he was joined by Colin, Griff and Pyro from Nidavellir. This was a much better situation for him, as his connection to Pyro from outside of the game gave him a base to work from with her, and he made it clear to her and Griff that he wanted to flip due to being on the bottom of Midgard. This led to that trio forming the Sumerbrandr alliance, while Tyler formed The Vanaheim Midgardians with Adam and Jack to try and keep Jack under their wing. However, unbeknownst to Jack, Colin felt exactly the same about Nidavellir as he felt about Midgard, and also planned on flipping immediately.

Their first challenge as a new tribe was the 24 Hour Scavenger Hunt, and the tribes were told they all needed to sit someone out, with that person going to Hel for the duration of the challenge. While Colin wanted to sit out, Griff pressured the rest of the tribe into sending Pyro, painting a target on the two of them. During the challenge, Griff first clashed with Logan and Mason in the arena, and then with Tyler, his own tribemate. While the challenge was still going on, Jack was told by Tyler and Adam that the plan would be to vote for Griff at tribal, but this was actually part of Tyler's plan to create a 3-2-1 to blindside Pyro, in case she won something while in Hel. Vanaheim ended up losing the challenge, and were sent to tribal once Pyro returned.

Tyler's plan unravelled when Colin got confused let it slip to Jack that Pyro was the real target, assuming that he was in on the plan. Jack immediately leaked this to Pyro (and Griff), and to try and fix things Tyler created the Fire Four with Adam, Jack and Colin, in which he tried to throw Griff under the bus, claiming that he couldn't be trusted. Jack was still on the fence, wanting to work with Pyro and Griff, so Tyler doubled down by baiting Griff into revealing that Jack was playing both sides (telling Griff that Jack wanted to vote for him), which he then shared with Jack. Not happy with Griff for blowing his cover, this drove a wedge between the two, but due to both of them wanting to stick with Pyro they still both voted for Colin, which caused a 3-3 tie and a revote, with the other three voting for Pyro. Jack quickly locked in his revote on Colin, willing to go to rocks and publicly stating that Pyro was the only person that he felt he could fully trust. Pyro tried and failed to get Tyler and Adam to flip on Colin by talking about how she and Griff were not a duo and that she would be willing to vote him out next, and after Griff came back online he was convinced to flip on Pyro in order to avoid rocks, eliminating her 3-1 on the revote. In her final words, Pyro - in an attempt to give Jack some amount of protection - stated that she had found the Nidavellir idol (true) and that she had transferred it to Jack before being voted out (false).

Jack took this lie and ran with it, immediately going to Adam after the vote and telling him that he did indeed have an idol. This worried Adam and Tyler, and they decided they would have to again try to make some sort of split happen should they go to tribal again. But they did not have to, as after Saish's quit Vanaheim earned immunity in the F16 Puzzle Gauntlet, despite Jack losing to both Kamil and Mason in the Masyu puzzle and not scoring any points. After this came the F15 trust rankings swap, where Jack had the lowest trust score of anyone in the game. Because of that, he was sent to Alfheim (AKA the "least trusted tribe") along with Griff, Colin, Jmoney, Sarah, Shannon and Aby B. Despite their differences at the F18 tribal, Griff quickly pulled Jack and Colin in to try and organize numbers to vote out Aby B, as she had been Muspelheim's sit-out at F18, and both Pyro and Jmoney (Jotunheim's sit-out) had claimed that she had won a challenge for a secret advantage while they were there (in actuality, Jmoney had won the advantage). Jack was happy to go along with Griff's plan, which was to bring in Jmoney and Sarah to split votes between Aby B and Shannon should they go to tribal.

They did not have to right away, as Alfheim pulled off the upset in the Guess Who challenge, but with a quick turnaround into the next cycle their luck ran out as they were destroyed in the 99 Bottles challenge. Griff's plan was also marred by the fact that Shannon won individual immunity for their tribal due to contributing the most in the challenge. This did not stop Aby B from being voted out though, as Griff convinced her and Shannon that there would be a vote split between Sarah and Jmoney, and after the two of them agreed to that, Aby B was eliminated in a 5-2 vote.

Next came the merge, where Jack again found himself on the bottom of the tribe along with Shannon and Sarah, the three of them pointed out as the perceived floaters in the game at that point. Due to everyone believing he had an idol, they consequently wanted to flush it, and so while Griff wanted to bring him in as a number to vote for Sarah, he also wanted to split the vote between Sarah and him. The F13 challenge was Greed, where two immunity necklaces would be up for grabs. Anyone could take them when made available, though it would come at the cost of the player who took it losing their vote at the F12 tribal. Knowing that he was again in danger and wanting to give himself some more time, Jack took one of the necklaces, with Mason taking the other one. With Jack now immune, the hope of flushing his idol was off the table, and he (along with everyone else except Griff) voted for Shannon, eliminating her 11-2, the other two votes landing on Sarah.

Without a vote at F12, and vulnerable after Logan won immunity, Jack was worried that he would be voted out because of this, though the lie about his idol continued to offer a bit of protection (though it would quickly backfire if a split was placed on him because of it). However, his name was not on the block for this vote, as Griff's insistence on going after a former Jotunheim combined with many others wanting to blindside Adam meant he was outside the crosshairs. Not having a vote, he was not included in the main plan to vote Adam, though he was perfectly happy with the end result as he had originally wanted to go after Adam the previous cycle. He also did not catch as much heat in the fallout from the vote as some others, as Tyler believed that Jack had not known that it was going to happen, and overall, players on both sides seemed unsure as to just how much Jack had actually known about the plan.

This did not mean Jack was climbing up in power though, as he was still stuck on the bottom and left outside the main alliances. After Griff (a likely target) won immunity in the F11 Norse Trivia Video challenge, Jack was again on the hot seat. While the majority's plan shifted to splitting votes between Sarah and Jack, Jack decided that at this point, the lie about having an idol was hurting his game more than it was helping it, and so made an announcement in tribal council chat, stating that it had all been a lie from Pyro and that he did not have an idol. He also made the Jack Stans alliance consisting of Kristine, Dawson, Tyler, Griff and Mason, in which he pleaded with them to keep him in, looking to form some sort of bonds with some of those in power. In the confusion (which had also included Logan posted a pic of a fake idol in tribal council chat earlier), all the votes were pushed onto Sarah and she was eliminated unanimously.

At F10, Jack was granted somewhat of a reprieve again, as Mason and Griff's long-standing rivalry now took centre-stage, having reached the point where one of them simply had to go. Jack, like the others, sided with Mason over Griff, and was happy to vote him out. However, this did not happen without his name again being brought up as a target, as after Dawson won immunity he tried to push the others to vote out Jack, in a bid to improve his FTC resume. This did not lead anywhere though, and while Dawson did end up voting for Jack, Griff was eliminated 8-1-1.

The F9 challenge was Sacrifices, and Jack only accepted a couple, stopping short of anything truly game-altering. The same cannot be said for Mason and Jmoney, who accepted all of them and needed a tiebreaker round. Jmoney ended up winning immunity at the cost of being sent to Hel until the end of the F8 cycle, while Mason was left without immunity, without a vote and without the ability to speak in DMs or alliance chats. This left Mason as an easy target to pick off, but while just about everyone was happy to do so, Jack wasn't. Very frustrated due to seeing the last few votes as boring and still not having any real power in the game, he also saw Mason as his closest ally at this point. However, as he could not flip anyone against each other, he ended up going with the majority and voted for Mason, seeing no other choice. He again received votes, as Dawson and Colin both threw theirs on him as a safety play, eliminating Mason 5-2.

The players then received the news that all DMs and alliance chats would be locked for the duration of the following cycle. Competing in the live arena battle Hnutukast, Tyler won immunity, and the live tribal began. While Jmoney was a potentially "easy" vote due to still being in Hel unable to defend himself - with Jack, Colin, Dawson and Aidan all saying they fine voting for him - Logan shook things up by first playing his Safety Without Power advantage on Kristine, sending her away from tribal, and then throwing out Jack's name as an option either as a primary target or a secondary one in a split. Tyler used this as an opportunity to turn the others against Logan, stating that Mason had told them in tribe VC the previous cycle that Jmoney was likely going to vote for Dawson at F8, and that Logan and Aidan wanted to gun for Dawson. Tyler then rallied Dawson, Jack and Colin together to vote out Logan, with the latter two soon submitting votes for him.

However, tribal dragged on, with Logan refusing to go down without a fight, and Jack began to have second thoughts. Not overjoyed at teaming up with Dawson when Dawson had voted for him at both the previous two tribals, he made it clear to Logan that he could be swayed to being on his side. While he did not end up convinced that Logan would be a good ally for him, this did contribute to the tribal stretching to the following morning, and eventually Tyler and Dawson backed off of their plan to vote out Logan, and changed their votes to Jmoney. With Logan and Aidan also submitting votes for Jmoney, this switch happened before Jack and Colin could get back online, and so Jmoney was eliminated 4-2-1.

During the vote, Jack figured his best shot at FTC would be to sit next to Colin, as the others had made it clear during the live tribal that they saw Colin as more or less Tyler's goat. With Colin now realizing this was the general perception of him, it caused him to want to distance himself from Tyler, and he started to bond more with Jack, the two of them beginning one of the more unlikely duos in the game. The next challenge was Touchy Subjects, where Jack was named the majority answer for the biggest goat, and Tyler won immunity, beating Colin on the tiebreaker. This left Logan as the obvious target, and while he threw out Kristine's name, Jack (and everyone else) preferred to vote him out over her. Kristine's original plan had actually been to go after Jack due to seeing him as a wildcard at this point in the game, but with the knowledge that Logan was gunning for her the end result was a unanimous Logan elimination.

Entering F6, both Kristine and Tyler wanted to vote out Jack next, as Tyler wanted Aidan in until F5 as a shield, and Kristine wanted to take out someone she did not have a strong bond with. Meanwhile, Jack and Colin made an FTC pact with each other, solidifying their duo. After Kristine won immunity in a gauntlet of previous challenges, she, Dawson and Tyler looked to lock in a Jack vote, but that was not to be. Jack, Aidan and Colin all came together, knowing that this was their best shot at taking out Tyler, a massive threat, and that they all truly needed each other at this point. While attempts to flip either Dawson or Kristine to vote for Tyler failed, the three of them made a pact to go to rocks for each other, and they all voted for Tyler. This caused a 3-3 tie, and a revote, with Jack now hoping that neither Colin or Aidan would turn on him.

This would not happen, as Colin immediately locked in his revote for Tyler, declaring that he was ready for rocks. Aidan also said he was willing to go to rocks due to feeling that otherwise he would be out next no matter what, and he and Dawson both tried hard to flip each other. Aidan, in a big play, promised Kristine and Dawson that he would go to F3 with them right then and there if they flipped on Tyler, stating that he'd happily go back on the pact he'd made with Jack and Colin. In the end, with Kristine torn and Dawson worried about going out in rocks, they decided it would be best to flip, and Dawson voted for Tyler, eliminating him 3-1 on the revote (Kristine did not want to change her vote).

Right after the vote, Aidan reconvened with Jack and Colin, reassuring them that everything he'd said was just to get Kristine and Dawson to flip, and that he still wanted to go to FTC with them (this, in fact, was a lie, as he did indeed want to go to FTC with Kristine and Dawson). Jack and Colin accepted this for the time being, and next faced Season Trivia in the F5 challenge. In what was truly a two-person race between Jack and Kristine (each of them scoring more than the other three combined), Jack pulled out the win to earn a massive immunity.

While it looked like this would lead to a 3-2 Colin vote, the trio of Jack, Colin and Aidan were very slow to decide on a target, worried about the fact that there had not been a single idol play all season. While they eventually decided on voting for Dawson (and Jack submitted his vote for him), all this time to think about Aidan potentially turning on them led to Kristine and Dawson being very paranoid, and Dawson decided he wanted to take power away from Aidan. While conversations with Jack and Colin earlier in the cycle hadn't gone anywhere, talking with Colin the morning after the challenge led to them now agreeing that Aidan holding all the power by playing the middle was too risky, and that they should vote him out. Colin came to Jack with the news that Dawson knew info he could only have gotten from Aidan, which led to Jack now being on board to flip on Aidan, and he changed his vote. Dawson also changed his seconds before Colin submitted to lock the votes, and Aidan was eliminated 3-2 with Kristine not changing her vote due to how quickly the switch came about.

This left two strong duos facing off against each other at F4, with no chance of anyone flipping. The final challenge was Asterisks, with both Dawson and Colin losing the challenge within the first five minutes. This left Kristine and Jack, the two targets of both duos, facing off for immunity, a battle that lasted over five hours. During the challenge, Jack created an alliance with Colin and Dawson, stressing to Dawson that Kristine was the biggest threat and that they needed to vote her out if she was vulnerable, but it was clear that Dawson would not do it. In the end, Kristine won, which meant that Jack would have to face Dawson in firemaking, as Kristine and Dawson thought his massive underdog story made him a bigger FTC threat than Colin.

While the two of them initially believed that Colin would vote for Jack over Dawson, Colin had promised to force fire for Jack if necessary, and he did so, which left Kristine upset and Dawson quite nervous. However, when faced with the jigsaw, Dawson won, finishing in just under 20 minutes, sending Jack to the jury as the final member of the jury.

## Season 1 Character Ranking

***1: Jack (4th place)***

*The fan favorite of the season! And for good reason, Jack had to face more adversity than anybody else out there. The fact that he wasn't the first boot still amazes me to be honest, and seeing things just never go his way was a sad and very sympathetic story arch for him. Despite all the rough things he had to go through, and being dragged through the dirt by others time and time again, Jack still managed to somehow hold his head up through all of this and that is why he's #1. The fact that he almost never had just a massive outburst nor a moment of just giving up. In a season full of a lot of unfortunate toxicity and arguments, Jack always provided a source of just pure wholesomeness and was always happy about the positives, despite there being many, **many** negatives in his path. Jack always had a great attitude about things and seeing him make it so far and overcome the incredibly insane odds was such an amazing storyline, so many spectators, myself included, were very distraught when he lost the fire making challenge. Jack had an approach to the game that you just can't help but respect, and he always tried his hardest in everything and seeing him making it as far as he did was just incredible. He's a great guy and a great player, 100% deserving of this #1 spot.*

## Trivia

* The highest placing Fan Favourite at 4th, and the only 4th place finisher to lose in firemaking rather than being cleanly voted out
* Received votes at six different tribals, the most in Trevivor history, and had 11 counted votes against him, tied with Shannon and Tris in S2 for the second-most in Trevivor history, behind Sarah (14)
	+ In terms of votes cast against him, he is tied with Shannon and Tris (11) for fourth-most in Trevivor history, behind Sarah (14), and Serra (13) and Davon (12) in S3
* Part of both revotes on the season along with Tyler and Colin, those three are the only players in Trevivor history to be part of multiple revotes
	+ In addition, Jack and Colin are the only two players to have survived multiple revotes
	+ He also received votes in two ties (at F6 and F4), the only person in Trevivor history to do so
* The only person in Trevivor history to receive a vote at the season's first tribal and still make merge, in fact in both S2 and S3 the person who received the minority vote at the first tribal was voted out next!
	+ If you include all OG tribe tribals, Jack and Xavier in S3 are the only players to ever receive a vote while on their OG tribes and make it to a single digit placement