Katt

**Katt** (Katt#1063) placed 4th in Season 8 & 13th in Survivor Season 10.

Starting the game strong on the Taki Tribe, Katt was noticeably well positioned in the game starting early on. Unfortunately not one to confessional much at all (especially early on), a lot of Katt’s feats and reasons for being well positioned would have to be heard through the grapevine for production and viewers, leaving them as sort of an enigma of a character throughout the game. It is assumed that all social moves made were intentional, thus meaning Katt was a force to be reckoned with that seemed destined for deep merge. On the OG Taki Tribe, Katt was particularly close with Tanner and Elise, going on to form a tight duo with Elise that would persist throughout the game. At first, Katt was seen as definitively the sort of “head” of this duo; however, as the game went on, Elise began to eclipse them in threat level, which actually would end up benefitting them in the end. At the tribe swap, Katt found themself in a tricky spot when in the minority against four returnees. While initially forming a trio with Elise and outsider Smokin (especially due to knowledge of Smokin’s idol), Katt would feel that Smokin was not to be trusted when comparing notes from their and Elise’s separate conversations with him. Due to this, Katt would lie to Elise and say that Smokin thought she was paranoid, which had a profound effect on Elise’s relationship with Smokin and drove an official wedge between the three players. At the same time, this duo was putting in social work with Nyx, going on to form the “Femme Fatality” alliance with them as a result. At the merge, Katt’s game was initially that of being a known social UTR threat, with much debate privately to players on which of the duo’s game was actually more impressive. Katt would continue to balance this perception while attempting to pull numbers, and would be fairly successful. Their peak game moment appeared to be when Chase, Elise, and Katt were game savvy enough to form a counter alliance to The Frats with outsider Rye, using Elise’s Extra Vote and auction paranoia to do damage to the newly formed majority. Unfortunately, after this move Katt’s game would begin taking hit after hit. The following round, Elise and Katt would be left out of the vote for Rye despite discussing in a VC how they wouldn’t mind Rye going at all. With no time to be petty, the two had to then accept Chase’s flip flopping nature to attempt to turn the tides on Cherry, who at this point was a known and massive threat in the game. Beating their #1 ally from a clutch immunity win just barely (and unknowingly saving themself potentially), Katt would be exposed by those in the minority privately at this point for not talking to them much at all. Additionally, they began to feel that Katt was quite hypocritical as a player, victimizing themself passive aggressively when on the bottom or left out of a vote/lied to, but consistently doing the same to other players. This would only worsen when Elise was idoled out of the game by Cherry; Katt was understandably unhappy with Cherry, and a major rift formed between the two. At the following Tribal Council, Katt’s paranoia was soaring to new highs with Elise absent from the game. With Cherry immune, they knew it was either them or Chase getting the majority of votes at Tribal Council… unless they could pitch a new plan. Chase was able to onboard Chad into blindsiding Naran, fearing that Naran would allow Cherry to go to fire if they both made the final 4 and that this would in a sense be the next best thing to Cherry himself going. Chad, despite having many grandiose plans of big idol plays, actually did end up agreeing with this and letting them know that the vote should be going to Naran. However, due to Chad’s very scarce social game & Katt’s own paranoia, they worried they were actually being played and there would be a vote split between Chase and themself in case of an idol play. Out of self-perservation, Katt would go on to cast their vote for ally Chase, unknowingly being the deciding vote to send him to the Jury. Feeling completely hopeless, Katt tried their best at Final Immunity, getting a respectable score but coming up short to Cherry’s clutch semi-all nighter. This was the final straw for Katt; in what appeared to be a mix of just throwing it all out to stay and slightly genuine bitterness, Katt imploded their own game completely, throwing anything at the wall and hoping it would stick. They would tell Cherry to vote Naran because Naran beats them in the end (despite saying otherwise just days prior), telling Naran to vote Chad because he didn’t deserve to make the end, and Chad to vote Naran because of Naran’s threat level to the jury. The three would instantly compare notes when Cherry had nothing to lose exposing this, seemingly instantly sealing Katt’s already semi-clear fate in the game. Katt did not give up, however, and in simultaneously both an admirable and hard to watch move, began to threaten the other contestants with bitter jury poisoning and losing their vote and likely that of others if they go home or threw out their name at all, despite them being fairly cordial to Katt. In the end, they left it all out there and attempted every angle but it wasn’t enough, with a 3-1 vote sending them as the final member to the Jury. Katt was well- spirited upon their departure, however, and did let the contestants know that any bitterness spread was purely strategic.

Returning in Season 10 on the Beauty Tribe for their social prowess, Katt would make immediately clear they wanted to be purple/not confessional in the game to "spite production". While playing a very UTR social game and well liked by the Totoka Tribe, Katt would be idoled out of the game with a single vote when they underestimated Dangan's foresight for threats at the merge.