Jackson

**Jackson** (MerchantZeus#7253) placed 14th in Season 2 , 10th in Season 4, and 17th in Survivor Season 10.

A quiet member of Kalokalo, Jackson aimed to play a very passive premerge due to being targeted in other ORGs for a big personality. After forming a duo with Sam, Jackson felt comfortable letting him call the shots while he “sat in the backseat of the car.” However, he was forced to scramble when Gabriel blindsided his closest ally after the swap. Despite his impassioned pleas that Gabriel was snake and he was willing to flip, his lack of prior socializing led him to be deemed less trustworthy and he was voted out in a 3-1 vote. He is remembered for his post-blindside argument with Gabriel and stating it was time to get out of the backseat and rip the steering wheel from his hands.

Returning for a second chance in Season 4, Jackson decided early that he wanted to play a much bigger and aggressive social game. His biggest goal of the game was to merge as he never had before. Unfortunately for Jackson, him making an alliance with Phoenix and Flapjack hours into the game before the former could even consent instantly soured the tribe toward him after Phoenix spread this rumor. From then on, the OG Moli tribe bashed Jackson constantly left and right with each other, and he was a clear target for them despite him feeling secure. After the tribe swap, he stuck with all OG Moli except for Dangan, but was still the preferred boot due to everyone’s heightened dislike of him. Luckily for Jackson, both of his OG Tribes never went to Tribal Council, allowing him to make the merge unscathed with the OG Moli idol in his pocket as well. Despite most of the game still trashing him, often in private, Jackson’s position marginally improved due to obvious targets such as Dex taking the spotlight. Additionally, Jackson was able to quickly secure the Niu idol. Due to having two idols and being tricked by the rest of the game that he was in control, Jackson decided to shake things up when he idoled Tayy out of the game at the last minute at the first merge tribal council. This of course ignited the fury of the majority that already disliked him, and his target became too big when he began bragging about his idol play to every player and telling them he could have idoled \*them\* out if he wanted to but he saved them. When he also claimed to everyone that he would win every immunity challenge and got a close second place, the majority abandoned their chance to puppeteer his votes in favor of getting rid of a challenge threat, blindsiding Jackson in a 5-3-2 vote. He is remembered for being pleasantly theatrical, as well as his overconfidence that he was running the game despite teetering on the edge of being voted out constantly.

Returning in Season 10, Jackson made little to no impact on the Totoka Tribe. Placed onto Beauty for his social skills in his past seasons (which while questionable, were OTT), Jackson was expected to be a sort of a wildcard/firecracker on this tribe. Unfortunately, Jackson would be largely invisible for his stay in the game, cited in part due to IRL factors. With his only close ally being Dave, this also seemed like the only person he talked to periodt. Most of the tribe talked about how he was inactive and an easy boot should they lose. While he had a sliver of hope seeing as Dave and Suari both wanted to separately flip and make a move, Jackson’s failure to secure any meaningful social bonds beyond a single person saw him become too good of an option to boot. In the end, an easy 6-1 vote would send Jackson home, leading him to swear off playing ORGs for good.