Elise

**Elise** (Elise#1593) placed 6th in Season 8.

Elise started the game very middling on the Taki Tribe, putting herself in a middle position between Tanner’s alliance and a relationship with Naran quickly alongside her duo member Katt. These two in particular got along quite well, and Elise found the situation perfect due to Katt being perceived as the bigger social threat of the two. However, this would eventually begin to grate on Elise’s nerves as the game drew on, as many started to give off the impression that they felt Elise had almost minion energy despite carrying a lot of social weight within her and Katt’s alliances. At the Tribe Swap, Elise and Katt ended up together in the minority with Smokin against four OG Ilolma members. Initially forming a tight trio with Smokin, this slowly broke apart when all three of them seemed to be playing telephone very often, ending up with the two semi randomly and fully distrusting Smokin in the matter of hours. (It was stated that the biggest factor was Elise hearing from Katt that Smokin called her “stupid,” which cannot be confirmed and is denied by Smokin himself.) This led the duo to migrate toward their new relationship with Nyx from Ilolma, forming the “Femme Fatality” alliance. Elise was especially distraught when she saw Tanner eliminated from the opposing tribe, and upon merging and learning what Naran had done, swore revenge up and down constantly that she would get him out for Tanner. This would never come to fruition, as the game very quickly wrote Naran off as a goat for the entire rest of the game halfway through the first night of the merge. Shifting targets and turning a new leaf, Elise found an Extra Vote and with newfound confidence began to confessional much more often and play a lot harder. This earned her a spot in production’s heart, as a lot of the merge cast would leave their confessionals dry and starving this season. After being a key part of several early votes, Elise would notice that she had begun to gain a bigger threat level than Katt, actually beginning to eclipse her duo member in the perception of who to target. While she tried her best to mitigate this, her name would begin to float out starting around after the Brian vote. Despite it being obvious Katt didn’t win anything at the auction, The Frats were super paranoid about what the duo could have and all hell broke loose when Elise’s name came back to her. Using her extra vote, she along with Chase, Katt and Rye were able to coordinate a showstopping blindside on the cocky boys alliance. This only furthered her threat level when Chase instantly snitched to others that it was in fact Elise who used the Extra Vote and not him. The following round, Elise set her sights on Cherry due to knowing he was by far the strongest player out of The Frats. However, Katt and Elise did discuss that they would not particularly mind if Rye went home despite having a monopoly on her vote, and would vote either way the numbers fell. Despite this willingness, Chase decided to leave the two out of the Rye vote to distinguish himself from their games, essentially blindsiding them by sending Rye home. While initially upset for a few minutes, the two got over this surprisingly fast to begin working with Chase again immediately, largely in part due to Cherry’s threat level being too large to be petty and fight with each other. When Elise lost immunity to her duo member, she had a prickling feeling something might be up. However, the numbers were there for her so the majority alliance decided to relax, knowing that Cherry was going home. Allegedly, this majority hardly bothered to talk to Cherry at all, and Elise was the only member of the group to really serve anything on this very dry round. The other side of the island locked their sights on Elise, as they felt they needed to break up a duo and Katt was immune. In the end, Cherry would sense danger due to the majority's poor attempts (or lack thereof) of making him feel safe and would play an idol, negating four votes and sending Elise to the jury with three. She is remembered for her engaging video confessionals, as well as playing very well for it being her very first org.