Asier Harkness

***Asier*** was the Runner-Up on Essential Survivor: Togo

## Togo

For someone who prioritized social relations on Day 1, by Day 39 he wasn’t the most liked castaway ever. In fact, the perception of his personality did a whole 180 throughout the season, and while his fellow castaway didn’t enjoy that, the specs sure did. Let’s talk about Asier Harkness, shall we?

As previously said, Asier wanted to make social bonds quickly on the Mina tribe. Like his other tribe members, he took a strong liking to the Tribe Captain, Liz. Also with Rey and Jay as well, by the next day, Asier found himself some extra protection in the form of a Hidden Immunity Idol. So when Tak was the immediate target for Mina’s one and only Tribal Council, it was smooth sailing for Asier in the pre-swap. At the swap, Asier was positioned really well, swapping onto the New Tchamba tribe with former members, Rey and Zach. He also took note of all the OG Kabre drama, helping him feel more safe as their drama was CLEARLY in the spotlight.

During the swap portion of the season, Asier’s edit seriously took a turn as he was INV for both episodes. Still having a major role in Episode 5, in which you had read some other summaries, you’d know why. Fast forwarding to the merge, at the results for the Touchy Subjects challenge, Asier was voted for ‘No Shot At Winning The Game’. As any person would, he got mad at first, but then realized because of that, he wouldn’t be on people’s radar. So he used that to his advantage was he was on the bottom of an alliance, flipping to the other with Zach. This resulted in his old alliance members getting mad at him and criticizing him. But as if it was an apology he flipped BACK to his OG alliance unlike Zach who stayed put.

As we hit the Final 7, it started to become clear that Asier and Zach were playing very similar games, as they both were the middlemen in both alliances. The only flaw with Asier at this point was his self-awareness. Right now and at the Final 6, he thought he was in a good position, which he was. But the plans he had thought out in his head were executed, but not by him and were other people. This bit him in the butt later.

At the beginning of the Finale Episode (Final 5), The sides were clearly drawn and Asier was in the minority with Kalina. But due to keeping his idol until now, Asier didn’t fret about his safety, but he now began to campaign hard to Zach to go home as he was the biggest threat left, and due to the fact that Liz was gonna get dragged to the FTC. He campaigned this to both Ben and Kalina, but was brutally shocked at Tribal when he realized that both ignored his concerns and voted for Liz instead, infuriating him and showing his more brash side.

At the Final Four, his target Zach had won immunity. So because of this, most people would think to easily vote Kalina, but as Ben was seriously getting on his nerves and had a jury full of friends, Asier sided with Kalina and voted Ben. Much to Zach’s annoyance. Luckily for Asier, Ben lost firemaking. The Final 3 came and Asier really wanted to win this to decide his own fate in this game. But when Kalina won and chose him, he settled for that as well.

Surely believing he had a shot against Kalina, Asier went into the FTC more confident than others, answering the jury’s questions honestly, and however he saw fit. But when the jury heavily criticized him taking the credit for certain vote-outs and his late-game social game. It got to the point where Asier bluntly ignored the jurors. Due to this, the jurors had given up on him and unanimously voted for his opponent, Kalina to win.