Elle Caddel

***Elle*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Anarchy

## Anarchy

A lot of Elle’s story is “went with the consensus target.” Thing is, Elle used those rounds for all they were worth, playing a solid game that got her to the Final 5 in an under-the-radar middle position, only to be cut just short of the fire making challenge. Elle’s story begins the same way most contestants of this season’s did: she got bad vibes from Joseph, and found herself wrapped up in the all encompassing nexus of Barney. Elle proved herself to be assertive early on - when she lost the first challenge, she was sent to tribal, and actively wanted Dom to stay. However, Elle knew the votes weren’t there, and wasn’t willing to fight to keep him, allowing him to be sent home as the first boot. Sticking up for Dom blew up in Elle’s face all too quickly, as people discovered that they were close. Elle leaned into Barney’s power structure as a response, closely aligning with him, Kam, and Jessica. After losing her second challenge in a row, she targeted Cillian to go along with what the Barney minions wanted. In exchange, Barney fed her information that Cillian and Lauren were throwing her under the bus.

After Cillian’s departure, Elle won the challenge, and simply vibed. In all seriousness, the cycle after, Elle was headed to tribal once more. After hearing from Barney that Lauren wanted her out, Elle was targeting Lauren for obvious reasons. Even if it was a ploy to turn Elle against Lauren, Elle justifiably was sketched out by her. However, the cards were once more not there: Jayla’s own gameplay made her a consensus target. Nonetheless, Elle and Lauren had an infamous blow up at tribal council, souring their relationship forevermore. Elle was swapped onto her the Nui Tribe the following round, with her rival in Lauren. Despite this, Elle felt confident about her position, believing she would not be targeted outside of Lauren. Nui won the next two challenges, but Elle quickly became annoyed with Finley’s habit of vouching for people Elle wanted to target. The next cycle, Elle wanted to go to tribal. Even without throwing the challenge, she got her wish, and wanted to target Lauren…but in an uncanny repeat of a few rounds prior, Finley’s shady gameplay began to sink her ship, and Elle was forced into voting her out with the rest of the tribe. Nui won the following challenge.

Suddenly, it was time for the merge! Elle completely turned her back on the Barney nexus, especially now that Kam was gone. She voted out Barney himself in the merge tribal council, and set her sights on Jessica as someone who needed to go sooner than later. Elle worked to weasel herself into an undercover, under-the-radar position. Going into the next round, Elle concocted a plot with Mink to vote off Jessica. Meanwhile, she observed Alison and Brittney gradually becoming jury threats. Despite this, Mink was - you guessed it - toast. Elle was once again unwilling to stick out her neck for him, and smartly flipped back to go with the tribe. Finally, Elle put her plan in place to eliminate Alison from the game. She reconciled with Lauren - putting a game-long rivalry aside - and pulled in Zeebem. However, all of her plans were foiled when Alison won immunity. Elle had a back-up target in mind: Jessica, who was already an established threat in Elle’s eyes. The rest of the tribe was in agreement, and sent her home in an easy tribal council. All the while, Elle was completely under-the-radar.

Elle began to think about how her game would be viewed. She tried to paint herself in the light of a floater playing the middle. When she won immunity, it was time for an easy vote to eliminate Alison. Meanwhile, Elle expanded her options, wanting to work with Brittney to vote off Charles, Raini, and Zeebem. At the next tribal council, Elle turned her back on Zeebem, voting him off and solidifying a new Final 3 with Lauren and Raini. However, Zeebem was a shield, and Elle found herself as the biggest jury threat remaining. Brittney won immunity at the Final 5, and Elle had nowhere to turn, getting voted off in a 2-2-1 turned 2-1 vote.