Brayden

**Brayden** (braydenrjohnson2) placed 5th in Big Brother Season 1 & 11th in Big Brother Season 3.

Beginning the game strong, Brayden appeared to be well liked by the entire house. Despite this, he would surprisingly find himself nominated on Week 1 after not being saved by anyone else in the Safety Chain twist. He would go on to win the Week 2 veto, forming a close duo with Leon but also exposing himself to the house as a potential comp threat. Starting Week 3, Brayden would state he “accidentally lost interest” in the game and would become noticeably more inactive. Nominated “as a pawn” against inactive players in Week 4, Brayden would secretly be a target for many in the house due to the perception of him as a gamer. He would narrowly survive a 5 - 3 vote after many wanted him on the jury instead of inactive Tony. Some would be shaking in their boots when he then won the Week 5 HOH. To his dismay, a duos twist saw him needing to nominate 4 players, potentially up to 6 if a veto was played. Despite this, Brayden was happy to be in power and have those that did not value his game for weeks groveling to him for safety. His week would be somewhat easy in general when two inactive players flopped hard and made zero effort to stay in the game. In Week 6, Brayden would clock that his alliance with Leon & Ryan was extremely lopsided, with them obviously ganging up on him consistently to vote how they wanted. He, along with Jesse, would spearhead a Robbie blindside to weaken Ryan and throw the two off of their game. Unfortunately, Jesse would flip due to a last minute lie by Ryan and Brayden would be completely on the outs, frustrated that people appeared to hang onto Ryan’s every word. In Week 7, Brayden would be the only member of his new alliance to suspect an LOS play, with his pleas to strategize around it falling on deaf ears. In Week 8, Bradyen would be nominated by HOH Leon for his strong challenge and strategic prowess, as well as flipping from Leon’s alliance. He would be the backup target, however, as Marek was Leon’s main trophy for his resume. Brayden narrowly avoided eviction when beating Marek by only a few points in the POV, guaranteeing Marek could not remove himself and shift the target to himself as well as removing himself from the block. During Week 9, Brayden would try until the last minute to get Robbie evicted, coming up short yet again. This trend of Brayden attempting to make moves that were strategically sound for those involved but constantly being lied to began to wear on him, with him stating he’d rather the Final 5 be him and the jurors at this point. During the Week 10 HOH, Brayden would unfortunately have something IRL come up to cause him to miss the HOH completely, despite it being likely an easy win for him. The consequence of this would be him being nominated by Hao for eviction. After failing to win the veto, Brayden’s chances of staying looked decent when Ryan initially was wanting to evict James as a jury threat. However, Brayden would opt to threaten Ryan with a bitter jury if he was evicted, seemingly imploding his game and souring him toward Ryan, who felt the move was “pathetic.” Additionally, Ryan began to see Brayden as more of a competition threat than James, with him and Robbie deciding Brayden should be the evicted instead. At the eviction, a 2 - 0 vote for Brayden shocked no one, sending him to the jury very bitterly against Ryan for promising him safety for seemingly no reason. Brayden is remembered fondly this season for constantly wanting to make moves against what was seen as the “boring” side of the house. Although these plans would just barely fail each time, it would cement Brayden as a fan favorite from the season.

Surprisingly less active than his first run, Brayden would be vaguely on the bottom of his tribe in Season 3 when he stated that he did not like a single person on the cast. Hoping they would grow on him, Brayden would still make his presence known in the game by winning the Week 1 POV, keeping noms the same and improving his standing with several in the tribe. In Week 2, Brayden would be nominated for eviction by HOH Tyson as the target, due to feeling as though he could be a sleeper threat as well as an attempt to appease the house in an early HOH. Brayden’s activity would stay low until post-veto due to IRL factors. While initially marked by viewers as an easy early boot this week, Brayden would ramp his game up 100% to pitch to Alejandro to save him with the veto. This would resonate with Alejandro, who in the end would save him with the veto to gain his loyalty and cement Brayden a place in the game. In Week 4, Brayden would actively want to flip to keep Mercury, potentially being the key swing vote for the plan to succeed. However, he decided he wanted people to come to \*him\* for the flip, which would never happen as they all perceived him actively as an Alejandro minion. During Week 5, Brayden’s activity would be at an all time low. He would be nominated by Kishor with his Wildcard Power due to his side wrongfully assuming he was a minion for the other side, in an attempt to steal a vote from them. He would be evicted in a 4 - 2 vote without putting up any fight, seeming to be completely consumed by his real life priorities.