Axis

Axis is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Ring of Fire.

## Ring of Fire Summary

As the runner up of Season 9, Axis’ explosive and emotional gameplay shook up the game episode after episode, leading to blindsides, fights, and hilarious situations all throughout the season. Right off the bat, Axis let the audience know that she was a large personality and not a player to be reckoned with. Despite her significant emotional swings throughout the season, Axis was able to survive against the odds until the very end, getting past many of those considered to be the biggest threats in the game. Her ability to rebound and switch plans in the matter of seconds allowed her to adapt to the everchanging merge, and landed her as far as you can get in the game without winning. Her existing relationship with Jonathan and her own social skills allowed her to make a fairly neutral first impression on the rest of the cast prior to tribal divisions, but this would not last for very long.

In the tribe division, Axis was placed onto the Pink tribe and immediately expressed her disappointment and near hatred for the new tribe name. She used her confessional to vent about the pure stupidity of naming a tribe Pink despite their tribe color being a shade of the color brown, which entertained the audience all night. As the game began to pick up, she created an early alliance with Jay, who she had met previously, Myth, and Travis, attempting to establish a majority very early on. However, she was left out of the primary alliance on the tribe, Five Guys, that formed very early on in the season. Seemingly in the minority, Axis had a stroke of luck in Juni asking her tribe to vote her out, potentially sparing her from placing in 15th. In this tribal council, she voted with the entirety of the tribe to eliminate Juni in a 7-1 vote.

Over time, it became clear to Axis’ tribemates and the spectators that she did not enjoy Wyatt’s company and his seemingly controlling attitude. However, their tribe did not attend tribal council until 2 rounds following Juni’s exit, allowing Axis to build her own relationships with the other members of the tribe. As tensions rose between Axis and Wyatt, Wyatt’s own allies began to consider the idea of turning against him due to his threat level and potentially holding the idol. After tying in the scavenger hunt challenge, the Pink tribe lost the tiebreaker, sending them to tribal council in the closest challenge of the season. While the seeming majority alliance decided in between targeting Axis or Clasper, a secret plan was pushed by Jay, Myth, and Travis to blindside Wyatt. Despite the fact that every tribe member except for Wyatt was involved in this plan and knew the vote, Axis failed to vote at this tribal council, with her randomized vote landing on Clasper who happened to be Wyatt’s target. At this point, Axis had seemingly turned the tides of the tribe and landed herself in a safe position for the remainder of the premerge.

At the Pink tribe’s final tribal council, Axis quickly jumped onboard with the plan to eliminate Starz, despite her own desire to eliminate Clasper instead. She cast her vote quickly for Starz, but was completely left in the dark regarding Myth, Travis, and Starz’s plan with Myth’s idol. Axis’ vote, along with Jay’s and Clasper’s, was nullified after Myth played his idol on Starz, and she was blindsided by the elimination of Jay.

Following this tribal council, Axis felt betrayed by her former tribemates, spelling disaster for all of them at the merge. After Jonathan emerged victorious in the first merged immunity challenge, his alliance with Myth and Travis informed him of the plan to turn against the Pink tribe and eliminate Axis. Seeing this as an opportunity to blindside Myth, Jonathan informed Axis and the former Nani tribe of this opportunity. Completely enraged by Myth’s decision, Axis participated happily in this blindside joining with the Nani tribe to gain a majority of 6-4. Seeing her name appear on the 4 votes of her former tribemates greatly angered her, provoking her to block each of her former tribemates and later on feud with Travis in the camp. At the next vote, she worked with the entirety of the merged tribe to eliminate Travis in a completely unanimous 8-0 vote.

With 8 tribe members remaining, Axis was left out of the blindside on Jonathan due to her known pre existing relationship with him. However, she quickly bounced back by forming an all women’s alliance with Lorelei and Lillia that would later go on to reach the final 3 together. Despite this alliance ending up so strong, Axis still voted against the others for Nakul at the Final 7, with only Starz (the 7th placer) voting alongside her.

In the next round, Axis’ game took a massive turn, with her becoming a much more active player. As the easy target of Nakul was recognized by the majority, Axis decided that she was in a great position to take a last stand against Lorelei, Lillia and Rocket. She created an alliance with Clasper and Nakul to plot to tie the vote between Lillia and Nakul to try to shift the power. Despite this plan being created to save him, Nakul decided to inform Lorelei of this, which immediately returned to Axis. Shocked by the choice to expose this plan from Nakul, Axis decided to eliminate Nakul along with the former Nani members, seeing that Nakul would not be a trustworthy future ally. The next vote seemed abundantly easy for the other tribe members, but Axis voted for Rocket seemingly out of the blue while the remainder of the tribe voted for Clasper, landing him in fifth place.

From an outside perspective, most people would believe that Axis’ game was done at the final 4. She was there with a group that could arguably be considered the three closest allies of the entire season, each of whom were massive immunity threats as well. Against all odds, Axis managed to snatch the final 4 immunity and save herself. She decided to vote against the person who she had the weakest relationship with out of the four, Rocket, and reached the final immunity challenge following a 3-1 vote.
With Lorelei winning the final immunity challenge, Axis’ chances at winning seemed slim to none. Although Lorelei was abundantly transparent with her choice at this point, Axis’ argument to win seemed weak against a player who had received 0 votes the entire game, voted correctly at every tribal council, and had won 4 individual immunities throughout the merge. Upon reaching the Final Tribal Council, it seemed like Axis had unfortunately given up on her chances to win. She spent the majority of the finale downplaying her own game, leading to a unanimous vote for Lorelei to win from the jury.