Travis Gray

***Travis*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Japan. He later returned for Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

## Japan

Another early fan favorite casualty, Travis was a ray of sunshine on the somewhat gloomy tribe of Wakai. Making close allies with both Theodore and Tommy but due to an ulonging, and a misplayed idol, Travis was cut short in the grand scheme of things.

Being one of the youngest along with Brett, Travis was undoubtedly on the Wakai tribe. He connected with his tribe well, avoiding to talk game very early even when someone had presented the offer for him to do so. His thought process was to connect with people first before game talk to build strong social bonds in the long run. Fortunately, his bonds got him into a 5-person alliance with himself, Theodore, Zent Tommy and X called ‘Floor Gang’. And even when they found the numbers to boot Brett, he still offered to be a pawn, and while no one really took the bait, Travis was under the assumption they did,allowing him to be pleasantly surprised at the Council. And a few days after, Tommy has revealed to Theo and Travis that he possessed an idol. Which brought the 3 together for a majority of the pre-swap phase.

Speaking of which, for the last pre-swap episode, Wakai had gone back to Tribal. After hours of emotionless campaigning, Zent finally convinced Floor Gang to take control and vote out Vincent but after Zachary attempted to blindside Theodore out of the blue, Travis and most of the tribe began to target Zachary. Blindsiding him and Zent, who was the only safe person not in on the plan.

Come the swap, and Travis is in a decent position. He was swapped onto new Furui where there was a 4-4 split in the OG tribe count. On his side, he featured Zent, Tommy and Vincent, but a bold move from Zent to immediately attempt to recruit Enrique soon backfired on them as all of their information was soon transferred to both Enrique, and the rest of the tribe. But once they lost and Enrique was sent to the Wakai tribe for a night, Vincent was back in the majority due to there being no other option. Oddly enough, he filled in the leader role, really leading the charge against Cheren. The plan should have been foolproof because of the numbers they had gotten, but when Zent leaked the plan to Kamen, he was soon idoled out by Kamen, teaching the other 3 wakai that loose lips most DEFINITELY sink ships.

At the Final 14, New Furui had lost their second challenge. But the vote seemed to be easy for Travis as one of his allies wanted to be voted off due to worries about their personal life. Respecting his wishes, Travis voted for him but the OG Furui didn’t buy it and piled votes on Travis. Thankfully enough, Vincent medically evacuated on the same day, saving Travis. Only a couple days later, New Furui lost AGAIN. And knowing they were in the minority, Travis and Tommy came up with a plan…

Knowing Tommy had an idol, Travis pretended to throw Tommy under the bus to the OG Furui in hopes that they could vote Tommy, so that Tommy negates all 4 votes with his idol. Allowing Enrique to go home with 2 votes. Unfortunately, Enrique saw right through the duo and had the OG Furui split the vote 3-1 between the both of them. And when Tommy played his idol, it was of no use as Travis received a plurality of votes, eliminating him from the game.

## Voting History

 See You After The Vote Count
 The Inactives Are Spared
 Able To Crusade For Blood
 DEVELOPMENTS

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Travis wasn’t fully expected to come back, so when he got the votes, he was seriously ready to play. Analyzing all potential tribemates and trying to open the door to every option possible. Unfortunately, Travis was seen getting his hand into too many cookie jars and sent back to Britain by Day 7.

As he landed into the Punahele campsite, adjusting to the modified game of Essential Survivor, Travis quickly aligns with both Aria and Brittney -- a major change from Theo and Tommy in his original season. As he gained more and more social rapport with people, he planned to become a manipulator in this tribe, and Alison being his first victim. Travis wanted Alison gone from Jump Street because he caught her looking for idols continuously, which obviously worried him. But when Punahele won the first immunity challenge, his plans were forced to be held off.

Fortunately for Travis, they lost the next one and head to tribal. As downtime begins to pass, Travis attempts to plant little seeds of an Alison vote in people’s heads. While he did this in vain, several of his tribemates caught onto his mess but left it alone due to there being bigger problems. I.e Jayla. But even when Travis knows that the vote will probably be Jayla, he still pushes for Alison to his alliance (all Gen 1 players) to which they shoot down effectively.

When Jayla was voted out, and Punahele lost yet another challenge again, Travis started to feel complacent with his positioning. He felt as if he was in one of the top positions in the tribe (which he was). However, in Survivor you can never feel too safe. Behind his back, Tae began to flip the script on Travis by aligning with the Gen 2 players. He caught onto Travis’s subtle ‘seeds’ and was onto most of his gameplay very quickly and decided that he isn’t beneficial towards him. So while Travis was pushing a John vote, feeling safer than ever, he took 5 votes to the head at Tribal, knocking him out of the game.

 Ain't No Damn Fish Here
 THROW SOME NAMES OUT
 Fade Back To Obscurity
 Voted Out, Day 7