Reef

## *Survivor* Career

**Reef** is a contestant on *Survivor: 2055*. He was the third voted out of the season and a member of the constantly losing Eiros tribe. Reef was able to manage surviving the first couple boots due to his bonds within the tribe, but started to hit hot water when they kept losing. When Guitar Josh wanted to make a move on Birdie to break up Birdie and Scarlet, Josh came to Reef and Mikey to secure the numbers. Unfortunately, many things were not going Reef's way. First of all, Scarlet did not want a Birdie boot at all. Secondly, Edvin threw out Mikey and Cooper's name as possible boots leading to some minor chaos. In the end, the tribe didn't want to rock the boat before an impending swap, and Reef's social game was not strong enough compared to a very socially active tribe, leading to his unanimous boot.

## Profile

*Full interview can be found here.*

**Name:** Reef

**Tribe Designation:** Eiros

**How would you personally go about surviving a real life apocalypse?** I can't think about this question fully realistically, because as explained, the situation is only something I've seen through fiction, and obviously in such a way where I know it's won't ever be a real thing. So I'm not fully putting together how exactly someone like me would fit into the world. I guess I'd probably die pretty quickly. It's really more so what I know works and what interests me. So, how would I go about surviving? I don't know. No specific plan. However, WHAT would I do to survive? My answer is, anything NECESSARY. Nothing further.

**What is your biggest flaw, and on the contrary, what is the best quality about yourself?** My biggest flaws all center around the same thing. Laziness, procrastination, the incredible ability the make an excuse for any situation. The aspect of myself that I probably hate the most is that I can only hold onto motivation for a short time. It seems to fade away in me faster than it should. I'm just not a proactive person generally speaking, as much as I would like to be and aim to change that in order to better myself and my life, it's just, eh, a slow, tough process. Baby steps. Now, I do think that this is significantly LESS the case in ORGs, and I'm not sure why. I've never been a particularly competitive person. I remember the one time my little league team made the finals, it was close game the whole. Tied and went into extra innings, and someone from the other team managed to hit a home run, get two runs, and that was that. There was one guy on my team. Oldest I think, one of our best players, and he was sitting in the dugout tearing up. My mind was first just thinking specifically in orgs and i was at a loss which is funny just how i won two big orgs so people think im really good but then a questions asks me what im good at and it's like uhhh uh uh uh uhhhhhhhh uh uh idk. Now me in real life, still somewhat at a loss because I hate speaking about myself sincerely, especially in a positive way, but when it comes down to it, even though I always say it with a hint of sarcasm, I have always liked my humor more than anything else about me. Through school that was always, like, the one tool I had, and one that I could use better than most anyone else. It's also great that it's a quality where you can so easily see whether it's effective or not. People laugh? It's working. People don't laugh? Mmmm better change something. Making people visibly laugh is one of my favorite things to do, like, ever.

**Why do you play ORG's?** Hinted at this a fair bit in the answer to what is my worst quality. So part of it is basically that the me who plays orgs feels a lot more refined, respectable, and determined than the me who does anything else. There's plenty past that though. Like most people I started as a fan of Survivor the show, and over the uh 7 years I've been watching, I've already become and old, bitter, grumbly fan who complains about everything the show has to offer, all while never missing an episode. But basically I'm not a fan of how the show tells it's stories now. So I'm not nearly as invested in the characters, and I'm rarely interested in the strategy. Both playing and watching orgs, due to it being in real time, the strategy issue is completely fixed. I love finding my way out of problems or seeing the crazy shit other people pull off. Start to finish. No holes in how or why.

**If you could bring two things with you during an apocalypse, what would they be and why?** Item #1 - Sword. Explanation - It is a sword. I will train and defend myself. Second item is tricky tricky, I don't wanna be bored through this whole epidemic, I've forgotten what most of my favorite books are suddenly. But I guess you gotta think about what the most re-readable books are in this situation and Harry Potter books legitimately never get old, but which one? First two are too short, not enough meat on the bones, fuck it's tough after that. Okay no, I can't have too much negativity in this situation, Order of the Phoenix is depressing, Half Blood Prince ends on many sad notes, Goblet of Fire ends with the start of the war, Deathly Hallows just has too much death and emptiness even though it all ends happy. It's a bit shorter but I gotta go with Prisoner of Azkaban in this situation, Item #2 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.