Shannon

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Shannon was a contestant on Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms. Playing in her first ORG, she was strong in challenges but weaker socially, making it to the merge but without the allies to keep her in longer once she got there. As a result, she was voted out nearly unanimously as the first juror.

## Trevor's Cast Assessment

*Shannon seems great, she’s very competitive and ready to play, although already I’m getting the vibes that she’s kind of shy towards the others, and I just hope this doesn’t go to isolate her from the rest.*

## The Nine Realms

Sorted onto the Midgard tribe, Shannon started off slow socially, and as one of the quieter members of the tribe was not included in one of the early alliance chats. Her standing was improved by a great performance in the first challenge, scoring an 82 in Wrassling that was tied with Adam for second-best in the game, however Midgard lost the challenge and had to go to tribal. Once tribal opened she looked to be a bit more assertive, leading the creation of the We Are Bad At Names alliance with Adam, Tyler, Aidan and Logan, the people she felt best about on the tribe. However, those four were already in alliances with each other apart from this new one, and Shannon looked to be more on the outside. Despite that, she was never in any danger at the vote, and was happy to go with the plan to vote out Shray unanimously.

Shannon laid low for the rest of the pre-swap period, not participating much in the live Hnefatafl challenge and not standing out as a potential immediate target for anyone, though she also remained in the middle or lower parts of most peoples' trust rankings. At the F18 swap she was selected to join the Muspelheim tribe with Kristine and Saish from Midgard, and Dawson, Kamil and Aby B from Nidavellir. She hoped to stick tightly with her OG tribemates, but Kristine had other plans, since she had barely spoken to Shannon at all while they were on Midgard. Given that Kristine soon became the person with the most power on the tribe, Shannon stood as a prime candidate to be the boot should Muspelheim go to tribal. Fortunately for her, this was avoided as she showed her challenge prowess once again in the 24 Hour Scavenger Hunt, dominating the early part of the challenge to give Muspelheim a lead they would never relinquish. She did rub some other players - notably Logan and Mason - the wrong way during the back half of the challenge as she and Kamil both thought that Muspelheim should keep competing even after they had clinched safety.

In the following two cycles Muspelheim continued to avoid tribal, as Saish quit at F17, and despite Shannon's first poor challenge performance of the season (losing the nonogram duel to Adam and Aidan), Muspelheim won the Puzzle Gauntlet. At the F15 trust rankings swap, she was sorted onto Alfheim (AKA the "least trusted" tribe), with Aby B, Jack, Colin, Jmoney, Griff and Sarah. Swap tribe lines would prove to be quite strong on this tribe, and Shannon was dragged down by her association with Aby B, who was believed to hold an unknown advantage from her trip to Hel during the scavenger hunt (while in actuality it was Jmoney who had it). Griff quickly rallied the other five together with a plan to split on Aby B and Shannon should they go to tribal, with Shannon's OG tribemates Jack and Sarah happy to join in on that plan.

Tribal was avoided at its first opportunity due to Alfheim pulling out a surprise victory in the Guess Who challenge, but the tribe's relative disorganization and weakness in challenges was shown during the 99 Bottles challenge where they were annihilated, finishing over 7x slower than Niflheim. In a fortunate twist, Shannon received individual immunity for contributing the most for her tribe in the challenge, keeping her safe but also furthering the perception that she was a challenge beast. Despite the plan for the split foiled, Griff rebounded by convincing Shannon and Aby B that there would actually be a split on Jmoney and Sarah, and while the two former Muspelheims voted for Sarah, everyone else voted for Aby B, with those five (minus Jmoney) feeling confident that they had gotten an advantage out of the game.

Clearly on the bottom of Alfheim, Shannon was handed a chance at new life with the announcement of the merge at F13, though she was brought up quickly after the merge as a potential target for the first vote, due to the general perception that she, Sarah and Jack were floaters in a sense, and Adam and Tyler both preferred going for Shannon of those three as she was the one they were least connected to. However, due to Griff's insistence that a Jotunheim be voted out, Shannon was brought into a plan to vote out Sarah instead, and potentially throw a couple votes on Jack to try and flush an idol that everyone believed he had. But at the same time, Dawson then had the idea of letting Sarah know she was being targeted to bring her in as a number, as the group of him, Kristine, Aidan, Logan, Mason and Jmoney came together to form the peepee alliance. The six of them agreed Adam was the biggest threat in the game, but Logan pushed hard to keep him in a little longer as a shield, wanting instead to vote for Shannon due to her being more of a potential swing vote, more of an unknown, and a noteworthy physical threat.

The merge immunity challenge was Greed, with two immunity necklaces up for grabs at the cost of the claimer losing their vote at the F12 tribal. Jack and Mason took them, ruining the plan to try and flush Jack's idol and pushing nearly all the votes onto Shannon. While Sarah remained a target, Logan's earlier pitch (which also went back to Adam and Tyler's initial idea) led to most everyone agreeing Shannon was the best move, and she was eliminated 11-2, with both her and Griff voting for Sarah.

## Season 1 Character Ranking

***14: Shannon (13th place)***

*Another person who had a TON of potential, however was unfortunately taken out too early. Shannon was an absolute challenge beast for the time she was there and despite being younger than the majority of her tribes, she kind of served as a leader figure which was interesting to see for sure. She showed the potential to make some big moves had she gotten further, however like I said she was gunned for first merge vote and unfortunately we were robbed of what could have been a really interesting character.*

## Trivia

* The first juror in Trevivor history
* Holds the Trevivor record for most votes received at a single tribal (11)
* The 11 counted votes against her is tied with both Jack and Tris in S2 for the second-most in Trevivor history, behind Sarah (14)
	+ In terms of votes cast against her, she is tied with Jack and Tris (11) for fourth-most in Trevivor history, behind Sarah (14), and Serra (13) and Davon (12) in S3
* The only person in S1 to win individual immunity premerge