Tyler (S1)

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Tyler was a contestant on Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms. The Villain of the season, he dominated the pre-merge along with Adam, and after his ride or die's elimination at the beginning of the merge he rebuilt himself into a contender, falling just short after he was flipped on at the F6 revote.

## Trevor's Cast Assessment

*This dude seems kinda crazy lol, he writes a lot in confs although he seems to be rubbing some people the wrong way, he’s definitely the type to want to be in control but I’m not quite sure if he can actually gain control, especially when his social game is quite polarizing thus far. He’s definitely a massive strategic threat however, he does somewhat remind me of actual Coach from Survivor, especially because he’s trying so hard to be the leader, let’s see if this can pan out well for him!*

## The Nine Realms

Sorted onto the Midgard tribe, Tyler quickly became one of the two most powerful people on the tribe alongside Adam, who he picked out early as someone he felt could be his ride or die ally in the game. After Logan told Tyler and Adam about the Safety Without Power advantage that he found soon after the game began, the first alliance on Midgard (ALLT-F4) formed with those three and Kristine. He also bonded well with Aidan, which led to the creation of the Fantasy Footballers alliance with those two and Adam. Saish, recognizing that Tyler was a clear leader on the tribe, looked to create a bond with him as well, eventually leading to the Adam's Angels alliance with those two, Adam and Sarah. That alliance came about after Midgard lost the first challenge (Wrassling), and was followed by Shannon creating We Are Bad With Names with Tyler, Adam, Logan and Aidan.

He (and Adam) were now in an alliance with everyone on the tribe except Jack and Shray, who stood as the two potential targets. Jack, who had also had the worst score on the tribe in the challenge, managed to save himself by expressing how grateful he'd be if they saved him and how he wanted to work with them, and that combined with Tyler's dislike of Shray led to him wanting to target her first, and no one had connected well enough with Shray to want to save her, leading to her unanimous elimination. In the next cycle, while most people saw Jack as the next boot should they go to tribal, Tyler preferred Saish, finding it difficult to work with him due to their time zone difference and not clicking well with him on a personal level. Midgard did not have to boot anyone though, as they won the arena challenge Hnefatafl, and the F18 tribe swap followed, sending Tyler, Adam and Jack to Vanaheim, joined by Colin, Griff and Pyro from Nidavellir.

As soon as they landed on their new tribe Colin immediately made it clear to Tyler and Adam that he wanted to flip due to feeling on the bottom of Nidavellir, and the three of them formed The Sons of Dr. Phil. Tyler, Adam and Jack also came together in The Vanaheim Midgardians alliance, though Jack felt the same way as Colin and also wanted to flip. When Vanaheim had to choose who to sit out and send to Hel in the 24 Hour Scavenger Hunt Challenge, Colin wanted to be the one to do so, however Griff pressured the rest of the tribe into sending Pyro instead, which painted a target on them. Tyler immediately began to scheme, wanting to blindside Pyro should they go to tribal in case she won an advantage in Hel, and took advantage of Griff arguing with Logan and Mason in the arena to start an argument with Griff himself, wanting to make it look like he wanted to vote him out. Adam and Colin agreed with the plan of blindsiding Pyro, while Tyler and Adam told Jack that the plan was to vote out Griff, hoping to cause a 3-2-1.

Vanaheim did indeed lose the challenge, and once Pyro returned tribal began. Things went awry when Colin got confused and told Jack the real vote was on Pyro, which Jack then shared with Pyro and Griff, which led to Tyler creating two alliances to help with damage control: the Fire Four with Adam, Colin and Jack, and Animal Control with Adam, Griff and Pyro. Looking to pit Griff and Jack against each other, he told Griff that Jack wanted to vote for him, which upset Griff and led to him spilling that Jack was feeding him and Pyro everything he heard. Tyler then took this revelation to Jack, telling him that Griff had thrown him under the bus and wanted to vote for him. Still looking for the 3-2-1, The Sons of Dr. Phil voted for Pyro, but despite Griff and Jack's mutual disagreements they both voted for Colin, causing a 3-3 tie. Tyler, who prided himself on loyalty to his allies, did not want to flip on Colin who had shown him and Adam a lot of trust, and was willing to draw rocks. He did hear out Pyro's argument as to why they should flip on Colin, saying she would be happy to vote out Griff next, but neither he or Adam changed their votes. Once Griff came back online he was convinced to flip in order to avoid rocks, and Pyro was eliminated. On her way out, she stated that she had found the OG Nidavellir idol (true) and had transferred it to Jack (false), and this was believed by everyone.

Jack, looking to gain any sort of protection, pretended like he did indeed have an idol in the wake of the vote, and so Tyler and Adam planned to try and cause a split again should they go to another tribal. They did not have to worry about that, however, as Saish's quit was followed by the F16 Puzzle Gauntlet, where Vanaheim earned safety despite Tyler failing to complete the Logic puzzle. During his attempt he repeatedly asked Kristine - the only one to complete it - for some help, but she refused due to not wanting to put a target on herself. During this time without tribal, Tyler bonded a bit with Griff, and now believed he could work with him for a bit. They were to be swapped apart the next cycle though, as the F15 trust rankings swap sent Tyler to Niflheim (AKA the "most trusted tribe"), as the second-most trusted person in the game (behind Kristine, who was thus sent to Hel for the cycle). He was joined on Niflheim by Adam, Aidan, Mason, Logan, Dawson and Kamil, and immediately found himself in the majority as Mason wanted to stick with the OG Midgards and the Anti Griff Federation was formed with everyone except Dawson and Kamil, with the plan to split the votes between the two of them should they go to tribal.

They did indeed go to tribal that cycle after losing the Guess Who challenge, and when Kamil looked to push a Tyler vote, this made the latter determined to vote him out, having already been paranoid due to the two in the minority not talking to him much. The Anti Griff Federation went through with their split plan, placing the majority on Kamil to eliminate him 3-2-2. For some reason, they all decided to be in tribe VC as the votes were read, and Tyler interrupted Kamil's final words by yelling in celebration and claiming that "nobody should ever fucking come for me". Kristine then joined the tribe, and after a very quick cycle that saw Niflheim win the 99 Bottles challenge handily, it was time for the merge.

Right at the beginning of the merge, Griff came to Tyler and Adam, wanting to target a Jotunheim member. He initially wanted Mason, but Tyler shut that down, instead suggesting Sarah, as he knew she was the least connected of the five of them. This led to Griff creating an alliance with the three of them, Kristine and Dawson in order to push this. In actuality, Tyler and Adam preferred voting Shannon over Sarah, but due to Griff's insistence they were fine with going along with Sarah for the time being. Either way, the two of them hoped that Sarah, Shannon and Jack could be the next few boots in whatever order, taking out those they saw as floaters and keeping those they felt they could work with. They soon received another boost when Mason, unable to solve the merge idol clue he'd found, shared it with Tyler, looking for help. Tyler immediately gave it to Adam, who solved it and found an idol that he had to split in two and give half of it to another player. He gave a half to Tyler, who could use it on its own to negate half the votes against him at a tribal, or it could be re-combined with Adam's half to be a full idol.

After Mason and Jack won F13 immunity at the cost of their F12 votes in Greed, the tides turned from a Sarah vote to a Shannon vote, mainly due to the yet-to-be-officially-formed peepee alliance of Kristine, Dawson, Aidan, Logan, Mason and Jmoney, and Tyler, looking to coordinate with his OG Midgard allies, was happy to go with it as it was what he had preferred in the first place. So, Shannon was eliminated 11-2, with Griff in the minority, voting for Sarah. After the vote, Griff came to Tyler, Adam and Colin, looking for options, and while they would've liked him out sooner rather than later, Tyler thought it would be best to try and please him in order to use him as a number for the time being. They settled on Jmoney as their next target, due to Griff now being worried that he might have won something while down in Hel back at F18.

However, just about everyone else in the game outside of those four were now in on an Adam blindside, and after Logan beat Adam in noitcaeR, the plan was in motion. Some chaos ensued when Jmoney stole Griff's vote, and even more came when Sarah told Tyler there was a plan to vote out Adam for some reason. Worried (though he didn't trust Sarah a ton), he shared this with Adam and consulted with Kristine, Aidan and Logan, who all re-assured him that everything was fine. But everything was not actually fine, and Adam was voted out 7-3, with Tyler, Colin and Griff (without a vote) left out of it.

Extremely pissed at losing his ride or die so early into merge, Tyler, Colin and Griff had a very heated voice call where they argued over what the next move might be. Tyler was very pessimistic, feeling that he was screwed, and did not hide his dislike for Griff's attitude at all. Looking to regain his former allies, Kristine, Aidan and Logan in particular, Tyler slowly got taken back into the majority now that Adam (seen as a much bigger threat) was gone. Now happy to vote out Griff, that plan was put on pause due to him winning immunity at the F11 Norse Trivia Video challenge. The target was then pushed onto Sarah (later amended to a split between Sarah and Jack), despite Griff forming an alliance with Tyler, Colin, Kristine, Dawson and Jack to try and target Logan, who he saw as the biggest threat. There were some shenanigans, as Logan (told by Tyler and Kristine that Griff was targeting him) declared he had an idol and posted a random pic of a necklace in tribal council chat, Jack made the Jack Stans alliance with Tyler, Mason, Kristine, Dawson and Griff, pleading with them to keep him in, and then Jack stated in tribal council chat that he did not, in fact, have an idol, and it had all been a lie said by Pyro back at F18. This left many confused, and led to all the votes being pushed onto Sarah, eliminating her 9-1.

Following this, the rivalry between Griff and Mason had now heated up to the point where one of them finally had to go, and Tyler (along with everyone else) sided with Mason, happy to vote for Griff. After Dawson won immunity he tried to push a Jack vote, but the OG Midgard group of Tyler, Kristine, Aidan and Logan - at this point solidly together once again and holding most of the game's power - stood firm and the end result was an 8-1-1 vote against Griff, with Dawson throwing his vote on Jack. The F9 challenge was Sacrifices, where Tyler (along with Colin and Dawson) did not accept any. On the opposite end of the spectrum, both Jmoney and Mason accepted all the available sacrifices, and after Jmoney won immunity following a tiebreaker round, this was the situation: Jmoney was to be sent to Hel until the end of the F8 cycle, while Mason was vulnerable, without a vote and without the ability to talk outside of public chats.

Even before the tiebreaker was announced, Tyler and Colin agreed that it made sense to gun for whichever of the two lost, which put Mason on the hot seat. While he pleaded with them to instead vote out Jack (and in a tribe VC told Tyler and Logan that he believed Jmoney would vote for Dawson from Hel the next cycle, which turned out to be important later), no help for Mason was coming. But while he was set to be voted out 5-2 (with Colin and Dawson throwing their votes on Jack as a safety precaution), the seeds for the OG Midgard breakup were being planted. Tyler continued to grow very close with Kristine, solidifying an endgame pact with her, and warmed to the idea of going to end with Dawson who he had connected better with recently, now aiming for an F4 of himself, Kristine, Dawson and Colin.

After Mason's elimination, the players were hit by the locking of all DMs and alliance chats for the whole F8 cycle. The challenge was Hnutukast, where they had strategically attack each other in the arena to stay alive and eliminate the competition, and Tyler won decisively, earning himself immunity. Entering tribal, while Jmoney was an obvious target due to being vulnerable but still stuck in Hel unable to communicate, things were shaken up when Logan played his SWP on Kristine, sending her away from tribal. Jmoney quickly voted for Colin from Hel, causing some paranoia, and despite Colin, Aidan, Dawson and Jack all saying they'd be fine with a Jmoney vote, Logan threw out Jack's name as an option. This led to Tyler pouncing on an opportunity to flip on Logan, stating that Mason had told them Jmoney was going to vote for Dawson, and telling Dawson that Logan and Aidan wanted to gun for him. Looking to take power away from Logan and Aidan (who he saw as running things), Tyler wanted to pull in Dawson, Colin and Jack to vote for Logan, which the three of them all seemed receptive towards. In his confessional, he also stated that pulling off this vote in a live tribal in front of the jury would make it seen as entirely "his" move, helping his FTC case.

Logan fought back, however, and as tribal stretched on Jack began to have cold feet, and more importantly, Colin realized that he'd been left out of some major alliances, and was told that the general perception of him was that he was Tyler's goat. This caused Colin to lose a lot of trust in Tyler, now feeling he had to go soon, and Tyler privately seethed, unhappy with how this had now somewhat turned against him. In the end, Tyler and Dawson decided to back off on voting for Logan, and went with their target's desperate pitch to instead vote out Jmoney. Worried about Jmoney being roped into a plot against him, and wanting to keep Logan around another cycle to serve as a big target, Tyler felt this was the right move, and Jmoney was voted out 4-2-1, with the switch happening too quickly for Jack and Colin to change their votes off of Logan.

The next challenge was Touchy Subjects, and while Tyler looked to still have both Kristine and Dawson in his corner, he was now in some actual danger for the first time all game. Luckily for him, he beat Colin on the tiebreaker to win immunity, This left Logan exposed, and with Colin and Jack both preferring to vote him out instead of Kristine, he was eliminated unanimously. He again posted a fake idol on his way out, and had some pointed final words, pointing out Tyler as the clear frontrunner in his eyes.

Entering F6, both Tyler and Kristine wanted to target Jack. Tyler wanted to keep Aidan in until F5 as a shield, and still had his half idol in his pocket. He now began to reconsider wanting to sit next to Kristine at FTC, as while she was still his unquestioned #1 in the game, he felt he had much better odds of winning if he sat next to Dawson and Colin. Kristine, for her part, began to feel worried that he wanted to cut her at F4, due to him saying he wanted Dawson at F3 (and knowing he'd been close with Colin for a lot of the game). The challenge was a gauntlet that included parts of multiple previous challenges, and Kristine won, which Tyler was happy with as it left both Jack and Aidan vulnerable.

While the Final 3 alliance (Tyler, Kristine and Dawson) looked to lock in a Jack vote, Aidan, Jack and Colin all came together knowing that it was now or never for them, and that if Tyler made it past this vote he stood very good odds of making it to the end, where he would be very tough to beat. They tried to approach both Dawson and Kristine to try and get one of them to flip, and though Aidan told Jack and Colin that Kristine seemed like she would, both of the two voted for Jack. Aidan, Jack and Colin all told each other they were willing to go to rocks, and voted for Tyler. Tyler, the last to vote, considered playing his half idol, but believing that the only way he would be voted out would be unanimously (and thus rendering the idol useless), decided it would be better to save it.

This proved to be a fatal mistake, as the vote tied 3-3, causing a revote. Colin immediately locked in his revote, declaring he was ready to go to rocks, while both Dawson and Aidan tried to convince the other side to flip. Aidan's final pitch was telling Kristine and Dawson that he had lied to Colin and Jack when he promised F3 with them, and that he actually wanted to go to F3 with the two of them instead if they flipped on Tyler. With Aidan pleading with them to flip, and Tyler (strangely passive during the whole revote) warning them that if they did they would go next, Kristine was torn, having to turn her back on a game-long ally either way, and wanted Dawson to make the final call. Worried about risking himself in a three-person rocks this close to the end, Dawson eventually decided to flip in order to make sure he survived the tribal. Kristine, not having the heart to change her vote, kept it on Jack, and Tyler was eliminated 3-1 with the half idol in his pocket.

## Season 1 Character Ranking

***7: Tyler (6th place)***

*Dragon Slayer. That's all there is to say.*

*Ok but to give him an actual description, this dude was **intense as fuck**. Like, I think he actually thinks he is Benjamin Coach Wade, and I'm not sure whether I'm concerned for you or if I should be impressed but nonetheless he made a very memorable character on the season.*

## Trivia

* Listed as the #1 contender on edgic for five episodes, the second-most of any player, behind Aidan (six), and tied with Pyro (in S3) for the third-most of any player on any season, behind Hollie (nine) and Aidan
	+ This means Tyler has the record for most #1 contender episodes of anyone who did not either win the game or the POTG award
* Part of the Trevivor idol curse, as he, Pyro and Adam in S1, and Tyler (S2), Kage and Aaron in S2 all either got voted with an idol in their pocket or misplayed it, before Hollie and Kowboy broke the curse by idoling out Renee midway through S2
* Part of both revotes on the season along with Jack and Colin, those three are the only players in Trevivor history to be part of multiple revotes
* Held an idol for eight cycles, the second-longest streak in Trevivor history, behind Adam (nine)