Moonool

**Moonool** was the Villain of the Season in Mythvivor: Yucatán and a player in Mythvivor: Valhalla - Second Chances.

## Yucatán

In Yucatán, Moonool started the game on the Xbalanque tribe, where he quickly took on a leadership role to help with their first challenge. There he bonded with Thomas and Sophie and they created the Blizzard alliance. In that alliance, they searched for the immunity idol. Moonool was the first to get to the end of the hunt, where he found out that the idol was split in half, and that someone else would need to get the other half. He guided Sophie and Thomas to the end of the path, where Thomas found the other half of the idol.

During his time on this tribe, he was also well-known for his first visit to the Sacred Cenote. During this visit, he met Kylie and kept telling her that he would take larger and larger sacrifices to win the advantage. However, he planned on taking far less than he said. This ended with Kylie not being able to participate in challenges or vote for three rounds.

In "Sudden Death," Moonool won the Kingmaker challenge, which gave him another opportunity to visit the Cenote. This time, he won an Extra Vote. He did not attend tribal with his new Xbalanque 2 tribe.

In "I'M A MF-ING SNAKE," the tribes swapped again, with Moonool continuing his streak on Xbalanque by joining Xbalanque 3. During this episode, Moonool chose to take Greed. This meant that he won his second individual immunity, but sent the rest of his tribe to tribal. This helped him push Kylie out and protect his allies on the other tribe.

When the tribes merged in "Who Let This Indecisive Molerat Into an ORG?," Moonool was able to reunite with his former Blizzard allies, Sophie and Thomas. While they first had an easy vote in Jordan, many of the players were beginning to notice that Moonool could be a big threat. Thankfully, in "All I Had to Do Was Profess My Undying Love of Riverdale to the Entire World," he won his third individual immunity in the Codebreakers challenge. However, his safety was short-lived. In the very next episode, "Keeping the Whole Hand While Eating It at the Same Time," he lost Touchy Subjects to his close ally Thomas. Trusting that Thomas would know what to do with them if he fell asleep prior to the tribal deadline, Moonool gave Thomas both his immunity idol half and his extra vote just before tribal. Unfortunately, that would be Moonool's undoing and he went home in 10th place, but with a strong legacy and impact on the season as a whole.

At the end of the season Moonool won Villain of the Season for his antics, along with Parker's Favorite, Best Rivalry with Cole, Best Alliance for the Blizzard with Sophie and Thomas, and Best Move with Thomas and AP for sending Plaus to the Cenote to help their former tribemates, Dogs and Sophie.

## Valhalla

Moonool began Mythvivor: Valhalla on the Draugr tribe. Despite being the most valuable number in the Design It All challenge, he found himself as the consensus target for most of the tribe, partially led by his rival from Mythvivor: Yucatán, Cole. With Sophie, his fellow former Blizzard member from Yucatán and Thicc warning him, Moonool switched his vote from Andrew, the fake vote, to Cole. He idoled out Cole 9-1, in the largest idol play in Mythvivor history. This won Best Move despite being from the very first tribal. Despite Draugr returning to tribal the next round, he was able to work his way back into most people's good graces, and they voted out Andrew at the next tribal.

He then swapped onto the Verdande tribe, where he formed strong bonds with former Haugbui members, Goober and Norah. Together they voted out Sybil, who had been a close ally of Cole's on Draugr. During this time, Moonool also found the extra Pycto which led to the Pycto fortress at the Minesweeper challenge. There he reunited with Anna and met Peanut and they shared a set of Amulets. When the 39 Stones swap challenge occurred, he gained a slot on the Survivor tribe through "Verdande Communism."

Following one round of safety on Hodur, he lost the Boat Tour challenge for the Vasa boat and had to attend the Sunk tribal council. While he was an initial target, Thomas and Anna were able to flip the vote onto Jack.

At merge, he joined the Sinister Six alliance with Goober, Norah, Anna, Thomas, and Peanut, which was a dominant alliance that eventually won the Best Alliance. He was also part of the Minesweeper alliance with Goober and Norah, which searched for the idol together. He continued to work with these groups until the final 7 tribal council. There, he worked with Anna to use their expiring amulets as a Steal A Vote to steal Dennis's vote to use against Thomas, who he saw as a big threat. His close ally, Goober, was on the fence until just before tribal council, when he switched his vote to Anna, which kept Thomas in the game. He would vote out Thomas with his allies at the following tribal council.

At the final 5, Norah told Moonool about her idol. Frustrated because the Minesweeper alliance was to work together on finding the idol and realizing he was left out, he mentioned his feelings to Goober and considered flipping. Unfortunately, this led Goober and Norah to flip on Moonool, who was voted out 3-1-1. At Final Tribal Council, he voted for his close ally, Goober to win.

### Voting History

1 Moonool played an immunity idol on himself, negating all votes against him.

### Jay's Thoughts

Oh boy, I could write pages about the game this guy right here played, but I’ll keep it as brief as I can. Moonool was easily one of the most entertaining players this season, and it all started with the iconic idol play at the first tribal. The scrappiness to get the idol that quickly was super impressive, and his feel for the moment allowing specs to freak out wondering what the hell was gonna happen at the first tribal was incredibly electric. On top of that, Moonool gets the nod here in the top three of my rankings because of the leg work he did after the idol play. He worked his tail off to lower his threat level and to get by the premerge despite opportunities existing where he could’ve been eliminated. When the merge hit, he set himself up well in the sinister six alliance, and maintained solid relationships with many of the players who would ultimately end up on the jury. While I don’t believe Moonool would’ve had winner equity against players like Norah or Goober, I firmly believe he had the best shot of winning the game out of all the other players this season if Norah and Goober did not make FTC. While the move with Anna at final 7 did not work out, his rationale that attempting the move could’ve locked in her vote as well as Peanut’s is sound thinking, so it’s reasonable to assume he could’ve locked up votes had he made FTC regardless of the opponent. A villain in season three, Moonool did not disappoint this season, and he left a long lasting impact on season five with his strong gameplay.

### Episode Title Credits

* "THE HUNT IS ON"
* "I’m a Goddamn Animorph"

## Trivia

* Moonool holds the record for the most votes negated in a single idol play, with 9.
* Moonool holds the record for most votes against in multiple seasons, with 23.
* Moonool won the most individual challenges during Mythvivor: Yucatán out of the cast (3).
* Moonool won the most overall challenges during Mythvivor: Yucatán out of the cast (tied with Thomas at 7.
* Moonool has found 4 advantages between his two seasons.
* Moonool has found an idol in each of his seasons.