Daves4590

**Daves4590**, also known as **Nicolai**, is a contestant on *Survivor: Lofoten Islands*.

Entering the season with the mindset that he wanted to be a big character and have fun with the game, Nicolai did not disappoint in those two facets. Despite his silly nature, he formed meaningful connections with Capy, Rhys, and Sun and became a part of the Stamsund majority. After being swapped by himself onto Flakstad, Nicolai was forced to use his idol to send power player David out of the game with his sole vote, and then convinced Julian to flip on his close ally Elizabeth, causing a short-lived rivalry with the latter in the process due to their clashing personalities and gameplay styles. After playing a second successful idol on himself for the thrill of it, Nicolai began to rack up a reputation as the far-and-beyond biggest strategic and physical threat left in the game, and despite making a plea with fellow perceived threats Anesu and Rhys to move forth as shields for one another, they turned on him alongside Julian and voted him out at the Final 6.

## Profile

**Name and Age:** Nicolai, 21

**Tribe Designation:** Stamsund

**Current Residence:** St. Petersburg, Russia

**Personal Claim to Fame:** I got off my ass an October 9th 2023 to finally get two of the three full bags of dirty clothes in my room to a laundry. Three would be impractical to carry, and one of them had the clothes of all colors mixed, which I would then need to separate. I... I don't really have anything against colors mixing, I'm not a weirdo, you know? It's just that it's laundry. And I don't trust the overworked minimum wage workers there not to set the temp too high and ruin all my shit. Now you see, I have a lot of clothes, so it's not like it would be devastating to me financially to lose some of my wardrobe, but it would just be a colossal shame to have good clothes ruined because I haven't taken the extra precaution that I full well could. And I mean, I walk in there, right, and I see they're backed up at least a couple of days ahead. Like, what the fuck? First - why are so many people handing in clothes, does no one own a washer? Even our fucking dorms have a laundry lady. Admittedly, she only works til about 7:45 PM and the driers are all backed up because of some indeterminate "technical reasons", which likely means one or two just broke, maybe three but three would be insanely bad luck, don't you think? More would be even more unlikely. And that's something people don't really get, like, statistics and shit. Wishful thinking often makes us believe odds are in our favour and that can really mess up one's perspective. Unless, you know, you're like one of those people who is actually pessimistic and prefers to tilt the odds against yourself, I've dealt with that, I got loved ones I have to frequently convince not to be so hard on themselves... Anyway, yeah, sorting some of my laundry out. That was a nice little step in the right direction today. I like letting myself have the small victories. What is life if not just a big picture made up of tiny brush strokes? Think about that.

**Three Words to Describe You:** Laconic.

**Pet Peeves:** ORGs. ORG players. ORG VLs. The fact shit costs money, and the fact you have to work for said money. I wanna leech off of society for fuck's sake, let me vibe. Also, Killerskull2 aka Dakota James Boulette, the bastard kidnapped my child and is still procrastinating on putting up a ransom.

**Survivor Contestant You Are Most Like:** Erik Cardona? I don't fucking know I haven't watched the thing

**Why did you come on Survivor?** Because I think I'm funny. I'm not really as funny as I think, granted, but a huge crowd is something I can hardly resist. I'm here to clown, and I'm here to disappoint. Those are the two things.

**Why do you think you'll become the Sole Survivor?** Here's my strategy, right. I'm gonna look for two people on my tribe that are least active and immediately start spamming their DMs with alliance offers. After they accept, I IMMEDIATELY random.org the tribe member list and look who's last. If me - I quit. If someone else - we throw the challenge (I'll ask), after we throw I rally the people behind voting off the person that placed last on the random.org randomized list. At the same time I will tell everyone I found the idol, but they'll actually all get different idol location info, that way I can confuse everyone and make people suspect each other. After we win the next two challenges (I'll try really hard) and swap (I'll ask the hosts), I'll start by pagonging everyone from one of the two tribes that weren't my starting tribe (I'll toss a coin). After everyone from there is gone, I will pit both my inac allies against each other in a big game-defining move that allows me to cause chaos and come out on top in a stunning display of strategic prowess. I'll think about merge strats later I'll basically have already one by the time we merge anyway it's just a couple rounds

**Anything else we should know about you?** I look damn good in a dress, but don't tell my government that.

## Survivor: Lofoten Islands

### Voting History

**^1** In "Watch This", Nicolai played an immunity idol on himself, negating three votes against him.
**^2** In "Why Would She Blow Up My Game!?", Nicolai received the Blessing of Freyr, allowing him to vote twice at tribal council. He used his Extra Vote to vote against Devin twice.
**^3** In "Hesitant Reverence In The Heart Of The Rabble", Rhys played an immunity idol on Jaylen, negating Nicolai's vote against him. Also, Nicolai played an immunity idol on himself, negating three votes against him.
## Trivia

* Nicolai is the first contestant to play multiple immunity idols on himself.
	+ As both idol plays were successful, Nicolai is also the first contestant to play multiple successful immunity idols on himself.
* Every time Nicolai received votes, he received three, and he received the most votes of anyone who attended that tribal council.
	+ Anesu is the only contestant in *Lofoten Islands* to only vote against Nicolai successfully.
* Nicolai is the second contestant to negate a unanimous vote with an immunity idol, following Heater.
* Nicolai is the third contestant to send a contestant home with one vote (excluding Final 3 tribal councils in seasons with Final Twos), following Heater and Edgar (twice).

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