Ry

Ry is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti and Visionary Survivor: Fan vs Favorites.

## Haiti Summary

Quickly dubbed as the luckiest castaway in Visionary history after his elimination, Ry’s luck bailed him out of a lot of situations. For a lot of Ry’s game he couldn’t obtain the footing he thought he had.

At the start of the game Ry worked closely with fellow Egzagòn castaway Vaeril. The two compared idol searching notes and covered a lot of ground, which eventually led to Ry finding the idol. While Ry was able to avoid too much spotlight for the first portion of the game, he had a pretty rude awakening with Raini on day one that warned him to watch his mouth. Ry has a tendency to make blunt but sarcastic jokes that people don’t typically pick up on very easily. When he made a joke to Raini about targeting Raini, it caused a rift between the two. Fortunately, the first and only pre-swap tribal council Egzagòn attended came down to Patrick and Raini. This split allowed Ry to walk into the tribe swap rather easily. Or so he thought.

Going into the pre-swap Ry was confident in the numbers original Egzagòn had over original Vodou on the new Vodou tribe. With a 4-3 advantage and no curses or pins to worry about, the only thing for Ry to worry about was whether or not any of the Vodou members had advantages. But after the swap Giully exposed Ry to Vaeril, claiming that Ry was just using him as a number and was really working with a different group of allies. Naturally, this set Vaeril off because he had just helped Ry find an idol not too long beforehand. With this new information, Vaeril led a charge on Ry with the help of Giully, Greg, and the original Vodou members he had swapped with. The formation of this voting block also resulted in Vaeril leaking that Ry had an idol. Within a matter of days everyone had turned against Ry, and he was a little slow to pick up on it.

Fortunately for Ry, even with some members trying to throw the challenges, the new Vodou tribe won the first two post-swap challenges. But things got dicey after they lost the third. With everyone against Ry, his options were limited. Fortunately for him, Giully, Matthew, and Mink had all lost their votes due to pins and curses. This left Gregory, Josiah, Ry, and Vaeril as the only four people who could vote. Aware of how much of a physical threat Giully was, Josiah saw the small voting pool as an opportunity to blindside her. Strongly considering the move, he approached Ry, who was pretty desperate to get the target off of his back. After hearing about the plan, Ry leaked it to a few others on the tribe. When word got back to Josiah that Ry had been leaking a plan, Josiah backed out and reverted back to the initial plan to eliminate Ry due to not trusting him with information. Even though Josiah backed out of the plan he created, Ry managed to flip over Gregory to his side. This allowed Ry to force a tie between himself and Giully after his idol was negated by Mink’s idol blocker. Ry’s luck streak began as Giully was eliminated by the wheel over himself.

Heading into the merge Ry was a huge name. Not only was Vaeril still extremely adamant about taking him out, but he also had just survived the wheel after having his idol blocked at the final pre-merge tribal council. Vaeril immediately called Ry out publicly once the tribes merged in an attempt to rally more people against him, and it was pretty effective. After the first merge immunity challenge everyone was on board with eliminating Ry. Hours upon hours of scrambling and trying to get people to flip was becoming more and more of a wasted effort as tribal council grew closer. But Ry’s luck streak continued as he found a second idol an hour before tribal. He quickly went to Jacob and told him about his idol in hopes that sharing his idol would get Jacob to flip and vote with him. Even though there had been a plan to split the votes between Ry and Gregory in case Ry played an idol, no one really followed it and most of the votes landed on Ry. This opened the door for Ry to play his idol, and blindside Josiah in a \*4-3-1 vote with the help of Gregory and Jacob.

After Josiah’s blindside and Ephraim’s evacuation, Ry seemed to be untouchable. Three rounds in a row where he was saved by things seemingly out of his control. At the final nine it had become apparent to Dwight, Matthew and Robby that the more they tried to vote out Ry and he stayed, the more power Vaeril was gaining, and the more power Ry was losing. After noticing the trend they decided to flip the script and get people to flip toward Vaeril. After losing the immunity challenge, everyone had their sights on Vaeril and Ry sat back quietly as his biggest rival in the game was eliminated in a unanimous 8-1 vote.

Heading into the final eight Ry was in the clear for a bit. The person who had been targeting him for the past week had just been voted out so his options were starting to open up. Up until Jacob and Mink stopped targeting each other and decided to work together Ry was more or less chilling. But once they did start working together, Ry was in trouble yet again. While Ry was able to make amends with Robby, even making a deal with him that would keep him safe until the final five, Dwight had become very adamant about eliminating Ry out of fear that he would slip by under the radar if he wasn’t dealt with. So after Izaak joined forces with Dwight, Jacob, and Mink, Ry was sent to the wheel again in a tied 4-4 vote. Ry’s luck streak continued when he survived the wheel a second time and Jacob was eliminated.

At the final seven Ry appeared to be back in a decent spot. The voting block he was a part of at the previous tribal council now had majority since Jacob was eliminated. But camp was strangely quiet after Robby won the challenge. With Robby immune, Mink was the next biggest target and appeared to be the vote. But after some convincing, Mink was able to get Matthew to give him his idol on the condition that he returned it to him if he didn’t play it. This made things tricky, and gave Mink the leverage he needed to flip the vote. After shifting the target, Mink was able to blindside Ry in a 4-2 vote, ending his luck streak.

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Not unlike many other Favorites in the season, Ry had a lot to prove in his Visionary return. With the unique reputation of being seen as the luckiest castaway in Visionary history, Ry came into Fans vs Favorites really wanting to prove that he could play the game strategically and effectively.

At the start of the game Ry quickly reconnected with his former season six castmates. Together they created a tight four person alliance that had a lot of potential, the problem was that it was a rather obvious alliance due to it forming from such an obvious connection. After losing the first challenge of the season, Izaak was brought up and agreed on as a quick and easy first target. This forced Ephraim, Giully and Ry into a sticky situation. They naturally wanted to keep Izaak since they were working with him, but they knew that if they showed too much resistance to the plan to vote out Izaak then that would just confirm the already existing suspicions that the season six veterans were working together. Ultimately they opted to go with the majority, but luckily Izaak was spared when Kiibo quit the game.

After Izaak was saved by Kiibo’s quit, he decided to let bygones be bygones after learning that he was the intended target of the canceled first tribal council. His decision to continue working with the season six veterans was more so because he didn’t really have any other choice, but nonetheless with there only being nine castaways left on the Favorites tribe it was looking to be rather plausible that they might be able to form a five person majority. Unfortunately, others on the tribe were still very adamant about stopping a potential season six alliance before it was able to gain any traction. After the Raykar Pord tribe lost the second challenge, Izaak remained the primary target. So for their own safety, Ephraim, Giully and Ry willingly flipped on him.

As the losing streak continued for the Favorites the castaways who opposed the season six veterans were starting to turn on each other, specifically Bandit and Booty. Neither of them trusted the other, which allowed the six season alliance to integrate themselves with the rest of the tribe. Ultimately Bandit went home, but Ry had landed on Slug’s bad side and had received his first vote of the season in the process.

With only seven Favorites remaining, a clear division had developed between Ephraim, Giully and Ry, and Booty, Elx, and Slug. This left Hoeah as the swing vote. After losing yet again, Hialeah had all the power and was the key to the season six veterans finally getting some traction. Since Hoeah felt good about his relationship with Giully, they were able to flip him. But when Ry forgot to vote, a 3-3-1 tie occurred in the votes that sent Ephraim home by wheel.

After losing Ephraim, Ry was left on very thin ice. Slug, who was already opposing Ry, now had the leverage he needed to finally eliminate him. Meanwhile Ry’s main ally Giully was angry at him for his slip up that resulted in Ephraim’s elimination. Fortunately, Haiti was still willing to continue working with Giully and Ry, and didn’t seem to have any intentions of flipping. After losing their fifth challenge in a row the Favorites were left at an evenly split 3-3 stalemate. Knowing that Ry was the target of Booty, Elx, and Slug, Giully made a bold move. She knew she wouldn’t be able to bank on one of them flipping, so she came up with a plan to intentionally create a 3-2-1 vote by getting them to not vote together. And it worked when Booty voted for Giully, which resulted in Elx being eliminated in a 3-2-1 vote.

After the swap Ry had his work cut out for him. He and Hoeah had landed on the new Rak tribe with Fans Barney, Bloody, and Storm. After winning the first two post-swap challenges, they attended the final pre-merge tribal council after losing the third. Since they were in a 2-3 minority, they needed to flip at least one of the Fans to have any chance of staying. This was actually easier than initially anticipated. Barney was very close to Bloody or Storm, so once he developed a solid connection with Ry they had found the crack they needed. Ultimately Barney’s vote didn’t end up mattering as Bloody flipped on Storm, but nonetheless they had reached the merge safely.

Once the merge occurred Ry had reunited with Giully. After winning the first individual immunity, Ry developed a plan with Giully that would really shake up the game. Knowing that a lot of the fans wanted Logan out, they told Logan to play his legacy advantage while they ensured that a majority vote would be on Logan. This would allow them to blindside another target, preferably one of the other Fans. In order to lower suspicion, they decided to just have Giully vote with Logan, while Hoeah and Ry would vote Logan with the rest of the tribe. After Logan played his legacy advantage, he nullified the ten votes that were cast for him and eliminated Cole with just two votes. The plan went perfectly, and as a little bonus they had managed to flush a trust idol that Barney and Cole were sharing.

After the Cole blindside, camp was getting hectic, everyone was trying to figure out who was in on what was perceived to be Logan’s plan. People seemed to be more concerned with eliminating whoever had voted with Logan than Logan himself. Coming off the success of the last tribal, Giully wanted to make another move. At this point in the game Ry was a dangerous player, he was under the radar enough to where he wasn’t attracting too much attention, but his social positioning was strong and Giully knew what he was capable of strategically. After Barney learned that Ry was in on the Cole blindside, he started spreading a bunch of rumors about Ry around camp. This made it easy for Giully to seal the deal when targeting Ry herself. Some people were on the fence about Barney, but they were more worried about Ry. Thus, Ry was eliminated in a close 6-4-1 vote.

## Return Interviews

**What does it mean to you to be considered a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community?**
It means a lot. All throughout my history playing orgs, I was never the most favorite. I wouldn't consider me being likable, root-able, or someone people love in a given season. Seeing that now, I can hold a title of a favorite, it means that my efforts aren't for nothing and I bring something people like in seasons.
**What are your expectations for this season in terms of competition?**
I expect everyone here to want to prove themselves, NOT top tier gameplay. There is nobody from All Stars in this season, which means we won't get any kalinas, any robbys, any flat out suepr stars unless that star declined an invite. However, it also means people will feel like they're going to need to prove themseleves, which, in my opinion, is going to be tougher to face against than normal all stars.
**How do you expect the mixed cast of veterans and newbies to impact the season? Are you more nervous about the veterans returning or the newbies who are getting their first chance?**
Newbies for sure. People always look at them as 'whatever! in real life survivor they suck anyways!' and that is FAR from the truth. The fans will create new bonds and dynamics and eventually come out on top, as many usually do. The favorites people have info on. Dirt on. Rumors of pre game alliances will be every where and that would put a target on people's backs, especially after season 7 where an alliance of 3, mainly made by pre existing relations, dominated, people will be happy as ever to throw all who they suspect knows eachother as a 'premade alliance!!' to get a target off their backs.
**Coming in as the veterans of the season do you feel that it’s the Favorites job to uphold their stature and give the Fans a tough fight?**
It's not just a job, its a requirement. The fans would be BRAINDEAD if they expect an easy season they can stomp around. I know i'm coming into this season guns blazing. My last go around was, to put it simply, embarrassing. My guard is up and I'm suspecting the rest of the favorite's is up as well. Honestly, I don't really care about proving to the fans shit or giving them a fight, Its more about me needing to put up a fight no matter what, against whoever.
**What’s your main goal this season now that you’ve been given another chance?**