Ephraim

Ephraim is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Haiti and Visionary Survivor: Fans vs Favorites.

## Haiti Summary

Ephraim is remembered in Visionary history for being the first castaway to ever send in video confessionals to log his game. Ironically, those same video confessionals ended up being his downfall.

Ephraim started the game in an interesting position. As Ryan created a seven person alliance on day one that immediately got leaked, Ephraim mistakenly integrated himself rather close to Ryan’s side. So when Ryan became public enemy number one after Vodou lost the first immunity challenge, Ephraim found himself on the wrong side of the numbers. While Essix ultimately took the initial fall for Ryan out of fear that Ryan might have an idol, the first tribal council served as a wake up call for Ephraim.

After realizing that a majority of the people on Vodou had no intention of staying true to the alliance Ryan created, Ephraim’s main focus was laying low and getting back into good graces with his tribemates. The opportunity to completely distance himself from Ryan and any of his plans arised as Vodou lost the second immunity challenge, sending them back to tribal council. Recognizing that everyone was targeting Ryan, Ephraim willingly flipped on his main ally to secure himself better footing in the long run.

While Ephraim was never really anyone’s ride or die, he wasn’t really on anyone's radar to eliminate either. After initially landing on the wrong side of the numbers Ephraim struck a solid balance between having a decent amount of influence, while also remaining in the shadows without drawing too much attention to himself. After the swap Ephraim was moved over to the new Egzagòn tribe along with Dwight and Robby. While they were down 4-3 in numbers on the surface, both Patrick and Izaak had lost their votes which gave them a 3-2 advantage. From the moment the tribes initially swapped Ephraim became very adamant about voting out Drew due to knowing his potential as a player. Knowing that they had an advantage in numbers, they locked their votes on Drew and managed to get Jacob to write down Patrick’s name with Drew’s vote going to Ephraim. Initially they were going to vote for Patrick, fearing that he might have the better social game, but decided to vote for Drew as a less obvious target in case someone played an idol.

After losing the second post-swap challenge, the original Vodou members who got swapped to Egzagòn were able to completely flip Jacob over to their side. Even though Drew cursed Ry, which left three original Egzagòn votes and three original Vodou votes on the new Egzagòn tribe, the numbers were actually 4-2 thanks to Jacob’s flip. With no idols located within the new Egzagòn tribe, Dwight, Ephraim, Jacob, and Robby had no trouble eliminating Patrick in a 3-2 vote after Matthew pulled the no vote pin on Jacob.

Heading into the merge Ephraim was still keeping a low profile, but with a large eleven person tribe it became a little more difficult to keep a steady influence on decision making. Regardless, things were looking up as original Vodou had a 6-5 numbers advantage and pretty much everyone wanted Ry out of the game. Fearing an idol and trusting his numbers, Josiah came up with a plan to split the votes on Ry and Gregory in case Ry played an idol. Unfortunately for him, Ephraim placed his vote on Ry, comfortable with the expectation that Ry didn’t have an idol, and Izaak and Jacob flipped and voted out Josiah, feeling like he was the bigger threat. So when Ry did pull out an idol, Josiah was sent home in a \*4-3-1 vote.

At the final ten, Ephraim and Jacob were both in hot water due to being suspected of flipping. In an effort to clear his name and expose Jacob, Ephraim shared a video confessional he created that included his vote in it to Robby. After much consideration, the video confessional was deemed to be just as detrimental and concrete as a screenshot, thus Ephraim was disqualified from the game.

## Fans vs Favorites Summary

Ordinarily, being disqualified from the game would ruin any reputation and likely result in being blacklisted from an ORG. But for Ephraim, that wasn’t even close to the case. Ephraim is a castaway who has always brought an abundance of personality and effort into Visionary while competing. So despite having his game ended in a negative way in season six, Ephraim was still very deserving of the title Fan Favorite. And due to the circumstances of his disqualification, he was still eligible to return for another shot at the title of Sole Visionary.

Ephraim’s gameplay was rather straightforward this time around. He made a critical effort to develop his social game more, which was made easier due to there being three other season six alumni on the Favorites tribe. The tricky part was finding a way to push the Haiti veterans into a majority. With the favorites losing so many challenges at the start of the season, it seemed that the best way to accomplish this would be by voting out castaways who weren’t veterans from Haiti. This was much easier said than done.

Naturally, everyone on the Favorites was at least a little wary of a potential season six alliance with their being four returners from the season. While this didn’t necessarily mean castaways wanted to outright target them, it did result in them feeling inclined to work with each other more for protection from the season six alumni. After losing the first challenge, Izaak quickly emerged as the biggest target on the Raykar Pord tribe. This forced the rest of his alliance into a tricky situation where they didn’t want him to be eliminated, but they also didn’t want to show too much resistance. If the other castaways felt that Ephraim, Giully, and Ry were trying too hard to protect Izaak, then naturally they would assume they were working together. After coming to the conclusion that they couldn’t save him, Kiibo unintentionally did by quitting the game on day two.

After Kiibo left, Ephraim, Giully, and Ry made amends with Izaak and agreed to put the first few days behind them. They knew that continuing to work together would be better for all of their games, as well as for the alliance as a whole. Additionally, with Kiibo gone they only needed to flip one person to create a new majority, which made the alliance seem even more promising. There was just one problem, everyone else was becoming more worried about a season six alliance’s existence and wanted Izaak out even more than before. Again not wanting to show too much resistance, Izaak’s allies agreed to flip on him once more as he was voted out unanimously with no quit to save him.

Following Izaak’s elimination Bandit was targeted and eliminated due to him and Booty targeting each other, signaling that maybe people were no longer worried about the season six veterans. But with the Bandit and booty conflict resolved, Booty, Elx, and Slug joined together to target Ephraim. Ephraim didn’t have too much to worry about though, by this time Hoeah had solidified himself with Giully, as well as Ephraim and Ry. This gave them the numbers they needed to eliminate Booty, Elx, or Slug in a 4-3 vote. But when Ry forgot to vote, a tie was forced that resulted in one of the most emotional eliminations in Visionary as Ephraim was eliminated by wheel.

### Voting History

 After This Season I'm Gonna Have So Much Instagram Followers
 I'm Literally Gonna Drown Myself
 This Was An INTENSE Vote
 Literally On The Edge
 Eliminated, Day 9

## Return Interviews

**What does it mean to you to be considered a Fan Favorite in the Visionary community?**
It means that I'm entertaining and people want to see more of me. Not only that, but they want to see me do good. I fucked up in my initial season and I thought I was done for in the Visionary series, but then I saw how people liked my confessionals and I felt better about myself knowing that people were rooting for me. So yeah, to me it means people want to see me do well.
**What are your expectations for this season in terms of competition?**
The fans are definitely going to be the ones I'm worried about since this is their first time and they want to play hard, I presume. Fan favorites, on the other hand, aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. Not stupid, but not strategical masterminds. At least they're entertaining though haha. So while I'm not too worried about what the favorites may bring, I'm not going to say that I'm confident that it'll all be easy.
**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?**
Honestly this sounds a little hypocritical but the veterans obviously want to try and improve their game from before so their definitely going to be trying to play the game hard right from the start, which worries me because I don't want to get in their way of firing and end up getting shot.
**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?**
I mean, yeah. It'd be pathetic if we all went out one by one. Why even bother agree to being on the ballot if you're only going to get picked off, you know? The people want you there for a reason; act like it.
**What’s your main goal this season now that you’ve been given another chance?**