Kim Petras

***Kim*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Brazil. She later returned for Essential Survivor: All-Stars.

## Brazil

The girl who tried using her ‘looks’ to her advantage, Kim tried to use her ‘dumb blonde’ look to her advantage. While it worked to an extent, it only landed her in 11th place.

Kim’s overall activity matched the tribe she was placed on, Samba. After letting everyone see her bubbly personality back at camp. She immediately formed a majority alliance with Adam, Brandon, Jerry, and Tae. The chemistry of the group mixed well and within a few minutes, they had decided their target for when they lost; Lucifer. This is really the main starting point of the Lucifer v. Kim rivalry, but more on that later.

It began a common theme with the alliance, (or moreso Kim and Jerry), that they’d constantly talk game and nothing else. Despite winning the challenge or not. This lasted until Day 7, where Samba finally lost, and due to their main target going to Exile Island, they were left to vote out their backup person, Winter. But even with a correct vote-out like that, it still prompted Adam, Brandon, and Tae to create their own alliance behind the backs of Kim and Jerry.

Skipping some days to the Joint Tribal, Kim began to realize that her alliance lied to her about their challenge scores. But despite all that, her rivalry worsened with Lucifer once she caught wind that he was attempting to blindside Tae, the person who saved his butt in the first place. But unfortunately, no one could really see how everyone looked in between the lines because of Gavin’s abrupt medical evacuation. During the next challenge, Kim was sent to Exile Island by Janeiro. She went thinking that Lucifer would be out by the time she returned, but she got a rude awakening when she realized it was Tae who was out.

Now we’re at the merge. Original Samba has a 7-5 lead over Original Janeiro. In most cases, it’d be an easy pagoning just to get all of them out, but nope. For starters, Jess and Dimtri switched sides, making things confusing. But on the other hand, They knew that the 5 on the Janeiro side would all vote together, so the plan was originally to put all 7 votes onto Paul, yet only 3 actual votes were placed on him.

Believably, Lucifer and Kim unintentionally wasted their votes by just voting each other. And to counter an idol (that was in fact played), Brandon got himself and Adam to vote Evan. So when both Adam and Paul had items played for them that night, Evan went home in a 5\*-3\*-2-1-1 vote.

Now it’s Episode 8, Brandon wins immunity, after the Samba alliance sabotages Payton’s chances of winning the challenge. It’s clear that Kim is starting to become the glue that sticks everyone together on the side. Due to being a big threat, they target Payton but they don’t wanna let Lucifer know the plan, due to the possibility of him flipping and using his idol. So Kim and Jerry act out a scene in front of Lucifer as if they had told him Milo was the target by accident.

Well Lucifer, saw right through that and by the time Tribal Council comes, he knows Payton is their target, playing his idol for him and negating 6 votes in the process. But even though Lucifer threw his vote randomly at Adam. He took his chance to guide the main Janeiro alliance towards voting Kim, which had worked because at the time of this writing, Kim is sitting at Ponderosa.

## All-Stars

On her previous performance, she was mainly looked at as an OTT character, and a co-founder of the well known alliance, The Powdered Bagels. But in her 24 days in Brazil, there were times when Kim shows that she has a decent mind for the game. But was taken out due to her threat level being so high. So when she returned, although she got voted out for the same reason. These 24 days in India proved that she definitely deserved her spot on the cast.

At the original Andaman camp, Kim was met with 3 of her old castmates in Adam, Paul and Payton. So without a shadow of a doubt, they agreed to work with each other, but getting the majority of six would be the hard part. Fortunately enough, the Calvin boot was a guiding line for the additions Gabe, Tyler and Theodore. Making a seven-person majority in a nine-person tribe. But of course, when they lost things weren’t so easy. While Enrique was the main target, Kim attempted to do some sort of comfort tactic with Enrique so that she doesn’t get targeted. Meanwhile, there’s a huge revelation in the majority alliance as Theodore apparently told Enrique he was the target (and got caught), resulting in Tyler making a new majority without him and planning a blindside. So as they’re doin’ that, Kim gets word that she is the other side’s target. But obviously, they didn't have the numbers and Theo was taken out.

So immediately, Kim knew that she had to put in some extreme damage control with Enrique and Jay, but due to their mannerisms, it didn't look like it worked. So when they lost the next challenge again, it took a bit but the alliance collectively agreed on Jay, with a little chance of an Enrique boot… until Jay brought everyone into camp and called out Kim and Adam, needless to say here, that was the nail in the coffin for Jay as he was booted 7-1.

At the swap, Kim got dealt with a pretty good hand. In the majority 5-3 with a few allies in Tyler and Paul. But after talking with Logic and getting a LOAD of info from him (with 70% of said info being false) Kim skyrocketed him to the Number 2 spot in her Trust Rankings. Also allowing Logic to integrate himself into their majority. Which helped a lot when he made Aidan (and by proxy Paul) targets in the upcoming Tribal, and since Aidan wasn’t in the majority, he was an easy blindside. But at the next challenge loss, everyone and their MOM was mad at Ben for ‘throwing’ the challenge.

But in usual All-Star fashion, things didn't go as planned. Logic reported back to the alliance that a secondary alliance was made to target Enrique, made by Gabe. Obviously, the group knew that it wouldn’t be smart for Gabe to do that so they checked notes with him, and alas, Logic was lying. So with yet another blindside in Logic under Kim's accolades, it was definitely going to be hard for her to somehow lower her threat level, and we definitely saw this in the merge.

At the merge, Kim was reunited with Adam, which made a majority of six with the Andaman people (swap out Gabe with Brandon as he flipped immediately). But as Tribal Council grew closer, Kim became more wary. She knew her side’s target in Zach, but was told from multiple sources that she was the vote. But at Tribal Council, she was shocked to realize that Adam was their target and not herself. So this vote caused a lot of friction between the five since now they had no numbers AND no trust for each other.

Coming into the next round, Kim’s side was completely fractured as the game began to really get to their heads. Most considered flipping, but all Kim did here was build a Final 3 pact with Gabe and Ben, which she actually wanted to stay true to. But besides that, not much here happened besides the constant target switching and extreme lack of communication, even when Ben flipped, the vote ended up being 6-3-2-1 against Enrique, as Kim’s side never stuck to a definitive target… plus Paul’s random flip against Tyler. But luckily, this vote made their side realize that if they don’t stick together, they weren’t going to win. But they STILL needed a sixth to gain a majority. So while Kim was blackmailing Gabe with their Final 3 deal, Paul managed to pull over Jayden, getting themselves a majority and voting off Josiah… too bad the majority didn't last.

At the Final 10, Zach won immunity and the main target for Kim at the moment would be Jacob. She knew how persuasive he is and didn't want him making it too far reasonably. But to still curry favor with Gabe, Kim made a deal with him that round to keep that F3 deal intact. But of course, Gabe ran and broke that deal almost instantly. But, that didn't matter, they still had the votes to take out Jacob right? Well, not until Brandon and Jyaden flipped to the other side, taking out Kim 6-4. Despite her pleas to Tyler about using his idol on her.