Danny

**Danny** (ddanush#8832) placed 5th in Season 6 & 5th in Survivor Season 10.

Quiet throughout the premerge, Danny was still serving sass in confessionals from Day 1 on Dakai. Decently positioned on the mid-bottom of the tribe, Danny was able to protect himself to the swap with the help of Mercury and his perceived goat Tanner. From there, his tribe had an obvious majority when Ives and Felipe opted to vote with the OG Dakai members, setting him to sail pretty and UTR. At the merge, Danny’s game plan exploded into action: a mega majority! Despite knowing the viewers would be gagging, Danny wanted to form a 7 person alliance with all of the OG Dakai members and the OG Moto members. While he secured 6 of the votes, Felipe opted to warn the minority and try to form a counter voting bloc to prevent something they deemed “boring” from happening. When caught playing all sides and burning their OG bridges, Danny was able to turn the tribe full against Felipe happily as he felt this would make the other two OG Moto members that much more dependent on the alliance. Despite some private dissent, the “mega majority” continued for a round easily due to Kev sinking his entire game. The following round, Danny narrowly avoided being voted out when Ives flubbed a blindside plan on him that could have happened easily with the right members involved. Seeing how close he was to going home, Danny decided to play much more aggressively and abandon “boring” strategy, opting to side with the minority himself and attempt to play the middle between the OG Dakai and Isasabai. This proved especially fruitful when he won Safety Without Power at the auction, as well as Mariana and Xcync revealing they possessed an Idol and Two Extra Votes. At this point, Danny began to worry about his allegiance to this duo; they were stacked with power, and while he didn’t even know about Xcync’s idol, he feared they may be too strong. After convincing them to waste an Extra Vote, however, Danny decided against telling the rest of the tribe about their advantages and sailed pretty until he absolutely had to vote them out. This would prove very costly, as he underestimated Tanner attempting to play his own game and flipping to the duo over him as well as Xcync potentially having the second idol. When Mercury was voted out at the F6 over Xcync like he planned, Danny felt his back was against the wall. Despite being very close to a clutch immunity win, it wasn’t enough and Danny found himself in the hot seat as a known jury threat. To his elation, he was able to find an Extra Vote just moments before Tribal Council, and intended to tie the vote in an attempt to at least force rocks if not force someone to flip onto Xcync. This plan would fail to be successful as the trio of Tanner, Mariana, and Xcync voted for Danny which would render his EV useless in the tie. Additionally, and much to his horror, Xcync revealed that he had possessed the Isasabai Idol all along, making the entire trio immune and Danny and Ives at their whim. Much to his frustration, he was then sent to the Jury in a 3-0 vote feeling there was no way he could have played out of going home that round.

Placed on the Beauty Tribe for his outgoing personality, Danny would be on the outs of the Totoka Tribe early due to his losing them a point in a challenge causing them to go to Tribal Council. Despite this, Danny's game would pick up steam at the merge much like his Season 6 game, leading to him becoming the last Totoka standing and a genuine threat to win the game. Initially set to make it past the Final 5 due to Dangan seeing Anthony as a bigger potential jury and Final Immunity threat, Danny's game would be sunk by Beetnorf. The previous round, Beetnorf had banked his vote (despite being the back up vote by the majority) which shocked many, but paid off for him when he had the power to decide who went home. He ultimately sided with Anthony and Ben after Ben refused to listen to Dangan's point that Anthony was good socially, leading to a clean 5 - 1 vote against Danny. He is remembered for playing somewhat of a mirror of his first game, impressively picking up winner potential at the end of both.