Ness

**Ness** (ness\_07665) placed 11th in Big Brother Season 2 & 16th in Big Brother Season 3.

A brand new ORG player, Ness would choose early on to play this up and sort of be the “baby” of any alliances he would wind up in. This would be semi-successful, seeing some players wanting to align with him from the jump. In Week 2, Ness would initially be nominated as a pawn against Tara’s target, TJ. Despite this, Ness would spiral a bit during the POV feeling as though his alliance (namely Kyle) were fucking him over socially with Tara. Despite wanting to make a counter alliance and “flip the vote,” Ness would stick with his allies after winning the POV. He would use it to save himself that week, with some calling him a comp beast just for a single win already. In Week 3, he would be paired with Kyle for the Team Twist. In Week 5, Ness would reluctantly win HOH after allegedly attempting to throw, knowing it would completely ruin his perceived middle game. This HOH would rival Tara’s this season in terms of messiness, albeit for different reasons. Due to the twist, Ness would immediately spiral about his game being over, knowing people would be mad at him no matter what. This anxiety would cause an insane amount of waffling between plans, feeling as though he should go “with the house” to attempt to shift blame off himself. However, after a very extensive chat with Mitch when telling Mitch he would be going up, Ness decided it would be best to just play for himself and nominate who he wanted. Despite not being fully true, Ness perceived Denim and Cherry as strong players running the game- as such, those two and their partners would hit the block in a major blindside, as two of them were in an alliance with him and all 4 were promised safety. This would be the start of what would become known as the Whacking of Ness, in which all 4 nominees relentlessly ganged up on Ness nonstop for upwards of 24+ hours. Ness would stand his ground, despite his nerves and anxieties of this being his first ever org and first ever HOH. While perhaps coming off as having an unearned victim complex, Ness would correctly explain to the others that it was a game, people made moves, and he didn’t play it well- but to his credit, the entire twist of nominating 4-6 people was very oppressive for an HOH reign. Additionally, he would air out his own frustrations with the players and take his own swings at them in return. This would not go over well at all with the nominees, as they validly still felt very betrayed and wanted to sink Ness’ game beyond repair as revenge for blindsiding them. This would slowly come off more as relishing in his perceived downfall, however, than a genuine argument due to the sheer amount of time the argument would last. Coupled with the prior week’s arguments, this left a lot of the house and production in a state of “meh” to anxiety. A house meeting from production was quickly called to address toxic arguing/exposing/house meetings vs productive ones, and the fine line between watching a train wreck vs Good TV. Nevertheless, Ness had already done the damage. Committing to his move, he was ready to take on the game albeit tired from the emotionally draining back and forth of the backlash. Much to his annoyance, Kyle would win and use the veto on his main target (Cherry), sending Ness into yet another major spiral. This one would garner less to zero sympathy, when he would threaten to self evict if an alumni was not evicted and readied to nominate Mitch & Anthony just to ensure this. Additionally, he would initially refuse to nominate anyone at all, telling his allies and production that he might just not name anyone which would lead to his DQ. After waffling until the last minute and spiraling yet again, Ness would ultimately heed the words of his alliance “Fourtunate One” members Kyle and Mitch. Nominating Chris & Motha Vanity as the replacement, Ness left this week emotionally drained. While blaming the twist \*solely\* for sinking his game, viewers would note that \*he\* was the one who decided to over promise safety. He would ultimately want to use this HOH to make moves, a good quality which should be owned not self-victimized. The cherry on top of Ness’ HOH reign would be Mitch quitting the game, the one person who he blew up his entire game for. With Ness’ blessing, the eviction would be canceled for the week. In Week 6, Ness would be invisible HOH Cherry’s target due to him blatantly wanting him out no matter what, being unbudging. Failing to win the veto, Ness would campaign hard that he was targeting Cherry and Denim only- unknowing that Cherry was the invisible HOH who could break a tie. Despite this, the vote would be extremely close to a tie for various reasons, with Cherry stating he’d evict Dee just to have made a bigger move. Thus, Ness almost survived out of seemingly pure luck w/ some people’s reasoning (such as a pity vote) before a 5 - 3 vote made him the first juror of the season. He is remembered for his catastrophic HOH reign, as well as his false read that the alumni were running that game that fueled said HOH reign to be disastrous.

Starting Season 3 off strong socially, Ness would be determined to improve his game while keeping his messy antics up at the same time. He would initially find himself well integrated with many in the game, part of the first alliances formed in the game. This would cause him to spiral slightly, assuming there to be “a Tara” in the house and that there must be MANY alliances already, despite at the time being in the only two in existence. Despite being quite active, Ness would find himself nominated by HOH Tori when she just did not vibe with him at all, frustrating Ness greatly as Tori was viewed as the least active player on their tribe. Because of his good social bonds, however, Ness would make the fatal mistake of “not throwing, but halfassing” the veto competition to manage his threat level deeper in the game. When Saharah’s target Tobin would then go on to win the veto (with backup target Tyson also getting 2nd), Ness would wind up on the block against another well insulated social player: Skylar. This would prove to already be a tough eviction and campaign straight from Week 1. Ness’ fatal flaw would be spending time socializing more with the wrong people than Skylar; while she focused most of her energy onto her Saharah tribemates (namely Nick & Aaron), Ness would spread his a lot more evenly onto the Celestes as well, knowing they’d hold the nom power over him if they won HOH next week. This would be costly, as while almost every single player on Celeste wanted Ness to stay, they had zero say in the eviction votes. This would allow Skylar’s allies in Nick, Aaron, and Alejandro to control the Saharah vote from the shadows, strong-arming Tyson and Tobin into a unanimous eviction. Ness would make a last minute alliance to try and throw Aaron and Skylar under the bus minutes before the eviction, but it was to no avail and he became the second person evicted in a 5 - 0 vote. He would go on to lose the first Redemption Island duel to Noah, officially placing 16th.