Famine

**Famine** was a contestant of SurviVARs: Wildemount.

## **Profile**

**Discord:** Cowgirl Gible

**Gender:** she/her

**Timezone:** EST

Famine was our second boot, but she really left her mark as one of the biggest characters of the pre-merge! She was really damn funny, but also cared about this game more than anyone. Tip to all future applicants, if you’re as active as Famine was in spec lounge, it can only help you. Famine was so hyped to play the game, and was ready to go all-out. She was new to the game, so she had her growing pains, but it looked she was off to a solid start on Brenatto and helped her tribe a lot in the first challenge. She was excited to see what the Deck of Many Things was all about, so she volunteered to be the very first person to draw from it. Unfortunately, she became a lesson to the rest of the cast that the Deck could be dangerous, as she was forced to swap to another tribe. She went from a safe spot on Brenatto to the middle of the lion’s den on Lionette (see what I did there?). She bossed out on the second immunity challenge, and slayed the D&D section of Um Actually. She tried her hardest to build social connections on Lionette, and really hoped that her immunity showing would save her. Unfortunately for her, the easiest vote for the OG Lionette’s was always going to be the new kid on the block. Famine was blindsided, and it broke her heart and ours. She took it really rough, because she had tried so hard and given this game so much, only to go out second. She couldn’t stay in the server, and my biggest fear was that this would sour her from trying again. I’m thankful that this wasn’t the case, because she has so much potential and a lot of great traits that can make her a kick-ass ORG player. Her fate was sealed by the Deck, and not by anything she did wrong, earning her a nomination for Most Robbed Player. She also earned a nom for Pre-Jury All Star thanks to her spirit and incredible energy, cementing her place as an icon of the season even though she went so quickly.

### **Nominations**

**Pre-Jury All Star**

Famine was such a joy to host, and it broke everyone’s hearts to see her go home so soon. She was so excited to play this game from the moment she applied, and she jumped into it with guns blazing. She fell victim to a lot of traps that first time players do (like relying on challenge performance over social game in the earliest votes) but this didn’t mean she was a bad player. She had a ton of heart, gave great confessionals, and had so much to give this game. I believe that if she had lasted longer, and picked up more of the fundamental strats through experience, she could’ve really been a force to be reckoned with. She was taken too soon, but she really left her mark on this game for as long as she was playing it.

**Most Robbed Player**

I can’t help but feel personally responsible for Famine’s downfall, even though it was just dumb luck that forced her to swap tribes and enter an inescapable situation on Lionette. Still, though, I invented the mechanic, and since she was the very first draw I can’t really blame her for volunteering. She was excited to play with a cool mechanic like the Deck of Many Things, and it wound up biting her in the ass. She was playing so hard from the start, and had so many people rooting for her, and I don’t think she would’ve gone home so early if it weren’t for the Deck. Her game was ended by a luck-based mechanic that did her dirty, not because of anything she really did wrong, and that makes her pretty damn robbed in my book.

#### **Voting History**

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