Braydan James

**Braydan James**, also known as "Braydan", is the Sole Survivor from *Survivor: Scarborough Bluffs*.

What Braydan lacked in social and endurance, he made up for in physical, mental and strategic skills. When Braydan got onto the original Sylvan tribe, he had great bonds to Meghan and Vince, and not such of a great relationship with Cherry and Jordan Linton. He was in a majority alliance with everyone but Cherry, and was only on board for it because she was the only person outside of it. Cherry did try to lead a charge against him, but was unsuccessful.

On the new Doris tribe, things did not improve between him and Jordan at all. He and Cairo Shamoon also weren't getting along as well, but had good relationships with Annetta Landrum, Orlando Huang and somewhat Paola. He was able to be in an alliance with Annetta and Cairo, which helped keep them aligned, and also was into a majority alliance with Annetta, Cairo and Orlando, with Paola as a bit of an associate. This group alone got Meghan out due to thinking she'll be a social threat for them later on. Meghan and Jordan attempted to get him out, which clearly did not work due to them thinking they had the numbers, and Jordan didn't use his idol on Meghan, thinking she was safe. Then, the group decided to fake a fight between their group to make it appear that Orlando was an outsider, just to make it look like he was the target for them, and to have an idol misplayed incase there was one out there. This actually worked as Jordan used one on Orlando, and then the majority voted Jordan out, leaving Paola on the outs at this point.

On the swapped Doris tribe, Braydan and Cairo's bond strengthened here, and they decided to stick together. They were hoping that Aliyah Isaac and Mara would go after each other and not them. This seemed to work at first due to Aliyah and Mara's fallout, but Mara decided at the last minute to save her once a time friend and idoled Aliyah safe. This caused Cairo to go home, and immediately put Braydan into the minority, this is until the merge hits right after.

When the merge happens, Braydan was more in a high position. He was put into five of the six alliances at the merge, and ended up in the most powerful alliance that consisted of himself, Annetta, Kole Kabirii, Mauricio Ribeiro and Orlando. He takes this chance to get vengeance for Cairo, and takes out Mara for being a sporadic player. Then after the Yasmine vote, he and his alliance members convince everyone else to vote out Aliyah unanimously. He went from being someone who was somewhat in danger of going home, to sitting pretty during the merge phase, as he never received a vote since the Meghan vote. His alliance then begins to break apart and crumble, leading him to figure out his next move. He at first decided to vote Melinda with Mauricio to maybe gain more favor with him in the future rounds. But after thinking about his game down the road, he shows how cutthroat he can be by flipping on the revote and voted Orlando, the person he was most consistently aligned to and close with. He then kept this going with his alliance members, by voting them out one by one. Starting with Kole, after he knew he'd be a social threat, then Mauricio. At the final four, he thought about keeping his loyalty to Annetta, as they were both two of the biggest players in the game. But, after thinking long and hard, he decided to betray Annetta, and vote her with Melinda. This caused a fire making challenge to occur, and Annetta was defeated. Going into the finals with Melinda and Vince, Braydan knew he was a dominant player with his survival story, his moves, and his impressive strength in the challenges with five individual immunity wins. But he was also worried that people would be too upset with him to vote him to win. Fortunately for him, he almost got a unanimous win against his opponents in an 6-1-0 vote, making him the Sole Survivor of the season.

## Profile

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