West

## *Skatevivor* Career

**West** is a contestant from *Skatevivor: Freaks and Geeks*, the first season of Skatevivor. They placed 5th and were the 6th juror. They received the Fan Favorite and Player of the Season awards for this season.

## Profile

**Name:** West

**Age:** 17

**Pronouns:** they/them

**Timezone:** GMT

**Starting tribe:** Geeks

**What do you do for fun?** For fun? I like to listen to music, like A LOT. I think i have some sorta issue with listening to it too much . My fave artists are Biffy Clyro, Joywave, and Enter Shikari.

**What is your strategy coming into the game?** Honestly? I'm here to have fun. I'm not interested in making meaningful relationships, i'm here to make chaos and make the moves that are best for me.

**What character from any media do you relate to most and why?** Oh. My. God. *You can't make me choose that* Like a mix of Troy, Abed and Annie from Community, i would say. Why? Take Troy's goofiness, Abed's unique take on reality, and Annie's smarts and naivety, and mix em into some weird fucker, you have me!

**Would you rather get to the end and be hated or get voted out early and be loved?** .Honestly i couldn't care what people think of me as long as they remember who i am

## Survivor

Starting out on the dominant Geeks Tribe, West immediately started looking for an Idol, to no avail. Although they were left out of the Power of Four alliance made by Becky Lee, they were immediately informed of its existence by Nathan, building trust between them. During the second cycle, West made a Final Two deal with Gabe. When the Geeks were about to make a critical mistake in the Scavenger Hunt by starting before they had enough players online, West urged their tribe to wait, sparing them from Tribal Council by not making the same mistake that the Freaks made.

When it finally came time for the Geeks to attend tribal, Clay emerged as the easy vote due to inactivity. Around this time, West was left out of the Sixth Sense majority alliance, leaving them near the bottom of the tribe. Despite the fact that West was left out of this alliance, Gabe still wanted to work with them and protect them. After their tribe narrowly won the Music Synonyms challenge, West expressed frustration with their tribemates for how they performed, especially Becky Lee.

At Swap, West swapped to Freaks 2.0 with fellow OG Geeks Gabe, Eric, and Mamba, and met up with Morgs, their friend from before the season. Morgs, West, Liam, and Gabe quickly formed a majority alliance called Geeky Freaky I Need A Leaky. The four OG Geeks formed another majority alliance called The Greaks. After no one took the Greed necklace, the vote was unclear on the Freaks 2.0 tribe. Morgs and Liam wanted Mamba gone due to her inactivity, while Gabe and West wanted Steph out in order to protect their OG tribemate Mamba. Geeky Freaky I Need A Leaky ended up Tatsuing the vote between Steph and Mamba, with Tatsu choosing Steph and Gabe and West getting their way.

At the Merge, West was excluded from the Slick Six majority alliance, but was immediately informed of its existence by both Gabe and Morgs. West quickly found the clue to the Merge Idol, which required them to say the word "grab" in Tribal Council. West also won their first of three immunity wins at the first Merge vote. After Eric left the game due to personal reasons, West successfully grabbed the idol at Tribal Council before Fetty was voted out. West told Gabe about the idol since they had shared the clue, and Nathan also found the idol clue and knew immediately that West had the idol.

At Final 9, Nathan revealed West's idol to Becca and Bella, and three made plans to blindside West with the idol in their pocket at Final 8. Meanwhile, Liam wanted to blindside Bella and Becky Lee wanted revenge for Mia's pre-merge blindside. Liam formed an alliance with Gabe, West, Becky Lee, and Mamba and the five decided to blindside Bella. Gabe, Morgs, and West also formed an alliance during this time, and Gabe and West pulled Morgs in to blindside Bella 6-1-1.

At Final 8, West won their second individual immunity challenge, allowing them to survive another round without being targeted due to their idol. West clashed with Morgs at this vote, since Becca was the target and Morgs did not want to have to vote out her close ally, but eventually Morgs agreed to vote out Becca, sending her to the jury.

At the Final 7, West lost immunity. They knew they would likely need to burn their idol, and planned to play it on either themself or on Morgs. Morgs and West voted Nathan, as he was the last remaining member of the Becca/Bella/Nathan trio. However, Liam and Gabe planned to split the votes between Morgs and West using Liam's Extra Vote, Mamba, and Nathan. Shortly before Tribal, Gabe warned West to play their idol on themself. West played the idol and negated two votes against them, sending Morgs out of the game in 7th place with just three votes in a 3-~~2~~-2-1 vote.

West was upset with Gabe after the vote when they realized Gabe tricked them into playing their idol. West won another critical immunity at Final 6, eliminating Nathan instead, and knew their best bet was to comp out. They came close to winning immunity yet again at Final Five during the Inferno challenge, but narrowly lost to Gabe. West made one last play to save themselves by lying and saying it was their birthday, hoping their tribemates wouldn't vote them out. This backfired when West was voted out unanimously anyway while being wished a happy birthday in multiple different servers.

At Final Tribal Council, West asked the finalists to say who they thought should win the various season awards, and gave their own answers. They ultimately voted for Gabe to win the season. At the Reunion, they received both the Fan Favorite and Player of the Season award.

### Voting history

**^1** In *"I can't keep my enemies close COS ALL MY ENEMIES ARE MY FRIENDS"*, West played a hidden immunity idol, negating all votes against them.

## Trivia

* West is the first person in *Skatevivor* history to find, and play, a Hidden Immunity Idol.