Denim

**Denim** (overactivethinker14) is the Winner of Big Brother Season 2, placed 7th in Season 9 & 6th in Survivor Season 10.

Starting the game very quietly on the Dausaqalo tribe, Denim was well positioned early on. The OG Dausaqalo tribe did not lose an immunity challenge, so Denim wasn't in any danger until the swap. At the swap, Denim was swapped into the Nu Drega tribe, where he was the only OG Dausaqalo tribe member. Denim learned that he was the swing vote on the Nu Drega tribe and was able to choose between the two duos of Akira and Skylar from OG Tovui, or Robert and Paris from OG Drega. The Wackos were formed as an actual majority alliance for a round, with members consisting of Paris, Skylar, and Denim, leaving Robert and Akira on the outside. Denim in particular saw benefit to this initially, as he wanted as many relationships with the other tribes as possible for the merge. After Nu Drega voted out Akira due to Akira overplaying, the Nu Drega tribe found themselves going to back to back tribals and Denim chose to align with Robert and Paris at the double elimination, eventually voting out Skylar in the following tribal. Denim explained he wanted to align with OG Drega because he saw less benefit to keep an OG Tovui, due to their complete flopping. At the merge, as the relationships from Nu Drega grew stronger, the "Dollywood" alliance of Paris, Robert, and Denim was formed. Denim was safe for the next few rounds, despite losing one of his closest allies in Paris at Final 9 Tribal. He was often found voting in the majority, a statistic he was proud of. Denim was also prone to playing all sides obviously at this point, a trait that would come back to bite him as he seemed to never side with the minority which was slowly gaining power. At Final 8 Tribal, with James using his Safety Without Power, it opened up the door for Denim, Robert, Zheema, and Dar to take out Tye, leaving a minority group of Kyle, James, and Ripple on the outside. This would be when Denim would form his potential endgame with these four, intending to go deep but blindside one of his trio in favor of Robert for the FTC. Unfortunately, Denim's luck would run out at the Final 7 Tribal due to miscommunication and a little bit of messiness within the Saqa Tribe. With the threat level of Ripple growing, nearly everyone on Saqa wanted Ripple to flush an idol or be outright blindsided, so there was an initial plan to split 3 votes on Ripple and 2 on James (with Kyle, James, Ripple voting for Denim). This plan would seem doomed from the start, however, when Kyle, Ripple, and James intended to blindside the other four in a 3-2-2 vote onto Denim. Kyle would leak this plan to Zheema for unknown reasons, however, which initially would ruin their only hope of survival. Surprisingly, Zheema did little to nothing with this information though, only "hinting" at it to Dar in an attempt to ensure James still went home. Kyle switched his vote from Denim to Ripple as well because he wanted to vote in the majority (and he also had Ripple tunnel vision), which made the entire plan just one giant mess as his switching his vote almost saved Denim. Dar would then swap his vote back to Ripple at the last minute, feeling as though he did not get enough information from Zheema's "hints" and thus sealing Denim's fate officially. Ripple played one of her hidden immunity idols, negating 4 Ripple votes, leaving a 2-1 vote which was enough for Denim's 7th place finish. Denim is remembered for his reactions to adversity in the game, having the commendable quality of never giving up, no matter the odds.

Placed on the Brain Tribe for his penchant for overthinking many strategies in his first season, Denim was an early power player on the Mona Tribe. After his close duo with Mink fell apart due to Mink's imploding his own game, Denim would state that he wanted to ride Dangan's coattails and use him as a shield until mid to late merge, striking him then and making his own mark in the game. Unfortunately, his overthinking tendencies would once again sink his game, when his strategy that actually could have worked due to Dangan's 100% trust in him initially was broken after he wavered between alliances. To pad his potential game flaw here, though, Denim would find a Hidden Immunity Idol ironically after a rumor had begun to circulate that he had one for a few rounds. Dangan would help save Denim at the F7 when he implored Denim to use the idol if it was real, and the two initially seemed to have the makings of a duo again for at least a round. However, Denim would make the mistake yet again of waffling between alliances (including blindsiding Dangan), which led to Dangan seeing him as a major liability to his game should he ever be exposed. At Tribal Council, Dangan would reveal he had a Hidden Immunity Idol in an attempt to confuse the majority into flopping their votes and eliminating who he wanted out- Denim. This would be successful, as 2/3 of the majority would vote Dangan in case the idol was a bluff, sending Denim home in a 2 - 1 vote.

Despite being marked as a target due to being a Survivor returnee, Denim would be the most well integrated of the three early on in BB2. Even with some calling his DM’s dry and marking him at the bottom of alliances, he \*would\* find himself in early alliances from the premiere unlike his fellow alumni. Eager to play a bit messy and a middle game, Denim continued to attempt to integrate himself as much as possible in the early stages of the game. In Week 3, Denim would be paired with Parker for the Team Twist. In Week 4, Denim would win Head of Household with a very good time despite allegedly not wanting to be HOH. Much to his annoyance, two of his desired nominations (Anthony and Dee) won the Fast Forward, leading Denim to want to play a safe week and attempt to ride the middle of the house. He would nominate Kaity and Motha Vanity for eviction, with Kaity as his target due to not being aligned with anyone in the house. Despite a small tiff with Motha Vanity, when he vetoed himself Denim’s target would stay firmly on Kaity when nominating TJ as the replacement nominee. With Kaity getting the majority vote, Denim would still have quite the messy week when he exposed a backdoor Cherry plan \*to\* Cherry, notably naming Chris as the ringleader. This would lead to a house fight that had Denim in hot water to some for seemingly obviously being the person to leak to Cherry; however, Denim was able to lie and mist Chris that it was actually Kyle, creating a very messy dynamic between the three and their allies. In Week 5, Denim was gooped and gagged when Ness backstabbed him despite Denim trusting him a lot, as Ness thought Denim and Cherry were running the game. He would be nominated alongside Dee as a pair, taking part in the Whacking of Ness that left the house reeling. In Week 6, Denim would gladly evict his former #1 ally Ness, lamenting on how they could have gone deep in the game together. During the Week 7 detour, he was part of the Backyard group. He would be nominated alongside Cherry by Chris as “The Lethal Duo,” despite Denim not \*really\* caring if Cherry got whacked out due to his competition prowess making them not really a true duo. He would go on to save himself this week with an extremely impressive veto performance. This would be one of the only weeks in Denim’s entire 3 season tenure that he was truly and honestly extremely frustrated with his fellow players. He would feel Austin and Chris were not giving him or Cherry respect as people or players this week, leading to another house fight once the two groups reunited again. In Week 8, Denim would just barely lose out HOH to his worst possible enemy: Kyle. Already knowing he would be the target for the week, Denim would gear up for the veto and just come short due to irl factors. Luckily, Austin was ready to make a move on Kyle and had a plan to flip the vote and save him. Despite this, Denim would very nearly ruin his chances of staying when coming off to Austin as angry he wasn’t vetoing HIM instead of Motha. This would be described as a “tantrum,” nearly changing Austin’s mind. Luckily, he would reel this back post veto ceremony and while having some bad reads for the week, would be able to survive the vote when Austin, Dee, and Motha Vanity wanted to evict Anthony over him, ruining Kyle’s HOH. Denim would come back from his nomination this week to win the Week 9 HOH, much to the horror of some in the house. He would face a big dilemma with his noms, however: recognizing that Austin was a major threat and that Austin/Dee/Motha probably had a F3, he also had to take shots at those who visibly hated him in the game (Kyle/Chris) due to the risk of them nominating him next week. In the end, he sided with what he felt was the more pressing issue and nominated Kyle and Chris, though stated if the veto was used he would not necessarily nominate TJ and may swing at the trio. In the end, Austin would win veto and keep the nominations the same to Denim’s glee, relishing in Kyle’s downfall after the previous week. In Week 10, Denim would play questionably in an attempt to “ride the middle” despite it being so deep in the game. After TJ told him he was safe, he would throw the veto competition he was easily going to win extremely poorly, placing 2nd and knocking out Austin who he wanted to win the veto at one point in the week. He would heavily weigh keeping Austin this week if possible, seeing him as a shield that he could use one round longer should he fail to win a comp. However, Motha could not be trusted to vote with him in general and Denim would come around to seeing Austin’s threat level as a much bigger problem and risk than anticipated, ultimately siding w/ the majority. In Week 12, Denim would win the F4 HOH and secure his spot in the F3. He would go on to attempt to make deals and moves this week leveraging his “HOH power” with nominations, despite this being the only HOH of the season without much power inherently. His goal would be to keep TJ safe; however, as karma would have it, the one scenario that was unideal for him would happen when Dee won the veto. At this point, Denim would acknowledge that while he had a penchant for overthinking and wanting to make deals and promises, he likely needed to win the Final HOH to not be the final juror of the season. His threat level and game visibility were just too strikingly different from the other two finalists, with him realizing the others would be idiots to not take the shot. Denim would become the final HOH of the season after winning Parts 2 & 3 of the final competition. He would (comically as predicted by the Jury) hang the vote for almost the entire time, letting the two pitch their cases. In the end, he would opt to evict Dee after Chris misted him and preyed upon his insecurities of Dee being a resilience winner, a move that would shock the Jury. Despite this, Denim would go on to have an impressive F2 performance, seemingly locked as the winner the moment he won HOH. His competition prowess and opportunistic gameplay in a season full of twists left the Jury more impressed with his game than Chris, most notably due to him having a social game with the entire Jury to some extent (even if dubbed “Dullnim” by them). In the end, his messy and never give up gameplay would see him crowned the winner in an 8 - 1 vote, as he tearfully accepted the crown and scepter of his first ORG win!