Lucas

**Lucas** (LucasVenicius#9194) placed 12th in Season 3, 8th in Season 5, & 21st in Survivor Season 10

A very endearing personality, Lucas quickly charmed his tribe into thinking he was adorable with his manner of speaking and social game. This led to him being relatively in the middle of two budding duos (Domain/Johnny and Harry/Beans) on Kama which would lead his social game to flourish despite being a bit aloof. Nevertheless, Lucas instantly turned on Harry/Beans upon swapping tribes, confiding in Bree that Harry was gunning for her and that he couldn’t be trusted. When word of this got back to Harry, Harry switched plans from gunning for Bree to sowing seeds of doubt about Lucas himself. Lucas was integrated into a 5 person alliance by Bree because of his information which contained all of Nu Cagi minus Harry and Beans. When the dominant Nu Cagi lost its only immunity challenge, a secret sub alliance of the four minus Lucas could not decide between Harry and Lucas. Envi and Kazeno were worried Lucas was a number for Bree/OG Cagi, while Bree and Dumb felt Harry was a flip flopper. This fractured the alliance, and led to Envi and Kazeno wanting to keep Harry to target Bree for them. Lucas was promptly blindsided in a 4-3 vote, becoming a casualty of being closely aligned with powerhouse Bree. He is remembered for his optimism and the party he threw for production in his confessional in which they were all kicked out in various ways.

Going into Season 5, Lucas was very paranoid early on the Kisiti Tribe. This saw him relegated to the bottom fast, and he wasted his Shot in the Dark despite being in no danger at the very first Tribal Council. This paranoia would carry through until the bitter end, but did mellow out to an extent that it wasn’t driving him to put a target onto himself for no reason anymore. While initially in a “fake” alliance with Anthony and Dex, this would become real when a swap saw them all on the same page targeting outsider Catlover. Anthony would continue this fake alliance with Lucas even after Dex’s departure, as it gradually grew into a real alliance due to Anthony seeing Lucas as a goat for himself. At the merge, Lucas’ strongest ally was Izzy. Most of the rest of the game didn’t trust him or saw him as a wildcard/goat, and while Izzy may have had similar feelings the two actually discussed quite a bit of game. Lucas also had a fairly strong duo with Suari, as both were from Brazil. These social bonds and perception as a goat allowed Lucas to make it fairly deep into the game. At the demerge vote, Lucas did not want to vote out Plaus (another perceived goat) and instead urged Izzy that it was time to make a move and blindside Anthony. This was shut down, with Lucas reluctantly biting his tongue and voting Plaus with the majority, who almost idoled him out! At the F8 vote, Lucas was finally given the opportunity to blindside Anthony, who was one of his bigger targets along with Bel in his final days of the game. However, he did not know that Azzy would not be voting with Anthony due to an advantage; Harry, the ringleader of the vote, thought he needed 5 votes instead of 4 for the blindside, so Izzy and Lucas were a packaged deal. While initially not for it, it appears as though he did throw it out with Izzy again only for it to be shut down yet again. In the end, he obediently voted Suari with Anthony. However, when Izzy spilled this blindside plan last minute, Tribal Council exploded with literal minutes left leading up to the vote. Anthony intended to play his idol knowing his name was out there, and he got Will to vote with him so that he could idol out someone of their choice. They ultimately landed on Lucas despite him voting with them, as Will secretly wanted Lucas out from the start of this round due to his perceived status as a “floater” taking up a spot in the end game. In the end, Lucas was sent to the jury shocked in a 2-1-1 vote after Anthony’s idol play, due to his closest ally blowing up their games for no strategic reason as well as their complacency to let Anthony stay in the game. He is remembered for his many silly Family Guy voting parchments throughout the season.

Starting Season 10 eager to play hard, Lucas would find himself on the mid-bottom of the Katibo Tribe. Put onto the Brawn Tribe for his positive attitude when faced with an imminent boot in the past, Lucas would not gel completely well with the rest of the Katibos. In fact, some (such as AJ) were one-sidedly deadset on booting him first if possible due to getting “bad vibes” from him. Despite Felipe being his #1 ally, Lucas would be lucky to find that Felipe had actually tanked his social game much more than himself by responding only in the tribe camp often and not DMs. Coupled with the “Patience” alliance forming with Lucas, Ben, and Dylan, Lucas seemed to be set up to be insulated for at least a vote or two. When Katibo lost the first challenge, however, Lucas was a bit disappointed to see that Felipe was on the bottom and seemingly unanimous out. He would tip off Felipe that his name was out there, in hopes that maybe Felipe would play his Shot in the Dark to stay safe. Unbeknownst to Lucas, Felipe had a full fledged immunity idol and would then state he was thinking he needed to play it that round. Despite this, Felipe would attempt to stay via gaming rather than an advantage and perhaps overplayed his hand, throwing Beetnorf’s name to everyone else in the game as he was arguably the next on the bottom with Lucas and Beetnorf. This would cause Beetnorf to play an Extra Vote on Lucas, fearing for his own safety after hearing his name. In the end, however, Felipe would rogue vote on AJ due to feeling like AJ’s departure would create a better balance of power in his favor. At Tribal Council, Felipe would triumphantly play his idol, negating 6 votes against him and leaving a 1-1 tie between AJ and Lucas. Lucas would be shocked to see he had an uphill battle despite his alliance, as Dylan and Ben (mostly Dylan) would begin to antagonize and interrogate him in their alliance chat, assuming someone in the alliance (implied Lucas) must have been in on it. Lucas pleaded that he obviously couldn’t vote for himself and wouldn’t vote for AJ, but it was to no avail when the rest of the game felt he was too sneaky to keep around. Despite an impassioned plea that he was targeting Beetnorf after correctly deducing that Beetnorf was attempting to save himself and pin an Extra Vote onto him, Lucas would become the first boot in a unanimous 6-0 revote.