Skylar (S1)

**Skylar** (rhythmskylar) placed 17th in Season 1, is the Second Runner-Up of Season 5, & is the Runner-Up of Big Brother Season 3.

Beginning the game on the outskirts of Saharah, Azzy decided to play a deceitful game straight from the marooning to shift targets onto anyone but herself. Her most notable lie, that she was working with the inactive South, was the nail in her coffin when South came back to dispel this rumor. With the entire tribe against her, Azzy left the server before coming back to give a compelling pitch heavy on loyalty & forgiveness to the rest of his tribe. Unfortunately, it was too late to sway the vote and she was voted out in a 7-1-1 vote.

Very excited to be back in Season 5, Azzy was very nervous that she would end up as another flop on the Kisiti Tribe. Fortunately, Anthony was a big fan of her Season 1 antics and immediately pulled her into a strong three person alliance with Dex called “The 3 Icons.” This alliance would stick together through every swap and dominate much of the premerge. Azzy in particular started off as the best socially placed member of this alliance, with a smaller threat level than the two and good back and forth with most of Kisiti. However, Azzy’s chaotic nature would jump out often as the game progressed, being ready to flip a vote at the drop of a hat. This annoyed Dex in particular, who was willing to target Azzy before some outsiders. The feeling was mutual, as Azzy much disliked Dex and constantly had ranting sessions about him with Anthony. As the game progressed, Azzy worried a bit about being labeled as a “minion” to the bigger threat Anthony, who actively thought of Azzy as his minion. To a large extent she was; even in confessionals, she had zero intention of voting out Anthony despite acknowledging him as a large threat. Due to this, she would spend much of the game losing respect round after round, as she genuinely believed he was playing better or at the very least equal to Anthony, despite Anthony making almost every call for the duo. At the merge, Azzy had extreme tunnel vision on Alec due to wanting revenge from Season 1. This would also lose her a lot of respect from the other players, as Alec was not coming after Azzy and was actively on the bottom the entire game. When Harry took the opportunity to puppeteer a blindside against Alec, Azzy genuinely believed that due to her tunnel vision this was her move- and a BIG move at that. The “whose move was it” mystery regarding the Alec blindside would be a hot topic throughout the season, with many acknowledging that just because Azzy wanted Alec out for rounds, this doesn’t mean she orchestrated the blindside due to lacking the social capital to pull this off. Despite these setbacks, Azzy was blissfully unaware of these perceptions and gassed herself up often that she was a key puppetmaster of the season. She was able to find the Maqe Extra Vote as well as secure a Steal a Vote advantage at the auction, which made her feel extremely powerful. However, most of the remaining castaways actively factored those plans into Anthony’s game (due to Azzy “doing whatever he says”) and eventual elimination, rendering this not even about Azzy herself but her number one ally. During Harry’s attempts to blindside Anthony, Harry called to public attention the elephant in the room: that Azzy was perceived as a minion. An extremely upset Azzy vehemently denied this, convinced that this was just a ploy to get her to flip and that she was actually just as big of a target as her ally. Their plan at the F7 vote was to use Azzy’s voting advantages to blindside Harry after Anthony got paranoid that everyone was against him (so that he could save his idol), to which Azzy agreed privately that she was going to play them. However, in an iconic and unforgettable tribal council, Azzy tried to play these live despite the rules stating they needed to be played in confessional prior to voting closing to be valid. This blunder would lose her any remaining respect she had from the jurors and remaining players, and put her number one ally in jeopardy when Anthony found himself in a tie. It was then that Izzy decided to make a move on Anthony, shocking Azzy when revealing that Anthony said mean things about her and considered her as a minion. This caused Azzy to flip her vote, which she factored into her final game plan as a big move, while making Izzy her new number one. Azzy would go relatively unscathed for the rest of the game, as no one but Will factored in getting her out at all due to seeing her as a major goat. Azzy herself was blissfully unaware of what was coming yet again, making the F3 thinking that she wasn’t in danger in the homestretch because she played such a good game. At the Final Tribal Council, Azzy was SCALPED by the Jury. They found her opening speech “delusional” and questioned what she did for herself in the game. Azzy was very upset and confused, which attributed to her failing to answer the Q&A to the satisfaction of the Jury. To her credit, some Jurors did mention that they saw Azzy’s enthusiasm and that she did play well, and that they just felt she did not know how to properly own up to her game whilst also feeling as though her countless mistakes throughout the game made her less deserving than the other two finalists. In the end, she found himself the Second Runner-up without a single vote in a 7-3-0 vote. She is remembered for her enthusiasm for the game, several arguments about her age, and her vastly improved placement. While her game was pandered, she certainly embodied the theme of “redemption” in regards to placement perhaps more than any other player.

Starting BB3 eager to fix her mistakes from past Survivor seasons, Skylar would click well with several socially right out of the gate. However, her style of game talk saw HOH Tori make her the renomination after Tobin won the veto as it rubbed Tori the wrong way. This would infuriate Skylar, who worried she was headed to first boot territory without a chance to prove herself in the game. She would buckle down on securing votes in her tribe, and her choice to socialize closely with her tribe rather than Celeste paid off in full when Nick considered her his number one ally, strong-arming others into voting to keep Skylar over the equally social Ness. Skylar would at this point, however, show signs of repeating the “sins of her past;” in particular, she would frequently confess that Nick was a “puppet” for her, doing whatever she said. In reality, Nick was better aligned than she was herself at this point, making viewers worried that she may be repeating her S5 mistakes. In Week 2, Skylar would almost make a massive mistake at the eviction vote when she voted to evict Nick to “make the vote 5-4”, assuming Nick had all the votes he thought he did. Luckily for her & Nick, she would slowly realize that the vote was closer than she thought, making this odd move way too dangerous to perform and actively saving Nick from eviction in a sense. She would be an integral part in clocking Mercury as a liar and flipper to one side of the house, actively lying to Mercury and playing him for information this week. In Week 4, she would once again almost rogue vote against her ally but change her mind. During Week 6, Skylar would raise eyebrows after claiming a “huge move” misting Kishor into nominating Rodrigo. Despite her entire alliance clocking Kishor’s actual plan, it appears none of them had the nerve to explain to her how wrong she was, leading to quite the delusional week for her game. When Rodrigo won the veto, she was immensely confident that Alex would be going up and being backdoored, going so far as to basically say “you’re welcome” to her alliance early. When Kishor did not follow through with what she wanted, she would have a brief breakdown that she contributed to irl factors as well, stating that Kishor didn’t want to believe her lies “anymore.” In Week 7, Skylar would repeatedly state she is over everyone in the house and hates them all, but that didn’t mean she was not going to game or do stuff. In Week 8, her lying along with Alejandro would be key to getting Tyson backdoored despite the move only benefitting herself and Alejandro. By Week 9, her extremely subtle gameplay and throwing competitions began to work against her. Several in the house would state they see her as a goat, leaving her trajectory to a win much more questionable than the earlier portion of the game. Additionally, she had been noticeably less involved with the game around this point in general, giving off the impression she may have been a follower the entire game. This would continue to get worse for her as the game progressed, as every person seemed to want to sit in the end against her as a goat by this portion of the game. In Week 10, Skylar would suddenly make an aggressive move in lying to Alejandro that Kishor wanted him out, pitching a F2 with her. In reality, it was Skylar herself that had set up this F2 and said these things. This would shift Alejandro’s focus onto getting Kishor out ASAP, even before Aaron. This drama would explode in Week 11, when HOH Aaron asked for people to publicly throw each other UTB. Skylar would OTT go after Kishor, lying that he started an alliance he did not as well as posting fake chat logs. (Which she hilariously messed up the editing of so the entire house was  aware of the lying lmao.) The two would have several heated arguments throughout the week, putting off the rest of the house toward them both but seeing Skylar garner a \*little\* sympathy toward the end when Kishor would not relent & dialed up his “trolling.” In Week 12, Skylar would survive eviction due to being widely perceived still as a goat, seemingly being guaranteed second place. She would win her first competition of the season in Part 2 of the final HOH by just 6 seconds, shocking many and sealing Aaron’s fate. If she were to have won the final HOH, however, she stated she would have evicted Alejandro. Despite this, she questionably seemed to throw Part 3, handing Alejandro the final decision. At the F2, Skylar would self admittedly make a speech that was heavily reliant on exaggerating her game. This would not go over well with the jury, who saw her largely as a goat toward the end game and really wanted more humble, realistic answers of how she might have had more impact than perceived. The exaggerations made her appear out of touch with the game, leaving her actual accomplishments in the game to pale in comparison to her opponent’s. Despite impressing some on the Jury, she would ultimately not be able to compete with Alejandro’s confident and cutthroat gameplay, leaving her the Runner-Up in a 5 - 2 vote.