Will Smith

***Will*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Saint Martin. He later returned for Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

## Saint Martin

Being an apparent spectator favorite, Will’s sudden evacuation had broken the hearts of several Essential spectators, me being one of them. Now let’s walk through Will’s four-week journey in Saint Martin.

Will started off his game creating a 3-person alliance including himself, Tyler and Tommy. They seemed to bond with each other very well, gaining more trust for each other as time passed. But when Irma lost the first Immunity Challenge, it looked like Tyler’s time was up. But hearing this Will put an immediate stop to it. Throwing the leader of that plan Brooks, under the bus to Georgy. He agreed and by extension brought in Aria to the plan, getting brooks eliminated 5-3. Doing this put Will in a good position in the alliance by proving his loyalty. Heck, Will even found a Legacy Advantage on Day 2 and a Hidden Immunity Idol on Day 5! . Will’s game was going extremely well right now!

One tribe immunity win and a tribe swap later, Will found himself on the bottom of his original tribe with Lindsay and Aria. Frantic that he was going to get pagonged immediately, Will began to buddy up to Jayden. Little that he knew, this was the beginning of a slow, slow downfall. Even though Lindsay and Aria had severe distrust in Jayden from the beginning, he persuaded the girls to simply go along with it. In hopes they’d now be in the majority. For extra measures, he even threw Kiibo’s name out there to move the target off of the Irma minority. Unfortunately, Jayden snitched to Kiibo about it. Ruining some of Will’s character. At this point, Will has been carried through the post-swap by Jayden. And it shows very well.

By the time merge comes, tribal lines have stuck out more than ever and with it being a 5-5 divide. Each member of the OG tribes were trying to one-up the opposing tribe. Will, returning to his Episode 1 roots, led the charge onto Shai. Believing that he could persuade Jayden to come and vote with OG Irma. Only for Jayden to expose Irma’s plan to OG Gonzalo. But by doing this, it allowed Nick to take the opportunity to switch sides, giving OG Irma the 6-4 advantage. All the while, Will is priding himself as he thought Jayden was the one who flipped. The next vote was extremely fishy for Will as he had to choose whether to vote with OG Irma, or vote with Jayden, which would’ve caused a rock draw. Due to thinking too much about the vote, he ended forgetting to vote. And lucky for Will, the random vote ended up being towards Kiibo. At the Final 8, the same dilemma happened again with Will with him forgetting to vote. Only this time, he striked out in doing so, AKA, got medically evacuated.

## Fans Vs. Favorites

For someone who just rejoined the Essential Community once their name was revealed on the ballot, Will surprisingly got the most votes to come back on the male ballot. Coming into the season, he assumed that he had to do well here for a chance to come back in a future season. Now whether you consider 16th Place to be good enough, is up to you.

Will started off this season on the orange Punahele tribe. He reconciled his on-and-off relationship with past Season 1 player Aria, who happened to get voted in. As everyone was fulfilling their camp life duties, Will had found an idol clue. Not understanding it, he gave it to Aria who found the idol in a blink of the eye, solidifying their partnership even more.

When Punahele’s first tribal came around, a Gen 1 alliance was made with Aria, Tae, Travis, Bee and Will. The plan was to start Jayla after costing them the challenge and simultaneously throwing out Tae’s name, but Will wasn’t a huge fan of that as Jayla could be an ally for him. So he along with Travis pushed for Alison. It sadly got no traction at all and just worsened their position in the alliance. But Will took it a step further by relaying all the info in the Gen 1 alliance to Jayla, which got abc to Aria and Tae who started to distrust him. Regardless, Jayla was sent home 8-2 after Will forgot to vote.

At the very next Punahele tribal, Gen 1 had the majority over the tribe. They decided to target John, as many of them, Will specifically, couldn’t trust him. However, they were oblivious to Tae, who formed a Gen 2 alliance and flipped on his previous allegiance to blindside Travis. Of course, this left a very sour taste in Will’s mouth that carried over to the Joint Tribal.

During the Joint Tribal, the tribes were 8-8, so it looked like a tie was brewing and even rocks. But this was only half the case. The vote did tie 8-8 between Jaylen and Will. Punahele targeted Jaylen was he was a challenge threat and not likely to the idoled, while kahu targeted Will because they figured that he was the most expendable after figuring out the dynamics of the faves tribe. And they were proven to be right as several of the faves refused to go to rocks for Will as he wasn’t useful for their game. (John and Alison) After this was told to Will, he doubled down to that by yelling at the two, saying that he wouldn’t have gone to the rocks for them. Apparently he then tried to get the fans to flip on Jaylen, swearing allegiance to them for the rest of the tribe. But it failed, Will was voted out 13-1 on the revote.

## Voting History

 Ain't No Damn Fish Here
 THROW SOME NAMES OUT
 Fade Back To Obscurity
 A Ditzy Naive Little Kid
 It's The Hypocrisy For Me
 Voted Out, Day 12