Ariel

## Survivor Career

**Ariel** played on Survivor: The Rings of Saturn, where she placed 3rd and was the final member of the jury. She was voted as having the Best Confessionals jointly with Liz and Mae.

## Profile

**Tell us as much or as little as you want about yourself**

Hello, hello! My name is **Ariel**, although I often go by Ari in ORGs. However, I quickly learned I’m not the only Ari—I mean, I’m probably not the only Ariel, but that’s besides the point—and so I’ve chosen to go by my full name rather than a shortened version of itself! I think I’ve only played one ORG as Ariel, and everyone still called me Ari anyway, so does it really make a difference? Probably not! I just don’t like getting mistaken for someone else. 🙈 I’m **23** years old, and as blink-182 said best, nobody likes you when you’re 23. I feel like that line has more truths than falsehoods at this moment! I’m a **woman**, and my profile picture is of myself so hopefully there is no confusion there—I know Ariel is a gender-neutral name in some cultures? But I’m thriving here being named after the Little Mermaid herself! I live in good ol’ (?) **Kentucky**, but in one of the bigger cities in the state, so that’s pretty cool I guess! Normally I’m embarrassed by this, but our governor has been doing an incredible job handling the pandemic and that would NOT have been the case had Matt Bevin remained in office. Cheers for Beshear! 😝 I’m in the **EST/EDT** timezone, but don’t let that fool you—I’m often awake between the hours of 8am and 3am! I have the most time to talk at nights, so I use them to my advantage if at all possible. I work as a ~~well, worked as, because I’ve been furloughed~~ **quality documentation specialist**, which is just a term that is all too extra and refers to being a medical scribe! While awaiting my old job to rehire me, I’m applying to various positions as well! Currently I’ve been looking at patient advocacy, case manager positions at an addiction center, contact tracing, and working as a genetic counseling assistant!

My most used emoji? Apparently these three hearts, because my boyfriend and I are cheesy as hell: ❤️💙💛 HOWEVER, viable contenders in a regular setting are the following: 🥰🙈😝😳😇😤

I don’t use gifs a whole lot! But if I had to pick, I would go with this:

**Have you played any orgs before? If yes, how many and what did you play most recently? Are you playing any others at the same time as this one?**

I have played in... **6** orgs prior to this one! My most recent endeavor was **Crystal Brother: Moonstone**, an All-Star season drowning in toxicity! I would really rather not divulge details of this experience, but it was *horrible* and I think I’ve been turned away from Big Brother ORGs entirely as a result. This ended some time in March, and I have not played an ORG since. It’s funny because I considered the AS Survivor ORG I had been in previously to be rampant with toxicity, but in comparison, that was a cakewalk! I am **not** playing any others at the same time as this one. I’m a one ORG at a time kind of woman, and everyone deserves the fullest extent of my attention. In my perspective, why apply if you can’t give the hosts and the rest of the cast the respect they deserve? ~~I’ve turned down several ORGs since though and the guilt will eat me alive send help!~~

**Give us your most unpopular Survivor opinion**

My most unpopular Survivor opinion? Eeeeeek. **Island of the Idols was not a bad season.** Is this unpopular? I don’t really know! There were many amazing characters, though Janet was robbed of a win, and there was a TON of controversy, but in general? It was a fun season to watch, and Tommy is not a bad winner by any stretch of the imagination! The storytelling was solid, amazing conversations were had that were long overdue, and I really lived for those clips of Sandra and Rob watching tribal council play out. Kellee deserves *infinitely* better, however.

**What is your coolest party trick? Any unusual talents?**

This question is funny because it assumes I go to parties AND that I have any talents. The boring introvert within me is cackling. All my weird things are super **lame**! I can do the Spock hand trick with ease, there’s something wrong with my left pinky finger to the point where it will *not* extend fully no matter how hard I try, and I can make my eyes sorta look in two different directions if I try hard enough! I wish I was hypermobile or something. 😭

**What is your favorite piece of sci-fi or space-related media?**

**SAILOR MOON!** This will always be my answer to that question. Sure, I love films such as Gattaca, AI Artificial Intelligence, In Time, and Minority Report, but Sailor Moon is my SHIT. I can’t pick a single favorite Sailor Scout. I relate most to Sailor Mercury and Sailor Pluto, but I am OBSESSED with Sailor Neptune, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Venus. I’m currently in a Sailor Moon rewatch phase actually, starting from the very beginning! I’m actually watching the “new” dub to see how it compares to the old subtitled version AND the old dub. Obviously it’s lacking the very unnecessary and silly censorship that the old dub had, which makes me happy!

**What have you been doing to stay busy during the quarantine? What can you not wait to do again?**

I have been doing the one thing during this quarantine that anyone with freetime should be doing... **playing Animal Crossing**! I may have a lot of hours logged into the game, but don’t let that fool you. My island still looks like garbage! It really is such a good stress reliever though. Especially now that my house is paid off in full! I’m just vibing around with Skye and Tia, my best friends, inviting over some of my human friends once in a while to play hide-and-week, and living my best life as a fashionista extraordinaire! My title on the game is Ludicrously Popular Snake, if that’s any indication to my ORG playing style. 🙈 This is cheesy, but I cannot WAIT to see my boyfriend again! We’re in a long distance relationship as it is, but he was supposed to visit in April, and of course that wasn’t able to happen because of this current pandemic. I miss him so so so much though, and it really makes my life a little harder. I try not to be jealous of all my friends living with their SOs, but I really wish that was the case for me! Maybe one dayyyy.

**Do you watch the Olympics? If so what is your favorite sport to watch? What's the lamest to watch?**

I would say I half-watch the Olympics; it interrupts my soap operas ~~I’m just kidding LMAO~~ Basketball is my favorite sport to watch, generally speaking, and that extends to the Olympics as well! But gymnastics and track and field are pretty high up there as well. I don’t really watch everything, definitely not the lame ones, but you really couldn’t pay me to watch golf. I would choose table tennis everyday 😂 The intensity is real!

**If you were asked to give a presentation on something random that you are an expert in, what would you talk about?**

YES! I would give a lecture in **genetic diseases**, for sure. There are SO many though, I would need to hone in on one category or disease or something. I would love to talk about NF1, or neurofibromatosis type 1! It’s a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in the *NF1* gene, and it’s something I’ve done a lot of computational research with. Basically I evaluated genetic information from cutaneous neurofibromas of patients, mapped these to the human genome, and looked at skin tags from non-NF patients to compare what genes, aside from *NF1* are affected. There were a lot of super cool findings! Basically the disease itself creates these fatty peripheral nerve tumors, called neurofibromas, all over the body. Some patients have cafe-au-lait spots that are discolored all over their bodies as well! It’s not fatal bug any means, but it creates a lot of emotional turmoil for patients! There are no ways to simply cut off all the neurofibromas because there are SO many, and some are too deep to reach.

**Of the three tenets of Survivor, which one do you think you’re the best at: Outwitting, Outplaying, or Outlasting?**

Ughhhh, that’s a good question! I’m going to have to go with **outwit**, maybe? I’m generally a threat in ORGs, but I use my emotional intelligence to first and foremost create strong bonds that will be somewhat blinded to my status as a threat, and hopefully be in a position where people like me SO much that they choose not to target me. I try to be smart about who I work with, the word choice I use when forming alliances and deals to prevent backlash later on, and form real connections with people. No one in an ORG is stupid. People can tell when your bonds are real versus being made for the sake of getting further in the game! I don’t think that *everyone* has the ability to connect with *everyone*, but I will try my hardest to make sure I can!

**How is that going to help you win Survivor: Rings of Saturn?**

Well well well, I sort of answered this already! But I think having a strong social game is the foundation of winning any ORG. My downfall, however, is that it’s a little *too* strong, and causes people to believe that I’m their ride or die when that was never the case, leading to (completely valid) anger and resentment towards me for a little while. If I can balance things out just right, I can create a strong foundation with alliances and people who will want to protect me and give me the numbers to make moves should the opportunity arise. Strategy is important, of course, but what can you get accomplished if you don’t have people to back you up on it? Same with a physical game, it’s impressive to have, but if that’s the sole reason you survived cycle after cycle, is that worth the title of Sole Survivor? I’m not so sure! Having this ability would give me the opportunity to handle any twists and turns thrown my way. I’m very adaptable as it stands already, but having an arsenal of allies behind me only strengthens that. 😇

## Stats

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