Aparri Alliance

**Highest Placing Member**: Lora (Runner-Up/21)

The Aparri Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Cagayan.

Following the strong relationship between two Brain castaways, they brought in a Beauty at the tribe switch before aligning with a mixture of outsiders through the merge. The core of this alliance worked with a variety of castaways before being forced to turn on each other.

## History

### Formation

At the tribe dissolve on Day 15 of *Survivor: Cagayan*, Brain tribe members Katrina and Lora were switched to the orange Aparri tribe. They were joined by Johanna, Miles and Virgil from the original Aparri tribe (labelled 'Brawn') and Axel and Xenia from the original Solana tribe (labelled 'Beauty'). Katrina and Lora had a good working relationship from their original tribe, and brought in Xenia whom Lora had a connection with from *Palau*. Katrina found the Luzon Hidden Immunity Idol prior to the switch, but decided to keep this information to herself and Lora because she didn't know how much she could trust Xenia. When both tribes had to vote someone out as part of a Double Tribal Council on Day 17, the trio voted for Johanna but the majority of the tribe voted out Miles.

### The Merge

On Day 22, the remaining twelve castaways from the Aparri and Solana tribes merged into the black Solarrion tribe. Katrina and Lora reunited with original Brain members Catherine and Tison, whilst bringing in Axel who was without allies. It appeared that this group of five along with Xenia would have the numbers to vote for Caroline, but she didn't initially vote with them and a tie occurred between Caroline and Liam. At the revote however, Xenia decided to remain loyal to her original trio with the women and voted with them to make Caroline the first member of the jury. With Johanna and Virgil now willing to work with them, the alliance of five had the majority and blindsided Catherine.

At the Final Ten, Lora and Xenia in particular wanted to get rid of Grayson as the other returning player from *Palau*. When rumours spread about Virgil potentially throwing the Aparri Alliance under the bus to The Beauty's, Xenia had a back up plan and gathered both Axel and Tison to vote for him. When both Grayson and Virgil played idols, Axel was voted out with the only three votes that counted. The move against Virgil isolated the trio from the rest of the tribe and they were left in the minority along with Tison. The four tried going after Liam because they wanted to split up the pairing of him and Danielle, but the rest of the tribe banded together and Tison was voted out. It appeared that the remaining five castaways would be going after the trio from the Aparri Alliance, but Xenia was able to find out that they were targeting Katrina. At tribal council, the tribe voted for Katrina but she played her idol and Danielle was voted out with the three votes from the girls.

### Their Demise

Johanna was extremely impressed by the move the trio managed to successfully pull off and wanted to work with them again, especially after they had her back after Virgil was flipping between alliances. This was all the numbers the Aparri Alliance needed and they voted out Liam at tribal council. Katrina and Lora were a close duo and realised that Xenia had more connections to the current members of the jury than they did. Seeing her as a huge jury threat, the girls wanted to work with Johanna and Virgil to blindside Xenia. However, Xenia knew this plan was developing and convinced the rest of the tribe to eliminate Katrina because she and Lora were seen as a threatening partnership. Lora was hurt by this move against her closest ally and was able to flip Johanna and Virgil over to blindside Xenia at the Final Five. After getting rid of Virgil, Lora made it to the Final Tribal Council. She was criticised by much of the jury for not controlling the game and constantly being in the minority during the merge. However, the Brains in particular liked her quiet yet controlled gameplay and voted for her to win. This was not enough and she was awarded the title of Runner-Up over Grayson.