Jro

## Season Profile

Jro was Codae's partner and a member of the Alskar tribe. Early on, he was aligned with Boofus and Curtis. He proved himself to be an over the top character, forming many alliances and essentially being a paranoid mess. He was known to lie about many little things just for the sake of lying. His attempts at playing the middle actually worked in the beginning, and his antics were pinned on Curtis, which sent him packing as 2nd boot. But he was soon found out when people started fact checking. It seemed that he was going to be a pre-merge boot, but he proved to defy the odds. Somehow, he got people to rally behind him, people like Sun, Boofus, and Shadi. During pre-merge, he began planting seeds in the minds of the boys, convincing them that they had to vote out the girls because they were too close. In fact, he was behind the Clara voteout, which proves that despite his messiness, he did have some agency in the game. Going into merge, he had smoothed things over with Court and Rose, both of whom had vowed to work with him, but he had other plans. He threw out Huntress's name at F10, which people seemed to know about, but this didn't get people to go after him. Instead, Shadi took the fall for it. F9 is when his game really started to fall apart. He once again threw out Huntress's name, claiming it to be a test for Court and Rose, who he believed to be in a secret girls alliance with Huntress. The votes revealed that Court and Rose did in fact vote against him. At tribal, he had a bit of a meltdown, completely going after Court, who he had seen as someone who had betrayed him. He was very adamant that he was not going to change his vote, which gained him an ally in Average. It was around this time that talks of him being toxic came to light. It was essentially because of him that VillainVivor saw it's first rocks draw. At the next tribal, he found himself in hot water and in a tie vote against Court. This is when the 9 hour VC standoff began. At one point in the VC, he realized that Court needed to go to bed to go to work, so he told her that they should both log off to let Malik and Sun vote and both of them sleep. He logged off, but she stayed on, so he came back on, very upset, and confronted her. The constant fighting was too much for Sun and caused him to flip on Jro. At tribal, Jro tried to hold his jury vote against Malik, threatening to not vote for him if he didn't tell him whether he was voting for him or not. It was not well received. At ponderosa, he was once again accused of engaging in toxic behavior, but once he was called out on it, he apologized and did not continue it. He was one of the most active jurors in VillainVivor history, much to the dismay of his fellow jury members. At ponderosa, he actually chilled all the way out and calmed down, no longer defensive and combative like he was in the game. At reunion, he won the Villain of the Season award and the Best Rivalry award. He also got 2nd on character rankings.

#### Season 7

Jro was one of the 10 Favorites to return in ***Unleashing the Underworld***, having been voted on with 69 votes. Due to his prior status as Villain of the Season and due to his erratic albeit entertaining strategic antics in Season 4, Jro was placed on the All Star "Zeus" tribe alongside fellow season 4 players Uni and Boofus. Jro's goal was to play a more strategically and socially smart game, and to tone down his chaotic antics.

Jro came into the game in a good position, having good meta with Boofus from their previous duo alliance in season 4 and also with Uni, who he was friends with as well. He also formed a close bond with Roman, who was being targeted by Ha and Uni, and the two developed a duo. He remained strategically close with Boofus as well, who was playing the middle between both pairs. Jro wanted to target Ha for refusing to align with him, but he ended up developing a bond with him as well. It was likely Boofus would have acted as the swing vote between Ha and Roman had Zeus tribe ever lost, but they managed to win every immunity challenge. Jro was actually well regarded by his tribe this time, which was a far cry from season 4.

At the swap, he wound up on Pain with his closest ally Roman and also Ha, while Boofus was sent to exile. Jro played a bit too hard when Myno was randomly added to the tribe and he tried to throw Myno under the bus. Sophie, Emmy, and Joaquin quickly used this against him, so he had to dial it back as people were complaining about him early on. Myno asked Jro why he was being targeted by him, which made Jro irate. He confronted Sophie and Emmy about this, and they panicked and had a falling out as a result of this and other matters. Myno was then unanimously voted out, and Boofus joined the tribe, which greatly benefitted Jro's position.

On the tribe, he managed to at least bond socially with everyone with the exception of Mo, but remained at the middle for most of the tribe's trust rankings with the exception of his Zeus tribe allies. Joaquin attempted to align with Jro and Ha, perceiving them as a duo, which further increased Jro's power. Unfortunately, things fell apart at the 2nd tribal the Pain tribe attended, where Sophie targeted Ha. She was able to get the tribe on board, and the main problem was Boofus and Roman had lost their votes at exile. Jro knew the only way to keep Ha in the game was to force a 2-2-1, as he had earlier intentionally egged on Joaquin when he voiced his desire to vote Roman. This had a chance at working, however Jro made the mistake of not revealing the whole truth to Ha, and kept Boofus and Roman's lack of votes a secret for their sake. This backfired hugely, as Ha was unwilling to vote Mo without this information, and locked his vote for Joaquin before leaving for 3 hours. This made it impossible for Jro to save him, and he was forced to play much more defensively when Ha was then voted out.

Jro later became embroiled in the conflict of Sophie, Roman, and Emmy, being confused and made paranoid and angry by random pieces of information he got, and distrusted both Sophie and Emmy heavily. When Pain lost a 3rd time, Sophie wanted the tribe to vote out Emmy for a myriad of reasons. Jro was frightened by the information and alting accusations he was presented with, but he ultimately decided Mo would be a better target and convinced his alliance to do this, while leaving Sophie out. This did not work however, as Roman went against Jro's wishes and revealed this to Sophie. It seemed poised for a dramatic tribal, but Mo left the game of her own accord.

Jro felt paranoid about his position on the tribe afterwards, but a swap occurred and he was sent to the Clotho with Roman, Uni, and Jordan. This swap was initially lucky, but it spelled the beginning of the end for him. It quickly became apparent that he was involved in 2 concurrent love triangles. Uni was unwilling to vote for Jro or Jordan, but Jordan wanted her to pick between them as he deemed Jro to be both a threat and as someone he could beat in a firemaking challenge. Meanwhile, Jro was unwilling to vote for Roman or Uni, as he was simping for them both. It was clear that Roman and Jordan would be going against each other in a firemaking challenge, but the tribe, luckily or unluckily depending how you look at it, never lost. Unbeknownst to Jro, he was put into a rivalry with Jordan, while Roman and Uni now both had reservations about trusting him fully.

Jro's game fell apart at the merge, as he made a few social misplays around this time that caused Roman to heavily distrust him, along with Joaquin and Boofus. Firstly, he was in a position of limited information. Boofus and Roman had always known about Quinn having an idol, but they kept this from Jro and were becoming more of a duo that didn't include him, especially because Roman knew Boofus also had an idol. The vote seemed poised to be Joaquin vs Patrick, which Jro did not want to do as he viewed them both as numbers. He later learned of Quinn's idol from Uni, which gave him the information he needed to turn Roman and Boofus against Quinn and successfully blindside her with Joaquin and Patrick's help. However, Roman was now paranoid of Jro's view of her, knowing that she hid information from him. Moreover, Jro mishandled an interaction with Quinn. The alliance of former Clotho members that Uni and Jordan had made was revealed as part of an RNG disadvantage Uni received at the auction, and Uni lied and said it was a fictional Zeus tribe alliance to protect Jordan. Jro went along with this lie when Quinn confronted him, which angered Roman because she felt he was more loyal to Uni than her, and that he was foolishly protecting Jordan for no reason.

At the final 9, things got even worse. In response to the Quinn blindside, Jordan used an advantage against Roman that attributed a fake idol to her, in addition to revealing the steal a vote everyone knew she had. Jro questioned Roman about this, and this caused her to distrust him fully, even though he remained loyal. Boofus used this to pull her in fully as his new closest ally. The final 9 vote still went well for Jro, as he was none the wiser to these developments and knew the vote would be split between Amelia and Jordan. Jordan tried to get his alliance to vote for Jro, but Jro was protected by Uni and the fact that Amelia hated Roman and would not relent. Jro was not surprised by the outcome with Jordan going home, as he had anticipated an idol play from the other side. However, what he did not know is that Boofus and Roman planned this much more actively together, and that they were both paranoid of him. Boofus played an idol on Roman this round, and revealed he even had a second, which Roman helped him find. Jro interrogated them again, and Roman officially did not trust him at all.

The final 8 was where Jro met his demise. Despite Roman not trusting him, she wanted to keep him around at least for this round. Boofus, however, had already planned to vote Jro out at this exact spot, and had wanted him out here for a long time. Jro was fully loyal, and did not expect either development, although he had been entertaining the idea of flipping himself much later on. Boofus and Joaquin both wanted Jro out the most, and they redirected Amelia's anger towards him instead of Roman. Jro suspected in confessional something was up and that there may be a large number of votes against him, so he asked Boofus to use the idol on him. Boofus refused. Jro was paranoid, but did not want to act on it or scramble, and this secured his fate as he was blindsided by his closest allies in a 6-2 vote. Due to the fact that once Boofus and Joaquin had Emmy and Amelia on their side, Roman and Patrick caved while Uni stayed loyal because she locked her vote for Amelia early. Jro was the 13th person voted out and placed 8th once again.

Jro was very bitter in the jury, especially towards Boofus, Joaquin, and Roman for their actions. For Boofus in particular, Jro was enraged due to the fact Boofus performed a premeditated betrayal against him while also making jokes about history repeating itself, in reference to the same thing happening in Season 4. Jro would often complain and rant, annoying everyone.

At FTC, he asked Roman what he did to break her trust, what both finalists' 3 major moves were, and what their main flaws were for both of their games. He also argued with Roman more about her betrayal and ranted at her, and similarly ranted at Emmy for ghosting him for a good portion of the game. Ultimately, Jro was unsure of who to vote as he was impressed by both FTC performances. Despite his bitterness, he cast his vote for Roman to give credit where credit was due, and she won in a close 5-4 vote.

At the reunion, Jro was largely ignored, but he did win the coveted Honorary Nikos "Bruh" Memorial Award for being belligerent the entire season.

After the season, Jro returned to the hosting team. Ashley decided he was unfit to participate in Heroes vs Villains, reversing her prior decision.