Jay

Jay was a Contestant on Trinity Survivor: New Beginnings, Trinity Survivor: Past & Present & Trinity Survivor: Forged by Fire.

Jay came into New Beginnings with a solid plan and was executing it well, until paranoia and a lie made his target grow and choas at a joint tribal cause his game to do up in flames.

Jay returned for Past & Present, ready to re-write his story from his last season. Jay played hard, making moves and playing all his social angles to make it to the end, but lost only gaining two jury votes and being the tie breaker vote, handing Pietro the win.

Jay returned for a third time to All Stars for revenge and wouldn’t rest until he finally got the win he deserved. A strong social player throughout the entire game, Jay was able to maneuver through each round, acting felt as a non-threat until Armageddon night where he was viewed as a huge social and jury threat. His gameplay earned him Hero of the Season & Fan Favourite.

## New Beginnings:

Jay came into this season optimistic and determined. On the preswap tribe, Jay had a majority alliance that consisted of his entire tribe other than Pietro and Glo. But Jay formed a close connection with Pietro and Glo separately and talked to them as well. Pietro gave Jay the google docs for the idol and Jay saw that the idol had already been taken. Jay had a strong feeling that Pietro found the idol since he gave him the document. After the swap, Jay decided to work with both Connor and Madi. However, a joint tribal took that chance away from him. People suspected that Jay had the idol despite the fact that Jay informed them that Pietro had it. Jay managed to flip a few people to vote with him, however his best friend Connor got paranoid and thought that he would be getting votes and flipped his vote to Jay despite the fact that they would have had a majority. Jay got 17th.

## Past & Present:

Being invited back for Past &. Present, Jay was determined to make up for getting pre-jury his previous season despite covid and being one of the few people who still had a full time job. During the first round, Nikita found a skull charm that was basically an idol that he could will to someone on the other tribe and he chose Jay. Jay, who had also found his tribe’s idol, now held two idols at the same time. Talking to his closest ally Chris, Jay decided to give one idol to him to show that he trusts him. The first tribal they went t a alliance formed between Chris, Jay, Jake, and Josh. Nathan and Jessie’s names were both thrown out due to how chaotic both of them were playing and the rivalry the two had between one another. The newbies were persistently wanting to vote out Nathan, and Jay didn’t want to chance rocks. So Nathan was voted out.

Losing the next challenge and going back to tribal, most of the newbies told Jay that they were not voting out a newbie. Frustrated, Jay went to Chris and the two decided that Chris was going to give his idol to another vet in order to even the numbers despite neither one of them wanting ot play vets vs. newbies. Hearing that Jake Stephens was the target, the two gave an idol to Jake Stephens in order to protect him and decided to vote out Arthur since he kept pushing for vets. vs newbies. At tribal council, Jake used the skull charm that Chris and Jay had given him and Arthur was voted out in a 5-4 vote with Jake’s 5 votes being negated. Once again losing the next challenge, the tribe decided to unanimously vote out Jesse. After that, Jay’s tribes managed to win immunity until the merge. Jay and Nikita made a final two alliance after Jay found out that Nikita willed him the skull charm, and Jay informed Nikita about the idol that he had.

The first round of the merge, Jay threw Pietro’s name out due to still feeling a certain type of way from the last season they played together even though he was at work. Unfortunately for him he couldn’t get enough traction to get Pietro’s name. Instead, Jay switched his vote to Billy after hearing his name. At the end of the day, Logan went home with a split vote between 4 different names effectively putting Jay in his first minority vote.

The next round, Bodhi’s name got thrown out while Jay was at work. Jay tried to push for Pietro despite the fact that he hadn’t talked much to Bodhi, but got shut down. And due to having not had to many conversations with him, Jay was okay with it in the long run. Bodhi ended up going home in a 11-3 vote. At the next tribal council, unfortunately for Jay, the vote ended up landing on his ally Josh with Jake flipping on the alliance. Jay took this pretty personally considering the skull charm is what kept him in the game, and vowed in his production chat to make those people pay.

After that round and being told that X had said that Jay, Chris, Josh, and Nikita had all been in an alliance together, Jay was pretty upset considering (in his eyes) it seemed like X had lumped all of the people of color in one alliance other than Pietro and decided to replace Jake with Nikita. Before the next tribal, a twist was revealed that they were ‘unmerging’. While Nikita had a bad feeling about it since they were already in the minority, Jay said that he had a good feeling despite the fact that him, Nick, Nikita, and Chris would all need to be on one of the tribes of 5 together. And sure enough? Jay’s feeling came to fruition when the four of them were paired together with Billy. Billy had no shot with Jay, and was voted out in a unanimous vote. At the other tribal, Kyle was voted out as well.

Having realized that they were close to the end, Jay talked to X and Pietro and decided to not target them. While him and Chris had been ride or dies since day 1, Jay knew that it was the final 8 and he needed to consider the fact that Chris would demolish him if he was sitting next to him. Jay went to Nikita about this, who seemed pretty confident that they would be able to vote Chris out this round. Unfortunately for Jay and Nikita, Nikita was in for a blindside and was the one voted out despite the duo voting Chris. Right after tribal council, Chris wanted to call with Jay who immediately lied about voting Chris and said that he voted Nikita. Jay said that the only person who could have voted Chris with Nikita was probably Nick, and that they would need to watch out for him despite the fact that Jay had just voted him about an hour before hand. Right after that Jay, X, and Pietro decided to just work with one another despite not being the biggest fans of one another. The three felt like none of them would win against anyone else in the final 7, and decided to make a secret final three. At the next tribal council, Jay pushed for Nick to leave over Chris. Jay had just lost Nikita who was his final two and had already been throwing all of the blame for the last vote on Nick. In his eyes if he got Nick out of the game then he could sweep that vote under the rug. And with one vote between Nick and Chris, Nick was sent to the jury house. At that point, the alliance between Jay, X, and Pietro knew that they had this in the bag. The three of them have been going on calls regularly and now made up half of the house with each of them having their duo partners. Jay, Chris, X, and Caleb decided to vote Jake with X and Jay informing Pietro but not expecting him to vote with them. However, Pietro decided to vote with the majority and ended up voting Jake out.

Now it was the final five, and Jay still had his idol. When speaking with X, X said that he didn’t want to vote Caleb out just yet despite the fact that Chris was worse at competitions than Caleb. This sketched Jay out. Despite hte fact that Jay had been wanting to get rid of Chris at the beginning of the round, he was now concerned that X would not keep his side of the deal and decided to play his idol on Chris and voted Caleb out. And after the idol play, Caleb was sent home. The next round, at a very tearful tribal council, Jay had to chose between his desire to win and his desire to remain loyal to a friend this late in the game. But at the end of the day, Jay decided to vote Chris out with X and Pietro after saying in his production chat that he’s known what he’s wanted since the Nikita boot and he can’t let his feelings get in the way.

Jay made it to Final Tribal Council after getting pre-jury of last season with no votes casted against him. But the journey was not done just yet. Jay ended up getting third place with the votes tying between X and Peitro. At the end of the day, Jay decided to vote for Pietro to win the title of Sole Survivor.

## Forged by Fire:

Before Forged by Fire (FbF) even began, Jay sent a confessional outlining how he wanted some people out and even changed his production name to ‘Forged by Hatred/Revenge’. He even told production that his goal this season wasn’t even to win, but revenge. However, that began to change.

On the first tribe Jay was on, he was decently connected to where he didn’t really have to worry about much of anything. He had a majority alliance with himself, Tim, Rachael, and Stoner. Tim and Stoner both saw him as a close ally right away, although a few nights into the game Rachael was also beginning to see him a great candidate. Both Rachael and Tim had complaints about one another and went to Jay consistently despite them not going to tribal, but Jay managed to keep the two of them from doing anything to tear the other apart. He even managed to minimilze the damage for when Tim basically forced Rachael to admit to the alliance that she found the idol, although Rachael definitely didn’t forget that.

Jay’s first tribal council wasn’t until final 16 when both tribes went to tribal council. Jay at this point had lost the anger he came into the season with and was now thinking of actually playing to win. Because of this he had formed a close relationship with Jerry and Jesse on the newly swapped tribe and had reconnected with X who he had just made it to the finals with on his previous season. Having been told that Jerry and Jesse were close, Jay tried to make sure that anything he told one of them he told the other so that way if they cross referenced it would be true. The first tribal, with Jay being on good relations with everyone on the tribe, Jay decided to take out X in fear that people would assume that he would only work with the people that he had worked with on the previous season.

At the merge, Jay had quite a few people he wanted to work with. He still had Tim and Rachael from his original season, and for the first time in Trinity history Jay wasn’t immediately targeting Pietro and actually wanted to go to at least the final four or five with him. Jay also wanted to go there with Tim and Keaton at this point who had managed to squirm his way off of Jay’s shit list after Jay had been informed about some of the things he said about Jay pre-season, along with Connor. The first round of the merge was a live night, and nobody wanted to say a name for one reason. People had a feeling that if they said a name, they would be the counter name. So for about the first 22 hours, no one said a name. But people finally began talking and saying a name...Connor. The name of Jay’s best friend who may had voted him out pre-merge/pre-jury in their previous season, but Jay had already forgiven him for that. Instead, Jay tried to vote Keaton out despite wanting to go to the end with him to try to save his best friend. Unfortunately for Jay, Connor had already dug his hole and Jay decided to hold his vote knowing that not voting Connor would result in causing some friction but refusing to vote him. The next vote of the live night, once more Keaton was in the hot seat. However, Jay was blindsided when Ned went home instead despite the fact that people had told Jay that the vote was going to be for Keaton. Jay stayed on the zoom until him, Rachael, Tim, and Jesse were on call. Jay asked who flipped, and both Rachael and Tim said no while Jesse shook her head. Jay, noticing this, waited for Jesse to leave and said that ‘the bitch was lying’. Rachael assured and promised him that Jesse was telling the truth, and Jay thought that he had read Jesse’s body language wrong. But the next morning, Rachael came to him saying that she had just found out that Jesse had indeed been the one to flip...Effectively putting Jay in the minority.

The next round we saw Pietro, another one of Jay’s allies, going...And this time it was with Tim flipping on Jay. Jay was getting annoyed that his allies or ‘side’ keeps flipping on each other. When talking to Tim, he kept telling Jay that ‘Pietro wasn’t good for my game’ despite the fact that Jay kept pointing out that Tim was keeping people who would beat him in the game. After that, Rachael went home and Jay was at an all time low. However, Blake threw out a life line by saying that he personally didn’t want to see Jay go home and how he was beginning not to trust the Jake, Madison, and Jesse side anymore. Jay decided to tell Blake about the fact that Tim had came to him and said that he had an alliance chat with Jake and Madison. Blake talked about how shady that was and how annoying that was. Jay then told Blake that Rachael had told him that she had an alliance chat with Jake as well on the round that she had gone home...Which was a lie. Blake, now pissed off at Jake, wanted to turn against them but not target Jake. He wanted to target someone that Jay didn’t want to, and Jay wanted to target Jake. In the end, Jay said ‘well why don’t we just meet in the middle and target Madison?’ Madison was then later on voted out.

Feeling on a high, Keaton ended up going the next round. However now, Jay knew he was in deep shit. Jake and Jesse had banked so many votes, and he knew that it was likely a chance that he was going home. However, Jay had a feeling that Jesse and Jake were once again going to hold their vote. So in his prod chat he discussed doing a plan after his own allies said they were holding their votes despite knowing that Jay was in trouble. In his production chat, Jay felt bitter and felt like his teammates had just tossed him aside, so he decided that he would vote Maynor. This would then cause the two of them to tie if everyone held their votes, and since no one would be able to revote and would force his allies and Jake and Jesse to draw rocks. But Blake had heard that his name had been throw out, so Jay was worried that he would vote as well and decided to go against his gut and vote Blake. Unfortunately for Jay, Blake had actually held his vote and Maynor was the only other person who voted. So since Jay didn’t follow through with his plan, Maynor just voted him out on the revote and Jay got 7th place. Jay went on to win Hero of the Season and Fan Favorite due to the tears and #jaylivesmatter.

## Tribal Council

### Total Votes Received:

9

* Jay was originally on Trinity Survivor: Altantis - The Lost Season. However this season did not finish, so Jay’s first season is thought to be New Beginnings
* Jay is the first person to make it to Final Tribal Council without receiving a vote.