Niki

**Niki** was the Runner-Up and Hero of the Season of Mythvivor: Babylon. She was known for her rootable underdog game and love of guinea pigs.

## Babylon

Niki started Mythvivor: Babylon on the Tiamat tribe. In "The Secret Ingredient Is Lies," Tiamat attended their first tribal council, a joint tribal council with the Adad tribe. Most of Tiamat felt that they would leave this joint tribal council unscathed since they had more numbers than Adad. They targeted Steve, who appeared to be on the bottom of Adad.

Unfortunately, Henry felt uncomfortable with his only position on Tiamat and chose to make a move against Niki's ally, Shep, signing his parchment that voted Shep out of the game. Following this tribal council, Henry and Dan both blamed each other for Shep's exit. Niki joined an alliance with her other two tribemates, Ben and Bubbles, and Ben told them about his idol. The three of them felt that Dan was the more likely culprit for the flipper, but they did not go to another tribal council.

Right before the swap in "Sashay Towards a Gas Powered Grill," Niki visited Mount Nisir along with Tara from the Adad tribe and Jordanne from the Shamash tribe. There, the three of them decided for the upcoming swap to be based off of tribe rankings as opposed to being divided randomly.

As a result of this swap, Niki swapped onto the Euphrates tribe with her allies, Bubbles and Ben. They also reunited with Koopa and Tara (who Niki had also met at Mount Nisir) that they were on the opposite side of during the joint tribal council. Niki's allies grilled Koopa and Tara regarding the identity flipper during the joint tribal, as they believed the two of them were just covering for Dan by blaming Henry. This alienated the Tiamat trio from Euphrates.

At Euphrates's only tribal council, Bubbles hatched a plan to target Ben to make him waste his idol and take out Tara from the opposition with limited blood on their hands. Niki was skeptical, but went along with the plan. This backfired when Koopa, Tara, Physh, and Zack chose to vote against Bubbles instead and Ben never played his idol. This left Niki in a difficult position, having lost one of her allies, having blindsided another, and having been blindsided by everyone else on the tribe.

When the opportunity presented itself for Niki to force a random swap at Mount Nisir, she eagerly took the opportunity along with Henry. She swapped onto the Enki tribe, which won their only challenge and never attended tribal council.

At merge, Niki was able to start to work her way back into her tribemates' good graces and joined them in the votes against Physh, Derz (who was idoled by Ben), and Ben.

In "Not Clickbait," Niki won individual immunity from Touchy Subjects. She used her safety to flip on Alex, who she deemed to be a threat, along with Tara, Koopa, and Henry. While Niki kept her vote the same, Koopa flipped on the group to avoid rocks and voted against Henry. They voted Koopa out at the following tribal council.

After Koopa was voted out, Niki joined forces with Tara and Jordanne who she had met at her first Mount Nisir visit. She learned about Tara's idol and they idoled out Derz. The women stuck together at the following tribal council where they were finally able to vote out Alex, who was flagging Niki as a threat on his way out.

At the final 4, Jordanne won individual immunity and had to choose one person to sit next to her at Final Tribal Council and two people to battle it out in a fire-making challenge. While Jordanne was initially planning on sending Niki to the challenge against Tara, she changed her mind and decided to save Niki instead.

While Niki knew that the odds were against her at Final Tribal Council, she spoke very well to her relationships on the jury and her underdog gameplay. She notably even told her tribemates that Physh thought the best textile was "burlap." That was Physh's first question for the final 3, and when Niki's expectation of the question and the answer became apparent, it illustrated how well she knew the jurors. She earned Becca and Henry's jury votes through her Final Tribal Council performance and relationships with the jury.

At the reunion, Niki received the Hero of the Season for her rootable underdog story and kindness to others throughout the game. She also won the Host Favorite Award from Norah.

### Host Thoughts

Niki is an incredible example of Survivor being a game where it doesn’t matter how you start, it’s all about how you finish. After being blindsided at the joint tribal when Shep went, things continued to go downhill when her close ally and friend Bubbles went home after the swap, another vote Niki would be left out of. Despite making the merge and voting correctly for Physh at the first merge tribal, she was once again blindsided when Ben idoled for Derz and took out Joe, putting her once again on the wrong end of a vote. That’s the thing about great players though, they adjust and find a way to adapt. She put things together and was a part of the Ben vote. She was on the wrong end for the final time when Koopa flipped his vote on Henry, then she went on a nice run helping eliminate Koopa, Derz, Alex, and her persuasion skills and relationship with Jordanne saved her at final 4. Due to her social skills, wholesome nature, and willingness to adapt, she earned two votes at FTC, earning her second place this season.

### Voting History

1 Ben played an immunity idol on Derz, negating all votes against Derz.

2 A 4-4 tie occurred between Alex and Henry. Niki kept her vote against Alex on the revote.

3 Jordanne won the Final Immunity Challenge and due to Forced Fire-making, she was given the opportunity to save one person and send the other two to a fire-making challenge. She saved Niki.