Jethro

Jethro is a contestant on Visionary Survivor: Continental Conflict and Visionary Survivor: Clash of Casts.

## Continental Conflict Summary

From the keystone number on original Da Gama, to a minority number on Cortés, to the right hand man of biggest threat on Cortés, Jethro certainly adapted to a lot of different scenarios and roles during his time in the game.

While Brainish and Otter had a pre-existing relationship due to already knowing each other, it was Jethro who eventually had the stronger in-game bond with Brainish. Eventually they would become a strong duo as Otter grew suspiciously closer to Slug, and Fury was out of the question entirely. Over time Jethro and Brainish became more uncomfortable with Otter’s relationship with Slug, as a result they both mutineed after Fury was disqualified. But when Slug decided to mutiny too, Jethro and Brainish were split up as Jethro went to Cortés with Slug and his closest ally was sent to Cartier with Otter.

After Brainish was eliminated at the next tribal council, Jethro was left on the bottom of Cortés with no allies and Slug as his only connection. But things ironically took a turn for the better when Slug was eliminated. With a few days on Cortés now passed, Jethro had established an important relationship with social powerhouse Rey that would carry him through the rest of the pre-merge game. With the help of Bee and Noah they were able to take over Cortés and eliminate Eddie, Sean, and Star.

Once the tribes merged, Jethro was itching to make a move. He knew how good of a social player Rey was, and Rey knew that he felt that way. However, in compliance with his better judgement, he wasn’t going to make the move against him just yet, but he did begin to form a relationship with Dementia in order to set up the potential move later. This quickly backfired as pretty much everyone on the tribe became aware of it and now had both of them on their radars.

But the relationship ultimately wasn’t the cause of Jethro’s elimination. At the first merge tribal council Jethro had a vote blocker he planned on using an old Cartier member to create a 4-3 majority. With a clear strategy in place, it was set that an old Cartier would be going home. In a shocking turn of events, that’s not what happened. When old Cartier predicted that Hoeah would be the target of Cortés, Hoeah played an idol on himself, eliminating Jethro in a \*4-3 vote.

## Clash of Casts Summary

The first few days of the game were both simple and complex for Jethro. He quickly reconnected with Dementia and Otter, two people he had tried working with in season four, but also had to be careful around Eddie and Sean, two people he had a hand in voting out in season four. After losing the second immunity challenge, Eddie appeared as a simple target due to having the least amount of connections on the tribe. But Otter quickly became a swing vote between Dementia and Jethro versus Eddie and Sean. While Otter was on board to eliminate Eddie at first, he started leaning toward voting out Dementia after seeing tribal council as a way to eliminate a huge threat early in the game. While Jethro did vote with Dementia during his elimination, Otter had tried to convince him to flip so he wasn’t left completely out of the loop.

When the tribes swapped into two, Jethro was left completely alone on the new Manjusri tribe as Eddie, Otter, and Sean were all swapped to the new Ksitigarbha tribe. Despite being alone, Jethro was in a familiar spot as he had experienced being alone on a new tribe in his first season. While he didn’t form any immediate connections, he was able to avoid the block long enough to get closer with other tribemates and land in the majority for every vote. To cap off his social play, he also found the Manjusri idol.

After the merge Jethro was in a very interesting position. There were many unsettled beefs from the former Ksitigarbha tribe members, he was in a 7-3 minority due to losing so many challenges post-swap, and he had been reunited with the three other season four alumni. While the fact that there were still four season four alumni in the merge was alarming, no one was too concerned at first. The Dawit and Kiibo feud was large enough to take the heat off of the season four alumni for the first few days of the merge, but in due time Jethro’s name became quite popular.

Luke and Schmutz had been on bad terms for quite some time before the merge, so it was only a matter of time before their conflict would land them both on the block for a vote. When Schmutz won the final nine immunity challenge, she aggressively campaigned to get Luke eliminated, even asking most of the season four alumni for their votes. But Luke had some tricks up his sleeve and Dawit wasn’t about to let season four even up the ratio between themselves and everyone else. While Jethro did have an idol, he felt confident enough in the vote to not use it. This opened up the door for Luke, who had and played an immunity idol blocker anyway, to play a vote blocker on Schmutz and Dawit to play an extra vote. As a result, Jethro was eliminated in a 6-3-1 vote.

## Return Interviews

**Coming into your second season, which area do you think you can improve in most between social play, physical play, and strategic play? How do you plan on improving?**
I think in my last season I was decent strategically, but I have to not look to far forward and stick in the current moment. Physically I think I'm solid. An overall area I would like to improve is my social game. I don't think I talked to my allies or even my enemies enough and it really cost me in the end there because I found out near merge I was probably not as close to my allies as I thought I was because I strayed away from them.
**What was the biggest mistake you made when playing in your first season? How did you learn from it?**
My biggest mistakes certainly occurred at the merge where I was the first merge boot. I worried too much about making the flashy moves that would look good on my resumé than take the safe route. I was to focused on how I would look at the FTC which was miles away and I ended up paying the price. Another thing is that I think I became cocky and became "ungrounded", like I felt I was top shit and when I knew Cartier's votes were all on me I didn't care because I thought we were solid. So really I just need to stay grounded and worry more about even getting to the final rather than playing risky and not making it.
**Have you spectated any seasons besides the one you competed on? Have any other castaways stood out to you?**
No unfortunately I hadn't spectated any Visionary seasons before mine and haven't even played with any to my knowledge. Until then I'm definitely going to do some researching on the wiki to explore everyone's tendencies and capabilities.
**How has Visionary Survivor impacted you?**
Visionary Survivor has impacted the way I carry myself and how I make moves around orgs. I think I have improved my adaptability which I credit myself too with the mutiny twist (Which was great btw) because I had certainly never played a system like that. I have certainly reflected on my performance and think that I'm quite close to being at the point where I would want to be.
**In what ways do you hope to refine your legacy with this second chance you’ve been given? What do you hope to gain from competing again?**