Aidan

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Aidan was a contestant on Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms, and since then has served as a host on Season 3: Camelot's Last Stand and Season 4: Wukong's Wrath. One of the strongest players on the season, entering the endgame it looked like he was in a prime position to win, but a last-minute flip on him at F5 dashed those hopes. In recognition of his status as a top contender for basically the whole season, he was named the Player of the Game.

## Trevor's Cast Assessment

*The GOAT!!! This dude is seriously cutthroat in his gameplay, and he will **not** disappoint I hope. I hosted him in his very first ORG and from the beginning he played his absolute all, I hope he gets drunk because he plays his best when he does. Wasn’t too active preseason but seems real excited to play, he won his last TWO ORGs in a row!!! And he just could get a threepeat here…*

## The Nine Realms

Sorted onto the Midgard tribe, Aidan was not as high profile early on compared to some of his tribemates, but he was perfectly happy with that, wanting to lay low for a while. His first alliance was Fantasy Footballers with Adam and Tyler, and he also began to bond with Kristine and Logan, with those five players serving as those in the best spot on the tribe. After Midgard lost the first challenge (Wrassling), Shannon formed We Are Bad With Names with Aidan, Adam, Tyler and Logan, further solidifying Aidan's spot in the tribe. Happy to go with the plan to vote off Shray, the first tribal went by without issue as she was eliminated unanimously.

Aidan did not play a big role in the next challenge, the live arena battle of Hnefatafl, which Midgard won. The F18 tribe swap followed, and he was sent to Jotunheim with Logan and Sarah from Midgard, and joined by Jmoney, Mason and Bella from Nidavellir. While he definitely wanted to stick with Logan he did not have much of an attachment with Sarah, and the three of them never even formed an alliance chat together. He did bond well with Mason and Jmoney, while Bella had fallen ill and was thus unable to be as active as she would have wanted to be.

When Jotunheim had to send someone to Hel for the duration of the 24 Hour Scavenger Hunt challenge, Mason "accidentally" pinged the gods to send Jmoney, despite Bella being the one planned to sit out. This did not cause any major issues, however, as Jotunheim managed close comeback to earn second place and safety in the challenge, and Aidan, Logan, Mason and Jmoney formed Da Boys alliance after Jmoney returned from Hel, officially forming a majority alliance on the tribe.

After Saish's quit, the F16 Puzzle Gauntlet was a loss for Jotunheim, as none of their members won their respective duels, with Aidan finishing second behind Adam but ahead of Shannon on the Nonogram puzzle. Despite Sarah forming SLAM (Sarah, Logan, Aidan and Mason) and pushing for a Jmoney vote, Da Boys were always going to stick together and had to decide whether to vote Sarah or Bella. While originally it seemed like it would be the former, the fact that Bella had been ill for a few days concerned them enough that they decided they should vote for her, and after convincing Sarah to do so as well, Bella was eliminated unanimously.

Next came the F15 trust rankings swap, and Aidan was sent to Niflheim (AKA the "most trusted tribe") with Tyler, Adam, Mason, Logan, Dawson and Kamil. As Mason had bonded well with Aidan and Logan on Jotunheim he made it clear that he wanted to stick with them on this tribe, and the Anti Griff Federation of those three plus Tyler and Adam formed, with the plan of splitting the votes between Kamil and Dawson in case of tribal quickly agreed upon. After Niflheim then lost the Guess Who challenge, everyone regrouped and again agreed on the plan, with Kamil and Dawson only becoming really active strategically after this. Kamil wanted to push for Tyler to go, and to do so formed an alliance with Dawson, Aidan and Mason. But while Aidan and Mason pretended like they were on board, they never considered straying from the split, with Kamil eliminated 3-2-2 due to being more active in plotting against the majority than Dawson was.

In the aftermath of the vote, Aidan and Mason tried to explain to Dawson why they had done what they did, in an attempt to keep him on their side should they merge together, which seemed to work alright. Kristine also joined the tribe, having spent the previous cycle in Hel due to being named the #1 most trusted at F15, and after Niflheim crushed Alfheim in the 99 Bottles challenge, it was time for the merge.

As everyone looked to establish their places at the beginning of the merge, Kristine let Aidan know that Griff had formed an alliance to try and push a Sarah vote. Aidan immediately shared this with Logan, Mason and Jmoney, as well as Dawson (who was actually in that alliance Griff had made). As those five plus Kristine discussed their different options, Mason suggested they go after Griff due to his big feud with him, but this was shot down. Dawson suggested they bring in Sarah as a number rather than vote her out, which they all agreed on, and they also all agreed that Adam was the biggest threat in the game. But Logan said it was a little too early to go for Adam right away, and instead suggested they vote out Shannon.

After Mason and Jack earned F13 immunity at the cost of their votes at the F12 tribal in Greed, the plan to vote out Shannon went off smoothly, as it was easy for Aidan, Logan and Kristine to convince Tyler and Adam to vote her out, as she was who they had seen as a good target originally. Shannon was thus eliminated 11-2, with Griff the only other person in the minority, voting for Sarah.

While Logan still thought F12 was early for an Adam blindside, Aidan, Kristine and Dawson all felt he had to go ASAP, due to his at that point massive threat level. So, they officially formed an alliance chat with the six that had discussed an Adam vote the previous cycle (peepee), and also formed Coleslaw, which was the same as peepee but had Sarah instead of Logan, as they looked to include her a bit more in their plans - also, given that both Mason and Jack would not have their votes, they felt they needed more numbers anyway. After Logan beat Adam (and Griff) in the final of noitcaeR, the plan for Jmoney to idol out Adam with Kristine's temporary idol that she'd won while in Hel at F15 was agreed upon. However, Kristine had not realized that her idol had actually expired, which Jmoney did realize when she transferred it to him. This caused some scrambling, as Jmoney stole Griff's vote using the Vote Steal he'd won in Hel back at F18, and Aidan convinced Logan (still reluctant) that they had to switch their votes onto Adam. Things were now back on track, but Sarah threw another wrench into things by for some reason telling Tyler that there was a plan to vote out Adam. Aidan, Kristine and Logan all went into damage control mode, re-assuring Tyler and Adam that they were fine, and they managed to convince Adam he didn't need to use his idol, and he was eliminated 7-3, with Tyler, Colin and Griff (no vote) left out of it.

After this, it appeared that Griff would be the likely next target, as he did not have any strong allies, and Tyler was able to slowly make his way back into the majority once Adam was gone. However, Sarah told Aidan that she wanted to blindside Kristine next, which did not go over well with him as Kristine was one of his closest allies. Immediately telling her about this, they agreed they should target Sarah right away. And after Griff won immunity in the Norse Trivia Video challenge, that paved the way for a Sarah vote, though it took a brief detour when Griff wanted to target Logan, which led to Logan proclaiming he had an idol and posting a random pic of a necklace in tribal council chat. As a plan to split votes between Sarah and Jack (due to everyone still believing that Jack had an idol) began to form, Jack then stated in tribal council chat that he did not have an idol, and that it had all been a lie from Pyro back at F18. This left many confused, and pushed all the votes onto Sarah, as she was eliminated 9-1.

At F10, the rivalry between Mason and Griff had reached the point where one of them simply had to go, and like everyone else Aidan sided with Mason, happy to vote out Griff. After Dawson won immunity he tried to push for a Jack vote to take some initiative in the game, but the OG Midgard foursome of Aidan, Kristine, Logan and Tyler stood firm against that, and Griff was eliminated 8-1-1. Next was Sacrifices, and while Aidan accepted sitting out of the next immunity challenge, he stopped short of losing his vote at the upcoming tribal. He thus did not win immunity, as both Mason and Jmoney accepted all the available sacrifices, and after a tiebreaker round it was decided that while Jmoney had won immunity, he would be sent to Hel all the way until the end of F8 tribal, and Mason was left vulnerable, without a vote and only able to speak in public chats.

Mason was a very easy target, and Aidan was happy to vote him out, as he and Kristine both wanted to break up his duo with Jmoney, feeling that they would take each other to the end over anyone else. The only person unhappy with the prospect of voting out Mason was Jack, but he still went with it due to seeing no other real option, and both Dawson and Colin threw their votes on Jack for safety, meaning Mason was eliminated 5-2.

Upon returning to camp, the players were hit with the twist that all DMs and alliance chats would be locked for the whole cycle. Unable to participate in the immunity challenge due to the sacrifice he'd accepted the previous cycle, Aidan watched as Tyler won immunity in the live challenge of Hnutukast. They then returned to tribal council for a live tribal, which Logan shook up by quickly playing his Safety Without Power advantage on Kristine, sending her away from tribal. After Colin brought up voting for Jmoney (who had already submitted a vote for Colin) as he was an easy target due to being both vulnerable and still away in Hel, Aidan, Dawson and Jack all said they'd be fine with it in order to try and not to ruffle any feathers. But when Logan brought up potentially targeting Jack or using him as a secondary vote in a split, Tyler pounced on this as an opportunity to try and flip on Logan, stating that Mason had told him and Logan in tribe VC the previous cycle that Jmoney was likely to vote Dawson at F8, and that Logan and Aidan were gunning for Dawson.

But while Tyler quickly rallied Dawson, Colin and Jack together to vote for Logan, tribal did not end quickly. Aidan, for his part, said that no matter what he would not submit his vote until close to the deadline, as he was in the middle of exam season and so wanted to delay the start of the next challenge as long as he could. He then went offline for much of the night, as everyone else went back and forth with each other. The following morning, Aidan voted for Jmoney as part of Logan's campaign to get the votes off him and onto Jmoney in order to appease the others and stay alive. Tyler and Dawson ended up backing off their planned move to vote out Logan, and voted for Jmoney, eliminating him 4-2-1 as Jack and Colin did not have the time to come back online and change their votes.

Now at F7, the game was as in flux as it had been in a while, with both Logan and Tyler catching a good amount of heat at the live tribal. The next challenge was Touchy Subjects, where Aidan was named the majority answer for "Who is flying under the radar the most?", and after Tyler beat Colin to win immunity on the tiebreaker, Logan was the obvious vote as everyone preferred to vote him over Kristine, who Logan tried to target. Kristine was pretty paranoid, because of being named the biggest threat in Touchy Subjects and also because she felt Aidan hadn't talked to her as much recently, but Aidan - who knew he had the strong position he'd previously held - looked to re-pledge his allegiance to those in the majority, and Kristine in particular. Telling her that she was his #1, he voted for Logan as well, eliminating him unanimously.

Entering F6, Aidan felt he was completely screwed, knowing that Tyler would be gunning for him, though Tyler did want to keep him in until F5 as a shield. In a massive immunity challenge, which was a gauntlet of previous challenges, he finished with a time of just under an hour, which was good enough for second but not good enough to beat Kristine, leaving him vulnerable. While Kristine, Dawson and Tyler all wanted to vote out Jack, Aidan, Jack and Colin came together with the shared knowledge that this could be their last good shot at getting out Tyler, who was a massive threat. Knowing they had to flip at least one of Kristine and Dawson, they tested the waters there. While Dawson made it clear he was sticking to his plan, Aidan left his conversation with Kristine feeling like she was gonna flip, though this turned out to be false. Knowing there was a decent chance for a tie, Aidan, Jack and Colin all told each other they were ready to go to rocks, prepared to all put their games on the line this tribal.

There was indeed a 3-3 tie, between Jack and Tyler, causing a revote. Colin immediately locked in his revote, declaring he was ready for rocks, while Aidan and Dawson both worked each other hard, trying to get each other to flip. After a stalemate for a while, Aidan went with the Hail Mary play of promising Kristine and Dawson that he would go to F3 with them in front of everyone else, saying that the F3 pact he'd made with Colin and Jack had been a lie and that he was closer with the two of them. Pleading with them to flip so they could go to the end together, Kristine was torn, upset at having to turn her back on a long-term ally either way, and wanted Dawson to make the final call. He ended up deciding it would be better to trust Aidan and avoid rocks rather than face a 33% chance of being eliminated right there, and flipped. Tyler was eliminated 3-1 on the revote, with Kristine not having the heart to change her vote.

At F5, Aidan was right in the middle of two duos, and seemed to be in the driver's seat as he now had made F3 pacts with both sides. In his confessional, he made it clear that he wanted to stick with Kristine and Dawson, and after Jack won Season Trivia for immunity (a challenge that was essentially just a duel between him and Kristine), it appeared Colin would be taken out in a simple 3-2 vote. However, that was not to be.

After the F6 revote, Aidan had made sure to go to Jack and Colin and reassure them that he was still with him, and that everything he had said was just to do whatever necessary to get Kristine and Dawson to flip, and nothing more. This seemed to placate the two for the time being, but trouble began after the F5 challenge when the trio took a long time to decide on a target. Given that no idols had been played all game, there was paranoia that one of Kristine and Dawson had one, and their back and forth debate as to which one to vote for stretched into the following morning, eventually landing on Dawson, with Jack submitting a vote for him. But all this time had given Kristine and Dawson plenty of time to stew on the fact that Aidan might be playing them. Wanting to take matters into his own hands, Dawson went to Colin about taking power for themselves and voting out Aidan.

While initial discussion with Jack and Colin soon after the challenge hadn't gone anywhere, this one did, as after laying out how Aidan had all the power, Colin was left convinced that Aidan was fully playing both sides, telling Jack that Dawson had told him info he wouldn't have known unless Aidan had told him. This sold Jack on voting for Aidan as well, and the switch came about right at the last minute: at this point everyone except Colin had submitted, with the votes 3-1 against him, but then Jack and Dawson both switched their votes to Aidan, with Colin submitting his vote to lock them literally seconds after Dawson switched, with Kristine not even changing her vote. This meant Aidan was eliminated 3-2, ironically ending up 5th after publicly saying at the previous tribal that this was the position he'd finish if Tyler did not go.

## Season 1 Character Ranking

**8: Aidan (5th place)**

*Aidan was an INCREDIBLE player, and was just as good of a character as well. His character arc was honestly one of the most up and down ones, and was very entertaining to watch it all go down. He started out pretty quiet however slowly grew into complete control of the game, it wasn't until his best bud Logan blew himself up that Aidan found himself on the near bottom of things. At Final 6 Aidan's flip was honestly the most entertaining game-related action that anybody did all game, and I respect him a ton for it. He also falls into that badass category I'd say because no ordinary man is able to promise two people final 3, right in front of two other people who he promised the same thing to, and have both sides believe him. Aidan's vote out was a sad one, as it made sense why they didn't trust him, but given the fact that he was genuine to Kristine and Dawson and they ended up contributing to his blindside, made me feel for him in the end.*

## Trivia

* Listed as the #1 contender on edgic for six episodes, the most of anyone in S1 and second behind Hollie (nine) in S2 for the most of any player in any season
* Was on the "right side" of every vote up until his elimination, the longest streak of any player on the season
* Did not have any votes cast against him until F5, the latest of any player on the season, and tied with Hollie in S2 and High in S3 for the latest of any player in any season
	+ If you look at just counted votes, though, Kowboy in S2 and Tanner and Hope in S3 all break that mark, as they did not have any counted votes against them all season
* He is the only male player to have won the POTG award
* One of six S1 players who became production members on future seasons, along with Adam, Bella, Mason, Kristine and Aby B