Hermes

*[My time here] may have been shorter but I still had to fight tooth and nail to stay, every week and every competition I was here for. I survived 4 weeks of being directly targeted and managed to reach the end, that's an achievement I can say I'm proud of. - Hermes, BB5*

***Hermes*** was the winner of BB5. He previously competed in BB4, and later in BB8 and BB12.

## Gameplay Personality

*I don't need to entangle myself in his symphony of chaos right now. - Hermes, BB12*
## Big Brother 4: House of Horrors

In BB4, Hermes is remembered for being the most shocking and unexpected big player of the season. He was the first houseguest to win 3 competitions, and proved to be a serious competitor. He found his entry into the game through Nick, and worked with players like Lorde and Blakers, and helped to orchestrate the blindsides of Quaking and NP. However, during a Double Eviction at the Final 6, he was put in a position where he could do nothing to help himself, being blocked from playing in the POV by mirdo, and was brutally backdoored.

### Comp History

**Note:** 1 Mirdo used Gungner, the Lightning Spear to prevent Hermes from playing in the POV competition.

## Big Brother 5: Game Changer

In BB5, Hermes became the first person to ever enter the game as an *Intruder*, entering the game at the start of Week 3, when he quickly joined Violet’s *Anti-Alliance*. Upon entry, he managed to exercise influence on occasion with Violet, and used his perceptive abilities to catch LC and TE lying to him with ease. He blitzed his way through the game’s competitions, never once being a final nominee due to his skill in competitions. Despite his rather late entry, with his sheer competitive power and unpredicted ability to read other players, Hermes ended up winning the game in a sweeping 6-1 vote.

### Comp History

**Note:** 1 Hermes couldn't play in any HOH or POV competitions due to being granted immunity for his first week in the house.

## Big Brother 8: Friends & Enemies

In BB8, after his domination of competitions in BB5, Hermes was known by the house as a player who could easily be unstoppable, giving him an instant target. Even before the first Head of Household competition, Violet had started to gather the numbers for a Week 1 Eviction and turned everyone against him. This target was only compounded by the fact that other obvious competition threats, like Jade, were safe through the HOH Division twist, while Hermes was too busy to earn himself safety during this twist and got last place in the competition. After Violet won HOH, he improved his game, beginning to speak to other players and showing his game awareness by correctly seeing he was going to be backdoored through the ways players spoke to him, but an unfavorable POV draw meant his backdoor was inevitable, making Hermes the first victim of the winner purge by a unanimous vote.

## Big Brother 12: Beach

In BB12, Hermes played one of the most dominating games in PBB's history. From the beginning, he aligned himself with many powerful houseguests, forming *The Trifecta* with Draskk and Flour, as well as the *Don't get 12th to 10th group* with Ephemera and Mars, as well as forming notable friendships with players like Anna, Senkun and later on Jabber. Throughout the pre-jury phase, Hermes maintained his connections and social standing, but remained reluctant to win competitions or push an agenda too strongly for fear of ruining his positioning. Despite this, he managed to make a few subtle moves, such as cutting Brave to cover up his vote against Ephe in week 2. He came alive when he flipped the eviction vote on week 5, saving Draskk and angering Mars. Despite this Hermes recovered, convincing him to re-align with him and be okay with cutting Ephe, after which he dominated the game, holding an iron-grip until Flour blindsided Senkun at the special eviction, blindsiding Hermes in the process. After Hermes lost the final HOH, he was evicted for his iron grip on the game most of the way through. Hermes played one of the strongest all-around games in series history, holding social control for most of the season, strategically outwitting his opponents until the endgame, and winning more competitions than anyone else, cementing what is now considered the greatest losing game in the history of PokéBeach Big Brother.