Colin

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Colin was a contestant on Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms. His often unserious attitude and penchant for jokes meant he was a pretty noticeable part of the season, but despite making it to the end he was seen as not having had much initiative in the game until the final few votes, which lead to him finishing 3rd at FTC.

## Trevor's Cast Assessment

*This guy seems super chill and just here to vibe, I believe he also said “I heard a homie can get some money, lets get it” which is **hilarious** to me. His gameplay plan seems to be centering around having a personable connection with people, and I feel like he will be very memorable coming out of this. I just hope he isn’t “too chill” leading to him being isolated from the rest of the cast, those who he calls “gamebots”. I’m very interested to see his approach and how it can get him far, he seems to want to play with his heart more than his mind which intrigues me quite a bit, it could either go very bad or very well, there’s no real way of knowing for sure.*

## The Nine Realms

Sorted onto the Nidavellir tribe, Colin entered the game wanting to chill at the beginning and fly under the radar, but this had the unintended side effect of him being left out of all the early alliances, and not bonding as much with his tribemates as most of them did with each other. After Nidavellir scraped out a win in the first challenge he continued to lay low, and sat out of the second challenge (the arena battle Hnefatafl) as he was at work during it. This meant that he was the only person - besides Emily - to not be in the tribe VC as they competed in and lost the challenge, and tribal opened with everyone remaining in the VC, deciding to vote for Emily as she was inactive.

Coming online to being in tribal with eight of his tribemates in VC together, Colin panicked, worried that he was the target due to that and also due to sitting out of the challenge. While Mason filled him in on the plan to boot Emily (which happened quickly), Colin realized he was outside the majority on the tribe, which had a massive impact the very next cycle, with the the F18 tribe swap. Sent to Vanaheim along with Griff and Pyro from Nidavellir and Adam, Tyler and Jack from Midgard, Colin immediately jumped ship by telling Adam and Tyler that he wanted to flip on his old tribe, and the Sons of Dr. Phil alliance formed with that trio. At the same time, Jack wanted to flip on OG Midgard due to knowing he had been on the bottom of the tribe, counteracting in a sense Colin's flip.

When it was announced that every tribe had to sit someone out of the 24 Hour Scavenger Hunt challenge and send them to Hel for the challenge's duration, Colin wanted to sit out due again due to his work, however Griff pressured the tribe into sending Pyro instead, which painted them as a duo. During the challenge, as things became heated (especially between Griff, Mason and Logan), Tyler shared with Adam and Colin the idea of instigating a fight with Griff in the arena, in order to make it seem like they wanted to vote for him, so they could blindside Pyro if they went to tribal. The two of them thought this was a great idea, and Tyler did it, clashing with Griff before Vanaheim did actually lose the challenge, sending them to tribal.

While Tyler's plan had been to try and pull off a 3-2-1 with Jack actually voting for Griff, Colin blew this up by telling Jack that the real plan was to blindside Pyro, erroneously thinking that he was in on it. After Jack leaked this to Pyro and Griff, Tyler created the Fire Four alliance with Adam, Colin and Jack to try and bring them back together by throwing Griff under the bus and saying that he couldn't be trusted. While Pyro, Griff and Jack's original plan had been to try and convince Adam and Tyler to vote for Colin in order to gain a majority for their trio while making it seem like Pyro and Griff were the ones sacrificing a number, Colin's quick trust and loyalty with the Midgard duo meant they did not want to cut him loose.

In the end, despite Tyler trying to drive a wedge between Jack and Griff, those two voted together along with Pyro for Colin, while the Sons of Dr. Phil all voted for Pyro, causing a tie. Forced to sit and hope that he would not be flipped on, Colin's new alliance held strong as both Adam and Tyler were unwilling to turn on him on the revote, despite Pyro's pleas for them to do so, and after a lot of back and forth it was Griff who flipped, eliminating Pyro 3-1 on the revote. As part of her final words she stated that she had found the Nidavellir idol (true), and that she'd given it to Jack before being voted out (false). Despite it being a lie, this was believed by everyone, which cast a lot more uncertainty over what might happen should Vanaheim go to tribal again.

They did not have to face tribal again though, as after Saish's quit, Colin helped lead Vanaheim to safety in the F16 Puzzle Gauntlet, winning the Slide Puzzle duel against Logan and Aby B. The Sons of Dr. Phil remained united during this time, though while Griff and Tyler bonded somewhat in a VC with the two of them and Colin, Colin continued to dislike Griff, and felt like Griff thought he could manipulate him. Griff, for his part, felt like he could trust Colin much more at this point, and that it was reciprocated.

What followed was the F15 Trust Rankings swap, and Colin was sent to Alfheim (AKA the "least trusted tribe") along with Griff, Jack, Jmoney, Sarah, Shannon and Aby B. Despite his issues on Vanaheim with Griff and Jack, Colin went along with Griff's plan to round up Jmoney and Sarah to split votes on Aby B and Shannon should they go to tribal, as Pyro and Jmoney had told everyone that Aby B had won a secret advantage while all three of them were in Hel at F18 (though it had actually been Jmoney who had won, earning a Vote Steal). While Alfheim won the Guess Who challenge, they then lost 99 Bottles at F14, sending them to tribal. Griff's plan was complicated by Shannon earning individual immunity due to contributing the most in the challenge, but he simply convinced the two Muspelheim members that they and the Vanaheim trio were to split their votes between Jmoney and Sarah, which they believed. Everyone else then piled votes on Aby B, and she was eliminated 5-2.

Next came the merge, and Colin quickly reunited with Sons of Dr. Phil. Interestingly, after Griff convinced Tyler and Adam that they should try and go after Sarah, Colin was not included in the initial alliance that came out of that scheming, while Kristine and Dawson were. After Jack and Mason earned F13 immunity in Greed at the cost of their F12 vote (taking away the chance of trying to flush Jack's "idol"), the target shifted to Shannon as everyone except Griff preferred to vote her out over Shannon. Proclaiming himself the "corgi king" as both he and Shannon had a pic of a corgi as their pfp at the time, Colin went along with the plan and Shannon was eliminated 11-2, with Griff in the minority.

Soon after the vote, Griff VCed with Colin, Adam and Tyler, and stated again that they needed to take out a former Jotunheim member, now thinking Jmoney was the best target due to the chance of him actually haven won something in Hel back at F18. Colin was quite frustrated with Griff, annoyed at his perceived bossy tone despite being on the wrong end of a near-unanimous vote the previous cycle, but the Sons of Dr. Phil eventually decide it would be in their best interest to placate Griff for the time being, to use him as a number.

However, unbeknownst to those four, nearly everyone else was in on a plan to blindside Adam, seen as the clear biggest threat in the game. After Logan won immunity in noitcaeR, while the Sons of Dr. Phil believed that Griff, Kristine, Logan and Aidan would all vote out Jmoney with them, all of those listed except Griff prepared to eliminate Adam. After some confusion stemming from Kristine not realizing her temporary idol had expired, Jmoney stole Griff's vote, and despite Sarah leaking to Tyler that there was a plan to vote out Adam, last minute reassurances from the OG Midgards was enough to make the Sons of Dr. Phil comfortable enough, and Adam was eliminated 7-3, with Colin, Tyler and Griff (no vote) in the minority.

Colin and Tyler (the latter especially) were both pissed in the aftermath of the vote, and had a very heated VC with Griff where they argued over what they should try and do next. While saying in the VC that they should try and target Jack, Colin was perfectly happy to go after Griff next instead, and this might have happened if Griff had not won immunity in the F11 Norse Trivia Video challenge. After winning, Griff created an alliance with Colin, Tyler, Kristine, Dawson and Jack, wanting to target Logan as he felt he was the biggest threat left in the game. This did not go anywhere, though it did lead to Logan proclaiming he had an idol and posting a pic of a random necklace in tribal council chat. With the target pushed onto Sarah due to no one trusting her, there was talk of splitting votes on Jack due to his idol, which caused Jack to make his own proclamation in tribal council chat, stating that he did not have an idol and it had all been a lie from Pyro. This left many confused, and all the votes were pushed onto Sarah to eliminate her 10-1.

At F10, Griff and Mason's rivalry had reached the point where one of them simply had to go, and given his issues with Griff over the course of the game, Colin was happy to vote him out after Dawson won immunity in Prisoner's Dilemma. Everyone else was too, except for Dawson, who tried to push a Jack vote to no avail. Griff was thus eliminated 8-1-1, and next came the F9 Sacrifices challenge. Colin declined the very first sacrifice, not wanting to change his pfp, and so did not come close to winning immunity. After Mason and Jmoney both accepted every sacrifice, there was a break in the challenge as the gods created a tiebreaker round. During this, Colin and Tyler quickly agreed that they should vote out whichever one of the two did not win immunity, as they would be an easy target due to not having a vote and not being able to speak in DMs or alliance chats.

After Jmoney won immunity at the cost of going to Hel until the end of the F8 cycle, this left Mason stranded and in danger. Colin and Tyler pounced on this, and everyone else quickly came on board, also feeling that this "easy vote" made the most sense, as it also broke up Mason's duo with Jmoney. Colin and Dawson decided to throw their votes on Jack just in case of an idol play, and Mason was eliminated 5-2.

Back at camp, the mortals were surprised with the locking of DMs and alliance chats for the whole F8 cycle, and were sent to the arena to compete in the live challenge Hnutukast. Tyler won, and the players then arrived at tribal council for their live tribal. Logan surprised everyone else by playing his Safety Without Power advantage on Kristine, sending her away from tribal, and Jmoney (still in Hel and unable to talk to anyone) submitted a vote for Colin, wanting to vote for someone he didn't have a noteworthy connection with as a lower-risk play.

At tribal council, Colin was the first person to bring up voting for Jmoney as another "easy vote", which Dawson, Aidan and Jack all said they would be fine with, and Colin duly submitted a vote for Jmoney. However, after Logan brought up Jack as another possibility, Tyler used this to throw Logan under the bus, stating that Mason had told him and Logan the previous cycle in tribe VC that Jmoney would likely vote for Dawson at F8, and that Logan and Aidan wanted to gun for Dawson. Rallying Dawson, Colin and Jack together to vote for Logan instead, Colin changed his vote to Logan, and Jack submitted one for him as well. Tribal dragged on, however, as Logan looked to save himself somehow.

During this time, as the players discussed the previous votes and different alliances, Colin began to realize that he'd been pretty out of the loop at times, and not included in some important alliances. Told that the general perception of him was that he was - in his own words - "Tyler's bitch", Colin became determined to try and break free from that perception after this tribal. While he did not change his vote, he did lose a lot of trust in Tyler, and now felt that he had to go soon. Near the end of tribal, as Colin was offline, Tyler and Dawson relented on their aim of voting out Logan that tribal, and with Logan and Aidan agreed to vote for Jmoney instead. The change happening quickly with neither Colin or Jack there, Jmoney was eliminated 4-2-1.

Stumbling back to camp, with Kristine wanting to know everything that had happened, there was so much to talk about that Colin and Kristine even DMed each other for the very first time (lol). Colin and Jack also began to form a stronger bond, with the mutual understanding that they would both have a much better shot of making it to the end if they worked together. Next was Touchy Subjects, where Colin was the majority answer for "Who was the funniest?", and he came extremely close to winning the challenge, but he lost on the tiebreaker to Tyler. With his primary target now unavailable, Colin was happy to vote out Logan along with everyone else, as he preferred to target him out over Kristine, who Logan tried to push for. Logan was thus eliminated 6-1.

Entering F6, the challenge for this crucial immunity was a gauntlet of previous challenges, but Colin dropped out of the challenge in the first section, stating that the noitcaeR lines gave him a headache. Kristine ended up winning, and she, Tyler and Dawson all wanted to vote out Jack. Colin was not on board with that, and he, Jack and Aidan all came together due to feeling like they would all be screwed if one of them was eliminated at this vote. Wanting to gun for Tyler as he was a massive threat and they felt this could be their last good chance of getting him out, they tried to flip both Dawson and Kristine. Dawson was clearly a no-go, and while Aidan felt he had been able to convince Kristine, she ended up voting for Jack as planned. All three of them giving their words that they were willing to go to rocks for each other, with Colin and Jack having already made an FTC pact with each other. Colin, Jack and Aidan all voted for Tyler, causing a 3-3 tie.

Immediately after the revote began, Colin locked his in for Tyler, proclaiming that he was happy to go to rocks. Aidan and Dawson both tried hard to get the other to flip, which culminated in Aidan pitching an F3 of himself, Kristine and Dawson in front of everyone, saying that everything he'd promised Colin and Jack had been a lie that he would go back on if they flipped on Tyler. In the end, with Kristine torn and Dawson worried about risking his game on rocks, they decided to turn on Tyler, eliminating him 3-1 on the revote (Kristine did not want to change her parchment).

After that riveting tribal, Aidan quickly went to Colin and Jack to reassure them that everything he'd said in that tribal had just been to get Kristine and Dawson to flip, and that he was still in with them to the end (though this was a lie). Initially, it looked like Colin and Jack were happy to trust him, and after Jack won immunity in Season Trivia it looked like Colin would be eliminated 3-2. Initial talks between Colin/Jack and Kristine/Dawson about maybe working together did not go anywhere, and all that remained was the trio of Colin, Jack and Aidan to decide on a target to vote for.

That decision took much longer than anticipated, as the fear over one of the other two having an idol (with not a single one being played all season) paralyzed their decision-making, and it took until the following morning for them to finally decide on Dawson as their name, with Jack submitting his vote and Aidan also submitting his, but for Colin instead of Jack (Kristine and Dawson had submitted much earlier for Colin). But all this time had given everyone plenty of time to think about the potential of Aidan screwing them over, which caused Dawson and Colin to come together again to discuss their options, this time actually leading to results. With the knowledge that Aidan had all the power in this situation laid out, and Dawson revealing information he wouldn't have known unless Aidan told him, Colin decided that Aidan had to go right then and there, looping in Jack to get him on board. The actual switching of the votes happened extremely quickly, as Jack and Dawson switched mere seconds before Colin submitted his vote to lock them, and Aidan was eliminated 3-2 with Kristine not changing hers.

This left two strong duos at F4, though Kristine and Dawson did not know that Colin and Jack were as tight as they were. The final immunity challenge was asterisks, and Colin and Dawson both bowed out mere minutes in, while Kristine and Jack battled for over five hours. Kristine eventually triumphed, and as she and Dawson saw Jack as a bigger FTC threat than Colin, they voted for him. Colin, having promised Jack that they'd send each other to firemaking if needed, voted for Dawson with him, and so as his place at FTC was secured, he watched Dawson triumph in firemaking over Jack, sending his top ally to the jury.

At FTC, Colin argued that he had played a strong UTR game, rising to the surface after the live tribal to exercise more control over the endgame. However, he did not have many fans on the jury, and most of the jurors dismissed his game as riding coattails until close to the end. Very frustrated with how FTC played out, he officially "surrendered" before all the votes were in, acknowledging that he had no chance of winning. He did get a vote from Jack, but that was it as he finished 3rd in the 7-2-1 FTC vote that crowned Kristine as the winner.

## Season 1 Character Ranking

***3: Colin (3rd)***

*I don't care what you say about the guy, he's hilarious! Colin was a hard player who always meant well, and even though he had some aggressive gameplay at times he was always nice to everyone and I respect that a ton. Colin would always bring up the funniest jokes in serious scenarios such as the live tribals and challenges. His back and forth rivalry with Fenrir the good dog alongside him doing the most ridiculously funny things such as pinging valhalla for jokes or pinging the gods to let us know he got laid, he was a full on personality. He'd post memes, he'd post singing videos, and he'd just always have the funniest one liners. Colin was an incredibly likable guy who also proved to have a surprising ton of game in him towards the end, and seeing him pull the white flag during ftc made a lot of people feel for him.*

## Trivia

* One of two people in S1 whose character rankings placement matched their in-game placement (3rd), along with Bella (16th)
* The only player in Trevivor history to receive more counted votes premerge (4) than postmerge (3)
	+ If you include all votes cast, then he is joined by Tanner in S3 (2 premerge and 0 postmerge)
* Part of both revotes on the season along with Jack and Tyler, those three are the only players in Trevivor history to be part of multiple revotes
	+ In addition, Colin and Jack are the only two players to have survived multiple revotes, and Colin is the only player to have been on the "right side" of multiple revotes
* Tied with Xavier in S3 for the highest placement in any season of anyone who never won individual immunity
* Was listed as a contender on edgic for the first time in Episode 14, the latest first appearance in any season