HeaLnDeaL
Let's Keep Fighting
I didn't have control over Blazade, and I said I had to eliminate him because he was someone who I couldn't manipulate... but the game and the numbers built up a wall around Blazade that didn't give him room to operate (he was stuck between a rock and a hard place, I was in an open valley with space to move and I took advantage of this). Viper's elimination also wasn't because I had total control over him and more of because he went rogue at the end and asked for Flyhn to vote for him if/after he beat Flyhn in the tiebreaker and made it to Final Tribal Council; viper can tell you all he wants that he wished to throw ftc, but he told me at other times he didn't want to throw ftc and asking for a vote doesn't look like you want to throw. And to be honest I also really didn't want to give viper or Flyhn the chance to say that winning a tiebreaker was a move they pulled off. In the end, based on the logs that viper gave me with Flyhn's response to his vote question, Flyhn actually looked more honest to me as a result of viper's comparatively sneaky vote grabbing since it sounded like he genuinely wanted Flyhn's vote at ftc. So yeah, if you want to say I had made Flyhn so smitten with me that he'd still take me to the end even if I voted out DLE, Jalmont, and Blazade then yeah that's true as well. In his mind, he had no other options than to stay loyal to me, and Animus who didn't talk to barely anyone in the game was forced to listen to me and to trust my judgement since unlike him I had been in the game and actually talking to people and figuring out moves. Flyhn and Animus were my friends but I was able to exercise control over them, largely in part because of those friendships and I definitely did that to get to this point in the game. They were my pawns, pawns that I talked to about life and had genuine connections with but my pawns nonetheless.Adding on to that, you are quick to label things such as Blazade and Viper’s elimination as “masterminded moves caused by my manipulation and control that I had over them” which is arguably not really the case, yet you refuse to acknowledge your actual manipulation in this game, that being, completely controlling and manipulating Flyhn and Animus (I already went over this in my post). You have a tendency to slap labels on certain moves and relationships, hoping that we will see everything from your eyes. Like I said, we aren’t blind. We see and know everything that has happened in the game. Acknowledge the game you actually played instead of the game you WANT us to believe you played. We’re 100% willing to give you the credit that you deserve but we aren’t just going to hand it to you, you have to tell us why you deserve that credit. It’s the whole point of this last tribal.
At the end, my game excelled not over manipulation of all people, but manipulation of the field if you even want to call it that; lessening of other people's options or even just seeing when other people's option were lessened and planning accordingly and comparatively letting my options stay open, allowing space to work between two groups. Getting 6 immunity wins, with help from allies throwing some matches along the way, served the goal of making all of my options open, letting me target who I wanted while ensuring I couldn't be targeted. Blazade's options, as he said in this thread, were cut of, boxed in, limited while my options were kept open thanks to my many allies/half-allies and I was able to control the numbers, control my safety, and get out who I wanted when I wanted them out (minus the PD vote and minus the timing of the DLE vote even if I did want him out eventually). Getting Flyhn on my side, and not Whydon's side, obviously was a big part of letting this chain start and having Animus as my loyal ally while everyone in the game thought he was closer to Viper than me was something I planned and exploited. Yeah, people knew I was close to both Viper and Animus, but Flyhn certainly didn't know Animus was closer to me than viper and it sounds like a lot of the members of the jury found that out as well based on the events of this final tribal council (and someone even asked such a question to Animus earlier in ftc).
Even Jalmont's list of Flyhn's "moves" actually mostly comes down to Flyhn sitting and not doing a whole lot of anything, just him dealing with circumstances that were dealt with him and him being on the bottom end of a totem pole. My moves in the game however were aimed at making it so that I could deal with and create my own circumstances, something that Flyhn and Animus didn't do nearly enough of. I think it's the easier path to sit at the the bottom of the totem poll and hope to make it to the end by not being a threat than deciding to make moves, earn a target, but persevere to the end by controlling other people despite that target.
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