Final 2 - The Duel

You are wrong about me too.

Here are my guesses.

Those I'm reasonably sure about (which will make this more embarrassing if I'm wrong):

Queen Narissa - Misty
Boo - Pete? I could be totally wrong, but this should explain why I kept accidentally referring to Boo with masculine pronouns
Woody - Turner, but different people trying to seem like Turner have crossed my mind
Elsa - Emer

Those I'm sure to embarrass myself with:

Lady Tremaine - at different times I've thought John or Daniel, but Tom in incognito has also crossed my mind
Scott - at first I thought Rob, except he was active, so he couldn't be Rob.
Olaf - Duckbear??? Mets incognito has also crossed my mind
Pocahontas - Angel?????
Mulan - I thought Rachael until she was evicted, and now I have no clue.
John Smith - no idea
Kaa - no idea
Hopper - no idea
Gaston - my initial thought, and my longest impression, was DJMykee. More recently at different times, I've thought Justin, Tom incognito, Sam doing a great job of playing as a guy... I'm so confused.

Woody wrote:

You are wrong about me too.

Once again, I never said I was correct about you.

Lady - Mas bond? Quiet, mysterious. That's my final guess on that one.

Those guesses were very laugh worthy! thank you for the smile this morning, gentlemen.

Where are our hosts? Can we vote now?

LOL

Great final two I feel. Great job.

Dodger you were a challenge threat. But a fun ally.

Gaston you were up twice and made it here. Great work.

Thanks Elsa! Being on the block three times wasn't easy, but I always knew I'd make it through.

But??? Kidding. Thank you, Elsa. I appreciate it.

Guys, start wrapping it up. If you have any more burning questions, go ahead but voting will open tomorrow.

Omg I LOVEEEEEEEE this final 2!!!! Congratulations to you both!!! I am so sorry for missing all of the final moments of this game, but I've supported these two since the beginning so yay!!

Great season! You ALL did wonderful and hopefully had fun

I am going to stay away from things burning...myself and fire do not mix unless we are talking firemen then I am in.

Are there no more questions?

Gretal! Hey beautiful! Thanks so much! Marry me!!

I appreciate the questions and comments so far, but I think Gaston and I would both like more questions. So if anyone has them, please ask. Thank you to everyone so far - it's truly appreciated.

Gretmel. <3

Gaston what role did you have in my eviction?

Dodger did using the veto on me put are target on both of us?

Thanks Woody! Great question. I will answer this in a bit.

Hey, Woody! Thanks for the question! I told you I'd explain to you what happened at the end of the game...

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Dodger did using the veto on me put are target on both of us?

Yes, definitely. The first 2 veto winners kept the nominations the same, and everyone had been nominating people they saw as inactive. HOH #3 changed all of that, and me saving you raised a lot of eyebrows (see: Boo's comment and that whole fiasco).

It was a difficult decision, because I had just started talking to Gaston and didn't want to lose his trust so early, so I did talk to him about it. In some ways, maybe I shouldn't have used it - the odds are you would've stayed over Hopper. But if I didn't, even if you were safe, I could never expect you to trust me.

It definitely piqued the interest of Mulan, Pocahontas, and Boo. And whatever happened between you, Mulan, and Boo - Mulan is the only person who PM'd me to tell me about it, and only after I won HOH - further compounded it. I saved you with the POV, so you become a secondary target, and it would seem I was already the primary target. It was also the first time in the game that someone saved someone else, which looked suspicious. I knew it would, which is part of why I was reluctant to use the POV and took so long to make my decision (and why Gaston and I created a whole staged deal when he saved me, and why I started talking to Mulan more - to save ourselves from that). I wasn't trying to put a target on you, or on myself, at that point. But it happened, all the same.

Thankfully for me, others - Mulan included - had made a big deal about it, and used it as justification to target the person I saved (you), so I was able to flip that when it came time for Mulan to save Pocahontas, and use the same reasoning - that they had already established - to out them and at least one of their alliances. Unfortunately, you were evicted.

I don't think you were the primary target, and based on hearsay, originating with Pocahontas (and Pocahontas and Mulan both saying "people" saw me as a threat), the goal that HOH was to evict me. Mulan did mention you to me, and I hoped you had a close enough relationship with her that she wouldn't nominate you - even once you were nominated, you told me you thought they'd campaign to save you. I was PM'ing everyone, subtly suggesting they vote to save you, until Lady Tremaine called me out and said I was the only person she heard from suggesting Olaf (sorry, Olaf!). That's when I realized you'd be evicted; Mulan had already more or less told me why she nominated you, and Gaston had already told me Pocahontas said pretty much the same (that I was seen as a threat, and you were seen as being close to me).

So, yes. Strange as it sounds, me saving you is a big part of what made you a target and led to your eviction. I tried to win that HOH, and came close (the infamous false-win announcement), but failed. And from that series of events, you were nominated and evicted.

I've heard rumors that for Mulan's HOH win, she got her answers from someone else. I'm curious to definitively figure out what happened there. That's still one blindspot for me, and might have something to do with your eviction. I have my suspicions, but I don't know for sure.

I guess I'll ask, which one of you two wanted me gone more and why?

I've loved reading all the questions and comments. This is a great final two.

Gaston what lies did you tell mulan to put me up? I talked to mulan just as much as dodger and I know she wasn't planning on putting me up.

I'm Dodger. Why vote me out? You said it was me voting Olaf but if that was fake why use that excuse? Also my vote wouldn't change it. Also we would of been the only two boring that round so Mulan would of went.

Ok Dodger *.

Hi, Pocahontas! Hey, I'm replying now.

Pocahontas wrote:

I guess I'll ask, which one of you two wanted me gone more and why?

I'm not entirely sure who wanted you gone more. I wanted you gone earlier, but no necessarily more.

There was an interesting parallel between you in this game, and someone in another game I've played. I'm not saying you're the same person, but it did force an association in my mind which may have clouded my judgment (but the clouded judgment paid off). Gaston is the only person who I really heard mention you, at least until I nominated you. Even once I figured out who talked TO you a lot, people very casually seemed to never really talk about you. People would talk about Mulan, but not you. Mulan herself became another exception once I nominated you, and I mentioned to her a bit of what I'd heard, to see who it would get back to, but for the most part she deflected attention from you, until she actually saved you.

Gaston mentioned that you were "BACK AT IT AGAIN talking" me, and mentioned you were upset about him taking me off the block, and - despite the deal he and I made - he seemed more concerned about you being upset than about Mulan being upset. I assume he would've saved me with the POV regardless, but it was obviously something he was weighing in his mind, about how to balance everything. And, despite Mulan nominating me, he seemed to be considering you just as much.

Initially, while you weren't one of the people I talked to most in the game, you definitely weren't one of the people I talked to the least, either. But you'd always say we didn't really talk. There could have been any number of reasons for that, of course. It could've been you truly just trying to talk, or you using me as a back-up to set someone else up, or you trying to set me up. Based on what I heard about me being your target, and the implicit suggestion of you saying we didn't really talk (meaning, you talked to others significantly more), I assumed the latter. There was a brief period when I was having fun with it - I think I wrote you a few moderately long messages, that I hoped would seem fairly transparent, and you would usually respond with a short line or two or text. For that brief period, it became a game to me - how long could I make my messages to you, and how short would be the messages I got back. <3 Sorry. Curiously, though I did talk to you more than some when you first said that, you saying that was one of the main reasons I began talking to everyone else more, and you truly did become the person I talked to the least.

I mentioned you to a few people, trying to probe, and - aside from Gaston and eventually Mulan, though Lady Tremaine and Narissa both mentioned you as part of the alliance - I never really heard much about you, but I did know you talked to people a fair amount. And in Big Brother, everyone mentions everyone, so when someone is rarely being mentioned, it becomes suspicious. Which kind of suggested you were a huge, hidden social threat, and one who I knew - initially thanks to Gaston - was directly targeting me. At least from HOH #4 onward, you were my main target. Lady, Queen, and especially Mulan became - at different points - secondary targets, but I also tried to maintain better relationships with them, as a way to indirectly get to you, and in Mulan's case, to see what would boomerang back to Gaston. I also mentioned you to others, just to fish for responses, but never really got what I was looking for. Everyone had to know you were my primary target, but it didn't seem like I quite had the support I wanted. Which explains the convoluted plan when I nominated you, to call out you and Mulan in front of *what I hoped* was your alliance. Mulan seemed to explicitly have everyone's trust, but something about your place in that was more eerie.

Eventually, I completely stopped talking to you - BECAUSE you were my primary target, and because I had connected the dots well enough to figure things out via other people. With nominating you, and Mulan saving you with the POV, I think I kind of called peoples' hands - enough people finally mentioned you, and I thought I might have the support. Talking to you more, because of my suspicions you were such a great social player, seemed like too much of a risk - if I slipped up once with you, I could undo all of the work I had done. I could have explicitly lied to you about everything in an attempt to deflect, but then I'd have to message everyone, "by the way, I told Pocahontas x, y, and z, and this is why I did it" so they'd know my rationale for saying what I did, in case some mutated version got back to them, and... It just sounded like too much of a mess, and too much of a risk.

So, you were my #1 target from the moment I heard I was your target, and you became an even bigger target to me in each stage of that process. Whether or not I wanted you out MORE than Gaston did, I don't know. Maybe not. But I did want you gone sooner, and it took a lot of work to make that a real possibility.

Thank you so much for the question! Crazy as it sounds, because I guess we really didn't talk, that situation with you - over a few rounds - really shaped my game, and I think ultimately solidified Gaston and me, albeit our eyebrows may have been raised for different reasons.