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its time for the

OK SO. II3 FINALISTS, WE HAVE BALLOON who i wholeheartedly despise but ill look into for the purpose of fairness, CABBY WHO I SOMEWHAT LIKE (late s3 cabby is <3), AND SILVER WHO IS A BRAT BUT I LOVE HIM :DDD

LETS START WITH SILVER. HES BEEN KINDAAAA....IDK HOW TO EXPLAIN IT, SPOILED? CONCEITED? BRATTY? THAT KIND FROM THE START. AND WE HAVE SEEN HE CAN MAKE SMARTER PLAYS, ALTHOUGH HE TENDS TO THINK HES WON THE GAME EVEN IF HE HASNT REACHED HOME BASE, IF THAT MAEKS SENSE. 

LIKE FOR EXAMPLE WITH THE WHOLE TACTIC OF GETTING EVERYONE TO VOTE FOR YINYANG BASED ON THE VIEWER VOTE INFO, KNOWING HED BE IMMUNE, THEN GETTING RID OF OJ AS TO MAKE SURE THE PREVIOUS WINNER WOULDNT JUST RINSE, REPEAT, AND TAKE THE 'CROWN', THAT WAS SMART AF!!! THOUGH HE WAS TOO FOCUSED ON VOICING HIS TACTIC, AND HOW HE WAS SO PROUD OF HIMSMELF, THAT HE ENDED UP MAKING PEOPLE JUST LIKE HIM LESS DUE TO NOT ORIGINALLY EVEN WANTING TO LET OJ TALK

AND I FEEL LIKE HES HAD 1 TOO MANY CHANCES, LIKE HES ONLY BEEN A GOOD TEAMMATE ONCE EVERY FULL MOON, AND WHENEVER HE DOES DO A GOOD PLAY, USUALLY THATS AT THE SAKE OF SOMEONE ELSE!!! NOT TO MENTION HES PRETENDED LIKE HES CHANGED A COUPLE OF TIMES, BUT THEN CONTINUED PLAYING ALONE DESPITE THE TEAMS. ITS RLLY SURPRISING TO ME THAT HE HASN'T ALREADY BEEN VOTED OUT, LIKE HES SUCH AN ASSHOLE???

SO IMO, SILVERS TACTICS CAN BE PRAISABLE!!! A GOOD CHUNK OF THEM WERE ACTUALLY SMART AF was he a private school kid!/!!?!?1 /hj BUT UHH HE DEFINITELY DESERVED TO BE VOTED OUT A BIT EARLIER

LIKE MAYBE, concept!!! HE COULDVE COME UP WITH ANOTHER TACTIC WITH SOMENE ELSE TO GET SOMEONE OUT, BUT THAT OTHER PERSON MAKES AN ALLIANCE WITH EVERYONE ELSE AND BETRAYS SILVER, AND SILVER WOULD PROBABLY BE A LITTLE SURPRISED AND PISSED OFF THAT SMEONE WOULD DARE BETRAY HIM, istg hes the type to overdramatically yell 'THIS ISNT OVER!' BUT YEA

sorry that was a side rant BUT BASICALLY, IMO, SILVERS EFFORTS SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED!!! A LOT OF THEM WERENT EXACTLY....GOOD EFFORTS, TBH, BUT STILL! HOWEVER, I DONT THINK HE SHOULD WIN, BC IMO HE HASNT REALLY DEVELLOPED MUCH, YES HE HAD THAT THING WITH CANDLE AND HIS INNER FLAME, BUT HE HASNT CHANGED MUCH FROM BEING A CONCEITED ASSHOLE

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NOW BALLOON. god i hate him im sorry rahhh he sounds like mickey mouse

...EDIT ATLEAST LIKE AN HOUR LATER: I LIKE HIM.

ID LIKE TO MENTION BEFORE THIS, I DIDNT WATCH MUCH OF S1, I DID WATCH S2 AND S3 AND BASED ON CONTEXT CLUES, I THINK BALLOON THOUGHT YOU HAD TO PLAY SOMEONE YOU ARENT JUST TO WIN? AND IN S2 HE DID TRY TO CHANGE!! IT JUST WASNT RLLY ENOUGH FOR HIM TO STAY UNFORTUNATELY

BALLOONS INSECURITY IN S2 WAS A GOOD CHARACTER POINT TO DEVELOP OFF OF :3 I LOVED HIS SLIGHT DEVELOPMENT INTO SLOWLY BECOMING MORE CONFIDENT AND EVEN IN THE MAZE AFTER HE LASHED OUT AT NICKEL, HE STILL STRUGGLED WITH THAT CONFIDENCE!! IN S2 HE KINDA SEEMED TO GO OFF OF THE IDEA THAT "YOU NEED TO LEARN TO BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU SAY, OR NOBODY ELSE WILL" (oj quote i think) AND HONESTLY WITH HIM STRUGGLING TO HAMMER THAT BELIEF IN HIMSELF COMPLETELY, IT REMINDS ME OF MYSELF??

SIDE RANT slight vent SORRY: I LOVE THE QUOTE "YOU SHOULD LIKE YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU EXIST" FROM BISTRO HUDDY'S NICOLE yes im sorry im quoting fucking bistro huddy AND THAT QUOTE'S UNDERTONES/SURROUNDING LINES IN THE VID IS MAINLY ABT HOW U SHOULDNT LIKE URSELF BC OF HOW U TREAT OTHER PEOPLE OR HOW OTHER PEOPLE SEE U, JUST LIKE URSELF BC UR A PERSON, AND I WANT TO FOLLOW THAT QUOTE, HOWEVER I STRUGGLE TO DO SO BC IM CONSTANTLY SWITCHING BETWEEN NOT GIVING A SHIT ABT WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME, AND BEING HYPERAWARE OF HOW PEOPLE SEE ME, LIKE I CANT HAMMER THAT QUOTE IN!!! I FEEL LIKE BALLOON HAS A SIMILAR ISSUE TBH

IN S2, BALLOON DIDNT RLLY DEFEND HIMSELF AS MUCH, BUT THEN AGAIN HE SEEMED A LOT LESS SECURE WITH HIMSELF SINCE HIS ACTIONS IN S1 MADE PEOPLE NOT LIKE HIM, WHICH HE WAS VERY AWARE OF AND TRYING TO FIX!!!

now s3. ueheehehe

I FEEL LIKE FINALLY WANTED TO TRY AND FIX THINGS WITH NICKEL, TBH TRYING TO PUSH INTO NICKELS ALLIANCE LAST SEASON WITHOUT FULLY STANDING UP FOR HIMSELF AND MAKING THINGS WORSE WAS A BAD PLAY THAT EVENTUALLY GOT HIM OUT, SO IN S3 I CAN SEE HOW HE TRIED TO WORK WITH NICKEL TO SORT CRAP OUT, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY WERE ON THE SAME TEAM AND IT WAS BENEFICIAL FOR THEM BOTH :3 OFC THEY WERENT PERFECT EARLY S3, BUT DEFINITELY BETTER1!!

HE DFINITELY STARTED TO SEEM A BIT MORE CONFIDENT IN S3, MAYBE JUST ME, BUT HE SEEMED TO HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF HIMSELF AND HOW HE WANTED TO PLAY, HELL IT MIGHTVE BEEN A LITTLE IFFY TO PLAY FULLY AROUND NICKEL EARLY S3, BUT AT LEAST IT WAS WORKING A BIT!! SURE HE WASNT FULLY PERFECT, BUT DEF BETTER IMO :3

BALLOON DID HAVE A BIT OF A BACKBONE, BUILDING OPINIONS ON PEOPLE WITHOUT FEELING THE NEED TO GO BACK AND THINK IF HE WAS THE ISSUE, WHICH TBH, HE WASNT!! HWEVER UNTIL S3 E 13(?) HE DIDNT RLLY VOICE THE ISSUES WITH THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES UNTIL S3 E13S VOTE

OFC HEARING THAT NICKEL DIDNT TRUST HIM AFTER ALL OF THE TIME THEYD SPENT TEAMING UP IN A WAY, KINDA HURT!! LIKE IN THIS I FEEL LIKE NOBODYS IN THE WRONG, OFC I CANT FULLY ANALYSE THIS BC I DIDNT WATCH S1, BUT IF BALLOON WAS AS BAD AS PEOPLE IN S2 MADE HIM SOUND, THEN ITS UNDERSTANDABLE NICKEL WOULDNT TRUST HIM, AND AS MENTIONED, BALLOON TRYING TO JOIN NICKEL WITHOUT ACTUALLY COMPLETELY ADDRESSING HIS ISSUES MADE IT WORSE, HOWEVER BALLOON IN S2 AND S3 DID SHOW GENUINE REMORSE AND HE DEFINITELY WANTED TO WORK WITH NICKEL AND IMO, SAW HIM AS A FRIEND im starting to understand nickloon shippers help AND I FEEL LIKE BALLOON DID DO EXTREMELY WELL AT TRYING TO PATCH SHIT UP WITH NICKEL, BUT AS I SAID NOBODYS RLLY IN THE WRONG HERE, ITS JUST ISSUES WITH BOTH OF THEM THAT MAKE THE THING BETWEEN THEM CONSTANTLY FALL APART

BEING FORCED TOGETHER IN S3 E14 DEFINITEY WAS A GOOD WAY TO GET THEM TO TALK STUFF OUT, EVEN IF BALLOON REAAAALY DIDNT WANT TO, IT WAS KINDA LIKE THE ROLES WERE REVERSED IN A WAY? LIKE ORIGINALLY BALLOON WAS TRYING TO PATCH SHIT UP WITH NICKEL, BUT HERE NICKELS TRYING TO PATCH SHIT UP WITH BALLOON!!!! ALSO, I DO SOMEWHAT LIKE HOW SINCE NICKEL COULDNT LET GO OF BALLOONS PAST, BALLOON IN HERE WASNT LETTING GO OF NICKELS PAST!!! IM GLAD THEY SOMEWHAT OFFICIALLY BROKE SHIT BETWEEN THEM BC I FELT LIKE IT WAS KINDA COMING IN A WAY LOOKING BACK?? LIKE WHEN I FIRST WATCHED THROUGH THE SERIES I WAS CONFUSED AF, BUT LOOKING BACK, WITH THEIR PASTS, I CAN UNDERSTAND IT AND SEE IT WAS A LITTLE OVERDUE TBH also i misstyped pasts as pasta now i rlly want noodles for fucks sake

I GOT MY NOODLES :3

iT WAS KINDA UNFAIR TO BOT WHO GOT OUT, LIKE THEY DIDNT DESERVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES BC NICKEL AND BALLOON COULDNT SORT SHIT OUT FOR JUST ONE NIGHT, HOWEVER TBH IT WAS A 2/3 CHANCE THAT BALLOON OR NICKEL WOULD GET OUT, BUT IT WAS UNLUCKY, UNFORTUNATELY AND BOT ENDED UP OUT :,3

NEXT PART OF NOTE, THE GREAT BLUISH BAKEOFF!!!! IM GLAD BALLOON FINALLY ASKED NICKEL ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOUR SINCE HE THOUGHT NICKEL TRUSTED HIM EARLIER WHEN NICKEL ACTUALLY DIDNT!! NICKELS REASONING IS UNDERSTANDABLE, AND HEY, HES FINALLY TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY WHILE NOT COMPLETELY BLAMING HIMSELF FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS SLIGHTLY CAUSED BY BALLOON TOO! :3 I ALSO LIKE THE COMMENTS BALLOON MADE ABOUT LEAVING THE OLD SELF BEHIND AND TRYING TO DO THAT TOGETHER WITH NICKEL BC LIKE, BALLOONS BEEN TRYING TO LEAVE BEHIND HIS OLD S1 PERSONALITY AND ALSO GAIN CONFIDENCE SINCE S2, AND NOW NICKELS TRYING TO LEAVE BEHIND THAT DISTRUST AND HOSTILITY THAT WAS DIRECTED TOWARDS BALLOON!! :3 

IN THE SHOW MUST GO ON, IM GLAD NICKEL AND BALLOON HAD A CONNECTION THAT LET THEM TEAM UP AND CHOOSE SOMETHING ACTUALLY GOOD!!! BC YES, IT PROBABLY WOULD BE NICE FOR THEM TO GET TO THE FINAL 3 TOGETHER, BUT HEY, THAT PROBABLY WASN'T HAPPENING EITHER WAY, IF THEY DID TEAM UP OR NOT, SO YEA :,3 IM HAPPY THEY PRETTY MUCH PATCHED THEIR RELATIONSHIP UP :3 

IN THE FINALE, THE WHOLE POETIC BIT WAS A BIT OVER THE TOP IMO, BUT HEY, ITS HIM :333 AND I SEE WHAT HE MEANT BY THE 3 DIFFERENT PARTS OF HIMSLEF

S1, WHERE HE DIDNT FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO PLAY WELL, AND OVERFAKED HIMSELF, WHICH BACKFIRED ON HIM

S2, WHERE HE WASN'T FULLY CONFIDENT IMO AND KINDA CONSTANTLY JUST TRIED TO BE SORRY FOR S1S EVENTS, AND KINDA GOOD ENOUGH TO NICKEL SO HE COULD JOIN HIM, SUITCASE, AND BASEBALL EVEN IF IT CAME AT THE COST OF HIMSELF GETTING VOTED OUT

AND NOW WE HAVE S3, WHERE HE CAN PRETTY MUCH FUNCTION WELL ON HIS OWN! AND BE HIMSELF (mostly)

FINALLY, SUMMARY TIME.

BALLOON HAS DEFINITELY SPENT THE MOST TIME IN THE COMPETITION, AND HAD THE MOST EXPERIENCE. NO, THAT DOESNT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN HE SHOULD WIN, HOWEVER HIS PROGRESSION BETWEEN S2 AND S3 HAS BEEN GREAT! HES DEFINITELY PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO LEAVING S1 BEHIND, HELL IN S2, EVEN DOING THAT AND TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WITH SUITCASE LED HIM RIGHT BACK INTO ISSUES WITH S1 DUE TO NICKELS TRUST ISSUES. IN S3 ESPECIALLY, HES MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS INTO BECOMING FRIENDS WITH NICKEL, EVEN WITH THEIR ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS, I REALLY THINK THEY ARE ON THE TRACK TO BEING ABLE TO FIX THEIR OWN ISSUES AND LEAVE THEIR PAST SELVES AND PAST ISSUES BEHIND!

IMO, BALLOON DOES SOMEWHAT DESERVE THE WIN. HIM AND NICKEL HAVE HAD A GIIIIAAAANT ROLLERCOASTER OF A JOURNEY, BUT SEEING HOW BALLOON HAS PRETTY MUCH LEFT S1 BEHIND HIM AND TAKEN NICKEL WITH HIM, DESPITE IT BEING A very. very long track TO GET THERE. IN TERMS OF GAMEPLAY, BALLOON HAS BEEN...DECENT. THERES BEEN SOME SMARTER MOVES, BUT HEY, OTHER THAN SOME SMALL BITS, BALLOONS GAMEPLAY WASN'T BAD! HES DEFINITELY HAD A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS WHY I FEEL LIKE ID BE FINE WITH HIM WINNING :3

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ill add cabbys bit later IVE HAD THIS TAB OPEN FOR 2 DAYS STRAIGHT IM SCARED MY LAPTOPS GONNA CRASH AND ILL LOSE MY PROGRESS SOOOO :,3

cabbster time

OK so EARLY IN S3, CABBY WAS CONFIDENT AS HELL, SHE SEEMED HAPPY LOOKING INTO HER FILES WHILE ALSO PROTECTIVE OF THEM AND DIDNT RLLY FREAK OUT WHEN (according to her files) PEOPLE (silver) ACTED OUT OF CHARACTER, SHE ALSO SEEMED TO WANT A MORE LEADERLY ROLE WHILE NOT BEING BOSSY, WHICH SHE EASILY TOOK THAT ROLE. CABBY WAS A GOOD PLAYER, GOOD AT KEEPING PEOPLE ON HER SIDE AND GOOD AT TRYING TO PICK OFF PEOPLE WHO COULD BE A THREAT TO HER GAME!!!