Who's your faves right now? Who are you most excited to get back with
Weirdly, Penelope is now my favourite by a country mile. When we got swapped together here she opened up a lot and I think we've got a pretty strong bond from being the two 12ths who have been together all game, especially since 12 got wiped on SVU. She's involved in everything I'm involved in at this point, which is probably a bad thing, but it's something I'm fine with right now because she's doing serious work on getting people on board with things. I've pretty unanimously heard from the SVU peeps "We all thought she'd be an easy boot but she's actually great to talk to!". And if them liking her means they don't vote for me either I'm very good with that
After that, Poirot, but in a very different way. Penelope is someone I like working with, Poirot is someone I like talking to - his gimmick is actually the best thing in the world, and we connect on the essay-writing message style front - but I feel like his sheer charisma combined with the fact that I'm one of the last people to meet him makes him a bad option for a close ally. I doubt I could get to a position where I'm his #1, *but* I do want to see him make it deep because a) I really enjoy talking to him and b) he's probably the biggest shield in the game.
Lucifer is someone I don't talk much to, but trust implicitly. Almost *because* I don't talk much to him. He's straightforward, nobody seems very sold on him (even his former tribemates), and that means that when he's committing to something he probably really means it because clearly he's not done that much to other people. He's shared his view of the 99th tribe dynamics with me (Judy-him-Poirot-Grouch-Cheddar alliance with a Judy-Poirot-Cheddar core that's clearly split up a bit since SVU) and I feel like he's all in with me to some extent. I really want to go a long way with him, *but* he's also seen as the easy target by others, which means I may have to make the decision of whether or not to stick out my neck to save him.
I don't want to go home at my first TC. So I might have to let him go.
Jake, I feel like I have a decent relationship with but he's very clearly first and foremost about aligning with his OG tribe. It's weird how honest he is about that. I don't trust that I'm anywhere near being his #1 but I do think he wants to work with me at least for the time being. He's still a big social threat too in my eyes, but less so than he used to be because he keeps disappearing for ages.
Judy is straightforward about everything and kinda forceful sometimes too. It's... hard to talk through, but it's something I like in a sense because I at least know she's probably being honest about where her head is at. She can be kind of obnoxious at times too though (see, insistence on the 3v3 in that one challenge despite forcing Quentin to be awake at 2am for it) and I think that's going to make her unpopular.
Lennie is probably the person I trust least and like least. We've had decent conversation, but it's clear he doesn't think I'm messaging enough, and I don't feel like I have any real strategic connection to him either. I'm loosely connected through Jake, buuuut, very very tenuously and I think I'm almost relying on Jake to get Lennie not to try to target me here.