Suzy Bishop

[Brendan]

Ms. Bishop, it was a pleasure to watch you play. You were the queen of always being in the middle but now, in an unexpected turn of events, you find yourself on the outside.

You have a lot to be proud of. Welcome to the Jury.

[Suzy Bishop]

I fucking hate Richie. Friendship over.

[Young Writer]

What even just happened

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Suzy nooooooooo...

[Suzy Bishop]

I'm sorry to see you all here! I also want to apologize to like everyone here lol. I don't know if everyone is upset at me.

I think Richie was really mad at me from the Margot vote. I had no idea he had an idol and I guess he decided to idol me out. I'm not upset that he voted me out because I do feel like I would have had a good shot against him BUT I am so so upset because he always made this big show of how we were so close and I was his closest friend. I even gave him an out on our friendship after the Margot vote but he said he still wanted to go to the end with me. I actually kind of cried a little because although he had lied to me multiple times, I still thought we had something deeply special. I just feel really crushed by him. I know some of you feel crushed by me.

I'm going to post more on your thread, Young Writer, because I did you dirty and I'm sorry as well.

[Buckley]

Hello Suzy! Sorry we didn't talk much - you were my biggest 'enigma' if you will, and I'm a bit sad to be learning about your game here instead of at FTC.

I got the same sort of vibe from Richie tbh? Like, he made an alliance with me and Royal, and he sort of insisted that we were super close, but... I don't think I gave him anything that would make him actually feel close to me, I guess. So it felt fake when he said we were close, even though I liked him aside from that.

Time to read your other stuff!

[Duke]

He also made an alliance with me and Royal, haha. Which was how I found out everything had been leaked in the round Herman went home.

[Suzy Bishop]

Hey Buckley!

I’m sad that I never got to know you well! Tbh I was feeling kind of overwhelmed by how many relationships I was juggling and did not know if I could add another one. I think an earlier swap would have changed a lot of that.

I don’t doubt Richie was doing all this stuff without me knowing. He offered me an F2 quite early in the game and I feel we really bonded on a genuine level, which is why his betrayal hurts me more than I expected. I never trusted him wholeheartedly, he kind of has snake oil peddler vibes tbh, but I thought what we had was real. I was worried about people knowing we were close so I went through painstaking measures to publicly distance myself from him. I think because I didn’t trust him fully, I also leaned hard into my other relationship with Oracle. I didn’t want Richie to have too much power at any given point — which is why I flipped during Writer’s vote.

While everyone here has stated that I flip flopped because I’m scared of rocks, that’s not completely true. In the beginning of the round Herman left, Richie told me Margot was coming after me. She, Madame, and others denied that this was true. I also learned Richie volunteered to mutiny from you Duke. I made an active decision to cut Writer because I didn’t want Richie to be so in control.

Although I did not wholeheartedly trust Richie, I still felt that I wanted to go to the end with him. I wanted to honor the F2 he offered me and to say what we built throughout was real. I had no idea that he had the idol though or bid on Zissous rings on Ivanhoe. So maybe we never had anything and this was all a ploy for me to be an obedient goat.

I wasn’t that though. I made a lot of my own moves and despite flip flopping so much people remaining seemed to really trust me. Madame and I met so late in the game but I formed a really strong bond that she felt ok letting go of Margot.

I was in the middle of votes so many times and honestly it was so much more pressure than I expected to have coming in.

[Madame D.]

Hey Suzy! I was very glad that we got the chance to work together, even if it was only really for the Margot vote. I also really appreciated it when you did reach out to me and express wanting to go to the end together, even if I was slightly suspicious of your motives at the time.

In regards to Richie, I think he genuinely liked you, but the problem was something that I'll talk about more in my own thread. I think as soon as you changed your vote to Writer on the re-vote at F10, he felt wronged by you. Not enough to vote you out (yet) but enough to leak some of your secrets to me. He told me about a superfans alliance with you, him and Writer (was this true?) and told me that there was an ongoing deal for the two of you to go to the end. When you told him about the You/Duke/Gustave/Herman/Oracle group, he told me.
I think he still wanted to go to the end with you after that, but the Margot vote was the ultimate sin. After that, he had concluded that you were in fact a calculating and manipulative player which I think he used to justify his blindside of you (which I did not know about beforehand).

But yeah, I get it. Richie is a very charismatic player and had a way of making people feel like they were important to him, and probably they were! But if you dared stray from Richie's vision, well... things would not be so rosy after that.

To be continued in my own thread.

[Suzy Bishop]

Hi Madame!! You were one of my most favorite people and I was willing to go to the end to you even if I lost. I really think meeting so late in the game was a downfall for our partnership. I am still glad that you were able to forgive me for trying to vote you out twice and we were able to hash that out.

I think it only makes sense that I would be idoled out by Richie. I wrote in my confessional that I had Stockholm's Syndrome when it came to Richie. It is true that we had a superfans alliance between me, Writer, and Richie. I got the sense though that Richie and Writer could cut me though which is why I think I also acted against that. I learned from Writer's posts here that Richie gave him the Zissou rings so part of that relationship was also coercion.

As outlined in your posts, it seemed like Richie only wanted to be close to me when I was following his plan outlined. I do think blindsiding me was out of rage and I feel rage towards him as well. I think it's a fine game move but he told me over and over again that he wanted to go to the end with me and that he still had a lot of loyalty for me... I don't know. I feel just gaslighted and really hurt.