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 THE CASE FOR ANGELA BEST 

''' Who is Angela Best? '''

Housekeeper Angela Best competed on Tangle’s inaugural fanon season, Survivor: Eyre Peninsula, where she placed 9th. She is best known for her flip-flopping tendencies, horrendous challenge performances and, most importantly, being unanimously despised by the masses (both her competitors and the viewers). Despite originally revealing in press interviews that she would never want to return, after suffering so much harassment for her performance, she announced at the reunion that she wants to return to prove all her haters wrong. Will she succeed? You’ll have to vote her onto the season to find out <3.

 Why I (and all of you should) love Angela 

The first thing you need to know about Angela is that she is not your typical housewive. Despite the sweet, motherly persona that she puts on, deep down Angela is a snide, aggressively passive-aggressive villainess that doesn’t take shit from anyone. Beyond that, she’s just hilariously bad at the game and while some of the things she says are ridiculous, I cannot help but laugh whenever she’s on screen. It’s easy to label her as an unlikable hypocrite but there’s so much more to her iconic journey and story that truly makes her one of the best characters in the entirety of Tangle’s series.

 Her Journey 

Angela begins her journey as the last person to pick her tribe, graciously allowing Holly to choose before her. Don’t be fooled, as this will be the last time she ever does something nice. She quickly forms an alliance with Richie, Raphael and later Wilhelmina, sticking by their sides for the first few votes. Her reasoning is that she wants to use the “stronger” players as shields, which makes absolutely no sense since it just makes her look even weaker in comparison xD. At the DTC, however, the votes tie and Angela decides to flip in order to avoid rocks. Back at camp, Angela, being the awful strategist she is, tries to lie about flipping but nobody believes her <3. Then, she COMPLETELY changes tactics and berates her alliance members for being mad at her when she was just doing ~what was best for the tribe~. She makes them all apologise to her and somehow they let her back into the alliance. Her power <3

After losing the next challenge, everyone agrees that Angela is too weak and needs to go home. However, thanks to Audrey blowing up, people quickly abandon that plan and Angela manages to find herself in the middle yet again. And what does she do? Flips on her alliance after finding out she was the original target <3. Despite now having flipped twice in the span of three days, Angela instantly regrets her decision and decides to ask her former alliance to let her back in xD. AND THEY SOMEHOW AGREE <33. The fact that Angela manages to switch allegiances countless times throughout the pre-merge, perform terribly at every challenge yet still doesn’t receive a single vote is equally impressive and hilarious.

Come the merge, Angela desperately tries to strategise with anyone who might be willing to work with her alliance, including pretending to comfort Timothy after Anastacia’s medevac and flirting with Elijah (“You have SUCH strong leg muscles” lmfao). Despite being the reason that Elijah flipped to their side to begin with, this, of course, does not stop Angela from flipping on the revote to send him home. You’d think now that Angela has flipped on her alliance a total of three times now, she’d stick with the other group. NOPE! She once again ignores everyone that tells her that her allies no longer trust her; assuring them all that it’ll be fine once she explains it to them. Of course, they don’t, so she desperately tries to weasel her way in with Kris and Hazel despite rejecting them only hours earlier. Ultimately, her flipping finally catches up to her and she’s booted unanimously. A fitting, albeit tragic downfall.

 Why Angela MUST Return 

I think more than anyone, Angela is one of the few that really has something to prove. After seeing the negative reception she got following her first outing, I really think she could learn a lot and play a much better game the second time around, while still managing to keep her spunk that made her so iconic in Season 1. Not to mention, a lot of people don’t realise just how despised Angela was by the public; comment after comment was left about just how awful Angela is; she was essentially the Tanglefrost version of Jerri Manthey. I know many people think my random Angela love is misguided but I think people underestimate just how big of a legend she truly was. She fiery, she snarky, and she’s in desperate need of second chance; what more could you want in a candidate for Lombok?

 '''VOTE FOR ANGELA! '''