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I will make a cut soon because the remaining choices are saddening. In the meantime I will do a ~Tribute to Purple Kelly~ because that PuKe writeup was appalling.

Kelly "Purple Kelly" Shinn- Survivor: Nicaragua- 8th Place

When Survivor's 21st season began, we were introduced to the newest Kelly to burst onto the scene. That woman was....Kelly Bruno. Hidden among the La Flor tribe was another Kelly. A sweet, young, impressionable Survivor. One of the youngest to play at that point. To solve the problem of having TWO Kellys on one tribe, her fashion forward purple hair streak was used to christen her "Purple Kelly." Purple Kelly had quite the journey- she found herself in the La Flor power alliance with Sash, Brenda, and NaOnka (ironically called the "minorities alliance" by Sash). Purple Kelly was riding high throughout the preswap period. She was out of the drama, she was not discussed for the vote. Or so we can assume, because we were never shown this ~mysterious~ sprite on the La Flor tribe. Come the swap, she stayed on La Flor with the more visible Kelly and her closest ally Brenda. But still we had no introduction to this almost ghost-like player. Then, finally, Espada wins a reward and Kelly is devastated! We hear her voice for the very first time as she confessionalises "The reward was you get to milk your own milk, and that sounds amazing. We should have won." What insight, what knowledge. It was so mysterious as to why we did not hear from this wise young scholar more often! But behold! We got some more insight from Purple Kelly in subsequent episodes. We got her "21 years of wisdom!" and we got this editor's gem on reward. Chase says to her "you don't talk much," and Kelly replies "I know, it's weird." So meta, so ground-breaking, so ~Purple Kelly~

Unfortunately things took a turn for the worst for Kelly. Her whole alliance turned on her closest ally Brenda, and left her out of the vote completely! Kelly was alone amongst nine other people, abandoned by Sash and NaOnka, weathering the harsh conditions of Nicaragua (and they were harsh- note the amount of comfort rewards they received in Redemption Island to keep Boston Rob comfortable). Eventually, she had sucked as much as she could suck, and after NaOnka stomped out to heal her aching bones, tragically, our young heroine followed after her. She had sucked as much as she could suck, and anyone who criticises her (or any quitter for that matter) or says she quit "for no good reason," I challenge them to spend 28 days in the wilds of Nicaragua (with such delights as Marty, Jane, NaOnka, Fabio, and Sash) where it was a particularly harsh season with the wind and rain (a fact acknowledged by the producers AND contestants) and get back to me.

Kelly is also a gamechanger as she christened the Purple edit, AND influenced the producers to change the rules to be able to revoke jury rights. When will your faves?

And that, folks, is how you honour a true icon of the game <3