User blog:Tanglefrost/Inside My Drafts- Scrapped Ideas That I Never Used For Each Season

Hi everyone!

I was sitting here and thinking about all the changes I'd made for some of the seasons and all the ideas I never ended up using. I thought I'd make a blog so I could show you all the stuff I did! Let's see what the seasons almost were.

Eyre Peninsula

 * The season was almost a final two, nine person jury. My very first winner ever was going to be Itsuki over Kris, with Kris winning the F3 necklace and taking Itsuki to the end over Raphael thinking he could beat her, and losing Russell Hantz style.
 * Exile Island never existed in the first draft.
 * The rock draw/second idol never existed in the first draft.

Upolu

 * The season was originally set in Hokkaido, Japan, and was going to be Survivor: Hokkaido.
 * There were originally 18 contestants in the draft, and they were going to be divided into two tribes of nine right off the bat. Whitney and Alfonso didn't exist in the first draft and I added them to spice things up so I could have a more fun first day.
 * Nathaniel was originally meant to lose to Sasha, who was going to burn the jury too much. I switched Sasha and Ruben's places because I thought I was making things too identical to the first season.
 * Josephine was originally meant to be a power player, she was going to be one of the villains of the season.
 * Hans was originally called Xanadu.
 * In accordance with the Japanese version of Survivor, I was going to implement a twist where the jurors could refuse to vote for any of the finalists if they felt they didn't deserve the win. Nathaniel was going to win 3-2 because four of the jurors refused to vote. The votes went as follows:
 * Nathaniel: Rebecca, Vinny, Johannes
 * Ruben: Hans, Desiree
 * Refused: Kiki, Josephine, Sasha, Skanda
 * This was originally going to be season 3, and the character of Nathaniel and my winner was meant to be a young guy called DeAndre, who would've just been a happy go lucky kind of guy.

Ivory Coast
This one underwent the most character changes out of all my fanons to date.
 * Byron was originally in his 30s, and was meant to return from Redemption Island. He had an entire storyline involving Kryshelle and the win, and was going to be brutally blindsided a second time.
 * Morris and Jasmine swapped places. Morris just came out far too negatively and I had to cut him.
 * I almost cancelled Ivory Coast, three episodes in, because I just wasn't feeling it.
 * Simon was the original winner in the draft, having played a dominant game.
 * Kryshelle was going to be the runner up, and was originally an OTTN supervillain. She would have led the charge on Morris immediately, overthrowing his power at the merge, and would have entered a relationship with Byron for the sole purpose of gaining his vote, then blindsiding him the vote after.
 * Abraham was originally boring pre-merge fodder. I had no clue what to do with him, hence the stark contrast between his plain bio and how he ended up in the game.
 * Winona was originally boring merge fodder. I had no idea what to do with her, but inspired by Anita's comment, I made her super snarky.
 * She was originally meant to go at the unmerge, but AJ helped me map out a rewrite that switched Winona, Shanniah and Ricky's positions.
 * Ricky was not meant to be an OTTN brat. He was meant to be a quiet challenge beast who got 3-2-1'd at the final six by Betty-May for the role he played in getting rid of Winona at the final eight.
 * Shanniah was originally meant to be idol'd out at the final seven. Simon decided he wanted to get rid of Ricky because of the threat he posed, but Shanniah stood up for him. Knowing Shanniah had an idol, Simon and the opposing alliance orchestrated a split on the two. Shanniah gave her idol to Ricky and got voted out herself instead.

Bermuda- Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty

 * This was originally a captains season. It was going to be Anastacia on the Brawns, Rebecca on the Brains, and Kelly Walters on the Beauties. I scrapped this when I thought season four was too early to have returnees and so I created Gwen, Misty and Veronica instead.
 * Phyllis was originally meant to play her idol at the first Gombey Tribal. Gary would've been voted out at the revote over Luca, being flipped on by Constance and Adrian.
 * Isla and Bailey swapped positions. Isla was meant to be the fourth person voted out, but I discussed it with AJ and he convinced me to change. Bailey was finally going to summon the courage to go after Will and get blindsided because of it.
 * This season had a lot of position changes.
 * Maria was meant to be 10th but I thought that the challenge beast winning two immuntiies and going out was boring. She went from 10th to 4th and then I finally settled on 7th.
 * Misty was supposed to play a near perfect game (like Lamont in Uke's second season) before being voted out in 4th. I changed this because it would have been too close to Kryshelle's game. She moved from 4th to 7th to 9th.
 * The third place goat position changed numerous times. At one stage it was Luca, then it was Phyllis, then it was Adrian, and I finally settled on Veronica. Veronica's original finish was 8th (being idol'd out).
 * Phyllis' name was originally Elizabeth but I thought that was too typical a name for an older woman.

Survivor: Grenada- Temptations

 * This was the first season where I outright replaced characters from the first draft.
 * Jason's spot/story were originally made for a character called Elias Fairchild.
 * Lulu's spot/story were originally made for a character called Calliope Slater, who was going to be Kendra's right hand.
 * Brooklyn's spot/story were originally made for a character called Willow Belland. I cut her and was going to put her in Jeju but cut her again.
 * Moses' spot/story was originally made for a character called Melvin Hart.
 * Kendra's original name was Lucinda.
 * Ashanda was originally just meant to be post-merge fodder who didn't rock the boat and got blindsided for being too close to the F9 boot, hence the stark contrast between her bio and how she turned out.
 * The season underwent a drastic change because I was enjoying writing Kendra too much to boot her in third. I spent the entire afternoon drafting a new order.and everything from episode three onwards changed.
 * Jensen was the original winner, but I changed this quickly when his character proved to be unpopular. He was going to defeat Eddiot in the final two, who hadn't really played the game.
 * Jason was originally first boot, saved over Kory due to the latter's strong social game. I changed this when Kory proved to be unpopular.
 * Kory was originally going to be medevaced at the final 10. This then changed to Jason, then changed to Ashanda, but I did away with the medevac entirely because I was enjoying the leadup too much to just ignore it. Trinity's boot was entirely spontaneous. I decided I would have preferred Ashanda to be around in the aftermath and Trinity's character was going stale.
 * Trinity was originally the one 3-2-1'd in 6th spot.
 * Brooklyn was originally going to take the Temptation at the final seven.
 * The following other changes happened after the redo:
 * Moses/Meiling swapped spots.
 * Shivani/Jamie swapped spots.
 * Brooklyn was meant to take Eddiot but I wanted a more tightly contested Tribal and thought this would be more realistic anyway/
 * The Jamie/Kendra F5 storyline was originally going to be between Meiling and Jensen. Jensen was going to be manipulated by Samantha into taking Meiling out because of the money. Jensen then would have won out, defying Samantha when she tried to manipulate him again at the final three.
 * The Jamie/Kendra thing was then meant to be Jamie/Shivani but I just couldn't see Shivani in the role I needed her for with the storyline.
 * Meiling's placement was originally meant to be 5th but dropped drastically when I got rid of Jensen because she then had no storyline anymore.