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Name (Age): Miguel Quiroz (49)

Hometown: Boise, ID

Current Occupation: Newspaper Editor

Background: Miguel was the child of 2 immigrant parents, his mother being from Chile, and his father being from Mexico. He is the 2nd oldest of 4 children, and they did not have much money growing up at all. As such, Miguel had to work for everything he had and he believes that's the way it should be.

Miguel has a very hard time opening up to and trusting people, and has had his heart broken a few times over the years. When Miguel was 25, his ex-fiancée became pregnant, and led Miguel to believe that he was the father. However, months later, Miguel was devastated to find out that he was not the father and that his fiancée had been cheating on him for over a year. Five years later, when Miguel was 30, he did marry his wife, Juarhala, and they have two children together (Carolina is 16, and Raul is 13).

Growing up, Miguel has always enjoyed doing research and has had a passion for learning. He has also always been curious about what's going on around the world, the country, his state, and the city of Boise. As such, after completing his degree in journalism, he became a reporter for the local newspaper, although he was determined to become an editor due to wanting to get away from interviewing all those "awful, fake, disgusting people." Miguel knows that social skills are not his strong point, but he is determined to win Survivor in order to pay for his children to attend University as his family is everything to him.

Hobbies: Watching the news, researching, spending time with my wife, Juarhala, watching movies, writing.

Pet Peeves: Posers, narcissists, sociopaths, and straight-up ass****s.

3 Words to Describe You: Serious, hard-working, cynical.

Why You Think You Will Win SURVIVOR: I will win Survivor because I am determined to provide for my family and my children's education. I'm not a young guy anymore, and these people don't scare me. I know coming in here that every single person is playing for one person and one person only, and that is themselves. I know I can't trust anyone and that 19/20 people are going to backstab me as soon as it becomes beneficial for them, as such, I'm going to play the same way. I'm going to try and stay out of the spotlight as much as possible, maybe look for idols when nobody's looking, and do whatever I need to do to keep myself afloat in the game. I know I'll do well in the wilderness because as a kid, I learned to live off of very little. So if my tribe wants to be stupid and sleep outside in the rain with no shelter, that's gonna be their problem, not mine. If my tribe doesn't want to get food, that's their problem. Obviously I'm going to help around the camp just for the sake of keeping attention off of myself, but any leadership position whatsoever is out of the question for me. Hopefully I can find one person I can latch onto and help me with the social game, but what's really going to help me is the fact that my guard will always be up and that I'll always be ready to make that first move in the event I feel like one of my allies are planning my blindside.

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