User blog comment:Coolio15/Canary Islands Boot Order/@comment-27429004-20190821015544/@comment-9949103-20190821023418

Faith: Ugh, my girl<3 Faith would have 100% gotten the biggest growth arc of the season, coming into the game as the sheltered, socially awkward, girl who was relegated to the outsiders of the La Palma. She was the only one of these outsiders to make the merge, however, and she would have definitely been one of the biggest underdogs of the season.

After surviving a close vote between her and Bowen, Faith continued to try and bond with some of the other girls in order to get herself some footing in the game. However, she was dismissed at almost every turn and once the tribes got separated, Faith was at an all time low with having to start her camp experience over and having been separated from Patrick, the only person left at camp that she had a real strong connection with at that point. Crying by the well and considering quitting the game due to her rough time in the game, she attracted the sympathy of Paul, who was beginning to feel guilty for being part of the reason that Faith wanted to quit the game. She was able to make amends with him and, over the next couple of days, she was able to offer herself as a loyal ally to both him and Liz, as the two of them and Robbie had been conspiring to blindside Toshi for playing both sides of the fence. Despite the odds having stacked against her, Toshi's underestimation of her ability to get into others' good graces and his wishy-washy gameplay having been exposed made him the next one to go, ousting Faith's biggest adversary before the merge.

Like Paul, Faith was immediately relegated to the minority after Liz was blindsided at the first merge boot. However, with some pointers from superfan Paul and the newfound confidence of still having a tight ally in the game, she was able to take a more aggressive approach in trying to flip the game, most notably telling majority-led power players Clay ad Kerri that they wouldn't be getting any jury votes if Jasper or Patrick were at the final four with them. Though Faith was out of the loop for the next couple of Tribals, her nonthreatening nature compared to Paul's loud and erratic personality helped her to make it to final six, having made a hard decision at seven to vote Paul out with the majority after being told by Kerri that it would buy her more time in the game.

At six, Faith caught Kerri scheming with Clay and Tara to vote her out next for being the last of the remnant "Nerd Herd" alliance left in the game, causing her to get together wit Patrick, and eventually Robbie, as the two of them had both been left out of Jasper's blindside. Originally thinking they could flip Robbie and Tara to vote Kerri off, their plans were foiled when Kerri won immunity. Though Robbie was down to vote for Clay to split the pair up, everything blew up when Tara decided to tell the pair that the other three were against them. This caused an enraged Robbie to convince Faith and Patrick to switch the target to Tara for blabbing about their plans, but Patrick and Faith both found Robbie to be the more imposing player. Fearing an idol play on Clay, Faith and Patrick linked up with Tara at the last minute to blindside Robbie as a safe play against Kerri's idol.

At five is probably when Faith was at her best, as a lot of the work to blindside Kerri with her idol was on her shoulders. Though it was Patrick that came up with the idea of having Faith trick Kerri, Faith herself put in most of the work to convince Kerri that she was on her side and that Patrick and Tara were now targetting one another out of fear of her idol. Even using their shared Christian beliefs as a point of deception, Faith claimed that she would pray for forgiveness when she got home, feeling confident enough to put her morals and beliefs aside in order to potentially get her a spot at the FTC. Her stellar social play, along with some convincing stage acting from both Patrick and Tara, allowed their group plus Clay to blindside Kerri with an idol in her pocket.

Unfortunately for Faith, her biggest threat to win the game won the final immunity of the season and realized how much of a story Faith had to tell at the end of her game. Seeing her as a huge threat to win the game, Patrick decided to turn on her and join Clay and Tara in sending the religious student home right before the end.

Faith, like Paul, would have been one of my favorites to develop over the season as she would have been an unorthodox "fish out of water" character who eventually finds her footing in the game, be a part of some big plays, and get a "worldly" and "eye-opening" experience from the game, especially given that her closest ally ended up being the flamboyant gay guy!