User blog comment:Sambarnes/Survivor: Belize - Now Casting!/@comment-26485526-20190706200926

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Name: Miguel Quiroz

Age: 49

Residence: Boise, ID

Occupation: Newspaper Editor

Biography: Miguel enjoys Watching the news, researching, spending time with his wife, Juarhala, watching movies, going to the gym, and writing. He describes himself as serious, hard-working, and cynical. He mentions that he is a cynic because he finds that a lot of people are: posers, narcissists, sociopaths, and/or straight-up ass****s, and that they tend to get whatever they want in life, while genuine, nice, hard-working people continue to get stepped on day after day.

Miguel says that he will win Survivor because he is determined to provide for his family and his children's education. He points out that he is not a young guy anymore, and these people don't scare him. Miguel believes that he'll do well in the wilderness because as a kid, he learned to live off of very little. He claims that if his tribe wants to be stupid and sleep outside in the rain with no shelter, that's gonna be their problem, not his, and that if his tribe doesn't want to get food, that's their problem.

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.

Character Archetype: Mastermind

Strategy: Miguel knows that he can't trust anyone and believes that 19/20 people are going to backstab him as soon as it becomes beneficial for them, and as such, he's going to play the same way. He's going to try and stay out of the spotlight as much as possible, maybe look for idols when nobody's looking, and do whatever he needs to do to keep myself afloat in the game. Miguel notes that he is going to help around the camp just for the sake of keeping attention off of himself, but any leadership position whatsoever is out of the question for him. Miguel hopes that he can find one person to latch onto and help him with the social game, as social skills are not his strong point. Miguel believes that what's really going to help him is the fact that his guard will always be up and that he'll always be ready to make that first move in the event he feels like one of his allies are planning his blindside.

Strengths: Surviving, Social awareness, Challenges

Weaknesses: Social skills (not very warm/likable, especially at first)

Anything Else: Miguel stands at 6 foot 1 and has a slim, but muscular build.