User blog comment:Coolio15/Underrated Fanon Characters?/@comment-26485526-20170303182226

I know this blog has been long forgotten and that nobody has touched it in almost a year, but I do want to draw attention to one character that has been grossly overlooked by this wiki for far too long...

Margot Torn - Survivor: Marianas 

I think Marianas in and of itself is an extremely underrated season on this wiki, but Margot in particular definitely deserves some praise.

She was a very feisty and determined character that completely ran the game in my opinion. She started off by bringing the two Tinian outsiders (Max and Skye) to form an alliance on day one. Even though Tinian as a tribe never went to Tribal Council, her alliance got split up at the swap when Margot went to Sarigan and Max and Skye went to Luta. Being the only member of her alliance on Sarigan, Margot had an instant target on her back. Despite that however, Margot used her great social game for forge friendships with original Sarigan members, namely Rayya and Karina, which she was able to use to her advantage. Despite Rayya being blindsided, Margot managed to sneak herself into the majority alliance come the merge by joining her original allies, Skye and Max, in the Luta alliance with no real consequences.

Safely in the majority, Margot bides her time as most of the Sarigan alliance is picked off, while allowing Isaac and Noemi to put targets on their own backs, forming friendships along the way. A couple of times during Sarigan's destruction, Margot's name was brought up as a potential threat and people discussed blindsiding her. However, when Taj, the last remaining Sarigan, played his idol and Noemi told Max to play hers in response, Margot's phenomenal social game saved her on the revote as the untrustworthy Karina was UNANIMOUSLY blindsided. At the next Tribal, after Taj won immunity, Margot saved herself again by uniting her original allies, and outsider Taj, against the overbearing Isaac. She then successfully campaigned for the biggest social threat in the game, Noemi, to go home because Noemi had been forging strong bonds with the tribe since the merge through her therapy sessions. Then with Taj winning final immunity, the three original Tinians were forced to target each other. Margot successfully lobbied against Skye, due to her being the biggest jury threat of the three.

At the FTC, I think Margot had a good performance, but Taj's underdog story was just way too much for her to overcome. I think the jury was a little hard on her for "burning bridges", especially Karina since Karina wrote Margot's name down the night she went home. Still, despite that, Margot earned the two jury votes she received. She had a very bumpy road to the end and I think that she really deserves praise for the great game she did play.