User blog comment:XMCL/Character submission for new season!/@comment-32574574-20171225024603

​Name (Age): ​Mikayla Osten (25)

​Hometown: ​West Hollywood, CA

​Occupation: ​Flight Attendant

​​Background: ​Born on April 22, 1992 in San Francisco, California, Mikayla was always considered a "daddy's girl", as she would love to go hunting, fishing, and ice skating with her father, Michael. She is the oldest of three children, having two younger sisters, Ashley, age 18, and Sarah, age 14. Mikayla moved to San Diego in 1998 when her mother got a job as an assistant to Susan Golding, the Mayor. She was bullied as a student, the bullying in which started in middle school, because she was shy, quiet, and unable to fit the physical norms of what people expect of a "popular girl". The bullying escalated when Mikayla asked a middle school crush out on a date, and was rejected, to which fellow students began to call her a "whore" and a "low-life". Mikayla moved schools twice because of the bullying and now lives in West Hollywood, California. She graduated in 2010 with high honors, despite her social setbacks (she had her first kiss at the age of 17), and went on to study psychology, in which she dropped out after six months. Mikayla hopes to leave the job soon and if she wins the money, she wants to settle down with someone and hopefully become a mother. Mikayla is currently single, and is half-Asian (from her mother's side) and half-Caucasian (from her father's side). Mikayla is an anti-bullying activist, and she once kicked two men off of an airport for throwing food at a man with cerebral palsy.

Hobbies: ​Putting on Make-Up, Running, "Binge-Watching" ​The Jerry Springer Show​, Chatting with Girlfriends, and Going Out to Restaurants.

​Pet Peeves: ​Mikayla does not tolerate discrimination of any sort, whether it's based on race, gender, sexual preference, or sexual identity. She is also not a fan of spinach, and hypocrites.

3 Words to Describe Mikayla: ​​Bubbly, Flirtatious, and Athletic

​Why Do You Think Mikayla will win SURVIVOR: ​I think Mikayla has very high chances of winning because of how social she is. She is nice to virtually everybody she knows and rarely gets mad at anyone, and she is very good at keeping her cool. That being said, just because she is nice on the outside does not mean she is not strategic. Mikayla wants to form an alliance with at least one person who many consider to be unbearable, because if she is able to drag that person along with her, the blood remains off of her and that person could be her scapegoat. Mikayla also knows that in this game, it is best to be calm and understanding of other people, and she wants to not only get to know them from a strategic standpoint, but from a personal standpoint so she can find out what kind of person they are.