User blog comment:MightyUke416/Mozambique Original Boot Order/@comment-25201371-20190729051244/@comment-26485526-20190730035821

Leah ended up replacing Irene because it was just more realistic after much of the story and personalities changed. When I originally started writing Mozambique on the wiki, Irene was set to finish in 6th, but the more I thought about it, there wasn't much story left for her after the final 8, and I also realized I was writing myself into a corner.


 * The final 8 votes were set to be 0-0 after Jimmy played his idol, and Kane played his idol on Cassy, with Kane leaving 5-3 after Marshall flipped. But I then realized that Marshall wouldn't realistically flip his vote at the re-vote because he had immunity (so no fear of a rock draw), so I had to do an emergency last minute switch, and that's where she ended up.

Leah ended up going out at final 6 originally because the alliances were 3-3 (Marshall, Cassy, Constantine vs. Leah, Irene, Ricki). Leah was getting votes because she was the least threatening at FTC, but Ricki knew the other alliance wasn't flipping and wasn't about to stick her hand in a bag of rocks as she was confident she could still maneuver herself to the end with Leah gone given how threatening Marshall and Cassy were.

Irene voted in the minority at Brendyn's blindside, but was able to successfully maneuver her way into the majority alliance by offering Emil as a sacrifice of sorts, telling Ricki and Jimmy "I'm with you to the end, I promise I'll do whatever you say," which was followed by an offer to vote against Emil. Though Emil still thought Irene was his closest ally, she despised him more and more with each passing day.

Irene got zero votes at the final tribal council because she would've been disliked by a majority of the cast. Even though she claimed to hate Emil, her actions by and large said otherwise because until the merge, she always found excuses to keep him around, and always supported him to his face. Irene was also quite cocky, had a negative attitude around camp, and she was seen as riding Jimmy's and Ricki's coattails for the vast majority of the game. Her only jury vote came from Brendyn, who basically wanted to abstain from voting in the original draft since he knew nobody else would vote for her.

The returnees probably would've probably been Tori and either Constantine or Jimmy if I stayed with the original boot order as Tori was originally royally screwed by the swap. Depending on people's reactions though, if Geoff seemed to get more support, there's a chance it could've been Geoff and Cassy.