1) What are your plans coming into the game? Any pre-game strategies?
I don't know that I have much in the way of pre-game strategies. I have a few relationships that I know I can milk, and there's a general sort of strategy that I wind up using in just about every game that I play, but beyond that I don't have a lot planned. I think my core competence is really what wound up destroying me in New World, so I think this time around I'm going to lay a lot lower in the early game, and wait to strike until the time is right.
2) After seeing some people on the cast list, do you have any pre-game judgements?
Well, I certainly have some judgments about the Monsters.
Phillip: I know that Phillip is going to be a sneaky bastard who's going to turn things to his advantage wherever and whenever possible. He's someone I'd definitely want as an ally, but I don't know how long-term I'd like to do that for. I know what kind of allies he usually picks up, so that's probably the kind of ally that I'm going to attempt to masquerade as for a while, up to the point where it turns out I need to overthrow him. I'd like to believe that quality > quantity, but come on, he's had his many many millions, I gotta get myself a second million or I'll never keep up!
Corinne: I'm sensing a lot of bluster with little skill to compensate, if her lousy finish in All Stars is any guide. She obviously doesn't care who she alienates, and that's one of those things that I don't really find interesting in the slightest. Oh, wow, you're a bitch who's mean and doesn't care what anybody thinks? Gee, that's new.
Andrea: I don't intend to let Andrea find out who I am, and if I get my way she's going to be out of here faster than you can spit. It's not that I'm still mad about what she did to me back in All Stars, that was years ago. But I haven't forgotten that she made a promise based on our friendship, and then broke it less than twelve hours later. Say what you like, when you bring that card into play, you've got nothing left in your arsenal afterwards. The game took priority over our friendship, and that's the end of it. I'll be nice to her, I'll befriend her, but I sure as hell won't trust her - and there's no reason to keep someone untrustworthy. I'd rather be rid of her altogether.
Rob: Ugh. I'm going to target Rob just for being Rob. I've been doing it for ten years, and I see no reason to stop now. I also remember from last season that this guy was something of a twerp with alliances, and that means that he's not going to be terribly trustworthy. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now, but I don't expect that he and I will be a partnership for the ages or anything.
As for the other people... I don't have much to say that's interesting. I've hardly talked to any of them, but they definitely reek of newness and that's a bit of a tricky game to play. New people are malleable, but they're also hard to control because they don't have the wisdom to know what they should or should not do. I'm going to wait for the first while, suss out the competition, and report back.
3) What are you expecting the twist this season to be?
Hard to tell. The four returning players makes me think four tribes, at least to start.
Other than that, my best guess is that there's going to be some kind of return-from-the-dead twist, and that's going to be no fun at all for me if I kill the people I want out early.
4) Do you think you will be a hero or a villain?
I'm shooting for Hero this time around. No telling how that's going to work out. Last time I wanted to be a hero, I wound up pissing off the entire cast. Last time I wanted to be a villain, I was voted "nicest" and "most trustworthy" in the survey challenge. So if there's anything I know, it's that there's nobody less capable of assessing my gameplay than me.
5) Why did you choose the character you did?
Mikayla's ripe for great character potential. She's got the capability to be bitchy, sexy, slutty, flirty, stupid, or whatever you want her to be. She's essentially a slightly more limited version of Parvati, but with the added angle that you make her the victim of sexual harassment, which can be a lot of fun. Plus, come on, haunted houses? Everybody knows that in horror movies the slut dies first. Why not let her be the first one to make the end credits?
6) Why do you think you have what it takes to be the next Soul Survivor?
Because I've already done it.
