Survivor: Fan Characters/Trivia

• Fan Nickname: "Baxtabber" for Baxter, "Staypuff" for Alex (but that one's used in the comic as well). The nicknames from the actual show are often used as well.
  • It's also become something of a trend to call popular female players "goddesses", like with Montana and Ker.
• Schedule Slip: Apparently had one in the beginning of the first season when the author had to switch from modified sprites to 100% custom ones. After that, however, it is completely averted; this has lead to some people lauding him for being the god of buffer. However, the author has recently notified that Season 10 will be delayed a bit, most likely putting an end to the aversion. The season premiere will be some time in late June.
• What Could Have Been: SWSU has detailed a number of scenarios he considered for the various seasons after they had ended:
  • Brains vs. Brawn: He had originally planned to have a Corrupt the Cutie arc for Bitsy, involving Mary's evilness, but scrapped the idea after he couldn't make Bitsy's "evil" face look convincing and ended up using it for Hope in the next season instead.
  • Season 3: SWSU said he wanted to make it a story of how someone lost it instead of how someone won it referring to Baxter losing and Montana winning). He had originally considered Beth as a winner, but she was as boring as hell and would have been a lot less satisfying a winner. Additionally, the season was supposed to be nicknamed "The Gender Wars", but it was scrapped after the name was decided to be too cheesy.
  • Cursed Islands: Instead of Marius winning, he had considered Amy, who would have been a more safe, 'heroic' pick, as well as Maria/Mo which would have been hilarious considering how demented she was; to be fair, though, he only considered Maria as a winner when he didn't know about Mo. Also, he had initially planned for the final vote to go 4-3-0 with Gatemaster receiving no votes, but changed it to a 3-2-2 split when he realized that there was no plausible way to give Marius a fourth vote.
  • Season 6, All-Stars, was originally planned to be a Pre-Merge vs. Post-Merge season, but was changed when SWSU realized he was leaving out too many big characters. Prospects for the pre-merge tribe included Eugene, Cassie, Phil from Season 1, Mihoshi, Drake and Audrey.
  • Season 7: Ker, the winner of the season, was fighting in a three-way battle between Betty and Bo. Betty was ousted because she would be yet another competent winner, and Bo was ousted because SWSU felt that Ker had more colorful moments to offer.
  • Season 8: SWSU initially had Emilee as the winner, but changed it to Melanie because he wanted a more negative winner.

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