James

James is a contestant who appeared in Amazing Race Season One, Amazing Race Season Two, Survivor: World Tour, and Survivor: Yukon. He was also apart of the staff team during Survivor: Estonia. However, he did not do too much while apart of the staff. James is notable for his well developed confessionals as well as his tendency to have some of the more comical moments in a given season.

James was the first member of the Chad 12th club after he was booted in Svalbard in Survivor: World Tour, however the chad 12th meme wouldn't become a thing until Levi became 7th place.

Survivor: World Tour
James was first apart of the Earhart Tribe where he found himself part of the Tribe Winning alliance alongside Macy, Levi, Oliver, and Lexie. He was in a pretty comfortable position until the elimination of Picky, where he realized Oliver & Lexie were masterminding the whole operation and were intending on going to FTC together. He decided to act upon this and upon hitting merge he made an alliance with Jesse & Claire, forming the aptly named Jesse Claire and James Bunch featuring Jesse Claire and James.

Things heated up between the two factions very early on, with James failing to persuade Macy & Levi to backstab Lexie and Oliver. James was almost booted in Tuvalu however after it was revealed Teresa was playing both sides that effectively bought him one more round in the game. With Gracie reentering the game at F12 and her starting her immunity run to FTC James couldn't win immunity, causing him to be the next boot after Oliver convinced Jesse that James was planning on backstabbing her.

Survivor: Yukon
James returned from Survivor: World Tour as a captain for Survivor: Yukon. He was put into a good place on the successful Chilkoot tribe, making quick friends with Czar & Cole. James' downfall in the premerge was his reluctance to make an official alliance with Czar, as this caused Czar to start doubting James.

During swap, James was put into A'ay Chu and was thrown into the fire when he developed a near instant rivalry with Shade. James decided to vote for Thom during the first A'ay Chu tribal as he believed Thom was targetting the returnees after Sped was eliminated. A'ay Chu would never go to tribal again.

During merge James was one of the first to realize the mega-alliance that had formed, he then found himself in the minority alongside Gracie, Chris, Lilac, Kris, and Cole. He managed to win immunity in the second merge challenge, causing Gracie to be eliminated instead of him; similar to how the two of them interacted in season one. James could not win immunity again however, and with Gracie gone the minority had no clear leader and fell into disorder. After Cole flipped it was the final nail in the coffin for James.

Between Seasons
In universe, it's said that James was abandoned in the frozen wastelands of Svalbard as the WakAir Plane never came back for him. This is the reasoning for why he developed an eye-patch in between seasons.