Enters with scumhunting, Jily as town.
He trusts in his predecessor's reads. This is a personal town-tell of mine. A signature scum move is to go completely against your (scummy) predecessor's views and take up an entirely new stance to (hopefully) become more favorable.
A TOWN signature is to trust entirely in your predecessor and acknowledge their wisdom. This is especially important if the predecessor was extremely scummy. By embracing the reads of the scummy player, the person is essentially saying, "my predecessor wasn't scummy by thinking this". In other words, they're not trying to get a Fresh Start which many towns freely give to replacements.
It's a subconscious thing. But I've personally done this. As town, I very frequently look at the reads of my predecessor, and value them. I look into them and see why they thought that. While I'll use my own judgement on them to determine if they're right or not, I put significant weight on them.
And as scum, I just carelessly toss them aside and go, "screw that, I'm working for myself", building a new image for me.
I've observed it in others as well. I see pro-town players frequently employ the logic of their predecessors, and sum players just ignore their predecessor and ask the town to do the same. It might not be something we actively decide to do, but it happens.
A lot. It's psychological. Not something you're aware of, but something which always happens whether you were thinking about it or not. And that's why it's nearly impossible to fake.
He also used gut. His inability to effectively explain it reads as genuine. Trust me, as someone who has explanation problems, I can tell very well from situations like that if they're faking being unable to effectively explain it, or if they legitimately can't give a good answer.
There's also favorable interactions with WormyKrew. And the fact that he was legitimately scumhunting on Secret. Look at Captain's early posts, and you'll realize he was pushing Secret as scum--something which could only have come from a pro-town player reading Secret as scum.
Captain shows paranoia, thinking about the night-kill, fearing he gave the scum too much information.
Scum don't do that. They don't show paranoia towards giving out town-reads, because they're scum. They don't gain anything by trying to hide town-reads. They lose nothing by posting them. Town (theoretically) does.
Additionally, there's the fact that if you look at Captain's reads, he had Secret as solidly scum.
WHY WOULD THE SCUM NK SOMEONE ONE OF THEIR MEMBERS HEAVILY WAS PUSHING AS SCUM?!??
("...More experienced players talked them out of it?"
Well, that's more evidence against
, and maybe
Yoshi
as well, then. 'Cause guess what?
TWIE, Elsa, Jily, they're all inexperienced. And therefore could not be scum with Captain in this situation.)
This is an example of an assertive, "SCREW YOU" tone. There's Scum "SCREW YOU!" (Soben displays this to me), and there's town "SCEW YOU!". This is definitely the latter.
The fact that Captain was stubbornly refusing to vote was also town--he was thinking for himself, trying to figure out what to do, rather than (as scum would do) placing a vote blindly at request.
Do you think
scum would so heavily use Chainsaw Defense,
after pointing out a percieved Chainsaw?
Quick answer, No.
Captain also furthered his Secret suspicion, and was (in my opinion) legitimately convinced that WormyKrew was town, due to the interactions between the two Hydras.
Opinions like this, a stubborn scumread on Elsa which refused to die, makes Captain even more town.
There was no point in saying this as scum. Contrary to popular belief, scum do not say obvious stuff like that, anymore. This was a town-reaction. Followed up with a decent conclusion, and more legitimate scumhunting from Captain.
A tl;dr version?
Captain has consistently been tripping town-tells across the board, has been showing a consistent town Motivation in his posts, has been bleeding off a town Tone, and his interactions are overall fairly favorable.
HE IS NOT THE LYNCH TODAY.
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