I really want to trust Luna's read on REF, but that's so far the strongest reason I have to townread him and I can't say it's strong enough at this point to keep him out of POE. The role itself is interesting enough that I have trouble believing it's a fake claim, so he's still slight town to me, but only just.
I have few behavior things I like but it's not super strong.
Kohai is a bit of an odd duck. I have a little more reason to townread him than not, but I'll have to go back through his posts and see if that holds up. Didn't like him early in the game, but he's given me more reason to townread him as the game has gone on. Maybe that's just from my experience with him as scum coloring my opinion.
I'm highly confident he's scum here. He TMI'd two DPs ago and he vs Shining has been a thing all game long.
And that leaves three.
Banana and Awesome are the obvious ones, I don't think any of us have strong reasons to buy their claims at this point. I think Awesome's claim looks like something Mikal would make up, but that's about the best I can say about him. And Banana was on the verge of being lynched last DP in direct opposition to Shining who has flipped town, so she's bound to look scummy at this point.
I could see either with Kohai at this point.
Mestari is tricky. I think a lot of people are quick to write him off as town because he was very effectively scum hunting and helped take down both Thoth and Alyssa. In almost any other game, I would agree and view him as almost certainly town. But this isn't a usual game. The activation of the Ant King mid-game makes me question whether scum have a player who is/was separate from the main scum team and sees a benefit in taking down much of the scum team to boot. The Ant King activated only after the Ant Queen was lynched, so yes, I could see that as either part of their wincon or just a way to take over and run the team on their own. Thoth and Alyssa would probably have flamed out without his help, so I can absolutely see wanting to change things up to put both himself and the remaining member of the scum team in better position. This theory is not a reason to outright scumread him, but it colors my perspective of behaviors I was reading as townie for much of the early game.
I have a few town behavior things I like about Mestari but honestly this isn't that crazy of a theory. I didn't consider this.
