Next I’d like to address my take on Emilia, since that is the reason Wendy is pushing me.
First, near the start of the game when I initially started scumreading them, I had read them for something minor - voting me at the start of the game. It appeared to me as if Emilia wanted to execute a townie, and went to the first example she could attack. Although I knew at the time (and still know now) that the lead was small and possibly wrong, it was the only lead I had. I reasoned that the behavior was more likely scum than town.
But if you read my posts from that time on, I do not spend as much time accusing Emilia; instead, I talk to other individuals (namely Marshal, because they were prominently in the thread at the time) about their townread on Emilia. Because I had a suspicion on them, I did not want people to townread Emilia so easily; my posts are focused on asking people the reasonings behind their townreads and critiquing those reasonings, hopefully getting my audience to think more critically about Emilia’s alignment instead of relying on a very simple meta.
As for why I disliked people townreading Emilia more than townreading Eli, a player that I have said is in a similar place to Emilia, is that I have not found anything questionable from Eli. So although I disliked the fact that people (especially Marshal) are willing to townread Eli so easily, I had nothing against them so I let the townread slide. However, I had found objectionable content from Emilia at the time and have found more as time progressed, so I wanted to question people enough so that they wouldn’t take the lazy route of assuming that Emilia was town from “meta” and not actually reading into her posts.
As a side note to a side note, Ketsuban was included in my list of questions to the meta-readers since as an alt, I was unsure what kind of evidence they had to support any notion of meta-reading that slot. (This was before Ketsuban’s identity was revealed, I believe.)
After my reads have developed this far I left the thread for some time, and returned to find that three people had voted Aelin in quick succession (posts 850, 852, and 857). This in some way confirmed my scumread on Emilia, because up until this point Emilia had claimed that I was scum. Because I knew I was town, I assumed that this was Emilia not caring about which wagon to be on and just choosing whichever one had people she was comfortable with; this is seen by her complete lack of reasoning and simply agreeing to the new trend set by two pretty loud players. Although Wendy claims that Emilia moving her vote is indicative of us both being scum, I would rather suggest to see that both wagons (Aelin and myself) were both town, since if I had been scum with Emilia they would presumably find a better excuse to move. Them not giving any reason whatsoever is indicative of apathy, which is not an emotion one feels when their voting motivation is to defend one’s teammate.
