A Theory where Blush and Unamused are both Mafia that is full of Assumptions that may or may not be Jumping The Gun, by Wink
this is very biased towards a certain assumption, and i am also very tired, very sleepy and very much losing focus so this theory may be tunnel-visioning. proceed with caution. my assumptions throughout this post are as follows;
a) unamused and blush (and possibly angry as well) are mafia
b) both of their roles are complete, 100% bogus
c) there is no busdriver or any kind of target redirection bullshittery taking place in the game
Pages 7-9
Blush claims Roleblocker, and declares they blocked Unamused and Weary in that order. Asks Unamused if he (pronoun as such for the sake of simplicity) has a power role that could verify Blush’s claim via his action not going through. Unamused softclaims a PR role, but avoids saying what it is or if it was blocked on Night 0. A bit of back and forth, Unamused accusing Blush of being mafia and asking why they keep pushing. Before Unamused finally claims, Blush posts an assumption that Unamused is probably going to claim something like tracker or lie detector, sandwiched between two other posts of Blush. Soon after, Unamused claims Tracker, and says he tracked Yum (no report) and Thinking (visited themselves, contradicting Mask later on).
I am inclined to think that around here, Blush set a plan in motion to establish them and Unamused as power roles- but Unamused didn’t really know exactly what he was supposed to do at the time, so it took a bit of signalling on Blush’s part for him to get what was going on. Unamused then claimed he tracked Yum on the first night and got no report; whether Yum turned out to have a night action or not, Unamused claiming that he did not get a report on Night 1 would give Blush’s claim plausibility too. This was also the time that Unamused established the idea of a redirection role existing, by saying that Thinking visited themself.
After that was mostly pushing for Weary’s lynch (who turned out to be a villager) so I will skip to
Pages 12-13
Day starts. Blush claims to have blocked Expressionless, who died the previous night. Unamused contradicts this and states they visited Angry, implying they tracked Blush. Mask contradicts Unamused’s previous report from Pages 7-9 by saying on the second night Thinking and Joy both visited Yum, with the claim of watcher. Because Yum was Thinking’s planned target, Thinking declares that either Mask or Unamused is lying. Soon after, Joy claims that they did in fact visit Yum, confirming Mask.
Expressionless is already dead by this point, thus being a convenient target. Unamused saying that Blush visited Angry instead is confusing at first, but in hindsight strengthens the idea that there is a redirection role somewhere in the game. Choosing some random person to ‘redirect’ to would be a risk for Blush, however, as that person could notice that they weren’t actually blocked. This leaves two options; either Blush is actually a roleblocker or Angry is mafia, since a mafia member would be willing to keep up with such a masquerade to protect their teammates. Mask’s report contradicting Unamused may seem like a death sentence, but as the idea of a redirector (that is, a bus driver) has already been established, it’s easy enough to say that Unamused was the one who was redirected.
Page 16
My eyes are starting to get droopy, so wrapping this up really quickly; Unamused says that if he was mafia, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to pull any of this out of his ass under the knowledge that he’d be dead in the water, and Blush says while Unamused is looking hella scummy they can’t see a mafia member pulling this either. They also say there’s no way there isn’t a mafia bus driver either, because too many weird stuff has happened for there not to be.
The thing is, the only areas this supposed bus driver is revolving around is YOU TWO, and your actions are set in such a way that they can either be justified by each other or easily hand-waved. I don’t know, maybe I’m reading too much into things, but Unamused seems pretty agreeable to whatever Blush has to say and of course he’d follow their lead in claiming tracker under those circumstances, because he trusts Blush has a plan, and also he was being pushed into a corner.
i’m tired. i need sleep. i spent at least three hours combing through this thread just to make this. i’m going to wake up in the morning, look at this, and think my thoughts are stupid and paranoid and also rely on too many assumptions that i made based on reading through a bunch of pages i’m not even sure i analyzed right. night night.
