In post 4953, Imperium wrote:First of all, one thing that still freaks me out about Jaqen is that he was jailed on a night with 0 kills.
WN never had a separate SK kill; the way they got kills was by automatically redirecting factional kills + the vig kill. There's no way that we've wiped out an entire faction by lynching one/two scum total, and I don't really understand why scum would shoot Jaqen (although I suppose it is possible?), so this doesn't actually look great.
Separate from that, though, I think counterclaiming neighbors was an absolutely ridiculous occurrence, but pretty creative if he was scum. I'm not really sure what his view of his own meta is, but it would be a crafty move that would take a pretty decent bit of self-awareness and also would be a move that took lowering dignity a fair bit, so not sure it's his style.
I like Jaqen's early read on Titus and think he's almost certainly not partners with her; those two as scum together would townread each other and go for the long haul, full stop.
1451 concerns me to some extent because I've never envisioned Jaqen as the sort of player who would follow the grain that easily and I find the justification of "it's maybe multiball!" as an excuse to be voting with his scumpartners to be a nasty one; it also seems like preemptive justification for voting with his scumreads in a very non-Jaqen way, which is something I also find pretty scummy.
In other news, I also just remembered that he was neighbors with Fresh and definitely not scum there!
Vezok vote in
1875 is also pretty "follow the grain"-y but maybe I'm misremembering how Jaqen plays?
In post 2368, Jaqen Hghar wrote:If Titus is really a GF you could have only gotten a Guilty if you're insane or you get compulsive guilties.
D:
I don't like this much; Jaqen was the only person who fell for Titus's Godfather claim which, while not completely unreasonable, is strange considering he was scumreading her as play earlier and "if she's telling the truth and town then the result on her is wrong" isn't generally a consideration you make when scumreading someone. I also don't like how it doesn't seem like Jaqen is attempting to read Titus at all based on play; this unvote is entirely on the basis of claim and there's no mention of "Titus is doing this or Titus is doing that".
In post 2381, Jaqen Hghar wrote:I don't know what to think right now. It's like the rug has been pulled out from under where I stand. I *did* have a reads list but it's all shot to hell now, and I'm tired. I'll go back over things after some rest and when my mind is clearer and see where I am then.
And this also seems fake.
Going "I have no idea to think about a guilty!" is weird just because there are two of them.
In his favor, I do suppose it's likelier he would support the WN guilty than just do nothing as scum, but I'm still not comfortable with this interaction as a whole as I think if Gorkington's behavior around the guilty was bothering him as town he would just push Gorkington, but can see why he wouldn't want to be caught defending a scumbuddy going down.
In post 3156, Jaqen Hghar wrote:Goddammit. Goddammit! Can you not read my whole fucking post and not just the part pertaining to you? Of course it's occured to me. And I was working on figuring that shit out. Now, since you wouldn't simply shut the fuck up, if that one is scum I'll probably never be able to deduce without doubt just because you're too fucking lazy to read. Thanks for fucking that up if there were anything to be gained from it. GODDAMMIT!!!
This freakout seemed town though.
I do think the frustration here is genuine, and I don't think he'd be this frustrated from a line of questioning being stomped through as scum unless he truly did really REALLY care about figuring fresh out as scum.
Jaqen, what are you referring to re: Bastard role? I remember you talking about the option to win with Fresh while you were both alive, but I don't remember anything else.
I also liked his interactions with us recently; again, the specific paranoia felt town.
The really good point here for Jaqen being town is how he handled the Fresh situation; I don't think it would be so overblown if he was scum. It *could* be genuine since if he's scum he's obviously not on a Fresh team, but it would require to care a whole hell of a lot about scumhunting when scum which is sort of rare even in multiball; also like the angles he's been taking lately, the hesitation in driving lynches through lately; the constant effort to reanalyze looks town.