Decided to ISO Ceph and maybe it's confbias but I'm seeing scum motivation behind a lot of his posting. Here's a wall about it.
In post 174, Cephrir wrote:
i'm liking shirou a moderate amount. they seem at ease and i don't mean because they're talking about how at ease they are/want to be.
i didn't care for fua's first post.
This is where his ISO starts to look funky. I already commented that I wasn't sure how fua's first post was AI, since it was entirely about being confused by the hydrae. Both Ceph himself and morph have indicated this is possibly a valid reason to not care for an entrance, but I still think it's nothing. As town, I've been confused/frustrated by hydrae before.
But even if you don't agree with any of that, just look at the other major point of this post. Ceph claims to like Shirou, despite him ALSO complaining about hydra stuff in his opening post.
To be absolutely fair, Ceph gave these opinions in response to a direct question about his thoughts on page 6, and Shirou's opening post didn't happen on page 6. So in a vacuum, this point is bullshit. But in context with the rest of Ceph's ISO I can't help but see it as suspicious.
After this, Ceph proceeds to pocket Shirou with
207 and
223.
239 begins his interaction with Tejate that I've talked about extensively already, and which initially turned me on to him as a SR.
And this (plus the rest of the discussion he had with me after this) helped me solidify the SR. He oscillated between disproportionately hostile and dismissive.
Hostile:
288,
312
Dismissive:
277,
294,
296 (actually a response to fua)
Hostile AND dismissive:
324
Note how nowhere in there is a single actual refutation of my read, just consistently saying that I have no reason to come after him. My reasoning at the time was of course mostly gut based. But then why have that kind of reaction to it? It's not scummy to have an emotional reaction and it's not scummy to argue against a scumread on you. What's scummy is the dissonance between them in Ceph's posting here.
In post 379, Cephrir wrote:it's weird, i went to bed feeling like no one was scum and have woken up thinking everyone is scum.
I've been in games where reads are impossible to feel good about all the way up to like, D3 or 4. This post feels like he's misconstruing this game as one of them. At a stage where people are starting to put out reads and leans, even tentative ones, here Ceph is giving a reason why he might not be able to. And then of course, he does not for the rest of his ISO. This is also +scum - he's been in several interactions and debates, but his only takeaway is that "everyone is scum"?
pedit: "He's maybe a little focused on some specific people" - great timing for me to come out with a wall about a single person
