For the sake of the argument, I'm going to assume that the power that Teproc claims is true. I don't want to waste time verifying it and A) I don't think Teproc would come up with that as a fakeclaim (not that you're not a good player!) and B) It's a role crazy enough for silverspawn to include. So, from that, there's two alignments the role could belong to: Town/Scum.
Town:
If I have this power, the use is to stop lynches I feel aren't going to land on scum. However, I have to out myself as a PR to do that. Is it worth it? Probably not. It's like a very, very weak Governor, which is already a weak power because if that's who the majority of people want to lynch, it's going to happen anyway. So should I use my power? No, probably not unless I want to confirm myself. Do I claim it? Well, since you're never going to use it, you're basically claiming Vanilla. Which is bad. So, no. I wouldn't claim it.
Scum:
If I have this power, I'm going to be using it to stop my partner's lynch. However, if the lynch goes through despite adding some love, I'll look super scummy. I could use it on a Townie to hopefully stop their lynch and then when I get lynched people think that that's my partner who I was trying to save. Also, the word "protect" is pretty Towny sounding as well. But, do I claim it? I think, yes. At least it's a nice way to grab Towncred. Though if I were scum I'd probably ditch the power and fakeclaim something else.
From a setup perspective, an IC is fairly powerful in a 9 player game. That drops the lynch pool for everyone but him to 7 players with at least 2 likely being correct lynches. So it only makes sense that the Town would be given very weak additional powers, if any.
His reasoning for claiming, as I (and Hydrad a bit earlier) pointed out, doesn't make much sense. The power becomes irrelevant when groupthink already decides who lives and dies for the day. So, he's basically claiming Vanilla. He also states that it could interact with other powers, but that shouldn't determine whether or not you claim. Because if you think your power DOES help another power, you would not want to risk being nightkilled and thus not claim in the first place. So, the logic for Teproc's claim falls flat and just reads as an attempt to gain towncred. But I won't give his claim any. I think Teproc is a better Town player than one who just outright claims his power. So, I'll be leaving my vote on him.
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