So I just reread pretty much the whole game with a particular eye on mcmc and Awaclus since those were the two people I really hadn't been able to get a read on the entire game. Short version: I read mcmc as pretty solidly town. His interactions with people that he disagreed with definitely seemed to be coming from a place of trying to genuinely scumhunt and figure things out more than scum would normally be able to fake. One interesting note is that in his next to last post D2, he says he doesn't really remember much of hypercube and would have to reread him to have thoughts. So he didn't take a stance one way or the other on the one scum flip we have so far. That's not scummy, just noteworthy.
Awaclus doesn't necessarily match up with my memory from him as scum, but there are a couple people that I have been scum reading that he could potentially be partners with. I would definitely want to see EFHW and/or fang flip before I would vote for him though.
Fang came out of the reread looking scummier and for sure like a more likely partner of hypercube's than EFHW does, because cube repeatedly stated a scum read on EFHW (and voted) while also saying they found fang towny or pro-town, however it was phrased. Could be a bus, but is would new!scum!hypercube be confident enough to bus for 2 whole days? Possibly, but I think it's less likely than the alternative.
I think for now, while my read on EFHW's play hasn't really changed, my preference for who I would rather see flip first has flipped to fang due to the partner implications. Vote: infangthief
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