Jonah
The opposite of Esther's evolution, shall we say? I mean, what happened? He had a good activity in the beginning, with a bit of moxy and different perspectives on why some players' posts might be read as "scummy". His first votes were unconventional and almost standalone, after which the next ones (Job, Jeph, Jonathan) veer more towards wagoning.
Extreme civ cred theory? Intentional drop under the radar as to, maybe, not get NKd for being so outspoken. Or genuine demoralization, as he stated on Day 5.
Extreme bad tactic theory? Intentional fishing during the first days, only to let others become leaders and develop a more hidden, inactive profile.
(Total batshit paranoia theory? Isaac has told us long ago he's 2.0. It has been infered that Stephen and Esther might have clearly been replaced. The Host has announced no such changes throughout the game. Maybe there's a "switcheroo" that occured between low and active players, so that inactive players became more involved and other drop off the face of the earth?)
For either of the first two theories, Jonah's inactivity would still be way too much for him to have consistently tailored an intentional tactic, so idk.
Not the cleanest vote record either, often going spontaneously for his last suspicion (Mary, Rahab) and leaving others behind (Martha, Balaam, Deborah). Never took a stance on Uzziah (being unsure what to make of it), plus left an awfully jokey post in awe to Uzziah's troll abilities, but also came up with the "feud" theory between Job and Uzziah. That being said, he chose the case on Job over the one on Balaam, Day 4, at a time when the two were even. A flip on Balaam, at any point, could make Jonah look better or worse, in this regard.
I'm not reading that much into his Mary and Rahab votes being spreading, because they're so distant from serious nominations at that time. His Day 5 vote for Jeph (whilst throwing his hands in the air re: Uzziah) is so last-minute, it could be nothing. His Day 8 Jonathan vote is probably pure wagoning, he didn't even post about it.
Lazarus
Until a solid theory is formed on Lazarus actually having messed with us all this time and being bad, I'm going to keep considering him the best candidate for Simon there is. I'm still not seeing what Lot is suggesting (plus I wrote that the stats are pretty much against the idea that Simon is dead and the baddies are role claiming him), but I've been known to need to read his thoughts a second time, so I'm open to discussion.
I'm not going to deny that I don't "have an idea" about Lazarus' identity and given that, I'd usually expect him to be a great reader even if he doesn't sweat much to play, but given his read was Absalom, it unfortunately does not compute for me (see my read on Absalom). Also, when he's not vanilla or close in a game, he is usually bad at being subtle at using his power, which further strengthens my belief that he's Simon and that's that.
Other than Absalom (for whom all his votes until the Day 6 debacle were singular), he really hasn't done shit otherwise and I don't think it can't be interpreted much.
Lot
has...posted an awful lot.
I apologise for this, but I want to save him for a bit later, just in case I'll need to spend as much time filtering his posts as I did with Balaam yesterday.
Malchus
Dead alive. Same feelings as regarding Bathsheba - any momentum to read or challenge his activity is sort of long gone. Deborah read him bad during her re-read Day 5, but that's about it (and honestly, she can still look a bit worse for going with a vote for him instead of voting "meta-man" Uzziah and joining that wagon). Always treated Uzziah as WIFOM and picked Cain as worse over Uzziah, but his Day 1 vote isn't part of an obvious anti-Uzziah possible wagon and his vote for Cain, Day 2, was already way inside the lynch train.
Meta read: the faintest memory of a inactive baddie that I have, from previous games, was that he was eventually replaced halfway through the game, either at the Host's or the Mafia's desire to not risk ending up dead and with all their hopes resting on someone not present. Is Malchus really our Inactive Baddie? Who the hell knows.
Mordecai
Day 1: scrutiny of Paul's actions, but also suspicious of Samson and ends up voting for him (first of in the ensuing lynch). Day 2, calls hunt for Uzziah both a cop out but also something he doesn't disagree with (just that it offers room for complacency). Nevertheless, argues significantly with Job instead over this. Come Day 3, he's already wary of Job tunneling, but as far as I notice, didn't take it further.
Two consecutive votes for Lazarus, for his own tunneling of Absalom. His Day 3 one the first of three, whilst Uzziah and Rachel (and soon Job) had already two votes; he never really touched upon these players. His Day 4 is amidst an intense Job vs. Balaam train, in which he again has no part in.
No serious content Day 5 expect his vote post for Uzziah, a late vote that solidifies his lynch. Upon being questioned by Jeph, states that he voted Uzziah in retaliation to Job's flip. His statement that Uzziah would have been a sure lynch (=highly likely lynch) every day raises some eyebrows and rightly so, because it was neither the case quite every single day (except for Day 3), nor did he state this before with conviction.
Day 6, he works on a "voting together" angle of reading the vote records, signaling Deborah, Malchus and Rachel. Votes Rachel of the three, but, conspicuously or not, his vote now stands as bringing Rachel at 3-4 versus Ruth.
Day 7, odd angle theory at whether Absalom would look intentionally civ given Ruth's vote for him. Also builds up his Balaam theory, but presents it only Day 8. Regarding this, some points either don't stand out for me as much as for him or Balaam sounded genuine in defending against them (for instance, #2 and #3, if anyone has followed their exchange), but interestingly enough, he does connect him with Ruth in the timing of the votes, just like Lot noticed.
Hmm, I was sort of expecting to have a stronger read on him. The votes that could be accounted as the worst would be (in order) Day 6 (possible push for Rachel to save Ruth), Day 1 (Samson train, whilst his teammates jumped on Cain's instead) and maybe Day 3. I can't lock his Day 5 vote as bad, but if he is a Heathen, then the deed was long done on sacrificing Uzziah.
From the votes themselves, turning Ruth's lynch into that angle to suspect Absalom seems to me to go against the very nature of Ruth's intent when voting for Absalom (him to die instead of her), so maybe it was an intentionally forced perspective offered to the thread? Is this what others are picking up on as well? Besides that, his Day 3 Lazarus pick and his statement that Uzziah was always highly lyncheable don't match up in attitude, especially for the day that Uzziah could have been lynched. But again, I was hoping for a stronger bad read of him than such circumstantial ideas. I'm open to keeping him in check.
I really can't see anything else prior to that (there's little in post count as well, anyway).
I never saw that coming...
Fiddler on the Roof
for not finding him suspicious.