This game where I have to actually type words is hard.
Even so, my opinion of Raikaria is unchanging. To sum my thoughts so far, I'll write a few more words from the top.
Raikaria's first set of actions are to vote someone randomly, then to defend his actions as being random. Raikaria later explains it with:
I would have certainly swapped my vote by now to someone else who hadn't had a vote yet, to continue my playfulness combined with reaction testing to votes, and how other people reacted to them, during the RVS period.
My original plan was to hop around the people who hadn't been voted during RVS
I asked a question earlier to Raikaria so as to how he expects votes thrown around frequently under the guise of RVS would pressure anyone at all, which Raikaria has yet to answer.
In addition to this, we can look at things like:
That said, if not for Serela's reaction, we'd probobly still be *in* RVS.
Which indicates a strong desire from Raikaria to associate himself with having ended RVS.
This is a natural course of action, if you're looking to defend yourself, since ending RVS is an admirable action meant to forward the game and create meaningful discussion that will help us to catch the scums.
However, I feel that Raikaria's words are contradictory with his earlier actions. These, to be precise:
Silly HuhWhat. I do not want to spread votes, I want to spread love! I'm vote carries the love of us all! No-one should be left out~
It's like, what the hell is this? To me, this looks more like an attempt to extend the RVS, rather than ending it.
After dragging the RVS for as long as he could, he quickly changed his tune once it seemed like the RVS was ending so that he could claim to have been aiming for this outcome from the beginning.
After this, we have Raikaria's perusal of Serela.
I could argue that your vote which basically amounts to OMGUS is more reason than anything else, especially if you're taking Huh What's prod at an RVS vote seriously.
First things first. Raikaria's first post, as I've stated earlier and as Schezo has also commented on, is worded in a rather "safe" manner.
Yes, yes, I might be arguing over semantics in analysing the use of "could", but I believe that it says a lot about Raikaria's defensive mentality at the time.
Upon rereading, I notice that my original interpretations of Raikaria's words regarding HW were rather confused, it was 1AM at the time, but whatever.
I saw "HW is messing around" as "HW is making bad cases", or something to that effect. This is my bad.
This doesn't change the fact, though, that Raikaria is really seeming to be overly defensive in making his case on Serela.
I mean, Raikaria's case around Serela seems to hinge around the fact that Serela decided to sheep HW's ED1 reasoning for voting for Raikaria and I am really curious about how Raikaria's opinion might change once Serela actually responds. Provided Serela actually responds.
Speaking of which, please exist Serela.
Anyway, my next point about Raikaria: To further his ambitions to defend himself and keep himself alive, Raikaria seems to have resorted to using emotionally charged language and portraying himself as being victimized in order to garner sympathy so as to not get lynched.
It appears people missed the 'reaction testing' part of my post. By throwing votes around early you can see how people react to being voted, and, just as importantly, how other people react to that person being voted. I just chose Serela first. I had reason and rhyme as to my madness, Dormio. And again, why am I being singled out for RVS shenanigans? Am I not allowed to play?
This very sentence seems contradictory to me.
Raikaria complains about being singled out for RVS shenanigans, when he claims that he was throwing his votes around and attempt to gather reactions.
When combined with his earlier points about wanting to end the RVS, it seems almost believable.
But, in that case, why is Raikaria crying about how he's become the focus of people's attention?
I'd assume that if you're attempting to end the RVS by throwing your vote around where it's most useless, you would be prepared to be voted yourself for it.
And it should be a good thing, shouldn't it? Considering you're trying to end the RVS and all, even if the conversation is centred around you, creating the discussion leads to opportunities to find inconsistencies in people's thought processes through the words that they type.
So why is it that Raikaria is appealing to emotion when he comes under scrutiny himself?
This adds to my earlier assessment that Raikaria was simply trying to associate himself with having ended the RVS, rather than actually attempting to end the RVS.
And I'm a derp, Huh What throwing around that Serela is 'confirmed town' is silly. I retract my statement about there being no real reason to vote him, but I personally do not see him vote-worthy.
HuhWhat: OK, whereas before I didn't see you as much of a problem, this whole 'Serela is confirmed town' and things like saying Conq is posting like he's scum without explaining it is starting to make you look bad in my eyes.
This fencesitting on HW doesn't look that good either. Stating that you have reasons to vote for someone, but refusing to vote for them whilst not disclosing the reasons makes me wonder why one would bother mentioning it at all.
An attempt to look active, and as though you're thinking more about scumhunting than you actually are?
Well, I guess it fits with my hypothesis that Raikaria is simply trying too hard to save his own skin.
And then, despite all that's happened, without Serela's response Raikaria simply doesn't vote anyone at all.
What happened to the supposedly fearless Raikaria that would vote people for their reactions?
Are you really looking for the scum? Because it doesn't look that way to me.
