Char Gar Gothakon is Not Soft-Confirmed (In Fact He is Mafia)
a pre-typed post
TL;DR: CCG was TP's N2 partner, not his N1 partner. TP gossiped with a dead player N1, probably ghost bear. Evidence: TP never town read ccg on D2, but he did defend ghost bear.
Long version:
We know that TP trusted his N2 gossip partner because if he thought they were mafia, he would have used his vig shot. It's usual to share extra info in a night chat when both partners town read each other. Therefore, TP likely might have revealed the identity of his N1 partner to his N2 partner.
Consider this scenario:
N1, TP gossiped with Frankenstein or Ghost Bear (most likely Ghost Bear). The next night, he gossiped with CCG. CCG managed to get TP to town read him. TP claimed to CCG that he gossiped with GB. The next day, after seeing the flip, mafia decided to take advantage of the situation by getting one of their own "soft-confirmed". CCG was up on the chopping block at the end of the previous day & mafia saw TP's flip as a good opportunity to rehabilitate him. CCG's claim came almost six hours after start of day -- more than enough time to discuss in scum chat and come up with the plan, more if TP fully claimed in the chat & they realized overnight what might happen. They knew that no one would counter-claim the N1 chat because GB (or Frankie) was dead.
Alternatively, it could even be that TP gossiped with another mafia member N2, not CCG, but the mafia team decided it would be best for CCG to claim in order to get him out of trouble.
If this theory is true, I would expect that TP:
-Town read Ghost Bear D2 OR seemed curious about Frankenstein D1
-Did not strongly read CCG after N1
Sure enough, on D2 Techno defended Ghost Bear to the best of his ability, considering the facts he had to work with. He wouldn't have wanted to expose himself by going public with a green check, but he did go for the "scum wouldn't coast that much" argument.
Ghost Bear is even less of a presence than I thought. Hardly anything besides voting for Boo. Don't want to fall into the trap of "scum wouldn't put this little effort in would they" but scum wouldn't put this little effort in would they? I'd be fine with voting him.
After that post, Techno never voted for ghost bear. When the mason claim came, he unvoted hyde and suggest various alternatives to ghost bear, one of which ... was CCG.
Oh I think I may know who San Fran is. Not that it means much.
Mason claim is believable. Wax doing the bare minimum and then ghosting is annoying but not worth voting for. Char is a viable alternative assuming he doesn't go elsewhere.
So...anyone want to vote Skunk?
Techno never voted again after unvoting Hyde for his mason claim. He ended D2 without a vote town, probably because of the turbo on ghost bear.
If Techno had a green check on CCG N1, why did he never publicly town-read CCG D2? Why did he suggest CCG as a good alternate train to Ghost Bear? Why did he not vote ghost bear, the alternative train to his green check?
If CCG gossiped with Techno N1, he knew from reading Techno's flip that if he claimed he would be widely town-read. Why was his first post complaining about Baba outing him as Geno? It took him another 25 minutes after that first post to post his one-sentence claim. Why wouldn't he have claimed in his first post rather than waiting?
I know who you are, but I'm not going to out you like you did with me, what a dumb move, even if half of the roster knows who I am, why out me like that? Anyway Town Geno isn't lazy? Look how much I played in the last game, town Geno doesn't claim last minute neither as scum nor town, I challenge you to provide an example as scum where I have done that. Scum Geno always gives out reads. Town Geno also throws shit at the wall, check Bumble King or Berserk or probably others I'm forgetting. You're dead wrong on your guess.
I was the n1 target for TP btw.
"But stan that's too convoluted!!" I ask you: which is the simpler explanation?
Scenario A: TP gossiped with ghost bear N1 and mafia N2, did his best to defend his green check N1, and told his chat partner who he gossiped with before. Mafia saw the flip and decided to do a gambit to save a team-mate who was up for elimination the day before.
Scenario B: TP gossiped with CCG N1 and had a green check on him. So, he mentioned CCG only to suggest him as an alternative train to an inactive poster. The next day, after TP died, CCG claimed the N1 chat & its green check 25 minutes after he checked in.
vote: CCG
i had to use capital letters to make my argument clear, but don't take anything about my identity from that.