my main issue with caffeine being scum is the timeline of his read on clarinet and Clarinet's reaction to Caffeine pushing him
starting on Page 25
Haruno asks Clarinet for his role since Clarinet has implied it's important out of the blue
Clarinet says his role is to be Haruno's protector, to which Haruno is confused
Caffeine unvotes Clarinet because he thinks Clarinet claiming caffeine is scum is more likely to come from flailing town. He mentions in his next post that implying he has a super important role is something Clarinet has done as town, but thinks he's just bluffing. Caffeine then revotes Clarinet, citing Clarinet's check to rolecop Caffeine. What's interesting to me is that this entire thought process of Caffeine's is done without actually interacting with anyone, even though there's a couple posts between they're unrelated
If this is all for theatrics to make it look more natural it's kinda impressive, because to me it reads like Caffeine's gut instinct is that this is town clarinet flailing, but then finds what he considers to be a slip. But even more interesting is that once Caffeine (and Panic Station) start pushing this, Clarinet just completely gives up. If this is a bus or scum theater between Caffeine and Clarinet I'd be impressed