I'll start with the conclusion that
Italiano is probably MiccWord's partner.
Reading through the ISO of Micc and Word, several things stand out, again:
Micc votes Italiano in what seems like RVS. However, Italiano asks Micc to confirm that vote was serious. Micc replies that it was, in fact, serious. Instead of continuing the discussion at that point, however, Micc goes on to interact with TBone and Shelly. Much later, Micc unvotes Italiano with no explanation or stronger scum read.
This, to me, looks like distancing.
In Micc's reads list, he simply has Italiano down as "seems pretty town."
No critical analysis at all.- no mention of his vote sitting there for pages.
After word replaces in, There is no interaction with Italiano, at all.
I don't think Word mentions him once.
Looking at MiccWord and Italiano together:
Italiano does not find Micc's vote on himself suspicious, although he tells us that he assumes it is a serious vote.
However, instead of pursuing anything related to that, Italiano pivots to Red.
Meanwhile, Micc confirms that his vote signifies a departure from RVS (ie his vote on Italiano is serious) but then starts focusing on T-Bone.
Why don't either of them follow up on their interactions?
Italiano says that he "isn't feeling" Micc
74 but that "the wording sounds townie but I don't know." and then later sticks Micc in the "null" zone in his reads list.
After that, Italiano talks with NN, Red, and GG. Not long from there he says micc's "reevaluating that way makes me think town" and puts him in a no-elimination group. Finally, Italiano questions Shelly on her vote for Micc, stating that they are both town reads.
This progression isn't based on any actions on Micc's part that I can see. Other than Micc "reevaluating" a couple of reads, I don't see a natural justification for this change.
Towards the end of the day, Italiano agrees with SJR's reads list but warns "I'm suspicious of people who townread me
".
I'm not sure if this is pocketing or LAMIST or what, but it's something.
About the time Word replaced in, Italiano was leaning in to ShellyC. He welcomes Word, and calls both he and T-Bone town. Then, in 585, Italiano says scum are between Shelly and Word, but votes for Shelly. There are no posts from word for some time. Italiano publicly talks himself out of voting for shelly and hammers Word.
This unnatural and conflicting reads progression looks like an attempt to first save, then bus, a mafia partner.
Conclusion: Italiano is partnered with MiccWord
I believe this is correct. There are a smattering of other associative as I've described, but in the unlikely event that this flips town, I'll reevaluate at that time.
