Gau (Cello_Marl): What words does one think of when you think of Gau? Wild, savage, yes, but also, ignorant, innocent, and naive. He has no conception of the outside world. With his Leap ability, he learns the ways of monsters. He does not think of them of enemies at that time, but rather as friends. Creatures that he learns the ways of, that he becomes one with. He would never think of them as "scum". I must be a Naive Cop. That would also render "follow the cop" useless without any scum roleblockers or alignment concealers.
Gogo (Meta-Kirby): Gogo is a Flavor Cop who gains immunity to a single player's actions. The immunity seems powerful, but is it really? It's more like a weaker version of roleblocking. If he were scum, what use is that power in a group? Very little. His Flavor investigation allows us to determine if a person chooses to lie about their powers and that's it. That seems balanced enough. The only point of note is that the two pieces of information available to him were provable at the time he brought them up. Or were they? No one other than myself ever asserted that MK could be mafia, so they must think that MK is indy, right? BUT, if that were so, why would he bother to bring so much attention to himself by confirming that SephMasa (Strago) was scum? If he were wrong, he'd be lynched immediately. That is a HUGE gambit, and something that I don't believe an indy MK would be willing to try. The other information, "Gau is in the game", is fairly useless, but it makes sense in context. His mimicking ability is similar to my own supposed investigation ability. Final opinion: town.
Sabin (InferiorityComplex): Sabin is a one-shot recruiter that also has a single investigation abilty called "Helping Hand" and "Scan" respectively. I was leery of the fact that he had an investigation ability as well, but the totality of his other actions let me know he was town through and through. Thinking about that...a single REAL investigation, and MK's flavor investigation is all that town really has. In a 16 person game, that seems reasonable enough.
Relm (giraffelasergun): GLG breadcrumbed Relm by saying something was "sketchy". I'm assuming for now that Relm's only power was her "masonry" with Strago. If I'm wrong on that, GLG should let us know. At any rate, GLG is so obvtown I won't bother with any commentary.
Cyan (Dark Horse): Roleblocking Bomb. His powers are provable, the especially important one being the roleblocking one. From this, we can assume that Cyan's powers as presented are true. Let's say for a moment that I were a normal cop. No character makes any sense whatsoever as an alignment concealer (except maybe Gogo). Cyan is the only character that has a power that could stop my investigation, BUT it would only be usable when scum dies. Is that reasonable as a scum power? No. DH must be town. ToNight, we can settle this once and for all.
Strago (Sephiroths Masamune): We can actually infer some very useful information from Strago. Whose powers are so strong that it would be broken if scum could target themselves to gain a massive advantage? Voteblocking for one. J/SephMasa would be so stupidly ****ing broken that it can be immediately disregarded. Nabe can essentially force a townie lynch if he were willing to die along with the other lynchee by letting himself get to L-1, activating his Lucky flush and self hammering along with voting for the townie. Doing this twice would destroy a town that was in the Day before LyLo.
Setzer and Mog (Nabe and J): Their powers are too strong when controlled by scum to be scum. They must be town. One could say that J's power dissipating when X1 dies is the balancing factor to this, but why then would SephMasa have said this?
Vote X1
I don't like how you're all over the place with your votes. You don't even stick to one long enough to scum hunt. I wouldn't mind you for a Day 1 lynch.
Destroy their own powers on D1? I don't think so.
Siegfried (BSL): Tracking is a provable power, so it is true. What use would tracking have for scum in this game? Gau: Their buddy is already investigated. If I weren't naive, they would be screwed anyway. Celes/Setzer/Mog/Umaro/Shadow: Effect known to all. Cyan: Knowing who he roleblocked? How is that useful? Locke: Only useful if he successfully protected against their NK. Useless scum ability means it is a town ability.
Shadow (Are-Sigh): Shadow is a vigilante. Shadow could conceivably be a serial killer, but as is the case with all vigilantes, having them commit suicide will deal with that issue once and for all. This will be unnecessary if my theory about Terra is correct.
Celes (Tandora): Dead town.
Kappa (Swiss): He hasn't claimed his powers, but I'm willing to bet he is the only vanilla townie in the game. I'm assuming that he's not a transformed character. A town full of PRs and a goon? Unlikely.
The only players left over are Zen, Vanderzant, and Xatres, and the only characters left over are Edgar (or maybe Gerad), Terra and Locke.
Vanderzant (Locke): An assumption on my part. I'm willing to bet this is the case based on what I'm about to say. Sorry, vand.
Xatres (Terra): We know that X1 is under the influence of a Slave Crown, which was what Emperor Gestahl used to control Terra. Terra is, in fact, the only character that ever had ANYTHING to do with those things in the World of Ruin. Now, the only reason Terra would consider using them is if she had snapped, i.e. was not town. Using my previous thought of Strago copy powers and scum, we can also infer that Terra is not scum, since they can presumably force everyone into difficult self-MOD vote inducing situations. Terra is probably our independent Pied Piper-like that is trying to enslave everyone. What do independents do to win? They must play the forces of Town and Scum off against each other so they are the last one standing. With the death of SephMasa/Strago, independent Terra/Xatres would have gone after who he thought was town, i.e. X1.
Zen (Edgar or Gerad): Character and alignment (scum) arrived at by process of elimination. I have no idea what his ability is, so I cannot comment on if it is too strong, and will be disregarding the "it is too strong, Strago could copy it" argument since he can lie to us.