On Soup: While we were wrong about Soup being scum, we absolutely were not wrong about him not playing like a townie. His role as a townie with an unbreakable weapon that only he could use should have meant he'd be actively scumhunting and volunteering to hammer to preserve the number of weapons town had. Instead, he buried his head in the sand, refused to offer solid reads on anyone, and sat in a protective support role. He completely misplayed his assigned role, took heat, and basically gave up at the end.
It also didn't help that he didn't bother to understand the rules properly.
On Our Kill: My reasoning for hammering remains the same. Raz had already made it clear he was ready to hammer, and to me it looked like a bus. Ninja-ing was happening all over, so Zen completely missed my request not to separate. There was nothing to do after that but try to prevent a bus. I suspected that some scum may have items with unique abilities, a fact somewhat substantiated by the fact that a weapon like the Falchion exists.
In hindsight, it would have been better for me to simply ALL CAPS post telling no one to hammer, but in the heat of the moment, claiming the hammer from Raz seemed like the play. This is exactly the reason why we wanted those rules agreed on D1. While it may not have stopped soup from getting lynched by town in the end, it would have at least prevented the overwhelming embarrassment of how that Day ended.
On Claiming: We're more than happy to claim, although Zen has already done it for us. We're an "Odd Rhythm" character who can only make kills on odd numbered days. We breadcrumbed this extensively on Page 1, hoping our "Even Rhythm" counterpart would notice. The part of the claim we were going to use a test to see if someone claiming to be "Even Rhythm" was legitimate was the part about ending the day if you attack on the wrong day. As Zen pointed out, this would be terribly overpowered if given to scum. I think that alone makes Zen and us cleared as townies.
@Zen: Two questions: 1) Are you Nowi? and 2) If you are, we'd like to support you. I think you can understand why, given how our roles are designed to work together.