(Mainly in reply to multiple Pierce posts)
As much as I hate to normally talk about flavor stuff, I really don't think we're dealing with two mafia factions here. Paper Mario is pretty clear cut and dry. Very good guys vs bad guys, and the bad guys flipped so far are just as one would suspect, Bowser minions. Who else would make good scum that aren't minions? idk. Imagine yourself sitting down to make a Paper Mario mafia game, two scum is not something that would come to mind at all.
Going a little further, lets say there's like 3 scum on a team. Seems reasonable, right? If it was two we would have 2v2v9, kind of ridic. If it were 3, we would have 3v3v7, which starts to get less balanced. Couple this all with only one NK yesterday, (outside of bomb shenanigans), etc.
With the above being said (what I said, not the quote), I'm more willing to have a null read on Kary in general, not necessarily mafia.