Alright, I've given it some thought and I've realized that I've been too blinded by the other details of whats happened. Upon a reread of the game, I'm starting to lean back towards Waffles being the mafia. Fleshy's last huge text wall post honestly gave me a little bit of an epiphany and it has really good points to it.
1. Fleshy seems to have been genuinely confused about the game. This can be seen through posts like these:
Fleshy really did bring up a good point. If he really, truly was mafia here, then would he really feel concerned at all about whats happening in the game? I don't really feel like he would have, mostly because Fleshy genuinely did express interest in trying to solve the game. He even tried to contribute as much as possible at EoD 1 when he was nearly lynched. I can still see this as him faking it all, but then again, if you were scum and were nearly lynched would you really feel so calm to go ahead an contribute despite your death? I would lean moreso towards no, which is exactly what Waffles did: The freaked out until they could get out of the lynch. Which brings me to my second point:
2. Before it was confirmed mafia were not sending in kills, Fleshy seemed to have believed I was attacked and healed. Yes it is possible that he is mafia and only said that to spring at the opportunity to get Waffles lynched, but he continued to believe my claim for a period of time:
3. To restate what I said early about how that I, as scum, would have just kept my vote on Waffles to win the game? Yeah, this logic somewhat applies to Fleshy during D2 as well. Take a look at this post they made:
Fleshy expressed suspicion about me in this post, right? This was not too long after he stated that it was basically confirmed to be Waffles, and that was the general accepted theory at the time. So, what reasoning would Fleshy have to deviate from that path? Exactly: he doesn't. If he were mafia, he probably could have just kept his mouth shut and let the lynch stay on waffles instead of expressing any other concern about me.
Honestly, I should have seen most of this early, but if Fleshy hadn't have brought those points up I wouldn't have seen them. From what I remember about past games, Waffles spent a lot more time being quite proactive in the thread and bringing up valid points. Which reminds me, who remembers when Waffles tried to say that I didn't send an action in and was lying? Why would Waffles, as town, automatically townlock Fleshy for literally next to no reason? Why, as town, would Waffles freak out and try to say that I'm mafia when they could easily just calmly explain why I'm more suspicious over them.
My vote is going to Waffles. Vanessa, I urge you to reconsider your opinion of Fleshy and switch with me.