I mean, would I like it to not be a shield? Yeah, definitely.
Do I think the fact that it
is a shield is pretty funny? Sorta, considering that if you'd all targeted me like I was trynna reverse-psychology people into doing that I'd be the Ultimate Power In The Universe because I'd have all the powers. Which would be pretty sick.
I do feel the need to stress though that despite the fact that people are suspicious of my role, none of you have actually bothered targeting me, a fact I know because
I haven't gotten anyone's powers yet, so clearly I'm at the very worst in that sweet spot between 'I find your story suspicious in some capacity' and 'okay I've decided it's worth the risk-that-my-power-will-be-stolen of targeting you with (power)'. I figured that would be a much smaller area, but we all learn new things every day, I guess.
Madeline Norfolk, GLaDoS has been killed
Where's my flavor text!?
Confirmed not-Turrets:
Aragonn (as Wheatley the Idiot Core), Batman (as Morality Core), and Kane (as the 'not anything anymore' Core)
Probable not-Turrets:
Wintermoot (as either Atlas or P-Body, who might be Core or might be Nonaligned), Sapphiron (on the basis of Pengu mentioning him as a protection target, which
to me seems like it'd be a Freudian slip, in the sense of 'obviously a defender would only defend Cores, so I won't pick someone who they will retroactively know was a Turret to defend'. And of course, being added late), Barnes (he's been on the right wagons early since the start), Me (You'll note,
also the right wagons, and, again, obviously not suspicious enough to bother scanning, but if you want, fine, put me in the section below for your own analysis)

:
Aren, Excalibur
Of the two I'm going to be suspicious of (because obviously I don't suspect myself), Aren
was the more
obviously suspicious to me, but then I looked at post history and Excalibur has made a grand total of 4 posts in this entire game (which, for reference, less than 1%, there's been 445 as of my post). That
reeks of an attempt to fly under the radar, which is classic scum play.
Vote: Excalibur