Okay I was reading back some early d2 stuff and Pein opened by saying Magic and Poyser are scum. Magic then talks to Pein for a while and uhhhhh the dialogue doesn't look like teammates to me at all. Y'all can check it out yourselves it starts around post #2000
Alco also going in pretty hard on Pein d2, don't think they're teamed either
Evans also has a genuine looking back and forth with him, doesn't look teamed either
If anything Poyser looks possibly aligned with Pein from mid-d2, he talks a lot to and about people but almost nothing of it concerns T-Pein. Pein on the other hand goes with this narrative that Magic and Poyser are bussing which in time becomes a general accusation that Poyser is a busser and he also makes a comment that he did something or other during d1 just to trigger Poyser. Those comments strike me as a bit too on the nose, ooo look I'm trying to smear and annoy Poyser, there's no way we're ever teammates.
Poyser himself meanwhile goes other places like he said he would which isn't scummy in itself but he just doesn't care about Pein at all during that time. Ignores the guy for 500 posts or so and then just goes
It's also worth noting that Poyser and Pein aren't reacting to posts where they sus each other. They both like to emoji react in some condescending manner towards posts where others sus them, but with each other there's none of that this game.
Seriously reread d2 and pay attention to how Poyser and Pein talk to each other and how they talk to other people. Poyser opens d2 by saying he wants to lynch Pein but explore other directions which he does. He goes in hard for Aurelian in particular, meanwhile Pein is talking his crap about recruits and whatnot and Poyser just doesn't care. Usually whenever he has someone nailed to a wall he keeps burying their every point to make sure they stay nailed to the wall, there's none of that here.
I think the plan was to explore other directions as Poyser said he would and hopefully find one that they could drag in front of a T-Pein lynch. Poysers posts towards me also look manipulative in hindsight, like egging me on whenever I made a good point against Aurelian or this thing right here
If I simply compare Magics and Poysers reactions to being accused of bussing each other by T-Pein, Magic definitely looks way less likely to be Peins teammate.