‘I’m a Faithful!’

[Ratri]

I quite enjoy The Traitors, but I wish the developers had come up with a better term for the contestants who aren’t traitors.

’I’m faithful’ is fine, obviously but ‘I’m a faithful’ or pluralised as ‘The traitors must be laughing at the faithfuls’ both annoy me on the grounds of ‘weird things to do to a blameless adjective’.

It doesn't bother me. It works in terms of the programme.

Worse is "I'm 100% a faithful" as if it weren't a binary situation.

It is the name given to the individuals in a group of contestants and is Faithful with a capital F, so I can't really see your problem.

It's not a singular noun! I hear you, OP. It annoys me too. You can be faithful, you can't be a faithful. Plus they're not actually faithful to anything in particular, they're just telling the truth when they say they're not traitors. It's more 'honest' than 'faithful'.

I mean, I imagine the game developers talked about what the 'bad guys' and the 'good guys' in the game would be called, and couldn't come up with anything better, which I get -- I can't think of anything better, either. In 'Mafia', you have mafiosi versus villagers, in the 'Werewolf' variant, you have the villagers versus the werewolves, but there's no more obvious antonym for 'traitor' that I can think of.