Yes I agree it seems weird for Kicks to be against town, but simply because of the mention of shoes makes me wonder that it's possible that he could be 3rd party. I personally think Isabelle from New Leaf would make a better Vig as she's very important in the game, not to mention this:
I don't know any other female character that is important except for Isabelle and the Mable Sisters or maybe even Carmen the Rabbit. That's all that comes to mind when it comes to important female characters in the game (do mind that only Isabelle, the Mable sisters, and Carmen are either a few or the only female animals with paws).
I think Mezlo stated earlier that the reason he unvoted for Gumball was because it wasn't fair to kill the a person who just entered the game as Gumball was originally a replacement. There was already people voting for Gumball even though she was not in the game at first and once he found out that Gumball, I think he tried to make it fair for Gumball by unvoting for her so that she didn't just die from an already set-up bandwagon.
As for the Innocent Child role, I will state that it is a role I used to be in Thar's Fate/Zero Mafia and it merely is a VT with the ability to call the mod to prove that he/she is a townie to prevent a mislynch. Still puzzled why he would do so since I bet no one found him suspicous but he must have something in his mind for doing so.
Well out of the two that were not targeted by the mafia mido was a decently experiNced player and so was fused. Maybe he thought that the vig or Sk (most likely the Sk would target him). He also made the mafia choose kill an experienced player or kill some one with a chance of hitting a power role.