#everyone else

MV1 you will be remembered. You will be missed.

ive seen a lot of posts explaining how all these different characters are the smartest, like how cyan figured out all that stuff on their own, or how lime knew orange was the imposter, or how purple realized green's mental absence or whatever, or how red actually tried to get everyone to stay calm instead of full fledged panic. i've seen literally every character thing (mostly those) but why does nobody ever talk about how genius green was?

it's right there in the show on literally every line or movement in the background. here are all their kills

even at the very first kill, they successfully murder white, implanting some sort of parasite in them that splits them in twain whenever they try to speak. this way the murder puts no suspicion on anyone, because no one was even checking the cameras (preparing for the party) nor paying attention to anything everybody does. the murder was so unexpected no one could place suspicions on anyone, much less green- who was seen hyperventilating and later vomiting from shock. later they show sadness in having to clean up their dead "friend" and they react extremely in character when lime suggests they got jealous and killed white- surprise on why anyone'd accuse them, and playing it off like lime's accusations didn't mean anything, because really, they didn't. who would believe the one who accuses everyone?

episode 2, they complied with the body scans, although visually nervous. they explain how scared they are of the situation, and act just like any normal person would. really, they had to comply with the scans even though it'd reveal them as imposter. i mean, if someone didn't scan, that would be an obvious hint to their lies. knowing blue would put two and two together, they melt their insides to go through the vents when they're 100% sure purple is away in oxygen with heracles. they kill blue, take their scan but leave orange's, leave them standing up and go find red. leaving one imposter scan was strategic- everyone would think that there was only one. by leaving blue's body standing, the time of their kill becomes undetermined. as people think of who was there at what times, it becomes blended together. in fact, by doing this they attempt to frame purple- knowing they didn't check the cameras and weren't where they were supposed to be. even still, they were the one seen outside of medbay first. they could've just accused purple right then and there- but they sat back and watched everything play out. by doing that, they build themselves a persona- one that doesn't accuse, or lead, but instead observes. the unpaid intern wouldn't accuse anyone, they care so much that they wouldn't even think any of these cool people in space would kill anyone. and still, they saw purple's suspicion on others, and began to think of purple as very useful. if they let purple put suspicion on others, that relives their own suspicion.

after orange is ejected, their plan i mentioned before about the no bone scan comes into action. they lure everyone into a false sense of security, agreeing to go and mop up lime's body like the obedient, nice intern they are- pretending to be dissipointed about having to do so but actually recognizing an opportunity. they slice the wires in oxygen, sabotaging it while pretending to clean up lime's body. they enter the party with everyone, expecting for this to be a quick mass murder, but purple leaves to oxygen for their fishmate. when purple comes back, they do some quick thinking and put their scan paper into yellow's backpack. they choose yellow because both yellow and brown have the ability to murder them with salt, and they figure it's only a matter of time before they figure it out. they think brown is less persuasive than yellow, and that they won't be able to defend their friend.

how sweet of them aww

and of course, they go into oxygen and use up the most amount of air so everyone has less time. sitting right near purple, and using their intuition to suspect some story between them and red- edging them on to start a long story so they can slip through the vents to murder cyan. they know, of course, that purple will blame red, so they keep in the background of the vote. they immidietly empty their backpack when suggested, showing eagerness to find the killer as an intern, but really forcing everyone to do the same and reveal the scan yellow placed. they're not contributing anything to the votes but instead slowly manipulating the conversation from the background to shift suspicion from red to yellow. they know purple's bias towards red, making it better to eject someone random while keeping red and purple together to cast suspicion on one another until both are voted out. they show nervousness being the tiebreaker, playing the concerned intern who doesn't want to kill anyone by ejection, really seeming to think about it. they know purple will try to call another vote, hoping for a three-for-one kill, but the idea is taken down.

shortly after, everyone stays in the same room. it's risky to pull another kill, but their alibi is rock solid by now. with everyone else angrily talking to each other or mourning, they slip through the vents and slice brown in half.

they slip back in, and call everyone towards the kill site. everyone is confused- everyone's in the same room! how could anyone have gotten in? everyone walks to their separate places, and green notices how black goes off alone. they avoid the flaky salt*, and go off to kill black and sabotage the reactor. black figures out things about them (not who the imposter is, just the presence of alien eggs.) black's gotta go.

they arrive early to the scene, knowing red will see this as a good thing. purple arrives "lately", which casts suspicion on them. they suggest, defeated, that everyone cleans up the body together, and red agrees. now red and purple are actively suspicious of each other, particularly that purple provides a terrible alibi, and that theirs is sound- cleaning up brown's corpse. then the alarms sound for the reactor, and green, red and purple all rush to the scene to fix it. both red and purple were unstable, and they'd destroy each other. they'd vote off purple, because the captain was their alibi, then kill red and win. unfortunately, they were so caught up in their false sense of immunity that they make a succession of fatal mistakes. their first was being the diligent, starry-eyed intern, asking "wow! really?" questions to their superiors. instead of reacting immidietly to purple's cues, they try and remember. usually they'd bluff, but for some reason they thought they could risk the hesitation of recalling. they quickly did what they should've done first and said they remembered, but it was too late. it was alright though, because there was no way red would trust purple. when red showed signs of trusting them, though, they made their most fatal flaw- getting defensive. all that work creating an innocent, "oh i don't wanna accuse anyone!" persona went down the drain as soon as they actually got nervous. they said all of the hints they'd layed out for red previously, which doesn't work well for someone egotistical like red. their strategy was great- let red find out things for themselves, so that they trust "the clues they found" and can defend their point better. green got fed up with red being stupid and presented a firm, incredible but fatally uncharacteristic argument. purple's whole accusation was of green being not in character, and here they literally proved purple's point. another thing they didn't account on was the human relationships not by blood. we have to remember they grew up on a worm farm away from people. sure, they did learn a lot about people and ways their brain accused others, but they never actually had a real friend. think about it- you don't see green having an actual conversation with genuinely anyone except white, who dies quickly, and red, whom they only utilized as their alibi, not a friend. they don't understand that people can change their mind and that people can change if they have history with each other. this is one of my biggest evidences on how green isn't actually an "imposter alien" directly, but that they didn't actually get "taken over" by the parasite. a better explanation would be that the parasite gave them only a sort of euphoria when preforming a kill- hence the term, "they like to kill" which led them to becoming a serial killer. the alien didn't take them over- they just gave them the tools that they didn't even know they needed. i'm a big fan of this deep troupe that given the opportunity, people wouldn't hesitate to destroy each other. as you can see in their final moments, they succumbed to their earthly desires. taking the lives of others makes you numb to a lot of things, especially what's right and what's wrong after awhile. the kills made green feel above everyone else, having some sense of control they'd never experienced in a small, rural poor town. they indulged too much and enjoyed explaining to purple all their plans- a little too much, actually- which led to them not thinking as hard about the power that red and purple actually had. they played a cat and mouse chase until it bored them, then promptly eating them both. you can see the joy that it gives them right there, and then yeah they explode awww