#project unknown

a grand part of the video is woven around this greed, this lust for blood. dolphin is protecting sososhaun from people like her. THAT'S INSANE. this is further proven true when eventually, dolphin's attempted murder on sharkilz backfires and end up killing shaun, as well as when harmmony has to die in order to take the secret dolphin started to the grave.

in trying to protect sososhaun, dolphin brought about their demise, and misfortune for everyone else around them. like tumbling snow down a hill growing bigger and bigger until it crashes and burns and takes everyone else out with it.

on a side ramble, i think it's interesting how dolphin tried to 'redeem' sososhaun's reputation through these means, when clearly it was never what soso wanted. soso never expressed greed or ambition for kills, it was only dolphin. and this isn't the first time, right? dolphin uses her pvp skills to leverage her worth, and uses her skills to protect others and prove herself. time and time again. this didn't work too well with sea4, when dolphin put her best foot forward in attempting to impress sea4 and make herself look like a worthy teammate. but sea4 was more skilled than her, and this dynamic of admiration, of putting sea4 on this pedestal, made her every failure all the more searing. the starter team on infuse? she could not impress them either. could never figure out how to shake off their looks of suspicion until she was essentially excommunicated.

but sososhaun? sososhaun was a weak player. sososhaun needed, depended, on dolphin. this soothed some aching part of him that looked for validation. that he is indeed worth something, that his skills, the medium he has used to get here— weight in the situation and matter to someone. that he isn't just someone to be sidelined, that he isn't just 'not enough' in the eyes of every teammate that gets close enough to see the cracks.

once again on bliss, dolphin tells wyll that they won't be ditched by the brotherhood because they are skilled enough to be worth keeping as a teammate.

dolphin uses her pvp skills to leverage her worth, so, it isn't that different this time around, right?

so i think, just in between the lines crafted for the viewers, there was an underlying fear that has been consistent throughout the many smps he has been a part of.

and you know, isn't it really symbolic? the first and second time someone other than the viewers get to know (some) of this, are all at the very end when there is no more any need to keep up pretenses after sososhaun dies. the first time is when dolphin voluntarily makes everyone visible at the meeting post end fight and dukes it out with the team that killed soso. they don't ever learn the person that jumped sharkie back then wasn't soso, but rather dolphin, but 'dead' people have no business knowing anyways.

for the first time in the entire event, dolphin is vying for a kill as dolphin. as sososhaun's avenger, as a heartbroken friend, and that is all that sososhaun's killers need to know.

the second happens when they're having a talk with sososhaun post both of their deaths. it is really just dolphin putting it all out on the table, for sososhaun to see and judge. to plead? to hope for forgiveness, for lenience—

dolphin: surely some part of shaun knew that deep down, i just wanted what's best.

to come clean, to clear this burden of lying and deceiving and lying off their shoulders to move on. move on from project unknown. move on from killing harmmony. move on from having indirectly killed sososhaun. move on with sososhaun, because dolphin was tired too, the guilt and the scheming maybe fun at first, but quickly became too much as the lies piled up and became something bigger than they could control. the lines spilled and overflowed, and the theatrics escaped dolphin's carefully crafted stage.

and you know. as we, for the first time, get to hear a point of view other than dolphin's own, we hear sososhaun's, dolphin disappears from view. literally fades away. sososhaun right then and there, chose to cut dolphin off their narrative. severing their ties— at least in this world, anyway.

and i think about harmmony a lot. harmmony was cut off dolphin's narrative too. i talked about it before, i like my interpretation of harmmony disappearing off dolphin's narrative because of dolphin's sense of guilt— because deep down she knew what she had done wrong.