I Have A Black Heart.

what did kojima put in bbkaz to inspire me to make a million playlists. i mean it’s probably largely bc it is relevant to like half of all 70’s and 80’s songs

actually i DO want to talk about catherine miller. here is what we know about catherine: she was Kaz’s daughter, she was a child during MG2 (in 1999) and it is implied in the MGS4 database that she lived with him during MGS1 (in 2005) my guess from her dialogue is that she was 5-8 years old in MG2, putting her birth year around 1991-1994.

but who was her mom? hell, considering kaz was infertile, who was her biological dad? what made him decide to raise her? was he raising her alone or was there a shared custody agreement with her mom? (endlessly fascinated by Kaz Divorce Arc but that’s for another post) did she have a good childhood? was she loved? considering she was living with kaz in 2005 was she the one to find his body? how did she react? (she was only a child) where did she go after? did she ever discover anything about her dad’s past? were there always agents watching her? did she ever meet solid snake? did she ever meet his daughter? did she get to grow up?

i know she was an afterthought character probably meant to be retconned out but i wish i could get my hands on the forbidden catherine lore, if it even existed.

born to meet you

sketches and some unfinished works that I can't post separately so here they are all at one post

on the subject of it often being out of character for characters to be having carefully negotiated bdsm sex in smut fics: 90% of metal gear ships are insane toxic yaoi and would definitely be having sex that is neither safe nor sane and only borderline consensual HOWEVER otacon and snavid would be thoroughly negotiating kinks before during and after sex like theyre doing mission briefings on a codec call

When time cast a spell on you but you lowkey wont forget me

yes, based on the fact that it says otacon is jewish, i see strangelove as matrilineally jewish. i think a lot of people use her existence to say oh, him being jewish was retconned out, but who’s to say she wasn’t jewish? jews have lived in the uk for hundreds of years, and she is from the city (manchester) with the second largest jewish population in the country (after london) and besides the fact that she is british and from manchester we know nothing about her family history so there’s literally nothing to say she isn’t jewish.

i do think huey’s side was jewish too, bc i think that was meant to be the implication originally…even if huey is shit representation lol…

obviously none of these characters are religious, they’re all scientists with a bit of a reddit athiest vibe to them, but judaism is an ethnoreligion so you can be jewish without being observant. you can even celebrate holidays and stuff without really believing. i think otacon was raised secular, but jewish enough that he had a very cringe bar mitzvah with a nerdy theme (exact theme tbd, it would have been in 1993 so idk what nerd shit was big then, taking suggestions) because i think that would be funny.

i consider myself the ceo of jewish otacon. i bring a “did you know a 1998 handbook for metal gear solid 1 listed otacon’s ethnicity as jewish american, and while that was never elaborated upon, it was never contradicted either?” vibe to the fandom that is mildly annoying.

so I’m replaying MGS2 right now

(text from @demonictwistedlich99 ‘s iconic post ofc)

i like how kaz is kinda a 4 time divorcee (big boss, ocelot, venom, nameless wife.) messiest bitch to ever live.