Oh, you wanna get into Metal Gear? Excellent! We have this guy, Big Boss-ah no that's his body double yea, that's Venom. Anyway so Big Boss worked with this dude called Kazuhira Miller-no that's Liquid Miller, he's one of Big Bosses clone sons he's impersonating Miller. Miller's dead yeah. So anyway, Big Boss also worked with this guy, Revolver Ocelot. No sorry that's Liquid Ocelot he's possessing Revolver Ocelot but kinda not really. Anyway-
*Muffled Sounds* Oh don't mind the Ninja. That's Gray Fox. He's also called Null also he's dead too, that's Mr. X. No no Mr.X is Olga Gurlukovich, she now works with Solid Snake..hmm?
Solid Snake! The main clone son, the twin of Liquid-THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE that's Solidus Snake the 3rd clone- yeah there's a fake Donald Anderson too don't worry about him.
guys look what i got from lovely @/lovbir__ on instagram!!! i am obsessed. (i got the bottom snake sticker as a freebie/sneak peak of an upcoming keychain set!!) theyre so!!!! GRGRGRGR
Summer is as faded as a lone cicada call/ memories so bright I've got to squint just to recall.
okay. so this is something that i wrote a long time ago and tried to make into a comic but ended up abandoning it because I felt it wasn't working out. Many months later I revisited it, re-wrote it and this time I didnt try to give it a "traditional" comic structure (which is what I tried the first time) because I felt this long top-down, more illustrative approach would complement the stream-of-thought-iness of the text better. and hey, here it is.
I wrote the bulk of this thinking about the very idealized way that kaz talks about the way him and bb met, vs how they actually met in the audio drama. I thought about how a more bitter, post-mgsv kaz would think about it and the text just sorta spiraled from there.
Something that i could not include and had to take out was the scene in the audio drama where big boss "convinces" kaz to join msf by almost braking his neck and giving kaz the option to either join bb or die on the spot. It was kinda what originated this- the way that kaz in pw only focuses on the idealized grenade scene and doesn't mention any of the other stuff (which of course, is because the audio drama is just an elaboration on how they met, but I think its interesting what it does character-wise) I think this scene would add more weight to what I wrote at the end of the first comic.
but alas, I could not make it work structurally, the "I wish that grenade would have killed us both" simply flowed much better to the gz helicopter crash.