APP POST.
Out-of-Character Information
Screw that you guys know it already
In-Character Information
Name : Kazuhira Miller
Game/Series: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: Post-Peace Walkerish
Age & Teaching Position: 27, Assistant Teacher to all those guys teaching war games
Living Arrangements: One faculty dorm prease
Personality: Oh boy. What is there to say about this guy? For one thing, he's got a massive ego. Point a camera at his speedo-clad self and he will pose and tell you how his waxed body is perfection. He'll say it playfully though, suggesting that while he does think highly of himself he's not completely arrogant. That... doesn't really change the fact that he does love to flaunt his body whenever he can. Even at an all-male monthly birthday party for the soldiers, he will get drunk and do a striptease. This is actually canon. Oh Miller.
And he does like to drink. He's not terribly picky about his poison, “as long as it gets the job done,” but that won't stop him from doing things like importing fancy wine from France. Not for himself, of course, but for the sake of his fellow soldiers getting something different and exciting once in a while! Yes, he's a firm believer in keeping up morale! As a soldier himself, he knows how stressful life can get for his comrades and does his best to keep them happy and healthy. And as for the French wine, he probably just wanted to get Cecile wasted. Ohohoho.
He is also quite the ladies' man! Oh yes, we know which head he's thinking with when it comes to the girlies. Even if headquarters cannot handle keeping any more civilian refugees, he might make an exception if he is promised said refugee is a foxy babe. He'd rather fool around than get into any serious relationships; more than once he's gotten a stern talking to for dating more than one woman at a time. Once it even ended in a sexy naked shower fight I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING His friendliness isn't exclusively for the ladies, either...
But deep down, he's got a more serious side to him. Once he forges a friendship, it sticks for a good long while. He will tell you all his deepest darkest secrets, risk his life because he has so much faith in your abilities, and have sex with you in a box on the beach. At least if you are Big Boss, he will. Nobody else has earned that level of trust and respect from him... at this point in time, anyway.
Once he's on the battlefield, the man is a cold, calculating war machine. Since MGS is a universe where soldier genes are a super important real thing, Miller's got some of those running through his veins too - not Big Boss', of course, but still those of someone who did well enough to survive. In fact, people have been afraid of him from what they've seen of him in battle, and later on in life this fierce spirit of war within him would earn him the title of “Hell Master” from new trainees. Or it would have, if he didn't get stuck in SBG in a crazy time paradox. Yeah, sorry, did I say Miller cares about keeping morale up? Because he is not so friendly when it comes to drill sessions. War is serious business, after all. Even in Metal Gears.
But it's likely he treats the men to a drink afterward. Now there's morale for you.
Backstory: ONCE UPON A TIME, THE WORLD WAS AT WAR. And then they did it again. This time where were terrible things like BOMBS involved and that was not a good time for anybody, particularly Japan in this case. But a young woman managed to make it out alive as her city and family and friends all burned to the ground around her, and it was kind of a shitty time for her. But it wasn't long until the war was finally over... but at what cost? At what cost.
American troops decided to occupy Japan for a while after everything was over to make sure they didn't go and stir up any more trouble. During this time, young women did what they had to to get by. Even if it meant servicing the American boys. It was around this time the hero of our story was conceived. The soldier, an officer by the name of Miller, reportedly treated the young lady as he would a wife, but eventually he went back to the States and the lady never heard from him again. She did get left a large sum of money though, which was something, at least. Especially since shortly after the soldier left, a bouncing baby boy was born. She named him Kazuhira, Japanese for “Peace.” Even though he was a product of war, the son of her enemy, she named him peace... It wasn't until much later in life that Kaz finally understood the significance of his name.
Life wasn't easy growing up as a halfblood in Japan. The country was still so xenophobic at the time, the poor kid couldn't even get an official citizenship! On top of that he was always teased for his blonde hair and silly round eyes. And he was raised by a single mother! But with the money left by his father, his mother opened up a modest little shop selling cigarettes and whatnot to the troops still in Japan, so it wasn't like they were living in poverty or anything. Still, Kaz was unhappy, because as a half-American, he should be treated as a victor too, and he vowed to one day return to his “true” homeland. No resentment for his circumstances here, no sir.
When Kaz was a strapping young lad of 10, his mom fell ill, so it was up to him to run the shop. One day while he was cleaning, he found a picture of some blond fellow in one of the drawers in the very back of the shop. Some American soldier man. HIS FATHER?! Yes! He saw the opportunity he needed to find out just who his dad really was! So he flashed the picture to every American who came by the shop, asking if they knew him. It took a few years before anyone actually recognized him and gave a name, and after that point Kaz started asking if anyone knew where Colonel Miller was now. As it just so happened, the man was instructing young soldiers in the state of Virginia - incidentally, it was one of his students who told Kaz that part.
So our hero wrote a letter with his feeble grasp of the English language: I'm your son. I want to go to the United States. But so long passed without any reply that it seemed hopeless. Then suddenly, out of the blue, his father sent him all the money he needed to get his little japamerican butt over to the grand old UsofA! All of Kaz's hopes and dreams were finally coming true! ...Oh, right, his sick mom. Well, he managed to convince her to let him go, put her in a hospital to take care of her since he no longer could do it, and he was off! He got himself a proper education! He learned himself some English! And then when he was done with college, he went on back to Japan... alone, since his father refused to go see Kaz's mother.
Mother... She wouldn't even look at him. At first Kaz thought she was mad at him for going off to America, but no - she didn't even recognize him. Either post-traumatic stress, her illness, or a combination of both had caused her mind to practically rot away. It's implied that her disease was something she picked up “while she was young and desperate”, so it's entirely possible she was dying of some horrible, untreated STD given to her by one of the soldiers she had to service. As he reminded her of who he was - Kazuhira - it was then that he realized the significance of his name, and realized and accepted that he was Japanese as well as American. It took him that long to appreciate both sides of his heritage.
At the age of 22, he joined the JSDF! He had the skills and know-how to get whatever the hell job he wanted, but he couldn't think of what else to do with himself. He was a little lost. He used the job to pay his mother's hospital bills... for two years. Then he didn't need to worry about them anymore.
With nothing left for him in Japan, he returned to the States, only to find out his father shot himself in the head. As Kaz himself puts it: “America crushed Japan. But it also crushed my father.” You see, while America decided to storm into Vietnam in a “heroic” police action, Kaz's older (half-)brother he never met was killed in action. That combined with PTSD must have taken its toll on his father. Now Kaz had nothing in Japan or America. What now? Time to just drift around the world as a free mercenary...
Eventually his work brought him to Columbia, where he met the legendary Big Boss. The circumstances weren't quite ideal; they were on opposing sides, and Kaz's side was losing badly. While Kaz had the charm to talk his way into being a drill sergeant for a band of revolutionaries, he'd never actually been on the battlefield a day in his life. This may have been one of the causes for their doing so poorly. Or maybe it was because he was up against an army with Motherfucking Big Boss on their team. Either way, Kaz was caught in an explosion and almost died. But only almost. He sure as hell wasn't going to let himself be dragged to some hospital and left a cripple for the rest of his life! No, his place was on the battlefield... or that's what he told Big Boss, anyway. He asked his foe for help in committing a most honourable Japanese suicide... and then pulled a most dishonourable dirty trick of pulling the pin from a hidden grenade so he could at least take the son of a bitch down with him.
But he couldn't pull the wool over Snake's eyes! ...Uh... eye. Being the BAMF that he is, Big Boss took that grenade and ... well, it's never canonly stated just what happened with it. He probably ate it. METAL GEAR SOLID, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Big Boss wanted to know just why some kind of samurai would stoop so low as to pull a stunt like that, and Kaz's answer was: “We'll never lose again... we'll never be beaten again!” Then he passed out because he lost so much blood.
When he woke up, he was in the infirmary of... the enemy camp!? Big Boss had saved him. For some reason. Apparently Snake admired his fighting spirit.
TWO YEARS LATER...
Snake and Miller have formed the Militaires Sans Frontieres , the Soldiers Without Borders. A haven for all those who also feel disillusioned with their countries and their governments, and don't want to be forced to fight and die for a cause they don't believe in. They also heard Miller gives a great birthday show. Miller's earned himself a nice position as second-in-command. When not training soldiers he is probably filing paperwork and giving Snake advice over the radio.
PEACE WALKER HAPPENS. But for the sake of avoiding spoilers, here is a very condensed version:
Robotic-handed professor and shiny-eyed loli girl want the MSF to get an invading military out of Costa Rica! They're not allowed to have their own army to do that, after all. It is a peaceful country and there is the University of Peace which Paz is a student of and her name means Peace and hey so does Miller's and did you know the game is Peace Walker DID YOU. They are even offering the payment of one (1) fabulous offshore facility to serve as a home base! Hooray!
So there is some sneaking involved, some long cutscenes, some GIANT ROBOTS, some nuclear threat, political intrigue, lies and deceit, but in the end the player Snake saves the day. Hooray! Well of course the world doesn't blow up, or else every game set in the future would not exist. That's not a spoiler, just common sense.
And after some celebratory drinking, a drunk and half-naked Miller had ~*~A VISION.~*~ He could hear the Voice of God... He sounded Japanese. And it told him to go to a place in the distant future where the people were both human and animal, where computers could do crazy things, where all timelines and universes merged into one mad city...!
But what kind of place is that, Miller begged the Voice of God. Surely such a place could not exist!
Oh, but it does, promised the Voice of God, and He had already secured a faculty position at a fine school for him. And before Miller could protest a hole opened up in the ground under his feet and he fell through the very fabric of the universe...
He woke up in a hotel in Final Destination City, with only a bad hangover to remind him of the previous night's events. A hangover and the false belief that he had been sent to this school to do some secret recruiting for the MSF...
Anything Else?: -The timeline I'm apping from makes this canon. If we ever get a BB they do not have to follow suit, I'm just doing this for shits and giggles.
-Miller is fluent in Japanese, English, Spanish, and French. He may or may not know a little bit of Russian too, but probably just a few key phrases.
-MG2 manual apparently describes Miller as being knowledgeable in science. THAT IS SO VAGUE, THANKS MANUAL. He can probably catch on quickly when it comes to electronics and computers and that sort of thing. “IT'S A WALKMAN, SNAKE.”
-Oh my god I am so sorry this app turned into a big meta mess but seriously, Kojima IS God. Canon.
-MGS rp fandom you scare the shit out of me PLEASE BE GENTLE
-CQC mothefuckas
In-Character 1st person writing sample (journal): Smash Academy. They say some of the greatest warriors in the world have resided here at one point. Is that true? I'm here to find out.
I'm Kazuhira Miller. I see there are plenty of classes on military and survival tactics. I'll be observing and assisting where I can. I look forward to being impressed.
In-Character 3rd person writing post: Oh, Miller was indeed impressed. That is, the school certainly made an impression on him. The last thing he was expecting was to be greeted by a gigantic, floating hand. One that apparently knew all about him, and had apparently already had all the paperwork done by one “Mr. Kojima.”
...A little unsettling, but all right. Maybe he was just still drunk. Really drunk. On something that had hallucinogenics mixed in. Was Snake adding random wild mushrooms to the rations again?!
Well, surely things couldn't get any weirder, right? He remained confident that nothing else would be out of the ordinary as he navigated the halls, studying the map in his hands. Why was this school so seemingly enormous? It was like the first day of college all over again.
Something was off about the hallway, though. Maybe it was the light pink creature sprawled out on its back in the middle of the floor. It was unlike anything Miller had ever seen... and he caught himself wondering if Snake would eat it or not. Good thing he wasn't here. If a big hand could be a Headmaster, then this thing was probably a student, and eating the potential recruits would not be a good thing. Note to self: make sure Snake knows the difference between soldiers and rations.
He nudged the thing with a foot, but it just stared blankly at the ceiling, a dopey smile plastered over its face. Maybe it was dead. He frowned and stepped over it, wondering if he should report it. A death before he'd even officially begun work? That had to be a new record.
As he was mulling over the situation, the creature let out a sudden growl... no, wait, it was just snoring.
Oh.
Well, that settled that. Now hopefully that would be the last strange thing before he settled in...
Screw that you guys know it already
In-Character Information
Name : Kazuhira Miller
Game/Series: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: Post-Peace Walkerish
Age & Teaching Position: 27, Assistant Teacher to all those guys teaching war games
Living Arrangements: One faculty dorm prease
Personality: Oh boy. What is there to say about this guy? For one thing, he's got a massive ego. Point a camera at his speedo-clad self and he will pose and tell you how his waxed body is perfection. He'll say it playfully though, suggesting that while he does think highly of himself he's not completely arrogant. That... doesn't really change the fact that he does love to flaunt his body whenever he can. Even at an all-male monthly birthday party for the soldiers, he will get drunk and do a striptease. This is actually canon. Oh Miller.
And he does like to drink. He's not terribly picky about his poison, “as long as it gets the job done,” but that won't stop him from doing things like importing fancy wine from France. Not for himself, of course, but for the sake of his fellow soldiers getting something different and exciting once in a while! Yes, he's a firm believer in keeping up morale! As a soldier himself, he knows how stressful life can get for his comrades and does his best to keep them happy and healthy. And as for the French wine, he probably just wanted to get Cecile wasted. Ohohoho.
He is also quite the ladies' man! Oh yes, we know which head he's thinking with when it comes to the girlies. Even if headquarters cannot handle keeping any more civilian refugees, he might make an exception if he is promised said refugee is a foxy babe. He'd rather fool around than get into any serious relationships; more than once he's gotten a stern talking to for dating more than one woman at a time. Once it even ended in a sexy naked shower fight I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING His friendliness isn't exclusively for the ladies, either...
But deep down, he's got a more serious side to him. Once he forges a friendship, it sticks for a good long while. He will tell you all his deepest darkest secrets, risk his life because he has so much faith in your abilities, and have sex with you in a box on the beach. At least if you are Big Boss, he will. Nobody else has earned that level of trust and respect from him... at this point in time, anyway.
Once he's on the battlefield, the man is a cold, calculating war machine. Since MGS is a universe where soldier genes are a super important real thing, Miller's got some of those running through his veins too - not Big Boss', of course, but still those of someone who did well enough to survive. In fact, people have been afraid of him from what they've seen of him in battle, and later on in life this fierce spirit of war within him would earn him the title of “Hell Master” from new trainees. Or it would have, if he didn't get stuck in SBG in a crazy time paradox. Yeah, sorry, did I say Miller cares about keeping morale up? Because he is not so friendly when it comes to drill sessions. War is serious business, after all. Even in Metal Gears.
But it's likely he treats the men to a drink afterward. Now there's morale for you.
Backstory: ONCE UPON A TIME, THE WORLD WAS AT WAR. And then they did it again. This time where were terrible things like BOMBS involved and that was not a good time for anybody, particularly Japan in this case. But a young woman managed to make it out alive as her city and family and friends all burned to the ground around her, and it was kind of a shitty time for her. But it wasn't long until the war was finally over... but at what cost? At what cost.
American troops decided to occupy Japan for a while after everything was over to make sure they didn't go and stir up any more trouble. During this time, young women did what they had to to get by. Even if it meant servicing the American boys. It was around this time the hero of our story was conceived. The soldier, an officer by the name of Miller, reportedly treated the young lady as he would a wife, but eventually he went back to the States and the lady never heard from him again. She did get left a large sum of money though, which was something, at least. Especially since shortly after the soldier left, a bouncing baby boy was born. She named him Kazuhira, Japanese for “Peace.” Even though he was a product of war, the son of her enemy, she named him peace... It wasn't until much later in life that Kaz finally understood the significance of his name.
Life wasn't easy growing up as a halfblood in Japan. The country was still so xenophobic at the time, the poor kid couldn't even get an official citizenship! On top of that he was always teased for his blonde hair and silly round eyes. And he was raised by a single mother! But with the money left by his father, his mother opened up a modest little shop selling cigarettes and whatnot to the troops still in Japan, so it wasn't like they were living in poverty or anything. Still, Kaz was unhappy, because as a half-American, he should be treated as a victor too, and he vowed to one day return to his “true” homeland. No resentment for his circumstances here, no sir.
When Kaz was a strapping young lad of 10, his mom fell ill, so it was up to him to run the shop. One day while he was cleaning, he found a picture of some blond fellow in one of the drawers in the very back of the shop. Some American soldier man. HIS FATHER?! Yes! He saw the opportunity he needed to find out just who his dad really was! So he flashed the picture to every American who came by the shop, asking if they knew him. It took a few years before anyone actually recognized him and gave a name, and after that point Kaz started asking if anyone knew where Colonel Miller was now. As it just so happened, the man was instructing young soldiers in the state of Virginia - incidentally, it was one of his students who told Kaz that part.
So our hero wrote a letter with his feeble grasp of the English language: I'm your son. I want to go to the United States. But so long passed without any reply that it seemed hopeless. Then suddenly, out of the blue, his father sent him all the money he needed to get his little japamerican butt over to the grand old UsofA! All of Kaz's hopes and dreams were finally coming true! ...Oh, right, his sick mom. Well, he managed to convince her to let him go, put her in a hospital to take care of her since he no longer could do it, and he was off! He got himself a proper education! He learned himself some English! And then when he was done with college, he went on back to Japan... alone, since his father refused to go see Kaz's mother.
Mother... She wouldn't even look at him. At first Kaz thought she was mad at him for going off to America, but no - she didn't even recognize him. Either post-traumatic stress, her illness, or a combination of both had caused her mind to practically rot away. It's implied that her disease was something she picked up “while she was young and desperate”, so it's entirely possible she was dying of some horrible, untreated STD given to her by one of the soldiers she had to service. As he reminded her of who he was - Kazuhira - it was then that he realized the significance of his name, and realized and accepted that he was Japanese as well as American. It took him that long to appreciate both sides of his heritage.
At the age of 22, he joined the JSDF! He had the skills and know-how to get whatever the hell job he wanted, but he couldn't think of what else to do with himself. He was a little lost. He used the job to pay his mother's hospital bills... for two years. Then he didn't need to worry about them anymore.
With nothing left for him in Japan, he returned to the States, only to find out his father shot himself in the head. As Kaz himself puts it: “America crushed Japan. But it also crushed my father.” You see, while America decided to storm into Vietnam in a “heroic” police action, Kaz's older (half-)brother he never met was killed in action. That combined with PTSD must have taken its toll on his father. Now Kaz had nothing in Japan or America. What now? Time to just drift around the world as a free mercenary...
Eventually his work brought him to Columbia, where he met the legendary Big Boss. The circumstances weren't quite ideal; they were on opposing sides, and Kaz's side was losing badly. While Kaz had the charm to talk his way into being a drill sergeant for a band of revolutionaries, he'd never actually been on the battlefield a day in his life. This may have been one of the causes for their doing so poorly. Or maybe it was because he was up against an army with Motherfucking Big Boss on their team. Either way, Kaz was caught in an explosion and almost died. But only almost. He sure as hell wasn't going to let himself be dragged to some hospital and left a cripple for the rest of his life! No, his place was on the battlefield... or that's what he told Big Boss, anyway. He asked his foe for help in committing a most honourable Japanese suicide... and then pulled a most dishonourable dirty trick of pulling the pin from a hidden grenade so he could at least take the son of a bitch down with him.
But he couldn't pull the wool over Snake's eyes! ...Uh... eye. Being the BAMF that he is, Big Boss took that grenade and ... well, it's never canonly stated just what happened with it. He probably ate it. METAL GEAR SOLID, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Big Boss wanted to know just why some kind of samurai would stoop so low as to pull a stunt like that, and Kaz's answer was: “We'll never lose again... we'll never be beaten again!” Then he passed out because he lost so much blood.
When he woke up, he was in the infirmary of... the enemy camp!? Big Boss had saved him. For some reason. Apparently Snake admired his fighting spirit.
TWO YEARS LATER...
Snake and Miller have formed the Militaires Sans Frontieres , the Soldiers Without Borders. A haven for all those who also feel disillusioned with their countries and their governments, and don't want to be forced to fight and die for a cause they don't believe in. They also heard Miller gives a great birthday show. Miller's earned himself a nice position as second-in-command. When not training soldiers he is probably filing paperwork and giving Snake advice over the radio.
PEACE WALKER HAPPENS. But for the sake of avoiding spoilers, here is a very condensed version:
Robotic-handed professor and shiny-eyed loli girl want the MSF to get an invading military out of Costa Rica! They're not allowed to have their own army to do that, after all. It is a peaceful country and there is the University of Peace which Paz is a student of and her name means Peace and hey so does Miller's and did you know the game is Peace Walker DID YOU. They are even offering the payment of one (1) fabulous offshore facility to serve as a home base! Hooray!
So there is some sneaking involved, some long cutscenes, some GIANT ROBOTS, some nuclear threat, political intrigue, lies and deceit, but in the end the player Snake saves the day. Hooray! Well of course the world doesn't blow up, or else every game set in the future would not exist. That's not a spoiler, just common sense.
And after some celebratory drinking, a drunk and half-naked Miller had ~*~A VISION.~*~ He could hear the Voice of God... He sounded Japanese. And it told him to go to a place in the distant future where the people were both human and animal, where computers could do crazy things, where all timelines and universes merged into one mad city...!
But what kind of place is that, Miller begged the Voice of God. Surely such a place could not exist!
Oh, but it does, promised the Voice of God, and He had already secured a faculty position at a fine school for him. And before Miller could protest a hole opened up in the ground under his feet and he fell through the very fabric of the universe...
He woke up in a hotel in Final Destination City, with only a bad hangover to remind him of the previous night's events. A hangover and the false belief that he had been sent to this school to do some secret recruiting for the MSF...
Anything Else?: -The timeline I'm apping from makes this canon. If we ever get a BB they do not have to follow suit, I'm just doing this for shits and giggles.
-Miller is fluent in Japanese, English, Spanish, and French. He may or may not know a little bit of Russian too, but probably just a few key phrases.
-MG2 manual apparently describes Miller as being knowledgeable in science. THAT IS SO VAGUE, THANKS MANUAL. He can probably catch on quickly when it comes to electronics and computers and that sort of thing. “IT'S A WALKMAN, SNAKE.”
-Oh my god I am so sorry this app turned into a big meta mess but seriously, Kojima IS God. Canon.
-MGS rp fandom you scare the shit out of me PLEASE BE GENTLE
-CQC mothefuckas
In-Character 1st person writing sample (journal): Smash Academy. They say some of the greatest warriors in the world have resided here at one point. Is that true? I'm here to find out.
I'm Kazuhira Miller. I see there are plenty of classes on military and survival tactics. I'll be observing and assisting where I can. I look forward to being impressed.
In-Character 3rd person writing post: Oh, Miller was indeed impressed. That is, the school certainly made an impression on him. The last thing he was expecting was to be greeted by a gigantic, floating hand. One that apparently knew all about him, and had apparently already had all the paperwork done by one “Mr. Kojima.”
...A little unsettling, but all right. Maybe he was just still drunk. Really drunk. On something that had hallucinogenics mixed in. Was Snake adding random wild mushrooms to the rations again?!
Well, surely things couldn't get any weirder, right? He remained confident that nothing else would be out of the ordinary as he navigated the halls, studying the map in his hands. Why was this school so seemingly enormous? It was like the first day of college all over again.
Something was off about the hallway, though. Maybe it was the light pink creature sprawled out on its back in the middle of the floor. It was unlike anything Miller had ever seen... and he caught himself wondering if Snake would eat it or not. Good thing he wasn't here. If a big hand could be a Headmaster, then this thing was probably a student, and eating the potential recruits would not be a good thing. Note to self: make sure Snake knows the difference between soldiers and rations.
He nudged the thing with a foot, but it just stared blankly at the ceiling, a dopey smile plastered over its face. Maybe it was dead. He frowned and stepped over it, wondering if he should report it. A death before he'd even officially begun work? That had to be a new record.
As he was mulling over the situation, the creature let out a sudden growl... no, wait, it was just snoring.
Oh.
Well, that settled that. Now hopefully that would be the last strange thing before he settled in...