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Briefing 01 - Video

Dec 07, 2010 08:41

[First there's a brief flash of video feed, of a face caked in pale camouflage paint (to match the light snow coating the foliage around him) and bristly with stubbly beard hair, partly obscured by a wide green bandanna and a plain black eyepatch. Then the image blacks out to sound-only, but it reappears a few seconds later. It's clear that he's ( Read more... )

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[video] boldandresolute December 7 2010, 19:19:32 UTC

[He knew that voice. It was the same voice that had haunted him his entire life, telling him that he was forever worthless.]

[Liquid's face is the very picture of rage and hatred.]

You!

[video] sneaking_sin December 7 2010, 19:44:02 UTC

[And Big Boss's face is the very picture of huhwhat.]

...Got a problem?

[video] boldandresolute December 7 2010, 19:46:46 UTC

You would know, Father. Don't try to pretend that you don't recognize me, your own flesh and blood!

[video] sneaking_sin December 7 2010, 19:51:58 UTC

...If you're trying to claim you know me in the future, you're not doing a very convincing job.

[He knows those sperm don't work.]

Nope, I don't recognize you at all.

[video] boldandresolute December 7 2010, 19:59:34 UTC

Look me in the face, you bastard, and tell me you don't see yourself there!

[Aside from the fact that Liquid kept his hair blond and didn't have facial hair, he and Big Boss had uncannily similar features, being clones and all.]

[And every time Liquid looked into the mirror, it was his father's face that he saw staring back at him.]

[video] sneaking_sin December 7 2010, 20:05:30 UTC

There's nothing to see. Either you're lying or you're mistaken, I'm not your father. ...I can't have children.

[video] boldandresolute December 7 2010, 20:17:13 UTC

I am no man of woman born, Father. Let me refresh your memory, since you seem to have forgotten.

I am one of two clones created in 1972 from your DNA during a project called Les Enfants Terribles. The purpose of this little genetic experiment was to ensure that the genes that made the perfect soldier were passed on to his offspring. One of the clones was given your dominant genes so as to be perfect; the other was created from the leftovers of this process.

I was born from the refuse of your perfection, but deny it as you may, I am of your blood!

[video] sneaking_sin December 7 2010, 20:29:20 UTC

...Clones?

[He frowns deeper, going quiet for a moment. Then holds the screen closer and squints at Liquid with his one eye, studying the shape of his face.]

You've got to be kidding--...

[He's right, though. He does look undeniably similar, now that he's looking for it... He's not sure what to believe, but the story's starting to match up a little too well.]

You're telling me I'm cloned in 1972? Who the hell would do that?

[But he already suspects. The man's words echo Para-Medic's from a casual conversation a couple weeks ago. He didn't think to take her that seriously...]

[video] boldandresolute December 7 2010, 20:50:13 UTC

The government ordered it, of course.

[Exactly who had pushed the project through was too classified for Liquid to know about.]

It's no joke, Father. [He didn't even try to hide the hatred in that one word.]

[video] sneaking_sin December 7 2010, 21:32:03 UTC

[He's not sure if he feels more angry or sick. Cloned by the government?]

[He turns from the camera, and his voice goes cold.]

...So in 1972 I'll be used to make mass-produced human beings like you.

Hrrnhhh...

Just two, or are they going to make more?

[video] boldandresolute December 8 2010, 15:25:37 UTC

You were not mass-produced. Not just any man was meant to have your genes. There are only two of us fit to be called the sons of Big Boss.

[video] sneaking_sin December 8 2010, 16:13:16 UTC

You're not my sons. You're made by someone else, probably trying to get someone who can replicate what I had to do......

[His voice lowers tensely. He's fairly upset about all this.]

It should never have to be repeated. Genes don't control fate.

[video] boldandresolute December 8 2010, 17:54:02 UTC

[No matter how many times he heard it, it never stung any less.]

['You're not my son.']

Our genes control everything about us, Father. Our abilities, our strengths, our weaknesses. If one was made with inferior genes, one will be inferior.

You told me that.

[video] sneaking_sin December 8 2010, 18:36:31 UTC

I'm from 1964. I only first heard about DNA and the idea of cloning a couple weeks ago. I can't imagine condoning it, or wanting anything to do with it. I never even thought it would be allowed to happen.

You might have my characteristics, but whatever you do with them isn't my choice. If it's not yours, it's the government's. Maybe they did it to get the same results I made, but if I could go back in time nothing would be the same.

I don't know what happens to me in the future, but I would never want someone else to do the same things I've done. The decision to replicate me should never have happened.

I don't want to be Big Boss, and neither should you.

[video] boldandresolute December 8 2010, 22:08:49 UTC

Since when has what you wanted or condoned ever meant anything?

[The government would do as it pleased; men like Liquid and his father were just their tools.]

I don't want your title. I just want to prove you wrong, Father.

[video] sneaking_sin December 8 2010, 22:31:28 UTC

So you're going to prove something I haven't said yet wrong.

[Flatly:] How do you plan to do that.

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