Comments | mgs_slash: Fanfic: Ghost Stories

athenemiranda in mgs_slash

Fanfic: Ghost Stories

Feb 16, 2009 17:47

I did just enough research for this fic to start hating on Portugal. Sorry, Portugal. :/

Huge thanks to saphrawn for beta-reading and being German. (All German and Portuguese text has an English tool-tip translation if you put your mouse over it). While I'm at it, thanks to EVERYONE who left me comments on INTRUDE: you guys put a spring in my step ( Read more... )

fanfic, mpo, pg-13, 2009, big boss/gray fox

Comments 17

inherent_sin February 16 2009, 22:56:16 UTC

SAPH'S BB APPROVES OF THIS FIC.

Glad I could help you out with some bits. Also yeah, this goes into my headcanon. It's perfect :B All the research paid off too, it seems. *kicks Portual in the nuts anyway*

athenemiranda February 18 2009, 21:37:38 UTC

PORTUGAL MUST FALL. ta, love you.

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athenemiranda February 18 2009, 21:28:18 UTC

...That part wasn't meant to be cute, but I am baaawed that you found it so. XD

MPO cutscenes? That wins - I dug up a few black and white photographs from this war in the depths of Wikipedia, and took to staring at them whenever I got stuck. ><

Thanks, as ever; I clearly need to put Ocelot cameos in all my fics - he makes everything funner.

frankly_mdear February 17 2009, 13:03:49 UTC

K.A.'S FOX ALSO APPROVES THIS FIC.

Like it's been said, your research here definitely paid off in spades. I've seldom seen a writer who can set a scene and a tone as well as you can.

(DITTOING HEADCANON. Even though my Fox is Crazy Sex RP Faux and it isn't how I'd write him if I were doing fic. But this is my headcanon in either case. :D)

darkfenixrising February 17 2009, 14:53:27 UTC

Where did you get that pic from? Is there a second part of the LET comic??

frankly_mdear February 17 2009, 15:12:41 UTC

It's from some two-parter on Hal Akane's site, forgot the exact URL. XD I uploaded both strips to my Scrapbook though if you want to check them out.

athenemiranda February 18 2009, 21:36:51 UTC

Do you have headcanon for how the hell he got to Mozambique in the first place? I don't. I'm even wondering if the whole Vietnamese part has been retconned entirely now (though I am still not cosy with Frank's whiteness, either way). The only thing I can come up with is that he got scouted for his 1337 killing-people skills in Vietnam a little while before this, but his lack of racial purity was an embarrassment so the Commies had him shipped to Africa instead? China was supplying FRELIMO at the time. XD

Research was fudged slightly at the corners; Kaúlza de Arriaga didn't really get into the picture til 1969 but I got looking at pictures of him and headcanon-BB was all 'Him. I know him. I hate him. Put him in it so I can hate him.' Snake, you've caused a time paradox! :O I hate Portugal so much now, though - I'm even wondering if the 1975 Carnation Revolution was something BB & Frank cooked up while they were on vacation after bringing down the Nixon Administration ( ... )

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trolljima July 27 2011, 04:18:37 UTC

It seems a bit silly to comment on something written two years ago now but... Well, here I am, commenting ( ... )

athenemiranda July 28 2011, 00:25:55 UTC

hahaha, no worries; when I first joined this comm I know I left comments on stuff that was 5 years old at the time. ;_; Archive-diving is amazing. So, np, and thanks very much for commenting ;_; though ack I can see so many clumsy lines in this fic now.

YOU HAVE MGS IN YOUR IRL. That is truly amazing. <3 What I want to know is, why does Kojima dig the Portuguese Colonial War? It's a recurring theme in MGS, especially when it comes to the Hunters (my two favourite characters). I'm not sure about the way he uses it, which is essentially as a backdrop for his characters to have dramatic/horrifying interactions with each other, without him ever touching on the war itself much - anyway, I wish there were more fics about it. (I once got into an edit war on the MGS wiki with someone who was claiming that tiny!Frank had been an anti-communist guerilla...brb crying at the existence of people who are so insecure they would rather REWRITE IRL HISTORY than admit that their cyborg ninja hero was a commie when he was ~12 years old. ( ... )

trolljima July 31 2011, 03:08:42 UTC

I've wanted to write a fic about Big Boss and the Portuguese colonial wars since I wandered in to the MGS fandom and found out that a lot of my IRL kind of overlaps. I've just never been sure of how to handle it without getting too involved. My initial reaction to learning that BB was in the Mozambique war was 'AWESOME SOMETHING I KNOW ABOUT THAT I CAN WRITE FIC OF' but then I kind of got cold feet wondering about how my grandfather would have felt knowing that I was writing little stories about something he suffered through unwillingly (and was eventually imprisoned because of ( ... )