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Nov 21, 2010 14:25

[Huey looks exhausted as he slumps back against a tree.]

You'd think I'd get used to walking by now...

[A faint sigh and he lets his head falls back against the tree, muttering something.]

Even if I could find somewhere that has cigarettes, I couldn't smoke them around these creatures. I really miss my electronic cigarette.

[The Pokègear looks to be ( Read more... )

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[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 20:07:27 UTC

...wait, what?

[Guess who missed the 'lol what wheelchair' memo?]

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 20:50:28 UTC

I'm impressed. I didn't know you ever made something like that.

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 20:51:58 UTC

[A laugh.]

I made a lot of things. Guess I mustn't have talked about my past much in your time.

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 20:57:45 UTC

N...not really.

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 20:59:51 UTC

Huh. You said you didn't even know I worked for Big Boss in the past, right? I wonder why?

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 21:01:59 UTC

Y-you never really mentioned. I left home when I was 17 a-anyway. I guess you just never thought to mention it.

[Which wasn't really a lie.]

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 21:10:02 UTC

[He's starting to think he must have been a really bad parent, since Otacon gets so upset about this sort of thing.]

Well, I don't mind talking about things, so if you have any questions, go on and ask them.

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 21:12:59 UTC

W-well...

[His hands fidgeted a little, eyes not quite meeting the camera.]

Why were you...y'know, working for him?

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 21:13:43 UTC

For who? Big Boss?

[He sounds a little surprised.]

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 21:32:32 UTC

Y-yeah. I mean, obviously the one you know and the one I've heard about are kind of different.

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 21:40:08 UTC

I'm... going to tell you a little bit of a story, alright?

I'm guessing you know about your grandfather's work on the Manhattan Project. [And boy does that feel weird to say.] As a child, I hardly ever saw him, but I knew he was doing important things and I was proud of him. That is...

[A pause.]

Well. When I was in the fifth grade, a student transferred over from Japan to my school. She showed me pictures... of the after-effects of the attacks on Hiroshima. I couldn't believe it. It was horrifying. Buildings, razed to the ground, blackened corpses just lying everywhere... I could never look him in the eye again after that ( ... )

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 21:41:23 UTC

W-wait a second, wait a second.

[FLAIL!]

How on earth does this have anything to do with Big Boss?

[Oh, Metal Gear. You and your tl;dr.]

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 21:46:45 UTC

I'm getting to that. Just be patient.

[SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO YER PAPA.]

While working at NASA, I'd been developing bipedal locomotion in order to explore the moon better. I think that was why Coldman recruited me.

A while before I met Big Boss, Strangelove and I developed the unmanned AI weapons - Pupa, Chrysalis, Cocoon... and Peace Walker. The last was the strongest and most dangerous. An AI weapon with nuclear capabilities that could basically think for itself. Dr Strangelove worked on its primary "mind". I did the rest.

Peace Walker was only meant as a deterrent to nuclear war. I didn't want anyone else to suffer the way my father's victims had. But Coldman had other plans. He wanted to actually launch it! Can you believe that?

[A weak laugh.]

When I confronted Coldman, we got into a fight. He, uhm. He pushed me down the stairs. Wheelchair and all.

[He adjusts his glasses.]

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 21:49:31 UTC

. . . [What.]

[He rubbed the back of his head, wincing slightly at the idea. And being a master of conversation, Otacon came up with this brilliant reply:]

...ow.

S-so what happened after that? I mean, obviously it didn't get launched, otherwise things would be completely different at my point in time.

[video] no_nukes_plz November 21 2010, 21:58:11 UTC

Big Boss, happened.

[Huey's voice was soft and stern as he recalled the memory.]

I don't remember too much about his arrival there. I remember being in a panic, and then Pupa attacked. Coldman must have sent it to take care of us both.

The Pupa was an unmanned AI weapon based off of an old Russian design. It moved through treads and boosters, using compressed air to hover its rear end in order to move faster. It was armed with a machine gun and electrical abilities. Despite that, Big Boss took it down, on foot.

When I spoke to him afterwards, he played himself off as a lepidopterist, of all things. But his information was so easily false that I didn't believe him. After what Coldman did, I was in a bad way. I was about ready to give up science altogether. It seemed that no matter what I did, I ended up taken advantage of. Big Boss, however, talked me out of it ( ... )

[video] philanthrotaku November 21 2010, 22:08:02 UTC

[There were a lot of questions he could have asked, ranging from 'are you sure you weren't cloned' to 'what the heck is a lepidopterist', but Otacon couldn't settle on one to ask at first.]

...

[It all seemed too surreal to be true, but at the same time he had no reason to doubt it. Big Boss must have been relatively sane at some point, right?]

That's...kind of impressive.

[Impressive in the sense that history looooved repeating itself.]

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