3 Works in Shotmaker (Metal Gear)
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Plucked from the sands of a settling battlefield in the middle east, a young Green Beret is selected to prove himself in training for an elite force, only to find himself in over his head on his first mission to avert catastrophe from a weapon of mass destruction. A novelization of the original MSX Metal Gear and origin story for Solid Snake.
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- Part 1 of Solid Snake, The Early Years
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“You, too, have known loss. And that loss torments you still.
You hope hatred might someday replace the pain… but it never goes away.
It makes a man hideous…
Inside and out.”
– Skull Face, 1984Eleven years is a long time for a man to change. By the end of it, he may be unrecognisable to whom he was before.
Venom Snake awakened on February, 1984, a hero.
Big Boss died on February, 1995, a villain.
A decayed shell of his former self.(MGSV promised the story of Big Boss’ downfall. The trailers were set in a way that made it seem that we would see how the greatest hero of the 20th century became the deplorable man we face in the original two games. We got this, in a sense, with Naked Snake, and how he allowed Venom Snake to be manipulated into becoming his Phantom. However, this seems to have made Venom into a sympathetic figure - an unsung hero who was trapped in an unwinnable situation. This may have been true when he awakened, but the Big Boss we meet in 1995 is a very different man than the one we played as in 1984. This fic aims to bridge the gap between these two men - to see how a hero might fall - to see how a snake might decay.)
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— Люди идут на войну по двум причинам, — рассуждал Шотмейкер. — Первая — они нищие. Когда человек нищий, его просто несет по течению, и он вообще ничего не контролирует. Война в стране первого мира — это самый простой прыжок из своего социального слоя.
— А вторая? — спросил Дэвид.
— Они психопаты, — рассмеялся Шотмейкер.