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1. Public Bookmark 10

   jack is dead by kaijusalad

   Fandoms: Metal Gear (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   23 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Major Character Death
   • Big Boss & The Boss (Metal Gear)
   • minor boss/strangelove
   • minor boss/sorrow
   • Big Boss (Metal Gear)
   • The Boss (Metal Gear)
   • Ocelot (Metal Gear)
   • The Sorrow (Metal Gear)
   • Dr. Strangelove (Metal Gear)
   • Character Study
   • Trans Male Character
   • Canonical Character Death
   • a study in transgenderism but also in womanhood
   • inaccurate depictions of US military interventions
   • and also being trans in the 50s
   • big boss implied to be autistic
   • playing fast and loose with canon
   • 'you could never be this' vs 'you could never be anything but this'
   • the boss is kind of like if jesus was a woman
   • is doomed transmasculinity a thing
   • written entirely in italics for some reason
   • not referring to the boss by name for artistic reasons

   Summary

   They meet in Nevada, 1951.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   12,924

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   4

   Kudos:

   29

   Bookmarks:

   10

   Hits:

   303

   Bookmarked by pelgel

   18 Jan 2026

2. Public Bookmark *

   It's Been A Long Time Coming by faerieswing

   Fandoms: Metal Gear  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Jan 2019

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Otacon/Solid Snake
   • Solid Snake
   • Otacon (Metal Gear)
   • Emma Emmerich
   • Raiden (Metal Gear)
   • Sunny Emmerich
   • Developing Relationship
   • First Kiss
   • Comfort/Angst
   • Porn with Feelings
   • Romantic Friendship
   • Falling In Love
   • Making Out
   • Love can bloom even in a safe house

   Summary

   Summary: A multi-part story about the evolution of Snake and Otacon’s relationship. Snake feels like joining Philanthropy was the change in his life that he was looking for, but there’s still something missing, and it takes the events of the Big Shell for him to realize what he’s been wanting all along.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,478

   Chapters:

   5/5

   Comments:

   49

   Kudos:

   656

   Bookmarks:

   103

   Hits:

   14,597

   Bookmarked by pelgel

   26 Dec 2025