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Published: 2007-12-09 22:01:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 4253; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 200
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I wanted to do something more abstract and Shinkawa-esque, but I did this instead -_-. It's Big Boss and a young Sniper Wolf. Having played MGS3, I have an entirely different perspective on the first two games
.From: MGS
Medium: pencil
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OMG!
This is one of my favorite moments on MGS history!
It's awesome!
Beautiful! Simple as that!
I love Big Boss.. and Wolf is just so beautiful!
*insta-fav*
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Thanks 
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thats too cute, i love his expression, and wolf is so cute here
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Haha, yeah, I think she turned out well 
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Original idea... to show events that wasn't shown by Kojima, only mentioned. Amazing work with details and shadowing. Great job !
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Very nicely done. I love the little details - the dirt on her arms, the missing shoe. Really reflects the desperation of her position at the time.
I rather liked the development of BB in the Solid games. His time in the MG series was so brief up until that point, but his work impacted the events across the entire storyline. His presence permeates the story long after he himself is dead, so it nice to see his character imbued with a firmer sense of humanity in the new games.
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It wasn't until MGS3 that I really fell in love with Big Boss. While he's fairly sympathetic in MGS, he still comes of as pretty crazy. Seeing him as a really decent guy in MGS3 makes the whole series that much more tragic. It certainly explains why everyone obsesses over him even after death
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Yeah, he's a hard character not to appreciate. There's something very...human, about him, for lack of a better word. There's a warmth and a vulnerability I grasp in him that I don't get off of David, though Solid Snake is hardly a poorly done character.
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That's a very nice way to describe Big Boss. I very much agree
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Awesome. It looks like you got the clothing right, she's a kurd, so the headdress is fitting. My guess is that she was found sometime after the events of Portable Ops. Between MGS3 and MPO we know that BB has gone to different places, like how he went to fight in Mozambique and first saw Frank Jeager, but considering he had to find Wolf and bring her back with him to America, this kinda had to be after MPO. Which means that at this point Ocelot had probably already confronted him about joining the Patriots, but before the events of Outer Heaven, when BB was supposed dead.
so thats sometime between 1970 ish and 1995. A big gap. Also, neither Wolf never mentioned Fox like now Naomi did when she told her rescue story, so Wolf's rescue has a good chance of being sometime when Fox was not active in Foxhound, like when he was in Calgary with the Olympics with Natasha, so its like 1988-1995.
So she is easily the youngest of the Foxhound crew at the time of MGS
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Yeah, for Big Boss, I combined elements of his MGS: PO sneak suit and some of Solid Snake's from MGS2, just for fun ;D. I tried to make Wolf's garb somewhat traditional, but also a little modern, because her family couldn't be too picky while living in a war zone.
As for Wolf's age, that's something I've been trying to decipher. She talks about being born and raised in a prolonged conflict, which means she's probably a Kurd from Iraq (the Kurdish-Iraqi war lasting from 1961 to 1970). The other possible conflict, the PKK against the Turks was from 1984 to 1999, but that makes her too young since, as you point out, BB "dies" in 1995, and she would have to be at least in her twenties when she served under him.
This means she's actually older than she looks, but that makes more since than making her freakishly young. One of the things I like about MGS is that the characters are older than those in traditional anime/games. For me that makes their angst much more believable.
Anyway, I've thought way too much about this. I'm writing a fic, so I needed some background info ^_~.
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Well, just because the peace treaty is signed, doesn't mean the fighting is over. [link]
One of the things that I wondered was when she said "Every morning I would wake up to see a few more of my family members dead beside me." Which got me thinking, how could some just die next to her, and she didn't? Did they just continuously spare her life? If her family was fighting, how did they all die right next to her? The only weird explanation I can think of for something like this is that they weren't shot, but probably gassed, since Saddam did like testing his chemicals on the kurds. But you'd think that little kids are more prone to be affected by these chemicals too. If she was always really good at laying still for long periods, maybe that would also allow her to cope with lowering her breathing rate, and thus saver her over the others.
Well, if you look at the link, all the countries in the region hated the kurds. There are many instances of armed conflict, just pick one.
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True, but what she describes is openly armed conflict rather than general oppression, which certainly occurred even in times of "peace."
I assumed her family's deaths occurred from a combination of shelling, former injuries, starvation and sickness. As you say, chemical weapons would affect children and older people before healthy adults. All I can think is that her family did everything in its power to protect her, and it cost them their lives.
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but I still think the fact that She doesnt talk about anyone except BB kinda implies that this probably took place sometime when Fox wasn't active, like in the olympics thing.
But with the family dying around her, especially when she woke up, it still seems as if its something other than a direct attack. I know at times she mentioned her rifle, which was probably a Dragunov at best. Maybe a G3, or maybe even some really old model
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Hmm, see I always assumed she only became a sniper under Big Boss. Of course, I'd need to replay the parts with her again to remember why I assumed that, because I've got nothing as is 
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Your right. I just assumed that she was taken in because she could fight, but there is no mention of when she picked up the rifle except until after BB took her in.
"Then I could see war, not from the inside, but from the outside. ... the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle."
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Oh good, I'm not completely crazy
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The shading is GODLY. Really pretty pic, great job~ <3
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