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Runs in the family. We're all Snakes in the end.

[Him, his father, his brothers.]

Oh, I didn't expect you to wait around for me. I expected to kill you, and die on my own terms. Obviously, that plan didn't go so well.

Bitter irony.

[Snake didn't want to go into the fact that the DNA test proved that Eli wasn't actually his son. That could come later. Right now, he had questions about monsters.]

Good luck with that. We tried. Back at base. We wanted to help you break free of war and being alone. Diamond Dogs could have been your home but you threw it all away.

Edited 2016-10-07 11:00 (UTC)

[Good thing this conversation's happening via text, because Liquid's getting just a little touchy.]

I don't think you understand. I was created for war. Created to be you, but a bad copy. You took me away from what I was good at, and you didn't even have the decency to die.

I didn't want a home. I had a home. Had men. Had an army. And you ruined it all.

[Snake knows how touchy you can get, Liquid.]

It was no place for a kid. No warzone is. How did you know you weren't good at anything else? You never gave it a chance. Blinded by war. We were giving you a new life where you wouldn't have to risk your life everyday. You call living out in the jungle a home? What if you got sick? Who would tend to you? Since all the adults were dead. You would have died. All of you.

[He just wanted the kid to understand this.]

When you constantly tell a kid he's a war machine, treat him like a war machine, train him to be a war machine, he's going to be a war machine.

I could take care of myself. I'd been doing fine for years before you had to come along. And I tried to treat it as the opportunity it was, but I never achieved what I'd set out to do.

[And it wouldn't matter here, because killing his father would just make him come back.]

What kind of chance do you call stripping someone of their name and power and everything they knew?

[Well, he wasn't a kid anymore, and it seemed he never really forgave his father for all of this.]

We never told you to be a war machine. It seemed you reached out for that ideal when you were alone in the African wilderness. Lord of the flies. You sought to be a leader of men when they had none.

[He's proud of the fact that you looked after those lost boys, Liquid.]

We never stripped you of anything. Just because you had a name doesn't mean you can't be the man underneath. It's just a codename. Nothing else. The title doesn't define you. It's your actions that do.

[Kaz taught him a lot about that.]

It was a general 'you.' My handlers had told me of my situation plenty of times, believe me. Told me all about my flaws, how my brother was much better than me, how I was supposed to be you but instead I was garbage. How all I was good for was fighting so I should shut up and kill. How could I not do what I knew how to do?

[All of the memories came flooding back so suddenly. It had always been in the back of his mind, but he'd never had to put a massive amount of thought into it until now.]

That's all well and good to stand on your little platform and preach, but when you force someone into something they don't want, their actions are going to reflect that. I've always wanted to kill you, and that didn't exactly make the situation any better. The title doesn't define me? Well, what about if I want it to define me?

[Is that what he thought? It was pretty sad. The guy was so angry. Snake could almost taste the anger coming from the younger man. Hatred. Towards him and Diamond Dogs but mainly towards him. He wasn't even Liquid's real father.]

You want to kill me? Fine. I'll do my best to stay alive, so I can prove that you're wrong. There is more than what you believe. I'm not the man you want. We tried to help but I can tell you're far beyond that now. You've made your mind up. It's your life.

[Snake sighed. How the hell could he help the kid now?]

Got to ask. How did you get off that island and where did you go?

[If Liquid wasn't full of hatred, he just didn't feel right. He's had plenty to hate, and things only got worse over the years. Until now, it had been nothing but unpleasant memories, things that didn't matter here.

But now? His father was here. He couldn't let that ruin life for him.]

It doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't count here. If I kill you, you'll just come back.

I've lived in your shadow, and in my brother's shadow, my whole life. I know what I'm talking about.

[No helping here, looked like.]

I had some assistance. You might have destroyed the island, but you didn't seem to consider the skies.

[Snake isn't here to ruin your life, Liquid, even if you think he is. He's not even your real father.]

Come back? You're saying if you die here you just come back? As if nothing happened at all?

[Shit. Really?]

Your brother. I've not met him but I've heard about him. Les Enfants Terribles. [The Terrible Children. Well, Liquid was pretty terrible at least.]

You had help from the sky? How? Not--that floating kid?

[It clicked. The Third Child. It had to be. He was always floating around others, especially the Burning Man. Could it be that he had formed a link with Eli and helped him escape?]

[Liquid's never really had any reason to think otherwise; no matter what, Venom is Big Boss to him, and therefore he's his father.]

Yes. Although I hear your memory starts going after a while. Not something I'd like to test out, of course.

So you do know. You know what we were created to be, why we exist. Who we are. Well, all you need to know about my brother is he was always a bloody pain, made to be better at being you than I was.

[If Venom could see him over text, he'd see him rolling his eyes.]

Yes, that floating kid. You didn't think he was just going to leave me to die, did you? It's all thanks to him I survived.

[The memories of humans start to go after a while when they're monsters? Shit. How long could Snake hold out before he started to forget who he was or what Mother Base was. Kaz, Ocelot, the men.....]

Can't afford to lose my memory. I have to get back to Mother Base. Kaz and Ocelot will probably have sent out a search team for me right now. Probably thing I'm dead. Does time still carry on while we're here or does it stop?

[He had to know. This was important.]

He saved you, huh? Helped you to escape the island to end up where?

[Well, as long as he stays alive things'll be fine!]

Well then, don't die. And, well, how the hell should I know? I never left since I got here. Hm. Has to be five or six months by now, I think. Far as I know, you're stuck here, although I have heard of people leaving. Some seem to have not missed anything, if they came back, but I'm not sure I believe them.

[The details, though, are kind of a mystery.]

All over the place. We travelled a lot. Eventually I ended up back in England, and things sort of went on from there.

Don't intend to die. Almost did that once and it wasn't much fun.

[Lying in a coma sucked. Being a human vegetable wasn't the greatest achievement for the legendary Big Boss.]

If they left then there's a chance I can leave too. This place isn't for me. I can't let Cipher win back home and leave Kaz and everyone else to fight without me.

[Always about Kaz and the men.]

Yeah? England, huh? Guess that's why you've got that posh accent.

Actually doing it isn't much better, trust me.

[Especially since he'd been banking on, y'know, not dying.]

I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you. There's no guarantee it will happen, and chances are they just died or something.

[Who knows?]

I was raised in England until they brought me to Africa. It was just me going back.

No. I'm not buying that. They're not dead.

[No way were they dead. Kaz and the men would find a way to survive. They were tough bastards. Ocelot would certainly not let Diamond Dogs sink into the ocean.]

You get speech lessons to gain that accent?

[Because, you know, you're posh.]

Hah, I meant the people who left. But you can choose to see it that way.

[Liquid knows Kaz isn't dead yet in his father's time, anyway; he's got to have him killed later so he can impersonate him.]

Why the hell would I take bloody speech lessons? This is how I talk.

[Don't mention this to Snake, Liquid, otherwise he might have to kill you.]

It just seems odd that a kid who lived in the African bush could have such a posh voice. Just saying how it is.

[Oh, he wouldn't dream of it.]

You don't think I spent my whole life there, did you? Bloody hell, I'm practically forty years old.

Shit happens.

I know you didn't, since you got rescued by the floating kid. You just sounded posh even when you were kid.

[Right? That part had baffled Snake since meeting the young Eli.]

It's just an accent, Father, not sure what's such a bloody big deal about it. I've spent a lot of time in England, that's all.

Fine. Just how long did you spent in England and what did you do? Build a base? Recruit soldiers?

[He had to ask.]

Edited 2016-11-19 06:16 (UTC)

What is this, an interrogation? I spent some time. I did things. Existed.

No interrogation, just some questions. I haven't seen you since you were a child.

[A bratty, cocky child.]

Don't want your old man to know too much, huh?

I was never a child.

[Okay, yeah he was, but he never felt like it, back then. And if someone called him a kid, he was big on fighting them about it.]

You don't need to know.

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