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[saveyourserpent]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, whitemamba. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 125.20.141.80 *** whitemamba has joined 125.20.141.80 <whitemamba>You've reached Liquid Snake. Leave a message. Or don't; I don't particularly care.

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[saveyourserpent]

[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.

angry boys

[cardboard_boss]

[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?]

[saveyourserpent]

[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.

[cardboard_boss]

[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?

[saveyourserpent]

[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.

[cardboard_boss]

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.

[saveyourserpent]

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.

[cardboard_boss]

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.]

[saveyourserpent]

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.

[cardboard_boss]

[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.

[saveyourserpent]

[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.

[cardboard_boss]

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.]

[saveyourserpent]

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.

[cardboard_boss]

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

[He had to ask.]

[saveyourserpent]

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

[cardboard_boss]

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?

[saveyourserpent]

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.

[cardboard_boss]

Everyone was a child, Liquid. Just like everyone crawled around in diapers for a good few months.

[Yep. Even you, Liquid. A baby.]

Can imagine you throwing your toys out of the cot on day one.

[saveyourserpent]

Genetic experiments don't get toys.

[Okay, he doesn't exactly remember that far back, obviously, but he hadn't had anything resembling a normal childhood, so it was likely.]

I was never given the opportunity to be a child. So I never was.