Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-149.78.74.197-20140708175039/@comment-6747658-20140708193928

Traveling around the world in a year isn't that hard to do really, also we have only seen the Middle East and Africa so far, that's not too far away from each other, and certaintly not around the world.

While it is true that Kojima has been misleading before, I don't think that is the case here really. More so because every single hint about him seems to poke on the possibility of him being Liquid.

Well I never said it was specifically written as such, what I said is that, so far we know, he is born as Jack.

And yes, I missed the part out that Solidus taught him that blades are "noble weapons" (something I agree with) though it's not why he's called Jack the Ripper, that was because of his unusually high kill rate compared to the other kids.

And the appearance thing is....possible, unlikely but possible, though you still have the age factor to consider the age factor which is better explained in the references of his page

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2001). ''Given Solidus Snake's comments, it can be inferred that Raiden became the Small Boy Unit captain at age 10 during the First Liberian Civil War (1989-1996), giving a range of 1979-1986 for the year of his birth. This is narrowed to 1983-1986, if one also assumes the war was the first that he participated in as a child soldier, having held his first AK rifle at age six.''

Again, Eli looks to be about 12 to 16, which would make him at least 2 to 6 years older then Raiden when he was Captain of the Small Boy Unit. at the age of 10 somewhere between 1989 and 1996, leaving out just about any possibility of Big Boss meeting him at that age as by then he was already training Solid Snake and leading Foxhound.