Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-177.249.102.24-20150415040501

Adachi Did It wrote: I don't think that's the case IRL, I've seen a few children suffering from some kind of accelerated aging on tv, bodies of 60 year olds but the mentality of a child. However this is MGS, clearly a lot of real life limitations could be changed or removed, so Solidus' mind could mature in-time with his body, but only if he's taught.

Him aging to a point within 10 years both physically and mentally is iffy, if he looks to be early to mid-twenties in MGSV after roughly 10 years alive, wouldn't he look much much older in MGS2? as he was born after 72' he'd be at most 11 years old biologically, if the project ended in 76' he'd be 8 years minimum, doesn't Ishmael say he'd been watching over BB for all of the 9 years?

If we take that as fact that means he was at most 2 yrs old when he first started watching over BB. I don't think Kojima could explain that away with a simple 'I age faster than normal'. If you put it that way then (at least in my opinion) it rules out the possibility of Ishmael being solidus, because others have stated that Solidus and Big Boss never met, however that could be just some slight retcon, even Kojima himself said that MGS5 will have a lot of inconsistencies paricularily over small details.

And a 2 year old Solidus wathcing over Big Boss sounds kinda far fetched and outright silly, even if they give the old "nanomachienes son" or "I have accelerated aging" excuse it would sound kinda lame. in my opinion at least :P