Laughing Wallaby

Laughing Wallaby was a female British former high-ranking official in and possible co-founder of the South African Private Force Contract Forces of Africa (CFA).

Pre-Phantom Pain
Largely because of the CFA's ties to South Africa, and by extension to the British, the woman who would become Laughing Wallaby was among the high-ranking official who were of British origin. Eventually, one of her fellow British members and co-founders of the CFA, the Viscount, illicitly managed to find a deed to oil fields (which were actually MPLA-owned). Although she was reluctant to keep quiet about it, the Viscount nonetheless told her to do so for the time being.Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Kojima Productions (2015). Afrikaner interrogator: ''All right, now you can both talk to me. Where did you get the information on the MPLA's oilfield rights?'' // Afrikaner interpreter: Now you will both talk. Where did you get the information on the MPLA's oilfield rights? // Male POW: We don't know anything, I swear! // Afrikaner interpreter: He says he swears they don't know anything. // Female POW: Believe us... // Afrikaner interrogator: You expect me to believe you attempted to contact the MPLA based on information from an unknown source? // Afrikaner interpreter: You mean you attempted to contact the MPLA based on information from an unknown source? // Male POW: We thought it was suspicious, sure. But we stood to make a lot of money out of it. // Afrikaner interpreter: It was suspicious, but they wanted to make a profit. // Male POW: We're businessmen... // Afrikaner interpreter: We're businessmen. // Afrikaner interrogator: ''Businessmen - what a joke! Failed mercenaries trying to skin this country.'' // Afrikaner interpreter: You're a joke, not businessmen. Failed mercenaries trying to skin this country. // Female POW: We didn't... we didn't try to hide anything... The viscount said to keep quiet for now, that's all... // Afrikaner interpreter: She says they didn't mean to hide anything, but the viscount made them keep quiet. // Afrikaner interrogatorr: ''Hah! So it's all the "viscount's" fault. Fine, the viscount can tell us the rest.'' // Afrikaner interpreter: Then the viscount can tell us the rest. // Male POW: W-wait! She had nothing to do with this! // Afrikaner interrogator: (swats the POW with the butt of his rifle) ''Don't worry. Hell has room for both of you.''

Eventually, the CFA, or more accurately, the Afrikaner portion of the CFA, uncovered evidence to what the Viscount did. She then was proverbally thrown under the bus by the Viscount to save his own skin by making it seem as though she and the other British officials had plotted the entire thing, exploiting the known feud between the British and Afrikaner members stemming from the Boer War, although this backfired and resulted in Viscount's own capture. She was then imprisoned at Kiziba Camp, with her and the others undergoing brutal interrogation due to the extreme circumstances Eventually, she was interrogated for the last time by the Afrikaner interrogator, with an interpreter proceeding to act as a relay between her and him. In addition, one of her compatriots was also interrogated alongside her to ensure both talked, and after the interrogator got what he needed, ordered for both of them to be killed, despite her compatriot's protests that she had very little to do with the oilfield plot. Ultimately, Diamond Dogs, who were in the area to rescue the Viscount, proceeded to rescue her and the compatriot despite being ordered not to by their client (who had secretly been the Viscount via a cutout). Upon being rescued, she as well as the other POW interrogated alongside her informed the deputy commander of Diamond Dogs, Benedict Miller, that the target, the Viscount, would be interrogated at night, and also the field of movement for the Viscount's prisoner interrogation transfer path, and presumably revealed enough details about what had occurred to have Miller and the other Diamond Dogs deduce what had actually happened.

Behind the scenes
Laughing Wallaby is a character in Mission 14: Lingua Franca. She can be found near the cages portion of Camp Kiziba. She is the subject of two mission tasks: One involves rescuing her and the other POWs in addition to the Viscount, and the other involves listening in to their conversation. Rescuing her and/or any other POWs will result in the debriefing being extended to mention the Viscount's role in the incident. She is not named in the mission itself, but it is the name given to her when she is extracted and recruited into the Mother Base staff.