Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-109.193.182.64-20150909104238/@comment-109.193.182.64-20150917073413

64.33.250.214 wrote: It recently dawned on me that we never learn how Big Boss and Ocelot became pals between MGS3 and MGSV. We see Ocelot light Big Boss's cigar and acting nice, and later telling Miller how he's supporting the real Boss. There's also what he says during Quiet's torture scene, where he implies he was in love with the legend of Big Boss. Snake Eater only showed a friendly rivalry between the two. Too bad we never saw their bromance blossom. That happens long before MGSV. In MGS3 even though there seems to be a rivalry between the two, at the end we learn, that Ocelot was in fact Snake's contact person ADAM, but couldn't let Snake know, without blowing his own cover to the fake EVA.

Also throughout the entire game he becomes quite a fan of Snake, trying to stick to everything Snake teaches him (e.g. using revolvers) and be as much like him as possible (learning CQC). Ocelot was still quite an arrogant rebel back then, since he was only a teenager, but Big Boss was by all means his idol from the moment he got beaten up by him the first time.