Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140804013918

189.60.0.82 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: Bluerock wrote:

64.33.250.214 wrote: Let's not forget the headphone jack in Chico's chest. If Quiet were Chico, she should have a scar. Speaking of which, was it ever explained why that existed? I doubt it was a functional jack, maybe it was just an act of self mutilation caused by his despair. From what I know it was never really explained, which is odd cause you'd think it would be something significant enough....I mean normal people do not have headphone jack;s in their chest.

As for any scaring...no, not really. It's a rather small wound so it would heal rather nicely without much notable scaring. I have scars from childhood that were caused by very minor wounds. Chico had a noticeable hole in his chest, big enough to plug headphones into. Realistically, that'd create a permanent blemish. One could argue Kojima wouldn't care about those details, but you can see in the trailers that Big Boss has some fresh facial scars. I have scars on my left forearm from when it crashed through a window during my childhood and I can barely see them unless I look close and they were pretty bad gashes too back then. Hency my comment on scaring not specifically having to be shown. You can still see your scars though. Whereas Quiet's skin is clearly smooth and clean. Scars can heal improperly if a wound isn't taken care of immediately. Chico had that open chest wound for who knows how long. From the screen shots, the area surrounding the wound looks visibly bruised and irritated. Which would further support scarring...

I'll admit it's possible for Kojima to overlook details. But aside from a few retcons here or there, he's usually attentive. Usually if a character was wounded in their backstory he acknowledges that. Gray Fox, Major Zero, The Boss, and Big Boss all have distinguishing scars. Chico had a hole big enough to plug electronics into, and it seems atypical by Kojima's standards not to acknowledge that.

Who knows, we could very well see Chico in Phantom Pain with the jack still in his chest. Well granted, we haven't seen Quiet's chest that up close :P

Still, I doubt we'll find any scaring there since....well, I honestly do not believe Chico is Quiet.

And yes, I do hope we get to see Chico with that jack in his chest and an explaination as to why it is there. I don't think Chico is Quiet either. That's why I brought up the scar. Even if Kojima overlooked that detail, it'd seem odd to completely ignore the headphone jack after it was made a thing in the last game. While I also don't believe the Chico is Quiet theory, it could be that Kojima has purposely removed the scars in trailers and will add them later in game so as to not spoil. Like how we saw Big Boss in the GDC trailer without any scars but in the E3 trailer with scars and horn in a different position. Would he add them this late into development? The E3 2013 trailer showed Boss with scars. It's over a year later, and presumably less than a year away from the game's release. The last trailer briefly showed Quiet. You don't get a good look at her, but if you pause the trailer, you can see her chest. There still isn't any noticeable scarring, nor anything hooked up to her chest.

So even if the scars were added later, it seems an unusually long time to wait to add them. If Chico still had the headphone jack, and if Quiet were Chico, we'd have seen that by now. Either Quiet isn't Chico, or Kojima completely disregards the headphone jack despite questions surrounding it.