Gustava Heffner

Gustava Heffner (グスタヴァ・へフナー) was a member of the StB (the Czech State Police) assigned to protect to Dr. Kio Marv during Operation Intrude F014 in 1999.

Heffner's mother was a holocaust survivor who spent her days in the sewers under the city of Warsaw, Poland, fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

Formerly an Olympic gold medalist figure skater, she was known as the "fairy on ice." During the 1980s, she met and fell in love with a Westerner named Frank Hunter. She tried to elope with him, but she was denied U.S citizenship and could not leave her country. Because of her failed defection, Gustava was stripped of her competition rights and her family was constantly persecuted and humiliated. With very few places left to turn, she joined the StB, and she was assigned to be Dr. Marv's bodyguard, when his plane was hijacked by agents of Zanzibar Land. However, Gustava was able to escape, disguising herself as a Zanzibar Land soldier.

She later established contact with Solid Snake, who was currently carrying out Operation Intrude F014 and accompanied him for a brief while eventually gaining feelings for him and he in return. She helped him free Dr. Madnar from his cell. While the trio attempted to cross the suspension bridge that led to the detention camp where Dr. Marv was being held, they were ambushed by Metal Gear D, where Gustava was hit by a missile. Ironically, the man piloting Metal Gear was her former lover, Gray Fox.

Before she died, she gave Snake her brooch shaped in the symbol of Zanzibar Land, which was secretly the key to Dr. Marv's locker where the OILIX formula was being held.

Behind the Scenes

 * Gustava was originally named Natasha Marcova in the original MSX2 version of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Her name was changed to Gustava Heffner in the re-releases. This was presumably done to avoid confusion with the similarly named Nastasha Romanenko.

Appearences

 * Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake