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But I stress yet again, no matter what amount of accelerated aging is pre-programmed into Solidus' DNA, he is 12-13 years old at most. It would be physically ridiculous to be so accelerated in aging that you would appear to be late 20s or early 30s when you are only just in puberty.

Your point about the biblical names thing is interesting though. Makes me wonder if perhaps the usage of Ishmael is perhaps misdirection on Kojima's part? After all, to quote PythonSelkan in all their brilliance, "Kojima is the master troller". Would he think that people would pick up on all the biblical references? Maybe that's why he made it so blatantly obvious about Eli being Liquid (although all those hints, like the writing on the jacket and what not could be misdirection again), so that we would think "Hang on. David and Eli are Biblical names. Perhaps this Ishmael could be Solidus, since biblical names are always important characters?