Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-72.192.64.32-20130729162330

1.64.54.37 wrote: 42.98.56.14 wrote: Hey that Chico = Ishmael = Octopus sounds interesting and yes their hair colour matches closely. But forgive me for being picky over the following point: Chico is 43 by MGS1, and both Donald Anderson and Kenneth Baker are at their 60s at that time.

Ocelot commented that "FOXDIE affects older people first". Although there is no official data to how old Octopus truely is by that time, I am inclined to take Baker's age as a reference point to Octopus' age. Even "older" is a word in relative terms, I still think 43 is of reasonable distance to what "older" implied in that line given how old Baker and Ocelot are at that time (who are both at their 60s).

This aside I appreciate whoever comes up with this a lot. Thanks for further explaining from the Raven and Houseman point of view. Even the age bit is not convincing to me, I agree with The Flying Teabagger that this is by far the most sensible theory regarding Ishmael. At least it is better than saying Ishmael is Big Boss' imagination simply because we don't see him in the trailers after the hospital section. " At least it is better than saying Ishmael is Big Boss' imagination simply because we don't see him in the trailers after the hospital section."

There are several reasons why the hallucination theory is a valid one.

It isn't just because he dissapears after Big Boss escapes the hospital.

It's because he does absolutely nothing to aid Big Boss in his escape from the hospital. The injection does nothing, he makes Big Boss crawl around instead of helping him to his feet, and he's nowhere to be seen immediately after the ambulance crash. The ambulance he was previously seen driving.

In fact the only thing he does do to aid Big Boss in his escape from the hospital is give him encouragement to press forward.

This video makes it more clear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak59GDjWyvQ