Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150815032017

Autisticgiraffe wrote: And on the customization part, that actually makes a bit of sense, I don't think he would be the canvas for your MGO character, but it would be reasonable considering he's metaphorically "faceless" as we never see his face, so that would already make room for face customization and whatnot.

Ishmael's face may be concealed, but you can hear his voice. As I tried explaining to the other guy who supports the "Ishmael is You" theory, Ishmael is assumed to be voiced by Kiefer and Akio, the voice actors for Big Boss. If that's the case, then why rehire those actors when Kojima could hire literally anyone to play a custom character? Many other games that allow customization offer more options to change voice/dialogue. They also allow players to enter their own names for custom characters. So instead of Ishmael introducing himself by saying "you can call me Ishmael", he might say "you can call me Big McLargeHuge".