Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-66.56.44.237-20130617084327/@comment-1672596-20150621094938

64.33.250.214 wrote: Jim Logan wrote: Except that in no way can be Solid Snake.

In the original MGS1 briefing, Colonel Campbell told Solid Snake that, aside from skin tone, Liquid is an exact duplicate. He has darker skin and lighter hair from living in the desert.

177.249.112.38 wrote: Solidus is much younger than Solid and Liquid, and Solidus is caucassian not latin like Chico

Solidus was cloned to age faster. Chico is pretty white for a person of Latin descent. We can't be sure he is 100% authentic. Remember how Paz faked being Costa Rican?

0nighthawk0 wrote: I did, because Chico cannot be Solidus because Solidus is a clone of Big Boss and Chico is no such thing. It would be one gigantic retcon that just is not happening.

It's actually quite common for MGS characters to have double identities. Kojima has fooled us many times by hiding character motivations. In MGS1, we were tricked into believing that Ocelot worked for FOXHOUND. The ending revealed he was working with Solidus. In MGS2, it turned out Ocelot was working for The Patriots. In MGS3, Ocelot once again worked against his commander. It wasn't until MGS4 that we discovered Ocelot was working against The Patriots.

Chico and Amanda claiming to be Nicaraguan doesn't make it any truer than Ocelot being Russia or Paz being Costa Rican. For the last bit, considering Chico explicitly gave his age as 12, that makes him being Solidus extremely unlikely. At best, IF he's a LET child, he would be one of the failed predecessors to the Twin Snakes, NOT Solidus, who came after them.

And for the record, Paz already implied being of Latina descent at least in the third tape, where she mentioned that she used to eat gallo pinto made by her mom, though she barely even remembers it.