Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-109.242.31.58-20130503020149

Hello,since i find this topic extremely interesting i'd like to toss my 2 cents.

I enforce the idea of the XOF commander being The Boss' father because:

In this game we are supposed to see how the story ends up with BB and Zero both completely losing the point their interpretations about The Boss' ideology.

So,what better way to show how BB and/or Zero both become obsessed with their ideology than to have one of the original,benelovent Philosophers join the fray?

One might ask, "Hey,but why is he taking sides then?And why Zero?BB is more appealing".Here,i can come up with a lot of reasons:

1)Firstly,there are many examples in the MGS series where someone has completely different reasons for joining a military group (FOXHOUND being the most prominent example,on the one hand you had Psycho Mantis,a homicidal lunatic and Sniper Wolf,a death seeker).

1b)Different agenda.Maybe,he realized that both BB and Zero are wrong and he joined

Cipher,the most powerful group to play his own cards.This has happened a lot of times

in previous games (Ocelot,Gene e.g.).

2)Maybe Zero lied to him? BB killed The Boss,this could be used as an accusation to BB,so that Zero could convince the soon-to-be XOF commander to join him.

3)Purely revenge (<-doubtful) .Maybe he hates BB for killing his daughter and thus causing the creation of the Cipher and soon-to-be-Patriots, who are an even worse version of the american philosophers.

4) Personal reasons?Maybe he can turn the whole event to an even bigger conspiracy (if such a thing is even possible).

Now about the whole "ressurection not sticking well with the MGS series" topic,i doubt something like that could stop Kojima from giving a valid explanation.

Given Kojima's ability to twist conspiracies and myths to fit the MGS setting (the Y2K problem,gulf war syndrom) he can come up with a lot of stuff. :P

My opinion:

Well,ever heard about the Walt Disney's myth of being cryonically frozen?Say that, some "ahead-of-their-times" Philosopher scientists managed to cryonically freeze the last original Philosopher just before he died...until,the Cipher "dug up" that project and found a way to restore him. No, "nanomachines,son" involved. :P