Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-26523073-20150623001037/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150825055049

62.151.187.110 wrote:

Well, he said it's about Naked Snake and Ocelot between the 2 of them they appear in every single game, Naked Snake representing the "old part" and Ocelot being in the "modern part". Ocelot never followed Big Boss? EVA in MGS4 even says he idolize Big Boss and you can even see Ocelot in MGS3 being almost a cheerleader for him after his first encounter with Snake (he cheers Snake in his batte vs Volgin for example) and at the same time he tries to surpass Big Boss. Regarding Ocelot in MGS2 and MGS4 it's stated he never even was "possesed" by Liquid, he as you said went into hypnotherapy to do those things because he couldn't do it on his own (being Ocelot). Also Ocelot never knew The Joy and The Sorrow were his parents, he merely doesn't blindly follow his clones because they're not the real Big Boss and they have no idea about The Boss ideals even tho Solid Snake in MGS4 gets very close.. Note here: When somebody Idolize a person (s)he can't see anybody better that that person, it's the same applied to Ocelot They don't appear in every single game, and in some cases are only referred to. Ocelot was absent from MG1-MG2 and Peace Walker-Ground Zeroes. He had an minor cameo in Portable Ops, where his and Eva's character models were reused fron Snake Eater. Big Boss appeared briefly in MG1-MG2, and was only mentioned in MGS1-MGS2.

It doesn't really matter if Ocelot never knew who his parents were, he still had issues regarding them. Being raised without a family structure to become a triple agent, "a rival living a lie" as MGSV says. He was drawn to the "spirit of the warrior" which Naked Snake inherited through killing The Boss. Naked Snake wouldn't even be Big Boss if it wasn't for The Boss. Would Ocelot have idolized him if he hadn't inherted The Boss's will?

Was it stated Ocelot was never possessed, or did MGS4 not mention possession and simply focused on hypontherapy? The fact that Ocelot had Liquid's arm removed, and that he's the son of a spirit medium, implies the arm affected him in some way.