Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.234.99.168-20150703054955/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150703211505

Adachi Did It wrote: Could be. However I'm under the impression it was a hallucination. It makes no sense for it to Solid. Saying that though I'd love it to be Solid. What is it with all these hallucination theories? First Ishmael, Skull Face, Paz, and now Eli's twin. If the whole game turns out to be a hallucination, then Kojima's last MGS will be one massive troll.

My guess: Eli is either projecting the twin due to a psychological complex, or the twin is Solid. Liquid and Solid are twins, so they should have identical hair colors. Hair can change color with age, or according to MGS lore, from being in the sun too long. That was the explanation given for why Liquid is blonde despite Big Boss having brown hair.

Scenes in Phantom Pain which feature Eli allude to Lord of the Flies. Such as the crashed plane and the pig's head. In Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys during a nuclear crisis crash in unihabited territory. They learn to adapt to nature and become more primitive. Which explains why Eli and his twin look the way they do.

You may have heard that in situations like when people are on the battlefield, or are camped out in the wilderness, one will sleep while another one stands watch. This might explain why the twin opens his eyes just as Eli appears to doze off. Like they've synchronized their sleeping patterns. Or maybe Eli is dreaming of his other half. His own phantom limb.