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He looks like young Liquid and he is young Liquid. I'm afraid that you forgot something very trivial. MGS5 is probably last game with Big Boss as a main hero. Maybe there will be sequel for Vita/3DS about his double role as Foxhound and Outer Heaven commander, but that's all, no more Big Boss. There will be MGS6 and so on. Kojima needs new protagonist for future game and he is running out of characters. I doubt there will be another game with Solid as main hero (remake of Metal Gear 1 and 2 could be exception) and Raiden got his own game. Gray Fox and Solidus? I doubt it. The ones that left are The Boss and Liquid. The game with The Boss set in the WW II is highly probable because Kojima plan to do it. But I think the most probable is game with Liquid as protagonist. Kojima knows that fans of the series want it so he could be making ground for such game. Adult Liquid is similar to Solid and Big Boss so gamers will feel like in home. Also in 90s (in which the game with him should be setted) aside from Gulf War that Liquid participated there were Yugoslav Wars. This makes some potential for Kojima and MGS6. I'm not saying that this will be for sure but I have an intuition that there is deeper reason behind young Liquid's role in MGS5.