Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-4913740-20140512162802

GrimmShadows wrote: Think stretching it is an understatement. He didn't look like he was more then 30 in MGS2 and that was 2009  So, I'm bad at math but, he would still be in diapers if he was even born yet at the time of Phantom Pain in 84. MAYBE he would be around 10-12, which might mean you're playing as Solidis pretending to be Big Boss and the game might be about the formation of his small boy unit but I find that doubtful, though maybe that would be an idea for a future game. I think saying it's Raiden though would be a better option than saying it's Gray Fox. Portable Ops is established as canon, Kojima is not going to go back and rewrite Gray Fox's part in any way, so the fact is that Gray Fox is clearly older, and could not be Eli. However, Raiden's history is not set in stone, as the first game he actually appears in is MGS2, so that could be subject to retconning. Not saying it should be, or that it will be, but it's better to assume that a younger character could be Eli than a character who is already confirmed to be older at this point in time.