Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-64.78.157.97-20150512212329/@comment-25090680-20150513034226

1. I always got the feeling that Ocelot was a little jealous of BB. He saw this person who had the greatest soldier in the worlds' team after him, imo he wanted to prove himself better than him. Killing him would prove he was better, therefore he wanted to kill him. At some point though he clearly started to see why The Boss had such an interest in him.

2. I always assumed that was their orders. While The Boss respected them more than anyone (with the exception of The Sorrow and Big Boss) I can't see her telling them her true orders. She ordered them to use lethal force, genuinely try and kill him. The truest combat test for her protégé, how else to know he's the best person to carry on her will than to test him with the very best. However now that you mention it, them buying time for The Boss to find the legacy could have been part of their orders, or at the very least a by-product of them.

3. I think she was a little narcissistic here, rightly so but still, I think she considered herself the very best soldier in the world. She knew what killing her would do to BB but knew that it was something he had to do (in her mind at least) to take her place. She set herself up as the final test, if he could kill her, while she was at her best trying to kill him, then mentally he'd be capable of any mission he'd take on in the future. Maybe it was a pseudo-parental thing as well, wanting to see him surpass her, the only way she could think of was to have him kill her.

Or I could be miles off :P it's been a few years since I've played, so I could be forgetting some important dialogue that explains some of these questions.