Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-1971498-20130614044406

Crony wrote: Actually the "Liquid Ocelot" case is not that simple. The way i understand it, Ocelot really was possessed in MGS2. It's backed up by the fact that you could hear Liquid voice back then, and the fact that Ocelot is the son of the Boss and the Sorrow. Being the son of the Sorrow, he inherited his psychic powers, allowing Liquid's mind to possess him through the arm. That's also somehow stated in MGS4, where it's stated that Ocelot removed Liquid's arm and used a prothesis instead, because Liquid's arm "disturbed his psyche". From what i understand from that, Ocelot actually "played" being Liquid only after he removed the said arm. But before that, he was really possessed due to his inherent psychic powers.

It's definitely possible, but the whole thing with his possession in MGS2 is such a mess at this point. Then consider how we don't even know he was literally being voiced like that (remember, MGS2 had a lot of 4th wall breaking moments especially the whole La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo A.I. tampering). It doesn't help that when Big Boss talked about Ocelot's plan of taking Liquid's role, it referenced screenshots from MGS2 as well.

Mind you, and just to be clear, I'm mainly going by MGS4 Liquid Ocelot than the one from MGS2 so I hope that makes more sense in regards to what I meant by my previous post.