Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-6747658-20140615103110

42.98.41.188 wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: 人間 stands for Ningen, typically used for human in Japanese...you'll hear that being said a lot in any Anime that has supernaturals or demons or whatever in it.

Ultimately it remains mostly the same, liquid (hu)man, it is so far the strongest proof that Eli is indeed none other then Liquid.

I used to be very much opposed to the idea that Eli is Liquid, but seeing more and more proof of it, I do have to accept it...however, I still don't agree with it and think Kojima's bonkers for introducing Liquid here when it was previously states that the man never met Big Boss, yay for retcons I'm just saying Kanji doesn't always mean the same thing as if it is interpreted as Chinese, but in many cases, it works closely enough -- and hence I said it is by far the strongest proof.

On the pt where Liquid never met Big Boss, are you referring to the scene where Liquid said "[he] was the one that father chose" before entering REX? Or you are talking about else where? I think that would be the one yes, at least it has been implied during Liquid's conversation with Solid, that he never met Big Boss, and there never have been any mentions of it either. This also in accordance that he had been held captive for a good while in Iraq, though I'm not sure during what years that exactly was.