Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-66.56.44.237-20130617084327/@comment-4913740-20140330113109

192.160.117.141 wrote: Solid and Liquid Snake were born in 1972, with Solidus being born at some point between then and the Les Enfants Terrible project's shutdown in 1976. Peace Walker takes place in 1974. If Chico were a product of the project, he would be two years old when we first meet him. Either Les Enfants Terrible occured significantly before everyone thinks it did, or Chico's accelerated aging kicked in very early, progressed very rapidly, and then presumably slows way down again so that he doesn't look a million years old by the time we see him again in the 2000s. Apart from Chico being twelve years old and growing up with the Sandinistas and whatnot, there's also the fact that the birth of Solid and Liquid Snake through the Les Enfant's Terribles Project was in 1972. Even with accelerated aging, it would be a two-year-old, with the same brain and learning experiences as a two-year-old. Two-year-olds can only just form basic sentences and walk, let alone hike over mountains like Chico apparently does with the Sandinistas, sneak around in enemy territory, gather intel on enemy territory, etc. It's just not possible.

And that's not even taking into account that Solidus has not been born yet. With the fact that the Les Enfants Terribles project ends in 1976, it is entirely possible that Solidus is born in 1975 or 76. Therefore, he wouldn't even be born at the time of Peace Walker. Unless a massive retcon is approaching (which would frankly ruin the established contuinity of at least four or five games), there is no way that Chico is Solidus.