Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.183.25.16-20150918215627/@comment-84.248.112.111-20160105223309

98.183.25.16 wrote: Something only touched on like once. When was he blinded? Was it during the torture? I'm confused on this. Miller's seemingly blinded eyes are one of the several things i'd assume were intended to play more prominent part in the story and his personal character arc than they ended up doing in the final game. I mean game kind of hints at it when Venom first rescues him and asks did his captors do something to Kaz's eyes, but his blindness never comes to play in any manner, only exception being the scene where he reveals his supposedly blinded eyes at the end of Chapter 1. Before or after this scene however we never see him act like a real blind person would; he always looks towards people he's talking to and seems to react to things and know his surroundings completely normally, without any visible handicap or different means of deducing where everything is in relation to one or other. I also find it somewhat difficult to believe Miller would have been able to become a drill sergeant later in his life, if he was blind at that point.

My personal guess would be it was originally intended for Kaz to become blind through the progress of story over time and at the end of it, when he feels he has gotten the revenge and retribution for their fallen comrades, he has Code Talker to give him back his eyesight with parasite teraphy and gets himself proper artificial arm and leg, explaining how he is in well enough shape to be regarded fit for military service (even if it's jus as an instructor) world over in his later years.

Then only thing that remains kind of confusing about Kaz's later life is how was he able to father a daughter, when rendered sterile by the wolbachia treatment in Phantom Pain? I guess only two possible explanations are, that Catherine was adopted by him or that he would have had an affair with her mother sometime before event's of Phantom Pain and later found out that affair had produced a daughter.