Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-2010095-20140324043600

Well after playing GZ side ops missions I am gonna have to adress the "Hideo is the third man" seeing as how he is in the game and actually said miller was talking to "him".... However I doubt he is ishmael but still possible seeing as how he has worn the bandages IRL and if it turns out to be him the keifer voice could have just been a place holder for his lines until he rehearsed them good enough to actually record.

Also if Ishmael is a halucination then it could still be Hideo seeing as he is also "the voice of god" in the MGS world. He also called psycho mantis a "traitor!" in MGS4 with vague context to why. So maybe the massivly understated "V.I.P" Intel Operative dies in the hospital while Big Boss falls into a coma and decides to stay (spiritualy) in this world long enough to see his boss come to.

However without the aid of the sorrow he cannot contend with psyco mantis but manages to guid BB to safety (or at least to ocelot) and maybe making some sort of exchange with kid mantis before passing on or whatever ghosts do in MGS.

This would also explain his apearance again as a ghost in MGS1 still keeping an eye on the progeny of his former leader and again psycho mantis.

In short a a life for a life.

If the side op can count as psuedo-historical then why can't ghosts count as psuedo-characters?