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64.33.250.214 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote:

Theultimaterebol wrote: like I said earlier there's too many set in stone facts the disprove him being Ishmael and as my theory goes if I'm correct in my assumption that chico died during the helicopter crash which is definitely a possibility or after he got treated at the hospital he got sent to Amanda where he was supposed to go in the first place plus this is the second time he sold out big boss and the FSLN I doubt he'd want to stick around and wait for big boss to awaken even if he is solidus his mouth has got him in too much trouble to even want to look at big boss I don't know, Big Boss did forgive Miller for two betrayals (one is detailed in the Heiwa to Wahei no Blues radio dramas and the other was the second ending), so I'm pretty sure Big Boss is capable of forgiving a second offense from Chico, especially when its pretty obvious he squealed under torture, and considering what Skull Face stated, he most likely ended up reading the diary tapes as well.

And so far, we don't know Chico's status. Hope they reveal something soon, especially when the only confirmed surviving PW character casualty in Ground Zeroes is Paz (Strangelove is going to reappear in Phantom Pain based on a KP Alert, Cecile and Amanda weren't even on Mother Base when it was attacked, Huey, aside from appearing in The Phantom Pain, won't die until by his own hand, or rather, wheels in a pool thanks to his son sleeping with his second wife, and its pretty obvious Big Boss and Miller have until MGS4 and MGS to live). Heck, we don't even know if the chopper actually crashes, as the GameInformer issue has Kojima, when stating that Big Boss had only been in one coma and people will figure out how he got in the coma throughout the game, implied that it wasn't from the chopper. Let's put the "Chico is Solidus" theory on hold for a moment, as it's one of the more debatable theories out there.

Why set up Chico as a major character in two games, with heavy emphasis on his rescue in the last one, only to get killed off-screen? Yet we've seen neither hide nor hair of him in any of the Phantom Pain trailers. This brings us back to another theory... Chico is Ishmael.

Consider this: Ishmael says he's been watching over Big Boss for 9 years. Since the helicopter crash. If Chico were still alive, where would he be? Probably keeping eye on Big Boss, the man who saved his life despite spilling the beans to Skull Face.

In the trailers, Miller and Boss are shown being treated in the same hospital. Wouldn't Chico have been taken there as well, whether dead or alive? Again, Kojima shows us nothing of the character. He purposely omitted any of Chico's scenes to dissuade us from piecing together his fate.

Why would he do so to a major character? To keep us from learning his fate. That's when we see a patient, with bandages disguising his face, saying he's been looking after Boss the whole time...

I don't subscribe to the hallucination theory that Ishmael is a figment of Boss's imagination. Volgin may be the creation of Psycho Mantis reading Boss's mind, but Ishmael wouldn't be. Psycho Mantis is working for the enemy during Phantom Pain.

Why attack Boss with psychic hallucinations while simultaneously helping him? Doesn't much sense as far as motivations go. Or does Boss have psychic abilites now, able to physically conjure up imagination assistants? That doesn't jive with the whole Moby Dick theme. In the book, Ahab and Ishmael are two different characters. If Boss is an analogy for Ahab, then Ishmael is a separate character.

Honestly, I doubt that Chico would be Solidus, since it would consist of retconning Chico's ENTIRE backstory from PW and being told that everything we knew about him is a lie. However, I do agree with the fact that they wouldn't kill off Chico after everything in GZ, but that could simply mean that Chico is too plot important to reveal. Maybe he's with Huey, maybe he's with EVA, maybe he's acting as a mole inside XOF to get close and kill Skull Face. We don't know.

As for the Sins of the Father thing you said, I do agree that it may relate to Chico, but not in a literal way. Big Boss has been shown to be like a second father to Chico, specially after his own father had just died, and Big Boss does show a fatherly concern towards Chico in GZ. My own theory is that this will relate to Chico growing up to become a proto-Solid Snake, meaning Chico and his relationship with BB will be very much like SS in MG1. Eventually Chico will oppose Big Boss, but will fail to defeat him and Big Boss will kill him, as if to show what would've happened had Big Boss succeeded in killing Snake in Outer Heaven.

But who knows, anything can happen, but I find the Chico-Quiet theory more likely, even if it is unlikely.