Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140727093836

Misterbunnsy wrote: This is getting ridiculous. I have a two-year old nephew. While he can form some words and can almost string a sentence together, he is not capable of speaking functionally like a developed child, like a 12 year old for instance.

Apart from the fact that a 2 year old could not pose as a 12 year old, even if they were accelerated to appear as such, Solidus is also not even born. At the end of Peace Walker, Kaz has a conversation with his business associate, who turns out to be Zero. And Kaz makes mention of the clones, saying "Two already?" This means Solidus was not even alive by 1974. Chico =/= Solidus. Was your nephew born in a lab? If not, your nephew =/= Solidus.

I didn't start the theory, I'm just expanding upon it. The biggest problem everyone has with Chico being Solidus is the age difference. Kojima could easily retcon or simply shrug off the logistics. All he needs is to say Solidus was created using science.

Solidus has an IQ of 180. He'd be light-years ahead of the class. A year ago, there was a story about a 2 year old boy genius with an IQ of 141. Said boy learned to potty train himself at the age of 1, could spell 100 words and count in several languages. That's just a normal child with an impressive IQ. Now imagine a genetically altered child with a much higher IQ. That's Solidus.

Amanda said Chico's growth was stunted. Stunted implies that he looks younger than his age, or at least noticeably smaller. How do we know that Zero would even tell Kaz about Solidus? We don't. Ocelot insisted that no one knew about Solidus prior to MGS2. Unless Kaz knew and was killed before he could tell anyone. However, if Solidus hadn't yet been created by 1974, that means they had to have been in the process of creating him. None of that is even hinted at in the phone call. Further supporting the idea he wasn't told everything.

It's been said before but bears repeating, Kojima could pull a surprise retcon. The LET project originally hadn't begun until Big Boss was in a coma. We know now that's no longer the case.