Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1918136-20131106045017/@comment-1672596-20140414113129

Tesshu wrote: Snake does love her (Meryl as well.) but he knows he can't stay with her, because of the fox die virus and his accelerated aging. If Snake would try to do "something" with Meryl she would certainly die. 1. Meryl wasn't one of the targets for FOXDIE (both Campbell and Naomi confirmed that); 2. Snake didn't even know about his accelerated aging directly impacting FOXDIE's infectious nature until about nine years after Shadow Moses; 3. His accelerated aging is not infectious at all so it wouldn't impact her at all outside of socially (although MGS2 as well as the script did imply that Snake was aware of his accelerated aging since at least prior to the Tanker Incident).