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TheGentlemanGhost wrote:

It's really not JUST because he has a bandaged face, there's a lot of connections. What do you mean by...

how would anyone be able to explain, in context of the story, how a character's face differs from game to game and has any name (if name customization were possible)?

He's introduced just now in TPP, this is the last MGS game from the looks of it. Ishmael simply becomes one of the 1000s of Diamond Dog soldiers in Big Boss' army. How is canon ruined in any way or fashion, I don't get you and this concern with canon on this at all. He can just become another mercerny in Outer Heaven afterwards. This game goes into MG1, and we may not even see the bosses from MG1 in TPP, who knows what's going to happen. Ocelot is BB's new BFF and he's not in MG1 or 2 at all, they can do whatever to this custom character without breaking canon.

I'm truly lost on this whole canon gripe you have with him so you gotta give me some examples on how a Diamond Dog soldier being customizable breaks canon... You don't get me? Well, I can't say the feeling isn't mutual. You show up out of the blue, defending this theory whenever someone criticizes it. Why haven't you been debating any other theory? I've been here debating this subject for over a year. My comments are not a personal attack on what you believe.

I really don't understand the confusion. Ocelot has a name and you can described what he looks like. A custom character can change appearance, name, and/or gender. How do you make that a part of the story? "___, who wears ___, and has ___ hair with ___ eyes, became a member of Diamond Dogs and helped Big Boss form Outer Heaven. ___ eventually retired and moved to Tokyo to develop video games with fellow Diamond Dogs buddy Kojima."

Did you see those blanks up there? That's information that can't be added to the story, because the custom character would be different for each player.

Now let's say you can't change Ishmael's name or gender. If that were the case, then I do not see the point in making him a custom character. The whole point of that function should be to allow players to be whoever they want.

If it turned out that Ishmael was Decoy Octopus, then I could understand this theory that he's customizable. As it stands, he already has a name and a voice actor in place. Which implies that he is an important character, and not some character creation who probably wouldn't play a significant role in how the story unfolds.