Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-4913740-20140507120014

Firstly, accelerated aging should not logically kick in from birth. Having a small infant accelerate to appear to be ten years older than they actually is ridiculous, because the infant would not have developed sufficiently and would be assumed to have some sort of mental disability (in relation to their supposed age). Solidus' accelerated aging IS programmed to begin earlier than the Twin Snakes, but not that early. As I've stated early, I recall it being mentioned somewhere that he appeared to be forty / almost forty, when in actuality he was only twenty.

Now, to the 190 IP above me, it has been discussed before (perhaps buried in another thread) that in the Bible, one of King David's brothers is named Eliab. Also, David and Eliab had six other brothers. That comes to a total of eight children... and there were originally octuplets in the womb before the rest were aborted to promote growth in the twins. Kojima is tying in a Biblical metaphor fairly well with the story.