Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-64.33.250.214-20141127161858

I decided to mess around with images of Ishmael by adjusting the color and saturation. In doing so, I discovered that Ishmael has greenish eyes. I repeated the process several times to confirm, then did the same with a photo of Eli from the game. The experimentation revealed that Eli also has green eyes, which lines up with what is written on his Wikia entry.

Taking into consideration that Ishmael's model was an early demo and may look different in the final release, what does it mean if Ishmael has green eyes? It means Ishmael is unlikely to be a hallucination, and unlikely to be Gray Fox (who had gray eyes). But this neither proves nor disproves the Solidus and Decoy Octopus theories.

Big Boss has blue eyes in Phantom Pain. Blue eyes are recessive, which is why Solid inherited them. Liquid had green eyes due to inheriting all the dominant traits. Solidus had blue... BUT, it is possible he had green eyes when he was younger. Because he inherited both dominant and recessive genes. A person's eye color can change due to genetics and aging. This is proven by Solid's change of eye color, as by MGS4 they had turned from blue to grayish blue.

In the case of Decoy, he can change his appearance at will. Though I personally don't subscribe to him being Ishmael.