Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25017623-20140715144104/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140729223720

Adachi Did It wrote: True, it definitely seems to be Volgin, but doesn't that raise another question? why would they make and release an action figure for a character we assume to be a hallucination? that seems a little weird, so maybe Volgin will play a bigger role than we thought, maybe he'll be a constant hallucination for Venom instead of just a one-off kinda thing in the hospital.

And just to clarify, has anybody seen an Ishmael action figure? because i haven't, which is another weird thing, one hallucination gets an action figure, while another possibly bigger hallucination doesn't. Volgin was probably conjured from Big Boss's mind by Psycho Mantis. We know that the character who looks like child Mantis can manifest psychic, flaming whales. Flaming Volgin sounds like the something Mantis would torment Boss with. Why would Mantis create a hallucination to help Boss?

If Ishmael wasn't created by Mantis, then by whom? Boss? It's unlikely that Boss has the ability to mentally project helpers, and we've thus far never heard of Boss having psychic abilities before. Ishmael states he's been watching over Boss since he entered the coma. How can Boss project someone to watch over him when he wasn't even awake?

There's also the whole Moby Dick theme going on, as evidenced by the whale and "Moby Dick Studio". In Moby Dick, Ahab wants revenge. Which is what Boss wants in Phantom Pain. Ishmael doesn't want revenge, at least not in the book. It seems less likely that Ishmael is a projection, when he's named after a character with totally different ideals than Boss.