Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-26715295-20150815002152

GrimmShadows wrote: Why would he have an alter ego in the series when he already has himself in the series? You rescue him in Peace Walker and again in Ground Zeros. The people who say he is the customization are saying that ismael joins Big Boss and the Diamond Dogs and you use him to design you character for Metal Gear Online. to be honest, who knows why? I mean for fucks sake he's put a bomb demilitions expert on roller blades and a goddamn guy practically made of bees as characters, so I don't think there would really have to be an explenation to his alter ego being Ishamel.

And on the customization part, that actually makes a bit of sense, I don't think he would be the canvas for your MGO character, but it would be reasonable considering he's metaphorically "faceless" as we never see his face, so that would already make room for face customization and whatnot.

Personally though, I'm still leaning towards Ishmael being Gray Fox (I haven't even seen any of PythonSelkans videos to convince my opinion, just so you all know I aint some looney), I mean it just makes sense, it's said that sometime in the 80's is when Big Boss and Frank go to Africa for battle, and Africa is a location of MGSV for people living under rocks or small boulders. He even goes on to become part of Foxhound and whatnot etc.

but in reality ishamel is just an entity made of leftovers wrapped up in bandages bc my dad ate all the pasta