Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-66.56.44.237-20130617084327/@comment-4913740-20140405035932

The suits are probably not part of the gene therapy experimentation, but they could help to compound their abilities.

I think that Eli is, without a doubt, Liquid. Many people are still raising questions about it, so it's not without a doubt, but there seems to be so much evidence pointing towards that being Liquid. Liquid has prior history in the Middle East, he would be around the right age at that time to be Eli (since Eli looks to be about 12 or 13.)

And the best part of it all is the tagline: "A Youth who Curses his Fate". That sure as hell sounds like Liquid. And Liquid has to get the idea that he has the recessive genes and is the inferior one from somewhere. He meets Big Boss in The Phantom Pain perhaps, Big Boss sees he has blonde hair, discovers he's one of the clones, and immediately assumes he got recessive genes.