Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-151.246.240.247-20130913120522/@comment-67.142.183.23-20140928231839

It is very possible that Raikov is somehow related to Raiden. There was a lot of cross in-between Solidus and Big Boss. Take into account that Big Boss was in a coma with the Les Enfant Terrible project being held a decade before. Raiden was a CHILD solider and it was revealed that Solidus was the one who killed his parents. Who's to say he wasn't the offspring of Raikov and Solidus was around in this time period? He had to be to kill Radien's parents, Raikov could also be put to sleep in Snake Eater as well so take that into account. As for the "no time paradox" theory when you kill Raikov, that could have been for your leisure and as a joke because Snake fans would LOVE to shoot him in the face and keep planting C4 on him until his body is fully red with blood xD I mean this was also in the same game where he captures monkeys with the EZ Gun in Snake vs Monkey -_- Considering the African and Afghanistan settings in this game, I wouldn't doubt there are some relations as to whether Raikov is his father. What do I mean by this? Well, due to the simple fact that there is a POSSIBILITY of him being alive, you can't argue with the logic. My other point to this is, just think of the story of The Phantom Pain - Big Boss starts off in a coma and that alone leaves way too much ground to cover in terms of speculation. Think about the story in general - Raiden was armed with a gun at age 6 which means his parents were killed by Solidus in or within a decade from the 80's, this alone is powerful information in it's own right. The Les Enfant Terrible project was initiated in 1971 - not even a decade from the 80's. Granted all twin snakes were given "accelerated aging", but there is no logical pace for such accelerated aging that Solidus would be old enough to have adopted Raiden being his godfather after killing his parents. Considering Big Boss was also in the ICU after Snake Eater which is undoubtedly when they got so much of his DNA from treating wounds and such, something isn't right. The new Phantom Pain is held in Afghanistan and Africa from what we've seen, there are child soliders and Big Boss's exact copy out of all of them was Solidus. On top of the fact that Big Boss is in a coma, this provides plenty of speculation room - it leaves a lot of unanswered spots in the story.

Back to Skull Face... Skull Face is Hungarian, his face was burned and he was trampled and tortured as a child during what was undoubtedly one of the bombings in Hungary as he plainly states that he was burnt by "rape seed oil" during such bombing as his family and others were making weapons there. I strongly, doubt that Raikov is Skull Face - I will say this however - there ARE Snake clones around in this game as Liquid is seen at 10 years old (presumably) named Eli, if there ARE Snakes running around and Skull Face happened to be Raiden's father, there IS a possibility that Solidus killed him, especially since he's aged more than Liquid and Solid. With him also being the antagonist that was responsible for the destruction of mother base, something appears to be missing, Big Boss starts working with him or something as he's seen walking with him to the hangar that holds Metal Gear ZEKE.... What exactly could be going on?