Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-5038094-20140713221545

What if Skull face isn't telling the truth, but rather is a character who is doing all this in an elaborate subterfuge? Like the burned face, the backstory in Hungary, revenge on Zero and Big boss, what it's all lies? It could be he's a known character, such as Raikov or something, ordered or possibly even brainwashed into becoming Skull Face and lead XOF. Or, or, it could be he's a random mook or nobody picked up off the streets, maybe somebody with nothing to live for and no livng relatives to notice, who was brainwashed into thinking he had a long history with Big Boss and Zero, and as a nobody no one who cared would notice was gone, and his whole history wiped away and replaced with a false memory, he'd still be a ghost without a past. For how, I imagine he's given a burn mask, easy considering Sigint invented the Raikov mask before joining the Patriots, or they could have just burned him badly for desired effect, and could have brainwashed him in like a prototype manner to Ocelot's transforming into Liquid's doppelganger, or tortured him into it a la Jason Bourne. As to the why, my guess would be as a way to create a common enemy with the Patriots and Big Boss, as a way to get Big Boss back without risking nuclear war, that part of this I still haven't gotten, but it's all just speculation. And if this isn't true when the full story of MGSV is out after playign it, it's still awesome and I'll have to use it in a story myself.