I’m not known for metal gear takes here but that one codec btwn Snake and Chris in Ghost Babel where he 1. opens up to the female companion about the specifics of his trauma and 2. reveals that he liked being called a hero after killing his dad did so much work character-wise.
far from being on the receiving end of liquid’s shaming speech in 1, snake admits that he liked the praise of his own volition. seeing him despise himself for it makes him an active agent in his own development as a character. mainline games skirt around snake indulging vanity/his ego via his profession (games like 2 echo that he’s “good at what he does” due to conventional training but don’t necessarily make that competency or the reaction to it a sticking point of his moral compass the way GB does. canon!snake doesn’t give a shit how ppl see him and views his struggle as one of either global necessity or survival), so seeing it here felt like a landmark character study. even if Ghost Babel is non-canon, that game has the sauce
So the CONTEXT is that Xbox is releasing Diablo IV and they changed their logo to match that, BUT I’m CACKLING over the idea that Xbox decided 4 days of pride was enough and that the gays should burn in hell now
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