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Big Boss!
It was late in the night, but I started blasting Sins of The Father on headphones, and made a quick monochrome sketch of Venom Snake.
We won't talk about the fact that I fucked up with mirroring, and he has the eyepatch and shrapnel on the wrong side of his face
BB reacts really well to the peace walker incident. He’s like, well adjusted.
i passed out and when i woke up i had drawn this
also pre-snake eater naked snake could be grinning thinking about a hornet nest but it's inconvenient to make that on my phone so imagine it yourself
the duality of snakes (og under cut)
big boss from peace walker seems to be easy to draw. mb it's a perception issue bc i don't care much whether he will look attractive or not. i should draw some memes with him or draw him in silly situations tho, my ask is open for suggestions
tonight on things that never happened, or op's undisguised fetish
wanted to draw something different but noticed a similar pose while looking for references and thought it'd be funny to draw them like this. while drawing, i noticed that snake's face is right on the belt buckle but didn't want to change the pose and thought he might've disregarded such minor discomfort (if we ignore the possibly ooc nature of the pose in general) and wake up with a belt buckle print on his face.
why are they sleeping fully clothed? bc i have a thing for decency (tm). why is the book facing that way? so i could draw the cover ofc - if you recognise it, good job. also wanted to draw some funny camo, but most of them are funny due to color, so i went for the t-shirt that can be found in the target practice mission. snake's butt is that way bc it's funny to me.
have you noticed how the title of boss in mgs is almost mocking, and those who have it are a tool of some forces they are unable to deny?
the boss has respect and obedience of people around her, such as strangelove and other researchers, snake, the cobras, volgin etc. but she earns it exactly by giving her all to whatever task she's assigned to, which were often harmful to her or suicidal. she clearly doesn't want to kill the sorrow or convince snake she's a traitor, and mb she didn't want to go to space and do other stuff either, but she either was blackmailed into those missions by threatening her child or thought it was her responsibility to tie up loose ends or smth. so, what leads to her being the boss is really extreme obedience, often contrary to her own interests.
when snake is "awarded" the title of big boss, it already looks like mockery as it is: he and you, the player, know there's not much heroism in killing the boss. i haven't played mg, mg2 and mgs4 yet, so this might be canonically disproven, but mgsv seems to me like it takes the extreme obedience even further: some organisation says "we're giving your identity to some other guy" and he's like "ok yay ❤️ 🚬🏍️". it is also notable how in portable ops and peace walker he fights people whose ideas he will directly adopt (nation of mercenaries and metal gear). of course he is the next legendary soldier and his followers respect and obey him, but it seems he earned that by fulfilling some organisation's plan (not in form of direct missions this time) with great skill and dedication. it was interesting to see his path from solo stealth operative to a leader in portable ops, and it does seem like people follow him bc of his field skills (and bc of being put in the brig) than management skills (although he is a charismatic leader).
if you replace "boss" with "tool" or "weapon", it makes just as much sense in terms of passing down the code name. their authority only exists among soldiers and scientists and pows and doesn't exist at all for the people who use them. and it seems that in metal gear when there is a super soldier, the government (or patriots or whoever else) is always training a new one that could kill them if needed. so, both people who get the codename get it after proving they can be made to do anything no matter how much they dislike it, which is ironic.
Oh no yeah for sure
Bit of an art dump! She metal on my gear till I'm solid!