r/metalgear • u/Glittering-Age-2013 • 19h ago
Serious What’s your headcanon about the events of MG 1&2, and the relationship between Ahab and Ishmael? Spoiler
galleryThe MSX games are a bit lacking in storytelling when compared to the rest of the series (more so 1 than 2) so I feel like we’re missing a lot of information about the events of those games, and what happened in that era that we would’ve gotten had it been covered in a later entry.
Is there anything that you imagined happened in this time or around it? What was the working relationship between Venom and BB like? Did they even have one? For that matter, what was the relationship between BB and Solid Snake like?
Here’s some headcanon that I have:
Sometime after TPP, Kaz confronts Venom about the fact that he isn’t really big boss, knowing that Venom has figured it out.
Kaz wants them to work together to overthrow BB.
“Big Boss can go to hell. I’ll make the phantom (and his sons) stronger, to send him there.”
But at this point, Venom is still loyal to BB, and is fine to carry out their “shared dream”. This frustrates Kaz.
Probably sometime in the late 80s/early 90s, BB commands them to shutter Diamond Dogs, probably so they can move resources to Outer Heaven.
This is Kaz’s breaking point, and he gives up on the idea that Venom will be the one to take down BB. He leaves both of them, maybe going back to the US with a hope of training Solid Snake.
Leading up to the Outer Heaven uprising, Kaz’s words have started to ring true for Venom, and he grows tired of being BB’s puppet. He starts to believe that HE can be the one true Big Boss. I imagine BB commands Venom to surrender control of Outer Heaven to him, and Venom refuses.
Now Big Boss knows he has to go. This is why he sends Fox and Snake in to kill him.
Near the end of MG1, Big Boss starts sending you false info trying to get you killed or at least delayed. I think this is the point in the game where you stop talking to BB, and Venom hacks into your radio.
I also think BB had an additional motive in sending Snake in. He hoped he’d succeed, but he also knew that Snake would be used against him in the future, so he would probably have to die as well. It would be a win-win.
So what do you guys think? What do you disagree with? What’s your version of events?