Nekona

i imagine in special groups like foxhound, fighters who havent found their pair are preferred: fighters by nature are commanded, but a fated pair answers to no one but themselves, and if they decided to defect or otherwise rebel, loveless zero style, then there’s nothing anyone else can do. by controlling who gets paired together on the field they can prevent that bond from forming and can maintain control of the fighter

a world without fighting → a world without fighters…? maybe big boss was amassing a nation of fighters – and without sacrifices, no one could control them or tell them what to do

and wouldn’t that explain a lot lmao… a nation of fighters all desperate to either Fight for him or Sacrifice for him and being unable to do either

as a thought experiment it’s fun to imagine the snake series being sacrifices instead: one because that’s what they are in the sense of the word itself (sacrifices, bodies, cannon fodder, to be used), but two because it would make sense in regards to the emphasis on espionage. why else focus on stealth, on avoiding a front-on gunfight

that said, on account of being engineered, much like the loveless zero series, the snakes can ‘lose their names’, and perhaps are even engineered to do so along with accelerated ageing…