❗️psycho mantis doesn’t hate sex he hates rape

*probably specifically natalism too

“The first person whose mind I dove into was my father's. I saw nothing but disgust and hatred for me in his heart. My mother died in childbirth... and he despised me for it... I thought my father was going to kill me.”

My personal hc has always been that his mother was raped and died in childbirth due to inadequate care and unwanted pregnancy, a very real risk in very real life. Maybe he even came from a very repressed religious type background. I beleive what he saw play out in his fathers mind was that. I think he felt it all as if it were happening to him. Seeing his own forced conception and his mother’s death.

“He also held nihilistic views, feeling disgust towards humanity's ultimate lust to simply reproduce, and the "selfish" passing on of one's genes. He even implied that this desire was ultimately the reason why war existed.”

rape is a form of colonization and rape is justified by religion and women are the spoils of war… ✊ feminist mantis alright

“During his travels throughout the world, he read thousands of people's thoughts, and became disgusted with humanity for, as he called it, their "selfish and atavistic lust to pass on one's seed".

Draw attention to the specific word “atavistic” here. It means primal and animalistic. ​

❗️Castrated and never supplemented with hrt in the lab soon after his powers were discovered and studied to put to practical use, the idea is to keep him small and malleable to be easier to control… and a small stature to fit inside the cockpit of mechs that for some reason are built child sized 😭 thanks Huey they wouldn’t let him use his own kid

lmao however.. even if this is not the reason.. cos it’s just my fiction.. I do think this isn’t just a headcanon, based on his ref it just seems to be a fact.. where da balls at 🔍

❗️I like to imagine he can get comfortable without a mask around liquid and ocelot when he’s young and home alone with him after all the events of v and ocelot takes them in, but he wouldn’t leave the house like that and he still won’t look at himself when he’s getting dressed so liquid is his stylist ❤️ but then when he gets his head messed up from that serial killer he encounters…

i think his self loathing gets worse like yeah breaking mirrors and never wanting to look, his self loathing increases when liquid leaves for the army too and for the first time he is truly entirely alone, even tho he still lives with ocelot and is a menace while he attempts to train him with his psychic power. Mantis is too preoccupied with just wanting to kill people for the fuck of it because he’s sad he wants to hurt people, he wants to kill everyone in the world except his beloved so he can have him back. This will inevitably be his downfall too since he is easily distracted and defeated in battle in the end 💔

❗️He’s bald with the surgical scars on his head later on, closer to the actual events of mgs1 in 2005… his powers waste his body away and make him emaciated and weak, it temporarily wanes when he’s around liquid and it sort of balances things out… im not sure if he even eats lmao.. I think he’s some kind of energy vampire he just exists off vibes… (listen if quiet can PHOTOSYNTHESIS WHY NOT) all the hate and vile energy he had tapped into rotted him and the love he gets from his bestie and his bf sustains him.. that’s how I imagine it…

I think mantis has seen how liquid dies like since they were kids he’s always known about the foxdie anyway even if he didn’t specifically know it was that, he saw he would just expire and drop dead one day while still young so maybe he just wanted to die anyway.. suicide mission… he develops brain cancer as a result of using his powers so immensely to extract the parasite from liquid as a kid, it’s a slow growing cancer and I see it as a storytelling device of self sacrifice… cutting his own life shorter to be with someone he loves that doesn’t have much time themself… i like to think out of all the fucked up involuntary medical torture he’s probably been through I think at least one thing was voluntary… he goes blind from a tumor on his optic nerve, he doesn’t off himself because he just wants to see liquid again and he knows he will, he had to stay alive for him…

❗️He really has no specific gender identity, like he’s a boy sure, but sometimes he’s a cute girl too, he was never treated like a child despite being his slave name quite literally and maybe some kind of cruel irony being third child. Third out of how many??? His father only instilled toxic masculinity upon him even as a young boy, and that’s not what he wanted to be…. That’s what he wants to be with….. and he will be​… it’s the 90’s dude get over it, give piece of ur mind or penis 🙌

❗️He has no remorse for killing his father or the subsequent lives taken in the village as well, as far as he’s concerned they’re all complicit in the same type of abuse his father is guilty of, he doesn’t care for people’s lives and genuinely enjoys toying with them. I think he admits to what he did when his burns begin to heal and he wakes up in the hospital since he is the only survivor and the source of the fire is still unknown.. he recalls what little he can. He just wished his father would burn in the hell he and those people believe in. That he did! They all did. He probably demonstrates this power again by throwing things at doctors and nurses. He doesn’t want help, he wants to get away…

❗️Because of his admission he’s treated as a criminal despite being a child, however that is when he is fully dehumanized and his powers are seen as something viable and tactical, each of the barcode tattoos I imagine are just from being shipped around different labs as he killed the staff and doesn’t cooperate…

I don’t like to infantilize him… he’s been through horrible things but he chooses what he wants to do with the free will he gains, he kills people without remorse and doesn’t care about ethics or morals he’s just really attached to one guy he’s in love with… it’s ok when ocelot does it for bb isn’t it

❗️There’s def proof that they don’t control each other in the end of mgs1 cos he literally says he doesn’t agree with liquids revolution against his father thing and just wanted to kill ppl 😩 he just wants to help him for the love of it

I think they just like be on the same wavelength thinking things but I don’t think they actually rly do influence each others actions at all.. they’re just on the same page cos they love each other and that’s why I love so much about them like yeah sure it would be like easy to just think it’s a mind control thing but I love LOVE being stronger than that

Even when they’re kids like mantis gives him the parasite vial cos I imagine he’s like hehe u rly wanna fuck with them here take this :3 and then it’s up to liquid from there what he wants to do… and mantis is along for the ride