okay. so this is something that i wrote a long time ago and tried to make into a comic but ended up abandoning it because I felt it wasn't working out. Many months later I revisited it, re-wrote it and this time I didnt try to give it a "traditional" comic structure (which is what I tried the first time) because I felt this long top-down, more illustrative approach would complement the stream-of-thought-iness of the text better. and hey, here it is.

I wrote the bulk of this thinking about the very idealized way that kaz talks about the way him and bb met, vs how they actually met in the audio drama. I thought about how a more bitter, post-mgsv kaz would think about it and the text just sorta spiraled from there.

Something that i could not include and had to take out was the scene in the audio drama where big boss "convinces" kaz to join msf by almost braking his neck and giving kaz the option to either join bb or die on the spot. It was kinda what originated this- the way that kaz in pw only focuses on the idealized grenade scene and doesn't mention any of the other stuff (which of course, is because the audio drama is just an elaboration on how they met, but I think its interesting what it does character-wise) I think this scene would add more weight to what I wrote at the end of the first comic.