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He's staring at the-- the DVD ATM thing with a look of abject despair. Are all of the movies inside this box? How do they know how many they have? How do they guarantee they'll ever get them back? What happens if the screen glitches ( and Otacon isn't there for a quick fix )? Where's the popcorn? The fun carpets? The wandering around looking at covers and letting yourself get sucked into something new?

he wants to find the words to assuage, to assure, no matter his bite, he'd pull his teeth for philanthropy--that his life was balanced on david's shoulders, that whatever worth he might propose comes in the form of repentance for molding the nuclear sphere with his own two hands. men like big boss clenched power in their hands as a horse's bit, and frank was nothing more than a discarded, shattered tool.

the man was dead. his legacy, null and void. but this.. this cause, these two, his beloved friend and his new compatriot, this has meaning.

doctor emmerich fills an injection needle to a halfway mark, clean ink indicating 2.5ml of whatever fluid resided in the cannister. frank's eyes--half lidded, unattentive, he'd always hated the medical check ups--snap open, following the tip as otacon uncorks the leur and replaces the needle with a thinner gauge.

' what's in it? '

       Hal. His voice was distorted underwater. Snake was surprised that the CODEC could even receive transmissions this far down; Mei Ling had really done her job well, hadn’t she. Drifting, watching as the bodies of Gurlukovich’s soldiers and the U.S. Marines sank into the deep, Snake couldn’t help but wonder if this was where they would ultimately end: at the bottom of the Hudson River, double-crossed and framed for doing damage when all they’d originally wanted to do was help. Not that he cared much for his appearance, of course, but the deaths of so many men was still depressing. Depressing. His lungs were compressing. If he didn’t move, he was going to drown.

Did he really drop Meryl though? I got the idea that she left him. Not that this makes anytjing different to what you’re saying, but I swore that it’s alluded to in dialogue in mgs2.. . But I could be wrong.

i don’t believe so. i’m trying to find the specific quote because i remember him talking about it in 2 or 4, but a quick check of the wiki confirms that snake left to help philanthropy.

“A certain legendary hero who suddenly disappeared? You quit the unit. Me... I never gave up on you... Or on FOXHOUND. Back then, I just wanted you to accept me. I wanted you to turn around and see who I was.”

“Look, everybody involved in the incident at Shadow Moses either lost their job and status or, in the case of Meryl and Mei Ling, got brushed aside. Meryl wanted to make a comeback, a difference. We can't all be as strong as you, Snake. Some of us can't bear living like pariahs.”

Meryl: Hey... and don’t even think about cheating on me! Johnny: I wouldn’t dare.

also, from mgs2: “I’ve had enough of tomboys.”