#emma is my favorite mgs2 character

[qoppybirdie]

mostly mgs2 sketch dump + baby sunny and dave i wanted to post way earlier but i didnt know whether to post it alongside the adamska version or not. i think they are good here!!

the raiden one is a lower quality than the others bc i screenshot it from a timelapse (i ruined his face and cant get it back)

[milkythemoo]

Inciting discourse in mgs fandom my fav

I feel like a lot of the hate towards Huey Emmerich comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of the themes of mgsv and the unwillingness to realize that your favorite characters are quite possibly in the wrong and you’re not playing as the good guy (which isn’t to say Huey is one either, he’s just not satan especially in comparison to the people who hate him in the game)

It’s severe to the point of mass misinformation about his character and just making up shit to hate him for, like him trying to drown Emma. Which never actually happened or was implied, I literally scrubbed through the entire mgs2 script and there’s not a single line to imply it. Also he suffers from the “I don’t like this character so he’s homophobic” plague. Which everyone’s main source for is him saying “I’ll never understand you two…” which, you can only get that if you stick your face into Kaz’s crotch repeatedly while he’s unconscious. So he’s literally just being normal 😭. Take everything with a grain of salt I’m clearly biased as shit, but I must be to counteract the “good” guy bias

[the-real-nikki19]

My favorite things that did not make it into MGS2

-Calling it Metal Gear Solid 3 to confuse literally everyone

-Around 300 enemies were supposed to show up at the same time multiple times in the game to prove how powerful the PS2 is

-Raiden has to fend off a horde of enemies while Snake tends to a dying Emma

-An item called “Mantis Mask” that lets you read people’s minds

-An aquarium where you can look at different fish

-A character called ‘Maxine Work’ who saves your game and quotes Shakespeare

-Fortune plays the saxophone and also has a blood disease, which is treated by Vamp sucking blood out of her

-Fatman was supposed to wear bomb blast suits styled after a tuxedo, a Hawaiian shirt or a bikini (thank god we didn’t get to see that)

-Johnny gets killed by electromagnetic waves given off by Raiden. 

-Ocelot calling Solidus “Master Snake”

-A boss battle involving sharks

[jawsplitter]

4 tha hyperfix ask thing bc ily, 🎥 + ✨+ 💕

ILYT ! :-DDD ill do both bc autism

🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation?

mk: ive said it before and ill say it again the scene in mkx where raiden tells kung jin that the shaolin will accept him even though hes gay hurted and i will ALWAYS LOVE IT......also the final scene of mk11 with fire god liu kang and mortal raiden.....🥺💕

mgs: uhhhh dont think so yet! nothing specific is coming to mind. i did really love all the scenes in mgs2 with emma and raiden tho bc they were so adorable raiden is her dad now i DO make the rules

✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it?

mk: it has a lot of cool character designs!!!! i do really really love how a lot of the characters are designed and how their designs have varied and changed over the years, its very cool.......i do also really like the fatalities and stuff. this is gonna make me sound like a murderer but theyre cool to watch and i like seeing how the different characters abilities/weapons are incorporated into them

mgs: initially, i just got into it bc theres always a lot of hype about it (and i wanted to understand some references to it & memes) but now i do find the mess of a plot to be very very interesting and i like learning more about it the more i get into it, its just like .. it really never ends to me and i think thats fun!!!

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

mk: i have so many but uhhhhhh mr scorpion!!!! i love him!!!! i always liked him from the moment i got into mk. i love his whole fire and demon thing its so cool!!! and i did really love how in mkx when he found out the truth about his clans mass murder he & sub-zero put their differences aside and started working together , that was so good !!!!! hes a good boy. thank you for coming to my tedtalk

mgs: KAZ!!!! KAZ KAZ KAZ!!!!! i love him so much and i donot know why bc i havent even gotten to a game with him in it yet. but he just radiates good energies also hes very handsome and i love him so much. no homo

[deathofthetext]

What's your favorite metal gear game?

probably metal gear solid (1998)

i love solid snake so much and his establishing arc in that game is soooo good. its the game ive watched the most and probably the mgs game id most like to play in a world where i could play video games. also it introduces naomi who is like my favorite. say what you will about metal gear but it does not skimp on the amoral revenge-bent mad scientist ladies! naomi - grey fox - snake is one of my favorite like. drama triangles of people who knew each other in some way or another and are fucked up about it. its really good how much naomi and snake are both so so so upset abt grey fox to the extent that snake holed himself away in his alaskan depression cabin for five years not talking to anyone else and naomi dedicated herself entirely to Hopelessness And Snake Revenge. i just love her shes such a disaster! 

runner ups and why:

peace walker is the best looking mgs game and it has strangelove (like i said. amoral revenge-bent mad scientist ladies.) it also has kaz who is A Fave. its The Game Where Big Boss Decides To Become Evil and the way that arc is done is genuinely really good. that games main plot is emotionally about bb’s relationship with the boss. and the amount of bullshit it took for him to actually understand what she was trying to say when she died (EVEN THOUGH EVA ABSOLUTELY EXPLAINED IT). and then how once he figured out she was saying that like, nations and borders and soldiers and war were artificial constructs of power, and war is bad, he took it as a BETRAYAL and decided to DOUBLE DOWN ON BEING EVIL AND HOARD ALL THE NUKES. its really the fundamental moment of “no one had to do it” that establishes his Choice To Be A Villain and his like. ideology that we see in mg 1987 and and mg2ss from 1990. 

i really like the cast and their interactions in mgs2 and i think that game does a lot of interesting things, but its hard for me to say its “a favorite”. idk, ive watched it two or three times i think and every time i end up “liking it more” or at least “getting it more”. i love iroquois “definitely not solid snake” pliskin meeting raiden and immediately deciding to pack him a lunchbox of guns and cigarettes. i love fortune. i just really like raiden hes got the problems! and ofc snotacon are extremely peak honeymoon in that game. but. its not my favorite. ig like i ended up getting pretty invested in like... raiden and emma’s weird little friendship where theyre in retraumatization hell but theyre Supporting Each Other, and then immediately it had emma die for like... otacons sad monologue. and its a really good sad monologue and super fucks me up every time abt his horrible family and horrible life and how he made a new better life! its really good! but it super bums me out that emma died for it and didnt get to see this and experience it for herself and that the narrative frames her death to be just abt otacon sad. and its a symptom of a larger problem, like three of the four female characters in that game just die and like no matter how cool they are or how moving their death scenes are its like. i like mgs2 but there were ways to tell a good and interesting story without all of this. (also dont get me started on rosemary/raiden)

mgsv is genuinely horrible in most respects and is also not finished but it has a lot of interesting horrible concepts. i love kaz’s villain arc in it its really like. hoo boy this guy is not way good. i think i “got” that game a lot more when jordan said its really not a main arc metal gear game in the same way the others are because its like, more of a side story about the lives big boss destroyed, even of people who were on his side. once again, no one had to do it, and thats what big boss is all about. 

mg1 and mg2ss i dont feel like i know quite well enough to say theyre faves, although i have read scripts for each of them. i kind of end up combining mg1 and mg2ss in my head, basically bc mg1 is short enough i think of it as a prologue to mg2ss. i do actually have a lot of feelings abt the stuff that happens in mg2ss but i often find myself thinking of those events from the perspective of mgs1 instead? because of how fundamental they are to snavids trauma and his mindset and just the way he is at the start of that game. i also make a lot of jokes about kaz deciding to set big boss on fire because i think that was really valid of him.

ok and mgs4 is the game i think is ACTUALLY second place for me but i have only watched it once or maybe once and a half and i need to rewatch it. it for real made me cry about solid snake SO much. the thing is that all the stuff w old snake in that game punched me in the gut really good. and many of the other things in there were things that SHOULDVE done that but were framed really weirdly by the narrative and didnt end up causing me Enough emotional distress when i was actually watching it but ive spent like months thinking it over and talking it over w my friends and figuring out how i think they shouldve happened in order to really be narratively effective - i am especially talking about naomi stuff here. there were also a lot of times in mgs4 where i ended up pretty checked out from what was happening, especially when the b&b corps were on screen bc i found their treatment as like Sexy Crazy Baby Women was extremely offputting. but in the end i guess my extremely subjective experience of mgs4 is that i think its really good or at least the version of it that exists in my head is.

[emperorsfortune]

1,2,3,11,12,21,29,32,34

1: How did you discover cosplaying?

i think it was through the gaming magazines i used to read when i was younger and probably thru dA

2: What was your first cosplay?

emma emmerich from mgs2

3: What are your next 3 cosplay plans?

kijima matako from gintama, hanayo’s “natsuiro egao de 1, 2, jump” outfit from love live, and yusuke’s p4dan outfit from persona 5

11: What is your favorite cosplay you've done?

my mutsu cosplay by far

12: What is your worst cosplay "horror" story?

uh i’ve never rly had anything terrible happen but i’ve encountered some creepy people at cons but those interactions weren’t rly that horrible

21: What's the biggest con you've cosplayed at?

PAX East probably, someday i wanna go to something bigger like AX tho

29: If you could tell your past self anything about cosplay, what would you say?

LEARN TO SEW

32: What's the most difficult character makeup you've done?

ummm probably my speedwagon makeup, i don’t rly cosplay characters who wear much makeup so doing speedwagon’s scar was probably the most i’ve ever done

34: What is your favorite part of cosplaying?

making friends w/ similar interests