#theemmerichscurse

[linashirou]

Yesterday, I don't exactly remember how or why, but I felt motivated to create my own version of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Honestly, I came across so many versions before making mine that perhaps that's one of the reasons why my motivation lasted as long as it did XD.

It was challenging to mentally prepare myself to replicate the positioning of Gustav's faces. It was a real struggle trying to figure out how Hal's glasses would behave in that position, and even though I used the BJD as a reference, I couldn’t quite translate it "successfully" into the drawing… I still don’t know how to draw glasses, sorry.

Lina’s face was tricky because I found that the original reference had a longer face than hers, so I had to make adjustments.

Now, I’m super happy with what I created (which is rare), and I want to explain some of the choices I made *smiles*. This drawing was made using bases and references in Krita.

Hal:

His clothing is a photograph of a motherboard that I pixelated in certain areas and stained with a watercolor texture brush. Then I duplicated the layer and saturated it to give it the orange tone but still preserving the green. I also used a square texture pencil, imitating the decorations in the original painting, and finally applied an oil painting filter. (I also did this on Lina’s dress and the layer with the oranges.)

Lina’s dress, the cape, and the cosmos

These elements follow similar processes. I drew the hair textures for both Hal and Lina myself. The stars, grass, and flowers in Hal’s hair are brushes. The sunflower and roses are PNGs, and the background texture is another photograph.

Symbolism

Hal’s tunic: The motherboard is obvious. The orange color seems to take over the green of the motherboard, symbolizing Lina’s presence in his life.

The grass: It’s filled with blue roses, representing Snake. (I’ll always make this representation because I adore Snake, and even though I ship Hal with Lina, Snake will always be present near Hal.)

Hal’s head: It features daisies, which could also be interpreted as sunflowers, referencing the two women in his life. These are on his head because they are his biggest concern. The large Sunflower on the ground represents Sunny, pixelated because she also knows programming.

The orange cape: Inside the cape is the cosmos, an important symbol for my fic. Hal’s parents met at NASA, and one of my big headcanons about Strangelove and Hal is that she would have taught Hal to observe the night sky at an early age (inspiring his interest in extraterrestrial theories, as mentioned in the MGS2 codec, even if it was a joke). The image of the starry sky is also linked to Lina through her birthmark, a characteristic that is both positive and negative in the story and one of the traits she shares with me. For this reason, it’s near her (and also have stars over her hair) ("It was as if the cosmos had marked you to show you were the one.")

Lina’s dress: It features daisies ("Margarita" in Spanish, my IRL name), which are summer flowers that bloom in June, my birth month and my Hal’s fan birthday. These are pixelated, symbolizing Hal’s presence in Lina’s life and her career as a programmer. Daisies represent purity and true love, and they had medicinal properties.

Oranges on the cape: The oranges symbolize food, tied to Lina’s role as a chef, her work/facade she initially adopts to hide from the antagonist. They also symbolize fertility, virtue, fidelity, optimism, energy, and creativity. Additionally, in color psychology, the color stimulate appetite. (And that's a fact as food, because they activate the gastric juice)

At Lina’s feet: There’s a neural programming network, reminding us that she is an AI programmer. The same function is carried out by the code above it.

This also serves to highlight a little, yet significant, detail: Hal is an engineer, skilled in both hardware and software, capable of building a Metal Gear (like Huey); while Lina is a programmer, AI developer (like Strangelove) who is obsessed with response times.

[linashirou]

wanted to be silly about this one for so long...

so you could understand part of their dynamic

[linashirou]

"I suppose we're just a couple of traumatized nerds with too much weight on our shoulders..."

amazing commission that @bttswt11 (twt) made for me!

[linashirou]

Hi! I'm Lina, a Chilean woman and this is my Masterpost for the year 2025! I've been kind of inactive here lately because I'm always looking for people to talk to about my passions and I didn't have any responses lately.

I love to talk about my ship/self-ship with my only husbando, Hal Emmerich, and about Metal Gear in general.

I also like other games like: Dragon's Dogma, Red Dead sagas, Shinji Mikami's games (especially RE and The Evil Within), Katamari Damacy, DBH and collecting hard copies of them.

I also love collecting dolls and figures, where my biggest collection is the one about Sailor Moon. I have four bjd dolls and three mechanical articulated dolls (1/3 scale) and since I also love photography as a hobby, I sometimes upload some pictures.

But my main activity is writing, so I'll leave the links to my fics if you want to see them:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44811070

The Emmerich Curse: Mature, OcxCanon, main project, two years old fic. Highly accurate and coherent to the canon, with venomwalter_art as main illustrator.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54366628

Sapphire Hearted: Explicit, OcxCanon, Mixing Metal Gear lore with Dragon's Dogma. Also a deep lore fic. I usually write/upload chapters when I want to rest from TEC

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57255754/chapters/145639498

Only Clovers: Mature, Idol x Musical Producer AU for my ship with Hal. Only silliness I write to take a break from TEC and to continue practicing how to translate.

And there is my linktree if you wanna see

I’ll also leave links to the artists working on my commissions! they’re all highly recommended!

Al dividers I use are made by @saradika-graphics! she has a ton of them to use! please look at her Tumblr

Walter!: He is my illustrator for all things related to “The Emmerich Curse” and he had an amazing shinkawa style!

Ri!♥ (@notpink-ri) Ri works is amazing! and if you need a fast, awesome work, you have to consider a commission!

Ivichu.jpg (@ivichu-jpg) Ivi makes my Yakuza illustrations and some random stuff! She is Chilean so, if you’re from Chile too, you can talk with her to pay in CLP

Araceli (@devilzukin7) Ara have an amazing style! I love how she draws Hal!

[linashirou]

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Otacon (Metal Gear)/Original Character(s), Hal Emmerich/Original Female character Characters: Otacon (Metal Gear), Solid Snake, Sunny Emmerich, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hal Emmerich Additional Tags: Adventure & Romance, Slice of Life, Adulthood, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Red String of Fate Summary:

Hal has met a strange woman online. After a few months of chatting, she offers to meet him in person.

Is there a reason behind this meeting? Will this be the end of his laid-back life after the SOP incident?

[All Chapters are completely re-made. Thanks for keep reading! ] (Illustrations by @VenomWalter_art) (All Metal Gear characters belongs to KONAMI. All their rights reserved)

[linashirou]

I know no one cares, but I'm so happy with the change that TEC is having. Makes me happy just to think about the new stuff I'm putting in

A beautiful gift from @ neverbegameover.bsky.social

Love how Lina delicately holds Hal...

[linashirou]

As I'm working on two chapters at this moment, I really want to say thanks. TEC is close to the 700 hits and it has 22 kudos (3 of them gained this week) It makes me so happy, you really didn't know how much. I never thought that it would reach this amount of love. Thanks

[linashirou]

Happy New Year to you and to my fic, "The Emmerich's Curse" which was born as an idea in a New Year's eve shift at my restaurant two years ago!

And I hope this 2025 I fulfill my dream to go to the @mgscon.com 3!

And thank you for being a witness of my little project!

[linashirou]

Asking myself a lot about repeating themes in some chapters. Even though, as humans, we used to talk some stuff quite often without wanting it, specially when this stuff is related to traumas or things that are significant to ourselves...

[linashirou]

We have to keep celebrating, isn't? I added a new sheet! what could possibly tell us?

theemmerichscurse.straw.page

Commission done by the talented @devilzukin7-johnny-cage (There's still a background one, but I will upload it on new years eve)

[linashirou]

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Otacon (Metal Gear)/Original Character(s), Hal Emmerich/Original Female character Characters: Otacon (Metal Gear), Solid Snake, Sunny Emmerich, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hal Emmerich Additional Tags: Adventure & Romance, Slice of Life, Adulthood, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Red String of Fate Summary:

Hal has met a strange woman online. After a few months of chatting, she offers to meet him in person.

Is there a reason behind this meeting? Will this be the end of his laid-back life after the SOP incident?

[Thanks for keep reading!] (Illustrations by @VenomWalter_art) (All Metal Gear characters belongs to KONAMI. All their rights reserved)

New chapter on tha house!! From now on, the fic will change a lot!

[linashirou]

I think that this song could reflect Lina's POV about Hal…

[linashirou]

I made a strawpage for TEC!

Because it is getting 2 years old, I want to talk and share with you. Please take a look and comment! Everything is welcome!

[linashirou]

I'm so happy to announce that the chapter "Dating" has this beautiful, amazing head illustration! I really love how handsome Hal looks and also Snake and Sunny 💖! She's so pretty! Do you want to know what is happening? Read the fic!

As always, this was made by the talented @VenomWalter_Art!! Please consider him if you want a beautiful commission!

[linashirou]

Today in my random yap about TEC. As I already said before, TEC has a lot of my own life. Hal and Lina knows each other online and this actually happened to me with IRL Otacon. We meet online in the MSN era (2000). We had a long friendship in the net (around 4 years chatting!)

And even if I had a partner at that time, we always had this *vibe* around us. We meet IRL in 2005 because he used to travel to my region due health problems and we started a relationship that last until now!

[linashirou]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Otacon (Metal Gear)/Original Character(s), Hal Emmerich/Original Female character Characters: Otacon (Metal Gear), Solid Snake, Sunny Emmerich, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hal Emmerich Additional Tags: Adventure & Romance, Slice of Life, Adulthood, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Illustrations, Fanart

A NEW CHAPTER IS UPLOADED! REMEMBER THAT I’M RE-WRITING THE FIC!♥