voice testing, and potentially looking for a home?

[frozenwhite]

You're not ready yet.

But you will be, with some practice. All things take training. And as with any partnership, you must familiarise yourself with the other person. Get to know them. Their quirks, ways of thinking, how they move and feel and see the world. How they have lived, and how they will die.

Or am I assuming too much? Perhaps I am nothing more than another soldier to you. Obedient. Disposable. As is inevitable.

And if that is all I am, what is my mission? Practice is useless if it does not have an intent. Think on it.

Comments

moooooooooooooom

[gunplay]

Funny, I thought you'd look a lot more transparent.

There's plenty of places to haunt, in any case.

sooooooooon

[frozenwhite]

I don't intend to haunt anything. There is another who has done enough of that for the both of us, all these long years.

[gunplay]

Well, I'm sure Snake will be spooked if he spots you.

[frozenwhite]

And you? Have a stronger stomach for ghosts, do you?

[gunplay]

I usually ignore them.

[frozenwhite]

In this case, you seem to have made an exception.

Though in truth, I was a ghost the moment Operation Snake Eater commenced. Now is little different.

[colonel_thunderbolt]

Boss. I trust you are still very much an ally towards our mission?

BOSS! <3

[myname_isntimportant]

...

[What the hell?]

[frozenwhite]

[She raises an eyebrow, quickly realising Volgin must be behind the times, and opts for a neutral answer.]

I am always loyal to my word, Colonel.

[colonel_thunderbolt]

Good. You sound as though your are ready to accept a mission from your mundane. Yet, we need you here within Groznyj Grad. The Shagohod must take first place among anything else. [Selfish? Yes. Power hungry? Yes. Sorry, Boss.]

[gunplay]

You say that like ignoring you is even an option.

[GEEZ, MOM.]

Now you don't have an objective?

Snake! *^*

[frozenwhite]

[What the hell indeed. She opens her mouth to address her former student, but as she takes him in, she's given pause. The different outfit, the face -- strikingly similar, and yet to a trained eye, not the same.

She frowns, unsettled at once.]

Who are you? [Not Jack, she knows that much for certain.]

[myname_isntimportant]

[This was too weird. The Boss had been killed by Snake's father a long time ago. Now, she was here, right in front of him.]

My name is Snake. Solid Snake. You're the Boss but how?- You're meant to be dead. [Well done, Snake. Subtle as usual.]

[frozenwhite]

This is not Groznyj Grad, Volgin, and our mundanes care little for the Shagohod or our ambitions. In this place, their will is made real above all else. I trust you realise that?

[colonel_thunderbolt]

Then, they are fools. [Yep. He isn't happy about not being back "home." Back with the Shagohod and his Ivan.]

They cannot force us to do anything. I will not abide by petty rules and whims of a mundane. Surely, you understand that too, Boss? We are stronger than them.

[frozenwhite]

Solid Snake. [She scoffs to hide just how much this is throwing her off. Even his voice is the same.]

I was the Boss, until that title was passed on. [But don't change the subject, boy. History is history and she has more pressing interests:] Who gave you the name "Snake"?

[frozenwhite]

[It's totally an option, but then she'd have to kick your ass for being a little shit, and no one wants that.]

Yes. What happens now is dependent on my mundane.

[frozenwhite]

What I understand is that brute strength does not work in every situation. You are deluding yourself to think otherwise. Even now we speak here only because our mundanes will it.

[colonel_thunderbolt]

Hmph. [He scoffed and frowned.]

I do not take orders from anyone, not even my mundane. He knows where he stands with me. [Just face it, Volgin. You're a pawn.] I am surprised to hear that you easily submit to your mundane, Boss.

[myname_isntimportant]

You were the Boss until Big Boss killed you. I am one of the sons of Big Boss. There were others too. Solidus Snake and Liquid Snake. [It's kind of complicated.]

It's kind of complicated, since I'm a direct clone of Big Boss, along with my clone brothers.

[majorcrotchgrab]

B-Boss!

[He immediatly stands at attention and salutes]

I'm glad to see you're doing well, ... sir.

[frozenwhite]

Your bravado would be admirable, were it not completely unfounded. I submit to none; I merely follow the demands reality places upon me. Pride will not change my situation, nor yours.

[frozenwhite]

[Big Boss. A Boss to surpass her, then. It's a fitting name.

Clones, though? She's not surprised science has reached such a point, truthfully. Throughout the earlier half of the century she had seen it storm on, she's seen the kind of horrors it could unleash on humanity. And now this: making copies of men, as simple as a production line of rifles in a factory, all identical. Is that really how it is in the future?]

And... "Big Boss". He considers you his son? [Did he do it because he could father no children of his own? She can't help but wonder.]

[colonel_thunderbolt]

[He just stared at her for a moment, thinking. He knew she was right but didn't want to dent his pride by saying so.]

Perhaps. Yet, we need to regain our composure by not letting these mundanes walk all over us. Place us in....needless places and relationships. [Shipping. Ungh. He hated the word.]

Mine seems to enjoy placing me with other men, just to poke fun at my character.

[frozenwhite]

[An affirmative nod.] At ease, Major. I am doing just fine.