Puppet Strings
Venom looks into the mirror seeing the face of his former boss and friend, a legend the world knows as Big Boss. How it would laugh if it learned this face was a fake; a phantom of Snake's making.
Didn't fool Skullface though and the rest of the world could be right behind him.
No, the world didn't know big boss as a man only as a legend and only of his feats on the battlefield. The world didn't know the fears and regrets that drove him to create MSF and Outer Heaven.
I didn't even know him and I considered him my friend or maybe I was just a tool and deluded myself into thinking we were friends.
The real Big Boss, the real Snake is off living someone else's life all the while building an Outer Heaven for himself, a nation that could stand up to the world.
Wasn't MSF supposed to be our Heaven? Our Hell? Our home?
Lies, at the end of the day Venom is a tool of Outer Heaven just as Skullface and Eli were tools of Cipher.
Father and son trying to defy fate and stand against the world. If not for Eli's anger issue maybe he would've become a good man.
There were two sons of Snake: David and Eli. Both abandoned by their "father" and the monsters who created them but kept on the back burner just in case.
I wonder what kind of man David will grow up to become. I just pray it's nothing like his brother. I've had to kill one son and one is enough.
It's strange when all was said and done. When you take away the concept of "sides" all of them wanted the same thing.
Zero, Big Boss, Skullface, and Eli. To have their strings cut and truly live as free men.
For one reason or another they all failed yet he was still here. A phantom pushed by the ghosts of the past and fearful of the future.
For the sake of the fallen I keep fighting. Despite being a ghost myself.
One thing is for certain should Snake raise his Outer Heaven and attempt to retake the title of Big Boss he'll be in for a hell of a fight.
He gave me no orders just a name and with it I shall forge a new destiny both for Diamond Dogs and myself; I shall create my own legend.
The Legend of Big Boss.