[OOC] if you want peace, prepare for war!
Character Name: Kazuhira Miller
Character Series: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: Post-Peace Walker.
Character Age: 27
Background: Wiki.
Residence: 5724 Cunningham Lane [Shiki Eiki (Mother), Youko Mizuno (Daughter), NPC (Son)]
Personality: Born into a world where war and all its facets - death, disease, loss - were nothing but simple day to day life for the people living in Yokosuka struggling to get by, Kaz was considered a child of war years before he even learned how to use a gun. Resourcefulness even of the underhanded variety was something he had to hold close to his heart and emotional bonds were few and far between. There was no childhood for him to speak of, and when you take those essential years away from a person, you force them to grow up. You force them to learn all the things a person twice their age must know to live in a harsh and unforgiving environment with no one to support them, nothing to depend on but their own willpower.
That’s the general impression you get when looking at the person Kaz has built himself into - a self-sufficient if not terribly ruthless person who will cling to survival with every last ounce of strength and then some - though that does not mean he is incapable of doing the things all young men at his age do and exhibiting behavior that is, in a word, immature. Whereas he’s capable of juggling a great many duties at once to make sure that Mother Base is running smoothly and its occupants are happy, he also somehow finds the time to scope out the dating scene and woo the few eligible women who live in the base. Whereas he’s worked as an efficient but highly demanding combat instructor known for his unforgiving, strict regiments, he hasn’t discarded his kindness nor his optimistic disposition that allows him to be an easily approachable person who still has it within him to throw a childish tantrum from time to time, but nothing that can’t be solved by a quick smack upside the head. He’s ambitious, but practical; extravagant, but still grounded in reality and the things he has to do to gain this success, not all of them honorable. He’s made questionable decisions, has forged alliances with the wrong people, and yet there’s no question that his heart is in the right place and these are the choices he believes will truly benefit not only himself, but those around him for the best.
It goes without saying that he’s a businessman through and through, and that this mindset was, like many things, instilled within him in his past. From living with his sick single mother whose only source of income to support them was through the tiny convenience store, to ending up managing it himself at the terribly young age of 10, to living in constant poverty for his entire early life, you have a better way of understanding why he places such a high priority on money and business when you need only look at the deplorable conditions of his early life in Japan. And even after he leaves the country a short time later and goes to live with the father who abandoned him and his mother, you can’t say that life completely improved for him, being the illegitimate son of an American soldier and a Japanese woman. Of course he was taken out of his poor living conditions and placed within a relatively safe, wealthy environment where he was able to receive a proper education and receive real citizenship (a luxury he couldn’t afford in Yokosuka), but it did little to relieve the guilt of leaving his ill mother alone in Japan, nor did it ease the stigma of living in post-war America as a Japanese-American citizen.
When both parents die within two years of the other, it could be said that the causes were due to his own bad decision-making; his father committing suicide due to depression caused from his son leaving him, and his mother eventually giving in to her disease, having long forgotten about Kaz due to mental deterioration. And yet, as far as we can tell, he doesn’t look back on it with open sadness; well-concealed regret and guilt, certainly, but he wouldn’t be where he is today if he didn’t keep looking to the future. He can be a very greedy person, even a selfish one, who always has business on his mind and who wouldn’t hesitate to hoard people to himself in an effort to stave away the loneliness, though looking at his childhood and the family he’s lost along the way, it’s not surprising. Anyone that offers him even a small amount of kindness is looked at fondly, treated like family, and for this reason it isn’t difficult to see why he makes friends easily.
Stubbornness has always been something of a trademark for Kaz, and he presents it in his intense obsession to prove himself a winner no matter what. He hates losing, hates sacrifice, and absolutely can’t stand it when someone bigger than him comes along and bests him. When we first hear of his and Big Boss’ meeting (and later witness it for ourselves in the Drama CD), we hear of how Kaz was at an utter loss, having been completely bested by Big Boss and his unit while his own was all but massacred, and began to slowly crack under the strain; rather than surrender to an enemy, he attempted to detonate a grenade underneath him and take Big Boss with him, putting on a despairing front in order to get the other man’s defenses down. When that failed and they both survived the encounter, Big Boss attempted to get Kaz to join his unit by appealing to the younger man’s competitive nature, challenging him to a series of pointless games. When Kaz found himself losing every test, he decided he’d rather play dirty again by setting a trap for Big Boss, and when that failed, he began to lose it again and chose to make a quick getaway rather than let himself be conscripted into joining the prototype of what would become MSF. In addition to his refusal to admit defeat, these events also reveal other traits - namely, his ability to lie perfectly under duress, the sneaky and often deceitful things he will do in his own interest (and later on, in the interests of others), and his tendency to crack under pressure, growing anxious and impulsive and even self-destructive. He has been compared to a samurai more than once and does indeed display many of their characteristics. If the death he faces is an honorable one and on his conditions, he will embrace it without question.
Still, he does know the importance of life and isn’t the kind of person who would throw it away needlessly. He values the lives of his soldiers-in-arms like family and wouldn’t send them off to die if it could be helped, regardless of his “needs of the many” way of thinking. True, he does go behind Big Boss’ back a number of times, keeping in close contact with Cipher and Zero directly, but it’s done with the intentions of MSF in mind - ironic considering he would have rather died than join up with them two years ago. He doesn’t just look at the organization like a business - it’s a home to him, the only home he knows of. Even then, he still has a conscience and knows that what he’s doing is wrong on some level, wrong enough to eventually come clean with Big Boss and explain his reasoning in earnest. As much as he’ll go kicking and screaming along the way, it can be said that he’s perfectly capable of admitting when he’s wrong.
While MSF’s creed has always been loyalty to one’s self instead of a country or government, it’s hard to tell where exactly Kaz’s own loyalties lie. Certainly not to Zero, who he views as a means to an end, and not entirely exclusively to himself, as much as he’d like to say that he only looks out for his own comfort and well-being. More accurate would be that, in Kaz’s world, his loyalties and honor extend chiefly around the people and beliefs he fights with; he isn’t going to die poor, yearning for acceptance or for a force that would use and abuse him for its own ends. He has a curious relationship with Big Boss to this end, the very man he would have killed himself to destroy and the same commander he goes against by lying to uphold his bargain with Zero. And in spite of it all - the lies, the fights, the earlier attempts made on his life - the two couldn’t be closer, fighting together like brothers-in-arms some days and fighting against each other like an old married couple other days. To say that it would be simple affection doesn’t come close to describing it; Big Boss has become a piece of his world, his best friend and the only person he’s come close to loving since the death of his parents. As another character notes that nothing can tear them apart, it’s also worth mentioning that this is the man he chooses to stay beside when all is said and done, not with Cipher.
Kaz isn’t a perfect person, but he is a good one. A young man full of sunshine and life, he harbors his own shortcomings and insecurities, though has been fortunate enough to have the right people in his life who have helped him progress past them. From the feisty and somewhat desperate person we see two years ago in Columbia to the passionate, steadfast, and confident subcommander who works side by side with Big Boss to provide a home and purpose to mercenaries like them, we witness a strong person become even stronger, a person who has gotten back up on his feet for each time he’s been knocked off of them.
Abilities: Kaz possesses no supernatural abilities or talents. For his age, he's a bit of a prodigy, having taken college biology classes at a young age and teaching himself the basics of English even earlier, and possesses knowledge on a wide variety of subjects such as firearms, human anatomy, and science. Being a mercenary and an ex member of the JSDF, he has experience in a good variety of combat, including hand-to-hand (judo and CQC) and with firearm, both light and heavy (missiles, heavy rifles, etc.). He can also pilot a variety of military aircrafts, among them helicopters. Additionally, he's a terrific chef, a practitioner of kendo, and deludes himself fancies himself a musician.
[] MSF uniform
[] M1911A1 semi-automatic
[] M16A1 rifle
[] M21 sniper rifle
[] M63 light machine gun
[] LAW
[] FIM-43
[] Railgun
[] Metal Gear ZEKE
[] Power Unit
[] Walk Unit
[] Head
[] Radome
[] Rocket Boosters
[] Legs
[] Armor
[] Jet Pack
[] Railgun
[] Machine Guns
[] Paralysis Beam
[] EM Pulse Field
Character Series: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: Post-Peace Walker.
Character Age: 27
Background: Wiki.
Residence: 5724 Cunningham Lane [Shiki Eiki (Mother), Youko Mizuno (Daughter), NPC (Son)]
Personality: Born into a world where war and all its facets - death, disease, loss - were nothing but simple day to day life for the people living in Yokosuka struggling to get by, Kaz was considered a child of war years before he even learned how to use a gun. Resourcefulness even of the underhanded variety was something he had to hold close to his heart and emotional bonds were few and far between. There was no childhood for him to speak of, and when you take those essential years away from a person, you force them to grow up. You force them to learn all the things a person twice their age must know to live in a harsh and unforgiving environment with no one to support them, nothing to depend on but their own willpower.
That’s the general impression you get when looking at the person Kaz has built himself into - a self-sufficient if not terribly ruthless person who will cling to survival with every last ounce of strength and then some - though that does not mean he is incapable of doing the things all young men at his age do and exhibiting behavior that is, in a word, immature. Whereas he’s capable of juggling a great many duties at once to make sure that Mother Base is running smoothly and its occupants are happy, he also somehow finds the time to scope out the dating scene and woo the few eligible women who live in the base. Whereas he’s worked as an efficient but highly demanding combat instructor known for his unforgiving, strict regiments, he hasn’t discarded his kindness nor his optimistic disposition that allows him to be an easily approachable person who still has it within him to throw a childish tantrum from time to time, but nothing that can’t be solved by a quick smack upside the head. He’s ambitious, but practical; extravagant, but still grounded in reality and the things he has to do to gain this success, not all of them honorable. He’s made questionable decisions, has forged alliances with the wrong people, and yet there’s no question that his heart is in the right place and these are the choices he believes will truly benefit not only himself, but those around him for the best.
It goes without saying that he’s a businessman through and through, and that this mindset was, like many things, instilled within him in his past. From living with his sick single mother whose only source of income to support them was through the tiny convenience store, to ending up managing it himself at the terribly young age of 10, to living in constant poverty for his entire early life, you have a better way of understanding why he places such a high priority on money and business when you need only look at the deplorable conditions of his early life in Japan. And even after he leaves the country a short time later and goes to live with the father who abandoned him and his mother, you can’t say that life completely improved for him, being the illegitimate son of an American soldier and a Japanese woman. Of course he was taken out of his poor living conditions and placed within a relatively safe, wealthy environment where he was able to receive a proper education and receive real citizenship (a luxury he couldn’t afford in Yokosuka), but it did little to relieve the guilt of leaving his ill mother alone in Japan, nor did it ease the stigma of living in post-war America as a Japanese-American citizen.
When both parents die within two years of the other, it could be said that the causes were due to his own bad decision-making; his father committing suicide due to depression caused from his son leaving him, and his mother eventually giving in to her disease, having long forgotten about Kaz due to mental deterioration. And yet, as far as we can tell, he doesn’t look back on it with open sadness; well-concealed regret and guilt, certainly, but he wouldn’t be where he is today if he didn’t keep looking to the future. He can be a very greedy person, even a selfish one, who always has business on his mind and who wouldn’t hesitate to hoard people to himself in an effort to stave away the loneliness, though looking at his childhood and the family he’s lost along the way, it’s not surprising. Anyone that offers him even a small amount of kindness is looked at fondly, treated like family, and for this reason it isn’t difficult to see why he makes friends easily.
Stubbornness has always been something of a trademark for Kaz, and he presents it in his intense obsession to prove himself a winner no matter what. He hates losing, hates sacrifice, and absolutely can’t stand it when someone bigger than him comes along and bests him. When we first hear of his and Big Boss’ meeting (and later witness it for ourselves in the Drama CD), we hear of how Kaz was at an utter loss, having been completely bested by Big Boss and his unit while his own was all but massacred, and began to slowly crack under the strain; rather than surrender to an enemy, he attempted to detonate a grenade underneath him and take Big Boss with him, putting on a despairing front in order to get the other man’s defenses down. When that failed and they both survived the encounter, Big Boss attempted to get Kaz to join his unit by appealing to the younger man’s competitive nature, challenging him to a series of pointless games. When Kaz found himself losing every test, he decided he’d rather play dirty again by setting a trap for Big Boss, and when that failed, he began to lose it again and chose to make a quick getaway rather than let himself be conscripted into joining the prototype of what would become MSF. In addition to his refusal to admit defeat, these events also reveal other traits - namely, his ability to lie perfectly under duress, the sneaky and often deceitful things he will do in his own interest (and later on, in the interests of others), and his tendency to crack under pressure, growing anxious and impulsive and even self-destructive. He has been compared to a samurai more than once and does indeed display many of their characteristics. If the death he faces is an honorable one and on his conditions, he will embrace it without question.
Still, he does know the importance of life and isn’t the kind of person who would throw it away needlessly. He values the lives of his soldiers-in-arms like family and wouldn’t send them off to die if it could be helped, regardless of his “needs of the many” way of thinking. True, he does go behind Big Boss’ back a number of times, keeping in close contact with Cipher and Zero directly, but it’s done with the intentions of MSF in mind - ironic considering he would have rather died than join up with them two years ago. He doesn’t just look at the organization like a business - it’s a home to him, the only home he knows of. Even then, he still has a conscience and knows that what he’s doing is wrong on some level, wrong enough to eventually come clean with Big Boss and explain his reasoning in earnest. As much as he’ll go kicking and screaming along the way, it can be said that he’s perfectly capable of admitting when he’s wrong.
While MSF’s creed has always been loyalty to one’s self instead of a country or government, it’s hard to tell where exactly Kaz’s own loyalties lie. Certainly not to Zero, who he views as a means to an end, and not entirely exclusively to himself, as much as he’d like to say that he only looks out for his own comfort and well-being. More accurate would be that, in Kaz’s world, his loyalties and honor extend chiefly around the people and beliefs he fights with; he isn’t going to die poor, yearning for acceptance or for a force that would use and abuse him for its own ends. He has a curious relationship with Big Boss to this end, the very man he would have killed himself to destroy and the same commander he goes against by lying to uphold his bargain with Zero. And in spite of it all - the lies, the fights, the earlier attempts made on his life - the two couldn’t be closer, fighting together like brothers-in-arms some days and fighting against each other like an old married couple other days. To say that it would be simple affection doesn’t come close to describing it; Big Boss has become a piece of his world, his best friend and the only person he’s come close to loving since the death of his parents. As another character notes that nothing can tear them apart, it’s also worth mentioning that this is the man he chooses to stay beside when all is said and done, not with Cipher.
Kaz isn’t a perfect person, but he is a good one. A young man full of sunshine and life, he harbors his own shortcomings and insecurities, though has been fortunate enough to have the right people in his life who have helped him progress past them. From the feisty and somewhat desperate person we see two years ago in Columbia to the passionate, steadfast, and confident subcommander who works side by side with Big Boss to provide a home and purpose to mercenaries like them, we witness a strong person become even stronger, a person who has gotten back up on his feet for each time he’s been knocked off of them.
Abilities: Kaz possesses no supernatural abilities or talents. For his age, he's a bit of a prodigy, having taken college biology classes at a young age and teaching himself the basics of English even earlier, and possesses knowledge on a wide variety of subjects such as firearms, human anatomy, and science. Being a mercenary and an ex member of the JSDF, he has experience in a good variety of combat, including hand-to-hand (judo and CQC) and with firearm, both light and heavy (missiles, heavy rifles, etc.). He can also pilot a variety of military aircrafts, among them helicopters. Additionally, he's a terrific chef, a practitioner of kendo, and deludes himself fancies himself a musician.
[] MSF uniform
[] M1911A1 semi-automatic
[] M16A1 rifle
[] M21 sniper rifle
[] M63 light machine gun
[] LAW
[] FIM-43
[] Railgun
[] Metal Gear ZEKE
[] Power Unit
[] Walk Unit
[] Head
[] Radome
[] Rocket Boosters
[] Legs
[] Armor
[] Jet Pack
[] Railgun
[] Machine Guns
[] Paralysis Beam
[] EM Pulse Field