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[herototheend]

[The feed turns on to reveal a single steel blue eye fixed on the camera lens. The video then is turned away from her, steadily, and films for a precise three seconds a patch of ground two meters away. The camera is then turned back, this time slightly further back, allowing a woman to be revealed, curled blonde hair loose and untidy about her face

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[ysobritish]

[Not!Grandma! Only Liquid doesn't know it. He does know, however, that his Father reacted very oddly to this woman. That's why his voice, when he speaks, is level and low. Gauge her strength before he gets up the creek without a paddle.]

Whichever Greeter it was, they apparently aren't doing their job properly. Welcome to Siren's Port.

[ysobritish]

In your-? [A pause before he speaks again.] That's correct, ma'am. That is the title everyone knows him by in my time.

[herototheend]

In my absence. Why, does that surprise you?

[There is a long pause, as she considers this information. Big Boss. Their replacement for her; her son. And now from him, his sons. To use when he in turn is gone. The world is a cruel place.]

There can only be one Boss and one Snake.

[ysobritish]

The fact I have no idea who you are.

[He hadn't heard her name yet, after all.]

[Beat. Snerk.]

There's more than one of us. Snakes, that is.

[herototheend]

[Maybe that just means he's slow. Such a disappointment, Liquid =P]

Now you know.

But not through any choice of his own.

[ysobritish]

[Oh, he's not slow. He's just having a hard time accepting that this scary woman here might just be the legend herself.]

Yes, it does seem so.

Counting Father there are three. And no. Not through his own choice.

[Hard to make decisions when you're in a coma, dude.]

[herototheend]

[That contradicts what another has told her. Interesting.]

And you were used against him?

[ysobritish]

No. It was Brother that killed him. Solid Snake.

[As much as he'd wanted to.]

[herototheend]

[Killed by his own son. History repeating itself. This was what she had condemned him to.]

There is no end to the ouroborous, it seems. The snake consumes itself.

[Jack, what did they do to you?]

[ysobritish]

The history of mankind is filled with the same stories, looping over and over and repeating endlessly, simply because people fail to learn from the past.

[Liquid's voice was thoughtful and the faint sound of pacing footsteps could be heard.]

I gather Brother hadn't even known who Father truly was... until they met as enemies.

[The man who had trained him, taught him everything... and Snake had killed him. What did that mean, he wondered? If he had desired to kill the man out of vengeance, had Snake done it out of necessity? Or rage?]

[herototheend]

No matter what we learn, no matter how selfsacrificing the lesson.

You're unsure? Are you aware of the details of his death?

[ysobritish]

In the end, even the greatest of lessons can be forgotten in a moment. Humans will always prefer to take the simplest route, rather than the best one.

I was, unfortunately, not there at the time. I've read the files, researched what I could find. Brother prefers not to talk about it.

[herototheend]

It is those of us who are the strongest, and those of who least deserve it, who carry the greatest burdens in life. We are the scapegoats of the weak. Jack is no different; and from what you make it sound like, your brother is the same.

Would you have prevented it?

[ysobritish]

He was. Brother, I mean. But thanks to Doctor Emmerich, he's managed to break free from all of that.

...back then? No. Father had long since lost what mind he had.

[herototheend]

...Managed to break free?

[Break the cycle?]

What do you mean? 'Lost his mind'?

[ysobritish]

Brother escaped them and is trying to stop them. He won't be used any more.

[A pause. This was dangerous territory.]

He became a terrorist and tried to use a giant robot equipped with a nuclear weapon. Despite having trained Brother, he arranged for Brother to be sent in against him without knowing who the perpetrator was, and attempted to eliminate him. By that time, frankly, he was out of his mind. From what I've seen, he even stopped his work on rehabilitating child soldiers into society - and used them to protect himself instead. Not to mention the hamsters.