FRANKNESS OF A HUNTER.

[nguoidisan]

rules page. 

GENERAL

BANNER AND ICON CURRENTLY PLACEHOLDERS.

THIS IS A SIDEBLOG. FOLLOWS COME FROM MY OCELOT @spetsnas.

this is a blog for metal gear's frank "gray fox" jaeger. i am a veteran of the series and have extensively played everything from metal gear 1 &2 to acid. i am comfortable placing fox in any time period and any game, and play him at every age.

originally est. 2017 under the url nonhaven.

moderate influence from extended canon material.

IF I FOLLOW YOU and you violate one of my rules or vise versa, please feel free to soft block or block me. it was an oversight. i don't intentionally go out to break mine or other peoples' rules, lmao, i just can't remember everything i've ever read.

nsfw will appear, especially violence, child death, death, torture, brainwashing, gore, ptsd.  i’ll tag almost anything. nsfw of a sexual variety will appear as well; i am 28.

please tag a/b/o, mothers day, pet death, and pedophilia for me.  i will unfollow if you don’t. 

the usual goes. don’t god mod but minor inferences to move a thread along, be respectful and polite, no bigotry, etc.

i liberally block and expect the same. hard lines. if you do not like me, block me. i'll do the same. i would also appreciate the courtesy of blocking if you want to break mutuals. it confuses me if i'm soft blocked or just unfollowed. i need clear, concise boundaries established, or i may assume tumblr bugged.

i will not interact with blogs where a character's primary trait is 'rapist' (e.g. kilgrave of marvel comics), and i will not interact with nazi characters. as a jew and a survivor i am simply not interested in retraumatizing myself through rp. i care a little less about the former point if that character has an actual personality beyond this particular infarction.

i don’t engage in call out culture. period. do not involve me in it. i am nearly 30, i could not care less.

i do not think fictional taste equates to irl morals, but i also do not think fiction exists solely in a vacuum that does not influence or affect reality, it is a balance. use your brain. if you are unable to engage in critical thinking and believe an authors writing of a disagreeable topic is endorsement or unnecessary then simply do not follow me. likewise, if you believe human beings are impossible to affect or persuade via fictionalized media and propaganda, do not follow me. just use good judgment and you will be completely fine around me.

WRITING.

format however you like. i don't care. if its impossible for me to read, though, i will unfollow. likewise, i'm not big on super tiny icons; if i can't see what your icon is portraying, i'll be less inclined to follow you or may outright ask you to go iconless when threading with me.

no icons for now. it's a bit hard with frank's limited materials.

me being slow to reply to our thread =/= i dislike you or that thread. it just means i'm either busy, waiting to have enough muse to give you a better reply, or i'm fixated on something else and will get to it when my brain cycles back to our thread.

i TRY to reply in a 'timely' manner, but i cannot always accomplish this. please be patient with me. speak to me ooc if you're concerned. i promise, i do not follow people i bear any amount of animosity toward; a slow reply does not mean a disinterested reply. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO GIVE ME A "TIMELY" REPLY. literally just do it whenever you're feeling it! i get excited for replies, but i'm never going to ask you to prioritize our fictional barbies over real life in any way.

i am preferential to para-to-multi para threads. i am a yapper. i can really get a narrative rolling if you let me. if this is a problem and you predominantly prefer short, one or two line threads, my blog is probably not for you and i'd just advise not following. cheers and respect, that's just not who i am.

you are encouraged to continue memes / asks as threads if you'd like, but please, please move it to a new post and tag me; do not reblog the ask unless it's to keep it on your blog.

you are not obligated to continue asks as threads. i just will be happy if you do. :-3

i am aware my prose method is somewhat disjointed and i apologize. please ask for clarification if you are confused about something i write. i will not be offended! especially if you aren't a native english speaker.

SHIPPING

i’m completely open to shipping.

i am most fond of snake/fox, but am willing to develop virtually anything. strongly disinterested in extremely dramatic age differences, incest (absolutely no frank/naomi), or pedophilia. this should go without saying, but that also means i am not interested in big boss/fox.

i am not an "anti" and nor am i a "pro-shipper". this argument is moronic, petty, and childish; i don't have time to care about it. please go away if you're invested in this. just because you dislike something does not mean that it must face moral scrutiny; fiction is fiction, you are not defending real people. they're barbies. smash them together however, just leave me alone if you violate my rules.

i tend to ship with up to three renditions of one canon character. i want my partner to feel valued and not like i'm simply collecting them, hence the restriction. if i turn you down for a ship, it is very likely because im at my 'capacity' for the char you play. i love crossover shipping too. :-)

OTHER

i am very slow. i may take a week or longer to reply to a dm, let alone a thread. i have severe chronic pain, audhd, severe anxiety, and responsibilities. sometimes i just forget, other times i'm not sure what to say, and other than that i'm frequently busy. i am quicker to answer discord messages but even then i am not the fastest. i will not be shamed or vagued about this. i am an adult, and you are an adult. treat me with kindness and patience or block me and remove yourself from my online sphere.

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT DRAMA. keep it to yourself. if you are a callout reblogger i will likely dip. i only tolerate callouts when they display actual sincere evidence of an individual engaging in real life dangerous behavior, with the 'mildest' of offenses being online harassment like stalking, and doxxing, as these are online behaviors that deeply affect real life. i consider that harmful. i do not consider rp drama, he-said-she-said, shipping, graphics, etc, to be serious in any way and don't want to see it on my dash. if it could've been solved in a private conversation, or as simple as blowing off steam in private dms and blocking and moving on, you will be blocked for putting it on my dash. this includes writing things one may find disgusting or distasteful; i'm within my rights to remove you from my circle just as you are with someone else, but i'm so very disinterested in witch hunts because someone wrote a character doing something evil or because you find their content intolerable.

if you interact with more than five different fox blogs/portrayals/etc, i probably will not want to write with you. i can't stand feeling like i'm a commodity. i don't really have duplicate anxiety over this character, i just don't want to be collected.

there are a number of people i dont want to see on my dash and will probably unfollow, possibly block even, if i’m forced to. this is a boundary i am establishing for myself, as i strongly dislike telling others who and who not to write with. if you find yourself suddenly blocked, thats probably why.

NO GENDERBENDS. i will follow back trans genderbends (e.g. solid snake as a trans woman) on a case by case basis. i am not interested in cis genderbends. idgaf if they're canon to some one off.

WHITEWASHED CHARACTERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

not interested in writing with or following harry potter blogs either. you cannot ethically consume jkr's work at this point. it is willful ignorance.

please try to avoid approaching me with “hi” “hey” etc. just say what's on your mind. i have an extremely hard time responding to one word greeters and the conversation will go nowhere.  i am very responsive to reaching out for writing, i'm just a bit slow, and i'm extremely shy so am unlikely to reach out first unless i really have an idea i waant to propose. i know this may be unfair and i apologize. i am not looking for my mental health disorders to be accommodated, simply given some understanding.

if i follow, i want to write. if i’m at all irritated by something you post, i’m just going to unfollow for my sanity. i am both sensitive and shy, so i wont follow you long if i don't think we'll get along. (it is nothing against you personally, its just a fact that not everyone will mesh well as friends.) i usually wait three days once you're actively posting for you to follow back, and if you dont, i unfollow. it just tells me you arent interested, which is perfectly fine. you do not need to follow or interact with me, i just appreciate when i'm not made to look like a fool following or interacting when you dont wish it.

i tend to unfollow within 7-8 months of complete inactivity. you may refollow if you return to your blog and would like to interact again, it's no big deal to me. every now and then i also go on follow culls where i will gently softblock anyone who has failed to interact with me within a broad span of time (around 6 months), where you may yet again refollow to interact.

AS OF AUGUST 2024, i typically do not follow first if i do not know you from other blogs. this isn't meant to discourage you from following if you're interested in interacting--please go ahead--i just don't follow first anymore. if i do follow you first, i either know you, or i'm VERY interested in writing with you and overcame my anxiety about it. you also probably write with a mutual of mine.

i will not interact with you if you write with dean (mageister / archonoclasm / recitedemise) or his twin, hien. there are no exceptions to this rule, i do not want to write with or befriend anyone engaging with my friends abuser.

if you dont have any mun info anywhere on your blog, i probably am not going to follow you.

27 (28 on 10/07). jewish. trans. he/it. i am in CST / CDT / GMT-5 time. (-6 in winter).

now, i know these long ass rules make me sound stuffy and strict, but i'm really not. i'm very relaxed despite the rampant anxiety. i like making friends, even though i'm shy. i've made some of my longest friends from the original iteration of this account. all i ask is my rules are respected, and to asks questions as the need arises; i will never be offended if you just need to know something. (you can generally ask me about metal gear overall too, atp i'm somewhat of a walking game informer).

[nguoidisan]

• CHARACTER SHEET! repost, don’t reblog

BASICS.

FULL NAME: born nguyễn huỳnh dức, later renames himself to frank jaeger. this occurs both to divorce himself from his young life as an amerasian interment camp kid, and to associate himself with naomi (and give the White People around him an easier name to pronounce since he was very quiet and close to non verbal as a child).

NICKNAME: frank hunter. null. gray fox.

TITLES: i know this is not intended here, but received the rank of "FOX" five times within FOXHOUND, hence the code name "gray fox".

OTHER NAMES / ALIASES: "that ninja". deepthroat. (shut up.)

GENDER: cis male. kind of doesn't really care, but doesn't feel out of place with his perceived sex and gender.

HEIGHT: 5’9 or 5'10.

WEIGHT: around 170 lbs. (i imagine him close to being built like this fellow, if a bit thinner, so maybe 150-160).

AGE: born late 1960s. at any time, around 5 yrs older than snake, making him late 30s at death.

ZODIAC: genuinely no idea. his viet zodiac is either the horse or the water goat.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: fluent in tiếng việt, english, german, likely some "important" languages for infil like arabic, russian, spanish, etc. conversationally knowledgable of khmer and japanese as well.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

HAIR COLOUR: pale, stark blond, nearly white. possible marie antoinette syndrome, as i do not see him as albino.

EYE COLOUR: oak brown.

SKIN TONE: medium olive. darker in the sun especially when living in africa, lighter when living on bases such as with big boss.

BODY TYPE: athletic, muscular. broad enough to portray strength, narrow and tapered enough to portray acrobatic and olympic prowess. not a powerhouse like big boss, but not quite as small as rookie snake.

ACCENT: very likely to some degree west african. frank is vietnamese and born in vietnam, but spent like. a very very long part of his early life in west african regions. i would say its probably more like. west african thats been dilluted a bit by travel. i like greg eagles' performance best, so something like this (though i hc his voice is not quite this deep / is being amplified by the suit).

VOICE: ^ has always spoke like this, just quieter because the suit amplifies his voice.

DOMINANT HAND: right.

POSTURE: slouches when sitting, almost always. good posture when standing due to military background.

SCARS: innumerable. fox is heavily scarred, and not for a lack of skill contributing to errors--he is an extremely skilled soldier and highly trained special operative. the scarring primarily comes from his early childhood (camp interment), fighting as a child soldier for the west african forces, and being captured and tortured before being rescued by big boss. the most notable scars/results of torture or battle are that both of his ears are missing chunks, his face bears at least three scars from the struggle and subsequent torture, and post mgs1, he's blind in his right eye due to his fight with david in mg2.

TATTOOS: one small stick-and-poke of a crummy cartoon snake on the back of his neck.

BIRTHMARKS: none.

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURES: the exoskeleton. outside of that, his unnaturally pale hair and red bandana are quite identifying.

CHILDHOOD.

PLACE OF BIRTH: ha giang, northern vietnam.

HOMETOWN: well... hoa lò prison, in hanoi.

BIRTH WEIGHT: 5 lbs, 3 oz. a little small.

BIRTH HEIGHT: 15 inches.

MANNER OF BIRTH: natural, at home, as his mother could not afford any medical bills and had no way to get to a hospital or clinic anyway.

FIRST WORDS: mama (in viet, frank had a habit of saying mẹ mẹ).

SIBLINGS: biologically, none that he knows of. adoptive/socially, naomi hunter, younger sister.

PARENTS: unnamed vietnamese mother, deceased. unnamed german-american father, deceased.

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT: virtually none. at least, his mother wanted to have, love, and raise her child; her absence was not voluntary by any means. she was separated from her child when it came out that he was an amerasian child / biracial, and he was subjected to prison interment for it. she very likely died shortly thereafter herself. his father has never been involved; the moment he knew frank's mother was expecting, when she began to show, he fled. frank has no idea who he is, what he looks like, etc, and he doesn't care.

ADULT LIFE.

OCCUPATION: child soldier turned into mercenary, later renamo soldier in mozambique. becomes a highly decorated "second in command" type member of big boss's FOXHOUND, outer heaven loyalist.

CURRENT RESIDENCE: generally, wherever big boss is, you will find frank.

CLOSE FRIENDS: big boss. venom snake (possibly?). members of FOXHOUND and zanzibarland loyalists. solid snake. gustava heffner.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: verse dependent. canonically dated gustava for a while.

FINANCIAL STATUS: eh.... all of his money went to supporting naomi. when that was no longer necessary, everything else went to work or food. he doesnt really have a significant savings or anything--he doesnt need it.

DRIVER'S LICENSE: officially? unlikely.

CRIMINAL RECORD: sure. aiding a terrorist group, insurrection, destruction of property, attempted murder, murder/assassination, assault with intent to kill, assault with a deadly weapon, trespassing, etc. list goes on. technically could be charged for kidnapping for taking naomi with him, too.

VICES: sleeps poorly and in strange places and positions. overly quiet when it would benefit him to speak. sort of humorless to some folk / very dry. always feels as if he's watching the world through a glass box rather than partaking in being in that world. kind of dead pan. doesn't respond well to extreme stress. loyal to an absolute, fatal fault.

SEX & ROMANCE.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual.

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: biromantic.

PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE: ehh... this is kind of hard to pin down.

PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE: hard versatile switch. happily content in any position, taking or receiving, leading or following, domming or subbing. he could be a bit of a rough dom, but never a very hard one; he has to trust you a lot to really comfortably sub, but can bottom from the top/would enjoy domming in such a way, especially if there's an aspect of objectification with his top (e.g. treating them like an object to get him off whilst theyre having sex--not something he'd ever do outside of kink, but something he would like while playing). the only people he'd really sub for--regardless of topping or bottoming--would be david and gustava at the moment.

TURN ONS: a bit of an 'opposites attract' kind of fellow, where the more sincere and less hardened by war and trauma and less disillusioned with the universe they are, the more frank will be drawn toward them. they do not need to be a happy go lucky sunshine and rainbows kind of person--in fact he finds that a little annoying--but if they're a good person, who enjoys being alive, who views their own continued existence like revolution, it'll get his attention. a pretty face and a nice butt or rack is just a bonus.

TURN OFFS: blowhards. whiners. prissy, shallow people. the 'more concerned with never doing something wrong than ever doing anything right' people. any bodily fluid that isn't blood or maybe saliva. extreme height differences (someone who is, say, 6'10, or 4'10, are going to lose his interest). trying to get more from him than he's willing to share in the moment.

LOVE LANGUAGE: he's a bit cagey overall, but behaves like a tomcat leaving you dead animals as a sign of sincere affection and to teach you to hunt better because it thinks you're bad at it. thats fox.

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES: rarely has them due to his own somewhat reclusive and very solitary nature. crashed out pretty quick from the canon one he had, and is pretty much responsible for her death.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHARACTER'S THEME SONG: escape -- mgs1 ost.

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME: training and sparring were always his favorites. ran some errands around base as need be. sometimes, having a very civilian-like period of hanging out with snake or big boss was pretty fun to frank--just something simple and small like tossing a ball around was enough to make him happy.

MENTAL 'DISORDERS': i'm going to interpret this as 'symptoms'. very reclusive and struggles to connect with others, dissociative episodes and derealization, probably some form of avpd. masochist. extremely depressed, struggles with severe anxiety and a guilt complex for mosto f his life. suppresses everything until he explodes.

MENTAL ILLNESSES: c-ptsd is the only one he's aware of, albeit not the only thing he's affected by at all.

PHYSICAL ILLNESSES: no illnesses, but becomes severely disabled post mg2 due to battle with snake in a fucking minefield. severed limbs, injuries to nerves and skin and muscle, etc.

LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED: both? but probably a bit more left.

PHOBIAS: heavily medicalized environments are the quickest path to full scale panic attacks with fox. has some typical specific triggers most soldiers have too--gunpowder, oil, burning skin, etc. the whir of some electronics can do it too.

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL: hard to pin down. very assured in his physical abilities, zero confidence in himself as a person.

VULNERABILITIES: not remorseless. feels immense guilt for most of the things he does. loyal to a fault--in fact, to the fault of killing himself for it. once in the exoskeleton, it can be overloaded and isn't invincible. issues with nerve reconnections can cause dissociative episodes.

[nguoidisan]

there is a kindness in doctor emmerich's eyes that reminds fox of a rabbit, oblivious of the hunt. yielding, innocent, a little terrified, curious, driven. the thing he'd snag by the neck with a well placed arrow loosed by a handmade nayin. like he thinks at any moment, jaeger will strike, and rend flesh from soft tissues.

he wants to find the words to assuage, to assure, no matter his bite, he'd pull his teeth for philanthropy--that his life was balanced on david's shoulders, that whatever worth he might propose comes in the form of repentance for molding the nuclear sphere with his own two hands. men like big boss clenched power in their hands as a horse's bit, and frank was nothing more than a discarded, shattered tool.

the man was dead. his legacy, null and void. but this.. this cause, these two, his beloved friend and his new compatriot, this has meaning.

doctor emmerich fills an injection needle to a halfway mark, clean ink indicating 2.5ml of whatever fluid resided in the cannister. frank's eyes--half lidded, unattentive, he'd always hated the medical check ups--snap open, following the tip as otacon uncorks the leur and replaces the needle with a thinner gauge.

' what's in it? '

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[nguoidisan]

this is frank to me and why he started going by frank instead of nguyễn

[nguoidisan]

some hcs about fox's exoskeleton and the integration into what remained of his natal body.

the fight with david resulted in serious damage by merit of occurring in a fucking mine field. explosive compounds, shrapnel, and combustible fluids / forces caused a mass of scars, severed one arm at the elbow, and mangled half the fingers and some of the muscle of the forearm on the other. he lost one leg below the knee as well, but otherwise was intact, especially in the torso.

what could not be saved was cut away, and what could be saved was grafted into the cyborg body. in this sense, he's similar to what becomes of raiden and was likely the prototype for what would serve to become of raiden in the future. the suit could, in theory, be pulled apart, but the prosthetics are grafted into his body, so.. not only would it cause immense pain where it shields his wounds and stabilizes his body, it'd be like cutting it up again. the natal nerves are connected to the mechanical ones.

he can remove the helmet without pain, and the front of the suit up until about the hips. his chest and stomach are scarred, but not mangled. he cannot remove anything else without severe pain.

a lot of his neuropathic nerves and synaptic highways are severed or malfunction from electrical impulses, resulting in physical and mental apathy. very, very low natural dopamine. being harmed delights him because it means he's feeling something. (also just genuinely a masochist but thats another post.)

he could, in theory, be treated the way raiden is at the end of mgs4, wherein he is given, like.. an optional more human-appearing body. that is something i could see naomi herself tirelessly working to achieve since her love for her brother clearly is boundless.

this is also why he bleeds when crushed by rex; he isn't full of synthetic blood, he's just.. human fused into metallics and synthetic flesh.

[nguoidisan]

considering some sort of post mgs1 verse where fox is just barely saved from the brink of death yet again and nursed to health by some combination of naomi, david, and hal

[nguoidisan]

' you're twisting your wrist too much. ' a harmless sport of kendo with wooden mock swords to pass time, fox halts, letting his "blade" fall wayside. he repositions himself side by side with snake, leaning into him to correct his posture. one hand goes to the junction of the elbow, the other delicately seated over his wrist--paradoxical, for a man so scarred and rigid--and they correct course, turning his arm just so.

' keep your wrist straight, like this. you drive the sword with your shoulders and chest, not your arms. let me see your grip. ' one hand blanched with scars slides to the apex of snake's, palm over firm knuckles, his furled digits. ' a little tight. loosen it. you're compensating by bending your wrist. only tighten the grip when you hit something. ' finally, fox backs up into view, retrieving his own dull slab of wood. ' give me a few more swings. '

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the helicopter rattles beneath his boots, still mired in dry mud. one leg folding over the other, frank picks at the accumulation encrusting one groove of his soles, thumbing it off between his forefinger. he was no stranger to the detritus of war--blood, sweat, tears, dirt, mud, stench, oil, gunpowder, gasoline, the rot of bodies.

still, he'd have liked the opportunity to clean himself up a little more before he'd said goodbye to naomi. her soft, subtle scents yet cling to his chest, where her head had landed, her fingers white podiums digging tight into his back. don't go. don't go.

guilt twines firmly in his stomach. he presses his teeth together and exhales, gaze flicking up to meet the eye upon him. big boss looks different. older. strong, a little sun-weathered. more confident than he'd remembered his handling before, all those years ago in the 'rehabilitation' camp he'd freed him from.

' it's frank, now. ' he murmurs, risen boot thudding into the floor of the helicopter. ' frank jaeger, sir. '

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[nguoidisan]

consider this a starter call. i will not be using icons (which i feel is extremely reasonable lmao). if you have a preference between the cyborg era vs metal gear or prequel era, please let me know.

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[nguoidisan]

some gentle amendments from port ops:

frank was not born in the 1950s. he was born in the late 1960s. i cannot see him being more than 6~ years older than david. i haven't decided on an actual date but i just, absolutely do not buy him being significantly older. i think he needs to be a bit older just because it means david looked up to him and he was more decorated, but not significantly.

very likely met big boss in actuality around peace walker era as an "amerasian" child in a "re-education" camp in vietnam. this is where the first seeds of frank's sense of loyalty come from; he was a terrified child who had been abandoned by his german father and separated from his mother, who likely died shortly thereafter. however, since big boss wasn't in a position to be able to foster a child, frank--then still huỳnh dức--was placed in a rehabilitation center, where the CIA picked him out to use for the perfect soldier project.

was given the code name null, but was not involved in the san hieronymo incident.

meets naomi in 79 after killing her parents during the rhodesian civil war. frank is only like.. 13-14 in this period at most. overcome with guilt, he 'adopts' her there and then, carting her around with him for the next 6 years.

participated in the mozambican civil war on the side of the RENAMO soldiers, still with naomi at his side, hidden away safely as much as possible. did not lose his nose, but had chunks of both ears cut out and caned upon the back, thighs, and butt. this is where big boss saves him for a second time--around 1985. naomi is taken back to the states to be given a normal life instead of being carted around by a former child soldier, but frank, unable to adapt and already having been 'scouted' by big boss, returns with boss to africa.

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