Ocelot for the character ask~
Well shit this turned into an essay... I just have a lot of thoughts abt this idiot ok
How I feel about this character
Short answer: he’s a dumbass but he’s my dumbass.
Long answer: he’s probably my favourite video game character of all time, not even ironically. I’m just a sucker for OTT, morally confusing characters. He’s super ridiculous too which I love, like this fucker meows and almost jizzes his pants whenever he reloads his guns holy shit. Borderline cringe comedy at times but again, I love to suffer. For all the dumbass catboy shit he does though he’s kinda badass as an older adult (”when it comes to CQC I have the upper hand”). Also for all the hyper confusion over his true allegiances and motivations we find out after a whole ass decade that his true motive was very simple: wuv, twue wuv. Idk I just love how we follow his Gemini ass for so long in confusion, the whole plot revolves (ha) around his convoluted plans and secret agendas and turns out he was driven by his super duper mega crush on Big Boss. Love to see it.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Big Boss and Big Boss only. I literally cannot imagine him ever catching feelings for anyone else. He literally almost caused nuclear war and overrode his own personality bc he wanted that naked snake that bad.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
I like his relationship dynamic w Quiet tbh, if they’d developed it more. He seems to genuinely care abt her in some way, like I don’t think he wanted to save her just to piss Kaz off. He admires her skills and I guess almost sees her as like a protegée. I think over time he could’ve gotten to know her as a close friend as well as a protegée
Aside from Quiet, I also like to think he got along w Raikov during his days in Grozny Grad. I just love the dynamic of 2 chaotic gays being annoying together. Also think he sort of had a love-hate friendship with Eva, like they were love rivals but they also admired each other and bonded over shit like their feels for Snake and being double agents against a dumbass lightning man.
My unpopular opinion about this character
I actually like Troy Baker as Ocelot. Idk how unpopular this is but I’ve seen a lot of people say he didn’t pull it off. I think he did though. Plus him adopting a really thick Texan accent just from watching cowboy movies is totally fitting with his westaboo character.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
We got a spinoff where he was the/a player character. Or at least a combat buddy like Quiet was. Idk I’d just love to be able to be gay and do war crimes, but as a dramatic ass Gemini instead for a change.
TYSM for the ask my dude!! *mraows at you in russian*
