[Headcanon Time (Unserious)]
Those comics where they have Ocelot pining for Big Boss, but is aware enough to know he won't love him back in the same way, is just grossly heart wrenching — the sort where you'd put 30 stab wounds in someone, because you don't have the capacity to make something equally as bittersweet.
Even when he's happy for him, it's still a pretty tough pill to swallow, with the level of unconditional love he seems to put into his work for him.
Ocelot does seem like a lone wolf, but he still has EVA to keep him in check, and vice-versa.
Not necessarily does it mean he has to fall in love with her (although, I'm aware that's almost 90% of my page), the part that worsens it is when EVA's pining too.
Pining for Big Boss? No doubt she misses Big Boss too, but emotionally not equivalent to Ocelot.
It's not a competition, after establishing a close comradery between themselves, she would mostly not be so selfish. But between her and him, one of them clearly knows Big Boss more on an emotional level, isolating one perhaps.
Since MGS3, EVA's observed Ocelot and Big Boss and how they interact with each other, and sometimes even gets jealous of how well they work.
She couldn't get Big Boss' love until the very end, but even Big Boss enjoys even when Ocelot's being persistent. Big Boss gladly agrees to join the Patriots when Ocelot requests of it.
There's not much given about EVA interacting with anyone else in such manner, or even hear of such relationship betweem her and another; not even Ocelot mentions her in this manner.
She's seems very separated between the three of them, only being second thought, despite what she's also done to help their cause — even looking somewhat inferior with the lack of knowledge about her involvement.
What Ocelot and Big Boss have in closeness, EVA could probably yearn for with another. Ocelot wouldn't be jealous of EVA, it would mostly be the opposite.
When Big Boss is happy, Ocelot's happy. When Ocelot's happy that Big Boss is happy, EVA's happy, because at least those she cares about can be content.
*This is a very loose headcanon, plain with not a lot of ingredients, but even the simple things get me emotional. idk if I'll make one of these again, or if this'll even stay up, but it's always fun to write these.
