I just got mad info dumped from your post on parasite!kaz. I'm loving it. I've truly never been more invested in yet another wack mgs plot/theory this is riveting and I'd love to hear more Also I love your art to death its so impressive :))

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thats the thing !!! i dont think its a whack theory at all im FULLY convinced it was just an abandoned plotline in the throes of MGSV development hell.

it also just fits alongside the normal storytelling of mgs, of layering of themes within a single characters’ storyline - especially pertinent since kaz’s whole thing in MGSV is the idea of how hate can parasite off someone and kill you before acheiving any kind of catharsis.

Some things that i sometimes Think About:

We dont know if kaz had amputations prior to afghanistan. who knows what happened between ground zeros and mgsv, but, if i were writing or having to make a conjecture, theres 2 ways that could go:

Situation 1.

Kaz did NOT lose his limbs in afghanistan, it happened sometime prior to mgsv, and theres actually evidence for that - they got Kaz his crutch really fast when they got back, he seemed to know how to use it just fine, and, probably most indicative, is that he (seemed) to get used to his prosthetics REALLY fast.

i worked in prosthetics for a bit (and am planning on returning) and those things hurt!! theyre horrible! the process for getting one and learning it and using it sucks!! ive seen 30 year old IED blast vets start crying at their 6 month fitting because it hurts so much!

no fuckin way is he just stomping around mother base all willy nilly like that without collapsing! that stuff sucks! in my uncreative mind its definitely evidence to the theory that he got the injuries prior to capture.

(shoutout to the mgs team by making Kaz’s amputee status super realistic - most amputees ive seen dont bother wearing arm prosthetics, esp since having no arm doesn’t affect mobility as much as an amputated leg. Also, just by the gait you can tell exactly what kind of prosthetic kaz has. its fucking cool. love that.

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[crows note about prosthetics that you dont need to read i just love prosthetics:

Kaz has a BKA (below-knee amputation) also known as a trans-tibial amputation, if anybody was wondering. he bends his knee with no adjustment from what we would consider a normal gait so its not a knee articulated prosthesis.

If it were a transfemoral amputation with an articulating knee (or a knee disarticulation amputation), you basically need to shift your hip forward post leg-swing to initiate the knee-bending mechanism and bear weight on that prosthetic. its a very awkward looking gait and very obvious when you have a non-electric, non-pneumatic kind of prosthetic.

More than likely almost exaclty what the prosthetic looked like. yes. i know this is a fictional game. no, you cant have a rocket fist in real life yet. the first example was from 1969 guide, and the second prosthetic is from some kind of workshop in the 1970′s.

You see pretty much the exact same construction in prosthetics today (except you may see flexion ankles), since these simple metal kinds are way cheaper and easier to maintain than electric or pneumatic models. why fix what ain’t broke?]

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Situation 2.

(more interesting for my own purposes ;)) waht if kaz DID lose his limbs in afghanistan. what if he DID sustain that physical trauma in afghanistan just before venom got him. You gotta understand. kaz is in STELLAR shape for anybody who was just sitting around in the desert, let alone with 2 amputations in a gross ass building surrounded by SAND and SEPSIS. im telling you, stunning.

(he’s talking, he’s alert and aware and oriented, he’s cool with making a big epic speech after rescue, he doesn’t complain about anything in particular (not even being THIRSTY), or even seems to be in overwhelming pain, if i saw that dude i’d be like, drink some water maybe sleep a while and you’ll be fine).

anyway what if cipher, assuming my prior situation of using quiet as a final test subject and seeing that she recovered extremely quickly, intentionally amputated to pry info out of kaz and THEN infected him with the parasites to make sure he didnt die out on them AND could destroy his own work from the inside?? maybe that initial parasitic dose was why he wasnt on the brink of death, but still wasnt exhibiting any symptoms? maybe thats why he recovered so quickly??

i know this is a fictional story but, anyway, who’s to stop me, really

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Re: story ideas to “””complete””” that kind of plotline, i was wondering where, or why, really, they decided to have this happen to kaz in particular. He didn’t have prosthesis in mgs1. They could’ve done anything, really, but what was cool about mgsv was the sort of bleakness of it all. theres no resolution.

It’s bitterly ended, intentionally or not, so anything afterwards is kind of up to you. If you saw the cutscene of that one kind of visceral-parasite with the meatflesh, you can see hes kind of in the middle of the transition between full parasite unit and whatever he was before.

the last few caps suggest that the parasite soldier’s armor is in the middle of materialization. this posits the cool idea that the parasites work by aggregating on top of whatever was there in the first place - it makes sense bc these guys kind of mist in and out however they want. however, this does suggest that its not totally random - the “original” musculature of the body forms first, and THEN blinders and the headphones and other stuff act as scaffolding for the parasites to form the rest. Quiet has some clips of her materializing the same way.

what if kaz grew cool fleshy fully parasitic-metallic skull unit arms like that. He doesnt have a scaffold or template for it-unless he uses prosthetics for the parasites to go off of. are you picking up what im putting down???