#chico mgs

[rifleman787742]

[ossywot]

i havent ever drawn chico proper before so i thought i would try :3 here he is

[zeeckz]

for the non-spanish speakers:

Kaz: Okay. Let's talk about Che Güevara. You know who he is, right?

Chico: What.......?

Kaz: El Che. Che Güevara. Do you really not know who he is?

Chico: Guevara...

Kaz: Yeah. Güevara. Tell me what you know about him.

Chico: No, Kaz... It's pronounced Guevara. Like... Like "gecko".

Chico: Don't say Güevara, it's- um... just don't say it.

[sporkberries]

“Are you sure you cant practice somewhere else?”

Little doodle bc i miss msf

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

There's a line in MGSV: Ground Zeroes that gives me chills everytime I think about it and it's almost a throwaway because of everything that happens after overshadowing it

Skullface (To Chico): "No more war games, you're a real man now, soldier."

I could argue about how Skullface is so well built up in Ground Zeroes and then..well Phantom Pain but negating that? That line alone, in and of itself and the context is chilling to the core.

Chico is 12/13 around this time, freshly tortured and unable to walk b/c of the bolts in his ankles. And Skullface is aware that he's going to die. (So long as everything goes to plan, and it does in the sense that Chico very much does die). Because in the space of such a short time, Chico loses his innocence, freedom, mobility and sense of self. And then dies in a place he never should've been in to begin with.

All things that, to Skullface, now make him a 'man'. Things that deeply root within a person, alter their psyche and one could argue that had Chico lived, he very much would've been forever mentally and physically scarred, with his childhood self obliterated and buried under irreversible trauma.

(True enough to life in many counts, to be fair)

But Chico does not live, Chico dies small and frail, and every bit the child we know he is. And save for the odd comment from Amanda, Kaz and Venom later on, the so called 'man' is left to faded memory, one of the many casualties to it all. And not the least bit the 'man' Skullface claimed.

And he wasn't supposed to be. He was a kid who died too young and for all his smarts still believe in monsters, and had a vivid imagination and wanted to be grown up like the others, but was youthful enough to have it sometimes pushed aside.

And then, of course, one has to ask:

Is Big Boss not as guilty for Chico being there in the first place? Skullface killed him, but Big Boss held the gun to his head first.

And when I think about how SMALL and frail he is in the chopper, still trying to help Paz. Gah.

[axelandvixen]

Mgs stuff, ocelot 😋 expect a lot of ocelot drawings from me

[vergol]

chico trying to take a puff of BB’s cigar might be one of the funniest things ever

[emuanon34]

I’m not the only one who hates the Metal Gear discourse that goes “The Metal Gear franchise should’ve ended at [Insert Metal Gear Game Here]” am I?

[strangebossyuri]

mgs chico awakens the part of me that always did and still wants a little brother- i want to tease him and make him a lunchbox before school and throw him against a couch while play fighting and buy him a UMA book for christmas and go back to school shopping with him for six hours just to buy a single pair of pants and and and and-he makes me so distraught he deserved so much more and im gonna cry if i think too hard

[sapphohod]

Hope you all like this cute mgs edit I made 🥰

[rifleman787742]

watercolor + CSP

[ossywot]

how bugs look at you when you lift the rock

[zeeckz]

Since you asked for prompts: Kaz running drills? Or maybe Kaz judging s.o. with a raised eyebrow because they can't count

[wolvesrain]

Big Boss for the character ask?

my general perception of them

the worst person i know but also just a silly little guy. i wouldn't say he's a character i feel a lot of affection for but i do enjoy him and think he's very interesting and entertaining. sometimes i think he would've actually done fine if he was just let loose onto some survival tv show and allowed to smoke weed and was never introduced to the concept of war.

an unpopular opinion or, failing that, a fun fact

i feel like there's a lot of different takes on bb, which makes sense given his character is kind of used to represent certain ideas and themes rather then to be a fully fleshed out Person (imo). the one i really don't get though is when people talk about his "sudden descent into villainy" in mgsv and talk about him like he was just a fun and silly guy who could do no harm in mgs3. he was definitely less toxic and controlling in 3, but he's always been the same guy in my eyes? he didn't have to turn out the way he did, but he's always had the potential to, even when we first meet him. his behavior is already atrocious in peace walker (i think a lot of people understate how manipulative he is in that game) especially if you look at a lot of the extra content, so what happens in mgsv seems more like a natural course of action for him.

a fun fact (headcanon) about him.. i think he's short (based on the one picture of him and kaz where he has platform boots and kaz is still taller). like 5'7"-5'8" short.

music i associate with them (if any)

HMM i have an entire bbkaz playlist but i've never actually tried to think of a bb-specific song... probably you're so vain, off the top of my head

if I feel (spiritually) like I could beat them in a fight

i'd kick his ass.. kaz get behind me i will avenge you

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

Damn unused concept Chico had some blades eh?

[dreaded]

i love you peace walker i love you os much