#im almost done w pw...

[zeeckz]

This person wrote about the light/color symbolism in MGSV and added a few examples from PW. Which can be easily represented as a whole with yellow. Again, my knowledge towards the entirety of the series is limited, but since that person talked about the importance of red in MGSV... What about yellow & its negative meanings? Like. Big Boss is permanently surrounded by blond people. MSF logo (+DD) & uniform contain yellow (<- a desaturated greenish one, but u get me). The uniform could be easily explained given the military context, but give me a chance;;

There's no denying it also conveys a positive meaning at times, but I can't stop thinking about the other side of the coin. I'd say the most extreme case would be The Joy, aka The Boss.

One of its negative meanings is betrayal. But also lies. Danger. Some of those blonds surrounding him, if not all of them, are involved in at least one of those things. Specially in PW (and GZ, I think? I know there's something off later on, but not sure when exactly happens), not only given the stylistic choices surrounding the comic/cutscenes, but also Big Boss explicitly stating his thoughts about The Boss' actions and its implications regarding him.

She literally represented Joy. Love. Warmth. And yet, despite how powerfully positive she was to him, she betrayed him. Lied to him. She was a constant threat to both his life and his mission. She became the exact opposite of what she once was.

Ocelot, EVA, Kaz. I only know portions of their actions throughout the whole story, but it looks to me that all of them have both a positive aspect to them towards Big Boss (devoting himself to him, experiencing some sort of love, building their business) and a negative one (literally trying to kill him, lying & having his clones {from what I've gathered it doesn't seem he's too cool about it}, lying & betraying him).

Like yeah, it's so not unlikely for those things to happen in their context etc etc, but it doesn't feel that arbitrary to have so many blonds around him... So much yellow...