Memory: Recruiting soldiers by surprise.
Received: Game 47
Form: Small wooden box.
Summary: Most of the soldiers Snake recruits are actually enemies! He encounters them in the battlefield and beats up, kidnaps, and/or shows them some kind of camaraderie. Whatever it is, it impresses them so much that they go from wanting to kill him to absolute loyalty to him. Usually it has something to do with Snake's attitude -- enemies and allies change with the times, though the soldiers stay the same. An enemy today may be a friend from yesterday, and may be a friend again tomorrow.

( Examples under cut. )

Name ??? // John Doe/Jack/Naked Snake/Big Boss/Vic Boss/Saladin
Age 39
Team Sterling

Height/Build 180 cm/89 kg
Hair Color/Eye Color Brown/blue eye left eye and an eye patch
Notable Traits Snake lost his right eye to a gunshot, so eyepatch. MAGNIFICENT BEARD. Voiced by David Hayter. Beautiful ass. Lots of miscellaneous burn/gunshot/laceration scars. (The giant 'S' scar on his chest seen in Peace Walker was a cosmetic trick to smuggle cell escape tools around with him, and is gone.)

Other Snake has been irradiated by fallout from atomic testing at Bikini Atol and is ~sterile~. He gets very hungry, very quickly.

He has no sense of smell!

Comes in his default Olive Drab jungle fatigues. Combat boots, olive pants, black top under an olive green jacket, fanny pack utility belt with pouches and harness straps over his chest and around his crotch. Fingerless gloves. Should anyone ever be in the know, the bandanna he's wearing is no longer the one he got from The Boss.