Tag: catherine miller

The best part about offscreen deaths is that they’re so easy to dismiss and headcanon as faked.

Kazuhira Miller is, indeed, alive.

Ocelot went after him with every intention of killing him, but when it came time to do the honours, he couldn’t do it. Obviously these two aren’t friends, but they did have a working relationship for some time and came to know one another quite well, and despite their disagreements, were aligned by the same goals for quite a while.

So Ocelot gets a sudden wave of nostalgia and decides against killing him, and instead he doses Kaz with tetrodotoxin (which is actually a neurotoxin, so that part is arguably 100% canon).

So he makes it look like he killed Master Miller (for Liquid’s sake) – shows him the body and everything, and then Liquid goes really quiet for a long moment and just stares at the body in a sort of detached state and maybe whispers something like “He was the only man who ever showed me compassion” then snaps out of it and gingerly takes Kaz’s sunglasses off of his face.

Catherine ends up walking in, sees her father’s body and tries to rouse him, but the moment she realizes he’s “dead” Ocelot comes up behind her and sedates her so she won’t see her assailants’ faces. She finally wakes up and the house is empty save for her and her dead father, and later when Ames sends the agent to Miller’s home, he discovers Catherine sitting in a catatonic daze next to her father’s body.

When FOXHOUND claims the body, Ocelot sneaks in and extracts Kaz and swaps him out with a random corpse, which is cremated before an autopsy can be performed due to a “clerical error.”

When Kaz wakes up, Ocelot has made arrangements for him to make a discreet escape, just like he did for Big Boss in 1984. He informs Kaz that they’re even now, and they go their separate ways. Kaz doesn’t know who to trust anymore or who all still wants him dead, so he goes into hiding indefinitely.

Kaz returns to Mother Base, which was never decommissioned and has since been abandoned, and recruits a new army and continues the dream that Big Boss never could quite finish as a final fuck you to him. 

Special Agent Catherine Miller; FBI dedicates her life investigating the cold case of a murder that didn’t actually happen.

That Catherine HC sounds fantastic…I think it would totally work, too. Its definitely not the normal hc you see with Nadine and Kaz either. 👍👌

Thank you! I’ll probably eventually get started on it once I’ve finished up some of these other drafts, I just need to decide on a definitive date of birth for her and get the entire timeline sorted out to avoid inconsistencies in canon.

I also kind of want to explore Nadine in a way that hasn’t been done before. I don’t see Kaz marrying some average girl, like this is KAZ we’re talking about so she’s got to be some kind of screwed up to be the type he’d settle down with, so I imagine her as being just as volatile, vengeful, and passionately aggressive as he is. Like their first argument is terrifying because they’re both equally vicious. And they’re both a couple of cynical, morally ambiguous mercs who want to watch the world burn.

Also she’s kind of a freak. She totally ate his ass out on their second date.

What if Kaz’s daughter became a cop

Also I think about grown up Catherine a lot and the type of person she’d turn out to be. I don’t think she’d do the military/mercenary thing per se – tbh I see her so deeply affected by her father’s death that she studies criminal justice and idk maybe foreign relations at university, then gets accepted to Quantico and becomes a detective for the FBI. (Tell me you don’t see adult!Catherine in a tailored suit with a badge at her hip, complete with Daddy’s trademark scowl when she’s about to question someone) 

And her personal side project when she’s not working is investigating her father’s cold case with the hope of eventually getting revenge, hoping that anyone even remotely involved might still be alive, or at least as some way for her to get closure. I see her going to question people who might have known her dad and them getting all weird and nostalgic, like “Holy god, you look just like him” and maybe moving in a little too close/touching her face but unlike her father, she’s frigid and emotionally closed off (for obvious reasons) so she just kinda stiffens and stonewalls them while keeping her hand on the gun at her hip and very curtly tells them to sit down because she just wants to ask them a few questions. And it sounds more like a threat than anything else.

Occasionally though, if you really set her off, she has her daddy’s spitfire temper, and she’ll unleash merciless rage/violence on you if you’ve pushed her too far or don’t give her what she wants in a timely manner. This was demonstrated once when she nearly killed a suspect while “interrogating” him and was put on temporary suspension. She’s a friggin loose cannon for sure, but she’s a damn good agent and while of ambiguous moral standing, she’s ultimately one of the good guys, just like her dad. She just uses questionable methods sometimes to maintain the balance, as it were. 

Good lord, Special Agent Catherine Miller, yet another thing to add to the daunting list of ‘fics I need to write.’