It started off as a sweet picture but then it turned smutty somewhere????
Meticulously going back through cutscenes of GZ and TPP just to make sure I’ve got timelines down accurately for my fic and like jesus christ
It’s still dark out when their chopper goes down at the end of GZ, it maybe looks like it’s close to sunrise if you look closely – and allowing for an accurate passage of time, BB showed up at the base in Cuba at midnight, carried out the mission, and judging on average helicopter speeds and the amount of distance between the southernmost point of Cuba to Barranquilla, it’d maybe be like a four hour transit time. Give or take, since MB isn’t exactly on the coast, but some distance offshore. So it very well could be hours before sunrise when their chopper plunges into the ocean.
Skip to TPP, Kaz watches as BB falls into a coma as doctors try to resuscitate him. The time specifically states that it’s 1:31 pm. So. Basically. We’re to assume they were stranded in the middle of the ocean for several hours before rescuers arrived on the scene to transport them to the hospital in Colombia.
So imagine Kaz, in a chopper in the middle of the ocean flooding with water, fucking everyone is dead, BB is unresponsive, medic is still conscious but probably can’t speak or do shit because he’s all fucked up and his face is full of metal and bone, he’s probably struggling just to breathe and very likely doing his best to convey directions to Kaz on how to keep BB stable and Kaz is losing his shit because he’s the only one still lucid and able-bodied as he watches the two men he loves struggling to stay alive for HOURS IN A STRANDED CHOPPER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN waiting for help to arrive
From like just before sunrise to, maybe like noon or so.
Oh man IDK ANON THAT’S A TOUGH QUESTION. I haven’t seen any of the Diamond Dogs with that name so maybe Ocelot thought about that before he hypnotized himself and made a fail-safe ensuring none of the new recruits got that name?
(tbh I only chose that codename for medic because when I loaded up an old save of PW and scrolled through my medical team, the guy that looked closest to the medic in GZ and who looked like he might convincingly be plastic surgeried into BB was some dude named Heron so I was like LOL YEP THERE HE IS. So unglamourous, I know)
I think that would be something that Ocelot might have considered beforehand though, and perhaps Kaz also wanted to ‘retire the codename’ as it were to honour his medic because without spoiling too much of my own fic, Kaz was led to believe he was dead 😮 😮 😮
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