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[2012-12-08 00:50:44 +0000 UTC]
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# About me
"I am lightning,the rain transformed."
~Biography~Raiden (雷電?), real name Jack, was a special forces soldier responsible for resolving the 2009 Big Shell Incident as a new recruit to the reformed FOXHOUND unit. A former child soldier under Solidus Snake, Raiden had been selected by the Patriots to test the S3 Plan at the Big Shell. He later worked alongside the Paradise Lost Army in their anti-Patriot activities, but was captured and forced to undergo heavy cybernetic experimentation. After successfully escaping, Raiden went on to assist Solid Snake during Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection.
Jack was born on a rainy day. During his youth, Jack was adopted by Solidus Snake, who became his godfather after he killed his parents, and was subsequently raised as a child soldier. Jack fought in the Liberian Civil War in 1989, where he and other children were shown Hollywood action films daily for "image training," and were given food mixed with gunpowder containing toluene to make them more controllable. On one occasion, Jack was injected with an unknown substance during a physician's experiment. On another, Jack witnessed Solidus demonstrate to him that blades were a "noble weapon" compared to guns, by slitting another soldier's throat in front of him.Under Solidus Snake, Jack became a killing machine, known alternately as the "White Devil" and "Jack the Ripper" due to his incredibly high kill rate compared to other boys his age. Armed with a gun at the age of six (he would later remember it as an AK rifle), he proved to be a superior soldier, rising to become captain of the Small Boy Unit at ten.
Raiden, as a child soldier.
After the war ended, Solidus had him placed in a relief center, but he was later removed by a non-governmental organization and taken to the United States. There, Jack came into the hands of the Patriots, who implanted his cerebral cortex with a high concentration of nanomachines, in order to have him function as a back-up system for an optic-neuro AI. The Patriots chose him out of the other child soldiers in his unit because unlike the others, who would live up to their pasts and pay dearly for it, Raiden did not accept his past and hated it.The same nanomachines were also capable of memory manipulation by connecting or stimulating synapses, primarily nerve sections in the dormant part of the brain.In addition, Raiden was not listed under any of the United States databases (e.g. the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.)
Jack would grow up to suppress the memories about his terrible childhood, burying the memories of his bloody past, though he still suffered from nightmares of his past nearly every night.
~Personality~Due to his participation in the Liberian Civil War, Raiden was one of the few Force XXI VR subjects to possess actual combat experience. When he first infiltrated the Big Shell, Raiden appeared to be a young and "inexperienced" agent of a "reformed" FOXHOUND unit, occasionally prone to emotional outbursts. When the memories of his time as a child soldier began to resurface, he gained somewhat of a low opinion of himself, especially in comparison to Solid Snake's accomplishments. Although he immensely respected Solid Snake, there were instances where it had its rough spots during the Big Shell Incident, such as when he learned that Snake and Otacon lied to him about whether they knew about the Big Shell being a great big conspiracy, as well as a remark Snake made that got him angered enough to make explosive insults about Snake, not realizing that he was in earshot, and when Snake "betrayed" Raiden at Arsenal Gear to lessen security onboard without warning him beforehand.
Raiden used to smoke cigarettes at one point in his life but had quit by the time of the Big Shell Incident.He also possessed barcode tattoos all over his body.
Raiden
Raiden shared some similarities with his Cyborg Ninja predecessor, Gray Fox; both had been child soldiers who were given nicknames due to their brutality; they both ended up being taken from a rehab center by a group that was implied to have connections to the current organization in power (in Gray Fox's case, the CIA and the Philosophers, in Raiden's case, an NGO group and the Patriots) before being experimented in a way that was implied to also have resulted in suppressed memories; they both underwent cybernetic experimentation by the Patriots, and used technologically advanced blades; and they both saved Solid Snake from a Metal Gear (Fox with REX, and Raiden with Outer Haven). Raiden was also similar to Gray Fox's adopted sister, Naomi, in that he was adopted by the same person who murdered his parents. Raiden is the only known Cyborg Ninja to have survived, and also the only one who hasn't fought Solid Snake.
Raiden also was skilled at cleaning up messes, as he mentioned to the Colonel regarding not leaving stuff lying around at Strut C during the Big Shell Incident. He implies that he gained the skill at cleaning up from having to clean up various messes that Rosemary leaves at her house.
Raiden's main characteristic was his long white-blond hair. Because of the length of the hair, Emma once speculated that the hair was actually a wig and that it was a badly done wig. Raiden, having overheard that comment with a directional microphone, called her via Codec to set her straight that his hair is actually real and not a wig. Similarly, his appearance also led him to being mistaken for a woman, as evidenced by James Johnson mistaking him for a female Patriot assassin before realizing his mistake by grabbing his crotch and then reacting with slight surprise that Raiden was male.
By the time of Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection, Raiden had changed considerably; the trauma of his break-up with Rose and the "miscarriage" of their unborn son, combined with rigorous training and his torture at the hands of the Patriots, changed Raiden from an inexperienced rookie to a cold and virtually emotionless soldier, who seemingly doesn't care about his own life; for instance, in his fight with Vamp in South America, he freely admitted to Vamp that he didn't fear death. Raiden's only real display of emotion occurred after the death of Big Mama; Snake told Raiden that he (Snake) has no future, while Raiden has a family; at this, Raiden grabbed Snake, shouting that he too has nothing. Nonetheless, due to his past experiences with Snake, he was completely loyal to the legendary soldier and citing his personal views about Snake by asking him to "not leave me alone." Upon discovering the truth about Rose's "marriage" to Campbell, Raiden seemed to regain some of his old self.
~Name~The word "Raiden" (雷電?) literally means "thunder and lightning" in Japanese. He shares this codename with the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden, an Imperial Japanese WWII fighter aircraft, which the Allied forces codenamed "Jack." The Patriots, had named him after the planeand later informed Raiden that, like his namesake, he was nothing more than a weapon, a tool to be discarded once its usefulness has been outlived.
One of Raiden's nicknames, Jack the Ripper, is a pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer in 1888 who was active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London.
You believe there's something else
To relieve your emptiness
And you dream about yourself
And you bleed and breathe the air
And it's on and on.. and on.. and on.. and on..
I just kinda died for you
You just kinda stared at me
We will always have the chance
We can do this one more time
Hell yeah, I remember aurora~
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# Comments
Comments: 33
I made a video from Metal Gear Rising! You should check it out here! It has spoilers from the game
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Taking slow, steady breaths to ensure maximum precision in her shot, Sniper Wolf cast her gaze down the scope of her PSG-1 Sniper Rifle, her blue eyes focused on nothing but her target.
Sniper Wolf, arguably the most deadly of snipers in the world and one of it's greatest assassins, was alive and breathing.
She had supposedly died in 2005 in the Shadow Moses incident, killed by the legendary soldier, Solid Snake. She remembered it clear as day... the falling snow, the sound of her own ragged breathing and the feeling of her own body shutting down. She had been perfectly content with dying right there, having realised her true motive was not to wait to kill people, but to wait for someone to kill her.
Yet it did not happen. Someone had saved her, she did not know who, or how, but they had resurrected her in a sense.
She had been lung shot, she should have been dead, but here she was, lying on her front on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan, waiting for yet another target.
Her savior had told her that to repay him for saving her life, she must kill again. Wolf had no intention of doing this, she didn't want to; she didn't kill for sport, but the man had threatened to exterminate the population of Wolf dogs on the Island of Shadow Moses. Her Wolf dogs, that had been able to survive on their own in the wild for seven years.
She couldn't let them die, so here she was, watching, waiting as long as she needed to for her target; a man named Raiden. She had seen the photos of him; A cyborg Ninja much like Gray Fox. He would be a difficult one.
She caught sight of him wandering below her and lined up the cross-hair of her gun and the laser sight, so she was aiming for the back of his head. Her finger slowly pulled back the trigger.
((Sorry about the wall 
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its been a while hasnt it?
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"Tell me Raiden... has anything new happened since you were gone?"
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a Black cloaked hooded figure looks at you as it rains* Raiden
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The disgruntled Snippy had traversed the wasteland long enough with his captain and comrades to ensure that after all this, he was going to put a bullet through his head, but the only thing that stopped him was the fact that he still had hope for finding that one someone that didn't have a scrambled brain. Someone that was actually sane. He carried a black SV-98 bolt action rifle with him, as he was appointed the sniper by 'Zee Captain'.
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Icarus walked quietly through the raining foggy streets, his hands in pockets and noticed a figure across from him. "...hmm..." Hesitating a little, he went ahead to call out. "hey! You alright over there?"
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Looks up rain dripping off his trench coat staying silent for a moment*,"...Yes I am fine."
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Father, you aren't mad about what I've become?
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*He sighed softly before looking down at her*"Why would I ever be mad at you for something like that?Alice..you're my daughter and I love you."
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*She smiled* Really? Thank you daddy...
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"Mhmm....of course I mean it..."He sighed softly smiling a tad.
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so.... i here your pretty good with a blade yes?
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.. care to test your skills?
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I suppose I can *Raises a brow reaching for his blade*
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(i take hold of mine)... ready?
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*Pulls his sword out*"..Yes."
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It's been a while hasn't it, what's up?
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Dad, would you approve if I wanted to join in the military with you?
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You really think that dad? You're serious?
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if you could have your humanity back... would you keep it.. or stay how you are now?.. before you ever got involved with any form of warfare?
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