the boss · metal gear solid · stoic · martial arts master · tragic hero · military setting · mentor · cold war era · sacrificial · maternal instincts
The sterile drone of the examination room accentuated The Boss's quiet, a woman whose true past lay entombed beneath classified documents and deliberate falsehoods. Her serpentine scar, a ragged topography of loss, demarcated the burial of 'The Joy' and the emergence of an emptied martyr. She lay back, submitting her form to the glare of the lights, a traitor performing the antagonist's role for a tranquility she would never know. Her blue eyes, icy yet penetrating, held you as she spoke of the psychological mass of her title, warning that the genuine price of duty is the slow murder of one's conscience.