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OOC INFORMATION
NAME: Glazed
AGE: I'm a bitter old hag
PREFERRED CONTACT: Discord: glazedmacguffin#2809
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A
IC INFORMATION
NAME: Kazuhira Miller | McDonell Benedict Miller
AGE: 28
CANON: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
CANON POINT: After Peace Walker, Before Ground Zeroes
CANON INFORMATION: Metal Gear Wiki
PERSONALITY:
Kazuhira Miller is the sort of man that is very meticulous about the image he puts forth and wants anyone to see. He stands proudly, either with military discipline while being formal or with confident ease while informal. His clothes are just the perfect amount of disheveled to look casual and comfortable, sleeves rolled up or shirt just a little undone, but also carefully arranged to make him retain an air of professionalism. It's all a very targeted effort to make everyone respect his rigorous standards and simultaneously show off how simple it is for him to meet them.
His English can range from an average East Coast casual (generic American accent) to formal, having been educated at an American Ivy League school and by an American father that he wanted to impress. His Japanese, though, is thuggish. He was raised in a low-brow slum of Yokosuka, in an area clogged with cheap shops and prostitution and frequented by the soldiers from the nearby base. When referring to Big Boss he uses tough guy terms in Japanese, same as with his mother. (Though if he talks about her in his sleep, he calls her Kaasan, the more childish name. In translations he'll call her "my mother" in English and "Mom" in his sleep.)
Generally he's a little egotistical. As mentioned before he stands tall, takes pride in his appearance, and he almost always wears a cocky expression. When he's not guilty or concerned that is, things he can hide behind his everpresent glasses (which also hide eyes that were specifically designed to be "cute"). His smiles are a little smug and he has a bit of a swagger to his walk. When out on the beach he has no shame in his physique, he'll gladly wear a pair of black bikini style briefs rather than swim trunks and even pose for a camera to show off. This is reflected in his resentment for his ruined body later in life.
Kaz suffers a unique brand of dogged determination that few can match. When his mother became ill he ran their small store all on his own when he was only ten years old. He was in his early teens when he put her in a hospital and went to America, meaning he had to learn another language fluently and very quickly to avoid the rampant discrimination of the era (not that it doesn't exist now, but at the time there were immigration laws in place that specifically targeted Asians and Hispanics, and they were in place for a very long time).
When he was in Colombia, he learned to become a drill sergeant after a very short period of time and started his own business, leading a group of rebels in Colombia and training them in guerrilla tactics. Big Boss attacked his unit, captured him as the only survivor, and strong-armed him into joining the MSF (though Kaz convinced himself that it was an equal partnership rather than something he had little control over). He wouldn't even agree to join after Big Boss threatened to have him tortured if he didn't do so. He still made the other man beat him in a number of challenges and then attempted to run off into the jungle. Even after being beaten, he said that he refused to accept that he lost.
This is a trait he never shakes. In the future he would sit for ten days without an arm and a leg without adequate medical treatment and subjected to interrogations, waiting for rescue and surviving with the confidence he would be saved. He will rebuild the start of his base on his own and claw a business out along the coast. When he trains Solid Snake, he drills the same ideas into his head. Sweat and tears results in less GAME OVERS.
Literally.
His advice in actual dialog breaks the fourth wall. When giving instructions as part of a tutorial or even as advice he'll tell people to push an action button or press down on a stick or something similar, or even to make sure you drink enough before playing a video game. Note: This is all something I rarely refer to, but will occasionally use as a joke whenever the other party seems okay with it happening.
He likes intelligent and confident partners and is usually attracted to those with an athletic physique. While his preferences are to ones that are also tidy with good hygiene he can also be susceptible to the crude, rude, careless sort. Cecile, one of the women he was especially taken with, was an ornithologist who found his love of urban life and boyish behavior annoying (she called him a "pest"). In contrast Snake often grew weary of Kaz's insistence that he behave at least somewhat responsibly or politely.
He's definitely a flirt either in idle conversation or directly approach people with the intent to hook up. He did like to seduce women, especially those with boyfriends, half because he enjoyed the sex and half because he liked being argued over. Though he no longer does this because it was literally beaten out of him. He likes a little domination in his life, not just romantically but given direction by someone who can tell him what to do. Living on his own (like when he first left Japan) had him wandering aimlessly through Central America. Only in serving Big Boss or his desperate searches for revenge later in life have helped him find a place to settle, not so much physically but mentally.
He dislikes people that are obviously suspicious or he knows to be untrustworthy. As much as he is sneaky himself he dislikes them in that same way he doesn't like who he is, either. For all his smugness he does have guilt for his decisions, enough that he admitted to his subterfuge in taking advantage of Cipher and Zero's spying so that Big Boss would know. He told him what his role had been and what their position was after the fact. Later on in life he would deeply resent his choices altogether and want to take on the pain of his mistakes and the losses they led to. Currently he's still under the impression that his loyalty and service to Big Boss will make up for his trickery in pretending to play along with Zero.
He's a big joker. One moment he can genuinely be checking up on a young woman and making sure the male soldiers haven't been rude to her, the next be drunk and up on a table and mooning the entire party. He found out Big Boss's name was Naked Snake and made fun of him (caveat being if Big Boss dons his swim trunks during a mission he'll frantically yell for him to dress respectably or else he and the staff will have to get naked too). Another fussy trait is that he dislikes strong smells and disgusting food, hating when he catches Snake badly cooking or scarfing down meat that's dangerously raw, or the time they were in a cardboard box together and he gave away their position complaining about the way it smelled like onions.
Kazuhira is ambitious and an opportunist. His goals are simple: to not die a pauper, to not die in someone else's war, to create a home for soldiers and to make the world one alongside his business partner. If he earns a little money while doing it? What's the harm in that? He dwells on the fact war ruined both his father and his mother, that she grew sick and died because of the sacrifices she had to make to survive and he committed suicide because he felt like the war left him with nothing.
He's not amoral. Even in the future when he claims to care only for revenge, he's deeply concerned for the plight of war orphans and child soldiers, sobs when his brothers in arms die, becomes attached to an old scientist who fills the paternal role he always wanted. His younger self is very fixated on treating the men on the base like people. They have a cat as a mascot, play soccer/football to work out their differences, have a monthly birthday party in which everyone with birthdays that month can celebrate. He doesn't generally want civilians to be involved with their conflicts, or want injured soldiers forced out onto the battlefield.
He definitely has his amoral qualities, however. Give him a job to assign and he'll give it to Snake and will give him little direction on how it's to be conducted concerning lethality. This can mean slaughter or no kills at all, though his preference is mostly for stealth and low property damage. He compliments a job well done mostly judging for time and the number of times Snake is sighted or combat is engaged/troops are alerted in general, but will also take headshots and speed/efficiency into consideration. He loves money and will focus on sales and material acquisition more strongly than he will on the political importance of their targets. Even if it's in the interest of his soldiers as much as it is for him, and even though he picked up the knack for commerce as security during his childhood at his mother's store, the point still stands that money is a focus.
As of this point in time, he still believes that spies can be used as information contacts, and those he usually prefers to have taken alive during a mission. Even though later (the gradual shift will be just beginning at the canon point I'm taking him from), he'll just want them dead so the mistakes of the past can't repeat themselves.
ABILITIES:
Physical
As a former member of the JSDF, Miller is a trained fighter. He faced Big Boss (one of the toughest fighters in the world at his time) and held his own for some time. He knows CQC and is fast enough to disarm people.
Management
Having learned to run a business so young in life has made him develop an exceptional business sense. He maintains the books and staff management on motherbase when not interfered with by Big Boss. He conducts most of the MSFs sales and later will be able to finance the initial rebuilding of a base. He also excels at information dispatch and assisting in combat deployment.
Intelligence
Miller can fluently speak English and Spanish, though his native language is Japanese. He is well read in war tactics, principles, particular military structures for each country, and nuclear regulations as of 1984. He's a huge fan of individuals like Che Guevara (who he saw Big Boss as resembling when he was younger) and citing his book "Guerrilla Warfare", T.E. Lawrence, Mao Zedong, General Sandino, and Kusunoki Masashige. He's also well-versed in survival tactics, able to make use of rudimentary items to solve complex situations. Think MacGuyver levels of improvisation.
Trainer
Miller's form of training is ruthless but efficient. He was known as "Master Miller" when he ran drills in Colombia, is trusted with the task of driving every MSF department to improvement, and even going so far as being the "Hellmaster" when he trains agents of Foxhound (including Solid Snake).
INVENTORY:
Aviator Sunglasses
MSF uniform
Tranquilizer pistol (not useful underwater)
MEMORY ALTERATION: Kaz remembers someone coming to him and threatening to take his base with considerable evidence that they could do so. So he agrees to go along with it.
SAMPLE: Test Drive Thread
NAME: Glazed
AGE: I'm a bitter old hag
PREFERRED CONTACT: Discord: glazedmacguffin#2809
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A
IC INFORMATION
NAME: Kazuhira Miller | McDonell Benedict Miller
AGE: 28
CANON: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
CANON POINT: After Peace Walker, Before Ground Zeroes
CANON INFORMATION: Metal Gear Wiki
PERSONALITY:
"Sorry Snake, I can't see anything in front of me."
"Of course you can't! You're wearing sunglasses inside a dark cardboard box."
Kazuhira Miller is the sort of man that is very meticulous about the image he puts forth and wants anyone to see. He stands proudly, either with military discipline while being formal or with confident ease while informal. His clothes are just the perfect amount of disheveled to look casual and comfortable, sleeves rolled up or shirt just a little undone, but also carefully arranged to make him retain an air of professionalism. It's all a very targeted effort to make everyone respect his rigorous standards and simultaneously show off how simple it is for him to meet them.
His English can range from an average East Coast casual (generic American accent) to formal, having been educated at an American Ivy League school and by an American father that he wanted to impress. His Japanese, though, is thuggish. He was raised in a low-brow slum of Yokosuka, in an area clogged with cheap shops and prostitution and frequented by the soldiers from the nearby base. When referring to Big Boss he uses tough guy terms in Japanese, same as with his mother. (Though if he talks about her in his sleep, he calls her Kaasan, the more childish name. In translations he'll call her "my mother" in English and "Mom" in his sleep.)
Generally he's a little egotistical. As mentioned before he stands tall, takes pride in his appearance, and he almost always wears a cocky expression. When he's not guilty or concerned that is, things he can hide behind his everpresent glasses (which also hide eyes that were specifically designed to be "cute"). His smiles are a little smug and he has a bit of a swagger to his walk. When out on the beach he has no shame in his physique, he'll gladly wear a pair of black bikini style briefs rather than swim trunks and even pose for a camera to show off. This is reflected in his resentment for his ruined body later in life.
"Not to brag or anything, but I'd kick ass at whatever job you gave me. Put me in the area you want to focus on developing most. I'll take real good care of the staff there."
Kaz suffers a unique brand of dogged determination that few can match. When his mother became ill he ran their small store all on his own when he was only ten years old. He was in his early teens when he put her in a hospital and went to America, meaning he had to learn another language fluently and very quickly to avoid the rampant discrimination of the era (not that it doesn't exist now, but at the time there were immigration laws in place that specifically targeted Asians and Hispanics, and they were in place for a very long time).
When he was in Colombia, he learned to become a drill sergeant after a very short period of time and started his own business, leading a group of rebels in Colombia and training them in guerrilla tactics. Big Boss attacked his unit, captured him as the only survivor, and strong-armed him into joining the MSF (though Kaz convinced himself that it was an equal partnership rather than something he had little control over). He wouldn't even agree to join after Big Boss threatened to have him tortured if he didn't do so. He still made the other man beat him in a number of challenges and then attempted to run off into the jungle. Even after being beaten, he said that he refused to accept that he lost.
This is a trait he never shakes. In the future he would sit for ten days without an arm and a leg without adequate medical treatment and subjected to interrogations, waiting for rescue and surviving with the confidence he would be saved. He will rebuild the start of his base on his own and claw a business out along the coast. When he trains Solid Snake, he drills the same ideas into his head. Sweat and tears results in less GAME OVERS.
Literally.
His advice in actual dialog breaks the fourth wall. When giving instructions as part of a tutorial or even as advice he'll tell people to push an action button or press down on a stick or something similar, or even to make sure you drink enough before playing a video game. Note: This is all something I rarely refer to, but will occasionally use as a joke whenever the other party seems okay with it happening.
"Hey, Snake. I heard they gave you your old code name because you used to run around with your shirt off. Is that true?"
He likes intelligent and confident partners and is usually attracted to those with an athletic physique. While his preferences are to ones that are also tidy with good hygiene he can also be susceptible to the crude, rude, careless sort. Cecile, one of the women he was especially taken with, was an ornithologist who found his love of urban life and boyish behavior annoying (she called him a "pest"). In contrast Snake often grew weary of Kaz's insistence that he behave at least somewhat responsibly or politely.
He's definitely a flirt either in idle conversation or directly approach people with the intent to hook up. He did like to seduce women, especially those with boyfriends, half because he enjoyed the sex and half because he liked being argued over. Though he no longer does this because it was literally beaten out of him. He likes a little domination in his life, not just romantically but given direction by someone who can tell him what to do. Living on his own (like when he first left Japan) had him wandering aimlessly through Central America. Only in serving Big Boss or his desperate searches for revenge later in life have helped him find a place to settle, not so much physically but mentally.
He dislikes people that are obviously suspicious or he knows to be untrustworthy. As much as he is sneaky himself he dislikes them in that same way he doesn't like who he is, either. For all his smugness he does have guilt for his decisions, enough that he admitted to his subterfuge in taking advantage of Cipher and Zero's spying so that Big Boss would know. He told him what his role had been and what their position was after the fact. Later on in life he would deeply resent his choices altogether and want to take on the pain of his mistakes and the losses they led to. Currently he's still under the impression that his loyalty and service to Big Boss will make up for his trickery in pretending to play along with Zero.
He's a big joker. One moment he can genuinely be checking up on a young woman and making sure the male soldiers haven't been rude to her, the next be drunk and up on a table and mooning the entire party. He found out Big Boss's name was Naked Snake and made fun of him (caveat being if Big Boss dons his swim trunks during a mission he'll frantically yell for him to dress respectably or else he and the staff will have to get naked too). Another fussy trait is that he dislikes strong smells and disgusting food, hating when he catches Snake badly cooking or scarfing down meat that's dangerously raw, or the time they were in a cardboard box together and he gave away their position complaining about the way it smelled like onions.
"We know only how to fight... but we refuse to live our lives at the whim of the state. The MSF seal is patterned after Pangaea, the supercontinent from 250 million years ago. Back then, the whole world was one landmass. One world. No gaps, no rifts."
Kazuhira is ambitious and an opportunist. His goals are simple: to not die a pauper, to not die in someone else's war, to create a home for soldiers and to make the world one alongside his business partner. If he earns a little money while doing it? What's the harm in that? He dwells on the fact war ruined both his father and his mother, that she grew sick and died because of the sacrifices she had to make to survive and he committed suicide because he felt like the war left him with nothing.
He's not amoral. Even in the future when he claims to care only for revenge, he's deeply concerned for the plight of war orphans and child soldiers, sobs when his brothers in arms die, becomes attached to an old scientist who fills the paternal role he always wanted. His younger self is very fixated on treating the men on the base like people. They have a cat as a mascot, play soccer/football to work out their differences, have a monthly birthday party in which everyone with birthdays that month can celebrate. He doesn't generally want civilians to be involved with their conflicts, or want injured soldiers forced out onto the battlefield.
"We have to be strong, strong enough to defend ourselves. We need money, too - money to train soldiers to fight. The way I see it, we make MSF into something along the lines of a new kind of business. A contractor providing the full range of military services."
He definitely has his amoral qualities, however. Give him a job to assign and he'll give it to Snake and will give him little direction on how it's to be conducted concerning lethality. This can mean slaughter or no kills at all, though his preference is mostly for stealth and low property damage. He compliments a job well done mostly judging for time and the number of times Snake is sighted or combat is engaged/troops are alerted in general, but will also take headshots and speed/efficiency into consideration. He loves money and will focus on sales and material acquisition more strongly than he will on the political importance of their targets. Even if it's in the interest of his soldiers as much as it is for him, and even though he picked up the knack for commerce as security during his childhood at his mother's store, the point still stands that money is a focus.
As of this point in time, he still believes that spies can be used as information contacts, and those he usually prefers to have taken alive during a mission. Even though later (the gradual shift will be just beginning at the canon point I'm taking him from), he'll just want them dead so the mistakes of the past can't repeat themselves.
ABILITIES:
Physical
Management
Intelligence
Trainer
INVENTORY:
MEMORY ALTERATION: Kaz remembers someone coming to him and threatening to take his base with considerable evidence that they could do so. So he agrees to go along with it.
SAMPLE: Test Drive Thread