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   jack is dead by kaijusalad

   Fandoms: Metal Gear (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   23 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Major Character Death
   • Big Boss & The Boss (Metal Gear)
   • minor boss/strangelove
   • minor boss/sorrow
   • Big Boss (Metal Gear)
   • The Boss (Metal Gear)
   • Ocelot (Metal Gear)
   • The Sorrow (Metal Gear)
   • Dr. Strangelove (Metal Gear)
   • Character Study
   • Trans Male Character
   • Canonical Character Death
   • a study in transgenderism but also in womanhood
   • inaccurate depictions of US military interventions
   • and also being trans in the 50s
   • big boss implied to be autistic
   • playing fast and loose with canon
   • 'you could never be this' vs 'you could never be anything but this'
   • the boss is kind of like if jesus was a woman
   • is doomed transmasculinity a thing
   • written entirely in italics for some reason
   • not referring to the boss by name for artistic reasons

   Summary

   They meet in Nevada, 1951.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   12,924

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   5

   Kudos:

   38

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

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