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hi there! I just finished reading your bosselot fics and loved them! I wanted to ask if you would maybe share some personal headcanons? The way you write those two is awesome. Any tips on characterization? Sorry if this is too much to ask, you don't have to answer all of it! Good work anyway!

Hi!!! Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed them!! I don't know if I have much advice on characterisation but I can try to share a few headcanons and general waffle abt how I write them!

(also, just 2 let u know if u wanna send any more asks, I don't actually use this blog for fandom stuff! @lucky-draws is where i post my fics and art, so I prefer to receive asks related to my fics there! it's no worries to answer here for now of course but just for future reference! ✌️)

I'll answer under the cut in case it gets long:

I'm actually sort of struggling to pin down what kind of specific headcanons I should mention, I'm not sure how exactly to articulate my thoughts on these two, I've never written down a list of headcanons abt them lol but I'll try to give a few things:

- one kind of trivial headcanon i have that i usually use in my fics is bb calling ocelot 'major' as a nickname, i just sort of imagine that it's an ironic kind of nickname to them rather than a title, because they both know ocelot only got the rank of major at the ripe age of 20 because of his connection to the boss and the philosophers, so it's a sort of light-hearted dig at him for that.

(and it fits with them, because i don't think they're the types to have normal or cutesy terms of "endearment" or anything, with bosselot in general it's always about insults-veiled-as-flirting and flirting-veiled-as-insults and just general tough love in some ways jhjhjg you know?

- one very definite headcanon is that ocelot wears the bullet necklace like, all the time...im a big sucker for the idea that he keeps it throughout his whole horrible life

- i don't think they got "together"/hooked up until at least the late 60s; i headcanon, as a lot of people probably do, that ocelot went looking for big boss sort of very soon after snake eater, but their first few years mainly consisted of bb teaching ocelot CQC and probably deliberately ignoring any advances lmao because i think ocelot being a) 20 and b) the boss' son would have stopped bb from immediately reciprocating lmao

- i can see bb actually being the one to tell ocelot that the boss was his mother, since bb was the one who heard her talk about her child, and along with conversations from eva and the fact that ocelot is uh kind of the spitting image he would have pieced it together before ocelot realised or found out....idk how that conversation would go tho LOL

- i think the patriots era was sort of the happiest time for them - until less enfants terribles fucked everything up. i always imagine that despite their various differences, they also bring out a playfulness in each other that wouldn't ordinarily be there - i imagine the patriots era, and early msf days to an extent, were spent dicking around and generally having a relatively good time, as much it's possible in their lives anyway

- i think their personalities go well together, like i do see younger ocelot as actually very funny/sharp when he wants to be, and bb has a sort of dry humour that matches up to that. it's easy to think of big boss as this sullen, humourless tough guy character, and he does get more withdrawn as he gets older, but in that snake eater to early msf days era he really does have a sort of charm and a capacity to strike up a real banter with ocelot that bridges their age gap.

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In terms of tips on characterisation, I'm not sure what to say there. I don't feel like I can say "you should write bosselot like this", because everyone's interpretation of them is different? There's no single way to write them, and I take generous liberties with canon to sort of turn ocelot in my own version of ocelot in some aspects, anyway.

I see ocelot as this very sort of lone figure who's detached from everyone else; always on the outside, observing but never fully taking part; and actually it's fitting that big boss is kind of the same. I remember seeing a post on here where someone was comparing bb and snavid and comparing how snavid always listens to whatever ppl are going off about via codec, even if he isn't interested, whereas bb would always be more clearly disinterested in paramedics ramblings. They both claim to not be interested in other people's lives - but with bb it is actually true, whereas snavid as we see later actually does have far more of a heart. So yeah, with bosselot it really is a case of two toxic, horrible bastards making each other worse... xD

If you mean characterisation tips in general, I feel like I'm too new to fiction writing to give much good advice! xD But it's a question of little details, I think; how exactly a character performs a trivial action, the ways you describe the manner in which they speak and carry themselves to show that they're a dick, without actually explicitly saying to the reader 'he is a dick'. xD

Actually, writing from second person point of view, as I've done for the last couple of fics, is perhaps easier for really getting to a characters' thoughts and how they react to things, because it's really a stream of their consciousness. Having said that though, when it comes to the other characters in a 2nd person pov fic, you've got to rely on the kind of details that I just mentioned to show what they're like, since there are no inner thoughts from them - as well as reactions from the protagonist, but of course the protagonist's impression of other characters isn't necessarily going to be accurate...

Big Boss and Ocelot are both quite tricky characters to write well, actually; because it's easy to make them into cartoonish exaggerations of their already batshit canon selves, rather than something more believably realistic. Ocelot, with his ridiculous gun spinning and cowboy couture and flair for the dramatic and his tendency to always be behind some elaborate scheme, is very much a pantomime villain; but it's getting to the actual genuine, serious motivations and feelings behind him that is fascinating to explore.

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I think that's probably all I can coherently say for now, hopefully some of this made sense! Sorry if it wasn't that informative. And thank you again for dropping by, I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed my stuff. Hope you have a good day!! 💕

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