The shading is GODLY. Really pretty pic, great job~ <3

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"I can't help but think that the abuse of the dodge tool and overall generic composition to it all is vaguely reminiscent of you and your failure as a human being." ~ Vergil to Dante

Awesome. It looks like you got the clothing right, she's a kurd, so the headdress is fitting. My guess is that she was found sometime after the events of Portable Ops. Between MGS3 and MPO we know that BB has gone to different places, like how he went to fight in Mozambique and first saw Frank Jeager, but considering he had to find Wolf and bring her back with him to America, this kinda had to be after MPO. Which means that at this point Ocelot had probably already confronted him about joining the Patriots, but before the events of Outer Heaven, when BB was supposed dead.
so thats sometime between 1970 ish and 1995. A big gap. Also, neither Wolf never mentioned Fox like now Naomi did when she told her rescue story, so Wolf's rescue has a good chance of being sometime when Fox was not active in Foxhound, like when he was in Calgary with the Olympics with Natasha, so its like 1988-1995.
So she is easily the youngest of the Foxhound crew at the time of MGS

Thank you!

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Yeah, for Big Boss, I combined elements of his MGS: PO sneak suit and some of Solid Snake's from MGS2, just for fun ;D. I tried to make Wolf's garb somewhat traditional, but also a little modern, because her family couldn't be too picky while living in a war zone.

As for Wolf's age, that's something I've been trying to decipher. She talks about being born and raised in a prolonged conflict, which means she's probably a Kurd from Iraq (the Kurdish-Iraqi war lasting from 1961 to 1970). The other possible conflict, the PKK against the Turks was from 1984 to 1999, but that makes her too young since, as you point out, BB "dies" in 1995, and she would have to be at least in her twenties when she served under him.

This means she's actually older than she looks, but that makes more since than making her freakishly young. One of the things I like about MGS is that the characters are older than those in traditional anime/games. For me that makes their angst much more believable.

Anyway, I've thought way too much about this. I'm writing a fic, so I needed some background info ^_~.

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Well, just because the peace treaty is signed, doesn't mean the fighting is over. [link]

One of the things that I wondered was when she said "Every morning I would wake up to see a few more of my family members dead beside me." Which got me thinking, how could some just die next to her, and she didn't? Did they just continuously spare her life? If her family was fighting, how did they all die right next to her? The only weird explanation I can think of for something like this is that they weren't shot, but probably gassed, since Saddam did like testing his chemicals on the kurds. But you'd think that little kids are more prone to be affected by these chemicals too. If she was always really good at laying still for long periods, maybe that would also allow her to cope with lowering her breathing rate, and thus saver her over the others.

Well, if you look at the link, all the countries in the region hated the kurds. There are many instances of armed conflict, just pick one.

True, but what she describes is openly armed conflict rather than general oppression, which certainly occurred even in times of "peace."

I assumed her family's deaths occurred from a combination of shelling, former injuries, starvation and sickness. As you say, chemical weapons would affect children and older people before healthy adults. All I can think is that her family did everything in its power to protect her, and it cost them their lives.

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but I still think the fact that She doesnt talk about anyone except BB kinda implies that this probably took place sometime when Fox wasn't active, like in the olympics thing.

But with the family dying around her, especially when she woke up, it still seems as if its something other than a direct attack. I know at times she mentioned her rifle, which was probably a Dragunov at best. Maybe a G3, or maybe even some really old model

Hmm, see I always assumed she only became a sniper under Big Boss. Of course, I'd need to replay the parts with her again to remember why I assumed that, because I've got nothing as is .

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Your right. I just assumed that she was taken in because she could fight, but there is no mention of when she picked up the rifle except until after BB took her in.

"Then I could see war, not from the inside, but from the outside. ... the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle."