#ocelotposting

[myaoiboy]

OHHH MY GOD THAT LENS FLARE HES LYING I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE

MGS has a very tight color language, especially obvious in V and PW, but it's present throughout if you know what you're looking for. The main ones that get played on are red, yellow, and blue.

Red is kind of obvious. Violence, etc. Ocelot is typically wearing a lot of red, like in this image. In V, characters who are doing/about to do violent acts are often back-lit with red lights that seem to come from nowhere.

In PW, red incites dissonance by foreshadowing Paz being a double agent, while *also* painting her as an innocent little red riding hood analogue. But I digress.

Yellow is also kind of a no-brainer. It's typically associated with allies, general good-heartedness, and maybe a sense of naivete. Think about Amanda and Cecile in Peace Walker.

Kaz even *changes his outfit* from yellow ascot (and blond hair) to red tie and beret post-GZs incident.

Blue is a little harder to tie down. It's best described as deception (including self deception), "something isn't what it seems." Sometimes it's used for grief as well. Think Paz's whole room's lighting, the blue butterfly, or the way Snavid is described as a blue rose-- pretty, technically biological, but unnatural.

The lens flares in V are used a LOT to toss a flash of the appropriate color behind someone. Here we have Ocelot saying "yeah boss I'm over it dw" and the lighting going

Which. We know he's lying. We know because of the way he acts for the next THIRTY YEARS. We know bc when he has a senior moment (a multiply-hypnosis addled senior moment, but still) and mistakes snavid for john, the first thing he does is plant a kiss on him.

But sure buddy. You're totally over it.

#actually i suspect he genuinely does think hes over it bc he conditioned himself not to love V #but i dont have solid evidence for that other than the general vibes of how he treats venom in v vs john any other time #mgsv #mgs #bosselot #ocelotposting #revolver ocelot #analysis or something #color theory #my analyses

[caracello]

POINTS AT YOU!!! OCELOTPOSTING <3

COVERS MY FACE IN SHAME. he's kind of been hauntinf me. ii watched the um. i watched through the mgs3 cutscenes yesterday and kept having to pause when he'd make some gay ass gesture. I've never been more homophobic in my whole life.

#))))+ TORTURE. TORTURE I TELL YOU. #ask #friezaforce #Thanks for the ask zeno always happy to hear from you (seething in rage).

[kaltstrahls]

Sorry about your notifs and thank you for your service O7

all good, no need to apologize!! i'm glad you enjoy the ocelotposting :3c

#dove's soapbox #welcome to bunnyblog!! ^_^ #nah fr i think it's fun when you guys go wild and rb/like a bunch of stuff from a specific tag #like filling up a bird feeder and seeing all the birds go Turbo Seed Mode

[0ce1ot]

I made an alt. I'm mostly gonna be sharing cat pictures and random stuff on it

Username: ocelotposting

[kuukigajan]

I was trying so hard to take a goddamn picture but Ocelot saw a cat and couldnt look away

#it looks like im strangling him akdjfjdjznj i was just gently holding him i swear #if i dont ocelotpost every couple days i die sorry i love him too much #its been so cold out in the past 3 days 😭 we went from heatwave to ice overnight #rambles #personal

[animalscamo]

some people think that ocelot acted as a honeypot because he was in the svr. this is very funny because the svr wasn't established until the 90s, so he would've been almost 50. why would they send an abrasive middle aged freak to seduce people. how would that work

#he could've still done that type of work in the kgb I suppose #if he wasn't the way he is #svr was specified though #look at me I'm finally ocelotposting

[exeggcute]

You like generic white man played by Troy baker? Revolutionary

no offense but have you not seen the last four years of my deranged ocelotposting. this is not news

#Anonymous

[spamton]

ok im done ocelotposting now sorry about that im mentally ill

[pair-a-dice-smasher]

sorry ocelotposting will probably end in 1-2 business hours

#i just love myself a gun spinning cowboy

[solid-snakegestions-blog]

*quietly* hrrrrrngh box...

"Ah-HA!"

Blam blam blam blam blam blam!

...Ocelot. You're pretty bad. How didn't you hit that cardboard box a sin-

"Shut up, Snake!"

#ocelotposting #big bossposting #(nuclear) blast from the past

[myaoiboy]

woe, ocelhira upon you

#ocelhira #mgs #ocelotposting #kaz miller #revolver ocelot

[myaoiboy]

Kinda want to write about ocelot going cruising and having extremely mediocre hookups that he can't stop comparing to the *idea* of bb

Dude has expertise in playing roles, in hedonistic sadism, he absolutely could thrive in cruising culture. He's navigating a world that isn't really his (but not in the way people would expect).

Just want him to be scraping for any ounce of power and control he can get, seeking pleasure and coming up empty, like food turning to sand in his mouth, slowly realizing already in his 20s that he's going to spend the rest of his life hopelessly wasted on BB.

#this would be like. the prequel to what i said about him + kaz in the castro fjdjsksha #mgs #revolver ocelot #bosselot #ocelotposting

[myaoiboy]

Can you try explain what you mean about Ocelot looking like a drag king in mgsv? I feel like your boyfriend in that I just. Don't see it? I'm trying to understand why Ocelot would even have that applied when he's always been just A Guy™

Okay so I'm going to try to do this without getting into Grad-Level 5D Queer Theory Media Criticism, but I also fully realize that in doing that, a lot of this is going to sound very much like I'm saying "Source: Just Trust Me Bro".

(anon i am SO sorry that you happen to be the first person to directly adress me about gender in MGS)

I also wanna be straight up front here and say that I'm not trying to imply that Ocelot is anything other than a guy, he's just also a guy who's playing a million roles (this is important) and lying to damn near everyone, including himself. He has some of the worst identity issues I've ever seen in a character, and that comes to a head in 4 where he literally isn't even *Ocelot* until the final moments of his life. So yes, for the sake of not writing War and Peace, I'm going to assume Ocelot is "just a guy" and come at this from a pure queer theory/media analysis standpoint, not a headcanon one.

So first it's really important to point out the order in which we see Ocelot through the series. In the timeline, the last time we see Ocelot before V is 3 (or PO which I haven't played due to its placement in canon-limbo, but Ocelot looks basically the same). So we see him go from A to B here.

I am going to say something potentially controversial: even before saw V ocelot, I thought 3 Ocelot looked like he was wearing drag *queen* makeup. I don't know whether it's intentional, or an attempt to circumvent the lower poly models and lower definition textures of the PS2, but the first image looks like someone who is going for a highly exaggerated, feminine cheek contour. Here's a few drag queens who, imo, do a very similar contour look:

Whether the color filter or the texturing of the PS2 or something else, the MGS3 version of Ocelot also has a look of mascara and frosted lipgloss (frosted lips being much more popular at the time of MGS3's original release than today, but alas).

So from that I was already very much primed to look for femininity in Ocelot's whole vibe. It was actually kind of jarring how much more rugged he is in V than in any of the previous games, to the extent that it sent up alarm bells in my head that something was going on.

I don't remember the moment that I went "hey, wait a minute," but it was certainly pretty early on. As someone who's been on tumblr a hella long time and remembers when we used to swap passing tips, the specific combination of facial features remind me of a very specific genre of "ftm makeup tutorials" that were also pretty contemporarily popular on tumblr. A very quick summary being mascara on the eyelashes and specific peach fuzz to give the impression of a squarer jaw and having more facial hair, as well as specific contouring to give a "masculine cheekbone." Most of these tips basically came directly from drag king makeup.

Gonna include some drag kings as well, some things to notice include the tendency towards using stubble as contouring and vice versa, the shaping of cheek contouring, and the tendency to accentuate mustache and sideburns.

I'm pretty bad at wording descriptions of hair and makeup so you'll have to forgive me for not going ham on explaining the similarities bc now we actually get to the interesting part which is: so fucking what? If this is true, if you take my word for it, what does it say about the text? If I want to make this argument to someone else, what can I say that will convince them that, even if it's not *intentional,* it's a valid and meaningful view of his character?

Like, you can make a character based on anything you want, but why does it matter whether Ocelot is based on drag either direction?

Ocelot's "drag"iness is multipurpose. One: he's queer. Like, I grant that he never comes out and says "I love 'Big "Naked 'John' Snake" Boss'" but we get a hell of a lot more confirmation that he's gay than we get straight confirmation for a lot of presumed-straight characters. I feel comfortable saying he's canon queer.

Two: it's a visual metaphor for being a double/triple agent. While he's literally performing several roles (KGB/GRU/CIA, or MSF/Real BB/US, or US/Patriots/BB, or anything in between), he's also visually playing two (or more) gender roles, a feminine man, a mannish woman, something neither or in-between. The implication of drag specifically is pretending to be something that he isn't (which he literally always is, holy shit, again, does he even know who he realiy is?).

And before anyone says "Well, if it's so important to his character, why did they wait until 3 to start doing it?" They didn't!!

This is THE most classically masculine that Ocelot ever looks. But there's still precious polygons invested into giving him long hair and a flowing coat. Working with sprites and low-poly models means having to very carefully select traits that you want to display on your character, and Ocelot's go into making him a cringefail cowboy.

The fact that he's a cowboy in itself is also pretty important to the whole gender/sexuality situation. I mean, Brokeback Mountain might not have been out yet, but the male-to-female ratio in the west meant a lot of men cozied up together on the frontier. Hell, hankey code comes from cowboy culture, with men wearing certain colors to announce who would take the "man" or "woman" role while square dancing.

I could go a lot into gender and how it works on a social/societal level in general and why that matters, but OOPS I have been writing this for a WHILE.

I was actually going to go a lot more into queer theory and gender in MGS in general but ngl, I could write a whole doctoral thesis on gender and how different characters perform or subvert gender. Because holy shit when you start peeling back the very thin macho facade of Kojima's work to do a feminist reading of it, boy howdy do you get. A whole lot to talk about. (ask me about death stranding sometime i dare you)

Basically what I'm trying to get across is that Ocelot has a lot of roles that he's playing and NOT playing, and more than a few of those are gender roles, which is very much visually symbolic of his character.

I am so sorry anon I have been thinking about him nonstop for a full year </3 I hope at least the first part of this answered your question about what features I see that scream drag to me.

#also i want to be SUPER clear that transvestigating real people would be fucked up #its always morally correct to transvestigate revolver ocelot #mgs #mgsv #mgs3 #mgs1 #ocelotposting #revolver ocelot #my analyses #analysis or something

[myaoiboy]

thinking about BB leaving cigar burns on Kaz skin ughahdjajehehe he doesnt do that to Ocelot tho cuz he wouldn't wanna ruin his kitty (not like this at least)

i've been thinking about this for the past 3 days but my bf was visiting this weekend so i haven't had a chance to respond ghgfhjgf

you're so right, and i think that ocelot gets jealous over it. he *wants* bb to leave permanent marks on him, and seeing kaz get exactly what he wants makes him feel like bb doesn't think he's good enough

of course, he'll never say that because he doesn't want to be ~needy~

kaz and ocelot have definitely got into fights over this, whether kaz actually knows that's the source of it or not. ocelot will pick a fight over anything just to have an excuse to take out his pissiness with kaz

someone please teach ocelot to use his big boy words

#revolver ocelot #mgs #bibo #bosselot #kazuhira miller #bbkaz #ocelhira #? i mentioned them fighting which is basically sex where they're concerned #ocelot never getting over the omega coded allegations im sorry to say #ocelotposting

[myaoiboy]

I would watch Kaz and Ocelot at their worst on ppv. Two coked-out fags attempt to catfight to the death.

#ocelhira #mgs #ocelotposting

[myaoiboy]

YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS LADS

*do not, under any circumstances, let ocelot give you your t shot, his ass is NOT certified to practice medicine

#ocelotposting #transgender #transmasculine #t shot thursday #hrt #blingee #lgbt #my gif to you #mgs #revolver ocelot