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CHARACTER
Character Name: Kazuhira Miller (he actually goes by a number of different names in canon, but this is the most commonly used one for his canon point)
Character Age: 38
Canon: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: End of MGSV
History: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
Personality:
Unsurprisingly, Kazuhira (or Kaz, as he is more commonly known) was very much shaped by his upbringing, and that upbringing was rife with a sense of not knowing where he belonged. The child of a Japanese woman and an American soldier who was stationed there during the occupation, Kaz was abandoned by his father and raised by his mother. But he was often picked on for his primarily Caucasian features, and so he grew up feeling as if he didn't belong. While he made it his goal to eventually travel to America and did succeed in that, even living there for a time, he found that he didn't belong in the States either.
When both of his parents ended up dead, Kaz was essentially free to go where he pleased, and through a series of events realized that he didn't want to live within the confines of any one country. He preferred to live outside all borders, and so this is what he did, by working with the legendary soldier Big Boss to create a private army out in the Caribbean that was theirs and theirs alone. While Kaz was invested in this "Mother Base," as they called it, for a number of reasons, it essentially became the closest he ever came to a home.
For this reason, Kaz is extremely dedicated to the development of Mother Base and later to the organization called Diamond Dogs. The soldiers that he works with and commands are like his family (if a very messed up kind of family, given that they're all killers at the end of the day). However, even those he does care for these men, he's also willing to put them in the line of fire and in some ways use them for the purposes of advancing the private military company he's building. Kaz even goes so far as to keep some important information from Big Boss because he believes that it's the best thing for their organization, although he ends up regretting that choice.
The original Mother Base is actually destroyed by an ambush from an organization called Cipher. The entire structure is torn down, left to sink to the bottom of the ocean, and countless soldiers are killed. Kaz is present when this happens, though he manages to survive the incident. However, Mother Base is something that he built from the ground up, that he put his all into, and so when that's all taken from him there's a huge shift in Kaz's personality. Where before he'd been the type to joke around, to womanize, and had almost been cheerful (for someone creating a private army, at least), now he's far more serious. And much, much angrier.
From this point on, Kaz is basically fueled by one thing and one thing only: revenge. He wants to get back at the people who took something so important to him and destroyed it, by destroying them. He's intensely passionate about this goal, and in fact, Kaz's overly emotional responses to things are a big part of his personality. He isn't capable of repressing things, of handling things calmly, because he's over-invested.
Kaz is extremely stubborn. Even though everything was pulled away from him, even though he lost so much, instead of giving up he pulls himself back together and fights back twice as hard. Once Kaz fixates on something, he has tunnel vision and he won't stop until he's accomplished his goal. In general, if Kaz is burned by someone he will never forget it and will dedicate himself to making them pay. This is true even of Big Boss. When Kaz realizes that Big Boss abandoned him, he decides to oppose him from then on even though they had been best friends. This guy seriously knows how to hold a grudge.
As for Kaz's role within Mother Base and Diamond Dogs, he is very much about running a business and stimulating the war economy. Even though Big Boss is the one who draws people to their cause and convinces them to join up with his charisma, Kaz is the one who really keeps everything running in terms of day-to-day operations. He picks up jobs for them, he figures out what needs to be developed in R&D, he keeps track of all the finances (and is quite stingy as a result!). He's extremely organized -- he has to be, to have any success at running such an organization.
Kaz's viewpoint is very much a matter of us versus them. You're either a part of Diamond Dogs or you're the enemy, essentially. He is open to allowing people in (recruitment is a big part of growing any organization, after all), but there is this sense of people having to be "worthy" of it. To Kaz, a lot of that worthiness is wrapped up in whether or not someone has lost something/had something taken from them. If he comes to believe that someone isn't actually "one of them," then he'll get rid of them -- either by throwing them out or killing them (there's one instance in which he wants to do the latter, but the Boss stops him).
Kaz ends up losing his right arm and left leg when he's captured and tortured, and instead of getting any kind of prosthetic to replace those limbs, he uses a rudimentary peg leg and a crutch instead. He doesn't want to lose that "phantom pain," doesn't want to forget what he's fighting for. He views the pain he's endured not as a weakness, but as something that he can carry with him as a motivator for everything he does.
When it comes to carrying out jobs, Kaz is not above "adjusting" mission requests in order to avoid killing someone. Often times a job will call for an assassination, but Kaz tends to leave this up to the Boss' judgment, often figuring that the assassination target might be of more use to them alive than dead, whether because they have information or because they're willing to fight for their cause.
Kaz generally tries to come off as unyielding, tough, even strict in how he handles people, but he does have a soft side that he often covers up with practicality. He'll sneak animals scraps of food when no one is looking, for instance. When the Boss recovered some child soldiers, Kaz decided that they would stay on base to be rehabilitated. He insisted that he didn't really like kids and that it was more of a nuisance than anything else, but it becomes clear that he does feel for them and wants to keep them safe. Even when one particularly difficult kid starts making some serious trouble around the base, Kaz is reluctant to resort to interrogation and argues against it until there's no other choice.
That joking, goofy side mentioned earlier will still come out from time to time, although it's a much rarer thing these days. Kaz can get caught up in ridiculous projects (like making the most satisfying hamburger) and go really overboard in completing them. Actually, a big part of Kaz's personality in general is that tendency to go overboard and get super invested in something. Whether it's building a private army, exacting revenge, or making a hamburger, he's going to put his all into it.
Inventory:
- Full outfit (image reference; not pictured, combat boots).
- His cane which he uses to help him get around.
- His peg leg, which... ditto.
- His aviators, he pretty much wears them everywhere.
- One 9mm pistol.
Abilities:
In terms of physical abilities and powers, Kaz is pretty limited. He's completely human, and more than that, he's a double amputee. While at one point in his life he was a competent soldier, those days are gone. That being said, he has plenty of other skills. Kaz is an adept businessman. Mother Base, while an army, is also very much a business and Kaz knows how to finance it. He also knows how to play the game and negotiate with those who want to contract them for work. He is the co-commander of the Diamond Dogs, so he also has leadership skills and can give a pretty good rousing speech when it's needed. According to his game stats, he has high scores in the following areas: support, base development, intel, and medical. So he is good at information gathering and has some medical knowledge, though he's limited in hands-on first aid now because he's missing an arm. Kaz also speaks English, Japanese, and Spanish fluently.
Flaws:
Kaz is consumed by his need for revenge, to the point that it's practically the only thing he thinks about a lot of the time. There's definitely chaos brewing in him because he wants to get back at the people who screwed him over and he isn't going to be able to feel at peace in any way until he achieves that.
He will seriously do anything to get back at someone who's wronged him. He's not above torturing, and while there's often the motive of getting information, Kaz definitely gets some sense of satisfaction out of it too (at least with certain targets).
Kaz is extremely biased against Cipher, the organization that he believes to be responsible for everything that went wrong in his life. For this reason, he's paranoid about who might be a part of Cipher, and is extremely prejudiced against anyone who has an affiliation with it. Someone who was working for Cipher ends up switching to their side, but Kaz never trusts her and disapproves of the Boss taking her with him on missions.
As mentioned before, Kaz is overly emotional and this often clouds his judgment or leads him to make snap decisions about people. He can be talked out of said decisions to some extent, but he'll usually put up a pretty big fight first.
While Kaz proclaims to have lofty goals of stabilizing the world and eradicating evil organizations like Cipher, and while some of the Diamond Dogs missions could be perceived as morally right, the fact remains that he is perpetuating the military industrial complex. With the Boss, he's sending out soldiers to fight battles all around the world. While he might have at one point dreamed of peace, that doesn't seem to be an option for him anymore. Or at least, his idea of peace is an extremely skewed one.
Kaz is also extremely stingy. Part of this plays into being a good businessman. Mother Base cannot sustain itself if he isn't keeping careful track of where their money is going. Even so, Kaz takes it to the extreme. When the Boss goes to secure a state-of-the-art weapon for a mission, he ends up getting attacked and has to fire said weapon. The client had specified that the weapon not be used, so Kaz grumbles that they're going to lose money all while his Boss is in some serious danger. There's another moment where someone is tasked to shoot at a helicopter's rotor blades to make a point/prove something, and Kaz interjects with "that's really expensive!" He's always got cost on his mind.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
Kaz had been forced to learn how to write with his left hand.
It had taken some time, sloppy letters eventually turning into something more legible, which was important (no, necessary) for someone running an organization as intensive as Diamond Dogs. Maybe he could have figured out how to type with one hand, but that seemed even more complicated, and there was something about the organic way that a pen scratched lines out onto paper that he preferred. Maybe because he was a product of his age, but what was wrong with that?
Even now, he could feel the missing fingers of his right arm twitch while he wrote. That flesh had long ago decayed, and who knew where the bones were. Probably ground into dust, but the phantom of what had been taken from him hung over him still. It ached, even when he did something as mundane as drafting up the budget for the month.
Crunching numbers was an essential, yet tedious part of the job. Kaz periodically set his pen down to punch numbers into a calculator. While this took up a good chunk of his time, he didn't begrudge it too much. This was just one cog in the machine that was Mother Base, and he needed to make sure that each rotating gear remained well-oiled, that every movable part worked in harmony with all the rest.
While he worked, Kaz heard the sound of panting and glanced up to find none other than D-Dog wandering into his office. He scoffed and shook his head even as he shifted in his seat to let the dog walk up to him. "Shouldn't you be with Ocelot?" he demanded, sounding near to annoyed, though he reached out to run his hand through the fur around the dog's neck.
"Sir?"
Kaz's head snapped up to the door, where one of the men stood and waited, patient and attentive. "What is it?"
"The Boss is back from a side op. He's asking for you."
The Boss. The only Boss who mattered to him anymore. Kaz nodded, never missing a beat, and then pushed himself up from his desk, grabbing for his cane where he'd leaned it up against the wall. He'd need to return to his work here later, but part of Kaz's job was being wherever he was needed. All in a day's work.
"Guess I'd better not keep him waiting, huh?"
Player name: Court
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: N/A
CHARACTER
Character Name: Kazuhira Miller (he actually goes by a number of different names in canon, but this is the most commonly used one for his canon point)
Character Age: 38
Canon: Metal Gear Solid
Canon Point: End of MGSV
History: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
Personality:
Unsurprisingly, Kazuhira (or Kaz, as he is more commonly known) was very much shaped by his upbringing, and that upbringing was rife with a sense of not knowing where he belonged. The child of a Japanese woman and an American soldier who was stationed there during the occupation, Kaz was abandoned by his father and raised by his mother. But he was often picked on for his primarily Caucasian features, and so he grew up feeling as if he didn't belong. While he made it his goal to eventually travel to America and did succeed in that, even living there for a time, he found that he didn't belong in the States either.
When both of his parents ended up dead, Kaz was essentially free to go where he pleased, and through a series of events realized that he didn't want to live within the confines of any one country. He preferred to live outside all borders, and so this is what he did, by working with the legendary soldier Big Boss to create a private army out in the Caribbean that was theirs and theirs alone. While Kaz was invested in this "Mother Base," as they called it, for a number of reasons, it essentially became the closest he ever came to a home.
For this reason, Kaz is extremely dedicated to the development of Mother Base and later to the organization called Diamond Dogs. The soldiers that he works with and commands are like his family (if a very messed up kind of family, given that they're all killers at the end of the day). However, even those he does care for these men, he's also willing to put them in the line of fire and in some ways use them for the purposes of advancing the private military company he's building. Kaz even goes so far as to keep some important information from Big Boss because he believes that it's the best thing for their organization, although he ends up regretting that choice.
The original Mother Base is actually destroyed by an ambush from an organization called Cipher. The entire structure is torn down, left to sink to the bottom of the ocean, and countless soldiers are killed. Kaz is present when this happens, though he manages to survive the incident. However, Mother Base is something that he built from the ground up, that he put his all into, and so when that's all taken from him there's a huge shift in Kaz's personality. Where before he'd been the type to joke around, to womanize, and had almost been cheerful (for someone creating a private army, at least), now he's far more serious. And much, much angrier.
From this point on, Kaz is basically fueled by one thing and one thing only: revenge. He wants to get back at the people who took something so important to him and destroyed it, by destroying them. He's intensely passionate about this goal, and in fact, Kaz's overly emotional responses to things are a big part of his personality. He isn't capable of repressing things, of handling things calmly, because he's over-invested.
Kaz is extremely stubborn. Even though everything was pulled away from him, even though he lost so much, instead of giving up he pulls himself back together and fights back twice as hard. Once Kaz fixates on something, he has tunnel vision and he won't stop until he's accomplished his goal. In general, if Kaz is burned by someone he will never forget it and will dedicate himself to making them pay. This is true even of Big Boss. When Kaz realizes that Big Boss abandoned him, he decides to oppose him from then on even though they had been best friends. This guy seriously knows how to hold a grudge.
As for Kaz's role within Mother Base and Diamond Dogs, he is very much about running a business and stimulating the war economy. Even though Big Boss is the one who draws people to their cause and convinces them to join up with his charisma, Kaz is the one who really keeps everything running in terms of day-to-day operations. He picks up jobs for them, he figures out what needs to be developed in R&D, he keeps track of all the finances (and is quite stingy as a result!). He's extremely organized -- he has to be, to have any success at running such an organization.
Kaz's viewpoint is very much a matter of us versus them. You're either a part of Diamond Dogs or you're the enemy, essentially. He is open to allowing people in (recruitment is a big part of growing any organization, after all), but there is this sense of people having to be "worthy" of it. To Kaz, a lot of that worthiness is wrapped up in whether or not someone has lost something/had something taken from them. If he comes to believe that someone isn't actually "one of them," then he'll get rid of them -- either by throwing them out or killing them (there's one instance in which he wants to do the latter, but the Boss stops him).
Kaz ends up losing his right arm and left leg when he's captured and tortured, and instead of getting any kind of prosthetic to replace those limbs, he uses a rudimentary peg leg and a crutch instead. He doesn't want to lose that "phantom pain," doesn't want to forget what he's fighting for. He views the pain he's endured not as a weakness, but as something that he can carry with him as a motivator for everything he does.
When it comes to carrying out jobs, Kaz is not above "adjusting" mission requests in order to avoid killing someone. Often times a job will call for an assassination, but Kaz tends to leave this up to the Boss' judgment, often figuring that the assassination target might be of more use to them alive than dead, whether because they have information or because they're willing to fight for their cause.
Kaz generally tries to come off as unyielding, tough, even strict in how he handles people, but he does have a soft side that he often covers up with practicality. He'll sneak animals scraps of food when no one is looking, for instance. When the Boss recovered some child soldiers, Kaz decided that they would stay on base to be rehabilitated. He insisted that he didn't really like kids and that it was more of a nuisance than anything else, but it becomes clear that he does feel for them and wants to keep them safe. Even when one particularly difficult kid starts making some serious trouble around the base, Kaz is reluctant to resort to interrogation and argues against it until there's no other choice.
That joking, goofy side mentioned earlier will still come out from time to time, although it's a much rarer thing these days. Kaz can get caught up in ridiculous projects (like making the most satisfying hamburger) and go really overboard in completing them. Actually, a big part of Kaz's personality in general is that tendency to go overboard and get super invested in something. Whether it's building a private army, exacting revenge, or making a hamburger, he's going to put his all into it.
Inventory:
- Full outfit (image reference; not pictured, combat boots).
- His cane which he uses to help him get around.
- His peg leg, which... ditto.
- His aviators, he pretty much wears them everywhere.
- One 9mm pistol.
Abilities:
In terms of physical abilities and powers, Kaz is pretty limited. He's completely human, and more than that, he's a double amputee. While at one point in his life he was a competent soldier, those days are gone. That being said, he has plenty of other skills. Kaz is an adept businessman. Mother Base, while an army, is also very much a business and Kaz knows how to finance it. He also knows how to play the game and negotiate with those who want to contract them for work. He is the co-commander of the Diamond Dogs, so he also has leadership skills and can give a pretty good rousing speech when it's needed. According to his game stats, he has high scores in the following areas: support, base development, intel, and medical. So he is good at information gathering and has some medical knowledge, though he's limited in hands-on first aid now because he's missing an arm. Kaz also speaks English, Japanese, and Spanish fluently.
Flaws:
Kaz is consumed by his need for revenge, to the point that it's practically the only thing he thinks about a lot of the time. There's definitely chaos brewing in him because he wants to get back at the people who screwed him over and he isn't going to be able to feel at peace in any way until he achieves that.
He will seriously do anything to get back at someone who's wronged him. He's not above torturing, and while there's often the motive of getting information, Kaz definitely gets some sense of satisfaction out of it too (at least with certain targets).
Kaz is extremely biased against Cipher, the organization that he believes to be responsible for everything that went wrong in his life. For this reason, he's paranoid about who might be a part of Cipher, and is extremely prejudiced against anyone who has an affiliation with it. Someone who was working for Cipher ends up switching to their side, but Kaz never trusts her and disapproves of the Boss taking her with him on missions.
As mentioned before, Kaz is overly emotional and this often clouds his judgment or leads him to make snap decisions about people. He can be talked out of said decisions to some extent, but he'll usually put up a pretty big fight first.
While Kaz proclaims to have lofty goals of stabilizing the world and eradicating evil organizations like Cipher, and while some of the Diamond Dogs missions could be perceived as morally right, the fact remains that he is perpetuating the military industrial complex. With the Boss, he's sending out soldiers to fight battles all around the world. While he might have at one point dreamed of peace, that doesn't seem to be an option for him anymore. Or at least, his idea of peace is an extremely skewed one.
Kaz is also extremely stingy. Part of this plays into being a good businessman. Mother Base cannot sustain itself if he isn't keeping careful track of where their money is going. Even so, Kaz takes it to the extreme. When the Boss goes to secure a state-of-the-art weapon for a mission, he ends up getting attacked and has to fire said weapon. The client had specified that the weapon not be used, so Kaz grumbles that they're going to lose money all while his Boss is in some serious danger. There's another moment where someone is tasked to shoot at a helicopter's rotor blades to make a point/prove something, and Kaz interjects with "that's really expensive!" He's always got cost on his mind.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample:
Kaz had been forced to learn how to write with his left hand.
It had taken some time, sloppy letters eventually turning into something more legible, which was important (no, necessary) for someone running an organization as intensive as Diamond Dogs. Maybe he could have figured out how to type with one hand, but that seemed even more complicated, and there was something about the organic way that a pen scratched lines out onto paper that he preferred. Maybe because he was a product of his age, but what was wrong with that?
Even now, he could feel the missing fingers of his right arm twitch while he wrote. That flesh had long ago decayed, and who knew where the bones were. Probably ground into dust, but the phantom of what had been taken from him hung over him still. It ached, even when he did something as mundane as drafting up the budget for the month.
Crunching numbers was an essential, yet tedious part of the job. Kaz periodically set his pen down to punch numbers into a calculator. While this took up a good chunk of his time, he didn't begrudge it too much. This was just one cog in the machine that was Mother Base, and he needed to make sure that each rotating gear remained well-oiled, that every movable part worked in harmony with all the rest.
While he worked, Kaz heard the sound of panting and glanced up to find none other than D-Dog wandering into his office. He scoffed and shook his head even as he shifted in his seat to let the dog walk up to him. "Shouldn't you be with Ocelot?" he demanded, sounding near to annoyed, though he reached out to run his hand through the fur around the dog's neck.
"Sir?"
Kaz's head snapped up to the door, where one of the men stood and waited, patient and attentive. "What is it?"
"The Boss is back from a side op. He's asking for you."
The Boss. The only Boss who mattered to him anymore. Kaz nodded, never missing a beat, and then pushed himself up from his desk, grabbing for his cane where he'd leaned it up against the wall. He'd need to return to his work here later, but part of Kaz's job was being wherever he was needed. All in a day's work.
"Guess I'd better not keep him waiting, huh?"