So you know how if you spend enough time in timefall your suit will start looking all messed up? I just had it happen, as I was farming BTs for chiralium and it led me down a path of thinking so radical, so dangerous that I can't help but ponder it into the late hours of the night.
Imagine for a moment if your suit, like so many other pieces of your equipment, could degrade over time, and eventually be damaged. Of course you must have a suit on to protect your thick yet fragile body from the dangers of the wretched rain eating away at your precious time on this earth, slowly turning you into a walking, talking shadow of a man who is in fact no man at all, but a raisin, with a face. This could lead to tense situations if you stay in the rain too long. A constant clock ticking away.
I imagine it working somewhat like your shoes. After being damaged they still stay on you for a short while before being destroyed permanently. The suit would function similarly becoming tattered and full of holes but only getting completely destroyed shortly after, giving you a short timer to rush out of the timefall area before your body is exposed and you're reduced to a bag of wrinkles. If you do get caught but get out quickly enough, the effects may be remedied with criptobyotes.
Of course so far the idea is simply forming, fascinating but not yet so radical but allow me to unravel the true nature of this mechanic. What happens when your suit is, at last destroyed? A rhetorical question of course. Your bare, naked body becomes exposed, for the world to witness. Of course, you are no beast, but a man. Since the original sin we cover ourselves up as we know it is wrong to expose ourselves for all to see.
I imagine this functioning similarly to Metal Gear Solid 2's famous portrayal of Raiden in his purest form, like a baby, but grown up. Since your hands will be otherwise occupied, usage of tools becomes impossible, turning a tense situation even tenser, not unlike the member of many players upon witnessing the musculature of Norman Reedus comparable to the most respected statues of the antiquity.
I imagine you see now how very radical this idea is. Too radical, too dangerous? Perhaps. But my hope that Kojima and his team of visionaries will stumble upon the possibility in their minds is firm. And since they too are radical, since they're pathfinders, the playing man that could never resist the allure of dangerous new horizons, that couldn't help but explore a seemingly impossible possibility, I firmly believe they WILL give humanity what it NEEDS! And hope they will find us ready and mature enough to accept it...
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