[ It does always come down to money, in the end. Scientific advancement, particularly in the medical field, isn't likely to be cheap. Snake hadn't fully realized how much of what Angela did with her nanites had been of her own design. She'd been impossibly humble about the whole thing.
Snake's quiet for a few seconds before he finds Jack's eyes. With him wearing the visor half the time, it isn't that often that Snake gets to stare him down like this. ]
I know that Overwatch had a messy end to it, but if you were able to facilitate that kind of progress, then it did plenty of good too. Both of you were out there trying to make the world better.
[ If there's something that Snake has learned, it's that people like Angela and Jack are the exception to the rule. To want to better things for selfless reasons isn't a trait he's found in many people during his lifetime. If Overwatch had existed in his world, he probably still would have been paranoid about its possible connections to the Patriots, but having met the man behind it, not to mention the sort of people he'd recruit (Angela, Lena), it's easier to acknowledge the good that was done. ]
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Snake's quiet for a few seconds before he finds Jack's eyes. With him wearing the visor half the time, it isn't that often that Snake gets to stare him down like this. ]
I know that Overwatch had a messy end to it, but if you were able to facilitate that kind of progress, then it did plenty of good too. Both of you were out there trying to make the world better.
[ If there's something that Snake has learned, it's that people like Angela and Jack are the exception to the rule. To want to better things for selfless reasons isn't a trait he's found in many people during his lifetime. If Overwatch had existed in his world, he probably still would have been paranoid about its possible connections to the Patriots, but having met the man behind it, not to mention the sort of people he'd recruit (Angela, Lena), it's easier to acknowledge the good that was done. ]