Naomi Hunter
Naomi Hunter is a female video game character who features in Metal Gear.
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Biography
Naomi Hunter (Japanese: ナオミ・ハンター, Hepburn: Naomi Hantā) was a female human who was a child during the Rhodesian Civil War where in 1979 her parents were killed by Frank Jaeger. The orphaned girl was later found by the Zambezi River where she was half-dead from starvation when she was found by Jaeger who came to regret his actions. This saw him taking her in where he decided to adopt her and treated her as if she was his sister. Naomi herself was completely unaware of the fact that Jaeger was the man responsible for kill her parents where in the 1980's she was in Mozambique where she met Big Boss who helped her emigrate to the United States. Her adoptive brother then looked after her and helped raise her where she came to go to college. In this time, she gained an interest in genetics in an effort to learn more about herself where she learnt gained a doctorate in the field and began to specialise in nanotechnology-based gene therapy. In 1999, Big Boss was defeated by Solid Snake and Frank Jaeger came to be crippled in the process during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance. This resulted in Naomi developing an intense hatred for Solid Snake where she vowed revenge against the man. It was then that she obtained the identity of Dr. Naomi Hunter who had gone missing in the Middle East some years ago. In 2003, Naomi served as a civilian contractor who was sent by the private biotechnology company ATGC to oversee gene therapy for FOXHOUND members and the Genome Soldiers, in cooperation with the United States Department of Defense. FOXHOUND's medical chief, Dr. Clark, had been responsible for testing gene therapy techniques on Gray Fox, causing Naomi to comply with a request to kill her from Big Mama and Revolver Ocelot, itself part of a bitter dispute among the Patriots' founding members. Naomi assisted her brother's escape from FOXHOUND's medical research division after he killed Dr. Clark, covering it up as a lab accident and faking his death in the reports. Naomi later succeeded Clark as head of FOXHOUND's medical staff. As chief geneticist, she succeeded in perfecting the Pentagon's assassination virus, which she named FOXDIE. Unbeknownst to the Pentagon, however, Naomi completed the virus only to exact her revenge on Snake. At some point, she was noted to have had an affair with Richard Ames.
Naomi was on the team that was assembled to aid ex-FOXHOUND legend Solid Snake during the Shadow Moses incident, and during Snake's briefing injected him with various nanomachines, nootropics and an anti-freezing peptide to prevent his blood and other bodily fluids from freezing. However, Naomi had also been ordered to infect Snake with the deadly FOXDIE virus as part of his mission. Naomi, still seeking revenge, had secretly modified FOXDIE so that, although it would still kill the rebelling FOXHOUND members, it would also target Snake himself. However, she had set the virus to a 'wildcard' value for Snake, leaving him vulnerable at a later time. Even Naomi herself did not know when the virus would awaken within Snake. Fellow radio support team member Nastasha Romanenko would later comment that this must have been the best revenge that Naomi could think of, condemning Snake to live in a fearful limbo. While Snake was being held in a prison cell following a torture session, Naomi was shocked to discover that Big Boss was Snake's father, and the fact that he considered Frank Jaeger to be his best friend regardless of their fight. Somehow the Pentagon discovered Naomi's re-engineering of the FOXDIE virus, and arrested her to find out what modifications she had made. In order to hide this from Snake, Ames forced Campbell to claim that Naomi had already been placed under suspicion of being a spy for the terrorists, and that she had been caught making coded messages to the base to justify the arrest. Naomi later managed to pocket a spare Codec and contacted Snake, explaining to him her past, FOXDIE's true role in the operation, and why she had wanted to kill him. However, she was subdued by one of Ames' men as well as Campbell before she could finish. After realizing that Snake was not the merciless killer she had thought him to be, Naomi eventually forgave him for Frank's situation, following his and Snake's cooperation in destroying Metal Gear REX. Although it was Frank's last wish for Naomi to know the truth behind her parents' death, Snake withheld this information because Gray Fox was the only family Naomi had ever known. Instead, he told her that Frank said to forget about him and go on with her life. Snake also told Naomi that Frank said that he always loved her. Finally, Snake told her that Frank's actions saved him, her, and the world, which caused Naomi to be emotional. Unaware of when FOXDIE would kill him, Snake then asked Naomi how much time he had left. She told him to live his life to the fullest until it did.
After the Shadow Moses incident, Naomi was arrested for injecting Snake with FOXDIE, and placed in an undetermined maximum security facility. However, Nastasha Romanenko reveals in her book In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth (included with Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty) that Naomi escaped from the facility with the aid of an unknown stranger. Romanenko adds that, "I know of only one person who could have breached the base's tight security and successfully led someone to freedom", suggesting that it was Solid Snake who freed her, despite her attempted murder of him.
Having Naomi conduct further research into nanomachine technology, Liquid Ocelot planned to use this knowledge to take control of the SOP battlefield system, introduced in the early 2010s. In 2014, Naomi accompanied Liquid to the Middle East where he attempted to hack into the system using Liquid Snake's DNA chip, in order to lock it down. She briefly encountered a now-aged Solid Snake in the chaos that ensued as a direct result of Liquid's interference with the system. She injected herself with a nanomachine suppressor, passing the syringe on to Snake afterwards, and then told him that, unless he wanted to remain a prisoner of fate, he should go and "fulfill his destiny," before departing onboard Liquid's chopper. Afterwards, Naomi sent Otacon and Snake a video message accompanied with a Soliton Radar map, claiming to have been kidnapped by Liquid Ocelot in order to hijack SOP. In reality, she was working with him in order to destroy the Patriots' AI network, as the Patriots were beginning to implement their plans of control over the civilian population. Snake found her in South America, and she discovered the cause of Snake's accelerated aging, as well as informing him that FOXDIE would cause an epidemic due to a genetic mutation in the virus. She also found the second strain of FOXDIE within him (which was injected by the Patriots (via Drebin) to kill EVA, Ocelot, and Big Boss). Snake then was able to retrieve Naomi from South America, although unbeknownst to him or Otacon, Liquid Ocelot and his PMC forces let her escape so she would complete FOXALIVE for them.
Naomi then accompanied Snake and Otacon to Eastern Europe. Aboard the Nomad, she formed a bond with Sunny (the daughter of Olga Gurlukovich) and became romantically involved with Otacon. She also told Snake about the differences between his DNA and Liquid Snake's DNA when explaining the SOP's genetic locks, and also stated that these same differences made FOXDIE unable to target Solid Snake, but infected Liquid Snake. She even felt a deep sympathy for Raiden, the newest Cyborg Ninja (succeeding her foster brother and Sunny's mother) and was angered that the same project was still continuing on. She created 2/3 of the FOXALIVE program to destroy GW, leaving the last part to be completed by Sunny. She left with Sunny to witness Raiden's recovery at Dr. Madnar's lab, but then she, in a move unanticipated by Snake or Otacon, returned to Liquid Ocelot.
Overview
Personality and attributes
From a young age, she came to be a victim of war that resulted in her developing a deep resentment for armed conflict. She often made her displeasure with Snake's attitude towards fighting known. Even though both Frank Jaeger and her benefactor Big Boss were renowned mercenaries, Naomi disliked their profession, even referring to the Outer Heaven mercenaries as "rent-a-war bastards."
Her biological parents were killed in the Rhodesian Civil War and she came to be adopted by Frank Jaeger. Unknown to her though, he was the one responsible for their deaths but Jaeger came to regret his actions. This saw him adopting her where he treated her as if she was his sister.
Naomi was a vengeful person, who had no qualms about getting her hands dirty in order to exact revenge on Snake for crippling her brother, extending her hatred to FOXHOUND as well. However, her desire for vengeance and her resentment towards Snake abated after she learned more of his character during the Shadow Moses Incident. Naomi was also known to have manipulated people who cared for her, such as Otacon, though she did show remorse for her actions.
Powers and abilities
As a scientist, she gained an interest in genetics where she earned a doctorate in nanotechnology-based gene therapy.
Dr. Hunter came to be one of the developers of the FOXDIE retrovirus that had been under development but under Naomi's work it came to be perfected. It was designed to be a bio-weapon that targeted and killed only specific people.
She eventually gained a job at the U.S. Department of Defense where she came to be assigned to the elite FOXHOUND unit with her serving as a medical chief for the group.
Notes
- Naomi Hunter was created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa where she featured in the setting of the Metal Gear universe.
Appearances
- Metal Gear Solid:
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