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 (see the FOXDIE page). This suited Naomi fine, as she wanted to kill Snake to avenge her "brother" Frank (as known by the codename of Gray Fox), whom Snake had killed in Zanzibar. In the end though FOXDIE failed to affect Snake, but killed his genetic twin brother Liquid Snake. Naomi came to forgive Snake for killing Frank, telling him to "Live, Snake. That's all I can say to you". It is never properly explained why Liquid died and Solid did not, since both Snakes had near identical genetic make up, but it is speculated that FOXDIE is still dormant inside Solid Snake, and will activate on a later date. However, Liquid said (through Ocelot) on the tanker that Naomi "passed him over for the FOXDIE-program".
It is possible that the reason Solid Snake is unaffected while Liquid dies from FOXDIE is due to the fact that Liquid and Solid have different DNA, despite the fact of both being clones of Big Boss (see Les Enfants Terribles), meaning FOXDIE didn't affect Solid Snake since the genetic profile of its intended target would have come from Liquid who was with FOXHOUND at the time while Snake was in retirement.
Another theory is that the FOXDIE injected into Snake would only become active when Snake was feeling a strong sense of hatred or anger, as Naomi believed Snake to be a psychotic killer, a perception that changed gradually over the course of the game. In Liquid Snake the virus only activated when he was particularly enraged at Solid Snake. It is also possible, and given as an explanation in the backstory of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, that Naomi programmed the virus not to kill Solid Snake at any set time, but at a random point after activation.
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.
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 spcific 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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