Crying Wolf

Crying Wolf/Beauty from MGS4

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Appearance of Crying Wolf: Beauty form: Crying Wolf’s Beauty form is a human female with long black hair, brown eyes, and a dark, fitted combat suit that sits close to her body. The look is sharp and restrained, with a pale, smooth-faced likeness modeled after Mieko Rye and a direct, unsmiling expression. Her upper body is framed by the suit’s tight panels and gloves, and the overall design keeps her appearance sleek rather than bulky, even though it is built for combat.

Beast form: Crying Wolf’s Beast form is a quadrupedal armored frame with four mechanical legs, a sealed suit inside it, and a white helmet that covers her left eye while a scanning lens sits over her right eye. The armor is large, heavy, and dark, with a broad shell that covers most of her body and leaves only small openings when she rises to aim. Her body stays low to the ground in this form, and the rail gun is mounted for long-range sniping rather than close fighting.

Personality of Crying Wolf: Crying Wolf is shattered by trauma, constantly crying and sobbing even while fighting, and often baying like a wolf when her grief turns into a howl. She is unstable, isolated, and lost in hallucinations, sometimes believing a wolf is near her when there is none. Her emotions are dominated by sorrow and guilt, and those feelings do not stay quiet during combat. She is not presented as cruel or theatrical in a cheerful way; she is deeply broken, haunted, and driven by pain that never settles down.

Powers/Abilities of Crying Wolf: Crying Wolf’s Beast armor is quadrupedal, heavily armored, and strong enough to withstand heavy weapons fire. It gives her immense physical strength, enough to stop and overturn an armored bulldozer, and it also makes her fast and agile for a machine of its size. The armor contains olfactory sensors that let her track a target by scent, even in a blizzard, and it does not radiate heat, which makes thermal detection difficult. She fights with an enormous rail gun for long-range attacks and throws explosives at targets outside her reach. In Beauty form, she can also set foes on fire by touch. Her Beast form is most dangerous when she can stay hidden in low visibility and use scent tracking before exposing herself to fire.

History/Lore of Crying Wolf: Crying Wolf was born in Africa during a war marked by ethnic cleansing. Her family was killed, and she escaped with her baby brother. While hiding from soldiers in an abandoned shack, her brother cried, and she smothered him in an attempt to keep them from being found. After realizing he had died, she carried his body through the fighting and began seeing a wolf beside her. She later reached a refugee camp, where the children’s cries pushed her further into delusion, and she believed a wolf was killing them, when in reality she was responsible for the deaths herself. She was eventually recruited by Liquid Ocelot into the Beauty and the Beast Unit, given the quadrapedal armor and rail gun, and sent into battle against Solid Snake. She later fought Snake on Shadow Moses Island, where she was defeated, and the encounter forced her to face what she had done in the past. After that, a wolfdog carried her away into the blizzard.