The Boss

The Boss, also known as The Joy, The Mother of Special Forces, Mercury Lady and Voyevoda, was a renowned American soldier, founder and leader of the Cobra Unit, the biological mother of Ocelot, and mentor and mother figure to Naked Snake. In June 1944, during World War II, she led the Cobra Unit to victory at the Battle of Normandy. Together with Naked Snake, she developed the technique of CQC. The Boss was born in 1922 as the daughter of one of the original and higher-ranking members of the Wisemen's Committee, and later grew up in the care of the Philosophers. She learned from her father the most forbidden secrets of the Philosophers, and as a consequence, the shadowy organization arranged for his death. The Boss later went on to become an instructor at one of the Philosophers' "charm schools." In 1941, during World War II, The Boss was invited to the SAS as a special adviser, which resulted in the creation of Layforce and the original L Detachment. There she met David Oh, with whom she later formed the 22nd SAS Regiment. She also planned the dummy raids on Heliopolis and the bombings of German air bases during the North African Campaign.[4] In addition to this she participated in many "snatch" missions, in which she had to capture important officers without killing them; the incidents later served as the basis for her development of CQC. According to Major Zero, the SAS motto, "Who Dares, Wins," was a tribute to The Boss. On December 30, 1941, she and Zero lost a close friend who had served under her in Layforce (likely during Operation Crusader in Egypt). Zero delivered his SAS winged dagger pin to her after his death and she continued to keep it with her right up until her death. In 1942, The Boss (then known as The Joy) founded the Cobra Unit, which consisted of herself, The Pain, The Fear, The End, The Fury, and The Sorrow. They participated in many special operations during World War II, contributing heavily to the Allied forces' victory. Likewise, she was also trained in sniping by The End. The entire Cobra Unit looked up to her as their mother and leader, and she formed a close relationship with The Sorrow. The Boss became a legendary soldier, and was considered by many to be the "Mother" of America's special forces. In 1943, The Boss was ordered to infiltrate Los Alamos and assassinate one of the Manhattan Project scientists, John von Neumann, under the belief that he was a Nazi spy, and make it seem like his death was accidental. But just before the operation, she found out that she was pregnant by The Sorrow. She proceeded with the mission as planned, though she ended up blowing her cover due to being distracted by her pregnancy. Though she avoided a bullet aimed for her gut, she received a graze to the side of her brain and would enter a coma for three months. After six months, The Boss made a complete recovery, theorizing that her body may have willed her to live for her child. She grew to regret failing the mission, even after it transpired that Neumann being a spy was actually Soviet misinformation to sabotage the Manhattan Project. The Boss felt that his living resulted in the Cold War, which made her partially responsible as well. During the D-Day landings at Normandy, The Boss and her Cobras were sent on a mission to destroy several V2 rocket installations near Juno Beach. It was there that she gave birth to her and The Sorrow's child on the battlefield, going into labor after she had been shot in the gut. The caesarean section required in the chaos left her with a snake-shaped scar on her torso. She gave birth to a baby boy, though he was soon taken away from her by the Philosophers. In 1947, two years after the end of the war, The Boss disbanded the Cobra Unit due to tensions between the Philosophers. Afterwards, The Boss began participating in secret projects run by the U.S. Government. On November 1, 1951, The Boss was involved in the atomic testing at the Nevada desert, where she was exposed to radiation, and rendered infertile. It was around this time that she first met a 15 year old John (a.k.a. Jack), and was drawn to him due to sharing similar experiences. She spent nearly a decade with John, training him as her disciple and developing the tactics of CQC, a basic form of close quarters combat. John claimed that because of his training, part of him belonged to The Boss and that they were more than just friends, soldiers, or lovers. During 1957, she also was invited to the newly instated HALO School at the JFK Special Operations center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and was also responsible for the development of the HALO jump. The Boss was forced to leave Jack when she was assigned a new top secret mission by the President on June 12, 1959 involving recruiting Russians who were against the new single-party regime in Moscow to steal and sabotage various Soviet space projects and possibly directly become involved when necessary. However, the CIA disagreed with this, and refused to help The Boss, forcing her to utilize the Philosophers' spy channels for the first time to accomplish it. She managed to succeed in placing a sleeper agent to recruit them, and the CIA took over, namely to take all the credit. The Boss didn't mind. However, late into the year, The Boss discovered some discrepancies relating to the Soviet blueprints that their sleeper agent was sending, namely in regards to the Sputnik 5 where there was an ejection pod. She tried to report her findings to the CIA and get them to investigate, but they ignored her, thinking she wanted to regain her glory. She ended up infiltrating the Soviet Union without any official support and infiltrated the OKB-1 research facility. She discovered not only had her sleeper agent defected to the Soviet Union entirely, but also that the reason he did so was because the CIA was pocketing a large amount of his paycheck, and that the ejection pod on the Sputnik 5 was actually an ejection seat for human personnel to utilize to survive reentry. She reported her findings to NASA, which resulted in the CIA blaming The Boss for everything that went wrong to cover up their failures to the recently inaugurated President John F. Kennedy. Later on, The Boss was chosen for participation in the Mercury Project and met for the first time Strangelove, who was assigned to Mercury as a key staff member. She was sent to space on a mission to acquire data on how well the human body could cope in such conditions, but during which radiation was an inevitability. She unofficially became the first American in space, and seeing the Earth from above sparked her dream of uniting the world as one. Unfortunately, as she returned to Earth from her flight on April 12, 1961, the addition of a "window" caused her re-entry capsule to veer off course and crash land in the ocean, resulting in The Boss being thrown from the capsule and severely burned by both the cosmic radiation, and the heat of re-entry. Miraculously, The Boss did survive, but she was hospitalized as a result, and she and Strangelove never saw each other again. The injuries sent The Boss into another deep coma for six months. The military covered up the accident by claiming that The Boss took part in the CIA's botched Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. The Boss recovered, but the current administration resented the fact that the Russians had a widely publicized successful space flight, while The Boss' injuries and crash landing forced the United States to cover up their own experimental spaceflight, despite the fact that she was in space first. The Boss had used Philosopher contacts outside of Russia to place her spy in 1959, but once Soviet Philosophers discovered the spy, no branch of the Philosophers was willing to help her. The Soviets decided to send in The Sorrow, The Boss' former lover, who had returned to the Soviet Union after the disbandment of the Cobra Unit. Unaware that The Boss was involved, The Sorrow successfully turned the spy into a double agent. In 1962, she was sent on a mission to eliminate The Sorrow (technically the objective was that only one of them was allowed to live). The Philosophers forced them to participate in this task by threatening to kill their child if they both survived. The Boss and The Sorrow met on top of a bridge in Tselinoyarsk and discussed what they should do. Ultimately, they agreed that The Sorrow should be the one to die. Reluctantly, The Boss shot him through the left eye. However, The Sorrow, being a powerful medium and psychic, returned from the dead two years later as a spirit. In late 1962, a former SAS associate of The Boss, Major Zero, reached out to her and invited her to form a new CIA unit with him: FOX. In 1964, The Boss, who still remained in contact with the U.S. homeland, was ordered to take part in a major operation to recover the Philosophers' Legacy, known as the Virtuous Mission. In order to acquire the Legacy, The Boss had to trade her way into GRU colonel Volgin's ranks, utilizing the Philosophers' spy network. She was contacted by Volgin with the suggestion of defection, as well as learning the location of Soviet rocket scientist Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, and the details of a secret nuclear weapon he had been developing. A month later, The Boss participated in the Virtuous Mission (which she got the CIA Director to greenlight), where she was reunited with Naked Snake. She served as part of the mission control, headed by Major Zero, maintaining contact with the mission control and Snake via radio supposedly from on board a Permit-Class Submarine stationed in the Arctic Ocean. However, she removed herself from radio contact just as Snake successfully retrieved Sokolov from Rassvet. The Boss was provided with two portable nuclear warheads and launcher, with the intention of handing them over to Colonel Volgin and gaining his trust. The Boss also helped Volgin recover Sokolov before he could escape the Soviet Union with Snake's help, throwing Snake from the bridge in Dolinovodno, who took her bandana with him. Shortly thereafter, Volgin, entirely on a whim, did something unexpected. Deciding to test out his new weapon, he used one of the nukes to destroy Sokolov's design bureau, OKB-754. The destruction of the bureau in a nuclear explosion whipped the government of the Soviet Union into a panic, and matters was made worse when the plane that had been used as Mission Control for the Virtuous Mission had been detected by radar, making it look like the explosion was an American nuclear attack. While the Soviet army and government called for a retaliation attack against the Americans, the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was willing to accept President Lyndon B. Johnson's personal assurances that America was innocent and that the attack had been carried out by Soviet traitors. Despite this, he still needed evidence to convince his cabinet and the army leadership. As such, The Boss's mission to be greatly expanded and revised. The CIA, fearful of the renowned soldier's charisma, arranged to have her killed in order to clear America's name, in a mission known as Operation Snake Eater, which Hot Coldman had masterminded. Naked Snake was to be redeployed under the command of Major Zero, with orders to recover the remaining nuclear warhead, extract Sokolov, disable the Shagohod, and eliminate Volgin and The Boss. Unbeknownst to Snake, however, he was also meant to act as a way for The Boss to get the Philosophers' Legacy smuggled out of Volgin's custody and into the hands of the American government. Continuing to act as a traitor to America, The Boss would allow herself to be assassinated by her beloved protégé. Understanding that she had to give her life and even eternally sacrifice her reputation for her country, in order to save the world from nuclear war, The Boss confronted Snake shorty after he made landfall, and got into a CQC fight with him, with the apparent purpose of discouraging him from continuing his mission. In reality, she had used the opportunity to plant a transmitter on his person, so she could track his movements and subtly help him in his mission, while maintaining Volgin's trust. One by one, Snake killed off the remaining members of the Cobra Unit. In his last moments of life, The Fury became worried for the life of his commander. In addition, The Boss almost had her cover blown after Volgin discovered the transmitter she had previously planted on Snake, and when she became hesitant upon being ordered by him to cut out Snake's eyes while he was being tortured. However, his attention became focused on Tatyana when she prevented The Boss from performing the act, which also drew Major Ocelot's suspicions. Following Snake's torture, she shot him in the leg with a fake death pill and then slipped a Single Action Army she confiscated from Ocelot into Snake to provide him with a potential means of escape as well as a means to defend himself after escaping, respectively. The Boss, as her original codename suggested, found joy in battle. However, when she went to space, her view on war changed. She believed that there was more to life than the Cold War, recognizing the pointlessness of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. As such, she longed for a world that would be united in which people would respect each other as human beings, as opposed to remaining in constant conflict. This was despite the fact that she herself was a soldier. Ever since failing her mission in 1943, The Boss had decidedly blamed herself for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the rise of the Cold War; having thought in retrospect that if she had succeeded, the Cold War might never have started in the first place. Because of this, she would go on to dedicate her entire life to her country and its faults based on what she felt was a conflict that she had brought upon the world. The Boss would go on to maintain this strong sense of loyalty to her country as a soldier; her loyalty was so great that she allowed the government to use her ruthlessly and knowingly had her killed by her apprentice Naked Snake. Despite this, she was not blinded by her loyalty to the extent that she didn't know how soldiers were used, as she mentioned to Naked Snake when they re-encountered each other after five years. Her unrelenting loyalty was ultimately what led to her death; having purposely suppressed her own ideals and personal feelings for many years as part of her penance. As her idealistic notions were condemned and feared by her superiors, she allowed herself to die hoping that Naked Snake would learn the truth of her tortured life so that he may learn from her mistakes and live a normal life dedicated only to himself. Though she believed that the Philosophers had grown far too corrupt to be redeemed, she clung to what little hope she had that her sacrifice would somehow help in uniting the rest of the world. She also accurately predicted that America and Russia would no longer remain enemies in the 21st century. Like her apprentice Big Boss and his son Solid Snake, she was a very strong-willed person and had a very strong charisma as she could take the burden of her country having her killed, turning her back on her Cobra Unit and having her reputation destroyed in order to complete her final mission. Her charisma was so strong that it influenced the very creation of the Patriots and was among the reasons she was killed. EVA herself had believed the 21st century could have been a very different place if she had survived Operation Snake Eater. Possessing great wisdom in warfare, she was a fierce soldier that sparked fear and admiration among her enemies, colleagues, and allies. Although she held a calm and collected demeanor, she possessed such a strong and overbearing presence that even Volgin was intimidated by her, backing away when she questioned his mistrust towards her. Despite "The Joy" being her former codename, The Boss rarely smiled during the events of Operation Snake Eater. In contrast, her lover The Sorrow always smiled during his encounters with Naked Snake, with not one occasion where there was a frown on his face. The Boss’s maternal instincts are a recurring motif, and as such she displays actions such as caring for and protecting EVA, knowing full well of her traitorous nature, and openly chastising her erstwhile son Ocelot for actions perceived as reckless or impulsive (for example after he inadvertently shoots Snake). She has deep care and affection for her finest disciple Naked Snake, and makes this clear many times during their final duel, commenting proudly on his personal growth. As a subtle indicator of their blossoming relationship, The Boss engages Snake in CQC several times during their encounters, and each time he fares better and better. She initially subdues him effortlessly during the Virtuous Mission, and by the time of their final battle he is able to effectively counter her attacks and even successfully reverse them completely. The Boss also had a lot of love and care for her apprentice Naked Snake, so much so that even after they went their separate ways and The Boss had found a new apprentice, she would often talk to Strangelove as if she was talking to Snake himself. She also protected Snake during Operation Snake Eater from Ocelot and EVA by making them promise not to kill him, and she instructed EVA to tell Snake the truth behind her final mission and death as she wanted him to know. The Boss knew that Snake would feel guilty for killing her so she told EVA to tell him to forgive himself and to let it go. The Boss was a master of CQC, having helped found the techniques and principles with her apprentice Naked Snake. In her first fight with Snake, she disarmed and disassembled his gun before he could even react, then countered his knife attack, broke his arm, fractured a rib and threw him off the Tselinoyarsk bridge, and her second encounter with him at the start of Operation Snake Eater was won in a similarly dominant fashion, again disarming and destroying Snake’s gun. She was able to overpower Snake on two other occasions at Groznj Grad (albeit with Snake giving a much more competitive fight than last time) but was ultimately defeated by Snake in their final encounter. When scolding Ocelot for his Russian Roulette gun-play and his idea of luck, The Boss swiftly disassembled Ocelot’s revolver before handing it back to him, infuriating Ocelot. The Boss possessed a tremendous amount of physical strength, evidenced by her carrying the containers for the Davy Crockett launcher and the two Davy Crockett shells, which in combined weight would have exceeded 300 kg (nearly 700 pounds) late into the Virtuous Mission, and fire it by hand at Groznyj Grad and Graniny Gorki late into Operation Snake Eater. Aside from English, she was also implied to be fluent in Russian. The Boss used to smoke cigars. The Boss is a tall female with medium size blonde hair and she have light green eyes. The Boss wear a full body white military suit. The Boss is 42 years old.