I really want some more subtle ideas for Ocelot-sneakiness in my fic.

But I'm having trouble getting my brain to work that way since I'm a pretty straight forward person =|

what kind of sneakiness?

Well for a good portion of the story I know he just... ticks over, doesn't have much to worry about from that point of view, so I don't need much for that, it's when he gets triggered that Sunny has a problem

on her hands.

He finds out that Big Boss's memories were used to build and AI waaaay before his were, this was kept a secret from him, and he plans to recover the (hopefully) dead AI.

But I don't really know how to handle his getting Sunny to take him to Big Boss, she'd never do it knowing his plans, because she's twigged that BB is the main issue, bring him into the scene and Ocelot goes

into melt down.

So he has to lie, but while I have a number of general ideas.

The details are evasive.

And my normal brainstorming partner has gone utterly AWOL ;_;

hmm...

I mean she takes him nominally because BB is /dead/ the machine is gone, defunct, a dead parrot. But she's still not happy about it. So he nudges her in the right direction before outright getting her to take

him there.

But... how =_=; why were they even in the area? Presumably they were deployed for some kind of skirmish, or defence... it wouldn't be a training exercise.

Guh I knew I was going to get stuck with this

playing up the "it's for the good of whatever" angle..? I haven't read this yet so I dunno

I think he /might/ be able to persuade her that there is something wrong. His programming forces him to protect her (within certain boundaries) so if she thought it was an extension of that he might get her

away from the others and closer to BB.

Yyeess I like this.

It would also be the only time he's used the 'protection' thing against her, instead of as a reason to trust him, so she's not likely to question it.

Unfortunately BB is kind of hard to hide, and if she wanted she could take full control and get him out of there again, so I'd need to play on her sympathies to get her to hand over full control...

But Sunny's not stupid =| so I'm going to have to go all out on this.

Snake is her weak point, that is one of the things that made her sympathetic in the first place, knowing Otacon's feelings, and her own, and understanding Ocelot's position.

But it won't be enough for this.

sigH