User talk:Solidus126

solidus126 has been my moniker for a couple of years now, and let me explain it in much detail for your pleasure.

Solidus is defined in several different ways, one being the Roman gold coin from the Byzantine Empire, and the other being "solidus temperature", the point at which a solid will start to melt into liquid form. But for my use, it comes from the excellent, excellent Nintendo Gamecube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

PLOT SPOILER FOR METAL GEAR SOLID: THE TWIN SNAKES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

In the excellent game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, you play as Solid Snake, a retired soldier in your quest to stop the hostile take over by FOXHOUND terrorists at an Alaskan nuclear warhead depository.

You meet up with the leader of the FOXHOUND terrorist group that you find to look much like your character you have been playing as, Liquid Snake who periodically throughout the game you discover is much closer to you in relation than you could imagine.

Towards the end of the game, after a great duel with Liquid Snake, Liquid confers to Solid that the both of you are a genetic experiment, twin clones of the ultimate soldier, Saladin. Liquid continues to tell you that he is inferior to Solid, for the fact that he has all of the recessive traits whereas Solid has all of the dominant traits of Saladin.

After the FOXHOUND virus kills Liquid, and Solid Snake leaves with Otacon or Meryl (depending on your game path choice) and even after the credits have rolled, we get treated to a brief cutscene. Revolver Ocelot is heard talking on the telephone (only voice heard, person on the other end of the line is unheard) with a mysterious person, he tells him about Solid and Liquid's fight.

He tells the mysterious individual of Liquid's mistake of thinking that he was the genetically inferior of the two, when in reality Solid was. After objecting to the man on the line about whether or not Solid has found out what the big picture is, Ocelot continues on with some yes/no responses. At the end of the conversation, Ocelot concludes by saying, "No Sir, no one knew about you, the third clone, Solidus. Your secret is still safe." Ocelot ends the call with, "Goodbye, Mr. President." Solidus has now been discovered to be the third clone and the President of the United States and possibly behind the whole Metal Gear conspiracy.

I really enjoyed the idea of Solidus, an unknown brother that secretly rules the other twos life at such a distance, so strange! As far as the 126 goes on my user accounts, that is because my first generated email address, smartguy had already been taken, and the email service I used suggesting appending a 126 to the end, so I did so!