History: A general note: Metal Gear Ac!d is a spin-off series of Metal Gear and essentially ignores the original series’ canon entirely.
There is little known about Flemming prior to the Lobito Island incident. He had a daughter, but there is no sign that he was either married or that the mother of his child is living. At the very least, he never acknowledges it at all.
As a researcher involved in many things where the ethics of the experiments were never called into question, there wasn’t much that he wouldn’t do. Though his national origin is vague, he’s possibly South African, though he does work for the United States government. It’s mentioned that he was the lead scientist behind the development of several biological weapons, and the fact that he later has access to a nuke confirms that someone was paying him to find ways to solve their dirty work. Alongside Hans Davis, he created Pythagoras, a new version of Metal Gear, dubbed Metal Gear KODOQUE. Hans treated the Metal Gear as though it was a child, and in turn Flemming treated the machine like it as well.
He was involved an experiment with Hans Davis, whose real name is Charles Schemeiser, that involved luring the children of the island of Moloni to Lobito Island, a small island off the coast of South Africa. He and Hans worked together in creating ACUA, a new type of drug that would allow complete control of soldiers in combat. The drug needed experiments, and Hans was the type of man willing to get his way at any cost, so the children were what he turned to. As part of ACUA, subjects capable of controlling those who are exposed to it were tested. It was known as the Ritual of Conjuration, and it involved the death of nearly all the children involved. In the end, the two surviving children, two children known as No. 16 and No. 104 were the final surviving children of the experiment were forced into a battle of their minds.
No. 104 supposedly perished in the Ritual, therefore allowing No. 16 to become the Neoteny and controller of ACUA. In actuality, No. 104 survived, possessing Flemming’s young daughter, Constance. Flemming was aware of it, and it ruined him. After the sudden disappearance of Hans, the one man who could return his daughter to normal, Flemming became desperate. He staged a terrorist action, threatening to bomb the island that both No. 16 and No. 104 dreamt of living on. Eventually, Hans vanished, and an unknown time passed by (it could have been several years, but it’s never specified) and Flemming was left desperate and alone. Upon the attack by a rogue soldier named Leone, the entire island was evacuated of researches save for Flemming himself.
After No. 16 hijacked Flight 326, the plane that Constance happened to be flying on as well as Presidential hopeful Viggo Hatch and his staff. Solid Snake was called in, being the only one that the government could rely on to take on a secretive mission. Flemming called for help over radio, identifying himself as Gary Murray, a lab tech who escaped from the terrorists after Pythagoras and underling of Flemming.
Snake took the bait, and Flemming began feeding him information about Hans Davis under the cooperation of Alice, also known as No. 16, who wanted Snake to be her father as the children had been taught to strive to be like him. After Snake was identified in the Residential Area as Hans Davis, his team started to become suspicious of him and Flemming began to work on convincing Solid Snake that he was in fact Hans Davis. Upon contact with Snake in BRC-026, he informs Snake that he will kill Flemming once he gets the ACUA data and get rich off of it.
Upon finally meeting him, he tells Snake that he is actually William Flemming, and that Snake is actually Hans Davis. Snake fainted, “remembering” the Ritual of Conjuration. The implanted memory left Snake confused, and gave Flemming a chance to attack. To ensure that Snake actually believed that he was Hans Davis, he was careful with his wording, gently assuring to Snake that he’s just convinced himself that everything that happened while “he” was in charge of the research facility never happened, and Flemming is nothing less than a good friend for wanting to help him remember.
He showed Snake the Pythagoras data, telling him that the only way for Snake to be able to gain access to it would be to regain his memories and hack passed Hans Davis’ cryptosystem. Before he could continue, Teliko appeared, shooting at him and startling Flemming enough to cause him to drop the disc as he ran off.
Later, as Snake searched for Flemming and the Pythagoras data, Flemming disguised himself perfectly as Snake. Or at least, that’s what game models lead one to believe. Never mind that he’s three or four inches taller than Snake. Actually, it’s later mentioned that he didn’t do that great of a job at the disguise and it was largely the fact that Snake was so out of it that he was able to pass off as a doppelganger. He introduced himself as Hans Davis, and managed to convince Snake to not shoot him, further lulling him into believing that he was in fact the man who had kidnapped all of the children and used them for his human experimentation.
Much later, as Snake teamed up with Leone to get into FAR, and eventually separate, Flemming cornered Leone with his ACUA troops. He tormented the man, and bragged about what he has accomplished, saying that lives are meaningless compared to that of his daughter’s, currently trapped on the plane that Neoteny has threatened to explode. Alice, her voice altered into that of No. 16, made herself known to him, who immediately freaked out and vanished from communication. While he was outside of communication, he drugged Leone into believing he wasn’t the soldier-for-hire he actually was, and in the ACUA-induced stupor, he attacked Snake and Teliko.
After defeating Clown, who had previously disguised her as Teliko, Snake and Teliko arrived at FAR, Flemming welcomed Snake, clearly having convinced himself that Snake is the real Has Davis, even though the two men bare little resemblance to each other. Almost immediately, No. 16 takes over Snake. Able to do this because Snake doubts himself enough to believe that he is actually Hans Davis, and threatened him, toying with Flemming as “Hans” called him a mad scientist, threatening to launch the nuclear device on Metal Gear so Flemming takes the fallout. Of course, No. 16 promises that Flemming will die, and not live to see the consequences of his “actions.” Flemming activated Metal Gear, attacking Snake and Teliko.
Snake fell off of Metal Gear, breaking the control that No. 16 had over him. Flemming, on his last amount of patience, gave his ultimatum to No. 16: as he already knows that Constance won’t be released. Instead, he’ll kill Snake, and then launch a nuke at an island in the South Pacific that she admired and dreamed of. He knocked off the armor containing KODOQUE, and attacked.
With Metal Gear nearly destroyed, Flemming, desperate, said he’ll launch a single nuclear missile, hoping that it will convince No. 16 to finally release his daughter. Teliko tried to convince him otherwise, but Flemming, angered, told her once more that he doesn’t care about other people’s lives over that of his daughter. He tried to shoot her, but she’s faster. He dies; his last words “Constance. Everything’s okay. Daddy’s here right by your side.”
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In the AU, hardly any of this actually happens. The AU happens before the events of the game take place, though the events that made Flemming so despicable such as the Ritual of Conjuration still happen, making Flemming someone who is not at all a good person. He and Hans Davis were nearly connected at the hip, though this may have been a case of the two of them worried that the other would backstab them. Either way, they were close. Close enough that rumors circled them so far as the staff were concerned.
Behind closed doors, they experimented on each other with small samples of drugs. The kidnapped children were much too precious to waste on experimental drugs, and what they used was never a problem. Just a test here and there, because the two men trusted each other.
One of the drugs had an unintended side effect. The goal had been to be given a slight amount of ACUA to test its effects on an adult, but something in the cocktail had gone wrong. The result was Flemming snapping. In his confusion, he ran from the office, somehow noticing a pattern of numbers that he managed to associate with himself. He called himself “No. 185” because of this, having lost the memories of who he truly was.
Despite Hans trying to find him, he escaped to BRC-026 to the alarm of the children being held there. With the exception of No. 16 and No. 104, the children gave him a wide birth in their tightly packed prison, terrified and not understanding why Flemming was acting so differently, fearing it was another ploy. The children started to mockingly nickname him “Twitch” after the nervous tick he had developed, but instead of being offended, he took the name as his own, liking it better than the set of numbers. After many days passed, Twitch gained a premonition of an accident that was about to happen.
Most of the children didn’t believe him. In the end, he escaped from the building with only a handful of children following him, No. 16 and No. 104 included.
William Flemming (AU) 2/?
There is little known about Flemming prior to the Lobito Island incident. He had a daughter, but there is no sign that he was either married or that the mother of his child is living. At the very least, he never acknowledges it at all.
As a researcher involved in many things where the ethics of the experiments were never called into question, there wasn’t much that he wouldn’t do. Though his national origin is vague, he’s possibly South African, though he does work for the United States government. It’s mentioned that he was the lead scientist behind the development of several biological weapons, and the fact that he later has access to a nuke confirms that someone was paying him to find ways to solve their dirty work. Alongside Hans Davis, he created Pythagoras, a new version of Metal Gear, dubbed Metal Gear KODOQUE. Hans treated the Metal Gear as though it was a child, and in turn Flemming treated the machine like it as well.
He was involved an experiment with Hans Davis, whose real name is Charles Schemeiser, that involved luring the children of the island of Moloni to Lobito Island, a small island off the coast of South Africa. He and Hans worked together in creating ACUA, a new type of drug that would allow complete control of soldiers in combat. The drug needed experiments, and Hans was the type of man willing to get his way at any cost, so the children were what he turned to. As part of ACUA, subjects capable of controlling those who are exposed to it were tested. It was known as the Ritual of Conjuration, and it involved the death of nearly all the children involved. In the end, the two surviving children, two children known as No. 16 and No. 104 were the final surviving children of the experiment were forced into a battle of their minds.
No. 104 supposedly perished in the Ritual, therefore allowing No. 16 to become the Neoteny and controller of ACUA. In actuality, No. 104 survived, possessing Flemming’s young daughter, Constance. Flemming was aware of it, and it ruined him. After the sudden disappearance of Hans, the one man who could return his daughter to normal, Flemming became desperate. He staged a terrorist action, threatening to bomb the island that both No. 16 and No. 104 dreamt of living on. Eventually, Hans vanished, and an unknown time passed by (it could have been several years, but it’s never specified) and Flemming was left desperate and alone. Upon the attack by a rogue soldier named Leone, the entire island was evacuated of researches save for Flemming himself.
After No. 16 hijacked Flight 326, the plane that Constance happened to be flying on as well as Presidential hopeful Viggo Hatch and his staff. Solid Snake was called in, being the only one that the government could rely on to take on a secretive mission. Flemming called for help over radio, identifying himself as Gary Murray, a lab tech who escaped from the terrorists after Pythagoras and underling of Flemming.
Snake took the bait, and Flemming began feeding him information about Hans Davis under the cooperation of Alice, also known as No. 16, who wanted Snake to be her father as the children had been taught to strive to be like him. After Snake was identified in the Residential Area as Hans Davis, his team started to become suspicious of him and Flemming began to work on convincing Solid Snake that he was in fact Hans Davis. Upon contact with Snake in BRC-026, he informs Snake that he will kill Flemming once he gets the ACUA data and get rich off of it.
Upon finally meeting him, he tells Snake that he is actually William Flemming, and that Snake is actually Hans Davis. Snake fainted, “remembering” the Ritual of Conjuration. The implanted memory left Snake confused, and gave Flemming a chance to attack. To ensure that Snake actually believed that he was Hans Davis, he was careful with his wording, gently assuring to Snake that he’s just convinced himself that everything that happened while “he” was in charge of the research facility never happened, and Flemming is nothing less than a good friend for wanting to help him remember.
He showed Snake the Pythagoras data, telling him that the only way for Snake to be able to gain access to it would be to regain his memories and hack passed Hans Davis’ cryptosystem. Before he could continue, Teliko appeared, shooting at him and startling Flemming enough to cause him to drop the disc as he ran off.
Later, as Snake searched for Flemming and the Pythagoras data, Flemming disguised himself perfectly as Snake. Or at least, that’s what game models lead one to believe. Never mind that he’s three or four inches taller than Snake. Actually, it’s later mentioned that he didn’t do that great of a job at the disguise and it was largely the fact that Snake was so out of it that he was able to pass off as a doppelganger. He introduced himself as Hans Davis, and managed to convince Snake to not shoot him, further lulling him into believing that he was in fact the man who had kidnapped all of the children and used them for his human experimentation.
Much later, as Snake teamed up with Leone to get into FAR, and eventually separate, Flemming cornered Leone with his ACUA troops. He tormented the man, and bragged about what he has accomplished, saying that lives are meaningless compared to that of his daughter’s, currently trapped on the plane that Neoteny has threatened to explode. Alice, her voice altered into that of No. 16, made herself known to him, who immediately freaked out and vanished from communication. While he was outside of communication, he drugged Leone into believing he wasn’t the soldier-for-hire he actually was, and in the ACUA-induced stupor, he attacked Snake and Teliko.
After defeating Clown, who had previously disguised her as Teliko, Snake and Teliko arrived at FAR, Flemming welcomed Snake, clearly having convinced himself that Snake is the real Has Davis, even though the two men bare little resemblance to each other. Almost immediately, No. 16 takes over Snake. Able to do this because Snake doubts himself enough to believe that he is actually Hans Davis, and threatened him, toying with Flemming as “Hans” called him a mad scientist, threatening to launch the nuclear device on Metal Gear so Flemming takes the fallout. Of course, No. 16 promises that Flemming will die, and not live to see the consequences of his “actions.” Flemming activated Metal Gear, attacking Snake and Teliko.
Snake fell off of Metal Gear, breaking the control that No. 16 had over him. Flemming, on his last amount of patience, gave his ultimatum to No. 16: as he already knows that Constance won’t be released. Instead, he’ll kill Snake, and then launch a nuke at an island in the South Pacific that she admired and dreamed of. He knocked off the armor containing KODOQUE, and attacked.
With Metal Gear nearly destroyed, Flemming, desperate, said he’ll launch a single nuclear missile, hoping that it will convince No. 16 to finally release his daughter. Teliko tried to convince him otherwise, but Flemming, angered, told her once more that he doesn’t care about other people’s lives over that of his daughter. He tried to shoot her, but she’s faster. He dies; his last words “Constance. Everything’s okay. Daddy’s here right by your side.”
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In the AU, hardly any of this actually happens. The AU happens before the events of the game take place, though the events that made Flemming so despicable such as the Ritual of Conjuration still happen, making Flemming someone who is not at all a good person. He and Hans Davis were nearly connected at the hip, though this may have been a case of the two of them worried that the other would backstab them. Either way, they were close. Close enough that rumors circled them so far as the staff were concerned.
Behind closed doors, they experimented on each other with small samples of drugs. The kidnapped children were much too precious to waste on experimental drugs, and what they used was never a problem. Just a test here and there, because the two men trusted each other.
One of the drugs had an unintended side effect. The goal had been to be given a slight amount of ACUA to test its effects on an adult, but something in the cocktail had gone wrong. The result was Flemming snapping. In his confusion, he ran from the office, somehow noticing a pattern of numbers that he managed to associate with himself. He called himself “No. 185” because of this, having lost the memories of who he truly was.
Despite Hans trying to find him, he escaped to BRC-026 to the alarm of the children being held there. With the exception of No. 16 and No. 104, the children gave him a wide birth in their tightly packed prison, terrified and not understanding why Flemming was acting so differently, fearing it was another ploy. The children started to mockingly nickname him “Twitch” after the nervous tick he had developed, but instead of being offended, he took the name as his own, liking it better than the set of numbers. After many days passed, Twitch gained a premonition of an accident that was about to happen.
Most of the children didn’t believe him. In the end, he escaped from the building with only a handful of children following him, No. 16 and No. 104 included.