METAL GEAR SOLID EXCHANGE 2024

Metal Gear Solid Exchange 2024 was an MGS-themed exchange event hosted on archiveofourown, with a Dreamwidth page serving as a home base for the event. Nominations opened on December 7, 2023 and closed on December 14, 2023. Sign-ups opened on December 15, 2023 and closed on December 28, 2023. Assignments were sent to participants on December 30, 2023, and the creation period took place starting that day until January 31, 2024. The event was moderated anonymously.

I found out about this exchange thanks to their advertising account on blorbo.social. Although I noticed the exchange months before its sign-up deadline to consider things properly, I made the choice to join at the last minute. I love this franchise and I have many sort of feelings for several characters, but I've never really been active in the fandom. I had no idea how well I could click with other fans. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've had people react pretty negatively to me publicly getting into a thing (making fan art, posting about it in public spaces in social media) because they noticed I'm into mobrei, vanilla as I am in my preferences with my OTPs. That's fine of course, to each their own, but no one wants to be locked in a niche event with someone who doesn't like you, lol. Ended up taking the plunge at the very last second, and the mod was quite helpful and accommodating despite my tardiness.

Below are links to the wonderful gifts I received, the gift I created for someone in the exchange, and gifts for other people I enjoyed!

Symbols
🔞: explicit content
🌶️: sexual themes (sex, sexual fluids, horny vibe)
🥩: violent themes (blood, injury, violence)
🪰: grotesque themes (vomit, waste, putrefaction)

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My requests!!!

These are the prompts I signed up with. Everyone had pretty hardcore requests, so even after I contacted the mod about sign-ups, I wasn't sure if I should join, haha. But I was told I could join with non-explicit requests, so I did... I hope I didn't bore my gifter.

This exchange encouraged use of tags both to describe your requests and your offers, so I'm including them as well.

Request #1: Liquid/Mantis anything lol

AO3 ship tags:

Liquid Snake/Psycho Mantis

Tags:

Fanart - Medium, Fanfic - Medium, Fanvid - Medium, aggressive virgin, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alternate Universe - Prison, Author can choose to include smut, Blood and Gore, Character Study, Daddy Issues, Feelings Realization, Fucked Up Fluff, Gen or Pre-Slash, Groping, Kink As DIY Therapy, Mind Break, Mind Control, Noncon - Character forced to watch as partner is broken, Relationships - Complicated, Relationships - Making each other worse, Scenario - Character wants to explore sexuality, Sharing Body Heat, Scenario - Sex as initiation rite

Prompts:

I don't have super specific scenarios, but anything exploring the bond between these two would be very nice! I haven't read the "new" MGS novelization but I heard the pair was retconned into talking to each other telepathically, so... I just want stuff with and about their closeness. Tagged just about anything that seemed interesting for them.

Not married to any ship order, but I also don't see them as fucking a lot honestly. Eli/Tretij works are also very welcome! I'd rather you don't get explicit if it's them as kids though (but you can still make it somewhat sexual and/or fucked up).

Some tag pointers so my entry isn't too vague:

  • 🌶️ If you go with omegaverse, I'd prefer alpha/beta Mantis and omega Liquid.
  • "Alternative Universe - Prison" is for a what if instead of dying they got sent to super prison at the end of MGS1.
  • 🔞🌶️🪰 The "Noncon - Character forced to watch as partner is broken" can be interpreted as a scenario that's not purely rape, like say, torture or violence that's tinged with molestation.
  • 🪰 Mind break and mind control can be towards others but it involves the pair somehow.


DNW:
  • No exaggerated dom/sub dynamics.
  • No extreme or fringe fetishes (scat, abdl, inflation, etc). Vomit and piss OK in non-sexual ways as a fear/negative response.
  • No unrequested ships.
  • No daddy kink.
  • No focus on gender identity in the work, especially negative stuff (transphobia, dysphoria).

Request #2: vkaz

AO3 ship tags:

Kazuhira Miller/Venom Snake, Mob/Kazuhira Miller

Tags:

Fanart - Medium, Fanfic - Medium, Fanvid - Medium, Amputation, Aphrodisiacs, Author can choose to include smut, Blood and Gore, Bondage - Chained in basement, Bondage - Technological collar to enforce compliance, Bondage - Handcuffs, Cannibalism, Altered States - Taking Advantage of Unconscious Victim, Cigar Burns, Comfort - After Torture, Degradation, Face-Fucking, Gangbang, Gen or Pre-Slash, Altered States - Victim Is Too Intoxicated to Consent, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Prisoner of War, Sexual Conditioning, Torture

Prompts:

Basically the darker tags are for mob chara(s)/Kaz scenarios. Anything about his time imprisoned between Ground Zeroes and MGSV, the ways he coped while being there (bbkaz thoughts as coping OK but I don't ship it), I didn't tag mind break but edging towards that is OK. Added cannibalism tag because I had the thought that oh maybe they made him eat a bit of his own limbs, sure why not.

For vkaz, anything involving Venom helping Kaz deal with the trauma of imprisonment, including but not exclusive to sex issues (sex repulsed or sex obsessed, or both at the same time). Identity issues with Kaz knowing Venom isn't Big Boss and still fucking Venom, or Venom knowing he isn't Big Boss and still fucking Kaz. Past medickaz very OK as a one-time thing or an unfulfilled one-sided thing, and how that might fuck with Venom's interactions with Kaz while his brain is scrambled.

Any route you go, bottom Kaz ONLY please!

DNW:
  • NO top Kaz.
  • No focus on Big Boss more than strictly necessary for whatever scenario you cook.
  • No extreme or fringe fetishes (scat, abdl, inflation, etc). Vomit and piss OK in non-sexual ways as a fear/negative response.
  • No unrequested ships.
  • No daddy kink.
  • No focus on gender identity in the work, especially negative stuff (transphobia, dysphoria).
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Gifts someone made for ME!!!

LIQUIDMANTIS

ID by chaoszonenate 🥩

Pre-Shadow Moses Incident. Liquid and Mantis alone and reminiscing in it's wake.

I think it takes a very capable writer to be able to write a story from Liquid's perspective that balances the theatrics he presents to the outside world with an inner voice that combines the strongest aspects of his personality with the things that weigh him down, and how all these things connect with Mantis, who sees all of him thanks to their psychic bond, and this person totally hit the mark to me... This is my first time reading fanfic about them somehow and I'm afraid of even reading other stories about them that might not hit the way this one did, I loved it! The closeness and the teasing and the ever-present anger and violence that binds them and is a part of their connection.

MOB/KAZ

Cold Blood by otoronahole 🔞🌶️🥩🪰

Kaz has a bad time.

MGSV gave me a permanent hunger for fan works exploring his time as a war prisoner and the physical and emotional fallout of this event, so I'm super happy that someone took this request! The drawing is beautifully rendered with a messy painterly style and a monochrome palette that brings focus to the bright blue speck of the collar around Kaz's neck. The artist did a great job mixing together the erotic energy of the composition with the cruelty of the situation. Lovely Kaz piece for meee, yay.

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Gifts I made for someone else!!!

PAZKAZ

Stress release for earthwormhearts 🔞🌶️ [AO3 archive]

Prompt: "let pacifica/paz get some of that anger out in a sex way"

Image ID, included in the picture's alt text: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker fan art. An assortment of sketches featuring Paz, a petite woman with a curly bob wearing simple frilly underwear, and Kaz, a muscular man with slicked back hair that might be dangerously close to being a mullet, wearing nothing save for a shock collar and a dog bone shaped gag.
                    
                      From left to right, top to bottom, the sketches are as follows:  Sketch 1. Paz wears only a strap-on with a cartoonish kitten smile drawn on the head. Kaz lays on his stomach in front of her, ass propped up, and she slaps his backside with the thick, large toy, eyes closed in a pleased manner as she says something the viewer is not privy to. Kaz looks disheveled, eyes unfocused and face flustered, body covered in sweat.
                      
                      Sketch 2. Kaz is on his back, a pair of clamps linked to a chain pulling on his nipples in a painful manner. He throws his head back from the shock of having his erect dick slapped by Paz. Paz stares at the thing as she abuses it, a mean smile on her flustered face. She's panting.
                      
                      Sketch 3. Paz and Kaz are in bed together. Paz lays on her back, hands behind her head as she smokes a cigarette. Kaz is lying on his side, his back to Paz. He seems to be sleeping peacefully.
                      
                      Sketch 4. A front view of a serious-looking Paz.
                      
                      Sketch 5. Paz pulls on Kaz's hair to force him to look up at her. She leans into his space, saying something the viewer is not privy to. Kaz flinches at her action, face flushed red. Tears, sweat and saliva drip down his face.
                      
                      Sketch 6. Kaz sits with his arms behind his back, looking embarrassed. He's wearing his aviators and a school uniform like the one Paz usually wears. Paz stands next to him, happily grabbing on to his shoulders.

I've honestly always shipped them in the back of my head in a very "both these blond spy losers have strong feelings for the same guy and I think smashing them together would be interesting" way, so I'm glad I got this request! I hope I added the right amount of mean dom energy.

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Gifts someone made for someone else!!!

SOLID/GRAYFOX

[ART] natural enviroment by Venera787 🔞

Snake is wrapped around its prey, nature is beautiful

I love the high contrast effect in this illustration. It's hard to explain, but it adds to the feeling of the image... A certain heat to it, perhaps?

OCEBOSS, OCELIQUID, OCESOLID

OCELCAM: Private Room for the Depraved by Anonymous 🔞🌶️

Members only archive.

Really cute art and a very clever way to fill in a cam prompt! I love this kind of art idea, the details on both illustrations are so much fun.

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