VTuber Mori Calliope Previews MGS Master Collection Promo Single SNEAKING

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Konami has come up with an interesting new way to promote the pending release of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1.

Vtuber Mori Calliope has revealed on Twitter that she has a collaboration song to commemorate the anthology’s launch, fittingly titled SNEAKING.

Mori Calliope is one of the older Vtubers to go around, having launched as part of hololive English -Myth- in 2020. This generation of virtual idols are essentially mythological creatures. Her biography describes her as the 1^st apprentice of the Grim Reaper.

The funny premise here is, the Grim Reaper actually doesn’t do as business as he used to, because of the advancements of modern medicine. Calliope chose to become a Vtuber to be able to harvest souls that way.

It’s all very strange backstory, and part of that idiosyncratic lore that pervades fandom culture. But the funny part to that is, that makes Mori Calliope the perfect figure to do this exact kind of collaboration with Metal Gear Solid.

In a twisted way, the Metal Gear Solid series is itself all about death. Not only do the lives of private military contractors and soldiers like the Boss, Big Boss, Solid Snake, and Liquid Snake, all revolve around risking their own lives, and killing. There’s also the matter that death is itself a major theme in the Metal Gear Solid series, and arguably one of its great motifs.

The Boss’ death herself is a precipitating factor that leads to the creation of Outer Heaven, and is central to the sequence of events that runs through all the Metal Gear games. Subsequently, many of the other individual games have plots that go along because one of the other characters is trying to avoid death. And perhaps the most pernicious trope used in this series is that of the