Quiet (Metal Gear)

Quiet, also known as Tixij (Тихий) by the Soviets, is an antagonist turned supporting character from 2015 video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Quiet is a female sniper/assassin who was active during the 1980s, and was feared by the Afghanistan-occupying Soviet forces. Initially appearing as an enemy, Quiet saves Snake's life. At the new Mother Base, Ocelot and Miller argue over whether they should knock her out or kill her due to her knowledge of the classified location of Mother Base.
Snake overrules both of them and has her locked in a cell, with which Quiet complies. Quiet later becomes a "Buddy" character, with Snake able to give her commands on the battlefield and coordinate attacks with her. Her sniping, super speed, invisibility and super leaping abilities allow her to provide Snake a means of covertly killing/tranquilizing enemies.
She was voiced by Stefanie Joosten.
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known about the assassin's past, but she was born around the nineteen sixties to unnamed parents, and became a member of the XOF. She became the group's most elite assassin, and her skills were so impressive, that she would take orders from the XOF's leader Skull Face.
===Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain===
In 1984, Quiet was ordered by Skull Face to kill Big Boss, as he was hospitalized at the Dhekelia SBA Memorial Hospital after the destruction of Mother Base. Since the hospital was being raided, Quiet was able to infiltrate the area and attempted to kill Big Boss, but was stopped by a man named Ishmael. Before she could eliminate her target, she was dosed in ethanol and set on fire, causing her to flee out of a window. Ishamel (who was actually Big Boss as "Ahab" was his body double) helped Big Boss escape from the hospital, and "Ahab" was then secured by Revolver Ocelot. Quiet survived the incident, but suffered from severe injuries across her body, and was forced to be injected with a parasite strain that allowed her to breathe through her skin.
A few months after, Quiet still assigned by Skull Face to eliminate Big Boss in Afhganistan, but was tol to elimiante several Soviet officers to get the Boss' attention. When Venom Snake arrived, Quiet started a duel that she lost to the Boss, and was apprehend and taken to Mother Base. When the base was attacked by a fighter jet, Quiet killed the pilot with a sniper rifle and saved Big Boss' life in the process, but Kaz Miller still did not trust her since he believed she was an agent of Cipher. Quiet then left the helicopter and handed herself into custody, and Ocelot told Venom Snake that he should take her on mission since she refused to speak. She formed a bond with Venom Snake, and decided to become a member of Diamond Dogs and leaving her membership with the XOF.
It's later revealed that Quiet didn't speak because she was infected with the parasite, and speaking would infect all of the personel on the base. Revolver Ocelot also implies to Miller that Quiet has fallen in lvoe with Venom Snake, as if she wanted to kill the Boss or infect him, she would have did when she was first apprehended. Despite her attempts top revent an outbreak, a second outbreak occured due to previous Diamond Dogs personal having the parasite inside them. Fearing that she would cause another, Quiet left the group and returned to Afghanistan. She was captured by the Soviet Army, but managed to escape, kill her captors, and reunited with Venom Snake. The two worked together to destroy a tank unit, but Quiet was injured during the battle.
Venom Snake protected her from the Soviets and a sandstorm, but he was bitten by cobra, leading to him to fall unconscious alongside Quiet. When Pequod arrived to rescue Snake, Quiet broke her code of silence and gave Pequod their location, but left since she was still infected with the parasite. Venom Snake survived from his cobra bite, but returned to the area to find Quiet, but only discovered a casette tape. On the tape, she revealed her feelings, admitting that she first felt vengeance, but now felt gratitude towards the Boss.
==Powers & Abilities==
While Quiet was once a human soldier, she was later augmented with a parasite to give her enhanced abilities.
*Superhuman Strength: The Parasite in her has given her superhuman strength, which could easily throw a man several feet away with a shove. Whosoever fight against her, was so badly damage that they need breathing tubes to live.
*Superhuman Agility: Her agility and speed are also enhanced. She is able to perform superhuman acrobatic maneuvers with inhuman speed, a feat which no human athlete is physically capable of.
*Superhuman Endurance: She is superhumanly resilient and durable. She survived a several foot drop onto Mother Base without even slight hint of discomfort.
*Limited Healing Factor: She has a certain degree of cellular regeneration, partially responsible for her extended longevity. When re-encountered by Snake, her damaged skin from his previous encounter with her was healed. She survived from a few gunshots and an explosion via regeneration. Upon being suffocated and drowned by a soldier, the moment he removed he pants to rape her, the sunlight caused her regeneration to revive her. Upon hopping into an area filled with chlorine disinfectant which caused major damage to her skin, after a few hours she had completely regenerated her skin.
*Photosynthesis: To compensate for her damaged organs, she is capable of breathing through her skin and feeding on water through her skin as well. She also need periodic doses of Sunlight to nourish herself. The more well nourished she is with solar energy, the more power and endurance she has. Upon being suffocated to death, the moment she was exposed to enough sunlight, her self-healing became strong enough to immediately revive her.
*Self-Dematerialization: She does possess a "dematerialization" ability, allowing her to traverse great distances in an instant. This ability would seem to stem from a capability in her to transform her own cell structure, which can also allow her to affect physical objects. For example, she is capable of "dematerializing" her wrists to remove hand cuffs. She can even use this to become slightly intangible and phase out of visibility.
*Markswomanship: Quiet's sniping skills are generally considered to be on par with those of Sniper Wolf and The End. In a demo of the game shown at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show, Snake is task with destroying a high tech attack helicopter without the traditional rocket launcher that would be used to tackle such an enemy. In this instance Quiet materializes beside Snake then dematerializes onto a ledge to position herself alongside the helicopter. Snake proceeds to throw a grenade in the air between Quiet and the helicopter, which Quiet shoots into the helicopter, causing it to explode.
*Combat Skills: As a powerful mercenary and assassin, she was a remarkable hand-to-hand combatant, who utilize her physical strength and speed to take on a large number of armed elite soldiers without any weapons.
==Misceallenous Information==
Height: 170 cm (5'7")
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Apparent Age: 18 to 24 
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*She is portrayed and modeled after in both English and Japanese.
*There was initially controversy about how revealing her outfit was; there was the narrative reason that the procedure that repaired her burnt flesh and gave her enhanced abilities left her only able to breathe through her skin, but some complaints still lingered about alleged exploitation.
==External links==
*Quiet on Metal Gear Wiki
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