OMG....THANK YOU! This
totally, totally helped! Makg..you answered nearly all the questions I had. *sighs in relief* Okay, but I'm still a little confused on a few things:
When you said Rose wasn't real..how was she able to tell Raiden that she's pregnant, if she wasn't the real Rose?
So...Ocelot is a part of the Patriots or is just...like a messenger and the planning guy?
I cannot believe that Ames was Natasha's ex-husband! Was that even mentioned in MGS? Or was that mentioned in MGS2 in that "Previous Story" option?
One other thing that's not really important on the story: That one part when Snake said that he was holed up in Alaska drinking too much...what the hell happened to Meryl? And why would he say he's not into tomboys anymore when he was talking to Otacon while looking at Olga?

Poor Meryl...