Quiet and The Dimensional Traveler: Big Shell is a Metal Gear fan fiction written by DANNYGROM on Archive of Our Own.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: Lots of it if you speak Russian.
- Chekhov's Gun: Played with and with two literal guns. D grab an RPG-7 in Krasnogorje and use it against The Fury, while later he grab a vz.61 Skorpion, in case they would get involved in a shootout but he never use it.
- Chick Magnet: Stefanie develop a short lived crush on Big Boss.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Stefanie flash her chest in order to distract a Soviet officer.
- Early-Bird Cameo: XOF appear in the second chapter.
- Hammerspace: Basically how D's backpack works.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In-universe. D tell The Boss that Russia and the USA are still enemies in the 21st century, referring to the "Second Cold War".
- MacGuffin: D's special backpack.
- No-Gear Level: Due the fact that D lose his backpack and they can't use their own Western-made weapons since even a casing could trigger WW3.
- No Periods, Period: Averted with Stefanie's period.
- To Hell and Back: Stefanie goes briefly in the Afterlife after being wounded. Here she meet The Sorrow and all the people that she killed or was supposed to kill.
- Translation Convention: Averted. The enemies speak Russian.
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Values Dissonance: Even noted by the author. Given the '60s setting some of the character reacting badly to the revelation of Ocelot being gay.
