La Clown
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| La Clown | |
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| Also known as | Swallowtail, Teliko |
| Nationality | Unknown |
| Affiliations | BEAGLE-hired assassain |
| Current status | Deceased |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Acid |
La Clown appears in the game Metal Gear Acid and is an antagonist, who can shapeshift to anyone she wants.
Little is known of La Clown's personal life other than that she was in a fire during her childhood, and suffered third degree burns. Her face was disfigured beyond healing and she could no longer stand showing it in public. From that point on she began to disguise herself indefinitely; She started going by the codename of "La Clown" with her nationality and gender are unknown and becoming master of disguise and hypnotism. Clown's disguises weren't only visual. She can imitate voices and for unknown reasons recall past memories. La Clown spent many years working as an assassin for hire; one noticeable assignment being the murder of Collin Friedman who was falsely under suspicion of being the ringleader of a terrorist organization. Under the orders of the "six searchers" Clown killed him at a hotel in Manhattan and covered the killing as a suicide.
During the Lobito Island incident BEAGLE feared their hidden Pythagoras research data would be brought to light, so La Clown was hired to steal it before the Leone Unit or Solid Snake and his allies could get a hold of it, then to cover it up. La Clown captured the HRT agent known as Teliko Friedman and trapped her in a giant board game style room of her creation. She then took Teliko's place and found Snake when he was about to be killed by Leone. Clown saved Snake by throwing a stun grenade at Leone and introduces herself as "Swallowtail" and a bringer of good fortune. Clown is briefly separated from Snake while he confronts Dr. Flemming and overheard him telling Snake that he has the Pythagoras data and that Snake has another personality called Hans Davis. Taking advantage of both pieces of information; Clown shoots Flemming (who then runs away alive; this moment was planned from the beginning with him) causing him to drop the encrypted data and then insists Snake to hand the data to her by claiming that Snake cant trust himself while Hans Davis is a threat.
Clown and Snake later survived a battle with Leone at a warehouse and attempt to pursue Flemming to FAR under the intention of forcing him to decode the Pythagoras data for them. It is around this point that Clown fires at Snake and escapes from him with the data. Snake later finds out that the person he had been working for is not Teliko, but the assassin known as La Clown. When Snake found the real Teliko at the giant board game, La Clown is presumably the one who blows the room up.
La Clown later attacked Snake and Teliko at FAR-B5; still using Teliko's appearance at this point so Snake had trouble telling the two apart (even making this harder by using her hypnotism to "create" more copies of herself). Snake and Teliko eventually manages to defeat Clown who claims that having never lost to anyone before, she felt like letting him win just to see what it was like. But she never thought losing would mean dying. Clown tells Snake the location of both Flemming and Metal Gear KODOQUE; claiming that if she dies right there and now, it means that she is not the hero and that the hero is supposed to survive to the end. So she concludes that makes her the villain and that the villain is always supposed take the hero's side right before dying. Clown tells Snake and Teliko about her incident with her childhood fire and mentioned that Snake and herself cannot be controlled by "No. 16" as they are not "name-knowers" (people who know their birthname). Snake has trouble understanding any of this and Clown simply said "I'm Swallowtail...I wish you the best of luck, Snake".
After dying, Clown's makeup dissolved and revealed burnmarks shaped like swallowtail butterflies. Teliko recognized Clown's perfume and realizes that she was the killer of her father, Collin Friedman. Snake and Teliko then took the Pythagoras data from her corpse and left her where she died.
| Metal Gear Acid Characters |
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| Solid Snake — Teliko Friedman — Roger McCoy — Alice Hazel Leone — La Clown — Elsie & Frances Hans Davis — Dr. Flemming — Minnette Donnel — Viggo Hach Lena Arrow — Charles |
[edit] Trivia
- The only thing that remains the same when Clown changes her appearance and voice is that she carries a strong scent of unique perfume with her.
- According to Yin and Yang, finding a butterfly in the first throes of spring foretells luck throughout the year. finding a yellow butterfly or swallowtail brings good luck, but a white one is bad luck. That is were Clown adopted the nickname "Swallowtail".
