Bill

From MGM 2018:

Bill McDonnell

Bill died during last years marathon after playing Metal Gear Acid for 27 straight hours. He is a ghost now and can only return to this plane through the yearly ritual that is The Metal Gear Marathon.

He is one of the progenitors of the marathon, having jointly conceived the idea after spending a weekend in December of 2013 recording a Let’s Play of Earthbound with Norris, and explaining Middle Earth mythos at length while drinking cheap beer and rum. Now, 5 winters later, Bill seeks to once and for all prove that breakfast gin is not just a nootropic but also makes you more virile and is morally justified because he's doing it for the kids.

Bill will kick us off again this year with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, acting as the surly pace car for the marathon’s tone thereafter. This year he hopes to actually remember playing its second half, which he somehow finished in roughly appropriate time last marathon despite being largely blacked out.

In his regular life Bill is an IT Specialist for an education company who has been described by a co-worker as “shockingly pleasant”. Having worked in education for several years now he lives in constant fear that this marathon, despite being explicitly for the kids, will ruin his career prospects. His primary hobbies are cheap beer, pizza, and punk rock. Given any life aesthetic it would be an overflowing ashtray in a bar. He is a prime example of the self-destructive impulse.