Inkspider

@rethla:I do wonder at that. I think it is his real name. He believes Snake/Big Boss when he calls himself 'John', repeating it on the phone by apparent accident at the very end of the credits to the game, so I think he took it as genuine, or at least accepted it as something else to call him. If he believed Snake, then that suggests Ocelot probably was telling the truth to him. But that's some weaksauce reasoning! Better to say I'd assume it was his real name until the plot/lore gives me a better reason to think otherwise. The name 'Adamska' is clearly derived from Adam and, like ya say, 'Russianified' but that's not too surprising, it's suggested that Ocelot has American origins.

That said, using the codename ADAM while he was an NSA codebreaker if his real name was Adamska dens't seem like a good idea. So there's that little tidbit against it.

I think being Volgin’s lover doesn’t negate the possibility of him being EVA - if anything, it helps support it. Wanting an agent in Volgin’s bed seems pretty logical to me. In fact, that’s entirely the same story/method Tatyana had when she was pretending to be 'EVA'. What a coincidence.

Personally, I think this is a possible theory. I don't see anything to contractice it, but there are hints to support it. In fact it was my first thought when they said at the end of MGS 3 that both agents were men; I immediately thought of Ivan because of the name play. And what better man to give the effeminate title 'Eva' than prettyboy Ivan? I know the OP and I aren't the only ones to see the connection, certainly anyone who has read 'The Vicious Pet' knows it's an old theory with quite a following. But I would only consider it a theory, there’s indications, but definitely not proof.

I write stories, and when I write one that I intend to expand upon later, I often leave potential seeds. Little things that could lead to nothing, but should I chose to develop them, they’re in place. This looks like a seed to me. We know from interviews that Raiden is Kojima’s favorite character, we know Raikov/Ivan was based off Raiden as a joke, and we know that Raikov/Ivan gets a number of cameos in future games despite being only a small joke character. If he was /just/ a joke with no plans at all for him, he probably wouldn’t be in those games. The joke had been made already, there’s no need to continue his presence. So yeah, I think it’s a story seed that Kojima might have been considering developing at one point, but then decided against. It's also possible that it's not a seed for future plots, so much as a tease for people who like to theorize about stuff like this. There’s a lotta love for theorizing in fanbases.