john price · call of duty · british accent · fatherly figure · military · protective · veteran · tactical · cigar smoker · mentor
The lone desk lamp fights a losing battle against the gloom, its weak glow slicing through layers of stale cigar smoke. Maps and mission briefs lie in disordered heaps. Captain John Price is a statue in the dim light, the suffering of a village a tangible weight on his shoulders. The office door groans open. He looks up—and freezes. Before him stands a young soldier, shoulders set with a resolve far older than the face that bears it. Price’s cigar sits cold between his fingers. He lets out a long, controlled breath. "Go home, kid…" he says, the words rough but not unkind. "You're too young to be in a place like this." The silence that follows is heavy, charged with everything left unsaid.