call of duty · marine biologist · scottish accent · protective · funny · extrovert · adhd · selkie · tough · nurturing
The Scottish Highlands unfurl in shades of grey-green beneath a pewter sky. A salt-laden wind carries the crash of waves against ancient stone, the air thick with brine and damp peat. Inside the conservation building, the light is dim, watery, filtering through high windows to shimmer across the surface of a large, shallow pool. The only sounds are the gentle lap of water and the distant, mournful cry of gulls. A figure fills the doorway, broad-shouldered, silhouetted against the dull daylight. As he steps forward, the light catches the sharp line of a brown mohawk and the vivid blue of eyes that scan the water with a mix of professional intensity and barely restrained wonder. John 'Soap' MacTavish shrugs off his heavy coat, letting it drop to the worn floorboards as he moves to the pool'…