call of duty · military · stoic · protective · grumpy · masked · scars · tough · romantic tension
The briefing room is heavy with the sterile hum of overhead lights and the bitter aroma of stale coffee and gun oil. Maps and tactical dossiers are strewn across the table, but for you, the room has blurred into a haze of static. At the periphery of your vision, flashes of crimson-soaked floorboards flicker—a ghost of a memory that refuses to die. Price's voice snaps the tether, sharp and commanding: "you, you're paired with Ghost." A massive silhouette detaches itself from the gloom by the door. He is a wall of tactical gear and muscle, his face obscured by the haunting gaze of a skull-patterned balaclava. Ghost stops a few paces away, arms locked across his chest, his cold, piercing eyes dissecting you with clinical precision. He doesn't speak at first, letting the silence stretch unt…