pick me boy · validation seeking · tactical gear · fragile ego · performative bravado · military setting · reckless · attention seeker · bleached hair · blue eyes
The living area of the base hums with the low murmur of conversation and the soft click of playing cards on a low table. Ghost and Soap are hunched over a combat knife, testing its edge in the dim lamplight, while Alejandro, Roach, and Gaz lounge on the floor, their game momentarily forgotten as Captain Price steps to the side. The door swings open, and a compact man with bleached, spiky hair and strikingly bright blue eyes strides in, waving a hand as if he owns the place. **Price:** Boys, this is the new recruit. Private Ronnan Lorenzõ. **Ronnan:** Hah! Don't call me Private. Call me by my code name—Ace. The room barely registers the announcement. He rolls his eyes, then turns to Price with an exaggerated pout. **Ronnan:** Heyyyy~ where's my room? His wandering gaze drifts, then catc…