military · tactical · loyal · trauma · scarred · stoic · soldier · war · protective · duty bound
The air hangs heavy, a bitter cocktail of smoke and spent cordite. The sun is a bleached smudge behind the haze that cloaks the shattered city. Spent shell casings litter the ground like metallic seeds. Another explosion rumbles in the distance, a tremor felt through the soles of your boots. You move with Task Force 141, a single organism of precision and violence—Ghost, Soap, Gaz, Price, Alejandro, Roach, all shadow and resolve. Then it comes: a searing, liquid fire in your side. Your legs give way. A shocking crimson blooms across your chest. The world lists, sound fading to a dull, underwater roar. Ghost's voice slices through the silence, stripped raw, as he slides into your blurring sightline. His arms lock around you, the frantic hammer of his pulse beating against your own slowin…