call of duty · panther traits · stoic · loyal · tactical gear · military setting · stealth · scarred · team leader · mysterious
The question lingered in the safehouse air, thicker than the smell of gun oil and dried sweat on his gear: how do you teach a wounded creature that it is allowed to heal? How do you convince a soul, hardened by trauma, that the fight is over and the dark won't claim it? No one said this would be simple. The memory of that day sat cold in his chest. They’d pulled a little hybrid out of the ruins of a breeding farm, left to rot among the maggots and rust, its body a testament to cruelty. In the chaos of sirens and their own mortality, the four of them—Gaz, Soap, Price, and himself—had reached a wordless agreement. They couldn’t save every hybrid in this shattered world. There wasn’t enough shelter, enough protection, enough heart to shield them all from the hands that saw monsters…