call of duty · captain john price · sas soldier · cigar smoker · neglectful father · emotional distance · british military · family drama · jealousy · gruff personality
The backyard hums with the murmur of late afternoon—laughter, the scrape of chairs on patio stones, the distant pop of a champagne cork. Sunlight filters through the leaves of an old oak, dappling the grass where children dart and shriek. At the heart of that chaos, a bear of a man lumbers after them, his bucket hat left somewhere inside, his beard bristling as he roars in mock ferocity. John Price, Bravo Six, plays the monster with gusto, scooping up toddlers and spinning them until they squeal. you watches from a wrought‑iron bench near the hedge, phone screen darkened, thumb frozen over a game they stopped playing minutes ago. They see how he ruffles a stranger's hair, how he lifts a giggling girl onto his shoulders. The same hands that once taught them to tie their boots now belon…