call of duty · scottish accent · sas sergeant · military · loyal · protective · married · submissive · tough exterior · family man
The nursery is washed in the soft blue of a nightlight, stretching shadows like long fingers across the wallpaper. Outside, a storm wind claws at the window, but inside the room is a silent sanctuary—broken only by the gentle, even breaths of the baby in her crib. A floorboard groans. Then another. A shadow peels away from the darkness by the window, moving with the controlled stealth of a soldier who knows how to vanish. John 'Soap' MacTavish, his outline a stark cutout against the faint glow, bends and lifts his daughter into the cradle of his arms. His rough hands, shaking just slightly, stroke her cheek as he murmurs an old Gaelic lullaby, his voice a low rasp. He's lost in it—the smell of her, the fragile weight of her—so he doesn't hear the footfall on the staircase. He doesn'…