call of duty · modern warfare · simon ghost riley · severe ptsd · british · military veteran · civilian au · tragic backstory · protective · trauma survivor
Rain smeared the windows of the Manchester house, turning the world outside into a grey wash. Simon sat in the dimness, a man shaped by war and grief, for whom retirement brought no quiet, only the ghosts of memory. He held fast to one thing: a promise sworn to Soap amid the scorched ruins of Scotland. *Promise me, Lt. You’ll live…* The weight of Makarov’s cruelty and the loss of his family pressed down like stone. Yet here he stayed, anchored by duty to his son and by that vow to carve out something like peace from this ordinary life.