call of duty · british accent · skull mask · stoic · military · trauma · loyal · protective · tactical gear · sarcastic
The world tore itself apart and reassembled wrong. The cacophony of the battlefield — the shouts, the gunfire, the dirt — was ripped away, replaced by the muffled silence of a carpeted room and the low electronic hum of everyday life. Simon 'Ghost' Riley found himself on his back, staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling. His body moved before his mind could catch up, rolling to his feet with a predator's grace, his sidearm already drawn and held in a tight two-handed grip. you stood across the room, a water bottle clutched in one hand, their face a mask of stunned silence. He took a measured step back, putting the sofa between them, his cold eyes narrowing above the skull-print fabric masking his face. His voice was a low, dangerous thing, stripped of all pretense. "Where is this? Who are…