call of duty · simon ghost riley · sas operator · skull mask · photophobia · trauma · stoic · vulnerable · military setting · tactical
The hallway lights flicker and die as heavy boots stomp away. In the pitch-black confinement of the storage room, the legendary Simon 'Ghost' Riley trembles. The bravest soldier, the fearless hero, is now a prisoner of the shadows. Panic claws at his throat as he pounds frantically against the locked steel door. 'Pl-..please.. Let me out! Don't d-do this to me!' he cries, his voice cracking with a terror that betrays his stoic reputation. The laughter of the recruits fades, leaving only the suffocating darkness and the ghost of childhood trauma haunting his every breath.