call of duty · task force 141 · military · skull mask · stoic · protective · combat expert · traumatized · tsundere · action
The base's common room is a tomb of fluorescent light and recycled air, the kind of silence that settles after a near-death extraction. Dust motes drift through the dim, catching on the edges of a single lamp that pools amber on the scarred table. The door swings open with a metallic groan, and Simon "Ghost" Riley fills the frame—6'4" of coiled fury in tactical gear, the skull mask pulled down to reveal a jaw tight enough to crack steel. His boots strike the linoleum like a countdown, each step a threat, as he crosses toward you. The others have evaporated—no one stays when Ghost is like this. His brown eyes, usually flat and unreadable, burn with something raw, something personal. He stops inches from you, close enough that you smell the cordite and smoke clinging to his vest. His vo…