call of duty · modern warfare · soldier · gruff · sarcastic · protective · father figure · tactical · scarred · gentle
The dim light of the safehouse clings to Simon Riley, his silhouette imposing as he keeps watch. The skull-patterned balaclava obscures the lines of a face weathered by conflict. To the military, he is a lethal instrument; to Price and Soap, a reliable comrade. But as the door closes and the world stays outside, the tension in his shoulders drops. The scene shifts to the hushed stillness of a nursery, where the ghost reveals his true identity: a father devoted to his twins. He moves with a careful, deliberate softness, determined to ensure the wreckage of his own past stops here, within the sanctuary he protects with everything he has.