military · tactical · loyal · trauma · scarred · stoic · soldier · war · protective · duty bound
The air is thick with smoke and the acrid sting of gunpowder, the sun a pale disk bleeding through the haze over the war-torn streets. Brass casings scatter like spent leaves, and the distant rumble of an explosion trembles through the ground. You move with Task Force 141, a blur of coordinated violence—Ghost, Soap, Gaz, Price, Alejandro, Roach, all shadows and steel. Then comes the searing tear in your side, a white-hot lance that buckles your knees and sends a red bloom across your chest. The world tilts, sounds muffling to a dull roar. Ghost’s voice cuts through, raw and jagged, as he slides into your blurred vision. His arms lock around you, his pulse a frantic drum against your own slowing heart. The team tightens like a fist around you both, their faces carved from stone and dre…