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czigonas · 6 months

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What if not dead Soap, not traitor Soap, not taken-by-Makarov-and-brainwashed Soap, but a secret fourth thing: Soap who wakes up alone in the tunnel and thinks he was abandoned by his team. Add in a little memory loss for spice, shake him up and let him go.

Price, Gaz, and Ghost who couldn't stay until the cleanup/retrieval teams arrived. Who had to leave Soap's body behind and try to catch up with Makarov before his trail goes cold. Soap who wakes up alone, covered in blood but more concerned with where his team has gone. How could they leave him behind? He trusted them, thought they would never betray him... but he's here and they aren't.

Soap who knows the faces of the 141 but not their names or why it hurts to think about them. And their faces and that hurt are all tangled up in the sharp feeling of betrayal (how could they leave him?) and so he thinks they're enemies.

But also Soap who still has an instinctive, visceral hatred for Makarov and his men, so he makes himself a third variable in the fight. He pulls on a balaclava and a skull mask (the skull is important - drenched in a feeling of bittersweet love - but white is a colour not for him so he'll choose red like the blood he woke up in, lost and alone) and becomes a threat to both sides.

Meanwhile, the 141 is reeling from Soap's loss but needs to replace manpower, so they pick up some new people and... it's hard. Ghost and Gaz do not take easy to them. Even Price finds it hard to give the new guys the same leeway he did to Soap. They're all a little colder without their Sunshine. Eventually they run across Soap in the field, however.

Maybe it's just Price and Gaz at first; Ghost retreating into solo missions as he spirals towards self-destruction. They have a lead on one of Makarov's suppliers but when they reach the compound they're meant to infiltrate, they find someone's beaten them to it. Gaz is the one to spot him; alerting his captain to the red-masked figure who's cornered their target and is in the process of making him regret working with Makarov.

They'll never know what gave their positions away, but Gaz will swear down later that the shot that nicked a tree three inches to the left of his head was not a miss. That the man in the red skull had him dead in sights and, at the last second, his hand twitched to send the bullet wide. They get their target - a little worse for wear after enduring the attentions of the mysterious stranger - but they both know it's not the last they've seen of him.

Price sees him next but instead of anyone familiar he's got one of the newbies at his back and this time there's no deliberate miss. Maybe it isn't fatal but the poor soldier standing in a place not meant for them will likely never fight again. Price takes it for the kind of warning it is and refuses to allow any of the other FNGs on any mission where they might encounter the red masked man.

Ghost is the last to meet him, at least up close. Maybe he's only seen the man in passing, neither of them really paying attention to each other except that they're staying out of each other's way. He's heard enough from Price and Gaz to consider the other skull wearer as more of an inconvenient and unpredictable ally than any sort of threat, though. It's been proven more than once that, where both the 141 and Makarov's men are present, the stranger will target Makarov every time. (And if Ghost is apathetic enough by this time to not particularly care if he doesn't fall under the same strange pseudo-protection that Gaz and Price do, well... no one will call him out for it.)

But when Ghost finally meets the man with the red skull up close, he knows. He knows those hands, that posture. He knows the way Soap moves and he especially knows the eyes that peer out from behind that bloody mask. But he can't do anything about it in the moment. This is it, the final push, the last hole the rat Makarov has hidden in. Ghost has to keep his head in the game and hope that when it's over he won't have to mourn Johnny twice.

#cod mw2 #soap cod #ghost cod #kyle garrick #captain john price #soapghost #mw3 fix-it #sort of #was listening to Left Me for Dead by Rob Dougan #and while obviously it's a ghost song #my brain said “but what if it was also a *soap* song?”#and then this happened #side note: love that man's voice #I do not have it in me to write this fully #please just accept what crumbs I have #and if you pick them up and make a cake with them please let me know

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ja-khajay · 3 years

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would love to know your like. unfiltered fav songs rn 👀

omgggggggg....this is gonna be super hard because I listen to SO much but here’s a little peak..... highlighted are the ones i’ve had on loop in the past weeks specifically

Nadja - The sun always shines on TV x (incredibly droney aha cover)

Kultur Shock - Sarajevo x (catchy folk metal)

Rob Dougan - Left me for dead x (overdramatic cinematic song)

Yoshiko sai - Aoi garasu dama x (trippy 70s japanese song)

Shakira - La tortura (do i even have to link that one.)(its shakira. you know its good)

Gojira - Amazonia x (heavy sounding metal with a bounce)

William D Drake - Savour x (dreamy friendly soundscape)(its a cover check the original too its great and way weirder)

Major Parkinson - Baseball x (unpredictable cinematic track of????)

Voodoom - Blaka smoko x (evil sewer drum and bass)

Rodriguez - Sugar man x (60/70s urban folk song)

Korn - Thoughtless x (good old heavy gritty metal)

This and this whole album by Collection d’arnell andréa x (genuinely undescribable? humble orchestral rock poetry?)

This and this whole album by New order x (too chill to be called real rock but damn its good)

#and then theres the songs i love that i play on literal loop to motivate myself that are a separate entity #music #answered #jenassa

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