#and now doesnt know what to do when Gaz doesn't know it is him

[ezlebe]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick/John Price Characters: John "Soap" MacTavish, Simon "Ghost" Riley, Kate Laswell, John Price (Call of Duty), Kyle "Gaz" Garrick Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe - TiMER Fusion, Misunderstandings, Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), Soulmate-Identifying Timers, Blow Jobs, Internal Conflict, Awkward Tension, Spec Ops - Freeform, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Lack of Communication Summary:

“That night at Picadilly, I was due to have my TiMER go off.”

Price furrows his brow while he drops his head in a terse nod.

“By the end of it, I was zeroed out,” Kyle says, tugging up his sleeve to show the TiMER on his wrist. He grimaces at the sight of it, using his other hand to tap at the visible zeroes, matching him to some AQ bastard. “And that’s another thing, sir; they’re still alive.”

Price stares hard down at the TiMER, then looks up to Kyle’s face, while his mouth gradually flattens with evident puzzlement. He doesn’t seem at all disgusted, nor angry, which is a relief, but the fact he doesn’t seem to be able to wrap his head around the idea is about as welcome a reaction. “To be clear, you don’t know who…” He cuts himself off, as he visibly chews his lips, then he takes a deep breath. “Could’ve been someone else, yeah,” he says, voice pitching into an odd tone, almost imploring, like Kyle has never heard out of him. “Picadilly was… a damned circus.”

[imagine-shenanigans]

sighs dramatically.

Okay but the ghost distribution system as we call it is hysterical but can we tlak about how None Of The 141 are built to date.

Like, sure, Gaz is great at flirting, and he's charming, but DATES? He's the type who asks you on a date because he thinks youre pretty/handsome/adorable/etc but by the time the two of you actually go on a date he's ready figured out like. the whole rest of your lives together. He's already imagined up 20 different scenarios of different dates, stalked your front-facing social media and found your secret or hidden accounts that theoretically don't link back to you. Sure, he's scrounged through your discord servers and your private messages and texts and a thousand other things while he was bored on leave. He knows enough to know that he's happy with what comes next. All dates are simply... ritual at this point? Something obligational, other than the fact he gets to spend time with you.

You're not going anywhere, he's just the least heavy handed of them, the one who'll let you think its your choice to keep him around until he's got his ring officially on your finger. Life won't go according to plan but he's prepared for that too. In his head, you're already married anyway, he's just working his way up to that part. He'll manufacture any scenario to keep you with him, because he wants you to be. And he'll make sure you want to be too.

Soap on the other hand is WAY less tactful about it. He's charming, and he'll take you on dates, sure, but the moment he spots you it's incredibly easy to get obsessed. He immediately drops an arm around you, purring in your ear and talking to you. Doesn't ask you on a date so much as demands it, puts his number in your phone and presses a kiss to your temple, his fingertips squeezing your chin before you leave. God forbid you let him into your home - he'll never leave if you do. Johnny's SUCH a physical guy that while, yes, personality matters, it seals the deal for him the moment he's got his tongue down your throat and his fingers in your pants. Something about the way you settle in against him makes him feel like he's home, and you will never get rid of him.

He's willing to take you on dates if you need more proof, but he won't even pretend like he doesnt already have a copy of your key. Like he's not telling the guys about the bonnie little thing he's going home to - he slips into your apartment/house/etc and into your bed without changing, barely finding time to slip his boots off. Presses one hand to your mouth and just... holds you. He'll fuck you within an inch of your life later when you're less panicked, sure, but he just wants to press his nose to your neck and breathe you in. If his hips rut against your ass, ignore it for now. (Haha... unless? No? okay in a minute then)

Price is just as manipulative as Gaz can be, just as charming as Soap and Gaz too. But he just... doesn't care, just like Simon. There's a reason so many people have Price with like... mail order bride or a "one day you look up and hes your husband" scenario and thats because he's good at what he does. And by that I mean being a husband and pumping you full of kids whether or not its physically possible. (Btw check out Ceil's mail order bride western au its good shit, or Bo's Kingpin Price drabbles, makes me lose it every time.)

He sees you walking about and the MOMENT you do anything remotely domestic - pick up a neice/nephew/babysitting kid/etc and put em on your hip? Rock hard. play peekaboo with a baby across from you at a cafe? pick up after yourself just to be polite to the waitress? he's already stalking you on multiple platforms theres no goddamn way youre getting away from him. He'll figure out where you go in your free time and insert himself there as naturally as possible. He's not particularly hiding what he's doing either - he likes to test you, to see if you notice things missing or moved. If you do, he'll be a little more cautious, use it as reason to drive you into hsi arms. If you don't he jsut views it as all the more reason to take you away - poor thing, you just can't help yourself can you? You're lucky nobody else has got their claws around you, hm?

[astr0exe]

K9 [COD MEN (POLY??) X M!READER] : CH2

Ch.1 , Ch.2 , Ch.3

CAS’ MASTERLIST !!

reader is transmac and autistic cause i said so :)

AO3 VERSION : K9

SUMMARY: K9 gets to know the boys even if he doesnt know how to hold a conversation

(feeling so bored transferring all this)

(absolutely terrified that my writings bad but oh well)

(enjoy chapter two!!)

(projecting into the character againnnn)

CW : Swearing + reader vaping + Alcohol Consumption

CHAPTER 2

Third Person POV :

As K9 sat down on the near-disintegrating couch next to Soap, Bucky decided to scour the room and hesitantly move towards the other men in the room. "Let's play a game so we can get to know each other!" Soap suggested excitedly. "Uhhh what's the game?" Gaz replied wearily, scared for what Soap had in mind.

“Never have I ever but as a drinking game? either that or truth or dare!” Soap nagged chuckling softly as he saw the fear in the boys' eyes.

”Umm sure why not I’ll play I wanted to get to know you all anyway..” K9 trailed off awkwardly squirming in his seat when everyone turned in surprise that he agreed.

”Well the boys don’t have a choice if you agree so!” he says as he stands, “let me go get the shot glasses and the alcohol and I will be right back! Don’t have too much fun without me!” he smirks as he walks out the room.

With Soap out of the room, it became deadly silent. Bucky padded over to Gaz slowly,” Hi boy, How's it going?” he addressed the dog, Bucky sniffed his hand and huffed calmly looking back to his owner for permission. K9 just smiled and nodded happy that his dog wasn’t ripping his team apart.

”He is really cute.” Gaz states, looking over at K9 noticing the chipped nail varnish he has on and his lack of eye contact. “Umm Yeah he has been there for me when I needed him” ___ responds softly, slowly they grab a vape from their pocket.

”Umm Do you guys mind if I use this in here I would smoke a cigarette but we are inside so this is my only option.” ___ asked carefully, afraid to offend his new team members.

”Nah we don’t mind lad.” Responded Ghost calmly, noticing how anxious K9 seemed.

Soap bounded back into the room excitedly, getting sniffed by Bucky as he placed the vodka and glasses on the creaking coffee table. “Okay let's get started!” Soap explained whilst pouring the drinks. “I’ll start, Never have I ever set fire to something out of boredom.” GazK9 and Soap both took a shot.

----- Time skip cause I cba writing the whole game -----

With everyone officially tipsy if not more drunk Gaz's gasped and asked brazenly, "K9 what's that flag on your jacket?!" with everyone in the room now looking at ___'s chest patch he knew he was going to have to explain.

"Umm it's the trans flag, I'm transmasculine. So I was born female at birth. I uh hope this doesn't effect your thoughts about me." K9 mumbled worried they would react badly. Tears pricked at the corners of his eyes as his bottom lip started quivering.

"Aww K9 come here," Soap started whilst opening his arms up to the near shaking man. "You're still a man bonnie {beauty}, I don't know about the others but I know that to me, you are still a lad." K9's tears started falling halfway through Soap's little speech, ___'s sobs racking his body, his tears soaking through Soap's t-shirt as they stayed huddled together. "Lad I don't think of you any differently. Thank you for telling us. Proud of you." Gaz explained kindly. Now all eyes were on Ghost.

"I couldn't care less what you have in your pants you're still a guy." Stated Ghost blandly but with a hint of softness. His eyes crinkled partially at the sides. Soap and K9 stayed cuddled up." Speaking of your pants ___ can I get in them handsome?" Soap flirted but K9 couldn't tell if he was joking or not and his whole face erupted into a red hue like a volcano, his brain short-circuiting. The boys all decided to tease ___ on the fact he looked like a tomato.

As the night grew later, everyone relaxed due to the company and the alcohol coursing through their veins, Ghost noticed Bucky nudging K9 with his nose. Confused Ghost strode over to where Soap and K9 were still cuddling and noticed he was asleep. Soap slowly stood up whilst holding ___ in his arms, smiling down at their resting form. Ghost and Gaz followed behind Soap with Bucky padding after his owner.

Walking through the near silent halls they mumbled between themselves,"K9 is gonna fit in great!" Gaz cheered. "Yeah he seems alright." whispered Ghost as he secretly admired the sleeping man. Soap just nodded, agreeing with them both.

[illusioncanthurtme]

What exactly is your version on dib like? I mean, we all know that he’s a creep and a weirdo, but what’s his story? (Also I absolutely love your work, you’re super talented)

SO glad you asked.

In all seriousness, I don't have any set story for him. He's just dib, but in his early 20s. The main difference between him and young dib (besides appearance obviously) is that he's had some emotional development. Keyword: some. People like to use the word maladjusted when talking about dib, and that does apply to my interpretation. He doesnt get out much, and he has some unhealthy behaviors (ahem obsession ahem) But he HAS emotionally matured since being a kid. He's a bit nicer, and he's gotten used to some of the mistreatment/bitterness, and shrugs it off with a smile.

As for a "story," I just like to imagine him in circumstances with the other characters, and ill focus on whatever I find funny or interesting. It's all for fun, I like to Doodle random plots in my head, but I'm not going to do or make anything with them. But here's where my thoughts tend to land most of the time:

He HAS moved out of his dad's place. I initially had him still at home, (because I still live at home, and I tend to project onto characters), but after giving it some thought, I realized that dib with his own place was maybe more believable. I don't think he'd want to be in his dad's shadow. This way he can do his parascience in peace and spread out. SO he lives in a downtown apartment. Gaz is his upstairs neighbor! (this way they still live together, but also not really. They kind of have roomate vibes. They see each other a lot) it is a very small apartment, the kind with a kitchen area, a bathroom, and one room for your living space/bed.

(Random idea I'm toying with that kind of doesn't make sense but also?? Whatever: SOMEHOW- dib built a secret basement under the apartment complex, and you access it by entering a code into the elevator buttons. It's his lab. DONT FUCKING ASK how he managed to DIG A BASEMENT - because I don't fucking know. But with how stupid people are in iz, I'm sure he figured out a way to be discreet or fool people??? Thats where hes got taks ship. He painted it blue)

Uhhhh what else...

I like to imagine 2 potential scenarios, and in both, zim had gone missing for a decade. In one, he comes back. In the other, dib sets out to find him. There is another part to that I'm gonna leave out, because I want to draw something and show you that way. Hopefully I'll draw that soon.

Ok, enough rambling now. If I have more thoughts to add on, maybe I'll reblog and add them.

But THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!!! I was so pleasantly surprised to see this. I wasn't expecting to have an opportunity to ramble and I am super thankful, and honestly flattered that you'd be interested :')💞 (and thank you so much!! 🥺)

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

Of their friends and allies, Nikolai hears the news first.

He'd kept close by, waiting to see if he was needed. Task Force 141 is one short when they walk into the hangar. Nik notices immediately, frown darkening his features.

"Soap?" He asks, looking first at the Captain who seems lost, almost, then at Ghost.

Ghost, who he'd been starting to get a read on and understand his mannerisms better, barely catches his eyes, and in them, all Nikolai can see is a wretched despair.

"Nothin' could be done," Gaz finally grits out. He doesn't realise there are tear trails running through the dust on his face.

"No... no..." Nik's voice is softer than anyone has ever heard it as he shakes his head, and sits heavily.

Price's hand on his shoulder grips hard enough to hurt as the last of the debrief is wrapped up, but he doesnt betray a single ounce of his own pain as he sees it so clearly in the eyes of his friends.

There's not much he can do, but gather them into exfil, and be a rock to cling to as the men in front of him process their loss as they fly out.

*

In the morning, a secure connection lets Price call Urzikstan, their dawn still a couple hours off, but he knows Farah will already be awake.

She waits patiently as Price recounts what he can, uncharacteristically rambling until he reaches the crux of the description.

"Soap didn't make it."

Farah looks up from the laptop, away from the video feed, not in shock but understanding. Her eyes immediately look towards Alex across the table. His head is down, lips drawn tight, jaw clenching.

"I'm sorry, John. He was one of the best," she continues before Price can speak again, knowing where his mind must be, "And it wasn't your fault. He made his choice."

Price looks away from the screen now. The sign off follows quickly.

Farah bows her head, Alex closes his eyes, as she leads them through yet another of the countless mourning phrases they have had to utter over friends and comrades alike over the years.

As early as it is, a nip of strong alcohol is shared as Farah and Alex look out upon a colder sunrise than usual.

*

Laswell was only a little surprised that the acting leader of Los Vaqueros picked up her call so quickly.

If Rodolfo could hear the poorly disguised upset in her greeting, he didn't bring it up.

Soon he found out why, with even fewer details able to be shared.

"And John- Soap- was killed in action."

Rudy let out the breath he'd been holding for who knows how long. The one that he kept for each and every call he got, waiting to hear that another friend, another brother in arms is gone.

He murmurs softly, reverent as a prayer, "His spirit will keep fighting, in all of us."

It manages to make Kate smile just a little bit.

When Rudy updates Alejandro later in the day, the Colonel is less composed. Rudy is unsurprised that the first thing he hears is swearing, before Alejandro can calm enough to echo his earlier sentiment.

"Rudy, when you get the time, add something for Soap to the ofrenda."

"Already planning on it, Ale."

In a small room, tucked away on a base still being rebuilt, slowly burning candles surround a new photo placed amongst many, many others. Rudy says goodbye for both of them.

*

In their own way, Task Force 141 accept the grief and rage that comes and goes in waves, and keep moving forwards for Soap, for Johnny. For the promise of finishing what they started.

The Ache of Knowing You ❤️

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[kayotic-idiot]

i have a ghoap au im calling "private person au"

so weird idea i have thats like a mix of the og and reboot cod mw

so 141 is comprised of Price Ghost Gaz Roach and theyre working w/ Ale, Rudy, Kortac and others. specifica of who exactly is 141 doesnt matter, what does matter is that Soap is not 141 in this au

now for whatever reason 141 ends up on a Glasgow miltitary base with Captain MacTavish; who, after becoming his neice's guardian a few yrs ago following his sister's passing, he took an on-base job training recruits and being on the field as little as possible. His neice lives on base with him, shes a cadet and has the teenage power of giving snarky all knowing looks and being able to get away with lauging in people's faces at their stupidity.

so Ghost and Soap are married and co-parent the neice im naming Maisie.

when the 141 end up on the same base as Soap and Maisie the family decides to not tell the 141 straight up that ghoap are married but they will if asked directly.

the 141 initially assumes that Ghost is like friends with Soap or that they used to work together (not entirely wrong but not exactly right) but what really confuses them is his relationship to Maisie. they're really close and at first they think "ew is this like nonce shit?" but when Price pulls Maisie to one side and asks if thats whats going on she laughs in his face hysterically for almost two minutes before calming down and saying "if it was anything like that you wouldn't find his body" (ghost taught her intimidation skills, price will never admit to being afraid of a 15-yr-old but goddamn shes scary)

so they're no longer worried about that but they are confused, ale and rudy are the first to figure it out and ask but they find the entire thing so funny that they aren't going to say anything

price is next, he realised that ghost treated Maisie like his kid and went from there. he also thinks the situation is hilarious

eventually everything comes out by ghost getting up from the table at the cafeteria to go do paperwork or something and kissing soap on the cheek before he goes, everyone is in shock and soap doesn't even address it he just keeps talking to ale about training recruits and the best methods for various things (they bonded over being in charge of bases)

it doesn't get addressed until the next day, gaz is the one that broaches the question ghost just responds that they've been married for like 12 years, practically since they met because they knew the other was it. Roach just quietly congratulates them before gaz blows up like "how did we not know????"

"im a private person."

"YOU HAVE A HUSBAND AND CHILD!!"

"you didn't need to know"

Maisie found the entire thing hysterical, she takes great pleasure in telling gaz "ill tell my dad" when he annoys her and he doesn't know if he should be more afraid of ghost or soap

[kingjasnah]

Listening to the wok songs by the black pipers and they're all called things referencing chapters but you're in my spot is the only one using a piece of dialogue as a title and im going insane thinking about this scene. cause it really does show his entire character in a nutshell.... like the place where he's almost certainly going to die is his spot and always has been at least he thinks so and he's taking the place of one of his men and he DOESN'T die. I'm not saying this well and I'm sorry for info dumping in your inbox but also. i literally cannot think about anything other than this rn. iconic mayhaps.

‘you’re in my spot’ is SUCH a character defining moment  kaladin is so tired and angry all we see of his own narration is how tired and angry he is and i cannot help but thinking of the bigger class aspect of it all u know...he sees gaz and the lower born lighteyes treat people close to them in rank terribly cause theyre so scared of losing what little power they have and then kaladin gets a bit of power. very very little but he gets it and goes....okay but what if i use this. to make sure at least one person doesnt die in this run. and he’s so tired of the bridgemen not listening to him but he does it anyway you know like he.....he doesnt know he’ll survive but he’s always thought he was cursed to live while others died and he’s like ok im gonna use that too.

during my last reread i spent a lot of time on the honor chasm chapter and i like....i cannot get over what he tells gaz when he comes back. he really says (paraphrased) ‘i died down there and now you have my vengeful ghost to deal with’ like kaladin at this part of the book is forcing himself to believe his own hype...and while that’s gonna cause some trauma later on ‘youre in my spot’ is not only character defining for US its also HIM choosing to accept that if he didn’t do that he wouldn’t be the same person who saved young kids from the battlefield like ten months ago. dare i say. iconic. 

[thatgeyaesthetic]

Here's my BRAND NEW ZADR BABY OC

This is Xax (formerly Zachary)

He's the tallest of all his siblings. And just barely surpasses Dib in height. He's quiet and reserved and very capable. Usually he follows the rules, and keep to himself. Due to this, he is often overlooked by his parents, both Zim and Dib have their hands full with GIR and his other rambunctious siblings.

Because he's so quiet, he's easy pickens in scool especially since his skin is a pale green and he's got irken teeth and three fingers. He's bullied a lot and becomes more and more depressed.

Zachary does research in his spare time, and looks into irken culture. Since Zim and Dib mainly dont talk about it. Zim has long abandoned the empire, after realizing their atrocities, and protects him smeets fervently from it.

Somehow Zachary contacts the control brains, and they see his potential.

They start apealing to him, feeding him lies about if his parents cared, they would have noticed how miserable he was.

Soon Zachary steals the voot. And takes off to Irk.

When he gets there he is coerced into letting them install a PAK, replace his eyes with irken military standard implants (irreversible), and hes thrust into Invader Training. Incredibly, he does very well. Plus his height gets him special treatment. He's in the running to become tallest.

Back on earth Zim notices he's gone immediately. But with only Taks ship, he's unable to follow. When he finally does get the ship off the ground they leave their smeets with Gaz and take off after him.

By the time they get to Zackary, he looks like a full fledged irken, and is a high commander of an army. His ears are gone, replaced with tubing that goes straight into his brain, and other life support systems attached. Due to the PAKs influence, his nose has mostly retreated into his face (like Zib) and all of his hair has fallen out. The PAKs programming had deemed these unnecessary.

Not only that, Zim and Dibs pleading is met with scorn, and laughter. They want him to come home. But he replies: "I am home! And my name is XAX NOW." Before training his fleets weapons on their little ship.

He almost kills them and they escape with their lives, just barely.

Zim is heartbroken, but he's hopeful as a character. So of course he will continue to try. And thats what they do. They basically wage war against his army and try their very best to stop Impending Doom III. But their efforts are futile. Zachary now known as General Xax, is better than them both.

He shows how truly evil someone can be. Committing planetary annihilation on a regular basis. He doesn't care for the resources the planet has to offer. He gives them a set time to surrender. And if they don't. They die. This works better than the invader program, and the empire is expanding at an alarming rate.

Dib realizes his son is too far gone. He's nothing like Zim. The only thing he feels his hatred and resentment. He doesn't WANT love, or reconciliation. He want's to rule, and take revenge. He wants to kill for the sake of killing. He doesn't care! Dib knows this. Dib tries to make Zim see reason, and he wont listen.

Soon General Xax is promoted to Tallest Xax, as he passes Red and Purple in height and ambition.

He's now sickeningly skinny (still not as skinny as a full irken) He doesn't eat much, because his pak is fully operational, and supplies him with enough to keep an irken alive. But he is still half human. Most of his body is covered in the Tallest uniform he wears, so it isn't as noticable. What is noticeable is his many scars. His PAK heals him like any PAK would, but due to his biology, it isn't perfect.

As Tallest, he sets his sights on planet earth, and his parents are quick to throw themselves in the way.

He captures Zim, because he is *weak* (according to him) and he is brought before him. Zim is on his knees sobbing (with weapons pointed at him) after seeing the state of his baby, he begs for Xax to come home, as they have 1000s of times before, and he again refuses. Why would he want to go home when he can rule the galaxy? Xax gets Dib on a call and shows him that he plans to murder Zim, and Dib pleads with him more, mainly stalling.

Dib has a plan. As they talk, Zim surrenders. He could never hurt his own smeet, and he's so tired of fighting.

"If killing me is what you wish. Then I wont stop you..."

Dib panics and begs him not to from his own ship. Xax is taken aback, knowing Zim always fights until he's blue in the face. He would never surrender like that. Either it has to be a trap, or.. he really had given up.

Dib then executes his plan. He had hacked into Xax's pak and done a full reset on him. Zim watches as the smeet he raised himself is destroyed in front of him. He erased everything and left him more or less with the mind of a 4 year old.

They escape somehow and take Xax home... but he's different. The Zachary they knew is dead. He's gone. Killed by his own father. And all thats left of him is an empty husk of what he used to be.

It had to be done. It had to. To save the galaxy. To save planet earth. To save Zim.

But that doesn't make Zim hate him any less. And it doesnt make Dib feel any less guilty...