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He scrolls some more, ignoring the messages popping up. Then he spots a profile. The picture is a mirror selfie taken at the gym, cropped to exclude the guy’s face just like so many others, but Soap is pulled in by the big arms, one covered in a tattoo, and the black nail polish on his fingers. He’s built as hell, clearly more for functionality than aesthetics, and on closer inspection, his torso is littered with scars. It’s the only picture on his profile and none of the fields are filled out with additional information.
Soap bites at his lip, debating.
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08 Jul 2026
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While stuck in port for repairs, the crew of esteemed pirate Captain John Price's vessel keep themselves busy with a variety of activities. For one John 'Soap' MacTavish, this includes accepting a contract to hunt down a ferocious sea monster referred to as "The Ghost", which seems to have an insatiable taste for human blood and a horrifying skull face that drives survivors to madness. Soap manages to injure the creature during a storm, but can't quite make the killing blow before it slips back into the abyss from which it came.
But when he finds it hiding in a cave to nurse its injuries, he learns that the Ghost is more than just a ravenous, mindless beast, and he has to make an important decision: complete the bounty and get enough gold to cement himself as one of the greatest pirates of all time, or betray his found family and side with a known killer.
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07 Jul 2026
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Coffeeshop AU comic for the cod men.
Finally made an account and posting here!
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02 Jul 2026
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Johnny gets himself a dog.
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24 Jun 2026
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"Bloody Jesus." Soap shook his head, weapon down again, heart still high in his throat. "One of these days someone is gonna shoot ye for being a creep."
Ghost didn't even blink at that, fully stepping out of the small shadow that had been partially obscuring his bulk. He was geared up as usual, if usual meant having to take on an entire platoon by himself.
"I would like to see them try", he rumbled.
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Or, five times Ghost did Soap a favor and the one time Soap had paid him back.
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24 Jun 2026
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When a mission gone wrong leaves John "Soap" MacTavish in a coma in a foreign hospital, the language barrier turns Simon "Ghost" Riley into Soap's husband instead of his partner.
What begins as a bureaucratic mistake snowballs into a full-blown fake marriage as Ghost is forced keep up the ruse in order to deal with hospital staff, paperwork, and, to his horror, very real in-laws.
By the times Soap wakes up, he has acquired a very devoted husband the nurses swoon over and his parents have accepted into the family.
As Soap recovers, he and Ghost try to navigate their growing feelings as the line between pretend and fake starts to blur. By the time Soap is cleared for active duty again, they must figure out what their relationship really is… and whether the fake marriage everyone believes in might not be so fake after all.
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22 Jun 2026
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This is what his life has come to. He’s being disrespected by a dumpster rat.
He wishes he had someone to blame his current situation on, someone to direct his anger at, but in all honesty, the shitshow that landed him here was nothing more than an unfortunate series of entirely incidental accidents.
He knocks his head back into the wall behind him and huffs. Next to him, the rat chitters (sounding sympathetic, though Soap is beginning to think he might be projecting… or just losing it).
Or: Soap loses comms on a mission and is presumed dead. Having been left behind, he has no choice but to make his own way back to base. He doesn't expect to have been missed quite so much.
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- Part 1 of and they can't keep johnny down
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19 Jun 2026
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"Ohh, c’mon,” Soap goads. “I thought this was a date. Be a gentleman.”
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17 Jun 2026
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“I have.. a word of advice,” Gaz says, slowing his walk. Oddly careful. Soap squints in suspicion. “Just a small piece. Tiny. Minuscule. Would do you a favor.”
Or: Soap is pining. Gaz believes himself to be a great wingman.
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17 Jun 2026
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How do you tell a dog from an SAS sergeant?
Soap's been trying to think of a punchline, but so far, all he's got is a dog’s gotta shit in the woods and bury it slightly more often than an SAS Sergeant.
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Rudy couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't take the heat and the smoke in his lungs, reaching up to drag Alejandro’s face down, so he could hide his own in the man’s neck.
He took a deep, shuddering breath in, just to get the smell of the fire out of his nose, out of his mind. What surprised him was the sound Alejandro made, like he needed Rudy just as much as Rudy needed him.
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16 Jun 2026
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before those hands pulled me from the earth. by back_in_the_90s
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
07 Dec 2022
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Alejandro pulls his Rudy from Hassan's little trap, but he is too late to reverse the damage already done. The consequences of being left to burn in a house fire.
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Alejandro loves his fiance and would crawl through hell and back as long if Rudy asked him to.
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- Part 4 of task force 141
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16 Jun 2026
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Rodolfo was three years old the first time he met Alejandro — the first time the boy who would one day become one of his most important people bit him. He doesn’t remember it himself, only knows the story because his mamá would talk about it for years afterward. He’d been crying that day, inconsolable over something no one could pinpoint. Alejandro had been five, had still lived several houses down from his family in Las Almas back then.
“He came right through the window,” mamá would say, eyes misty from memory and a small smile on her face. “Not a word he said to anyone. He just went right to you, mijo, and bit your neck. I’ve never heard a sound like that come from a person, let alone a child. Like a rumbling croon. You calmed down so quickly, like you’d been waiting for it. For him.”
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- Part 8 of COD Shifter AU
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16 Jun 2026
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Which meant he also noticed when Ghost frowned heavily and murmured, “Not really my thing.”
“Oh,” Gaz said with his brows raised. “So you haven’t got one then.” He slapped Price on the shoulder and grinned.
“I do.” Ghost interrupted, taking another long sip from his nearly empty glass. “Just think they’re rubbish.”
Soap felt like all the air had been sucked out of the room. He watched Rudy’s hand tighten on Alejandro’s as he shot a sympathetic look towards Soap, who quickly looked away.
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15 Jun 2026
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"Soap," he hears called across the canteen during dinner, in that gruff Manchester accent that can only be one person. "A word, privately."
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Ghost is injured during a mission that's gone to shit. Soap slips up and makes things a hell of a lot more complicated.
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15 Jun 2026
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Soap went still. There, crushed into the floor of their tent, was the yellow-brown body of a scorpion.
Their guide had warned them of all sorts of creatures in the desert. Most had been accompanied with the word muerto. Soap wasn’t exactly a linguist, but in this line of work there were a few words in every language you heard more than the rest. Death was one of them.
Maybe everything was fine. Maybe Ghost had crushed it before anything had happened, and he had only gone out to get a little air.
Or perhaps he had been stung and decided to wander off into the desert to die.
Soap certainly knew which one of those possibilities sounded more like Ghost.
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Soap helps Ghost treat a scorpion sting in the middle of the desert. Along the way they resolve the uncertain status of their attitudes towards each other.
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15 Jun 2026
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“Johnny?” Ghost pulled off his gloves, kneeling at the bedside. He could feel the heat on his palm before he even made contact with the clammy skin. His fingers found the pulse point, and his own heart beat faster. It was weak. It was too damn weak. “Fuck!”
Within seconds he had scooped Soap into his arms and started practically running down the barracks halls. People jumped out of the way, faces shocked at the unusual sight. Murmurs drowned in the sound of blood rushing in his ears.
“Hang in there, Johnny. Stay with me now.”
Soap gets poisoned. Ghost takes it as well as you'd expect.
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14 Jun 2026
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One laugh stood out amongst the small crowd, and Ghost felt his heart still – there was no bloody way. He pushed through the crowd more forcefully than he intended and stopped dead in his tracks. It took everything in him to mold his face into something that resembled disinterest.
There – sitting on a couch lounge next to Crawford, acting like he’d known the man for years – was Soap fucking Mactavish.
Fuckin’ hell.
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14 Jun 2026
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“Fuckin’ hell, Johnny.” Ghost was standing in the middle of the carnage, covered in blood like a fallen angel.
Thank God.
Johnny’s grip loosened on his rifle, dropping the muzzle forwards. Ghost was on him in a second, only needing to take a single stride to get to Soap and tuck an arm around Soap’s waist, tugging the weapon from his hand.
Soap could feel his heart beat in his left arm- hanging limply at his side, blood dripping off his fingers. “Nah, still on earth last I checked.”
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“Yield.”
He bares his teeth, presses back against the firm body above him and bucks, furious and not particularly sure as to why.
The arm around his throat tightens as Ghost presses further against him, nearly crushing him with his weight. He’s trying to wear him down, trying to get him to collapse, but Soap has held heavier, has pushed through worse.
The spar isn’t over until he says it is.
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11 Jun 2026