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buriedpast) wrote2023-08-22 02:53 am
buriedpast) wrote2023-08-22 02:53 am
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PLAYER INFO
Player Name: Milk
• Player Contact: Brainmeat on plurk or via carrier pigeon
• Player Age: 31
• Permissions: Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Simon "Ghost" Riley (sorry if I randomly switch between Ghost/Simon throughout this app)
• Character Age: Unknown but presumably 35+
• Character Canon: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 Reboot)
• Canon Point: At the end of the game after saving Soap and sniping Hassan and just after meeting up with his team at a bar to discuss their next steps.
• Character History:
Content Warnings: Child physical and mental abuse, torture, war crimes, betrayal, addiction, war typical violence.
Simon’s past has been thoroughly scrubbed from the world. What we do know is that Simon was born and raised in Manchester, England to an unnamed father and mother with a younger brother named Tommy. His family endured constant physical and emotional violence and abuse by Simon’s father. Simon’s father was known to torment his children, especially Simon, with dangerous wild animals, such as forcing Simon to “kiss” a venomous snake. His father seemed to delight in tormenting Simon mentally just as much as physically, such as forcing his son to “laugh” at a sex worker who had overdosed and died.
Little else is known beyond his childhood except this violence. Once he was old enough, he was quick to join the military and swiftly moved up to the Special Air Service. He became an exceptional sniper and in doing so, gained quite a lot of enemies. Issues involving his brother turning to addiction and stealing from their mother had Simon abandoning his military duties temporarily to try and take care of his family. During this time, his brother became clean and married a woman named Beth and they had a child named Joseph. This became the most stable point in Simon’s life - so naturally, it had to end in absolute violence.
Simon was pulled back to a military stint where he was taken as a prisoner of war and held captive at a brainwashing facility where he was extensively tortured. This was due to the betrayal of one of Simon’s commanding officers. After months of torture, the CO who betrayed Simon died via torture, and Simon was thrown (alive) into the casket with the corpse of his CO. The two were buried together, but Simon eventually pulled the corpse apart so he could use a jawbone to dig his way up to the surface. There, he would abandon the name “Simon Riley” altogether, being considered KIA, and returned to the world as his infamous callsign: Ghost.
Understandably, Ghost suffered from extensive mental trauma well after healing physically from the torture. This made him volatile to work with, and this only worsened once he discovered that two of his former teammates who had also endured the torture, had wound up betraying Ghost on a deeper level by killing his whole family. This led to a mass killing spree on Ghost’s part where he exacted revenge on the man who had orchestrated all of this brutality in the first place: Roba.
Afterward, most of Simon's history is split between the various Call of Duty video games. I pull him from the most recent being the Modern Warfare II reboot which is pretty different from the original though Simon's backstory remains relatively the same as far as we know.
• Character Personality:
— Loyal: Although it is difficult to gain Simon's trust, once you have it, it's yours for as long as you want it. Simon makes for a good soldier since his loyalty is unwavering to his captain and to the men he has vowed to protect. He is far from selfish and firmly believes in a no man left behind rhetoric. Simon could never think of a scenario where he would ever betray the trust of his men the way he has been betrayed in the past. We see his loyalty when Simon refuses to leave Soap behind after the Las Almas situation - even though he well could have abandoned him as he was just one man. Instead, Simon chose to stay behind and make sure Soap got out safely.
— Determined & Resourceful: Simon is one of the most skilled snipers for a reason. He executes plans with lethal precision and is often several steps ahead of his enemies and even his own teammates. He is constantly aware of his surroundings and knows how to work with what he is given no matter how dire and unpredictable the situation. He can operate without direct instruction which makes him a good lieutenant that his captain and team can rely on. Once Soap and Ghost are left on their own, Simon effortlessly takes up the role of last standing leader and calmly and efficiently gives direct orders to Soap to manage their situation.
— Compassionate: Rarely shown is Simon's compassion. He mostly maintains a horrifying aura between his mask and his kill count and the way he talks to others. But beneath it all, Simon is an emotionally intelligent man who is compassionate to those he cares about and puts their well-being above his own. For example, after getting betrayed by a CO yet again, he spends the night making sure Soap is okay through the comms by exchanging awful dad jokes and continually talking to his man. This isn't just a side of Simon's humor, but his desire to try and comfort a friend during a horrifying moment. The same compassion was evident when he sacrificed time in the military to step aside and help his brother battle his addiction.
— Distrusting and Bitter: Due to his past, Simon struggles greatly with trust issues. He believes that the people you are closest to will often be the ones that hurt you the most - whether they plan on it or not. This makes him reluctant to forge genuinely close bonds and he tends to act with caution toward every relationship he makes. He is bitter enough by past betrayals that when he faces betrayal yet again, this time at the hands of Graves and Sheperd, he can only express a lack of bitter surprise. To Simon, another betrayal might as well be another day in the sun. It certainly burns all the same.
— Emotionally Distant: Since Simon is so wary of other people, it often comes across as though he is emotionally closed off. Simon is often regarded as a terrifying, icy man with a "cold heart" so to speak. Not many people have the privilege of saying they know Simon let alone are close to him. His inner circle is small and is mostly tacked to the 141: Price, Gaz, Soap, and maybe Laswell. Even to those he is close with, he struggles with lowering his wall. Soap asks if they are "friends" to which Simon replies that friends aren't in the field manual. He isn't easy to get to know, but thankfully some people, like Soap, have no problem trying to pester him into sharing a bit more.
— Self-Loathing: With the life that Simon has led, it would be more of a surprise if he didn't walk away with some self-loathing to deal with. Simon does not believe he is a good man and thinks that he has passed the moment in his life where he could have claimed as such. With how much blood is on his hands from years of killing and the fact that he feels responsible for the slaughter of his own family and fellow comrades, Simon barely has a single positive emotion toward himself. He believes he exists to shoulder the sins of those around him. If anyone is going to hell, it's Simon. Soap once declared that he "wanted to be like you (Ghost) when I grow up" to which Simon swiftly replied: "No, you want to be better than me, Johnny."
• Character Skills:
• Excellent gunman, particularly with a sniper
• Knife Throwing
• Exacting Torture
• Extracting information by any means necessary
• Stealth
• Basic field medic
• Highly skilled at hand-to-hand combat
• Hunting / Butchering (tho my baby ass can't play it - he's very good at it!)
• Creating makeshift shelters
• Extensive knowledge of firearms in general
• Extremely athletic
• Can track anything - whether beast or man
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: A set of 6 throwing knives
— ITEM TWO: His sniper rifle with full ammunition (realistically - he will have to be conservative on the bullets he uses)
— ITEM THREE: His tactile gear including his mask. Tactile gear includes standard military equipment such as a compass, hunting knife, a small tin of matches, rope, very limited rations, a small medic kit that includes a suture kit, and some backup ammunition for his rifle. If this is too much, then lmk and it can just be his tactical gear sans the equipment.
• Important Notes: Nothing comes to mind. Ghost is just an ordinary human.
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here
Player Name: Milk
• Player Contact: Brainmeat on plurk or via carrier pigeon
• Player Age: 31
• Permissions: Here.
CHARACTER INFO
• Character Name: Simon "Ghost" Riley (sorry if I randomly switch between Ghost/Simon throughout this app)
• Character Age: Unknown but presumably 35+
• Character Canon: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 Reboot)
• Canon Point: At the end of the game after saving Soap and sniping Hassan and just after meeting up with his team at a bar to discuss their next steps.
• Character History:
Content Warnings: Child physical and mental abuse, torture, war crimes, betrayal, addiction, war typical violence.
Simon’s past has been thoroughly scrubbed from the world. What we do know is that Simon was born and raised in Manchester, England to an unnamed father and mother with a younger brother named Tommy. His family endured constant physical and emotional violence and abuse by Simon’s father. Simon’s father was known to torment his children, especially Simon, with dangerous wild animals, such as forcing Simon to “kiss” a venomous snake. His father seemed to delight in tormenting Simon mentally just as much as physically, such as forcing his son to “laugh” at a sex worker who had overdosed and died.
Little else is known beyond his childhood except this violence. Once he was old enough, he was quick to join the military and swiftly moved up to the Special Air Service. He became an exceptional sniper and in doing so, gained quite a lot of enemies. Issues involving his brother turning to addiction and stealing from their mother had Simon abandoning his military duties temporarily to try and take care of his family. During this time, his brother became clean and married a woman named Beth and they had a child named Joseph. This became the most stable point in Simon’s life - so naturally, it had to end in absolute violence.
Simon was pulled back to a military stint where he was taken as a prisoner of war and held captive at a brainwashing facility where he was extensively tortured. This was due to the betrayal of one of Simon’s commanding officers. After months of torture, the CO who betrayed Simon died via torture, and Simon was thrown (alive) into the casket with the corpse of his CO. The two were buried together, but Simon eventually pulled the corpse apart so he could use a jawbone to dig his way up to the surface. There, he would abandon the name “Simon Riley” altogether, being considered KIA, and returned to the world as his infamous callsign: Ghost.
Understandably, Ghost suffered from extensive mental trauma well after healing physically from the torture. This made him volatile to work with, and this only worsened once he discovered that two of his former teammates who had also endured the torture, had wound up betraying Ghost on a deeper level by killing his whole family. This led to a mass killing spree on Ghost’s part where he exacted revenge on the man who had orchestrated all of this brutality in the first place: Roba.
Afterward, most of Simon's history is split between the various Call of Duty video games. I pull him from the most recent being the Modern Warfare II reboot which is pretty different from the original though Simon's backstory remains relatively the same as far as we know.
• Character Personality:
— Loyal: Although it is difficult to gain Simon's trust, once you have it, it's yours for as long as you want it. Simon makes for a good soldier since his loyalty is unwavering to his captain and to the men he has vowed to protect. He is far from selfish and firmly believes in a no man left behind rhetoric. Simon could never think of a scenario where he would ever betray the trust of his men the way he has been betrayed in the past. We see his loyalty when Simon refuses to leave Soap behind after the Las Almas situation - even though he well could have abandoned him as he was just one man. Instead, Simon chose to stay behind and make sure Soap got out safely.
— Determined & Resourceful: Simon is one of the most skilled snipers for a reason. He executes plans with lethal precision and is often several steps ahead of his enemies and even his own teammates. He is constantly aware of his surroundings and knows how to work with what he is given no matter how dire and unpredictable the situation. He can operate without direct instruction which makes him a good lieutenant that his captain and team can rely on. Once Soap and Ghost are left on their own, Simon effortlessly takes up the role of last standing leader and calmly and efficiently gives direct orders to Soap to manage their situation.
— Compassionate: Rarely shown is Simon's compassion. He mostly maintains a horrifying aura between his mask and his kill count and the way he talks to others. But beneath it all, Simon is an emotionally intelligent man who is compassionate to those he cares about and puts their well-being above his own. For example, after getting betrayed by a CO yet again, he spends the night making sure Soap is okay through the comms by exchanging awful dad jokes and continually talking to his man. This isn't just a side of Simon's humor, but his desire to try and comfort a friend during a horrifying moment. The same compassion was evident when he sacrificed time in the military to step aside and help his brother battle his addiction.
— Distrusting and Bitter: Due to his past, Simon struggles greatly with trust issues. He believes that the people you are closest to will often be the ones that hurt you the most - whether they plan on it or not. This makes him reluctant to forge genuinely close bonds and he tends to act with caution toward every relationship he makes. He is bitter enough by past betrayals that when he faces betrayal yet again, this time at the hands of Graves and Sheperd, he can only express a lack of bitter surprise. To Simon, another betrayal might as well be another day in the sun. It certainly burns all the same.
— Emotionally Distant: Since Simon is so wary of other people, it often comes across as though he is emotionally closed off. Simon is often regarded as a terrifying, icy man with a "cold heart" so to speak. Not many people have the privilege of saying they know Simon let alone are close to him. His inner circle is small and is mostly tacked to the 141: Price, Gaz, Soap, and maybe Laswell. Even to those he is close with, he struggles with lowering his wall. Soap asks if they are "friends" to which Simon replies that friends aren't in the field manual. He isn't easy to get to know, but thankfully some people, like Soap, have no problem trying to pester him into sharing a bit more.
— Self-Loathing: With the life that Simon has led, it would be more of a surprise if he didn't walk away with some self-loathing to deal with. Simon does not believe he is a good man and thinks that he has passed the moment in his life where he could have claimed as such. With how much blood is on his hands from years of killing and the fact that he feels responsible for the slaughter of his own family and fellow comrades, Simon barely has a single positive emotion toward himself. He believes he exists to shoulder the sins of those around him. If anyone is going to hell, it's Simon. Soap once declared that he "wanted to be like you (Ghost) when I grow up" to which Simon swiftly replied: "No, you want to be better than me, Johnny."
• Character Skills:
• Excellent gunman, particularly with a sniper
• Knife Throwing
• Exacting Torture
• Extracting information by any means necessary
• Stealth
• Basic field medic
• Highly skilled at hand-to-hand combat
• Hunting / Butchering (tho my baby ass can't play it - he's very good at it!)
• Creating makeshift shelters
• Extensive knowledge of firearms in general
• Extremely athletic
• Can track anything - whether beast or man
• Character Inventory:
— ITEM ONE: A set of 6 throwing knives
— ITEM TWO: His sniper rifle with full ammunition (realistically - he will have to be conservative on the bullets he uses)
— ITEM THREE: His tactile gear including his mask. Tactile gear includes standard military equipment such as a compass, hunting knife, a small tin of matches, rope, very limited rations, a small medic kit that includes a suture kit, and some backup ammunition for his rifle. If this is too much, then lmk and it can just be his tactical gear sans the equipment.
• Important Notes: Nothing comes to mind. Ghost is just an ordinary human.
• Writing Samples:
— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here