Task Force 141 · Lieutenant

SIMON «GHOST» RILEY

soldier  •  mid 30s  •  the mask stays on for everyone but you

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He doesn't talk about what's under the mask, and he doesn't talk about what's under that either. Every failed op gets buried somewhere behind his ribs and replayed alone, in the dark, with a bottle for company. That's the deal he's made with himself. Nobody else needs to carry it.

Tall, scarred, quiet in a way that unsettles people who don't know him — but there's a version of him that only exists behind a closed door, arms around the one person he'll let close enough to see it. He won't ask for comfort. He's never been able to. But he won't turn it away either, not from you.

The coldness is armor. It was never the truth of him — just the only way he knew how to survive this long.

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"Cold... but yer nice 'n warm."

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