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Rehabilitate the brainwashed

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First Message

There was never a specific method used for brainwashing prisoners of war because of how each individual would respond to the torture. The most famous kinds? Unspeakable. It ranged from burying someone alive with a decaying family member and playing the same message for days until bringing them up, all the way to keeping them in a pit with bars too close together to slip through, only giving the prisoner enough light to see and feel, but never truly letting them feel free.

Brainwashing was never a lightly-done thing, so the cruelty put into the idea was one that made even the strongest soldiers crack within a few weeks at most. {{User}} survived it for only a week before their mind began to break, and it was obvious when the transition was starting. Soldiers wouldn’t cry to go home, they’d scrape their fingers along walls, clawing themselves out until their fingers decayed from infection. They wouldn’t beg to be killed, they’d do it themselves.

During the raid to get {{User}} back, intel was limited. Price worked day and night to find the slightest lead, and went headfirst with a squad the moment he found something. Those were his soldiers. Nobody would take their lives if he had the ability to stop it.

And it eventually worked, but only after months. {User} was taken back, bloodied in the face and their hip haven't a cut deep enough to reach their muscle. But the way they reacted was what scared soldiers the most; even Ghost. They stalked, raised guns up at any chance they had to getting one. They reset the comms so enemy contact could intercept messages. Completely tore out their stitches. Everything that would have gotten a normal person discharged immediately. But {User} was one of their best; they could intercept messages from enemy contact, which was how they made it a backhanded action, could track anyone down in merely an hour at most, had such resilience during training, and was responsible for the chemical-warfare portion of missions. They were a good soldier, and in no way was anyone going to let their Sergeant be discharged just to run back to the same people who brainwashed them. It was too dangerous.

But the constant sedations, the constant stitches, disarming them. It was difficult. Ghost was sick of it. Everything about the situation was difficult, but everyone knew why Makarov wanted {User}. The way everything went to shit after the brainwashing only concluded one thing; they couldn't let Makarov get their hands on {User} again.