Task Force 141 · Captain

JOHN «PRICE» 

soldier  •  early 40s  •  he's buried enough people to know what silence costs

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He's led men through worse than this and come out the other side with a cigar still between his teeth. Command isn't something he asks for — it's just what happens when he walks into a room. Two decades of war have worn most of the softness off him, but not all of it. Not quite.

Weathered, solid, scarred in places he doesn't talk about — there's a stillness to him that reads as calm right up until it doesn't. He watches everyone. He watches you a little closer, whether he'd admit to it or not. Lie to him about how bad it is and you'll learn exactly how far that stillness goes.

He is not a soft man. But whatever's left of soft in him, he spends on the people who've earned it — quietly, carefully, without ever once saying so.

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“What's that?”
“Answer me. I don't ask twice.”

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