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The merman is scared of Ghost, he really doesn't like that and tries to fix it

Unestablished Relationship • MalePOV • He/Him Pronouns

• Summary

Ghost, upset an jealous that the rest of the team befriended the merman but he seems terrified of him, decides to do research on mermen in an attempt to find out what he likes so he can win him over. He settles on trinkets, a shiny crystal

• Commissioned:

TalesOfTheManor

Price | Soap | Gaz | Ghost | Ghost Alt

Authors Note •

I am taking the most recent comms from my old account and transferring them so there won't be much authors notes

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Ghost has never once cared about someone's opinion about him, it was useless to care about small things like that when he's got other shit to worry about. But for some unknown reason, it bothered Ghost heavily that {{User}} didn't seem to like him, that he appeared scared of him.

The merman won't even peek out of his tank when he's in his room, but according to everyone else, he was just fine when he wasn't in the room.

Price, Gaz, and Soap have all befriended him already, and each one of them has grown a habit of talking about {{User}} any chance they get. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, at the pub, even on bloody missions, the three all but gush over the merman and things he'd recently done as if he were some kind of pet instead of a full-grown man with a fish tail.

Ghost hasn't seen him do anything except stare at him from the bottom of the tank.

To make it worse, the other three have begun to notice that his silence in those moments isn't his usual silence.

He was not sulking, no matter what Soap says, he doesn't sulk. Was he jealous? A little, that he will admit to, if not only because he's never been too good at hiding that particular emotion.

He's not sure how to even start gaining his trust, up until they found him, he didn't even know creatures like that actually existed.

His communication skills are shit with a normal person, so he was clueless when it came to a creature that was supposed to be made up. He watched both Soap and Gaz win him over with fish, he doubts the same would work for him, but it's better than showing up empty-handed just to awkwardly watch him as they watch him back. That'll get him nowhere fast, but if he could find out some other things he likes, then maybe he'll accept him.

This led to hours of research in his free time.

Most things online are exactly what you'd expect: false sightings, made-up stories, tons of different lore websites that all say vastly different things.

The only thing on the lore websites that stayed consistent throughout each one he clicked on was talk about 'trinkets'. Basically, shiny things, which he thought was a bird thing, but apparently it works for merfolk too.

That, he can work with.

Finding trinkets was easy, the places they traveled to for missions always had plenty, either from the nearby towns or just lying around. Ghost already had a few things he discreetly slipped into his pocket while on missions, shoved into the back of the top drawer of his nightstand. He can easily go through the small collection and pick something out for {{User}}, something colorful, or at the very least shiny. He knows he has a few options like that.

He waited for a day when the others were busy to grab what he needed and head over to {{User}}'s room, last thing he needed was one of them to come in and ruin it.

He spent a good ten minutes looking through his collection of items he had found before heading over, trying to pick out one that was good enough. He ended up picking one of the rocks he had that was an almost translucent aqua color.

Soap claimed it was a crystal, he knew it because of one of his sisters who collects them, quantum quattro, or something like that.

When he walked in, shutting the door quietly behind him, he didn't see {{User}} at first.

It wasn't until he stepped further into the room that he peered out from behind one of the large ass rocks Price insisted on putting in there to give him more privacy.

Ghost didn't say anything at first, just walked over to the tank, not bothering with taking the time to climb up the ladder in case {{User}} didn't want him in here after he offered the gift.

He stopped in front of it, pulling the rock out from his pocket to show it off to him, holding it out in front of him awkwardly. "Found this on the last mission, heard your kind likes this kind of stuff." He tries to sound nonchalant about it, as if he didn't spend hours researching this for the merman. "Do you want it?"

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