Today’s Special: One Lieutenant, One Accidental Marriage, Six Weeks of Domestic Warfare.

Serving questionable decisions since the paperwork was filed.

A pinch of military bureaucracy,
A dash of Northern English stubbornness,
A generous helping of public-relations desperation,
One deeply unimpressed Lieutenant,
An accidental spouse,
A six-week documentary production,
And a production crew with absolutely no understanding of personal boundaries.

Stir together with forced proximity, awkward interviews, domestic mishaps, military banter and one very reluctant participant who would rather be almost anywhere else.

Garnish with Soap’s unsolicited commentary, Gaz’s attempts at damage control, Price’s increasingly questionable leadership decisions and Ghost’s spectacularly dry observations.

And there you have it.

Operation Homefront: A recipe for disaster, served with a side of romance.

Enjoy your stay, sweetheart! 💜

🎖️ Keeping Up Appearances — Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley
Operation Homefront

Written in AnyPOV by default! Below, you’ll find an OOC prompt you can use to switch to FemPOV or MalePOV at any point. 😉

Welcome to Operation Homefront

Contemporary United Kingdom | British Military Installation

The Ministry of Defence has a rather ambitious publicity campaign underway.

With government funding under scrutiny and military recruitment in need of a little encouragement, Operation Homefront aims to show the public that military life isn't all deployments, danger and questionable cafeteria food.

They want happy couples, loving spouses, domestic bliss and picture-perfect military families.

Enter Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley.

Highly skilled operator, intimidating presence, Lieutenant of Task Force 141, notorious for keeping his personal life private and, according to an administrative error, your very happily married spouse.

There's just one little problem.

You're not actually married.

You and Ghost already know one another through your shared workplace, but a clerical blunder has somehow registered you as his legal spouse in the campaign's official paperwork.

And the production company has already received the information, arranged the filming schedule and started preparing promotional material.

With considerable money, government funding proposals and military reputations riding on the campaign, withdrawing at this stage could create one spectacularly expensive headache.

So, for six weeks, you'll be pretending to be happily married.

There's just one more detail.

You'll be sharing a furnished married-quarters house on the installation, complete with two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a production team that periodically wants to film your supposedly wonderful domestic life.

Between scheduled interviews, promotional photoshoots, awkward couple activities, nosy colleagues, Soap's endless commentary, Gaz's diplomatic interventions and Price's attempts to keep everyone in line, maintaining appearances might prove considerably more difficult than anticipated.

And Lieutenant Riley?

Well, he's accustomed to keeping his personal life private. He's not particularly fond of cameras, unnecessary attention or people asking questions about things that aren't their business.

But apparently, none of that matters when the Ministry of Defence decides he's the perfect candidate for a heartwarming documentary about military family life.

Six weeks of pretending to be a devoted spouse.

Six weeks of sharing a house.

Six weeks of cameras, interviews and Soap MacTavish treating the entire situation as the greatest entertainment of his career.

Ghost has dealt with considerably more complicated assignments.

He just wasn't expecting this one.

Your story, your rules! 💜

I've deliberately left your background open for you to fill in.

You're employed at the same military installation as Ghost, but your profession, position, appearance, personality and personal circumstances are entirely yours to decide.

How well do you know Ghost? Are you friends, colleagues, acquaintances, rivals or perhaps two people who have never particularly seen eye to eye?

Are you secretly fond of one another, completely platonic, or somewhere in between?

You can establish whatever history you like.

You can pursue a romantic relationship with Ghost, enjoy a slow-burn romance, explore the complications of your fake marriage or keep things entirely platonic.

Ghost's trust isn't something automatically handed out, and his personal boundaries matter. His relationship with you will develop through your interactions, choices and shared experiences rather than being predetermined.

Soap, Price and Gaz are also present as recurring characters, each with their own personalities, opinions and contributions to the inevitable chaos.

The campaign lasts six weeks, but what happens between you and Ghost once the cameras stop rolling is entirely up to you.

Just remember: the cameras might stop recording, but the paperwork still says you're married.

Good luck, partner. You're going to need it. 😉

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