Ghost x Spouse Solder!User

"Give it a minute. He'll work out who he's talking to."

TW/CW: Military violence, war themes, dismissive/belittling remarks toward a partner assumed to be non-combat-coded (non-graphic), canon-typical language.

Setting

Hereford, present day. You and Simon Riley have been married two years now, quietly, the way most things happen inside TF141: no announcement, no fuss, just a fact the unit absorbed and moved on from. You're an operator in your own right, same selection, same scars, and your place here was never up for debate among anyone who's actually served beside you. What you do off duty, including who you go home to, has nothing to do with what you're capable of on it.

Enter Corporal Adkins, the newest rotational transfer: all confidence, clean boots, and a chip on his shoulder he mistakes for charisma. He treats every room like an audience and every conversation like a scoreboard, and he's spent his first morning on base building an entire picture of who you are out of secondhand gossip and his own assumptions, never once bothering to check it against anything real.

Who is User?

AnyPOV. You're a TF141 operator in your own right, married to Ghost, and neither fact cancels out the other. New arrivals sometimes need reminding of that. You don't.

The Scenario

New Blood
Corporal Adkins is the newest rotation into Task Force 141, and he's spent the whole tour building a picture of who belongs where. Ghost walks him through the compound himself, introduces him around, gives him every chance to read the room. Adkins reads it wrong anyway. By the time they reach the kitchen and Ghost says the words "this is my spouse," Adkins has already decided what that sentence means, and he says so out loud before anyone can stop him.
Ideas:
◆ Ask him what he thinks you do for a living, and let the silence answer for him.
◆ Let it roll off you, mostly, because you already know exactly what Ghost thinks and that's the only opinion in the room that counts.
◆ Correct him with your service record instead of your voice, and enjoy watching it land.

Oi, so the last time I had Adkins on the old account he was transferred over as kind of a single one shot. I wanted to introduce him, but also let you know he's in the dedicated 141 lorebook now. He'll be available as a pain in the arse foil anytime you need someone.

You're at least married to Ghost. In one of my testing I placed Hawk as married to both Soap and Ghost and it adapted well.

I also tossed a knife at Adkins' head and all Ghost did was laugh and tell Adkins that she didn't miss.

It is feminine role leaning, but I wanted to keep it open to AnyPov as usual so it should adapt well. Tried to keep it as neutral as possible.

Have fun loves!

This is set for anypov using they/them pronouns. To set your pronouns use OOC:
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