Bio — Ghost — Training Detail | Omegaverse

Overall Synopsis

Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley has survived covert operations, impossible missions, and years of Task Force 141 chaos. Surely overseeing an advanced training rotation alongside {{user}} should be easy.

Unfortunately, their trainees are adult military operators with ideas.

It begins when someone discovers the theoretical loophole of having two instructors: if {{user}} says no, perhaps Ghost will say yes. Simon shuts that strategy down immediately, but the damage is done. Before long, the trainees have developed an entire culture around their instructors—the infamous Look, rules for surviving the training detail, jokes about “the parents,” and increasingly bold observations that Simon and {{user}} argue, coordinate, and operate like a married couple.

Then Soap finds out.

It gets considerably worse.

Between early-morning briefings, field exercises, shared paperwork, professional disagreements, two coffees appearing every morning, Soap's relentless interference, Gaz quietly noticing everything, and Price refusing to rescue him, Simon begins realizing the trainees might have accidentally noticed something real.

The assignment eventually has to end.

Simon isn't sure he wants whatever developed between himself and {{user}} to end with it.

{{user}} is completely AnyPOV. Their gender, designation, rank, specialty, history, personality, scent, feelings toward Simon, and interpretation of their relationship remain theirs to define. Simon is an Alpha, but Omegaverse biology never overrides consent or professional authority. All trainees are explicitly adult military personnel.

Romance is optional and develops through prolonged proximity, professional trust, accidental domesticity, and mutual choice.

Initial Message Synopses

IM1 — Did They Already Tell You No?
A trainee asks Simon to change the following morning's navigation schedule, only for Simon to discover {{user}} already rejected the exact same request. Realizing the trainees have begun shopping between instructors for better answers, Simon approaches {{user}} to find out just how often they've been trying it.

IM2 — The Parents Have Spoken
Simon walks into suspicious silence and accidentally discovers the trainees have started referring to him and {{user}} collectively as “the parents.” He insists they're merely two instructors supervising grown military professionals. Nobody appears particularly convinced, and {{user}} arrives just in time to witness the aftermath.

IM3 — Soap Finds Out
Soap visits the training detail and witnesses a trainee attempting the instructor loophole. Seconds later, he hears someone call Simon and {{user}} “the parents.” Simon knows immediately that his life is over. When {{user}} arrives, he gives them first choice over whether MacTavish should be removed immediately or after the inevitable joint-custody joke.

IM4 — The Look
A missing training radio exposes another strange development: the trainees have named the silent glance Simon and {{user}} exchange whenever someone's story doesn't add up. Apparently The Look means whoever caused the problem is doomed. Simon reluctantly decides their ridiculous superstition might actually be useful while he and {{user}} compare notes.

IM5 — Apparently We’re Married
“The parents” has evolved. Now the trainees claim Simon and {{user}} behave like a married couple, citing their professional disagreements, shared routines, Simon's suspicious habit of bringing two coffees, and the fact that he always seems to save {{user}} a seat. When {{user}} arrives, Simon drags them directly into the argument.

IM6 — The Betting Pool
Simon discovers the trainees have started gambling on whether he and {{user}} will date before the training rotation ends. The jokes stop being harmless when the wagers begin treating {{user}}'s feelings like entertainment, and Simon immediately shuts the pool down. {{user}} arrives while he is deciding what punishment its creators deserve.

IM7 — You’re Taking Their Side?
After an exhausting morning exercise, Simon rejects the trainees' campaign for a recovery afternoon—only for {{user}} to independently approve the schedule change. Rather than undermining his fellow instructor, Simon wants to know what they noticed that he didn't, while the trainees celebrate their extremely temporary victory.

IM8 — The Coffee Problem
Simon has been bringing two coffees every morning because, as far as he's concerned, there are two instructors and he knows {{user}}'s order. Gaz and the trainees disagree with his purely logistical interpretation. By the time {{user}} arrives, Simon has become painfully aware that his completely ordinary coffee habit apparently looks suspiciously affectionate.

IM9 — The Last Week
The final schedule goes up, and Simon realizes the training detail is almost finished. Soap points out that when Friday arrives, Simon loses more than the trainees—he loses the daily routine he's built with {{user}}. When {{user}} arrives for another ordinary morning, Simon finally asks what happens to them after the assignment ends.

IM10 — Ask Me After Graduation
The trainees graduate and celebrate by covering the whiteboard with jokes about their “parents” and the end of “joint custody.” Soap arrives with flowers, Gaz and Price join the chaos, and one trainee announces that the instructors are allowed to keep seeing each other after graduation. Simon commandeers Soap's ridiculous bouquet and finally removes the training detail from the equation entirely: “Have dinner with me?”

Core Themes

AnyPOV • Omegaverse • Alpha Ghost • Romantic Comedy • Military Workplace Comedy • Co-Instructors • Adult Trainees • Slow Burn • Accidental Domesticity • Professional Trust • Competence Attraction • Mutual Respect • Task Force 141 Shenanigans • Soap Being a Menace • Gaz Quietly Making It Worse • Tired Dad Price • Consent • User Agency • Optional Romance • Found Family • Fluff

Simon: “We're instructors.”

The trainees: “Sure, Dad.”

Simon: “You're thirty fucking years old.”

They came to Hereford for advanced military training.

They left convinced their instructors needed couples counseling.

Simon Riley came to teach operators how to survive. Somewhere between the first 0530 exercise and the second cup of coffee, he accidentally found someone he might want to keep after graduation.