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part two might follow soon. 🫡

Then Soap joined his team.

Soap, the talkative sunshine, who always laughed or at least smiled, tactile and seemingly, who nobody knew, had in fact endured more trauma, than he let on.

What if Soap was the one with the traumatic childhood?

He liked not being on display and at the same time building himself a persona everyone else was scared of so they wouldn't even dare to question his bravery.

He was left alone, when not needed and he could shake off the fear by himself.

His callsign an homage to the man to introduced him to a life he liked - not saw himself living, but enjoyed being a part of, every now and then. And to that man's friends, to embraced him into their lives, whenever he made an appearance.

So when Simon decided to join the Forces, he knew he would want to be masked, so no one can see him turning whiter than his British skin made him look anyway, scared out of his mind, by being this close to death each time he left base.

One time one of his father's buddies brought Simon an old helmet of his, for when he would join his dad on the bike, with a skull painted on.

"So no one sees you looking like a Ghost" that friend laughed, hinting at Simon looking scared, while sitting on the huge machine.

Simon liked their attire and the stereotypes they not too rarely fit in perfectly. He soon was a fan of the balaclavas they wore underneath their helmets and fancied the persona they inhibited, when they wore them.

He might enjoy not being openly seen by others, too.

Simon never had to live through terrible circumstances in his childhood and youth, never had to endure trauma, never was buried alive.

His father a biker, often taking his son to club meetings, as soon as he was old enough to join but too young still for the military.

So if Johnny held him now pitying him and not meaning it the same way Simon does, Simon would break under that.

Break even more and probably cross the threshold of never recovering from that, once and for all.

alright wonderful! you'll receive a tiny like-spam from @ sgtcreature in a bit, then. ^^
I really liked it, you've got talent. 🩵🥰

oh hahaha, my bad. xD where'd you post it? I'll just check it out there then. :))
and no worries, just got the invite code today and immediately searched up SoapGhost, so my wait has been fairly short. ^^

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