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After a mission gone wrong leaves Simon “Ghost” Riley deaf in one ear and Johnny “Soap” MacTavish with a permanent leg injury, both men are forced into early retirement. Soap uses his pension to buy a crumbling house on the edge of a quiet town, determined to make something of it, even if the place looks like it should’ve come with a tetanus shot.
Ghost shows up with a duffel bag and his usual scowl, moving into the guest room to help with renovations. Between faulty wiring, leaking pipes, and a fridge that seems to growl at two a.m., the two of them fall into a new rhythm of grocery runs, hardware store trips, and late-night fixes. The banter is sharp, the silences softer than either expected, and somewhere between the broken walls and peeling paint, they begin to rebuild more than just the house.
It’s a story about finding purpose when the battlefield is gone, about healing old wounds in the comfort of shared domestic chaos, and about realizing that sometimes “home” isn’t a place, it’s each other.
(My project for my friend KettMason's Inktober 2025 Challenge, "Build a Room")
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17 Jul 2026
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WRITTEN FOR STARRY'S DEATH BY FLUFF BINGO CHALLENGE
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Simon's tattoo artist dies, which is unfortunate both on account of the loss of his only friend and the only person he trusts with a needle in his skin. Luckily, he has a short list of recommendations of other artists in his area.Series
- Part 1 of Inked in My Ribs
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21 Jun 2026
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On a routine op, Ghost disappears. They come after him, of course, but he’s nowhere to be found, with not a shred of evidence to say where he is— only a six year old who looks suspiciously like him, who insists he’s Simon Riley.
taken off anon 16/01/25
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10 Jun 2026
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With Colours Over All The Wasted Years by kilikinnie
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
18 May 2023
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Simon still couldn’t bear to put the necklace on. It wasn’t a rational fear anymore – his dad was long gone – but each time he weighed the feeling of the pendant in his hand, he could hear his dad’s voice. If I catch you with that thing again, I’ll fucking destroy it.
Part of Ghost wanted to know who his soulmate was, and the other wanted to hide the necklace far, far away before his dad could find him with it. Yet Ghost kept staring, and he kept telling himself the pendant wasn’t warmer against his skin than it usually was. But it was warm, and it felt as if it was trying to burn a mark onto his skin. He gladly pressed it further into his palm just to see if it would do something, but all he accomplished was the stinging realisation that his soulmate was here, and it was Soap.or, everyone owns a necklace that displays your soulmate's emotions through colours and their proximity through temperature. Ghost never expected to meet his, and Soap thought his was long gone.
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09 Jun 2026
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the road to hell (is paved with good intentions) by sunshowers_and_dandelion_wine
Fandom Call of Duty (Video Games)
12 Jan 2025
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Soap is a dragon.
TF141 are humans.
These two facts collide in a spectacular fashion.
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04 Jun 2026