I’ve once again have come to talk about the lt2 au <3 (because I’m slightly obsessed-)

But you know that audio that’s like ‘Get the f*ck out or I’m calling Valeria! VALERIA!’? Well I just think that would work well for if Gaz ever got cornered by lt2 while with Soap (since lt2 was originally going after Soap) and was just so pissed, and slightly scared (cause lt2 is still a superior rank to him) and ends up calling Ghost or Price for help. But anyways just wanted to share that :)

-Anon 🎧

Okay here me out, this song (or part of the song): https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRTKUX4Q/ is Soap singing about lt2 and he starts taking whatever job he knows lt2 won’t be on, no matter how hard the jobs will be (like how the Night Shift is harder than a 9-5)

And Gaz notices he is doing that and decides to volunteering for the same jobs in hopes of keeping Soap safe and figuring out why he is avoiding the 141 (spoiler warning: it’s because the 141 hangs around lt2, the real guy he is avoiding).

-Anon 🎧

LT2 AND SOAP THING HAS ME IN AN ANGSTY CHOKEHOLDD.

The guilt that Price and Ghost both feel, Gaz too..

I’m going off a limb here cause i’ve never played or watched someone play the campaigns yet for this game (i’m watching all 19 and i’m on the fourth so far) BUT IMAGINE LASWELL HEARS ABOUT THIS..

She might take Soap off the team for a little and place him somewhere else..naturally he gets along very well with this temporary new team but it’s not the same as 141, these people are still his friends though so he makes the most out of it! Now imagine back at base for 141, it’s just pure misery. Like they all failed to recognise what was going on and now they’ve lost Soap (temporarily but it doesn’t matter,they don’t know that)

Maybe the new taskforce that Soap is in gets partnered with another task force, maybe it’s 141, maybe it’s not even a task force it could be SpecGru.. (Kortac and SpecGru are rivals, not enemies)

THE ANGSTTTT, maybe it’s a mission in las almas? Rudy and Alejandro see Soap with this new task force and are like ??? then they find out about it all and about Soaps temporary placement, which 141 don’t know! Another thing is that the placement is temporary but for how long?? more than a few weeks, less than a year but nevertheless he goes without 141 for a few months or more and when he gets back…ohhh boy.

Just had a thought, adding onto Soap being temporarily placed elsewhere…When he comes back he’s been replaced but not as in like, fully replaced by like personality and stuff but like as a sergeant. Soap and this new sergeant who will be going back to his actual team, the one Soap was with, they hit it off. Like they become very close with each other, made friends with the team (well, this new sergeant didn’t, none of 141 would look at him less try to initiate a conversation)

Ghost glaring at them as he watches Soap and this new sergeant laugh together, bent at the knees as they joke around even more. Ghost had to walk away because it all came to a head when Johnny clapped his hand on this new sergeants shoulder just like he used to do with Simon and Ghost just feels his heart break. That was supposed to be him. Not this new sergeant.

Gaz gazing at them both with his arms crossed, he feels horrible as he watches them both spar. They are scoffing at each other and making remarks but still are grinning through it all, when particular hard punches or kicks land, they’re both so close to each other checking on the other. Just like how Gaz and Soap used too. And when Soap accidentally throws the new sergeant forcefully down on the ground, a pathetic wheeze knocked out of him, Gaz’s guilt tenfolds as he smiles at the unfortunate state of the new sergeant, he shouldn’t be feeling happy about that. Gaz’s heart stops and shatters when he sees Johnny bend down, faces almost touching as he hauls the new sergeant up and carries him oh so gently to the Medic. Gaz feels like he’s about to throw up.

And don’t get me started on Price..Sure he had to talk to the new sergeant but it was strictly professional. No joking about football, blowing up things and scolding him for tormenting ghost, none of that. (Well the sergeant never tormented ghost but oh well)

Price sighs, standing outside Soaps door and instead of knocking and checking in with him like he used to do, he just stands and listens as Soap and the new sergeant are talking deeply about things and conversing about their past, life in the military and so and so. Price feeling his heart sink as his place is taken, this new sergeant comforting Soap through his nightmares which Price used to do, would have Johnny come to his office and have a chat. Maybe some tea. But no, this new sergeant swept in and stole his place. Took one of his boys. Price feels unaccomplished, he failed at recognising the damage that LT2 did and now he’s paying for it. They all are.

I think this invisible thread of just observing the new sergeant and Soap breaks when Soap and the new sergeant are sparring and Gaz, Ghost, and Price are training together, sparing spiteful glances at the two on the sparring mat when they hear the new seargent call Soap, Johnny. And Soap doesn’t correct him, just grins

Gaz whips his head around so fast that his neck protests violently for the next few days. He ignores the pain, it’s a punishment. A punishment for not being able to acknowledge Johnny’s torment and ignoring his off standish behaviour throughout it. If Johnny replaced him, he deserved it. He thought, though it shattered him to realise.

Ghost stops mid workout to just stare hard at the ground, his back is bent which does a good job at hiding the solemn sadness in his eyes. His back aches for the rest of the day and he basks in this feeling. He tells himself that he’s ready to go through so much pain just to feel an ounce of loneliness that Johnny did with LT2, if it helped Johnny he’d do it.

Prices eyebrows shoot up to his hairline, he recovers first though his eyes are deep in thought for the rest of training. He has to erase and restart paperwork as he keeps getting distracted by the thought of being replaced, his eyes hurt from lack of sleep and he tries to finish all the paperwork, for Johnny, he repeats like a mantra.

Another thing is that Soap isn’t even avoiding any of those three, they are avoiding him and Soap guesses it’s probably out of guilt so instead of talking to them head to head he just writes letters, redoing them over and over to reassure them it’s not their fault and they couldn’t have done anything (well they could have but they didn’t know). Except the letter starts looking like a different type of letter..if you know what I mean..And when Johnny slips the letters under their doors and it just happens to be the night when he won’t be in his room as he gives his goodbyes to the new seargent outside. Ghost breaks down Soaps door and surveys the room before his heart leaps which was rapidly beating in his chest leaps up to his throat at the absence of Johnny. Gaz is rapidly sprinting up and down the corridors and out every exit and in every entrance, trying to figure out where Soap could be. Price is in his office, doesn’t know about any of this until Ghost and Gaz is wildly throwing open the door, panting and exhausted as they try to explain through teary eyes that Soap might have killed himself.

Price felt his heart fall down to his feet, nausea building up on him as his mouth started to salivate at the mere thought of one of his boys taking his own life because of something Price only realised too late, and even then it wasn’t Price, it was Ghost. Price is shaking although not like how Ghost was, he was twitching like crazy or how Gaz’s eyes were darting around the room, but somehow through it all Price asked them how they knew, what happened. And of course to see the letters.

Soap is giving a hug to the new sergeant, waving him off, patting his back and telling him to keep in touch as his new friend boards the helicopter to go back to his own task force. Soap watching the helicopter leave and then making his way back to the base, albeit at a slow pace as he enjoys the breeze of the wind on his face and he reminisces about his nice time with the new sergeant. Soap being oblivious to the mental breakdown going on at the base, so he just walks even slower. Back at base, once Gaz and Ghost actually manage to fucking speak a word, Price looks as white as paper though his mind races with possibilities before he looks down at the paper he was currently filling out and had to tell Gaz and Ghost that Soap was actually out sending farewells to the new sergeant who is leaving. Price has to reiterate it a few times for Gaz and Ghost and also for his own sake. Then Price observes Ghost and Gaz’s trembling forms, stinking of sweat and shaking and he states that this really isn’t healthy for them and they all need to talk. Once they find Soap of course, who just got back to base and is bombarded by Ghost and Gaz.

Also imagine the new sergeant being the same age LT2, maybe acting the same like being friendly, trustworthy (if LT2 managed to get Ghosts trust, he must’ve been trustable) except this new sergeant isn’t anything like LT2 in the negative way, and he helps Soap heal from all this stuff.

I just realised how much i’ve written i’m so so sorry - (Can I be 🫀⚡️ anon?) Also Idk why but this whole LT2 thing reminds me of Winter by Edwin Morgan. Especially the last stanza. about ice that sees nothing and nothing that sees.

Time to rant about the comfort part of the lt 2 <3 first Ghost would actually murder him, no questions asked, just seeing Soap (and maybe Gaz if we go that route) looking away, ashamed and scared, and he decides that lt 2 needs to begone… permanently.

Price wouldn’t be that much better tbh, he would see his boys scared and hurt by someone he TRUSTED, someone he TRUSTED to PROTECT HIS BOYS, and he HURT them. Price would be pissed, and protective (protective dad vibes) and he’s out for murder

Also, off topic, but I always imagined the age order in the 141, from youngest to oldest, as Soap, Gaz, Ghost, and Price (don’t know if this is canon, but it is what I imagine). But that means that lt 2 hurt the baby of the group, or if we include Gaz, the babies of the group. So Gaz and Soap are both the youngest, and the lowest ranked of the four, which would probably make them more protective because not only does the lt have authority over them in rank, but likely also is older and has more life experience than them. Anyways, as you can tell, I like the 141 being protective of Soap and Gaz XD

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Time to rant about the comfort part of the lt 2 <3 first Ghost would actually murder him, no questions asked, just seeing Soap (and maybe Gaz if we go that route) looking away, ashamed and scared, and he decides that lt 2 needs to begone… permanently.

Price wouldn’t be that much better tbh, he would see his boys scared and hurt by someone he TRUSTED, someone he TRUSTED to PROTECT HIS BOYS, and he HURT them. Price would be pissed, and protective (protective dad vibes) and he’s out for murder

Also, off topic, but I always imagined the age order in the 141, from youngest to oldest, as Soap, Gaz, Ghost, and Price (don’t know if this is canon, but it is what I imagine). But that means that lt 2 hurt the baby of the group, or if we include Gaz, the babies of the group. So Gaz and Soap are both the youngest, and the lowest ranked of the four, which would probably make them more protective because not only does the lt have authority over them in rank, but likely also is older and has more life experience than them. Anyways, as you can tell, I like the 141 being protective of Soap and Gaz XD

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I'm enjoying the LT2 posts so much. It hurts so good. Fucking god tier

Also, 🗡, I don't know WHO you think you are, but fuck you! (Read: I could kiss you)

Anyway imagine ghost tries to question soap about the LT2 situation, a little after he starts to catch on to something going on. Cuz ghost started noticing how soap is quieter, and he is actively watching him push himself an unhealthy amount past exhaustion. When ghost tries to confront soap but each time, soap keeps runnimg away from him, literally.

Random Soap head canons that relate to him having a journal because from that LT2 thing I have inspiration now >:D

Soap has A journal that he writes and doodles in absolutely all the time. When he's happy, sad, mad, you name it, he'll go to his journal!

Funny thing is that he always spells a few words wrong because I personally think that not only is it because of how Scottish this man is but he's also dyslexic ( and it also applies for texting to ).

His journal also isn't necessarily private. It mainly used when he needs to express emotions but doesn't want to do so in public/verbally, so everybody can just take a look at the journal and be like " ooooooh, that's why he's so ( insert emotion )!"

Also extra thing here but Soap is a pretty decent drawer ( I love him, he's so me fr )

Omg Ghost opens Soaps journal to a two-page spread in the middle of it that reads “NO ONE WILL BELIEVE YOU”

Full of angry scribbles and other comments from the LT2 written in the smallest handwriting

“Quit fucking up, Mactavish”

“I should leave you here”

“You’re insufferable to work with”

“How are you this incompetent?”

“I don’t understand why Price hasn’t replaced you.”

“I get why Simon doesn’t like you”

“Gaz was right, you talk too much”

“I can’t wait to get a new SGT”

“You’re dead when we get back, Mactavish”

“None of us will save you”

I’m never gonna write fics for this fandom so I’m gonna throw this SoapGhost thought at you.

BUT— the 141 has 4 people. Captain Price, First Lieutenant Riley, SGT Mactavish and SGT Garrick.

They’re rounding out the team, adding another person. Second Lieutenant whoever. Price knows him, Ghost knows him, but Gaz and Soap don’t. This guy shows up and immediately fits in with everyone— except Soap. This dude *does not* like him. But he doesn’t make it known in front of the others. But Soap can tell.

That’s fine, he’s had to work with plenty of people he doesn’t get along with, it’s just another day at work. But this guy’s contempt for Soap just gets worse and worse. It starts with subtle comments, little digs at Soap that seem like jokes to other people, but the Second Lieutenant just gets this look in his eyes— Soap knows they’re meant to be insults.

It’s worse the first time Soap has to go out on a mission with the Second Lieutenant. *Ghost* was his partner, why did he have to work with *this guy*? Soap tries to keep things professional— he doesn’t joke over comms, he hardly speaks at all actually, just does his job to the best of his ability. But when he comes back, Price calls Soap into his office— something about “insubordination.” But Soap didn’t *do anything.* He can’t argue back, it’s a lieutenant’s word against his.

But things get worse. This guy is the definition of a “hostile work environment.” But Soap can’t do anything about it. Can’t say anything. He just has to take it, because he knows that Ghost and Price respect the LT2, and anytime Soap acts anything like his normal self, the LT2 is up his ass about it— actively *trying* to get him in trouble.

Eventually he just tries to be as straight-laced as possible, so much so that Ghost notices the weird behavior. Soap is too quiet, too rigid— he’s damn near a shell of his former self. Soap doesn’t spend time with anyone on the team any more, just spends most of his free time alone in his room. He draws way more, trying to distract himself. He’s anxious all the time now, waiting to get in trouble *again*. Waiting for a shitty comment *again*. Waiting for that second Lieutenant to finally convince Price to get Soap kicked off their team.

It reaches a breaking point one day.

It’s Soap and both lieutenants on a mission. Soap gets injured. Badly. Ghost is the first to reach him. Soap’s bleeding out, apologizing for fucking up; and is begging Ghost to not leave him there, to not make him die alone, to not kick him off the team— anything that comes to his mind. Nothing but desperate pleas and apologies. He promises to be better, to work harder, promises that he’ll do anything if Ghost and the LT2 don’t ask Price to make him leave.

Ghost doesn’t understand at first. Why would Johnny ever think that Simon would do any of that? He gets them all back to safety. When they finally get back to base, and once he ensures that Soap is safely in medical, he starts looking. He reads through every report the LT2 wrote, looks into every physical documentation of interactions between Soap and the LT2, and— despite his apprehension, Ghost finds Soaps journal and looks through it. His heart breaks.

His drawings are full of pain. The notes in the margins are full of quotes from the second Lieutenant, all of the shitty things he’s been saying to Soap for months. Ghost sees it all. Soap’s fear, his anxiety, his isolation, his desperation. This guy was harassing and hazing Soap right in front of him and he did *nothing*. This guy convinced Soap that he couldn’t trust Ghost or Price, that he couldn’t confide in them all of the shit he’s been dealing with.

He shows it all to Price. Everything he’s found. Price, too, is taken aback by it all. How could could he have missed this? How could they both have missed it? They knew *something* was wrong with Soap, but couldn’t figure out what. The answer was right in front of them the entire time.

They know that the second lieutenant needs to go.

Soap wakes up in an uncomfortable medical bed to find his captain and first lieutenant staring him down. He prepares for the worst.

But it doesn’t come.