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I downloaded a new pack of brushes that reminded me of Bell, so I finally got up the courage to draw after a long time.

in this scenario i am in fact Price, because i know about computers about as much as about quantum physics

Ghost had to sent one e-mail and lost his mind

and Johnny's banned from using computers alltogether

here take something I will not finish.

bell doodles. had been dealing with a horrendous artblock over the past couple months (including writing:()

Lazy days on leave spent in the too-big bed kyle impulsively bought one drunken night, warm under fluffy blankets and cozy pajamas. Kyle at your back, one arm curled into your waist and keeping you tucked against him, the other tangled in soaps hair.

Soaps already awake, but he silently scrolls on his phone, basking in the total silence. The safety of it all. Your face nuzzled against his furry chest. No one really wants to move so no one does.

Bring your child to work day am I right?? (more under cut)

Adler

No screw ups allowed

Adler would have the urge to go off on his own and take care of business himself, but he knows better

Meticulous planning, won't get any sleep until he knows his kid is safe and sound

This was exactly WHY he didn't want his child to work with the CIA, and now it feels like his fault for not keeping a closer eye on them

There's even less warning when he pelts a small object at Mason, who catches it more on instinct than intention.

Before he can ask what the hell, Woods points at the box in his hands. "Get your ass in a jacket n tie and get in the car! I'm marrying you legally if it's the last fuckin thing I do on this god forsaken planet!"

Mason can't say he ever expected a normal proposal from this man, but.... "What?"

Woods is already rolling back into the house. "Turn on the damn radio! We're getting married!"

And they do. They're probably the oldest couple in line at the courthouse to do it, but it happens. Frank frames their marriage certificate with the small news story about the two of them from the local paper. Alex hangs it up in the living room among the array of family and friends on the wall.

By the time David has a chance to call them about it from wherever he's deployed, a second certificate has already arrived in the mail saying Frank is officially a Mason. David hasn't heard him that smug and satisfied about something since he'd been made sergeant a year ago.

every flag looks red when you wear rose colored glasses, nonny.

But also because Price is hella toxic in canon especially when it comes to corrupting Gaz. In this scene, Price kidnaps the Butcher's wife and child, sits them in front of him, and explicitly uses them as leverage to force a confession. You (as Gaz) are told to point a gun at them until he talks. Yegor, who was just beating the shit out of The Butcher, is so uncomfortable with how this is going he backs out.

When Gaz is reasonable also uncomfortable, Price hits him with the most manipulative line in the game: "we get dirty and the world stays clean" which explicitly recruits Gaz into Price's mindset. He normalizes using a man's family as props for torture, then reframes it to Gaz as noble.

He frames moral boundaries as flexible and implies if Gaz can't handle it, Price will happily do the dirty work alone. Gaz, up until now, as spent the entire game trying to subtle impress Price, who no doubt notices this. His words are a pressure tactic as much as it is a pep talk and a loyalty test dressed up as a mentorship that basically boils down to: either accept my rules-don't-apply morality or get out of the way.

Also, also, in the post- credits cafe scene with Laswell, Price pushes for a new unit that can operate worldwide with deniability. He lists the operators he wants and tells her the rest is "need to know unless we have a deal" explicitly tying cooperations to him getting his bespoke murder-squad, thereby leveraging a global crisis to negotiate his ideal unit with minimal oversight (also in case anyone missed it because the fandom does tend to overlook this part, but Price had more than three folders in his hand and his words imply that Task Force 141 is bigger than just four people)

Price consistently throughout all three games accepts working within a corrupted system as long as he gets to keep running his war his way; treats high casualty loses as acceptable collateral because it serves his strategic goals (taking out Ghorbrani); consistently acts as judge, jury, and executioner with zero interest in due process , and absolutely willing to execute someone based on a perceived threated even when the person is not trying to be; works with people who are not good as soon as they become useful to him again (like accepting help from Graves after he betrayed Los Vaqueros and massacred civilians).

Anyway, if Price were a trolley problem, he would let someone else pull the lever so he can have that plausible deniability while throwing you under the bus and then frame it as something noble. If he were a trolley problem, he would kill many people if the one person was useful to him and tell them "youre alive because I needed you alive, don't make me regret it"

Hmm what it could be?

‘S pretty heavy…

Sounds like an expensive gift!

Hope it’s a puppy!

Or a kitten I don’t much mind either

Or world peace.. Can that even be gift wrapped?

Surprise! It’s a smol Bell!