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I will watch whichever sport gets picked so please pick a good one

Sidenote, I have knowledge of f1, motoGP, football (come on England), tennis and showjumping/XC (useless at dressage) but feel free to make me learn a new sport entirely :3

basically I have a rough plan that works with almost any sport so have at it

Ghost is a sort of recluse, something something, lives in a motorhome something something, only really talks to Price, yk the drill. Price is probably gonna be either like a manager/team coach/bossman or whatever, depends on the sport, and Ghost is this fanfuckingtastic player at whatever said sport shall be, but won’t play in front of cameras/on the track because he hates being social yadiyadiyada (maybe he’s a retired player of the sport idk?)

Anyway Soap then joins the 141 team and Price is like, ‘you’d be great if Ghost coached you/worked with you’ and then has to try and desperately convince Ghost to come back to the team and it spirals into chaos

Enemies to Lovers slowburn trope because I love them

For reference, arc raiders is a little like a zombie apocalypse au BUT humanity was forced underground after the world was taken over by arc machines (basically robot takeover) and the raiders have to travel to the surface in 30 minute bursts to collect supplies for their underground city

And then on the uranium mission, when he got called back to topgun he finally thought he was good enough for something. But even there he came up short, ending up being landed with the title of dagger spare.

He wasn’t enough to be anything other than the spare.

The first person to clock him was Ice after maverick dragged him to north island for a day. Ice noticed because he’d seen it before, in himself and in Maverick.

Maverick noticed not long after. Called him aside one day to talk. Told him about his own experiences of being a spare, and how sometimes that was the most important role. How he chose hangman as the spare because he knew that if it was needed, he’d move heaven and Earth to get there in time, even if it meant breaking a few rules along the way. Not because he wasn’t good enough.

BUT MAKE IT THIS:

John MacTavish who went to the military to escape feeling like he was trapped by overbearing parents, who doesn’t even like women but doesn’t have the heart to tell his parents that. Especially since they’re catholic.

Cue a mission that leads to Soap and Ghost accidentally trespassing on the MacTavish family farm, without even realising it after they were given incorrect coordinates to their safe house, until they bump into said family taking a stroll around their property.

They’re decked out in full gear, covered with cuts and scrapes and blood from their victims and it causes Mrs MacTavish to faint.

They then spend a few days there while transport gets sorted out and the MacTavishes slowly come to realise that Soap doesn’t need coddling, that he’s quite capable of taking care of himself and that he’s definitely in love with the other scary bloke that follows him around like a lost puppy.

And of course Grandma MacTavish is the first one to clock all of this because she is a #icon.