hiii valiants! first of all thank you for all the cod treats you share with us! genuinely love your perception and takes on the characters. i know you mainly focus on soapghost but i also realllllyyyy love your priceghost. i spend a Normal, Reasonable, and Healthy amount of time thinking about priceghost in that post-roba/pre-141 time period and the recent price scars posts and your handler(tm) priceghost post got me thinking of the different ways—small or big—that price built up trust with ghost.
how big of a role do you think price's scars/history at the gulag played in the foundation of their relationship? do you think there's a privately shared intimate (perhaps even spicy) memory between the two of ghost finding out about price's scars? whether price's time at the gulag happened pre-roba or if there was some overlap and shared commiseration? i always go back and forth with myself on whether ghost was assigned to price or hand selected by him. whether brass paired them based on history or if price's M.O. has always been hand picking the ripest fruit... (re:soap)
sorry lots of thoughts but i just find their mentor/mentee; handler/attack dog; Dom/dom; old married couple schtick so fun
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 eviltreat, thank YOU and never apologize for such a LUSCIOUS message filled with such DELISH thoughts, and for your generous tip - you are too kind to a mere priceghost pervert... in return I shall try to answer as best I can.
I think you're so right, the scars had to have helped build trust between them, especially since neither are the trusting type. I remember learning in a psych class in school that when people go through torture most of them lose their distinct personalities and they all become "the same", behaviorally. So Ghost and Price, having gone through this experience, were also kind of the same for a time... I imagine it would be hard NOT to establish lifelong kinship and camaraderie with that similarity alone.
That plus my headcanon of Price growing up rough, around other roughened people (and traumatized fighting dogs), he would DEF know how to handle Ghost's more uneven moments - and maybe sometimes even be a good sport about Ghost's tangled intimacy wires and get him off, albeit very clinically and as his direct superior (hot):
And A THOUSAND TIMES YES on Price hand-picking the most rottingly ripe fruit... I think no one above Price can truly tell him what to do about his own team - certainly not about its make-up - and I've imagined over the years how it might've gone down with Ghost and Soap, since we've seen it firsthand with Gaz.
In my head Price went through what he did, THEN learned about Ghost due to his notoriety, both pre-Roba and after. He probably had always kept an eye on Ghost for his potential (very high) and later his exploitability (easy with a rough hand) but only really picked him up when he started to go bad enough to save. They're brothers now, but I do think Price has always just been after good dogs and good weapons, for a just-as-good cause... (another fly for the flypaper)
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