#buck!ghost

So I come begging for more Buck!Ghost but like make him cryptid

Massive stag with twisted antlers, a massive rack that feels like its never ending. Coat an unusual color, his eyes bright and intelligent.

Just the whole vibes of a Not Deer. The attitude of a predator: he'll kill before he gets killed

(Which leads me to, have you read Of Earthly Things by any chance? Its my cryptid!Ghost wip)

No i haven’t which i should but- it just sounds like you’re describing a Wendigo😭 so i’ll give you this

Buck!Ghost but When he reappears after the Roba incident he..didn’t come back the same. Not only is he more- bony, length an unatural shade,furcoat looking a bitt too much on the gray side too much of a gray to be considered even part of the deer population

Buck!Ghost who shagers around like his legs can’t carry him, like he’s some sort of zombie or his muscles reverted into a fawn. So much so that everyone is even more unsettled then they were before. Even Soap is hesitant to bounce up to him which is a red fucking flag on its own.

a few weeks later they get drafted for another mission, out deep in the artic forest, closer to the area where they found shepherd doing who knows what. The mission goes wrong. someone tipped them off and the bombs were too less, the building crumbles, they get over powered- enemies surrounding them from all sides. Price is out of ammo and is currently trying to stab them off by using his pocket knife and snapping necks, Soap is trying to defuse a bomb that’s close to blowing while Gaz protects them and ghost is just- Standing there. Hes shaking head twitching like a creeker. Then he shifts

This giant fucking 8’9?? 8’6 who the hell knows Stag barrels through the enemy like a fucking Rhino, He’s too quick to be seen and even then all you see is Blood and guts staining the snow red, cut off shouts from the surrounding guys while everyone just stares in shock

When it’s all done he’s trying to calm himself down, to stop the bloodlust, to remind himself he’s no longer in that hell pit, and when he turns around to look at his team…He doesn’t necessarily see fear in their eyes but morbid shock. and he realizes, He doesn’t look the same. He doesn’t look like the same stag he was before that botched mission. He can see himself in his eyes and he knows he resembles a Wendigo too much to be one, it’s awfully close and it scares him. He doesn’t know how it happened but now- Now he knows he needs to get away from them. So he does, Turning and barreling into the trees, his form naturally blending into the frosty fog, hiding his- *monsterous* form from view

Buck!ghost when he first meets price is an…odd endever as i don’t know when i want him to meet price which means i have two ideas!

One is right after roba, broken thing really…he looks half dead half feral, hardly the sergeant he used to be now just lugging his weight around like a zombie. And price being the live definition of a mama bear just said “….poor lil foal…your mine now” and just took him in. sure he had to be careful because ghost is now as skittish as a rabid horse in shock, but he got around eventually.

the second one is before roba like many others depict it (i didn’t read the comics so i dunno if that’s lore accurate or not ik i need to but lol) Ghost meeting price a few years after his family dies which HURRAY his fathers gone! but still haunts his ass like a vengeanful spirit that won’t fuck off. He’s almost a lieutenant at this point but not quite there. he doesn’t have his full bulk but mostly filled out, and they met through normal means, he got called for an op got pared with price and it went from there. but something paired price off about this guy…one he doesn’t have his code name yet. two- Where the fuck are his tells and features??? it’s like he’s a human but there’s no way… until he realizes a few months later when ruts roll around (ghost is scratching at his head and stomping around like a bull) that this dumbass is (fuck words) subduing himself.

and yattaa yatta price helps him out of his shell, helps with shedding and his horns a few years pass roba happens and the usual goes through all the way to current day

(it’s midnight and i ran out of ideas bc of this stupid ass migraine 😭👍)

I love the second idea because obviously them having a bond prior to Roba is so good, like to me Price was probably the only thing that kept Simon from completely giving up after everything. The suppression of his shifter status, Price helping him, all of that is beautiful and I love it

BUT

Something about Price seeing a feral thing like newly post Roba Ghost and deciding "that one's mine now" is one of my favorite tropes

I just love it because it really relies on the idea that Price is equally mentally unstable as his team, he's equally feral but he's to the point of hiding it, of masking his insanity

He surrounds himself with people like Ghost to make himself seem normal by comparison, but those close to him know he's the same, if not worse in a way.

Feral Ghost trying everything to get the Captain to back off, leave him alone, try to convince him he's dangerous. He doesn't expect to be met with that same energy back, gnashing teeth and kicking out.

It’s a been a few years since Buck!ghost joined the team, but it’s his first overall christmas surrounding by well new family. it’s odd to him he didn’t think he’d consider them family but they are. It’s why Buck!Ghost doesn’t understand how this happened

He woke up earlier than the others, he always does that is if Price doesn’t sleep. So when he sees snow pilling up outside, nearly snowed it he freaks out. To everyone else it’s normal, cozy. To him he’s back where his mother died. His ma, dragged out by the horns which he can tell due to one of them missing and the other still having its fuzz but chipped in various ways, her face bloody and open in a wide scream. behind her his brothers body looks like swish with how many shots is doning his body. He can’t even tell if the hunters wanted to keep him for food or just torture him. And his father.. well fuck him but even that man was not spared if anything he had it worse. Buck!Ghost can see his organs layed out in the snow, bits and pieces of his teeth lying about and the whole area just looks like a horror movie. there’s..so much blood too much for him to handle.

Soap walks in on him in the middle of the episode and since i head cannon this Version of hound Soap is kinda like a therapy dog- He takes ghosts hand gently leads him to the couch and lays on top of him keeping his fingers on his wrist

If the recruits walk in on a dog pile two hours later that’s for them to keep secret

😋

(bonus points if Buck!Ghost wakes up an it’s all just a dream, and he’s still in Roba’s Custody. That it was all a manic hallucination trying to keep him intact and that’s why he zoned out in the dream heheheheheh)

How dare

I do love leaning into the gore aspects of the Riley family's demise. Ghost's story is one that can be extremely graphic if told in a certain way