So i see you're also into 'Soap with self-esteem issues' (excellent taste btw), do you think the rest of the 141 would catch on to Soap's tendency to run headlong into danger and his worrying lack of self-preservation and the need to always prove his worth or is it mostly just a thing that Ghost starts to pick up on?
HRMN GOOD QUESTION.
i feel like they might see it more as him being reckless as fuck at first? cause hes always so boisterous and hes naturally a spitfire. and as they get more comfortable as a team, and they all become closer, they see it more as protectiveness- they feel the same about him, so it isnt unusual to them.
but after graves and las almas and hassan, it gets worse. ghost is the one who experiences it the most, since hes generally paired with him, but gaz and price start to notice it more and more over time and as they go on more missions. even kate notices the increased medbay reports regarding his injury treatment.
price sees it the most outside the field, on base.
the captain starts noticing that soap always accepts whatever job hes given with no real arguments, even when he looks run-ragged. he never had the thought to question it before, since soap obviously would know his own limits- he knows that soap is the one to get ghost to give himself a break when he overworks himself. but now that he actually pays more attention to it, he can see the exhaustion that soap cant quite mask in his posture or hide in his eyes.
gaz sees it more in their downtime.
whenever they hang out, it ends up being something gaz likes. not that they cant like the same things- they seem to genuinely share a lot of the same interests- but if they go out to a bar, is always gazs favorite. if they watch a movie, its one gaz talked about being interested in. if they play a game of some sort, its always something gaz enjoys. even when he asks what soap wants to do, it ends up being something gaz had mentioned at some point. one time he tries to get soap to choose a different place to drink- he says he wants to switch it up a bit, asks soap where he wants to go. soap looks genuinely lost for a moment, before he spews some shit about "that other good bar around, ye ken? cannae remember th' name," until gaz suggests something.
kate sees it in reports most of the time, since shes off base far more often than the others are.
when looking over reports and records, she can tell that soap is in the medbay both way too often and way too little. she may not be a medical expert, but she knows that a soldier with a bullet wound shouldnt be let out of medbay that soon, even if prescribed bed-rest- she also knows soap, and that man couldnt stand being put on bed rest even if he was in a fucking coma. as the visits get more and more frequent, the injuries more serious, she begins to worry.
price gives soap less to do, but that only makes the sergeant more agitated.
gaz asks soap for suggestions on what they do more often, but his friend only looks ever so slightly distressed and sticks with what they usually do.
kate gives the medbay staff instructions to make sure that soap is fully recovered before he goes off again, but they report back that he always manages to slip away before they can get an in depth gauge of how his wounds are healing.
