#alessandra outrider castillo

[just-tc]

Some sketches of my go to solider; Outrider (Alessandra ‘Les’ Castillo)

Love all her skins, especially Dark Strobe <3

I’m usually medic in BR so I added the medical station ⛑️🩹

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My Chaotic Introduction to Call of Duty

Funny story: I've never played a COD game. I don't have the computer to do so without burning myself or running out of space. My introduction to COD came primarily through Call of Duty: Mobile and a bit of MW 19, since both came out the same month.

So here's a few moments I have on my trip to catching up on 17 years of COD.

As a heads up, some of my thoughts might raise your ire at my stupidity.

Also, when I say "I learned who ____ was" I mean as in I knew them only by how they looked and their name.

Let’s start at the beginning: it was a dark and stormy night…

Before CODM came out...

•I could recite the whole Russian Roulette scene from BO1 even though I didn't know what was going on.

•I had seen "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday", "No Russian", "All Ghillied Up", and the concert parody scene at the end of BO2 at least once.

•I knew who Ghost was because I watched a 12-minute video of TheGamingRevolution pushing Ghost to the checkpoint to try and keep him alive.

CODM came out Oct. 1st 2019...

For context, I didn't actually play the game on opening day. I knew COD had been around for years and was too intimidated to play it because I didn't think I'd enjoy it if I was overwhelmed with information I wouldn't understand.

And then, a week later, I got really, really mad at PUBG Mobile one day and downloaded CODM.

And that's my origin story.

•The majority of the CODM operators are their Blackout version. If that’s not enough to say "oh god this is probably the worst introduction to start with" you’re entirely right.

•ALSO, there is absolutely no regard to the different universes in CODM. Everything and everyone is smashed into one. This is important because it's very confusing.

•*sees Spec Ops 3 Operator* Omg he's cute.

MW 19 came out, Oct. 25, 2019...

•I watched a streamer reaction video of the end cutscene of MW 19. No idea what was going on, but "All these streamers are getting excited over these characters so I will too! Also that guy has a nice voice (Price) and that lady is hot (Laswall)."

•I learned who Farah was because I caught part of Chocotaco's stream. He was playing MW 19 once and Farah was being tortured.

•I watched the first mission of MW 19, and went "who's this random guy talking? I thought the main character was Farah? And why is his name Echo 3-1? That's a weird name. Is he a robot or something?"

•I watched an interview with Barry Sloane and called Price the "Barry Sloane guy."

•I watched MW 19’s "Clean House" mission a lot. It told me the baby was invincible.

It went downhill from here...

•David and Alex Mason are two fronting icons of CODM along with Ghost and Phantom from Infinite Warfare. I knew the Masons were related, but I didn’t know how. It was either David was Alex's father, they were brothers, or David was Alex's uncle. I settled on David being Alex's father because his CODM/Blackout operator was better looking than Alex's to me.

•“I can’t wait to find out more about David “Prophet” Wilkes!” *wiki has next to nothing* “Oh—”

•One of the F2P rewards from playing the Zombies mode was a tank dispensary operator. And I was like “huh, what’s a tank dispensary? Are those the guys that replace the shells in the canon of a tank? I’ll look it up later.

Three months later, I realized it said Tank Dempsey.

•And then I went ahead and read a bunch of RiDe fics on Ao3.

•I didn't know what Richthofen looked like so I imagined him to look like WWI Ace pilot Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron).

•First female character added to CODM was Alessandra "Les" Castillo (aka Outrider). No really cared because the community was busy simping for Mara and I was sad she wasn’t Farah.

•I took a picture of the CODM loading screen and labelled them to try and learn who was who. Note that the one that says “Outrider” is actually Soap.

•When CODM had zombies mode, I drew a ray gun from the musical box once. I had seen a teammate use it and get a lot of points so I thought it might be good.

Sike, I hated it. I didn't like the sound it made, it was ugly, and the blue stuff was weird. So at the end of the round when there was only one zombie wandering aimlessly and everyone was collecting stuff, I threw the ray gun away in favor of an AR. My teammate just happened to pass by and saw me get rid of it. They looked at it, then looked at me, then picked it up and dropped their shotgun. And being a shotgun fan, I took the shotgun happily.

I never drew another ray gun.

Warzone came out, Mar.10, 2020...

•I finally learned who Price was because he was an operator (along with Ghost and Soap) you could get through a code if you played Warzone. And all the tryhards were a Soap, Ghost, or Price. I could never remember Soap’s name, however, except for his last name because of a skin set called MacTavish.

•*an Easter egg in CODM* "Oh look, a little TV with numbers on it! I'll bet it's ASCII!!"

•I finally remembered who Soap was from the "You didn't juju on that beat" meme.

April-September 2020...

CODM’s eSport tryouts ran during this time, so I joined a group of people on Discord in hopes of making a team to win $1M and got smacked in the face with references I didn’t get yet.

•"Look at this cute, dorky Cowboy Ghost!"

•"Who's Nikito? His design is boring.”

•Until the voice lines were updated, all CODM operators had the same four default voices: three American accented and one Scottish. Tank Dempsey had a Scottish voice until they fixed the voices to sound like their actual characters. Let's just say I was not prepared for Dempsey's real voice...

•There was a Makarov event, parody of Operation Kingfish: The Hunt For Makarov, but I couldn't care less because it was a boring event (I just thought the Makarov operator was hot). I genuinely forgot who Makarov was until I saw a CODM meme video in March 2021

•MW 19's OST became my favorite COD OST to listen to... because it was the only COD OST I listened to.

•"Ooh! A Russian operator! Lev Kra... Kracker...? Kravelhoe...? Kraskinsky...? Whatever, I'm just calling him Lev."

•"Why are there so many Ghosts? Like, why do people like him so much?"

•"This Naomi girl (Manta Ray, COD Online) is hot. I'll bet she's in one of the really well-known games!"

•*listening to CODZ voicelines* "They're so... angry?"

CODM's 1st Year Anniversary, Oct. 2020...

•"Tf is gunsmith?"

•"Tf is this Reznov guy?"

•"Tf is an armor plate?"

•"Wait, the in-game music isn't original?" (it's all from BO2's OST)

•"There's more than one COD universe???"

•"Wait so that means Farah isn't even friends with that hot guy with good hair?" (David Mason)

•WW2's OST replaced MW 19's OST as my favorite.

•If you played the beta for BOCW, you got a code for an Adler operator. A friend gave me the code because they know I play CODM and they don't play. So that's how I learned of Adler. I spent a good portion of my time trying to pet his hair through the screen with my finger.

•*not realizing Adler has his own voice* "Bruh why is Adler's voice so... ROBOTIC??"

BOCW came out, Nov. 13, 2020...

For context, BOCW was the first campaign I fully watched. I did not know what day it was coming out until TheRadBrad began posting videos.

•Before: "Adler is cool!"

•After: "Adler is not cool! Sims is cool tho! The rest of them... eh idk who they are."

•"Bald guy (Hudson) has a nice voice."

•“Wow BOCW had a lot of shooting” *watches BO1 later* “Oh—”

•I watched all TheActMan COD reviews even though I didn't understand them. The only thing I remember from them was "He was my best friend!" from IW and "Train go boom" from BO3.

For more context, CODM has these comics that still disregard the three universes as well as time periods. Ex. Tank Dempsey works with Ghost. I didn't realize this, however.

•*watching WAW* "Ohhhh so Reznov went back in time in the CODM comics?? And he's basically reciting WAW?"

•*watching BO1* "Oh look, it's the Russian Roulette scene!"

•"Ohhhhh Mason and Woods are actually important to the COD story."

•*watching COD 1 (2003)* "Wait so... where's Price and Soap and Ghost?"

2021...

•*watching BO2* "Bruh this David kid is annoying af—oh my god, he's not a kid anymore."

•"Wait he's back to a kid... what???"

•"Menendez is evil. I don't like him." Yeah, that aged well.

•CODM has all the BO3 weapons in it, most of them being the meta, so of course I recognized every gun sound in the game. Probably why I liked BO3 quite easily.

•"Player's voice is H O T!!" *proceeds to watch the same two cutscenes where his voice cracks on repeat*

•*watching COD 4* "I take back what I said about a lot of shooting in BO1."

•"EVERYONE'S SAYING ZAKHAEV'S NAME WRONG!!!"

•"Wait the All Ghillied Up was in COD 4?"

•*watching BO4 cutscenes* "PROPHETTT!!!!! :D — wait, that's it? There's no more of him? :( "

•"All the CODM operator skills come from BO4? So that's the game responsible for me ragequitting because I keep blowing myself up with the war machine?"

•*watching MW2* Ramirez gives me Artyom (Metro 2033) vibes with how much he's being asked for.

•BO3's OST replaced WW2's OST as my favorite.

•"Wonderful wunderfizz! Everybody needs a little revive!!"

•"Zombies story!! Awwe Primis and Ultimis are drinking together! Awww they're all dead."

•*watching BO: Declassified* "Do I even know what's going on? Where's Menendez?"

•*watching anything new with COD* "What tf is going on right now?"

And yeah, that's it so far! Let me know if you found any of these entertaining.

[buttcanine]

I was tagged by @arsuf and @jackkrauser, Thank you~!

List 10 of your favourite characters in 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 different people.

1. Wrench (Watch Dogs 2) 2. D.Va (Overwatch) 3. Seras Victoria (Hellsing) 4. Skull Knight (Berserk) 5. Gwyndolin (Dark Souls) 6. Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5) 7. Goro Majima  (Yakuza) 8. Jetstream Sam (Metal Gear Rising) 9. Alessandra “Outrider” Castillo (CoD: Black Ops III) 10. Fran (Final Fantasy XII)

I tag: @sublimepoint, @sunlitdaisys, @dezfez, @zldane, @rickytozawa, @bloodofelves, @havarls, @croftmanor and whoever else!