#alpine mw3

[iravaid]

first off I'm really loving your tommy riley fic! If I'm understanding correctly he's a nothing-character in the canon, but the way you write him is amazing, I care about the character and his journey so much despite (especially?) knowing his ending. The grasp you have on his character is crazy, so just major props for that!! secondly, I was scrolling through your asks and you mentioned a "graves yaoi prophecy". I'm a bit afraid to ask but alas... here I am...

Hello hi hello!!! Thank you so much for this lovely message, Tommy Riley my beloved, he's become very precious to me, as well as his brother. Despite both of them being from call of duty, of all things 😭 He's exclusively from the ghost backstory comics, with an entire 14 panels and about 21 speech bubbles. And YET.

God, graves yaoi prophecy... So happy someone asked about her. Writing this while listening to Ayesha Erotica, it feels apt.

So, a couple months before the game came out, I had a dream that MW3 was promising a confirmed gay couple. Everyone was mauling each other on what it could possibly be (ghoap, rudy/alejandro, nik/price, etc). Except, it turned out it was Graves, who had come back to life, and he was with some random NPC we'd never seen before. He was in some random alpine chalet, and turned to the camera in a cutscene to go: "I am.... Graves'.... Husband." and then he died.

I tell my beloved CoD mutuals about this. We find it hilarious, and it becomes an inside joke.

A month later, Graves is confirmed to have survived MW2 (not in the tank all along... copout!!)(Regardless, happy to see him scurrying around the underbrush for grubs and chemical weapons). Amazing, good for him. MW3 comes out, and it's a massive disappointment, as we all know.

During all this, me and some other CoD mutuals are joking about Graves and his alpine chalet husband of indeterminate scandinavian origin and immense skiing prowess, and O+ blood type (don't ask. lots of 'yes and'-ing, and emparting personal traits onto the character)(some more real than others). The husband is often referred to as Alpine, jokingly. The ship name is Gralpine. Love wins.

And then the MW3 multiplayer campaign comes out, alongside new operator. And. And who is one of the characters?

You can imagine my surprise. Norweigian no less. Skiis in the back. Chalet in the horizon. Graves is there. Konig isn't.

(user bleeped out for personal privacy)

Alpine of course was revealed to be ms Gytha Stromme - but that brief window of time where me and the CoD mutuals thought she was a dude, and i was momentarily the worst yaoi prophet of all time, was a high i'll never experience again

[verdantcreek]

real (confirmed wife-haver) recognizes real (confirmed wife-haver) 👍

[alpine-stromme]

It's amazing what a 9 hour layover between flights can do.

Drew this back in May! These two deserve some attention and love in my opinion! Haven't seen any fan made content for Raptor or Alpine that isn't my own work, lmao

Figured I should probably start posting what I've got

[hte-archived]

not fondly thinking about how someone in a group i was in REALLY wanted to rp as alpine until mw3 released and they realized she's a lady. bruh she's a canon lesbian norwegian skier, how much more perfect can you get?? she has a GIRLFRIEND? COME ONGUYS

[rsv00]

Showin off the Alpine X009-WRA for the Call of Duty MW3....please, ignore the song #jeeplifestyle #mw3_jk #alpinerestyle #modermotoring #allmymoney (at Saint Simons Island, Georgia)

[verdantcreek]

gold star for effort! ⭐️

she’s so silly and underrated can we as a fandom please recognize the female operators more 🙏

[alpine-stromme]

Short hair Alpine is my go to, but every once and a while the idea of her with long hair wiggles it's way into my head <3 Figured I might as well draw both!