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justadeadreaper · 11 months

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WARNING THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE THREE.

PLEASE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILT PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE READING. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

I was thinking about the ending scene for Modern Warfare Three as it has been rupturing my soul into enough shards that the grains of sand in the Sahara Desert look like an hourglass compared to it.

Now this is my headcanon from being a Ghost X Soap shipper so if this is not for you please do not continue reading but instead scroll away as I will not accept hate just because you disagree with my idea due to the ship I like. Just please ignore and move along so you can spend your energy doing something better than arguing with me over text over fictional characters.

This headcanon is my idea on why the task force had Soap's ashes instead of his family as it is mixed in with a heavy amount of angst.

My reason for believing why Soap's ashes were not given to his biological family is because I believe that Soap doesn't technically have one a family. You may be wondering why I say this as most of you know the fandom headcanon Soap to have a large and loving family. While I may agree with that, today I want to give you a taste of angst that you'll see in my later works and also because I believe he only has a family like that when he fits into the box.

I've always believed that Soap is the fourth of six children which includes three other brothers and two sisters. From a young age Soap was a trouble maker but also the loudest of his family who had some queer tendencies which somewhat made him a black sheep. To counteract this I suggest that Soap's father or grandfather would punish him with corporal punishments that ranged from spankings to cleaning the house house to the point of spotlessness otherwise he'd get more spankings.

This is relevant as it gives you a bit of context as to how I view his family as I believe that the new Soap is Roman Catholic as the original Soap before the reboot was also a Roman Catholic. Which makes me guess that his family would most likely be traditional, especially his parents depending on their age as I expect them to be a bit older due to the amount of kids they have.

Coming from a family that's a mixture of Christianity and going to a Roman Catholic school I can say that traditional Roman Catholics tend to be homophobic due to the bible and believing it is unnatural as it apparently makes men "sissies" or "puffy". A lot of people will not like this as they headcanon Soap's family to be accepting but based on my own experience I believe that it's the opposite. Especially due to his parents being older they would have been raised with many misconceptions and stereotypes around gay people which makes them view it as horrid to be gay and as if it's the worst sin in the world.

This all cumulated when Soap was in his late teens. One of his cousins or siblings discovered he was bisexual or gay due to snooping in his room and finding something they weren't supposed to. Due to having a grudge against Soap for one of his pranks they decided to tell everyone.

This went over as well as it could have gone.At first they tried the pray the gay away, just by themselves but then with the pastor, and toughen him up, which was mostly punishments, approach before finding landing on the easiest option of shaming and degrading Soap until he cracked under the pressure. Of course Soap was still gay but stayed in the closet until someone realised that it didn't work. After that realisation he was kicked out and disowned.

Due to how close he originally was with his family he wanted to get back into their good graces. This is why I think he originally joined the military to make them proud as I believe he had other family members in the military, and to show that he isn't a "stereotypical" gay guy which they think is a "sissy". He wanted to desperately show that he can still be masculine and the "Johnny" they knew but they continued to turn a blind eye due to their strong religious beliefs and act as if he never existed.

The disownment led to him having a living biological family but no actual family. Of course he made family in his time in the military through meeting others which became most apparent when he joined the task force.

Each task force member was given a role by Soap based on who they were most similar to from his own family: Price as the older brother or father, Nikolai as the sketchy uncle or sketchy father, Laswell as the distant but caring and helpful aunt, Gaz as either the younger or older brother, and finally Ghost who was seen as the lover but also as the person Soap wanted to become. After all to Soap, Ghost is perfect, what his family would have wanted in a son; he wanted to be like Ghost to feel his family's love again as he didn't truly realise that he had already made a new one.

Johnny was nobody's son. Only Soap was.

Which is why they had his ashes as they were the only ones he could consider family as they were all he had.

All he requested for when he died was for his ashes to be spread in the Highlands of his home where his father always promised to take him but never did.

Now Johnny is nobody's son and nobody's lover.

Now Soap is nobody's son and nobody's lover.

His family will die and forget about him. His taskforce will die in effort to enact revenge for him. All that will be left of him will be a fading memory that slowly blows away like his ashes in the wind.

No family.

No name.

No life.

Johnny may have died when his family threw him out to the streets. But Johnny and Soap truly died on that cold floor, unbeknownst to him that three others died with him that day, especially the one he cared about most.

Simon.

Who would have guessed a life would have been lost over love?

-This is Ozzie signing out, and I hope one day that Soap gets the revenge and true ending he deserves.

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