#mw iii spoilers

[xynnoix]

//mw3 spoilers

He’s fine, what do you mean? He’s just in recovery

(And I’m still in denial)

[inkbybambi]

simon was the one to carry johnny’s ashes up the mountain. the weight of his world on his shoulders, tucked away in an urn simon chose. he wears a small vial of johnny’s ashes and his dog tags. simon’s going to keep johnny close to his heart, right until the very end.

[imrowanartist]

So how are we all doing after that campaign? 😬

I for sure have my thoughts and opinions on it, but I’m not gonna bore y’all with that. Instead, I’ll just drop this little ficlet I wrote that ties into the end of the campaign.

Contains spoilers, obviously, but no other warnings beside fluff apply.

It was quiet when Rudy entered the medical center, the door sliding open softly as he let himself into the entry hall. Darkness had already fallen outside and the day shift had left, leaving only two nurses and the doctor on call.

Camila looked up from the nurses station at his presence, giving him a soft smile.

“Back again, major?” she asked, nodding at Rudy as he made his way to the hallway with the individual recovery rooms, kept for their most gravely injured.

“He’s my friend,” Rudy answered her, with a smile of his own that he was sure didn’t entirely reach his eyes, “I can’t have him feeling alone. Any change today?”

“He’s lucky to have you.” Camila told him, before pulling up a chart and flipping it open. “Still stable. He’s starting to show more response to external stimuli and the cranial swelling has gone down. I’m sure it won’t be long now until he wakes up.”

Rudy nodded, the news lifting some of the heaviness in his heart. It had been a week since they had brought Soap here. A week since he and Alejandro had gotten the devastating news that their friend had been shot multiple times, and that his life was hanging by a thread.

Rudy still didn’t know the full situation, a lot of it being classified and top-secret. Something about faking Soap’s death to keep him safe while he fought for his life.

Alejandro had offered to help right away, no questions asked.

Their medical center was state of the art and Soap deserved the best. Pulling some strings through Laswell’s contacts, somehow the 141 had managed to stabilize him enough, before flying him to Las Almas.

And for the past week, Rudy had been by his friend’s bedside every night, watching as, despite the odds stacked against him, John MacTavish had been stubborn enough to pull through.

As he entered Soap’s room, he could see Camila was right. Though the Scot still had a myriad of tubes hooked up to him, his skin already looked less pale than the day before and while he still needed additional oxygen, the breathing tube had been removed.

Softly, Rudy made his way over to the chair by Soap’s bedside. Before sitting down, he smoothed out the blanket tucked around his torso and gave the hand that rested on top of it a gentle squeeze.

“Hey, hermano,” he greeted, letting his eyes drift over the bandages wrapped around his friend’s chest and head for a moment, “heard you might be waking up soon. Hope you won’t be too mad they had to shave off your hair…”

Soap didn’t squeeze his hand back, he wasn’t conscious enough for that. Yet. But Rudy felt a slight twitch in his fingers anyway and couldn’t help but smile at it.

“Ale will be by later,” he said as he sat down in the chair, “he’s still finishing up some work.”

He grabbed the book resting on the little side table and opened it. “Do you want to hear another Sherlock Holmes story? We’re on the adventure of the speckled band, it’s one of my favorites.”

He watched Soap’s closed eyes, hoping to see some sort of reaction, but besides the steady up and down of his chest, there was nothing. One step at a time, Rudy reminded himself, as he searched for the right chapter and started reading to his friend with a steady voice.

He must have nodded off at some point after he finished the story, because the next thing Rudy became aware of, was the soft ding of his phone.

Blinking awake, he grabbed for it, squinting as the bright screen blinded him until his eyes adjusted.

A text from Ghost. Short as usual, it simply read how’s he doing? Smiling at his screen, Rudy replied A little better every day. Saw some movement today. Camila says he might wake up soon.

Ghost had been texting him almost every day, something that had come as no surprise to Rudy. He’d known something had been going on between the two Brits ever since he and Soap had shared some private conversation during a long night in a silent safe house. And over the past year, he’d gotten to be Soap’s go to person for relationship advice on several occasions.

Good. Keep me updated. Came Ghost’s reply. Three dots appeared, indicating that he was typing more. Then they disappeared and reappeared several more times until a short Thank you appeared.

To anyone else, it may not have seemed like much, but Rudy knew expressing himself did not come easy to Ghost and those two words held everything else he couldn’t say.

Always, hermano. Stay safe. Rudy sent back.

He knew they were still in the middle of their mission. Although he wasn’t sure if that was still about ridding the world of evil or if at this point it had turned into exacting vengeance on their fallen brother. Knowing Ghost it had likely become both.

But whatever happened, Rudy would make sure that Soap would be cared for. It was the least he could do for the men who had become his brothers.

He would make sure Ghost had someone to return home to.

[alexa-mwll]

Letter to Johnny.

Hello dear friend. I hope you are well where you are. Old Price told me to write a letter to you, to finally turn the page, so here I am.

Well nothing, 10 months since your death and I still haven't been able to get over you. I have been attending appointments with a psychologist for 2 months, Kyle made me come. And to tell the truth, it was very bad. He didn't eat, he didn't want to leave the house. I know you would be very proud of me, because you were always supporting me through all of this. I thank you, for your support, your company and above all, your friendship..

You were the most important person in my life, since I met you, I knew that you were the right person I wanted to spend my life with. But not as friends, but as brothers, I wanted to be with you, not being friends, because I know that at any moment our friendship could end. But still, I wanted to spend my life with you.

Anyway, I just want to thank you for every moment, every laugh, every joke we made to Kyle or Price, every anger, every gift, every hug, every conversation. I really would like to repeat those moments, reverse time and be able to be with you whenever I feel like it. But I can not. You don't know how much I miss you and long to be with you. Sometimes, without thinking about it, I start to remember, or imagine situations with you that I would like to happen.

I simply miss you, I miss you, how much I miss you and long to be with you. Sometimes, without thinking about it, I start to remember, or imagine situations with you that I would like to happen.

I simply miss you, I miss you much more than you imagine. I miss him calling me Simon, Ghost

Thank you for appearing in my life and improving it, for getting me out of that pit I fell into. Words are not enough for me to express everything I feel and think about you. Thank you for every one of your words. Each one helped me in a different way.

I love you. With all the love in the world, your best friend, Simon...

[writersblg]

Soap is not canonically dead yet Soap is not canonically dead yet Soap is not canonically dead yet

[soapsdish]

MWIII SPOILERS - Click at your own risk

I keep going back to THAT SCENE in my head, replaying what happened, and I can honestly say that there is a way for them to retcon his death and unfuck the entire situation.

It's supposed to be a head shot but the angle could give him a face shot instead, cracking his skull, cheek, and nose, putting him into critical condition and most likely a coma. But how to keep him safe from retaliation, from someone finishing the job?

Fake his death.

There's no family to ask questions so they can get away with it. And while he's recovering the task force keeps fighting. And after he recovers enough he's reintegrated but elsewhere, given new responsibilities and tasks and eventually when he comes back? He's Captain John Mactavish.

IT COULD HAPPEN, OKAY?! THIS ISN'T JUST DELULU RAMBLING OF A SAD PERSON TRYING TO COPE!!! I mean it is but THIS IS PLAUSIBLE!

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

Implied spoilers for mw3 under the cut

going to rdr2 for comfort after MW3 is WILD

[questforgalas]

Just declined going to a movie with my friend on Friday citing that it was because I had to study when in actuality I will be watching the download bar of MW3 and hitting "Start Game" as soon as that baby hits 100% and not leaving the view of my TV until that campaign is done.

And yes, it is so I can binge on new GhostSoap moments as soon as possible.

And yes, I've already been spoiled, but remember, I am a prequel/TCW Star Wars girly first. Canon has no power over me.

[vivisectedvitality]

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pffft streamer's running after soap for ammo but hes sliiightly too fast lmao

ok so i can finally talk about the spoiler i saw, and its that soap dies. now, while i do believe the red light he was in in the trailer and the amount of screen time hes getting is worrying on that front, i still kinda think its bullshit because it was the same pic both here and on youtube, like the EXACT same moment. so yea. blease dont kill my #3 blorbie activision i'll cry

streamer keeps metioning dmz whats tha

oh its like campaign multiplayer but not i see

wonder what happened to yuri (streamer's struggling a bit here if you couldnt tell)

they look so nice in their little winter outfits hehe

ghost is so bitey in this mans wants violence

HELLo

ok i had to stab my router to get it to work and missed the debrief and half the mission what is happening are we ghost now

WE ARE

ghosts got his tech back!!!

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

💀 New Detail of Ghost's Hands 💀

It's a ⚠️ Major Spoiler Alert ⚠️ though.

Look I know it's the saddest scene from the entire campaign okay, but let me cope by looking at these shots of Ghost's hand okay.

Bro has beautiful fingers and nice knuckles. I think I see a liil bit of rough patches on the joints but it could be me making things up.

That skeleton gloves do their work I guess.

The fact that he's quite literally holding Soap in his hands I'm not okay at all

[temeyes]

"although the way home is dark, i wonder if i'll be alright alone…"

[bravo-seven]

"I'm up to doin' my fuckin' job, kid. You should try it sometime."

MW3 gifs 5/?

[ohgeesoap]

[shadeops21]

With MWIII's Campaign around the corner, it'll be inevitable that people will want to post about the story and plot.

Please, do everyone a favour and do one of two things:

DO NOT POST ABOUT IT. DON'T. Before you hit "Post now", please sit back and think: "Would Capt Price/Soap/Ghost/Gaz/[blorbo] approve of this action?" And then hit "close".

If you cannot contain the urge, please for the love of everything that is respectable, include SPOILER TAGS and other spoiler mitigation tools such as "read more" dividers, spoiler tags, etc.

Don't be Makarov.

This has been a public service announcement.

[welldonekhushi]

Okay guys, I'm back and.. I needed a short break after what happened in the MWIII campaign. Words can't express how shocked I was when I reached the end of the campaign and.. it left me in confusion, denial, depression and anger.

I'm putting a "read more" below because, if there are people who still haven't played MWIII, I'll keep ya guys safe.

Our theories before were constantly revolving that who's gonna die and what worse is going to happen.. it first pointed towards the fate of Price or Gaz. But, turns out we were jinxed. JINXED.

The campaign was.. okay but at the same time I felt it was small. Quite rushed. I did have a light of concern over their release date when MWII was currently trending. I was reading others reviews of how they felt about the game and yes, I agree with the same. But I wanna talk about Soap's fate this time..

Soap, who JUST started his journey, like, the one who only appeared in MWII and hoped we would see him more develop in the further games to be just.. killed off? When were they moments away from achieving victory?

So only because it's called MW3 ✌🏻 and you wanted to give us all a nostalgic experience you'll.. give them the original plot treatment? Both Soaps in the Modern Warfare universes.. died under the hands of Vladimir Makarov but in different circumstances.

This is where I got a bit angry at Price because, why didn't you kill Makarov instead of taking him in custody in Verdansk?! That guy is a walking grim reaper, and if Price took that action before, not just Soap but MANY more lives would have been saved. Soap was a man who was ready to take immediate action but always got backed off because of being bound to orders.

The end scene when they took out his ashes.. it broke me. Like, how unexpected this can be? Well, though I know Makarov already gave a warning that he was going to kill him off in the heli scene, but.. it's just not it? Like, honestly, I was hopeful Soap would survive.. it's disappointing for me, as someone who loves him so much, like anything.

So ScarSoap's now an angsty ship? Because let it be for both universes — OG and Reboot, Scarlet's going to be left behind? Welp, I'm more sad now, lol.

Otherwise, the expectations I had for the campaign were somehow, not met to the fullest but let's talk about the good things.

Price killing off Shepherd. YES, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I freaking knew that he was going to die and my prediction called itself right. But, now that Price killed a 4-star General, he's gonna go rogue. You mean, batshit, crazy and unhinged Price on the move?!

Julian Kostov. The man. Bro, like, when he was featured in the reveal trailer, I was just hoping that he'd play the role of Makarov well and guess what? He did! I absolutely loved how he portrayed the man and he looked intimidating and twisted like a true psychopath. Truly, he could compete with the OG!Makarov and it's proven! Hats off to the actor, really <3

Price DOESN'T die. Neither in my beliefs, Farah and Alex. A relief. A pure relief, for real. The trailers showed him passing out but glad he's good in one piece. But, did that happen for the cost of killing Soap? :')

Graves and Shepherd betray each other in the conference, LMFAO! Who knew they were going to turn their backs on each other. Graves really had nothing to do with this, he was just a man following orders.. the problem lies with Shepherd, and always has.

Now, these guys said we're gonna release the "full campaign" on November 10. You mean.. the early access didn't show much of the story? So there's hope? OR NOT? Sigh, I don't want to think about it.. I just don't. I've been delulu, haha

Anyways, these are my thoughts for Modern Warfare III! What do you feel about it, let me know in the comments!

[itsagrimm]

The thing with the MW3 campaign ending is, that emotionally it did not hit at all.

it was kind of meh: no impact, no established worth in the sacrifice by showing civilian life or personal connection, not even a manly hug or a dramatic single tear from the survivors in the setting sun - just a shot going off in a game where they are getting shot at constantly while magically surviving running through gunfire hails. soaps death felt pointless. in a game that sets out to be military propaganda Soaps death has the reverse effect.

Instead of being heroic and inspiring, it was pointless, constructed and impactless that i just shrugged and moved on, just counting on AO3 to fix it.