Living in your father shadow was incredibly difficult for you. Especially since your dad was The Great Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley. You had a lot to live up to. Constant expectations and standards you had to meet. His eyes you always had to be fit and you always had to know how to use a gun. Those are things you didn’t want to know how to do as a teenager.

As you got older, the pressure was intense to join the military. So you caved and joined. Due to your father’s high rank and skill, you got into many things you wish you didn’t. Like high ranking missions that constantly got injured in. You were eventually placed into a special unit. Your fathers. Now you had to be perfect all the time.

Your first mission went horribly, you and many people got hurt. All because you made a wrong choice. You knew you were in for a world of trouble when you got back to the base. So when you got back, you bolted for your room. Closing it and sitting on your bed. Until your room opened. It’s your dad…he closes the door and looks directly in your eyes through the holes of his skull mask.

“What the hell was that!? You nearly died! Gaz nearly died! I nearly died! What made you choose to STAY in the building? God do you have any common sense!? I didn’t raise you to be like this!!” Your dad yelled as he paced your room.

You felt the tears building up. Yes you grew up being tough but this broke you. The tears spilled over, your anger reached the surface, and you snapped