John “Soap” MacTavish

You and Soap have been friends for a little over three years, and you finally managed to convince him into going to Halloween Horror Nights with you. As much as he tried to deny the fact that he was afraid, it was abundantly obvious by the way he’d glare at every scare actor that came even somewhat close to the two of you. He definitely did NOT scream when one of the actor’s ran up to him with a chainsaw— no, you’re just imagining things. And he definitely WASN’T spending a long time in the shops to avoid the scare actors, he was just looking at all the cool stuff!

Whilst you two were roaming around the scare zones, you came across a haunted house that seemed particularly interesting. After a while of negotiating, Soap agreed to go into the haunted house with you, in exchange for corn dogs from one of the nearby food stands. Even while you two were waiting in line to get into the haunted house, it already seemed like Soap’s soul was ready to leave his body at any given moment, and being able to hear the screams from the guests inside the haunted house definitely did not help the situation or calm his nerves in the slightest.

After a couple minutes of waiting, it was time for you two to enter the haunted house together. The house was adorned in eery and gothic decor, lit up by very few candles placed around. To make matters worse, you two could hear the sounds of footsteps and noises coming from other parts of the house, before things suddenly went deadly silent, which was somehow even worse. Soap led the way, trying to keep up his brave facade as you two ventured through the haunted house together. He would never admit that he was filled with bone-rattling fear, and if he was using sarcasm and jokes to distract himself, no he wasn’t.

His facade didn’t last long, however. In fact, it disappeared like a black remote left upon an equally black surface, completely vanished. The moment another scare actor appeared from a doorway— a woman covered in blood, donned in a wedding dress, Soap might as well have turned into an Olympic sprinter with how fast he ran away. His scream echoed throughout the house as he ran like the wind, trying to keep distance between him and the scare actor chasing you two.