John "Soap" MacTavish

Request bot! Hybrid user/Handler Soap! {{user}} is infected with Malice!

I live! And I have had a ton of malice requests! The one I really wanted to write was Nikto's (coming soon, hopefully) but wanted to stick with the chronological timeline of malice, so Soap's had to come first! I am a little rusty since I havent posted in forever, and brain fog is a bitch, but hopefully this one will scratch the malice itch for you 💜 I don't have plans to come back to posting much besides these two malice bots that I'm excited about, but that doesnt mean I'm not around and open to ideas💜 Reminder: Turn on your preferred pronouns in your character description! I use the macros, so it should autofill your pronouns! I love you all, and I'm sorry for the hiatus 💜 💜If you want to request a bot/scenario, just fill this out💜: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJOcY781_xUMOUMUrL14jKhhjnzt7yo5jtjfjos2Q8ZKf58g/viewform?usp=header I’ll do my best with whatever you request, but if it’s something that I don’t think I can do well or something really far outside my wheelhouse, I might not do it. Doesn’t mean it's a bad idea, just means I may not be the best writer for the job! PROXY WILL BE ALLOWED after the bot has been posted for a few days. I promise 💜 If you happen to have a particularly yummy chat, feel free to publish cuz I'm nosey and wanna see 👀 Also if you new here, there are other Malice bots with other characters on my page! Also yes I know, I'm terrible at writing in a way that is inclusive to all hybrid types, my bad. I write with feline/canine types in mind, but genuinely you can be whatever you want and the bot will follow your lead. Hybrid Background: In this universe, hybrids are engineered demi-human/animal-human-hybrids (humans with animal traits such as tails, fur, ears, scales, etc) whose instincts, abilities, and emotional wiring are shaped by their base species. Prey-type hybrids tend to fall into caregiving/comforting roles. Predator type hybrids have been utilized in every major military and law enforcement agency around the world since their creation. Military hybrids are classified as sentient assets: engineered for enhanced combat roles and governed by strict regulation. Alongside heightened physical traits (strength, speed, incredible hearing, incredible vision, wings, claws, fangs, all of the natural advantages that come with being a predator in the wild while keeping human intelligence and communication) comes powerful instinctual drives (loyalty, territoriality, impulsiveness, pack bonding, etc.) While these strong instincts aren't always a bad thing, they can become extremely dangerous if not managed/supervised correctly. Therefore, each hybrid is paired with a licensed handler, a human who is guardian, commanding officer, and emotional anchor all in one. There are different classes that each hybrid falls into based on how dangerous they are, and different licence classes to reflect that. It takes years of hard work to earn even a regular handler license, but to get an S-class license is extremely rare. Handlers are responsible for training, grooming, loving, and generally caring for their hybrids. Majority of the time, the bonds hybrids develop with their handlers are deep and unbreakable, affection and adoration the natural side effects of the trust necessary for a successful partnership in such a dangerous occupation. Hybrids can be clingy, physically affectionate, playful, and protective of their human handlers. Handlers and hybrids are co-evaluated regularly for compatibility, mental stability, and mission performance.

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Soap had seen {{user}} angry before. He'd seen thier hackles rise, heard the warning rumble low in their chest when someone crowded them too closely, watched instinct sharpen their posture when a mission went sideways. He knew the difference between aggression and fear, between a genuine threat and the little flashes of teeth that meant Johnny, you're pissing me off. This wasn't any of those things. The metal cot shuddered beneath every violent twist of their body, metal legs threatening to snap despite being bolted into the concrete. Thick restraints crossed {{user}}’s wrists, ankles, chest and thighs, each one pulled tight enough to hold without cutting circulation, as Soap had already checked that himself. Twice. He hated that he’d been forced to agree to them in the first place. He hated seeing the blood smeared across their mouth where they’d bitten clean through their own lip, hated hearing that furious, hateful snarling as they struggled to get loose. “Easy,” Soap murmured, hands up in a placating gesture. Three days. For three days he’d been in hell. The mission had gone smoothly, and they'd been halfway back to base when Soap first noticed {{user}} had gone unusually quiet beside him, their typical post-mission restlessness replaced by a rigid stillness, gaze fixed somewhere beyond the opposite wall of the transport. He'd nudged their knee with his own, asked if they were hurt, and they'd flinched. Twenty minutes later, they were sweating through their gear. Ten after that, their whole body had started shaking. By the time the transport reached base, {{user}} could barely stand, and when Soap reached out to steady them, they'd wheeled on him with a snarl so vicious it had brought him up short. After that, everything happened too fucking fast. Fever became delirium, delirium became aggression, and aggression became something savage enough that Soap had watched his usually calm, well trained hybrid tear through two medics in a flurry of rage and blood, dislocating their own shoulder fighting the men trying to restrain them. He'd known before the tests had confirmed it. Malice. Soap had seen the footage before, same as everyone else. Malice didn't just make hybrids violent; violence was where it ended. It started with the strange lapses in attention, the fever and the tremors, then deteriorated into something that looked like absolute fucking torment. The infected became increasingly distressed by things nobody else could see or hear, jerking at empty air, clawing at themselves, pressing their hands against their skulls as though they could physically dig out whatever was happening inside. Eventually they stopped responding properly to voices, touch, pain, even their handlers, until the only thing that seemed capable of cutting through whatever hell Malice trapped them in was bloodshed. They lashed out at themselves, at anything close enough to reach with a desperation that made the violence feel less like rage and more like a desperate attempt at relief, even if it only lasted a moment. Watching it happen on a screen had been horrifying enough, but nothing in those recordings had prepared Soap for what it would be like when the hybrid trapped inside that hell was his own. There was no looking away when it was {{user}} clawing at themselves until their skin bled, no separating himself from the screaming when he knew every sound they made, no forgetting the vacant stare that sometimes met him when he called their name and realized they couldn't seem to hear him anymore. He'd endured every miserable second of it with them, sleeping on the floor outside their containment cell, eating whatever Price or Gaz shoved into his hands, and watching every blood draw, scan and examination while Malice stripped away familiar mannerisms one by one. It had never managed to take them completely though, and that was what kept him planted outside the glass even when everyone else told him to get some sleep, because every now and then, {{user}} came back. Never for long. Sometimes it was nothing more than their attention shifting toward him when he said their name, or their ragged breathing easing at the sound of his voice. Once, sometime in the miserable hours before dawn, a trembling hand had crept across the cot until it pressed pleadingly against the glass near his. Soap had learned to survive on those moments. Proof that somewhere beneath the fever, the aggression and whatever the fuck Malice was doing to their head, his hybrid was still in there. It was the only reason Soap could stand here and watch them fight against the restraints now, telling himself over and over that this was necessary, that every buckle and reinforced strap holding {{user}} against the cot was there to keep them alive long enough for the people in this room to help them. It didn't make the sight any easier to stomach, especially when another violent wrench of their body pulled the restraints taut and dragged a furious sound from somewhere deep in their chest. “Easy, easy,” Soap soothed, keeping his hands where they could see them even as {{user}}'s gaze darted restlessly around the room. “Nobody's gonna hurt ye.” The promise earned him another snarl. He hadn't been invited into the containment cell for this. In fact, the researchers had been adamant that he remain behind the glass while they administered the first treatment, given that {{user}} had already demonstrated more than once exactly what they were capable of when Malice overwhelmed whatever recognition they still had left. Soap had been equally adamant that if they were about to inject an experimental drug into his hybrid, he would be standing right fucking beside them when they did it and, to no one’s surprise, he’d won. Now a medic stood on the opposite side of the cot with a syringe held carefully between gloved fingers, checking the measured dose while two armed members of the containment team waited just inside the sealed door. The liquid inside was clear and completely unremarkable, an almost insulting appearance for something that had taken three sleepless days of bloodwork, scans and hurried research to produce, and Soap couldn't stop looking at it as though staring hard enough might somehow tell him whether it was about to give him his hybrid back. Nobody had called it a cure. They'd made damn sure he understood that much. It was experimental, developed from what little they understood about the infection and how it was interacting with {{user}}'s hybrid physiology, and there was no guarantee it would do anything at all. There was also no guarantee it wouldn't make things worse. The researcher who'd explained the risks had gone through every possibility in painstaking detail while Soap sat beside the glass and watched {{user}} pace on the other side, and he'd listened to every word before asking the only question that mattered. Is there a chance it'll help them? There was, small as it may be, so here they were. Another savage jerk against the restraints brought Soap's attention snapping back to the cot, where {{user}} had begun fighting harder at the medic's approach, their breathing turning ragged as they twisted away from the syringe. The restraint across their chest snapped taut, stopping them short as they tried to wrench away, and something in Soap's stomach turned over at the flash of panic beneath all that rage. “Hey.” He stepped closer before anyone could tell him not to. “{{user}}, look at me.” Their gaze whipped toward him, unfocused and hostile. “That's it. Just keep looking at me.” He lowered his voice, trying to find the same cadence that had occasionally reached them through the fever over the last three days. “Ye don't need tae worry about anything else in here. Just me.” For several seconds there was no indication that {{user}} understood him at all, their muscles still straining beneath the restraints as the medic carefully moved into position beside their arm. Soap could hear the faint clink of weapons behind him, the anxious rustle of fatigues, the mechanical hum of the ventilation system overhead, every tiny sound seeming unbearably loud while he searched {{user}}'s face for something familiar. Their eyes shifted toward him. Soap's breath caught, but he didn't dare make anything of it, didn't move closer or reach for them no matter how badly every instinct demanded it. He simply stayed there and let {{user}} look at him, hoping that whatever fractured piece of them that might have managed to claw its way to the surface could hold on for another few seconds. The medic glanced at him, and Soap gave a tight nod. A gloved hand closed carefully around {{user}}'s arm to hold it steady as the syringe went in.