So yeah, my take on that scene at the end. Different text tho, since I don't remember what was written there and frankly, I'm too lazy to search for it.
Oh and, hooves are hard to draw, pls don't judge me for that. I don't know how, and why exactly, they look funky.
Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, right? I have just found it, and I'm mad at myself for this but back to the point. (Mad for not finding it sooner)
One word,
Soap
It came to me, out of nowhere. This song but from a pov of Soap's mother? Perfect. The men carrying the casket? Gaz, Ghost and Price. I would try to animate this myself-
But I also can't even draw well to save my life, so yeah....
"In flowers, we thrive, growing a garden of hope amid life's challenges."
SoapGhostRoach endgame, with a GhostRoach start.
Angst with a happy ending.
∆ Rough outline:
Soap falls in love with Ghost during the Las Alamos mission, but knows it's unrequited because Ghost is already dating and engaged to Roach.
(Later on) Worse for Soap, he realized he fell in love with Roach as well.
∆ The AU:
Flowers represent the feelings for the person or their personality. If in love with more than 1 person, another flower type adds to the existing one. Even if they fall in love with another and don't get rejected, the sickness will not go away, and the flowers will stay the same. Although it noticeably prolongs victims' lives.
The sickness itself is rare but still common enough that people know the ins and outs of it. Symptoms and reason for these specific flowers are known. If rejected face to face, the person dies after a week, with beautiful flowers growing out of their body and on the soil (after they get buried). The flowers will continue to grow, until the person who rejected the patient forgets them. Huge respect is paid to those specific graves. Relatives leave a spider lily.
Newly affected leave an orchid on the altar to honor their deceased siblings. The graves of people who had it are located in a separate graveyard with an altar in the middle which is looked over by gardeners to ensure the long life of the orchids left and maintenance of the graves.
∆ Stages:
1 Stage: Petals, no blood. Lasts 1 month.
2 Stage: Petals, blood. Last 3 months
3 Stage: Groups of petals with occasional buds of flowers (closed), blood. Last 5 months
4 Stage: Buds both closed and blooming. Lasts 7 months. Problems with iron levels.
5 Stage: Flowers start to grow in and on the person. Most people ask to be unalived as living in these conditions is hell. Dead in 2 weeks upon reaching this stage.
∆ The military has strict rules about soldiers who have it:
1. The document about the affected are classified to everyone but their commander. In the document there's a date of the beginning, flower type and the love interest.
2. Soldiers are suggested to not confess their feelings so as to not waste valuable resources in the event of rejection.
3. Soldiers who still want to confess have to notify the commander. The commander will then assign a suicide mission to the person in case they get rejected. If not, the mission is off.
4. The sickness comes with an option to retire with an honor. If not, the soldier is honorably discharged on the 4th stage.
∆ Flowers:
Ghost - Purple lilac (symbolizes first love among other things)
Roach - Bird of Paradise (Symbolizes joyfulness and magnificence. It can also be used to indicate freedom and uniqueness)
Stanley smokes, not often, but still. Narrator also found out about it when he put him in the Parable. He took his belongings, including things from his pockets (phone for example) and with the rest, he took his cigarettes. After a while he DID give them back, 'cause withdrawal, but he forces Stanley to lower his dose of intake every once in a while
They wear rings with the colour of each others eyes
Stanley is a piercing type of guy
When he got infected, his textures glitched and since then his hair for some reason just do the non solid floating liquid thing
The Adventure Line™ likes him and is like a pet snake, but more affectionat