It would be incredibly tragicomic if Roach had been on leave during the events of MWIII and MWIV, and when he returned, everything was a mess.
Soap is dead
Gaz is missing
Price went rogue and is being hunted down while he’s teamed up with Valeria
And Ghost has gone back to being a lone wolf on a mission to hunt down Price, dead or alive
The tragic part would be that Roach lost his team and his friends, and now he’ll have to do everything he can to recover whoever he can while dealing with the grief of what he lost, what he was, and what he could have been. All while the world around him is falling apart right before his eyes
The funny thing is that the most chaotic member of 141 will become the voice of reason and the only thing keeping everything from going to hell in the process
Imagine you're on leave, you're offline for mental health. When you left, all your friends were alive, everyone was fighting the good fight. You were promised a rematch at Mario Kart, some food, and just a general hangout when you got back. But when you get back online, everything is fucked. Your captain? Gone. Gone MIA, rogue. Your lieutenant? Hunting your captain. Your fellow sergeant and friend? MIA. Your best friend? Fucking dead. And you weren't there for any of it. 141? Gone. You're the last one. And there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm here to add more drama because I can't get this idea out of my head.
Imagine if Roach wasn’t allowed to properly grieve because his superiors decided to give 141 one last chance to regain the “prestige” it lost when Price betrayed the SAS—and what better option than to make Roach the new captain.
Now Roach would have his own breakdown because he never imagined he’d end up in that position—not on his own merit, but so the SAS wouldn’t be tarnished by the actions of someone he knew and admired.
And that’s also the issue: how would he fill Price’s shoes? How would he live up to expectations? It’s not that he’s afraid of the idea of leading—he’s done it on missions and when he has to train recruits; he knows he’s more than capable. But to be the one who represents the victories, the wounds, the plans, the failures, and the deaths of his soldiers. And the worst part is that at the base, all the recruits are distrustful and tense since Price’s betrayal, Soap’s death, and the disappearance of Ghost and Gaz. It’s not that he blames them, to tell the truth
And that triggers resentment, pain, and hatred toward those he believed were his brothers in arms, his friends, his family. Because how is it possible that in all this time when everything went wrong, none of those who remained reached out to him to tell him about the death of one of them? He understands that communication was limited for the sake of his mental health while he was on leave, but he is also part of the team—they should have looked for him one way or another. Does that mean he doesn’t matter?
Isn’t he important to the 141?...
Did they even see him as one of them?
Well, that was about to change because now the 141 was under his command, and he’ll be a better captain than Price. He’ll be better than all those who left—a better captain, a better soldier, and a better comrade...
The good news is that he’ll have the support of Laswell, Nikolai, the Cowboys, Farah, and Alex, along with their resilience, to rebuild what’s left of 141—and in a certain, unexpected way, he also has Graves and his shadows.
