Would Soap be an f-boy because of his outrageous charm or would he be the guy everyone pines over but he never acts on anything because he’s too busy doing stuff?
Here’s what I think: Soap is happy to sleep with his friends, and happy to remain just friends afterwords. Often, that’s the arrangement that suits his lifestyle the best. He doesn’t have the time, he thinks, for a proper commitment.
And it’s easy! Soap is handsome, and charming, and friendly! And to top it off, he’s a generous lover, excited to experiment and uninhibited enough in his escapades to get a reputation of being really good at sex. People flock to him like moths to a lantern in the night, and then when he has to leave, he says his goodbyes and lets that be that. His partners move on to others, and when he comes home he shows them nothing but enthusiasm that they found their person.
He does not, though, show people that he wants his person, too. Deep down, like everyone else, Soap wants to go to bed with and wake up beside someone who makes him feel like even the worst days are worth getting through. He wants someone he can tell everything, and he wants to be the person someone tells everything to. He wants to be wanted, to be waited for, to be welcomed home. He wants to get to know someone’s body better than he knows his own, and he wants someone to be as fascinated by him as he is by them.
But he knows he’s not around enough. He knows being with him means being lonely more often than not. So he doesn’t go looking. He doesn’t try very hard to keep anyone. Maybe that breaks some hearts—I don’t know if he’d realize that. But he’d probably say it’s for the best, because he doesn’t have much to offer anyway.
So, Soap isn’t exactly a fuckboy. He doesn’t love ‘em and leave ‘em. But he doesn’t ask for much, either, because he thinks he’s not good enough for it.
