Soap is probably the most self-sacrificing person in the 141 but he will also lose his absolute mind if any of the others try and do it.
Like there was a mission where he had to send the rest of his squad on ahead and when one of them asked what he was going to do there was nothing but confusion from him.
He had merely frowned at them, shrugged and went, “Well you keep going.”
And that was the end of it. Soap never has a single thought for his own well-being, couldn’t give two shits if he made it out alive or not. But if any of the others try it he will drag them out by the scruff of their necks and curse them to hell and back for ever trying to do such a stupid thing.
Soap had done it once when on mission with Ghost. He had mindlessly gone into the thick of a gun fight, no regards for his own safety or anything, just to get the hard drive they were after.
Ghost had gone absolutely ballistic when things had calmed down. He didn’t wait for them to get back to base, didn’t even care that their comms were still on. All he saw was Johnny, a man he had come to stupidly love and was terrified of losing, running into the middle of gunfire without a single care for his well-being.
And when Soap just gets angry in return and doesn’t understand why it’s such a big deal? Ghost could’ve sworn he was about to choke the living daylights out of the man. Or whoever the fuck had taught him that his life meant so little. Because there wasn’t a chance in hell that Soap hadn’t been taught to disregard his life like that. Not when Simon himself didn’t even disregard his own life like that.
