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A psychological horror AU where the Ghosts are forced to confront what they tried to forget.
Type: Headcanons and yaps
Characters: Elias โScarecrowโ T. Walker, Thomas A. Merrick, Alex โAjaxโ V. Johnson, Keegan Russ, David "Hesh" Walker, Logan Walker and Gabriel T. Rorke. Dr. Melissa โLisaโ Westwood (OC)
Genre/Tone/CW!: Psychological Horror / Drama
Haunting, introspective, surreal, emotionally heavy with moments of eerie quiet and personal revelation.
Fandom: Call of Duty: Ghosts
I think Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is one of the most unique games in the Silent Hill franchise, and itโs perfect for bringing Ghosts in because itโs less about monsters and more about psychological profiling, memory, and emotional trauma.
Soldiers with buried trauma
Survivors of betrayal (Rorke)
People whoโve lost family (Ajax, Elias, Logan if heโs brainwashed)
Experts at repressing emotions
โThe dead don't sleep in Silent Hill. And neither do the Ghosts.โ
After Ajaxโs death, the team starts receiving scrambled radio signals from what should be a dead frequencyโhis voice, calling for help from a location marked only as โSilent Hill.โ
At first, Merrick calls it static hallucination, grief, a hacked channel maybe.
But when Logan begins having recurring dreamsโof blood-streaked corridors, Ajaxโs voice echoing from within fogโthey decide to investigate.
Except when they get there, Silent Hill is not on any map anymore.
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Riley disappears early. Reappears covered in blood but unharmed.
The โfinal bossโ confrontation with a massive โThe Ghost Killerโ Ghostsโ own logoโskull-faced, godlike, demanding silence (alongside a bit of Federation's attacked) creature born from shared trauma.
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Each Ghost has a solo โfog trialโ in Silent Hill.
The radio picks up old comms chatter from dead Ghosts.
Eventually, they reuniteโbut changed. Not all may make it.
Each Ghost faces personal manifestations of their trauma in the town.
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He survived when others didnโtโand he never forgave himself for it. Ajax was more than a teammate. Keegan wonders if his silence killed him. Every mission he leads feels like gambling with ghosts.
Environment:
Cold, metallic corridors in a hospital, echoing with bootsteps. Blood on the walls. Echoes of Operation: Sand Viper.
Monster:
A humanoid figure in Ghost gear with Ajaxโs voiceโbut his mask is torn, mouth sewn shut.
Symbolism:
Keegan's fear of failing the team. His guilt. The way he buried emotions under orders.
Mechanic: Every time Keegan looks back, the base shifts. Mirrors reflect the fallen Ghosts, not him.
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He was always the protectorโbut he failed everyone he loved. He believes he pushed Logan too far. Heโs haunted by how his need to prove himself led to broken bonds, and possibly his brotherโs ruin.
Environment:
A funhouse war zoneโeverything twisted, loud, and disorienting. His own voice mocking him /Or crumbling city where everything explodes in slow motion (the time of ODIN Strikes).
Monster:
A shadow dog that acts like Riley, but its bark is distorted and its eyes bleed.
Symbolism:
Hesh's fear of losing everything human inside himself. His silence isnโt peaceโitโs repression.
Twist: He canโt shoot the monster because it looks like him.
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He was silent because he trusted others to lead. Now heโs lost himself. He doesn't remember who he is without the Ghostsโand fears he never had an identity at all.
Environment:
A quiet, echoing streets in San Diego. Picture frames with blurred faces.
Monster:
A doppelgรคnger of himself, reckless and cruel, dragging Hesh behind him /Or Logan wanders through fog where his own reflection stalks him, wearing a Federation uniform.
Symbolism:
His fear of becoming like Rorke. His impulse-driven rage.
Lost identity. PTSD. The fear that heโs forgotten who he is.
Mechanic:
Loganโs section has no dialogue. He writes or draws on walls to communicate.
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Leadership means sacrifice. He made the call, and the body count followed. Carries the weight of dead Ghosts who followed his orders. Feels he became the very machine he used to fight against.
Environment:
A war room. The walls are made of TV screens replaying every mission gone wrong.
Monster:
A towering bureaucratic beast wrapped in dog tags.
Symbolism:
Guilt as a commander. The weight of every name he couldnโt save.
Voice:
A chorus of former squadmates screaming โWhere were you, Captain?โ
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He sent his sons into war. He raised them to be soldiers. But now? One son is broken, the other burned with guiltโand Elias canโt undo what he built.
Environment:
The Walker's residence house frozen mid-collapse. Cracks run through the walls. Photographs of Logan and Hesh flicker like static, their faces blurred. The TV loops footage from ODIN's destruction, but no one changes the channel.
The front door never opens. Heโs trapped.
Monster:
A massive, faceless soldier in old Ghost gear (Rorke). It drags two mannequin-like children behind it on leashes, whispering โDad..? DAD! DAD HELP US!โ One of the mannequins' weeps (Hesh). The other is silent (Logan).
Symbolism:
Eliasโ guilt overturning his sons into soldiers. His obsession with protecting them became the thing that got himโand Ajaxโkilled.
Mechanics:
Doors open only when he recites failed orders. The rooms rearrange if he tries to call out their names.
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He was loyal. He was perfect. And they left him behind. The Ghosts made him a weapon. The Federation broke the blade. Now, all thatโs left is a man who wants others to suffer like he did.
Environment:
Training rooms loop endlesslyโlike Rorkeโs life: always prepping for war, never healing. Hallways filled with locked doorsโeach one labelled with a Ghostโs name.
Inside: static. A mirror room shows Rorke in tan-olive uniform (Legends Never Die)โclean, alive, proudโuntil it shatters, and blood spills from the cracks. Thereโs a surgical table with Rorke's durag and headphone the middleโhalf burnt, half pristine.
Monster (if one exists):
A shadow-Rorke, wearing the Ghost mask fully. It speaks in Eliasโ voice, then his own. It repeats: โYou were never one of them. You were always disposable.โ
Symbolism:
A warning for Logan (if Logan is being corrupted or used by the Federation). A final confrontation space.
A reflective what-he-couldโve-been contrast for Elias or Ajax.
If Rorke dies here, it could be symbolicโlike his soul finally consumed that broke him (The pit or a room where Rorke was held for brainwashing processes).
Alternate situation:
There is no monster.
Rorke is alone. Utterly alone. The true horror is that no one remembers him as he truly wasโonly as what he became. He tries to talk to reflections of Ghostsโฆ but they just laugh or disappear.
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He died believing he was forgotten. His memory is distorted in everyoneโs minds. May return as a manifestation of their guilt or as a lingering soul who canโt move on.
Not a ghost. Not alive either.
Appears as a glitching memory between dimensions.
May lead or warn Logan in the fog.
May become an ally in Keeganโs trial.
Or worseโฆ may not forgive them.
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Heโs always in the backbone, the shadows, behind a laptop. Knows everything but feels like heโs nowhere. He saved lives. His mind is a filing cabinet of failures.
Environment:
An endless server roomโrows of flickering monitors playing live feeds of ops gone wrong. Heโs stuck at a keyboard that types in blood. Every time he tries to shut off a screen, another opens showing a teammateโs deathโones he couldnโt stop.
Monster:
A humanoid mass made of wires and camera lenses. It speaks in overlapping Ghost comms and distorted screams.
Symbolism:
Kickโs trauma isnโt front-lineโhis horror is watching. Failing to extract in time. Always being the eye in the sky but never the hand to save.
Mechanics:
Must "decrypt" puzzles to escapeโbut the answers are never complete.
Audio logs randomly play his own voice panicking, โIโm losing themโGrab the data and get out of there!โ
๐ณ๐. ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐ป๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ (OC)
Lisa Westwood is the Ghostsโ version of Michael Kaufmann, but with sharper style, Texan realness, and that cat-eyed โI know youโre lyingโ stare.
Role: Psychologist for a classified military trauma program. Somehow appears in dreamlike sequences between each Ghostโs trial.
Vibe: Calm, sharp, disarming. Her Southern charm masks deep insight. She always knows more than she lets on.
Setting: Each session with her happens in a dimly lit, wood-paneled office with soft ticking clocks and fogged windows. The room subtly shifts depending on whoโs in it.
Lisa (to Keegan): โYou say you donโt remember Sand Viper. But your hands are still trembling, sugar. Memory ainโt the problem. Guilt is.โ
Lisa (to Hesh): โYou jump first. Ask later. But when did you start deciding your brotherโs life for him?โ
Lisa (to Logan): โItโs awful quiet in here. Funny how silence can scream.โ
