A Ghost in COG Armour || Gears of War Trilogy
[Y/N L/N x Sam Byrne]
𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭.
𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫.
𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐞.
There was Y/N L/N.
Born into a name spoken like a curse, Y/N was never allowed to be ordinary. The L/N family had been marked long before Emergence Day - by blood, by loss, by war, and by the kind of grief that never truly stays buried.
Then the ground split open.
The Locust rose.
And the Coalition found a use for the last son of a cursed name.
A soldier.
A survivor.
A weapon.
But beneath the COG armour, beneath the rifle, beneath the cold stare and the reputation dragged across every battlefield, Y/N carried the dead with him. Every face. Every scream. Every person he failed to save.
Fighting beside Marcus Fenix, Dominic Santiago, and Delta Squad, he is thrown into the worst the Locust War has to offer - ruined cities, broken families, impossible choices, and battles where the living are often harder to find than the dead.
Some call him bad luck.
Some call him cursed.
Others call him exactly what he looks like.
𝐀 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐫.
But then there's her.
A woman with fire in her heart, a sharp tongue, and enough stubbornness to look past the armour, past the blood, past the ghost everyone else sees - and find the man still buried underneath.
And in a war where tomorrow is never promised, Y/N must decide whether he will keep living for the dead...
Or finally fight for something still alive.
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- Gears of War and all associated media are NOT my property.
- This story spans the events of the main trilogy, with original character integration and expanded narrative elements.
- Contains graphic violence, death, trauma, war themes, and mature subject matter consiste