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After many years of avid gamers thirsting over the attractive, attractive feminine online game characters on the market, it seems like our favourite digital himbos are lastly getting the mainstream consideration they deserve. In case you missed it, Tiktok is at the moment obsessive about Ghost from Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare II, and posting numerous movies of scenes from the sport, skits, and fan artwork have flooded the app. Identical to the withdrawn kings to return earlier than him like Darcy, Rochester, and Heathcliff, followers are drawn to the chilly, aloof nature of a mysterious male character.

Simon “Ghost” Riley was first launched within the authentic Fashionable Warfare sport and its subsequent sequel, and was introduced again for the reboot. He’s one of many foremost recurring characters in Fashionable Warfare II, and whereas I’ve to be sincere that all the characters within the sport principally look and sound the identical to me, Ghost is straightforward to pick as a result of he by no means reveals his face, and perpetually wears a cranium masks.

The Ghost thirst is giving me life pic.twitter.com/MubGoJJEGp

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One scene that’s getting gamers significantly sizzling and bothered is a dialog within the Fashionable Warfare II marketing campaign between Ghost and his squad mate John “Cleaning soap” MacTavish, whereby the 2 focus on Ghost’s masks and what he seems like beneath it. The dialog actually has a playful tone that we’re not used to seeing as a lot in Name of Obligation video games, and was a pleasant respite from the limitless stream of monotonous tactical chatter.

Whereas loads of followers on Tiktok are having a blast depicting Ghost in a goofier (and sluttier) like than normal, some gamers aren’t too thrilled in regards to the new characterization — the protests vary from collection veterans expressing their distaste for a change in Ghost’s characterization, to claiming that “Ghost can be upset in you,” to straight up homophobic harassment.

The reactions to GhostTok pic.twitter.com/PLjjcVr0QD

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The Name of Obligation franchise has been often known as one of the bro-y gaming properties round principally because it began all the best way again within the early 2000s, and a big a part of the participant base has truly served within the armed forces. Whereas the collection is nearly as masculine because it will get, they’re enjoyable video games, and the kind of new gamers who’re leaping in diversify increasingly with every launch. Many of the followers who’re posting attractive Ghost content material are actually taking the flirty subtext of the sport and working with it to a meme-worthy excessive, it’s their very own approach to reclaim the hyper-masculinity of the video games.

Whether or not a participant is having fun with the sport via an ironic lens or taking it stone-cold critically, the throughline is that each gamers have an appreciation of the sport in their very own manner. Name of Obligation will be hardcore and intense whereas additionally being camp — each will be true on the identical time.