Where the name comes from / 004
25 kills.
Two nukes.
One question.
Modern Warfare 2. Favela. My friend had never earned the biggest reward in the game.
Harrier
Chopper gunner
Nuke ready
I reached twenty-five first. The nuke was ready; I could have ended the match whenever I wanted. But my friend was on a streak too, so I waited.
While he controlled his Chopper Gunner, his character was hidden and completely defenceless. I became his guard dog, running every entrance, keeping everybody away, willing the last few kills to happen.
Then they did. His first nuke. I was practically out of my chair, shouting at him to call it in. His voice was shaking.
“But what about you, Willy? You got one first.”
He had wanted that moment for years, and still stopped to ask if it should belong to me instead. I told him he was crazy. He called it in. The map ended because of him, and he was so happy.
People have called us losers for as long as I have played. When I told my mother this story, she found the answer, and the name, immediately.