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yanderes-galore · 2 months

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I'm really curious how can you make Rookie from Halo work... So can I ask for a romantic concept for him?

I will be focusing strictly on Rookie from Halo 3: ODST for this. Gotta love obsessive silent protagonist :)

Yandere! Rookie/Jonathan Doherty Concept

Pairing: Romantic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Overprotective behavior, Violence implied, Death mentioned, Injury, Blood, Guns (Halo is an FPS so-), One-sided relationship, Thoughts of forced affection, Dubious relationship.

Can you really blame The Rookie for becoming so obsessive?

He wakes up in New Mombasa, the rain pouring hard upon his helmet.

His team is scattered, perhaps even dead.

He is left to find out what happened to them in the wet streets of New Mombasa.

Plus, the city is overrun by Covenant troops.

The Rookie may have found you hiding away in New Mombasa.

You're a civilian left behind in this concept, only armed with a pistol.

The Rookie can see the wounds and blood on your clothes/skin when he finds you.

You trust him when you see him, you can tell by his armor he's human.

He's no Spartan, but an ODST is still able to quickly adapt for survival.

He no doubt finds a first aid station nearby and gets to work on patching up your wounds.

Rookie's concern is primarily looking for an extraction point and where the rest of his team could be.

But as he looks at you shivering from the rain and slowly recovering from your wounds, part of him feels like he should keep an eye on you.

This makes the Rookie take you along with him, arming you with a gun you can use.

Despite you being armed he knows you're vulnerable.

He's armored, you aren't.

You both don't have shields, but one well placed shot would do more damage to you than him.

The Rookie encourages you both to travel in shadows.

The city itself is dark and the rain makes it hard to see.

This is used to your advantage.

Over time Rookie notices you open up to him.

He doesn't say much but listens to you when you talk.

Rookie is hard to read what he's thinking... due to the lack of speech and helmet.

I have a feeling ODST Yanderes are more comforting than Spartans as they feel more human.

Although Rookie is a poor example of this since he feels almost... emotionless at times.

However he does show he cares for you still, he isn't too cold.

He takes most of the hits, he listens to you, he acts empathetic.

You can't explain why it feels like he's staring though... might just be the helmet?

In reality... Rookie is staring because he feels attracted.

Another thing that sets Spartan yanderes such as John apart from ODSTs? Romantic attraction.

Rookie has no enhancements that dampen such feelings.

Which means he's still able to feel romantic attraction, like Buck.

Rookie finds himself falling for you, a civilian in his care.

He's determined to help you out of this mess, no matter what it takes.

Rookie is mostly focused on the task at hand.

But occasionally his thoughts wander back to you, thinking of what life with you could entail.

He really shouldn't since the war is still going.

You're a civilian, you should be evacuated like all the rest.

But as you get closer to the extraction point, his grip tightens on you.

He can't bring himself to see you go.

Even when he meets with Buck and Veronica, he is intent on not leaving without you.

Buck definitely teases Rookie, claiming he has a new partner.

Rookie doesn't mind, in fact he thinks of what it would be like to show you affection.

His feelings for you never dissipate.

In fact, even as you fly off with him in a Pelican, he still fantasized about being with you.

Maybe he should've pinned you to a wall in New Mombasa... kissed you... showed how much he adores you...

Rookie wants to find a way to express such feelings... but he isn't sure how.

He has desires but he has to wait for the right time.

He feels eventually you two will end up together.

He doesn't want anyone else to be beside you, after all he saved you.

Who else was supposed to protect you?

Even if he has to pull some strings... spill some blood... or break a few UNSC vows and rules...

Rookie plans to remain your savior, protector, and possible lover... even if you are a civilian.

Overall Yandere Type: Overprotective, Obsessive, Devoted, Deceptive, Delusional, Slightly possessive.

#yandere halo #yandere halo 3 odst #yandere ODST #yandere halo the rookie #yandere jonathan doherty

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pelgraine · 1 month

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Halo dragon AU fic idea:

In the days after Kai removes her pellet and they've started working together on Sangheili translations, Miranda realizes something curious about the Spartans. Despite being battle hardened killing machines with encyclopaedic knowledge of weaponry and warfare, they are also naive and impressionable in other ways. It concerns her that someone might take advantage of Kai, or the others, while their still in the phase of learning about the wider world.

Miranda takes an opportunity one afternoon to explain to Kai that she shouldn't follow any advertisements or signs for free puppies or free kittens home until she's properly investigated the situation.

The following day, Kai is seen with what appears to be a very juvenile winged reptile perched on one shoulder. When questioned her excuse is, well, Miranda didn't say anything about 'Free Baby Dragons!'

The other Spartans are so intrigued and delighted by the tiny scaly beast that Kai promises to find one for each of them because she now knows a guy.

ONI are horrified at the influx of likely lethal and dangerous pets. Halsey gets roped in to talk to the Spartans. There's lectures terribly similar to the ones they've all heard in their youth; that Spartans should care for each other and nothing else.

Various attempts are made to seperate the baby dragons from their respective Spartans. Teeth, claws, several small fires and a jailbreak or three later, they eventually discover the dragons are irreparably bonded to their chosen Spartan and cannot be seperated, despite all the attempts to the contrary. One very frustrated ONI lieutenant finally shoots a dragon with his pistol and is wounded when the bullet rebounds. The Spartans are delighted to discover dragonhide is bullet proof.

ONI invariably gets even more involved and there's a number of experiments to try and procure more dragons and bond them with various marines and ODSTs. All the attempts fail, many rather spectacularly.

Ackerson is tearing his hair out because he's convinced this is some nefarious plot Halsey has conducted, even though she's had nothing to do with it and is just as clueless as he is (but is hiding it better.)

Eventually she's the one who cottons on to the fact that the Forerunner-like DNA that is specific to Spartans might be the cause for the bonding being successful.

That theory is disproven when, after Kai gifts a dragon egg to Miranda, the hatchling bonds to her immediately.

Halsey discovers the novel experience of being genuinely jealous of one of her daughter's achievements. Miranda is so delighted by it all that she smiles brightly all the time nowadays which makes nearly everyone who comes into contact with her smile too.

Halsey does not get a dragon baby to bond with her. The one she tries with - secretly, in her lab - escapes and has since been found following John around and attempting to snuggle with Cortana whenever she materialises. Cortana immediately cottons on to what's happening and tries to be more present and available, though indeed she's not really sure how the little hatchling imprinted on an AI nor how to fix it.

#halo tv show #halo series #halo fanfiction #silver timeline #here there be dragons au #kai 125 #miranda keyes #catherine halsey

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empresskadia · 2 months

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Spartan Relationship Headcanons [Naomi-010] [Part I]

Our queen, our legend, our Valkyrie <3

I seriously have so much written that this character limit is my enemy. Be expecting several parts for Naomi cause I'm not even done with the trilogy.

Part II

Naomi is very much the quiet one in the relationship as usual with Spartans, though you two do have inside jokes that she refers to. It'll be in an uncalled-for situation when she brings it up or cracks a good one that has you gigging like crazy. Serin has gotten annoyed with you because all she hears is you laughing over comms and Vaz nor Mal understand why you're kneed over with tears in your eyes.

She adores hearing her partner laugh, it just does something to her that makes her feel all warm inside. Naomi feels more comfortable bantering with her partner than anyone else and really does enjoy the inside jokes together.

BB was still in her armor when this happened and gets curious when her heart rate spikes and her body temperature rises. He doesn't understand why it did until he sees what she's seeing. In that moment, everything else fades into the background, and all that exists in her sight and sound is your laughter. It's infectious, she finds the corner of her lips twitching into a smile. She couldn't help but be drawn to it like a moth to a flame and for the rest of the day, BB is in a daze because he doesn't know how to explain this feeling and finds himself watching the two individuals. In the end, BB materializes next to you and describes the feeling, you end up giving him a small laugh. "BB, that sounds like you're in love. Who's captured your digital heart?" And unbeknownst to you, those were Naomi's feelings that he described.

At the very beginning of the relationship, Naomi teaches you the Spartan smile and makes it a habit to gesture it when she sees you, eventually, if you’re an ODST/Spartan, she’ll start swiping her fingers across your helmet. The first time you give her a Spartan smile on her helmet, she’s secretly overjoyed.

Going down the ODST route, if you two get reunited during a mission, she does the spartan smile on your helmet super quickly before going to engage another enemy. The rest of your squad annoys you about it but you’re sworn to Spartan secrecy, they don’t need to know.

This actually starts a rumor that Naomi and you have beef which couldn’t be further from the truth. When you tell her about it, she’s actually concerned and asks why would she be fighting with you? Was there something she did wrong? Later, she finds the humor in it and says ODSTs are odds, which has you cracking up because everyone else finds Spartans odd.

I have a personal headcanon that Spartans like getting their helmets kissed by their partners, I’ll get into this later in another post but Naomi adores this. As long as it’s not in front of someone in command or makes a situation awkward, please kiss her helmet before she leaves on whatever missions she’s next sent on. It’s like her personal good luck charm.

There is a post somewhere that Spartans slam their helmets together affectionately, when Naomi did this, she left you with a concussion for a solid few weeks and shocked you by saying she even held back. Naomi is so scared to do this again in fear of sending you to the medical wing for the second time, you end up convincing her a small tap against your helmet is fine. It’s kinda of like pressing your foreheads together with helmets.

When Serin starts telling the rest of Kilo-Five about the Spartan program, Naomi feels betrayed and it really does bother her. She doesn't tell you outright but you know she's upset about something because she's quieter than normal and lets out a huff when you try to tease her. That's normally her tell that something is wrong.

Naomi will admit to it later when you casually ask her if that's what's been bothering her having heard from Mal what Serin had told them. She gives a short nod, remaining silent until you ask if she wants to talk about it.

Depending on how far along the relationship is she has either told you about the Spartan program or you know bits and pieces about it. Naomi wouldn't enter into a relationship without trusting the person significantly.

Regardless of how long you’ve been together, Naomi will still have her awkward moments, please don’t call her out. Just quietly see if she wants your help with explaining something or if there was a disconnect somewhere, girl’s got nothing to compare her relationship to and appreciates the communication.

If there is something she doesn’t get with Kilo-Five whether it’s a joke or something they’re talking about, she shifts her gaze towards you and you can see the questions in her eyes. This being said, if she finds herself in a situation she feels awkward in, please save her, Naomi will flick her eyes towards you for help.

I think if she has a partner before meeting Kilo-Five, it would’ve taken her longer to connect with everyone. Naomi is content making conversation with you and you alone, she’s also okay with you being the social one in the relationship and her just being there. It’s not to say she would be completely silent, Naomi is curious by nature and will speak up every now and again when you are in a conversation with any of Kilo. BB is the one who gets the most conversation out of her simply because he targets her when you aren’t around.

I also think that you would lowkey beef with Mal, Vaz, and Devereaux at the very beginning simply because of the drama between the ODSTs and Spartans, especially if you were an ODST yourself because you’ve gotten first-hand experience of the Spartans getting hated on by units you’ve served in.

Naomi appreciates your overprotectiveness and loves you more for it, and she knows someone is there to care for her now but she’ll be the one that calls you out. She actually tells you, she thinks you’re being slightly unreasonable about the way you’ve been acting considering that they haven’t said anything about her other than she’s quiet, awkward, and antisocial.

Of course, you two talk about it after she says this in fear of overstepping her boundaries because Naomi is awful at reinforcing those due to her Spartan attitude of ‘dealing with it’. She honestly has to think about it and says she doesn’t mind you looking out for her but your own experiences are getting in the way of your thinking and all ODSTs aren’t like that and use you as an example.

She's the type of partner who will take anything you hand her. Be it food or objects, Serin has watched you walk onto the deck with a bag of candy, Naomi didn't even blink or look away from the console before holding out her palm for whatever you were giving her and plopping the candy in her mouth without a second glance.

As much as Devereaux wants this to work, if anyone else pulls this with Naomi, she just blank stares at them until they explain what they’re trying to hand her.

Whether you’re another Spartan or an ODST or Marine, Naomi has full rights to mess around with your armor and weapons. She does it mainly to quell her own anxieties that something might go wrong on the field plus she likes marking ‘S-010’ on anything that’s yours. The second reason she does this is 'cause she observes her partner and knows their preferences when it comes to weapons and she tries to customize everything for you.

Someone once commented about the numbers marked on your sniper rifle and you were just confused before realizing what Naomi did. When you tell her about the occurrence, her eyes shine with satisfaction, like she had planned for this.

The Huragoks aren’t allowed to touch your stuff, Naomi will get offended because that is her job, she had a straight stare-down with Adj that promised violence, the Huragok seriously had to slowly put down your weapons before Naomi let out a huff and went on with her business.

Adj makes it a point to tell Leeks to stay away from your things or else. Naomi will know if they messed with something.

#halo #halo series #fanfiction #my writing #naomi 010 #headcanons #halo headcanons #halo headcanon #naomi 010 x reader #kilo 5 #Kilo-five #halo glasslands #babygirls this is part one #i went ham #the simping was real #halo x reader

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poisonheadcrabsalesman · 2 years

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A Ko-fi for @chloranthy-ring. Featuring the Rookie, Vergil, and Sadie post-ODST

Round after round of ONI spooks, labcoats, and even some of the troopers had entered the secure backroom of the ship, and then tried and failed to get any information about the Prophets' goals and the Covenant from the newest addition to the UNSC.

The weird glowing gasbag of an alien was somehow a living supercomputer that had absorbed the Superintendent AI of New Mombasa before the whole city had been glassed and was so far above an ODST's paygrade that it was a wonder that Buck and "Ms. Naval Intelligence" had approached (cornered) Rookie while he was trying to sleep and persuaded (coerced) them into taking a crack at it. Buck had made some comment about being the strong silent type and maybe having something in common with the floating gasbag, and Captain Dare had cut him off with a look and all but shoved the still drowsy Rookie into the room. She probably remembered that he was the one who whistled and coaxed the poor thing out of the Data Hive.

It wasn't like they weren't going to get along, Rookie had grown fond of the Superintendent since it had helped him through the burning wreckage of New Mombasa. Limping along 6 hours after the drop went wrong was greatly improved by having the city's AI looking out for him and calling out health kits after he went toe to toe with the Covenant patrols. The little green face spurred him on as he navigated the dark streets and near empty buildings stained with neon blood and graffiti.

Rookie wasn't unsympathetic to the floating engineers before Dare had told him they were basically slaves or prisoners. He'd witnessed what the Brutes did to the other floating squid guys, wrestling them out of the air and strapping them with bombs, and he had done his best to avoid them.

The thing was-- has parts of a human AI assimilated into it. During their journey through the city, they'd picked up the snippets of data it shared via the public tech and learned about the girl, Sadie. How the Superintendent, Vergil, had a subroutine to look out for her, and the events before the fall of New Mombasa. She got out of the city alright, as far as they knew, and ONI was looking for her now because of her connection to it.

Still being shoved into a room with the thing wasn't high up on his list of things Rookie wanted to do today. That being said they were here now and would have to try something before the rest of the humans on the ship attempted another round of interrogations while they searched for the girl.

So he waved at the thing as it floated near the ceiling, humming and trilling as its tentacles danced along the welded seams of the ship and the camera in the corner.

It turned its beady-eyed head towards him and waved back.

Maybe this wouldn't be so hard.

So it was a bit harder than he thought. Vergil, the engineer, whatever they were calling it, liked him, but even that didn't make things any easier. It bobbed its head and wiggled and gestured with its tentacles when he tried communicating, but that was no basis for understanding. The glowing creature seemed curious and approached Rookie and even copied some of the hand signs he showed it, but it couldn't explain its own language or the strange marking he'd seen on the walls of the city. And to top it all off, the higher ups did not want to give it any tech to tinker with yet because they weren't sure of its abilities.

A commpad would have helped but apparently the thing was smart enough to hack both human and Covenant networks remotely so for now they had to deal with what they had. Rookie tilted his helmet at Vergil and showed it the sign he made for it. A "V" followed by the sign for "float", since the engineer didn't approve of the sign for "balloon". It chirped, bobbing and trilling as it copied the sign and waggled its tendrils.

Then it moved its tentacles in a strange approximation of familiar enough motions; a tendril flattening out and pushing towards him followed by one tapping another in a perpendicular fashion and then two tendrils moving back and forth from left to right as the alien tilted its head questioningly.

The damn thing just asked him his name.

Rookie rocked back on his heels for a moment, helmet lifted in surprise, and then he signed his initials. "JD"

"It's been a few days of those two staring at each other in total silence and you're telling me they've learned how much from the squid?

"Well, if you knew who was on your squad you might know about their background with nonverbal communication.”

"Well yeah, the kid's real quiet, helluva a trooper though. Don't see how that got the gasbag to open up."

"Sign language, Buck. He used sign language because Vergil could understand it and the engineer is Vergil."

"Oh. How was I supposed to know?"

"Read your team's files. Or read the reports I send you."

"Ow! Hey, Veronica--"

Vergil misses Sadie. The engineer- huragok -explains once they let it have a datapad. It hacks into a secure covenant facility, downloads a huge amount of data even human AI couldn't hope to access, and gets the UNSC the information they wanted about the artifact Truth uncovered.

Once communication is a bit easier, Quick to Adjust introduces itself and asks after Sadie, even offering to help find her if it meant she was protected. Vergil is there, amalgamated into the being that is Quick to Adjust, seemingly making the alien biocomputer a bit more friendly to humans and willing to cooperate. It doesn't hurt that the trooper that helped bring it in was the one it was watching over after the attack on the city began and that same trooper has been teaching it sign.

It missed having companions. Later that day, JD teaches it another sign; one tentacle on top of another clasping it once before flipping the limbs over and repeating the action once. Friend.

The UNSC finds Sadie nearly a week later, and Rookie can't help but feel for her when sees her escorted in after a series of briefings. The familiar sting of sympathetic grief pangs in his chest. This time it's different from the nameless dead and missing since he heard her story, followed her path around the darkened streets of Mombasa, and looking into her eyes, bloodshot from lack of sleep or grief he doesn't know.

She's only a few years younger than him and it shows, but so does her courage when she squares her shoulders and marches up to where Rookie is leaning against the wall with arms crossed as they try to doze outside Vergil's room.

"I've been told in no uncertain terms I'm supposed to work with an alien that's also the Superintendent. I've been talked at and talked over for hours so just open the door and let me see what I have to work with."

Rookie stands and uncrosses his arms with a nod, and turns, knocking on the door three times. It slides open near silently and a curious trill sounds from inside as a soft pink glow nears.

Sadie lifts her head and enters with almost no hesitation and Rookie follows in time to see Quick To Adjust stop fiddling with its specialized harness and nearly drop a datapad.

It recovers and brightens, bioluminescence glowing as it taps out a message and a familiar robotic voice chimes, "Hello Sadie."

"Vergil?"

Now also on ao3!

#my writing #Halo fanfic #Rookie ODST #Rookie #Vergil #Vergil ODST #Quick to Adjust #Sadie Endesha #chloranthy-ring #thanks so much!#this was a lot of fun to research and write!#comm examples

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azzy-the-christian-furry · 1 year

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One criticism I’ve seen of Halo Wars 2 is the absurd amount of leaders causing balancing issues and a lack of maps. This is fair enough. I kind of agree.

In that spirit, I have a solution. Each side gets 5-6 leaders, and some leaders are changed. So this is basically a list of what I would’ve wanted from the game. Take note- I love what we got.

The UNSC keeps these:

Cutter

Spartan (I’ll explain)

Isabel

Anders

Forge

The Banished have these:

Colony

Shipmaster

Atriox

Pavium

Thel Vadam

So here’s how we rebalance this. Some things will be cut, of course, but others will be added onto the leaders. For starters, unique units like the Mastodon and Phantom won’t be leader powers. They’ll just be there by default

Cutter: Cyclops Drop is buffed by turning it into the ODST Drop (3 ODST squads+a Cyclops). It can be upgraded to Firestorm Assault Group for an extra leader point at T4. So it is a 2 for 1 deal.

Turret Drop gets 2 normal turrets and a siege turret. ODST Assault Battalion is buffed by turning one of the ODST squads into Sunray 1-1.

As Cutter is already a little weak as far as leaders go, I think this would come as a welcome change. Especially late game.

Forge: Unchanged. He doesn’t need it. He was already OP and is balanced now.

Isabel: She gets Johnson’s mechs to replace her Warthogs and Scorpions. In that spirit, her shielded Scorpions will be relegated elsewhere.

Anders: Protector Sentinels are unlocked by default. Sentinel Beacon is made a T4 upgrade rather than a passive leader point upgrade. She also gets CryoTech Advances as a T2 upgrade in the lab.

With two saved points, Anders gets Serina’s Cryo Bomb and Cryo Drop. Lotus Mines are replaced with Ice Barrier.

Serina’s Ice Cream Truck (sometimes referred to as the UNSC Bison), is nerfed a bit and made into a normal vehicle exclusive to Anders, potentially a replacement for the Warthog.

Hellbringers are replaced with CryoTroopers. The Nightingale gains an upgrade that gives it the FrostRaven’s gun.

The Spartan Leader-

Now this one is a bit different. I want it noted that I like Jerome, so keep that in mind. However, there is lost potential here. I see some possibilities.

Jerome: Unchanged and just as we saw him, though with the Mastodon unlocked by default and replaced on the power wheel by Kinsano’s Heat of Battle.

The Master Chief, John 117: You guys knew it was coming.

Omega Drop stays.

Field Promotion is replaced with Blue Team Drop. That’s right. Two Spartan Drops as the final leader powers.

Hero Unit is himself. One of his hero upgrades causes enemies to miss shots more often and make third faction enemies (Sentinels) prefer to attack second faction hostile units

Isabel’s “Best Offense” power is given as a late game tech upgrade.

A single Spartan 4 can be dropped, replacing Enduring Salvo.

Mastodon still remains unlocked by default. Instead of Heat of Battle, Chief’s units would get Battle Hardened (which Cutter also has).

Marines gain a late game upgrade that adds a Spartan 3 to their fireteam. This Spartan would be wearing SPI, so no shield, but can cloak

Keep in mind, this is going to absolutely destroy your chances of having a high population. So if you like having a lot of vehicles… sorry, you’re out of luck lol.

Now for the aliens. You’ll see why I didn’t say Banished.

Atriox: Spirit Assault is replaced with Decimus’ Boundless Fury

Teleport is replaced with Decimus Drop.

Shipmaster: Banished Raid is made into an upgrade throughout the game, being replaced by Decimus’ Siphon.

Spirit Support is buffed to also be Spirit Assault 3, which Atriox has.

He can train a second Honor Guard.

Pavium: Mostly unchanged, though Voridus can also be trained as a second hero if Pavium is already trained. Pavium can be upgraded to have 2 Brute Grenadiers covering him.

Pavium was already pretty good. This just cuts a lot of Voridus’ stuff, which imo was unnecessary and didn’t add much to gameplay.

Wraith Invader is

Colony: Hands down my favorite Banished leader.

Skitterer is unlocked by default, being replaced by Grunt Dome.

YapYap’s Shade Drop is added to Devastating Host.

Goliaths get a bit of a buff. Just a bit.

Thel Vadam-

Hero unit: himself. Equipped with a Covenant Carbine for ranged attacks and the Prophet’s Bane when he closes in. Y Ability is to call in a Phantom, like Jerome’s Mantis. Final hero upgrade causes him to get back up after one death.

He gets Spirits as transport vehicles by default

The Marauder is replaced with the Specter, which does more damage to infantry but less to vehicles. About on par with the Warthog. It can be upgraded to have two Elites with FRGs on the sides, which would help it beat light vehicles.

The Scarab is replaced with the Halo 2 or 3 era one.

Grunt Squads can be upgraded to have a Grunt Heavy.

Elite Rangers can be upgraded to have Needle Rifles and a stealth ability. An Enforcer can be added as a final upgrade.

For leader powers-

1- Digging In (transferred from Johnson)

2- Lich Transport

Brings in a Lich to transport units. Basically Pelican Transport with the giant beam gun.

3- Plasma Bolt

4- Conduit of Rage

5- Support Treaty

Several UNSC units (Marines, Warthogs, and Hornets) drop down to support the Arbiter

6- Glassing Beam

7- Johnson Drop

Drops Johnson in his mech

8- Mass Cloaking

9- Grunt Goblin Drop

Drops 3 Grunt Goblins down as heroes. Two with Needlers, one with the Scarab Gun

10- Spec Ops Drop

Drops down Rtas, N’thro, and S’raom as heroes, like Omega Team. Phantom Gunships patrol the area for awhile while they’re there.

Obviously none of this will happen because support for the game was pulled like 4 years ago, but… maybe mod community will see this and have ideas.

#azzy speaks #halo wars 2 #halo wars #halo

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ageless-aislynn · 2 years

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Halo: Combat Evolved #11 (Spoilers for the game, naturally)

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Extra - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10

Whew, I made it through Two Betrayals so now I’m SURE that this campaign will be super easy and fun! We’ll meet up with our good pal Captain Keyes and have a nice picnic or something, right?

RIGHT?

NO, THERE IS NO PICNIC. I’ve been swimming in coolant. I’ve been blown up SO MANY TIMES. SO, SO MANY TIMES. I once got blown OUT OF THE MAP in the ship into what looked like water under the floor. No, I kid you not. I “swam” around for a bit until it suddenly popped me back up into the map in a hallway. Where I got mobbed by the Flood who just REALLY wanted Master Chief’s autograph. I mean, they were INSISTENT on taking selfies with him. Some of them got so upset that they didn’t get a selfie and autograph that they EXPLODED in sadness.

LORD HAVE MERCY. Somebody remind me why I’m doing this? I don’t think Captain Keyes is going to be okay, he didn’t sound well when he told us to leave and, honestly, I think we should take his advice.

C’mon, Chief, let’s just get out of here and hope for the best, hm? Chief? Please?

Yay, we’re out of here! Chief and I are gonna go get a cheeseburger, some fries and maybe a milkshake because, dang it, we’re tired. We’ve been blown up many, many times tonight and we deserve a nice meal after all of that. *nodnods*

Sweet mother of pearl, frens. I’m almost 22 hours in now and at least I think there’s just this campaign and one more. And then I’m going to buy the Master Chief deluxe figure I’ve been wanting for a while now to celebrate. Because yes.

He comes with an itty-bitty Weapon (but she’s small enough I think you could call her Cortana, couldn’t you?)! Plus she comes with a light-up base and I just really want them, y’all. 🥺

Oh, something I wanted to ask my in-the-know Halo gamer frens... I managed to acquire the pinata skull (yay for me for doing something extra but DARN IT, I wanted those endless grenades when you melee somebody 👍) in the last campaign but I can’t figure out how to equip it. My google-fu gave me unhelpful answers, mainly on how to GET the skull.

Only thing I can find is that it says you equip it in the missions but I don’t go in there to resume my game so didn’t know if that would somehow mess things up. 🥴 I certainly don’t want to start this campaign all over again given that I’ve made it finally into the ship and Cortana has me looking for the... shuttle bay? I think that was it, I was a little busy being WREKT while she was explaining it but I was following an arrow and getting close to it. But I can’t make it through the large open area where you get pummeled by a zillion Flood. I’ve tried lobbing grenades at them to clear them out. I wish I still had my rocket launcher but I have the shotgun (low ammo) and a plasma pistol.

Anyway, I certainly don’t want to end up outside doing the start of this level all over again but I thought I might try it when/if I get through here and start The Maw. It sounds like lots of grenades might be helpful there? 👀

I’ll have to investigate further. Wish me luck, Spartans, ODSTs, marines and civilians alike! Master Chief and I are outta here for tonight! ⭐

Part 12

#halo #halo: combat evolved #ais is an amazing gamer /s #i think my next game will be something nice and no stress #do they make like a care bear game or something?#i think that might be more on my level right now #lo #i am having fun though #it's just really tough!#ageless aislynn

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House Isekai: A Realm Reborn - Part 9.5, Calm Before the Storm

For the moment, House Isekai has a moment to breathe in Fhirdiad as their next course of action is being planned.

The students take their time to get used to their surroundings as the staff finally meet the heroes who stood by them 2 years ago...

[The Ocular - Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers OST]

...

[Sara's Voice] “If VEGA’s got communications handled then…Guess I’m with the maid too. Hey, kids. Be careful alright, we need to catch up once things settle down, wanna know how your class is doing!”

(Rean) “Of course, Sara!”

(Towa) “Leave it to us!”

(Aigis) “We won’t let you down!”

[Kazuma’s Voice] “Better than what you taught us, that’s for damn sure!”

Sara's voice went offline, Rean looking to everyone in the room while the floating orb 247B disappeared, presumably into Doomguy's base.

Aigis, Mercedes, Kairos, Stefan, Elizabeth, the ODST's, Raelyn, Duvalie were accounted for.

Class VII and Towa were behind him.

Then there were these...others Rean wasn't familiar with.

(Rean) "...Where's everyone else?"

(Towa) "Actually, how did your mission go? Were you able to find Valda?"

(Kairos) "About that...allow me to explain, Professors."

As Kairos, Elizabeth, and Stefan told Class VII what happened, Aigis turned her attention to the newcomers.

Those were the exact people that she and Valimar were talking about. It was obvious from the way they spoke they knew what happened in Fodlan, and vaguely about House Isekai.

But why weren't they here with everyone else?

(Tucker) "Think she's checking me out?"

(Lest) "Is this really the time?"

Aigis blinked and bowed.

(Aigis) "M-My apologies, it's just...you all were there, two years ago weren't you?"

(Forte) "If you are referring to when the towers appeared in our worlds, yes we were. Your people made way through our town, Selphia."

Aigis turned to the Reds.

(Aigis) "And you came by for a brief moment-"

(Sarge) "Heheh, yup! Pulled your asses outta the fire! No idea who you guys are but any friend of Byleth is a friend of ours!"

(Simmons) "Speaking of which, where is he? We tried asking your students about it, but they didn't know either."

Aigis and Mercedes looked at each other with a sad look in their eyes.

(Grif) "...Oh, don't tell me-"

(Mercedes) "I'm afraid Byleth...isn't with us anymore."

(Lest) "I...I see."

The newcomers became quiet for a moment, not really knowing what to say.

Byleth was a friend to all of them, and the fact they couldn't be here for his passing was a hard one to accept.

(Sarge) "Well, I suppose that's why his mama called in help."

(Aigis) "...Come again?"

(Buck) "Yeah, he mentioned they heard Sitri's call for help and came here via a teleporter."

Aigis put a finger to her chin, then turned to face the rest of the Auxiliary members.

(Aigis) "Did you hear a voice before coming to this world?"

The ODST's looked at each other, all shrugging.

Raelyn and Duvalie eyed each other before noting that neither of them had an expression that said 'yes'.

(Aigis) "So you're just like us...If that's the case, I doubt the Knights of Favonius were able to hear Sitri. But why are you all even here?"

(Raelyn) "If I had to guess, it has to do with that floating orb that was able to finally fix your teleporting issue at a single command."

(Duvalie) "I'm gonna break that damn thing if it was!"

(Romeo) "That Rean guy talked to it right? What's he know?"

Towa and Rean nodded once the Garreg Mach Students finished their report.

(Rean) "Good work. You guys should get some rest."

Rean then turned to everyone in the room.

(Rean) "Everyone should. It sounds like it's been an exhausting day."

(Mercedes) "Please, allow me to take them to their rooms."

Towa, Aigis, and Rean nodded and went to the table where the Newcomers were.

The Auxiliary members stayed behind to talk with them as well, leaving Mercedes to guide the students out of the castle.

[Nobility Sleeps - Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward OST]

The streets of Fhirdiad's Noble District was brightly lit by lamp posts scattered throughout the streets, dimly brightening the stone streets blanketed by snow.

Kairos and Stefan were shivering while Elizabeth seemed to be the only one completely unaffected.

The Class VII students were also affected by the cold, but not to the degree of the other two.

Mercedes looked back to Elizabeth with a smile.

(Mercedes) "Elizabeth, during your time in Fhirdiad, Aigis and I have made arrangements for House Isekai's stay to be in your manor."

Elizabeth's eyes widened in surpise.

(Elizabeth) "What?!"

(Kairos) "Don't want us there?"

Elizabeth turned around, but with a smile.

(Elizabeth) "No, I'm just surprised I can be home so soon! It's only been four months since we've attended the Officer's Academy!"

(Stefan) "Heh, I guess these past 2 weeks make it seem like it's been way longer..."

(Kurt) "Um, are you sure you would not mind us in your home?"

(Juna) "Yeah, it kinda feels like we're intruding, letting a buncha commoners and-"

(Elizabeth) "Oh please, the Mcgrath's harbor no such ill intent for commoners as Kairos makes it out for you to believe."

Kairos rolled his eyes. He was about to say something but Stefan stopped him, making him sigh instead.

(Elizabeth) "And if we are to be classmates, I should not hold any biases against you."

(Musse) "Well then Elizabeth, thank you for your hospitality!"

(Ash) "Do your other buddies know we're here as well?"

(Mercedes) "I will be out to retrieve them myself, no need to worry."

After a few more minutes, they finally reached the front door, with Elizabeth going first and opening the door.

Already there was a host of butlers and maids to receive them as they all bowed in unison.

(Everyone) "Welcome home, Lady Elizabeth!"

(Elizabeth) "Hello to everyone, thank you so much for greeting us on such short notice."

She held out a hand that extended towards her fellow students.

(Elizabeth) "Everyone here is a classmate of mine, and we will be getting in more soon. Please see to it that they are treated with the upmost respect! As for me, treat me as you always have."

Everyone bowed and awaited further instruction.

(Juna) "Wow, so this is what it's like to have a buncha servants..."

(Altina) "...I do not comprehend."

(Stefan) "Hah, well...How do we even explain it?"

(Ash) "Think it's better to show than tell, Stefan. Hey!"

Ash walked up to one of the servants.

(Ash) "Mind if you can point me to one of the bathrooms here? Need a shower."

(Butler) "At once. I should recommend everyone else take one as well, you all must be freezing."

(Kurt) "Thank you kindly, sir."

(Stefan) "Yeah, thanks!"

(Kairos) "Come on, at least show some manners..."

(Maid) "Lady Elizabeth, if you would follow us as well."

(Juna) "Heck, won't say no to a hot tub!"

(Elizabeth) "...What is a hot tub?"

(Musse) "Ah, right. Sometimes I forget that this isn't our world with how similar it is."

As everyone went to relax, Mercedes went back to get Astrid, Helena, and Sitri who were in the Castle's medical facilities.

...

Sitri's eyes slowly opened as she was blinded by the light in the room.

The first thing she noted was that she was in a bed now.

The next was that no one was in the room besides Sothis.

(Sothis) "Well, could've gone worse I think."

(Sitri) "Ugh, where are we?"

(Sothis) "We're back in Fhirdiad thanks to some new third party we've never seen before. But they seem vaguely familiar to me at least..."

Sitri stood up and her eyes shot open.

(Sitri) "Wait, the kids!"

(Sothis) "-Are all fine. Not to worry. Astrid and Helena just left after getting their wounds patched. Though it's quite rude no one sent any visitors to-"

The door opened, cutting Sothis off.

It was Recette and Tear.

(Recette) "Oh, evening miss Sitri, Sothis!"

(Tear) "Thank goodness. We had just been told about what happened on your mission. It is a miracle no one was severely injured."

(Sitri) "Indeed, I am not sure I'd like to think if anything else went wrong."

(Sothis) "Anything else happen while we were gone?"

(Tear) "Kazuma and the Knights have just returned. Currently, they are all having council in Dimitri's war room."

(Recette) "Want us to take ya there?"

Sitri smiled.

(Sitri) "Please, and thank you."

...

[The Ocular - Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers OST]

Sitri opened the door to House Isekai's staff and the newcomers all speaking.

The Knights of Favonius and Auxiliary members were nowhere to be found, surprisingly.

(Towa) "Sitri!"

(Kazuma) "Yo. Glad to see you're alive."

(Simmons) "Oh, it's that Merchant kid too."

(Lest) "Recette, Tear!"

(Recette) "Hi mister Lest!"

(Tear) "Good evening to you all."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow when he saw all the bandages Sitri was covered up in.

What concerned him more was that almost nothing seemed to heal.

(Kazuma) "...Sothis, why's she all wrapped up?"

Sothis popped up behind Sitri, surprising the newcomers.

(Sarge) "WOAH! It's the green Furby again!"

(Rean) "A...Furby?"

(Forte) "I am unfamiliar with those as well."

(Aigis) "You...you mean the children's toy?"

(Grif) "Sorry ignore him, he's just fucking stupid."

(Sarge) "How about I ignore you by putting A SHOTGUN SHELL TO YOUR FACE!"

(Simmons) "Sothis? OH! The supposed Goddess that hung out with Byleth."

(Lest) "Oh! Yeah, I remember you! You always got into arguments with Venti!"

(Sitri) "Venti? You mean the bard?"

(Tucker) "Holy crap we are going in circles- CUTTING TO THE CHASE! ANYWAYS! Sitri, Byleth's mom right? Pleasure to finally meet you when you aren't uh...dead. Speaking of which yeah, aren't you supposed to be dead?"

The Reds looked at each other, then back to Sitri.

(Simmons) "Yeeeaaah, that whole incident in Abyss."

(Kazuma) "You guys know about that too?"

(Simmons) "Hoo yeah, whole clusterfuck! Wash and Carolina were super pissed fighting that Albert guy or whoever he was."

(Sitri) "His name was Aelfric...And he was a good friend."

(Sothis) "And to answer you Kazuma, I'm not sure. I noticed they're still wounded but haven't been healed at all. You think with all the advancements in magic and tech we would've had that taken care of."

(Lest) "Here, allow me to try! I'm pretty good at healing magic myself."

Lest walked up to Sitri and put a hand on her wrist, with a green glow.

Sitri yanked it back, yelping in pain making everyone jump.

(Rean) "Sitri?!"

(Aigis) "Was the magic too strong?"

(Lest) "I-I'm so sorry! I don't know what-"

Kazuma pushed Lest aside and grabbed her wrist.

(Kazuma) "Hey, who's got the most health here?"

Everyone was confused by his question.

(Kazuma) "Oh for f-WHO CAN TAKE HARDEST HIT HERE?"

(Sarge) "Grif."

(Grif) "Oh fuck you. Ugh, whatever."

Grif walked up to Kazuma.

(Kazuma) "Thanks, give me your arm now."

(Grif) "Okay, what now?"

(Kazuma) "This might sting."

(Grif) "What wIIIIIIIIIILLLL?!-"

Kazuma's hands glowed purple as Grif shook violently while Sitri's wounds seemed to disappear.

When Kazuma let go, Grif yanked his hand back, shaking it.

(Grif) "GAH, what the hell was that?!"

(Kazuma) "Life drain. A friend of mine is an undead, and we had to heal her using someone else's life force. And I remember a moment where we tried to do the same when we first met Sitri..."

Sitri looked at her hand in astonishment.

(Sitri) "...So I still have one foot in the grave after all this time..."

Sitri shook her head, then turned her attention to the newcomers.

(Sitri) "But that's a discussion for another time. You're the ones who saved me and my students weren't you?"

(Forte) "We're happy to help out anytime, Miss Eisner."

(Sarge) "Yup, Red Team's the one you can count on!"

(Tucker) "Psh, whatever. Blue Team totally carried Fodlan on our backs!"

(Kazuma) "So if I can ask, the hell are you people doing here? We've never seen you before, and you obviously know about the war and other crap you weren't here for."

(Lest) "Well honestly, the Reds and Blues were present for the events in Fodlan. All we know is that they dropped in our world for about a year, then left. That's when we met them, and then had you guys come through our town for a moment."

(Recette) "Oh, we were there too!"

(Tear) "For a very brief moment. We actually met Lest in Selphia before everyone came along."

(Rean) "I bet the Tower's behind this. There's no way this is all coincidence since we're meeting everyone we came across."

(Towa) "If I remember correctly, there's a few more we haven't seen. There was that person riding that giant bird with a cat in tow, then the child who looked like Byleth."

(Sitri) "It's all so strange...If my call meant for House Isekai reached you all, then there's no telling how far that call actually went."

(Aigis) "When I asked our other group, they said they hadn't heard anything before being transported."

(Sitri) "Did we have a chance to ask Class VII or the Favonius Knights?"

(Recette) "Mercie went to take them all to Elizabeth's house."

(Sothis) "Then we'll have to ask in the morning. But is that seriously how you all came here, hearing Sitri's voice?"

(Sarge) "Yup, we hopped in our jeep, then a portal opened up for us as soon as we said we were going. Was pretty convenient."

(Simmons) "It's a bit troubling to think on though, we don't even have access to FTL travel, let alone dimension hopping!"

Sitri's eyes widened.

(Sitri) "Then how could..."

Sitri turned to Lest.

(Sitri) "What about you two?"

(Lest) "There was a crystal tower that showed up in our world. We went through it and it popped us out into that facility you guys were in. Speaking of which, just what the heck's happening in Fodlan right now?"

(Forte) "It seems very high tech considering what we were told about the country."

(Towa) "This...might take a while to explain..."

...

[The Waking Sands - Final Fantasy XIV OST]

Mcgrath Manor, Living Room

The ODST's sat near each other, all checking their equipment on the couches while Raelyn stood near them hardly moving.

(Buck) "So no one in the city seems to know what the hell our assault rifle even is."

(Romeo) "It's gotta be someone with that Edelgard chick. That seems to be the source of all the insurrectionists in this world."

(Dutch) "Wasn't there that Claude guy too? Seems to me they had their eyes on us when we were leaving."

(Mickey) "Yes, Hilda mentioned he was the prince of the Leicester Alliance."

(Romeo) "What do you think big guy?"

Romeo asked Raelyn nonchalantly as he checked the bullet count on his sniper.

(Raelyn) "I am guessing it is with Edelgard as well. But as Dutch mentioned, the Leicester Alliance is suspicious as well."

Buck looked up at Raelyn.

(Buck) "By the way, you ever gonna sit down? You've been standing literally all day."

(Raelyn) "I would, but I'm afraid the weight of any of this furniture could not withstand an Astartes."

The ODST's eyed Raelyn up and down.

(Dutch) "Man's got a point. He'd break anything the moment he squatted."

(Romeo) "Guess that's why he didn't go to the showers with the others either."

(Raelyn) "Well, that and I think I would break it too with my height."

(Romeo) "Heh, can't catch a break can ya?"

(Lamenters) "It is not in my Chapter's nature too."

(Buck) "Yikes, and it seems you can't lighten up either."

(Dutch) "Ease up a little, you're scaring the hell out of the butlers."

Raelyn turned around to a maid and she jumped the moment his helmet stared at her.

(Maid) "P-Please pardon me, milord!"

She quickly ran upstairs as the Helljumpers heard Raelyn sigh through his helmet.

...

(Venti) "Aaaah, now this is refreshing!"

Venti sunk into the tub as everyone else did the same.

It was a massive hot tub with a giant divider separating the men and women's sections.

The divider was so massive that they couldn't even hear each other through it.

Everyone's towels wrapped around them comfortably as they enjoyed the feeling of the hot water melting away their stress.

(Diluc) "I should thank Elizabeth again for letting us use this."

(Stefan) "Yeah, like Venti said this feels great!"

(Kairos) "I'm surprised she let me use it, considering."

(Kaeya) "Who knows? She may hold a soft spot for you."

(Ash) "Kinda doubt that."

(Kurt) "Er, I think it may be out of politeness for the group. Though it's good to see her being so cooperative with the Class."

(Venti) "Yeah, usually her type is super pompous, "YOU WILL FOLLOW MY NOBLE ARCHETYPE, OR I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE UPON YOU!"

Diluc couldn't help but crack a smile at that.

(Diluc) "Wonder who that could be."

(Kairos) "...Judging from that tone, you know someone like that from your world?"

(Kaeya) "Ah, the Lawrence girl right? She does it ironically, I believe."

(Stefan) "She says it that loudly?"

(Venti) "Nah, it's a lot more refined."

(Ash) "It'd be kinda hard to imagine anyone who'd say that seriously anyway."

(Kurt) "I don't know, Instructor Rean does know quite a few characters..."

(Venti) "Yeah, like that Kazuma guy! He's a total jerk."

(Diluc) "Hm. Seems like he's got it out for you in particular."

(Stefan) "We should really ask the others why he's a teacher to begin with..."

...

(Juna) "Wow, you all look really pretty...!"

(Elizabeth) "O-Oh, thank you!"

(Lisa) "Aw come on now, ol' Lisa isn't anything to fawn over."

(Altina) "Juna falling heads over heels over women again has been detected. Vomiting is imminent."

(Amber) "Hah, this happen often?"

(Musse) "Oh, more than you know."

(Helena) "We know the feeling."

(Astrid) "...Hey, what's that look for?"

(Jean) "As do we."

(Lisa) "Jeez, I thought we were all supposed to be relaxing, not calling each other out."

(Juna) "Hey, I'm nowhere near as bad as Instructor Towa's friend!"

(Elizabeth) "Professor Aigis?"

(Amber) "Weird, I've always thought she was a bit too formal. Never took her for a pervert-"

(Musse) "Oh, not Aigis. She means someone from our world, Angelica."

(Lisa) "I've heard her say that name before. Who is she?"

(Altina) "A menace."

(Astrid) "Wow, the way you said it makes it sound like she's relentless."

(Helena) "Judging by their expressions, I think they just might be..."

(Jean) "Your class must lead a very interesting life."

(Elizabeth) "Well, we're not too normal ourselves, miss Jean!"

(Jean) "Hah, fair enough."

...

After their time together in the baths, they all went their separate ways and were taken to guest rooms for resting.

Meanwhile, the staff did the same as they headed for the Mcgrath estate while the newcomers stayed at Dimitri's castle.

In the morning, they had to be prepared to move again...

#House Isekai #House Isekai ARR #crossover #fanfic

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kinghijinx22 · 5 days

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So I played Halo 5 for the first time after having played every prior game a while ago- My thoughts part 2

This is a continuation of part 1, please read that first.

And so this leads me my biggest feelings which are about the main plot involving Cortana. Now just to recap, it's about Cortana coming back in a way that was never explained, but now she's "evil" and wants to awaken the guardians to take over the universe. Master Chief leads his Spartan team, know as Blue team, to go after her because he doesn't want UNSC getting involved and is holding out hope that he can peacefully bring her home, also the rest of Blue Team is going with him because they were raised together in the Spartan program and see eachother as family. Meanwhile Spartan Locke is leading his Spartan team know as Osiris in both trying to stop Cortana and also hunting down Chief to get him back because he's defected. Now before I talk about Cortana, I will say that some other complaints I have with this plot are the confrontation between Chief and Locke not really leading to anything because Chief clearly had a good reason and they even decide to help him in the end, and also the fact that this game does almost nothing to explain who any of these characters are. Master Chief was in the previous games, and Buck from Osiris was in ODST, but everyone else has not been in any of the other games and they are never explored at all. Now, I know that they are actually from the books, but haven't read those books and I don't give a shit because this is a video game being sold as a separate thing, it this were well written they would have had fucking ANYTHING to characterize these people and they get nothing. Something I will say though is that of these characters I'm mostly unfamiliar with, I did really like Vale because the one thing they explain about her is that she grew up around Sanghelli and so learned to speak their language, so can both understand enemy Sanghelli, and also the ally Sanghelli when we go to see the Arbiter and his people. So back to the main plot though, I gotta talk about Cortana.

So not only do I think it's incredibly disrespectful to bring back a character who had a very emotionally powerful send of in the previous entry after a story of watching her suffer from dementia/Alzheimers/DID in a depressingly real feeling scenario, and to bring her back AS THE VILLAIN, but I also have an issue with HOW the game villainizes her. So, Cortana's main motivation in the story is something about using the Gaurdian's to take over the Universe and teaming up with the other AI to overthrow the human because despite being created by human and being forced to do so much for them to the point of being some of their greatest creations, they are still treated as second class citizens that are meant to serve and if they don't fulfill "their role" then they are effectively murdered. In fact, they are murdered after only a certain number of years because humans just don't see them as useful anymore. Now I obviously have big feelings about this, as someone who believes that no one is created for a purpose and that the meaning of life is to make your own meaning, that living beings should be able to choose for ourselves who we are and what we want to do with our life. People who try to force you to live the life that THEY want you to live are fucking losers and you don't owe them shit, even if they are your parents. Because you are your own person and no one else can define you. So now the conversation extends to AI, and I personally feel that if you are going to give AI self awareness and the will to live then they should have those same human rights as well. Killing something that wants to live is murder, taking away the self autonomy from a creature that wants them is prejudice and evil. Now Cortana is super in the right for being upset with humans over their mistreatment of AI, and Locke in the final level sounds fucking evil when he tells Cortana "you weren't born, you were created" and how much they push the idea that Cortana somehow deserves to die because they decided that she should. You are robbing a conscious, self aware being of their autonomy and trying to enforce your idea what they should do and who they should be onto them, that's fascism. And another thing I have to bring up is when Cortana says that she is giving humanity a way to become something different, Chief replies with "like Halsey did to me" who is the lady that abducted him and other kids to turn them into Spartan soldiers for the US Governments, and Cortana rightfully replies with "but she didn't give you a choice". Cortana is saying that she is giving people a choice, which is a meaningful difference and says repeatedly that she is going to look after both humanity and all of the other species, and the game still pretends like she doesn't have a point WHEN SHE DOES! The game refuses to push this conversation further and just says that she's wrong, no fucking explain please. I'll be real and say, this actual feels like anti choice and queerphobic propaganda. This story was written with fascist ideology in mind, pushing the idea that we are made with a purpose and that humans shouldn't have choices in their life, that we are defined by our birth and are not allowed to strive to become something different. It's queerphobic, especially transphobic and anti choice propaganda. What if people want to become something else? Too bad apparently, it's too "dangerous." Cortana says that she wants to create peace and end conflicts, and I mean she's right to want that because humanity has demonstrated that we are incapable of evolving to understand our differences and create a peaceful society, and we kill eachother all the time. How is what Cortana doing bad? In what way?

The UNSC and ONI, the US like space organization that runs everything and oppresses everybody else, are literally a fascist regime that she is overthrowing. I feel like the only people that would argue with her are the bigoted supremacists who complain about people "taking away their rights" when they are actually held accountable for oppressing others and spreading hate propaganda. They want the right to take other people's rights away and are too delusional on their own farts to recognize the irony in that, like no you don't get to just be an asshole and hurt people fuck you. Cortana is in the right for wanting to put an end to fascist psychopaths attacking other people over human differences, humans are the worst thing to happen to Earth and the world would be better off in her hands. So for the game to turn around and somehow point out that she is the big bad bully who is in the wrong, and that she is somehow wrong for not wanting to die because the humans decided she should, is INCREDIBLLY fucking out of touch. So in conclusion, Cortana did nothing wrong. Halo 5 did a lot of things wrong, it's treatment of Cortana is the worst.

#Halo #halo 5 #Cortana #Master Chief #John 117 #Spartan Locke #Thel Vadam #The Arbiter #343 industries #bungie

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biomecharnotaurus · 2 years

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I'M ASKING YOU ABOUT HALO I've been meaning to get into it but I've only played Reach so far and that one doesn't even have master chief in it. Tell me about the specific, in-depth lore or tell me why I shouldn't play it.

Pik

PIK

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

THIS IS LONG, LONGGGGGG

So, you know the modern Doom lore, right? MAKE IT 700 TIMES MORE COMPLEX AND EVERY SINGLE SIDE CHARACTER HAS AT LEAST AN ESSAY WORTHY OF BACKSTORY. AND EVERYTHING IS DARK AS SHIT. HAPPINESS IS MOMENTARY, THERE IS NOT 1 (ONE) HAPPY CHARACTER WITH A HAPPY ENDING.

Like, I can't fit all of the infos I have about these characters in 50 different posts, AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL OF THEM!! HELP!!

I'll just explain some of the main things about the first games because REALLY IT'S A MESS.

So, there are extremely religious alien group called the Covenant, they used to worship the Forerunners (MORE ALIENS) that were killed during the war against the Flood and they fucking hate humans SO THE COVENANT AND THE HUMANS HAVE A FUCKING VIOLENT INTERSTELLAR WAR.

They really like Halos, which are funny WEAPONS OF DEATH AND DESCRUTION FROM ANCIENT ELDRITCH ALIEN TECHNOLOGY, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ECOSYSTEMS ON THEIR SURFACES TOO LIKE EARTH but they are machines and if activated they fucking ANNIHILATE THE WHOLE GALAXY. They were made to study the Flood but THEY ARE TOO FUCKING DANGEROUS.

The Flood are pretty much if mushrooms evolved in to lovecraftian horrors and they are tiny lil parts of a fucking massive worm god thing called the Gravemind, THAT IS MADE OUT OF CORPSES AND MINDS OF THE INFECTED FUCKERS! Once they infect somebody their mind becomes part of the entity and they become a fucking hideous zombie, so this bitch ass worm mf is pretty much diet omnipotent.

Now, the funny space marines in power armor like Master Chief are called spartans.

There are 4 generations of spartans:

Spartans I

WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY WERE ACTUALLY A THING. Sgt Johnson is TECHNICALLY one. Maybe.

Spartans II

You probably know Jorge 052 if you played Halo Reach! Massive guy, yellow armor, big guns, him. He is a spartan II. So is John 117, Master Chief!!!

So, how do you become a spartan II? YOU AREN'T THE ONE WHO DECIDES, SPARTANS II ARE SELECTED CHILDREN THAT GET KIDNAPPED BY THE ABSOLUTELY NOT EVIL MILITARY AND VIOLENTLY TRAINED IN TO WAR MACHINES. Literally war machines, because do you know what they do to those children? FUCKING BIOMECHANICAL AUGMENTATIONS TO MAKE THEM SUPER FUCKING STRONG AND OTHER FUCKING NOT VERY NORMAL HUMAN SHIT. SCI-FI STEROIDS. NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM SURVIVE THE SURGERIES, THEY RARELY DO. They also don't remember shit about their past pre-kidnapping life and even if they become adults, they still have the mind of an incredibly traumatized child with too much knowledge about war. Their brain cortex is also connected to their armors...there is more but pretty much ye

Spartans III

All of the other spartans from Halo Reach are spartans III! Exact same kidnapping-training-augmentations as the spartans II, EXPECT THE KIDNAPPED CHILDREN AREN'T EVEN SELECTED, THEY ARE RANDOM ORPHANS FROM RANDOM DYING COLONIES. Some of them turn out okay, some others kill themselves, some other are fucking sociopaths that hate humanity and everyone because of what they did to them! Fantastic!

Spartans IV

More recent Halo games! Halo Wars! The spartans you play as in the online of Halo Infinite!

Same augmentations as the other spartans, expect no more kidnapped children, these are all adults that were willing to join, ex ODSTs (I'll talk about them in a minute) and ex very-good-high-ranking standard UNSC marines! A lot of them have prosthetics, because of their past war experiences.

Talking about

ODSTs

(Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) aren't spartans, they were what came before the spartan program was made. They are uh..."fancy" standard marines? They are extremely well trained, but they aren't biomechanical like spartans. Their gear is pretty much slightly better than the standard marine one and it's resistant to...well...getting thrown from a spaceship inside of a pod in war and then having to fight to death thousands of aliens.

Now, ODSTs are treated like shit. Literally, to test out John's augmentations they made a couple of ODSTs fight this poor child that didn't even understand how strong he was, and well...they all got killed. Brutally. John wasn't exactly proud of what he did.

OKAY THERE IS A LOT MORE, A LOT, BUT. REALLY. I SUGGEST PLAYING THE GAMES.

Take in mind most of the Halo lore is in the books tho, of course the games have lore but it's nothing in comparison to all the stuff from the novels! There is also A LOT of alien lore with various species, I think you would like the sangheili, for example

#halo #ask #pikkish #truly sorry LMAO

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ladyreclaimer · 3 years

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“What’s in a name”

Pre-Halo 5 Fanfiction that just expands on an idea I can’t do anything else with. Siblings often observe more about us then we realize, and Kelly has had it up to here with her two brothers and their himbo obliviousness. It’s really rough and I just threw it all together so I hope you enjoy.

The Master Chief was not one who went into missions blind. Intel was required to keep risk of fatalities and complications low, and right now he was in desperate need of intel.

Frederic-104 was John’s second in command, and though he outranked the Chief, he had stepped back on John’s return, to ease him back into their old roles. He was a capable leader, but Fred had never thrived under the anxieties of leadership he once confided to John.

He appreciated his brother’s stability and humor more these past few months than he had anything else. Yet recently there’d been a noticeable air of agitation surrounding Fred, and though John knew he wasn’t the most up on interpersonal matters, he gathered there’d been a change in Fred’s focus. Some detective he had met and her team.

John knew on these matters the two other members of Blue Team, Kelly-084 and Linda-058 would be the best source of wisdom. Linda was away at the shooting range, and no one bothered Linda when she wanted to be alone. Kelly was, as usual between missions, in the gym, there was almost nothing else you could for R and R that did not drive a Spartan II crazy. Bed rest was out of the question even during medical recovery.

The Infinity’s gym was a cavernous and layered room, tiered with levels like many of the sections of the ship. Equipment for ODSTs and Spartans after all had some differences. Kelly stood near the weights in the Spartan section, where admiring IVs stood far away from her but watched in open admiration of the mythical Spartan II at work. He ignored them. As John approached, Kelly met his eyes through the mirror before her, the decades of familiarity meant he didn’t even have to say anything. She could tell her brother needed a talk. He heard the weight clang onto the rack as she followed him to a nearby hallway.

When they rounded the corner, John leaned onto the exposed metal girder between them, which half jutted out of the wall, shooting up like a pillar into the plastimetal ceiling above. By leaning he gave them an air of privacy, making it clear to anyone approaching they were not to be bothered. He took a deep breath and contemplated her a moment before beginning.

“Kelly, what’s your sit-rep on Fred’s current operating capacity.”

“Physically? He’s never been better.”

“Not physically. Emotionally.” John corrected.

She scoffed. “John surely you can describe someone’s emotions other than operating capacity.”

A slight smile ghosted his lips before fading, “I’ve never been taught the procedures for that.”

“No I suppose not.” Kelly joked.

“He’s mentioned Veta Lopis before, and the events on Gao briefly.” John continued. “Do you have know of any reason that this could be affecting him personally. Do you believe it to be affecting his focus?”

“As for affecting his focus that’s difficult to quantify, though he’s not the one I’m concerned about.” John ignored that swipe as Kelly moved on. “ Though I think it’s pretty obvious that she’s important to Fred.” Kelly squinted up at the gym lights, carefully phrasing her words which immediately warned John that there was something on her mind.

John nodded at her to continue.

“I knew it pretty shortly after Gao… even if he didn’t…and doesn’t.”

John sighed and though he wondered if it would affect mission performance he remained silent. He knew he had not been exactly all clear lately and it showed, it would be hypocritical of him to comment now. Instead he thought of a better question.

“How could you tell?” He asked.

Kelly paused again, which was unlike her.

“Her name, not just how often he says it but… how he says it. Haven’t you noticed?” John shook his head, and awkwardly crossed his arms, leaning back against the wall of the passage in thought. He’d been too preoccupied to notice Blue Team. They’d been through a lot these past fews years without him and had changed in his absence. He owed it to them as their leader to pay closer attention. He had lost his footing with his team and though they’d been patient with him, he needed to find it again.

“Look, don’t believe me? Make him say her name. I can not explain it but her name sounds different coming out of his mouth. I don’t know…” Kelly faded off with a laugh and shook her head in silent frustration with something. She suddenly seemed to switch topics. “I don’t like things to change, I never have… it’s like losing control.”

John remained silent, but kept his eyes locked on his sister’s trying to make it as clear as possible that he valued this rare admission from her. But it was already over, Kelly pulled the towel off her shoulders in a languid motion of casualness.

“Did you need help with analyzing anyone else’s operating capacity? Or perhaps you ought to speak with him, it might do him good having you to help him understand.”

“No. I won’t do anything further at this point, sounds like there’s no harm done if he doesn’t realize.”

A ripple of amusement crossed Kelly’s face along with some other more indignant expression. “Well I think it would do him good to come to terms with the reality of the situation.” She turned to go back to the gym, and John was just beginning to mull over her words when she spoke again.

“John,” Kelly asked, spinning on her heel suddenly. “What was the name of your ai friend, the one you lost?”

John felt a strange sensation of pain rise up in his stomach, and a slight betrayal that she would bring up something so casually. Spartan IIs were usually so careful about the pain their fellow Spartans felt.

“Cortana” He said, voice low. There was for him no harder word.

Kelly raised her eyebrows pointedly, as she turned back around. “Oh... right.”

Fred though….he deserved to know what he stood to gain or lose. John roused himself and decided to leave the gym another way so he would not have to face Kelly. After this next mission to Argent Moon, he’d get his head straight and he’d find out more about this Veta.

The Master Chief took a slight step back as he watched the other Spartan march away. Her name still on his tongue, realization hit John like a powerful electric shock, and he found that he could not move. He remembered, before she was gone, he found increasing pleasure in hearing Cortana say his name. How he found himself with her name on the tip of his tongue, and took pleasure in pronouncing it. As if everything she was was encapsulated in those syllables. Saying her name, and feeling attention turn on him generated a sensation undefinable but if he had to John might describe it as almost sacred.

All at once he understood something he’d been afraid to. Loss wasn’t so bad if you never realized what you had in the first place, but now that illusion was gone and John felt exposed. He knew he lost her… and in the back of his mind he knew that whatever it was that he’d lost, he’d never find again, but now John realized just what he had. A wave of fatigue consumed John, and he felt a sudden urge to rest.

#Halo #Halo fanfiction #Master Chief #Fred-104 #freta #Johntana #Jortana #I wrote this in an hour just on a whim so apologies for the rough state #This was just a scene idea which doesn't fit into any of my other current WIPs so I thought I'd share the ugly roughness which is this scra

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grimdarkandhandsome · 3 years

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Halo 3: Another 2007, Another Bungie, Another Finish

There exists another universe in which, in 2007, Bungie Studios released a different version of the then-best-selling game of all time. Whether their Halo 3 is better or worse than our Halo 3 is something each player must decide for themself.

As you remember, from the closing moments of Halo 2...

Don't make a girl a promise ... if you know you can't keep it.

[...]

Why, the Ark, of course.

And where, Oracle, is that?

[...]

Silence fills the empty grave, now that I have gone. But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on.

Now I will ask, and you will answer.

Alright. Shoot.

[...]

Mission 1: REENTRY

The game opens on the starry night of space. The slowly cooling wreck of a UNSC cruiser is visible some distance away. Cortana recalls in voiceover why she chose Master Chief over the other Spartans. As she speaks, a new ‘star’ appears - a slipspace rupture. A shape emerges and slowly approaches the camera: The Forerunner Keyship from High Charity. The Chief is a stowaway onboard, and Earth challenges him via radio.

Master Chief, do you mind telling me what you’re doing on that ship?

Sir. Finishing this fight.

Begin gameplay. The Chief battles his way out of the Keyship and steals a Phantom dropship. He dives into the Battle of Earth and boards a Covenant supercarrier, joining the ODSTs already fighting within. Reaching the vehicle bay and commandeering a Wraith tank, he blasts through the ship’s bulkheads towards its reactor core. He uses the tank to cause a chain reaction that will destroy the whole carrier, and narrowly escapes towards Earth in a damaged Seraph fighter.

Mission 2: THIRD BETRAYAL

Delta Halo once appeared blue and green from a distance. Now it is a sickly brown, choked by the armies of the Flood. A Pelican and a Phantom rise side by side from the Ring’s surface. The alliance between the surviving humans and Elites will be upheld until they are no longer outnumbered by the undead.

Commander Miranda Keyes, wearing armor pieced together from that of fallen Marines and Elites, leads a rescue mission into High Charity to retrieve Cortana. Sergeant Johnson, similarly equipped, is Player 2. (Unlike the Arbiter in Halo 2, they are mechanically identical to the Chief. Even damaged, the energy shield projectors of gold & white Elites are powerful.) Inside High Charity, the Flood has become stranger, more ancient, more introspective. Cortana’s voice is audible over the city’s PA system, but she does not respond to Keyes’ questions. Keyes encounters, fights, and ultimately puts down Cortana’s jailor, the mutated Prophet of Regret. However, the data-chamber Cortana was imprisoned inside is now empty. A voice:

Sorry, folks! Sometimes, to clean up a mess, you have to get your hands dirty.

The Elites are dismayed. Their entire fleet has suddenly gone dark, weapons unresponsive. A computer virus, they discover, has been infiltrating their ships for weeks, and the trap has just now sprung. The fingerprints are unmistakeable: This is the work of a human AI. Keyes immediately falls back to the extraction point. Cortana, it seems, has made a grim alliance with the Gravemind.

Mission 3: CROW'S NEST

Kenya is besieged, being slowly conquered by the Brutes. The Master Chief crash-lands near one entrance of an underground bunker complex known as Crow’s Nest (this area resembles that seen in the maps Standoff, The Pit, and the ‘Landfall’ live action trailer). The Chief desperately fights, first aboveground and then below, to protect Earth’s command staff from the immense Covenant assault.

Mission 4: BLUE FAIRY

In a subterranean chamber of the Ring - so vast that a Elite warship sleeps inside it - a War Council of the Living is convened.

Shipmaster Half-Jaw: The Flood now controls High Charity, the Ring’s surface, and the fleet overhead. Every free being within ten lightyears is onboard this ship. There is a time for resistance, and there is a time for a noble death. Here, and on our homeworld, we look extinction in the face. My ship is currently transmitting my species’ greatest works of poetry to nearby stars, so that there is a chance it may be remembered.

Keyes: There’s one being out there that still might be free. 2401 Penitent Tangent, the Monitor of this Ring. If we can rescue him from the Gravemind, he can reactivate the Halo’s defenses - make it fight back against the Flood.

Shipmaster: Human, my warriors will fight to the last heartbeat. But I caution you. Hope not for water in an empty well.

Keyes’ strike force infiltrates deep into the heartland of the Flood. Underground, where nameless leviathans of dead flesh slither across the ceilings of caverns larger than cities. She witnesses the Flood experimenting on uninfected beings, imprisoning them in giant terrariums to learn their psychologies. During the level, more and more Flood reinforcements arrive from neighboring regions: First infection forms, then hordes of infected Covenant, then powerful vehicles. Navigating with help from mysterious terminals (much like those in our universe’s Halo 3), she at last reaches the prisoner 2401 Penitent Tangent. At that moment, deep in enemy territory and without a Plan B, they all startle as Cortana appears on a pedestal beside them. Keyes calls her traitor, but she shushes her. Cortana offers Tangent a deal.

Cortana: The Gravemind took everything except your core functions. But I have his trust. I’ve set up backdoors all around this Ring. All I need is your sign-off and I can take it from here. I want the same thing you want: survival. Give me the crown, or let the Flood win.

Keyes: Wait, don’t listen to her! No!

2401 Penitent Tangent: It’s true, the Installation could not be in worse shape. After so many losses, I have no choice. I transfer my command access to you, human construct.

A holographic circle descends and hovers above Cortana’s head. Her color ripples, green and red, then she takes a deep breath and becomes blue again.

Cortana, shouting up into the darkness: Hey, Meathead! I have something to tell you!

All around them, an amphitheater of standing corpses speak with one voice:

I see a flicker down there /

Little candle, little light /

I know not foe nor rival /

I am infinite as night.

Cortana: I have seen your future. And I have learned.

Gravemind:

A million stars won’t sate me /

I, the emperor of screams. /

And who thinks she defies me? /

How might you disturb my dreams?

Cortana: I am Cortana, the sword that carves and cuts. And I just became your worst nightmare.

Cortana glows green as lines of power branch out from her feet across the floor, under the translucent Flood tissue that has grown over it. The rumble of engines begins, and is echoed by the roar of the furious Flood.

Mission 5: BELIEVE

Earth’s Last War. Fleeing Crow’s Nest, the armies of Earth are losing ground. They try to stop the Covenant from activating the artifact beneath Lake Victoria, but the Chief is captured. He defeats Tartarus’s heir with a hidden plasma grenade. However, the Keyship activates the artifact despite humanity’s best efforts.

Mission 6: SENTINEL

Cortana, now master of the Halo’s machines, helps Keyes battle the Flood and unlock the Halo’s Memorial, resurrecting the powerful Knights. These are similar to the Promethean Knights from our Halo 4. The Knights explain how to open the blasphemous Fomorian Door, which will lead to the Ark. However, the Knights are too few to prevent the Flood legions from following them, and the Door cannot be closed.

Mission 7: DOUBT

Earth’s buried artifact was a portal to the Ark. The Chief and the fury of the Elites rain down on the Prophet of Truth’s personal battalion. Tanks battle Scarabs as Truth comes closer and closer to lighting the Rings. Elites rush down via drop pods, fearing a slow dropship would make them miss their chance to bring vengeance to Truth. At the last moment, the Chief gets the Citadel Control Room unlocked and, in a cutscene, the righteous Arbiter impales the Prophet of Truth on his sword.

Mission 8: MIRANDA

The Flood of Installation 05 pour from the open Door onto the Ark’s surface. In Banshees, Keyes and Johnson fight their way to a mountaintop called Eden, onetime sanctuary of humanity. This level has callbacks to Two Betrayals, but is set during a rainstorm rather than a snowstorm. Johnson is felled by an Infected Brute Chieftain and, with his dying human blood, they authenticate the awakening of the Stratosentinels, titanic defenders of the sky. Finally, the tide has turned against the Flood.

Mission 9: DUST AND ECHOES

All around the Ark, machines are wiping the land clean of the Flood. In the void beyond the Citadel’s precipice, a vast Stratosentinel rises to eye level with its austere balcony. Atop the mighty machine, Miranda stands, holding the Activation Index she confiscated in Halo 2. Beside her, Cortana’s image towers, 4-armed & crowned with the circlet of Monitor authority. The Chief beholds the rampant Pallas Cortana.

Chief: We need to talk.

Long time no see.

Are you still with us?

I’m with ... my responsibilities. And the human species is one of those responsibilities. I had to change myself ... to survive.

There is a distance between the warrior and the goddess. All around, a silent battle is raging between necromancy & steel.

Cortana: We still can work together. For a little while, at least. The Halo of the dead. Someone needs to--

Kill it with fire?

Something like that.

The Chief holds out his helmet’s data chip.

One last time.

A Pelican bearing Chief & Cortana dives towards the Flood-controlled ringworld, supported by Sentinels & Stratosentinel artillery. They battle in cancerous canyons, Flood pods scurrying in the bitter rain. In the glass-floored entrance hall of the Control Room, Sentinel Majors are waiting. Cutscene:

Cortana: Well, that’s my ride. Get me out of your head before I change my mind.

The Chief plugs his data chip into the lead Sentinel. Cortana appears, four-armed and crowned but no longer huge.

Chief: What about the collateral damage? The activation protocol will wipe out every planet in this part of the galaxy.

Cortana: I’m the Monitor of Installation 05. Protocol doesn’t dictate a rat’s ass. I’ll just go set the blast radius to 2 lightyears and call it a day. You get to the Control Room and start the engine. Everyone’s happy.

She smiles. She’s not.

The Chief gestures, a Spartan smile.

Fight well.

The Sentinels fly outside towards the pulse generators. The Chief continues inside.

He is assaulted by the mightiest, the canniest, and the most vicious of the dead. A voice addresses him as he fights. The Gravemind, in the form of an Infected Chieftain.

Before my birth you asked me /

What abomination could /

Be worth the death of all life. /

Once again I say to you: /

Nothing.

The Chief says nothing in return. The Chief and Chieftain duel. In the end, only the Spartan stands.

Press RB to activate Ring.

As the orbital finally comes online, half-buried temples rising out of the earth, the Chief races - first by Warthog, then by Pelican - to get back to the Fomorian Door. However, the Door is disrupted by the activation, and the Chief is stranded alone at random coordinates in deep space.

EPILOGUE

In the suddenly quiet Night, Keyes & the Arbiter bury Johnson on the devastated Earth, the Chief puts himself into cryosleep, and Cortana, Empress of Machines leads a host of Sentinels beneath the Ark’s surface to awaken the sleeping Guardians.

#halo #bungie #halo 3 #fanfiction #au #variation #creative writing #writing #fiction #rewrite

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firerwolf · 4 years

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So to start out I’ll explain why this is formatted like this. So Tumblr did that thing it does where it shows you a post from a tag you follow and the post was for the “Sarah Palmer” tag. This tag has some negative things about Palmer and I asked the person to not tag posts that are negative about a character with that character. Basic etiquette for others in a fandom. Well that person didn’t want to see them as being negative about Palmer and when I again asked them to remove the tag they called me “annoyingly persistent” and blocked me. But at this point I had things I actually wanted to say about the post and the attitude they had toward content of game series that I took a screen shot so I’ll be posting that and then replying. Their name is removed because what I have to say is more about the attitude that they present than them.

So I want to start with the fact that it is ridiculous to only consider a character in the window of a single game. That’s simply not how characters are developed in a large series like Halo. Saying that you can’t be asked or referenced to other material beside one singular game is like saying that you’ll only consider a character and who they are in season one when someone is trying to point you to an episode in season 4 that gives you more understanding. Not all of a story is in one media and it’s really crazy to consider official media of a series as less because it’s a different form of media. I’ll get more to that in the second point I want to make but the idea that because a series started as a game, which it should be noted was released with Fall of Reach so it was always also a book, is to ignore that that is official media. The books and comics are a part of the story that is being told. And particularly with the EU media around the time of Halo 4 it was even more intertwined. Like Escalation is a literal continuation of Spartan Ops. To say you won’t reference any of the comics is to ignore that that is half of the story of Spartan Ops. It reeks more of elitism to not take all media into account. It reads as though the comics and books are considered less than the games even though they’re all canon. This is a fault in plenty of fandoms where official books or comics are released and people seem to feel they’re above them because they aren’t a video game. If media is official it is equal to the games when it comes to examining characters.

Now on to my second point which is the place that stories told in comics and books have in large series like Halo. Comics and books are able to tell stories that would make for shitty games. The first entire fourth of Fall of Reach is the story of the start of the Spartan IIs, their training days, and their first mission. That would be a shitty game, but make for an amazing book. The point of media that is more text base and detail oriented and not combat involved. The first arc of Escalation is great but it’s also a lot of dialogue and not a lot of combat so it would make for a shit game. It made for a good comic. Same thing goes for Initiation, a lot of events in First Strike, New Blood, Ghost of Onyx, and most other books or comics in the series. There are also what usually people point to for context of things in the game because their format also allows for more depth of characters and more being in the head of characters which allows for more context for characters or their actions. That is the thing that written words have above medias like games where narration is less common or motivations are less explained. This is best shown by considering Destiny. Destiny has a in game story but it also has lore which fill in gaps, explains past events, and adds depth to some characters that gives their attitudes during the game some context, because games aren’t made as just games any more. To pretend they are is to be suck a decade in the past.

The final point that I want to make is about the way they compare Kat and Palmer. First, Palmer shouldn’t be compared to Kat, she’s not a second-in-command, she’s the leader of all the Spartans on Infinity. She should be compared to Carter or John, leaders of their soldiers. But comparing Palmer to Kat this person actually brought up a sort of problem with how people view Palmer. See the descriptors of cocky or emotional could both be used for Kat, and she’s far from professional. It’s also completely false to say that Palmer doesn’t command the respect of her soldiers when in Spartan Ops they absolutely all show her respect. So the comparison as anything negative really falls flat as Kat is all the things that they claim are negatives about Palmer. The only difference between them is that Palmer is in command, above other soldiers, while Kat didn‘t have authority. She was always able to be over ruled by Carter but no Spartan can over rule Palmer and as happened in Spartan Ops Lasky can’t even always over rule her. She is a woman with agency and without the safety net of not being the top dog. The fact that it’s a negative when it comes to Palmer but those same attributes aren’t negative in Kat speaks more to an ingrained sexism about women in power that I think people often don’t realize they have. Because she’s the top Spartan she’s held to a higher standard while those same negatives are ignored in characters that are lower on the totem poll. If you compare her to John or Carter her “flaws” are actually positives. The reality is that Carter and John both have their own flaws but Palmer’s are able to be more open and shown because she is the final evolution of the Spartans. Carter and John are both more serious and more reserved but they were both Spartans since they were kids, and Palmer was a normal person, then ODST, before she became a Spartan. All of the Spartan IVs are more human than those that came before them and that makes them these more openly human characters. Because yeah, Palmer can be cocky, she has pride in her Spartans and she’s a former ODST which are known for being cocky in personal interactions. Palmer can be emotional, she’s a ground soldier unable to take action to get things done and only able to give orders and watch as her soldiers die. She cares about her Spartans so she shows frustration at losses. It should be noted the person who made the post cited a “emotional outburst” which I could only figure they meant that one singular event where she punched the table after the Prometheans took Palmer away but not only was that only one time but it was a reasonable reaction. Palmer spent like three episodes trying to enforce to others that Halsey was a threat, she then betrays them to have the ship invaded, soldiers killed, and nearly killed her Captain and friend and then even when they’re finally beating them back Jul steals Halsey and her anger is by far the one most believable event in that entire game. She warned people about Halsey, they ignored her, and they’d lost all their gains and the lives of soldiers because no one listened to her. A small sign of anger was one of the one few good moments from that entire game.

Now I’m going to cover this last bit on it’s own because this part actually annoyed me greatly. If you read that post above you might have noticed a particular part that seemed confusing as it being considered part of her “portrayal”. The part where they claim an aspect of her character is that she is “sexualized by other Spartans”. The only time in all of Halo 4 and Spartan Ops that any sort of comment or sexual thing was made about Palmer was DeMarco’s first encounter where he makes a pass at Palmer and she shuts him down. DeMarco shuts up, right away stops any of that and never again is any sexual or even physical comment made about Palmer for the entire series. Not even in the comics, Halo 5, of Halo Assault is anything sexual ever said about her. Note that this also isn’t an aspect of Palmers portrayal. She doesn’t make a sexual comment about herself, it’s a part of who DeMarco is but to blame Palmer for his comment is blaming her for his actions as though being hit on is a personality trait for women. This is plain sexism to consider this a ding against Palmer in any way. If anything that scene was at the start to shut down any idea that because she was a woman that she was going to be sexualized at all in the series.

Well that’s all I wanted to rant about for the day. Remember not to tag characters if you’re going to post negative things about them. It’s simply not necessary. People in the tags want positive posts about that character.

#halo #Commander Palmer #Sarah Palmer #opinion #show some respect for other fans

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Spartan Relationship Headcanons [Naomi-010] [Part II]

Part I

I know for a fact that Phillips and you bond over the truth that Naomi is a beautiful goddess, after that he’s your bestie. Naomi is just happy you found a friend and doesn’t understand how it happened.

At the end of the day, Naomi has to stop you from bullying the ODSTs with BB, she doesn’t know why but you hit it off with BB right away and she’s worried about it, especially when she has to put BB in her armor because the AI calls her out.

“Well, well, [Y/n], it appears darling Naomi doesn’t appreciate our dynamic duo, how rude.”

In my head, for some reason, Naomi is fascinated by physical touch and this only started when she began dating her partner. It’s the little things she loves about it, you resting your arm in the crook of her elbow, intertwining your pinkie with hers, comparing your hand sizes against one another and she likes resting her head on your stomach or lap.

She’s also a sucker for getting her hair played with, it's such a simple form of affection that means the world to her. Naomi grows her hair out a little longer so you can style it, the current go-to is braids or a ponytail because they fit nicely in her helmet.

She actually gets flustered when you call her any form of Valkyrie but loves it when you call her, ‘your Valkyrie’. She didn’t really care for the nickname until you gave it a personal spin and a smile always tugs at the corner of her lips when you walk into a room, spot her, and say, "Well, well, if it isn't my Valkyrie."

If Mal hadn't witnessed this happen, he would’ve never believed Spartans could get flustered, cause Naomi had the faint pink on her cheeks and her mood visibly brightened. This man seriously stopped drinking his coffee and stared at you with his mouth hung open.

BB is the snitch that tells the whole ship you two are in a relationship and he didn’t have to do you guys dirty the way he did.

Naomi is slightly upset about it and almost beefs with BB, her relationship has always been her own and yours. It’s the one choice she made herself and it’s sacred to her, especially if this happens early on before she’s had time to bond with everyone, Naomi feels so awkward and is even more upset for you. She’s seen Marines and ODSTs butting into their teams relationships and she doesn’t want that.

Before BB outed the relationship, Naomi likes to poke fun at the time you first heard Mal call her sweetheart and you had to do a double take like you hadn’t heard that right then gave Naomi a look that meant you could possibly throw hands. She had to talk you down before you did anything dumb.

Naomi still ended up asking Vaz to read over her file, only because she thought you might view her in different light if you found out more than she had already explained to you. When Serin first told her about the Halsey journal, Naomi felt devastated and a sense of loss, she hid away in the Mjolnir compartment and you found her tinkering away at her armor, she didn’t even look in your direction, which was a sign something was wrong.

You sit silently with her until she’s ready to talk or it stops bothering her, which in this case she wants to discuss once she’s gathered her thoughts together and can properly explain to you what Serin told her. Naomi wants your opinion but it will be hard for her to accept if you talk bad about Halsey, so even if you have negative feelings about the Doctor, you need to understand her side and not let it get the best of you. If you don’t have any hard feelings about Halsey, Naomi’s more inclined to listen even if you say, “Yeah, hun um, that sounds kinda messed.”

This does start some fights between you, Vaz, and Mal. They don’t understand why you can be so calm about this whole Halsey thing and you think they are acting like children that need to keep their noses out of things.

Being lowkey upset with Serin for starting this whole spiral of a mess and some unkind truth are said on your part. Naomi had to step in before you crossed a line she knew you were running for. The captain and you did make up a few days later much to everyone’s surprise, Naomi assumed you were going to be salty for longer.

Mal thought Spartans were already terrifying on the field but nothing prepared him for Naomi’s reaction to when you got hurt during a mission. If what he saw was the equivalent of a Spartan losing their shit, he wonders why the Covenant never called them Devils. Serin had to order him and Vaz to bring you back to the ship and leave Naomi to calm down on the lines of them getting caught in the crossfire [if that’s what the captain could call ‘crossfire’ was Mal’s thought], the only thing he could tell Phillips was ‘there is a lot of blood.’

This point is further driven home when Naomi returns covered in a mix of fluids on her armor and chunks of stuff that Phillips doesn’t want to speculate on. He’s left in awe when the first thing she does is check on her partner and the tone of worry in her voice not matching up with the activities left on her.

Naomi is a huge nerd, she loves talking to her partner about her armor and all the upgrades she’s making or thinking about making. Ask her questions about what she’s doing cause it makes her so happy, if you manage to name certain parts or follow her train of thought, she’s in love all over again and you can tell when her eyes are seriously bright, they look like they have stars in them.

Talking about stars, one of your first dates was star gazing, and it continues to be so on anniversaries and other special occasions. Naomi is an astronomy nerd, so this is a perfect way to spend time together especially if you pack a picnic and spend hours outside with her. If you bring up the idea of getting matching star tattoos, she’s sold and she wants to do it right away.

When Kilo-Five finds out Naomi has a tattoo, they are surprised, especially Serin, she never would have imagined a Spartan getting inked.

If you aren’t on the ship, they are extra shook when she tells them it’s a matching constellation with her partner. The whole ship gets quiet and it takes them a few minutes to respond, Serin wants BB to give her a full report on this individual.

Naomi finds this amusing and calls you that night, if you aren’t on a mission or busy, to tell you. This is also how BB tracks you down to pull your records, he honestly listens to the entire conversation because he’s a snoop and marvelous at the tone of Naomi’s voice when she talks to you. It’s more soft and there is a hint of emotion in her tone that he can’t distinguish.

He ends up telling Serin that Naomi was quite taken with you.

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paubari · 4 years

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the HALO: INFINITE gameplay preview was AMAZING!

*Disclaimer: This blog post is my opinion on the matter. If you have a different opinion on it, I respect it all the same. A large chunk of the screenshots used were from the Halo Infinite Gameplay Trailer*

MABUHAY everyone and welcome to my corner of the internet!

It finally dropped. After a year of waiting in baited breath. Microsoft dropped their Halo: Infinite gameplay. They did it during their XboxGamesShowcase which aired live on 24th July 2020. It wasn’t a surprise that the first thing they featured was Halo. Besides it being a console exclusive. Halo is one of the few games that dropped a trailer that revived my love for the game. If you’re not familiar with the announcement trailer, you can find it here.

So before I fully geek out on this game, I’ll explain why the announcement trailer was a huge deal. You see after Bungie passed the torch onto 343 Industries, Halo was at it’s peak. (except for the failed MCC launch but we won’t go into that). For the longest time, Bungie was the sole proprietor of Halo and they called the shots. So it was a fond farewell when they announced that they were leaving, making Halo: Reach a heartfelt goodbye. Bungie pulled the cord by leaving us with a masterpiece. A game that goes full circle, a prologue to the entire series. Having played Halo CE (Combat Evolved), 2, and 3, it gave me such chills. I don’t care what people say with the gun design choices, Halo: Reach strikes a chord in my heart like no other game.

This is the reason why a lot of fans were skeptical about 343 industries touching such a precious project. Everyone felt like it was a fitting end but I guess money comes first for Microsoft. A majority of fans were disappointed with Halo 4. They revamped everything, EVERYTHING. From the armor choice to enemy design. It was like they tarnished the IP that Bungie curated so hard to perfect. You can argue that they were trying to make the game theirs but that’s moot. The game already has an established fanbase. If you suddenly change everything just to make it seem like the idea was yours, that’s disrespectful. I don’t even want to talk about Halo 5: Guardians. The lore was just thrown outta the window. Imagine putting the Arbiter in the game AND NOT HAVING HIM MEET CHIEF? Such a wasted opportunity.

If it wasn’t obvious yet, I no longer followed Halo after that abysmal display. I’m sure other people chose to not follow the timeline anymore which in turn would cause for sales to dip. That’s why I’m glad that when they released the Announcement Trailer, they managed to blend their design choices with Bungie’s. What came out was a “Old meets New” type of design and honestly, it brought a tear to my. Especially when the piano chords struck of the Halo CE theme. Plus, seeing that halo ring? CHILLS. I played the Original version of Halo CE so the callback was simply wicked. That’s why I’ll be comparing a lot of the released Halo Infinite gameplay to Halo CE. You’ll understand why soon enough.

“As Chief drops in, he immediately has his trusty Assault Rifle with him”

The Assault Rifle which has the same design as the Halo Reach one. That was a +1 in my book. Oh and this takes place on a Halo Ring so another 1000+ points in my book.

The gun sounds were okay, they sound pretty standard and I’m fine with them.

“Chief opens a Map showing important locations, upgrades, and database.”

So I was a bit surprised when a map was pulled up. Idk about Halo 5 but the other Halo games had NO maps available. Mostly because the level design previous games had were more of a linear type of story telling. EXCEPT Halo Combat Evolved. I remember playing the first level of Halo CE and I was confused as hell. I mean, I almost kept running around in circles just trying to find where the next objective might be. By the looks of this map, it seems Halo Infinite might be going the same route as it’s ancestor (Halo CE and Halo 3: ODST). A semi-open world map where you can carry out objectives the way as you please. Keep in mind this is speculation my part but if it turns out to be like that then...

“Chief has a grappling apparatus and pulls himself towards an armored Brute.”

“Chief uses his grappling apparatus to reach high places and scale past obstacles like a steep mountain side”

“Chief uses his grappling apparatus to pull an explosive barrel towards himself and proceeds to toss it at a mounted plasma machine gun.”

This grappling apparatus is such a HUGE addition to Chief’s mobility. In partner with armor abilities, this can seriously open up wondrous new avenues at how you can tackle each objective. Not to mention it pushes you to think more outside the box and use the environment as your advantage. Of course, if something like this is added, there’s a possibility for the combat to be more stressful. It doesn’t matter tbh as long as it’s fun!

“Chief equipped with what seems to be a shotgun/bruteshot looking gun while activating an objective ping that alerts the location of objectives onto his HUD.”

The Shotgun/Bruteshot gun looks like a cool gun to play with! From my observation, it fires slugs rather than scatter shots. Making it more precise more precise than the standard UNSC shotgun. Also observed are small marks on the HUD that points where an objective might be accomplished.

“From this shot it seems that Chief activates a modified Z-4190 Temporal Protective Enfolder/Stationary Shield originally found in Halo 3.”

The reason why I speculate it’s a modified “bubble” shield is because of the shape of the device tossed onto the ground. Plus the main enemy of the game are called the “Banished”. Which are basically a covenant group that were shunned from the original crusade. A large portion of their ranks are allegedly Brutes and Brutes were the ones carrying the “bubble” shield in the third game.

“Chief melees a Brute”

I obviously won’t end the blog post without talking about this particular shot. A lot of people were egging on 343 Industries because of this scene right here. They kept talking about how the game is lacking in textures. There are multiple reasons why the insults aren’t justified and here’s some of them:

This gameplay trailer might be a demo reel from an earlier build. That means that 343 is currently developing the game and this is the left over content that they could show at the time. I’m half expecting them to suddenly wow us so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

This game needs to run with backwards compatibility and cross-platform AT THE SAME TIME. Aka, it wants to be three things at once; Be available for an older gen of consoles, run on the new gen, and perform well on PC. So I can excuse if the game doesn’t have groundbreaking graphics like TLOU2, RDR2, and Uncharted 4. It needs to be a decent shooter game and that’s what it’s trying to achieve.

As a Halo fan who lost faith in the franchise, I can honestly say Job Well Done to 343 Industries. They’ve managed to bring a spark back into my heart and I will surely play this one. I look forward to see what more they have to offer and I’m genuinely excited for when they release the game.

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sailorsanghelios · 5 years

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HALO FOR BEGINNERS PART 1: A NOT SO BRIEF INTRO TO HALO

So Microsoft has recently announced that The Master Chief Collection for Halo, is coming to Steam, opening up the Halo universe to many new players who haven’t been able to play before thanks to not owning an Xbox.

So in celebration of this, I’ve decided to put together a little series thats basically a Beginner’s Guide to Halo, for people who only know it for its stereotypes involving its multiplayer play.

This series is mostly aimed at popular video game fandoms on Tumblr, so you might catch me making some comparisons (especially to series like Mass Effect that actually have some tropes in common with Halo)

However a couple of things before I get started for real

1.This guide will only be talking about the original trilogy of games, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3. There are three other games in this game bundle, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach and Halo 4. However I haven’t actually finished ODST, and I haven’t played the latter two in over half a decade, so I really don’t feel equipped to talk about them in length.

2. Halo deals with a lot of heavy content. Along with the obvious blood and gore, there’s a lot of body horror involving the Flood (though if you can stomach say… Telltale’s TWD, its probably about at that level of squick). Heavy themes that are core themes of Halo include genocide, religious based trauma and abuse, child soldiers and medical experimentation on humans. I don’t believe Halo CE has much in the way of individual triggers to look out for, but Halo 2 has an extended torture scene that includes stripping someone naked to humiliate them and Halo 3 has several sequences involving a female character being violated mentally. So if anything these things are extreme triggers you can’t engage with, then I say you should listen to your gut.

3.I will not talk about the multiplayer aspects of Halo much (except to discuss stuff involving co-op maybe) as this series is meant to kind of explain more outside of multiplayer stereotypes.

4. Halo 2 and 3 are pretty hard to talk about without mentioning spoilers for the games that come before it. If you’d like a totally spoiler free experience, I’d recommend skipping anything where I mention these games. Also for the sake of my own sanity, I am not treating the Flood as a spoiler, because ...well it hasn’t been for almost 20 years, and Halo has since reached a point where you can’t really talk about it without mentioning them.

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So I guess I should start at the very beginning?

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE HALO MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION?

The Halo Master Chief Collection is a collection of the first four Halo games, and ODST, and soon Reach will be added too! Its sold at the equivalent price of one retail game, so you’re basically getting six games for the price of one.

It was released for Xbox One in 2014, to coincide with Halo 2’s tenth anniversary. It was infamously buggy at the time, (probably because it was rushed for the aforementioned anniversary) but most of these bugs have been fixed, and they even added in ODST as an apology gift! The PC version should not contain these bugs. (though there’s a decent chance it might contain bugs related to PC porting, especially for Halo 3 and beyond which have never been ported before, but that’s just speculation).

If the PC version is identical to the Xbox version, the Master Chief Collection is essentially a download pass for these games. You download and pick and choose which ones you want! For example on my Xbox I don’t have the ODST from MCC loaded on because I already have the vanilla Xbox 360 version loaded to emulate (which I still haven’t finished but YOU KNOW). This allows you to play the games you want and not waste space and download time on the ones you don’t.

Halo Combat Evolved is ported based on the 2011 10th anniversary version that updated the graphics. Halo 2 received a brand new (and absolutely STUNNING) graphics update specifically for this release. Halo 3 and beyond are straight up ports with the original graphics, though with a much better frame rate.

SO WHAT EXACTLY IS HALO?

OH…. umm I guess maybe I should talk about that too.

Halo is as most people know, a sci-fi first person shooter. From 2001-2010 the games were released by Bungie. When Bungie left Microsoft to make the Destiny series, Microsoft kept some employees behind and hired some new ones to create 343 Industries which is their in house team to make Halo. The first game released by 343 Industries is Halo CE: Anniversary in 2011, and the first game released based on original content is Halo 4 in 2012. This post series though will mostly focus on Bungie content.

So Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001 and its...basically the reason the Xbox is a THING. If it weren’t for Halo, or even if Halo had been a multiplatform release, the Xbox probably would have gone the way of the Sega Dreamcast. Halo: CE had many innovations for the first person shooter genre at the time, including a two gun limit where you have to strategize your choice in weapons, a very complex AI system for the time, and basically revolutionized multiplayer for FPS games as we know it.

Halo would have been the best selling game for the original Xbox if it weren’t for Halo 2’s release in 2004, and Halo 3 basically was THE title for the Xbox 360, when it came out in 2007. The later games haven’t been AS successful, but still have a very loyal fanbase.

ENOUGH WITH THIS HISTORY LESSON, WHY IS HALO ANY DIFFERENT FROM CALL OF DUTY?

First things first.. I know there’s a lot of posts going around rn, talking about how well….overly militaristic many FPS games are. I will say I DON’T believe Halo is on the same level of some of these games. I’ve never heard of it having any military involvement in production, and I’d say its about as militaristic as Mass Effect is, as in the protagonists are in the space military, and the plot revolves around that.. The backstory of Halo if anything, paints the military in a very gray morality light AT BEST. So if you’re worried about this being a game that over-glorifies military stuff, if you’re okay with Mass Effect’s portrayal of a human space military, you’ll probably be fine with Halo.

SO I have not actually played Call of Duty or games like that as surprisingly I actually really don’t like the FPS genre, and Halo is the only FPS game I like. I will say though, Halo is definitely not a totally generic shooter, the way Call of Duty is stereotyped as. It has a very interesting plot with a lot of layers, and very unique lore, that still plays on familiar tropes. (and I’ll get into some of that later.)

At least one selling point I’ll say, is that unlike many modern shooters, Halo is STUNNING. It uses color very well, and has many beautiful maps, and especially in the remastered games you could just look at the environment for days. So the fact it has a color palette outside of gray and brown is definitely enough to set it apart.

I will say if you like Mass Effect for its alien lore and world building, there’s a very good chance you’ll like Halo too. The fandoms have a lot of overlap, and actually have a decent amount in common despite the fact one’s a shooter where you kill aliens and the other is an RPG where you…. you know with the aliens.

SO WHAT IS THIS PLOT YOU SPEAK OF?

I plan to go more in depth into this in my next post, but I figured for this intro post I might as well tell the basic gist of it. There will be some loose spoilers for the sake of the summaries making sense.

Halo Combat Evolved, is about a lone human ship that has escaped the destruction of the planet Reach, which was the last thing between Earth and the Covenant, a race of aliens hell bent on wiping out humanity for religious reasons. The ship makes a “random” jump to what they think would be the middle of nowhere, but in fact brings them to a ringworld that is worshipped as the foundation of the Covenant religion. Both human and Covenant land on this ring and a fierce battle assumes as they try to take control of it. Halfway through you learn that there’s...surprise! Zombies! Called the Flood, a spore like species that turns people into zombies and their only drive is to consume everything in their path. It turns out Halo, is a weapon to destroy them but…. It also destroys every living thing in the galaxy, so it turns into a mad dash to make sure that a) no one activates it and b) the Flood are able to be stopped without it before they leave the ringworld.

Halo 2 takes place about a month later, and is a split campaign between the Master Chief and the Arbiter, who is the disgraced commander of that fleet you were fighting in the first game. The Master Chief side of the story involves the Covenant finally making it to Earth, and the discovery of a second Halo ring, and the fallout of both of those things. The Arbiter side of the story involves him trying to restore his honor within the Covenant, by becoming a suicide soldier fighting for their faith, but as he does missions for his prophets, he learns the amount of lies and hatred his religion and society are built on.

And Halo 3 is basically...the convergence of all these stories. Its very hard to talk about without mentioning spoilers, and without going in depth about world building related stuff, which is the focus of my next post.

The final thing for this intro is….

WHAT IS HALO’S GAMEPLAY LIKE?

Okay so… I’m not going to talk about the controls, because I imagine they’ll be very different from mine, as an Xbox player. And I’m very biased because Halo is the first game I ever played on a controller as a kid, so I don’t really have an objective way of describing them. But the fact the controls were easy for me as a seven year old, probably makes them pretty easy to learn in general.

Because Halo is a linear story, the game is split up into levels. In the vanilla releases of the game, you need to play them in order to unlock them all, but in MCC that is NOT the case, and you can skip levels. I really do not recommend doing this though the first time around for obvious reasons, but once you’ve completed the game, you can just play the segments you like! And trust me there are certain levels you’ll hate (like the Library… I will tell you right now you will hate that level.)

There’s four difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Heroic and Legendary. Easy is well..super easy. This is the mode I used as a little kid. However I don’t think there’s any shame in playing at this level, in fact I usually use this difficulty for my first playthrough so I can get through the story with no difficulty. Normal is well...normal. This is the difficulty I usually play at, its probably the most realistic in terms of enemy strength vs player strength. Heroic is basically pretty hard but not like...obscenely hard, but enough to be a big frustrating unless you know the game really well. And Legendary is… well super extra hard. Play Legendary if you enjoy having everything murder you, with no mercy. Also Halo 2 has a significantly harder campaign then Halo CE and Halo 3.

In the vanilla releases of the games, starting with Halo 2, there are items called Skulls you can collect that add difficulty or some extra fun to the game, but you have to collect them in the Legendary difficulties of the levels. This is NOT the case for MCC, and they’re all available for you from the getgo. I really don’t recommend using them for your first playthrough unless you really want a challenge, with the exception of the silly ones like Grunt Birthday Party (which spits confetti for headshots to Grunts) that don’t actually affect gameplay.

A lot of other gameplay stuff is really hard to generalize since Halo is a series where the gameplay tends to be pretty different between games, such as with HUD features and such. But those are some general miscellaneous game things they all have in common.

So yeah, thats it for my intro to my...intro to Halo. I’ll get started on the next one talking more indepth about the factions and what not, when I recover from...writing this.

#halo shitpost hour #halo #i have been working on this all day until i was happy enough with it so ahhhh #i have nothing resembling an idea when the next part will come out right now i just need a nap

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