Pastelona

The world is on fire and so am I. Blog is 13 years old. Blog I accidentally deleted would have been 15. Not saying my age for love or money.

[uncloudedandsage]

Halsey: kidnaps a large amount of children at a young age and subjects them to incredibly brutal military training, dangerous genetic and cybernetic enhancements, and harsh indoctrination. But acts as a mother figure, is somewhat concerned with the welfare of her charges, gives them overdeveloped tech to keep them moderately safe.

Parangosky: does exactly the same thing but with a massively larger amount of children, traumatized war orphans no less, and in an effort to cut down on costs, gives them inferior equipment. treats them as an expendable resource. throws them into literal suicide missions, and when they die just make more.

Parangosky: “Halsey, you’re an immoral piece of shit and and gonna make sure everyone knows it.”

me: 

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[sailorsanghelios]

Also

Parangosky: *literally forgets Halsey would have gotten nowhere without funding from ONI*

[cortnan]

NO, THIS IS HALO

[ladywolvesbayne-deactivated2024]

enough said

[greenreticule]

THIS. IS. SPARTANS. *gestures to S-IIs while glaring at the S-IVs* 

(halsey, you be nice to the new kids)

[greenreticule]

That post actually makes me wonder if Halsey was an actual medical doctor (or type of experimental biologist). Because I know she had to have some knowledge of it for the SII program, but it seemed to me like it was something she tried to teach herself as she went along, and had maybe never even dabbled in before that. With that said, I wonder what her actual profession was before ONI recruited her. Then again, she had a xenobiologist for a student/rival so I don't actually know

Halsey has an MD and a PhD in computer science, and that’s just her official degrees. She seems to have a “lunch-pail degree” (meaning knowledge gaiend through experience/on the job) in xenoarchaeology, languages, engineering, genetics, etc.

Also, she was recruited at a very young age into ONI. She didn’t have a whole lot of time to create a profession before then.

Halopedia has a larger list with sources for her skillset.

[sailorsanghelios]

Didn’t she like start doing college level research as a teenager (I could have sworn the Wiki mentioned her doing like several theses at age 15) like I think she was a child prodigy IIRC.

[sailorsanghelios]

Tbh I'm just picturing Halsey and Capt. Keyes playing smooth jazz at some bar in one of the Lunar colonies rn

Lmao

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

This is actually causing me emotional pain to think about. They must’ve been so happy together, for a time.

[sailorsanghelios]

Now you have me imagining Jacob telling Miranda about better times he had with her mother, and Miranda wondering “Is it my fault that changed?”

[sailorsanghelios]

I totally see Catherine Halsey as having been one of those “I’m not like other girls” girls as a teenager, and looking down on everyone else her age. (Because that’s probably something that happens when you have a PHD when most people your age are struggling with algebra)

[you-have-startled-the-witch]

“im not like those other girls drinking starbucks. I only drink cold coffee that has been sitting at the bottom of an ONI bunker for who knows how long”

[sailorsanghelios]

Yeah I never said she grew out of it

[sailorsanghelios]

I totally see Catherine Halsey as having been one of those “I’m not like other girls” girls as a teenager, and looking down on everyone else her age. (Because that’s probably something that happens when you have a PHD when most people your age are struggling with algebra)

[you-have-startled-the-witch]

“im not like those other girls drinking starbucks. I only drink cold coffee that has been sitting at the bottom of an ONI bunker for who knows how long”

[sailorsanghelios]

Yeah I never said she grew out of it

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Yeah, I do not feel like social skills and likeability were really ever Catherine’s strong points.  I kind of feel for her though.  Like, she would have been 20 years younger than all her colleagues in equivalent positions for most of her life, and, like, how do you even form relationships in that situation.  No wonder she mostly hangs out with AIs and Spartans.

Except that even the Spartans don’t interact quite right, because even Catherine Halsey, who probably has the best understanding of how Spartan-IIs think of anyone doesn’t really grasp the way they communicate, so they have a lot of conversations that are either like

Halsey: Wow, it must be so difficult and challenging having that armour on literally all the time how do you cope

John et al: This armour is the best, this is absolutely how I prefer to be and present myself.

OR

Halsey: Oh hi, so nice to see your actual face for once.

John: Ma’am this is a truly excessive quantity of eye contact.

[sailorsanghelios]

Honestly I imagine she never got much of a chance to develop them. Like if she was in college when she was like 15, there’s not many people in college who’d want to hang out with a 15 year old (and if they did, they’d probably be creepers) but she’d also be kind of blocked off from people actually her age cause she’d have trouble relating to them, which goes back to my original post like how can you hang out with other 15 year olds when you’re writing thesis papers like she’d be in a totally different world. She must have been so lonely as a teenager. Hell even Fall of Reach mentioned her PARENTS literally had no idea how to socialize with her, once she became smarter then them.

And with stuff like dating, it wouldn’t be surprising if she literally had no dating experience before getting with Jacob Keyes. I’d imagine that short time in her life was probably among the few where she actually did feel kind of normal.

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

thorne is apparently one of halsey’s honourary girls now

this means he’s probably going to die

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

sailorsanghelios she wants throne to sign a contract with her so he can become one of her magical girls

[sailorsanghelios]

You’re gonna regret that comparison later on, friend. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

OH MY GOD HALSEY IS A HALO FAN

HALSEY IS A HALO FAN

@nitensalis YOU SEEIN THIS???

[ladywolvesbayne-deactivated2024]

are you saying its inaccurate that cortana and halsey look alike or the idea that she is just a copy

Regarding Halo: Legends animated shorts, referring to short denominated “The Package”. The Dr. Halsey portrayed in that short seemed to me as a very inaccurate depiction of the Halsey we all know and like (or dislike), her personality was mixed up with Cortana’s way too much (or that’s what I recall of the very few minutes I actually watched of the aforementioned short). Maybe we don’t know much about Halsey’s youth, but come on…

Even Cortana, being “based off” Halsey, has a very distinctive personality. The fact that she and her creator might look similar doesn’t mean they are the same “person”, for the attitudes of one and the other are very, very different. Their reasoning might be similar, maybe, but the attitude and manners are an entirely different thing.

I KNOW the studio was allowed to take some liberties regarding the design and portrayal of the characters and I found a few inaccuracies not only in that short but in some of the others too (mostly, attitudes, expressions and details very typical of Japanese animation in general, which contrast a lot with the lore), but that Halsey is inaccurate AF and made me drop the short out of awkwardness. I was REALLY uncomfortable watching it, as I knew who Halsey was and the kind of relationship she held with her Spartans, it felt all so weird. Really awkward. As always, this is only a personal opinion, only important to me; it doesn’t have to be shared.

[sailorsanghelios]

I’ve always saw Cortana as basically being Halsey’s daughter. Like looks a lot like her cause they share the same “genetics” but is a totally different person.

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

HALO | MAJOR FEMALE CHARACTERS

Catherine Halsey | THE SCIENTIST First-Light-Weaves-Living-Song | THE LIBRARIAN Miranda Keyes | THE SAVIOUR Holly Tanaka | THE TECHNICIAN Cortana | THE GODDESS Serin Osman | THE SPY Sarah Palmer | THE COMMANDER Olympia Vale | THE DIPLOMAT Linda [Pravdin] 058 | THE SNIPER Kelly [Shaddock] 087 | THE RABBIT

[dojorkan]

Since Cortana is an AI I would’ve said her gender is non-binary, but shes made up of 1′s and 0′s.

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

That pun was painful and you should feel ashamed! ;)

[motionchief-deactivated20191207]

Vale is so pretty though like goddamn

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

Halsey + Palmer + Control lyrics (by Halsey…)

For nitensalis.

[sailorsanghelios]

I was gonna say this back when I watched the cuscenes but that was before game release, and now its 2 weeks since then so.

Did anyone else feel like 343 punched them in the guts over and over when in the first 30 seconds of Halo 5 we saw a picture of Miranda among Halsey’s things.

[prismatictemptress]

You've heard of sugar daddy now get ready for

Salty mommy

[sailorsanghelios]

[haruspis-deactivated20220412]

catherine halsey: controversial scientist, chosen steward of humanity’s ascension by ancient forerunner goddess, gigantic nerd

[equivalencept-deactivated202109]

Okay legitimate question here:

Does John know that Miranda Keyes is Dr. Halsey’s daughter? 

I can’t remember if it was mentioned to him in Halo 2 or Halo 3. I’m pretty sure the rest of blue team knows (didn’t parangosky tell dr. halsey miranda was dead in front of them? If i’m remembering the kilo 5 trilogy correctly). It’s pretty awkward if John doesn’t know, though blue team might have informed him in the 8 months between halo 4 and halo 5.

(please correct me if i’m wrong on any of the above)

[dr-dendritic-trees]

#for the main character of the main plot#john is kept in the dark on a lot of stuff

This is because John is sort of protagonist-by-courtesy.  Deep down he finds it very tiring and longs to assume his true calling as Cortana’s sidekick.

[sailorsanghelios]

What makes this extra awkward is he probably was around Halsey when she was pregnant (since Miranda was born right before the augmentations happened, so Halsey was probably doing a lot of prep before then)

Its kind of funny to me also how everyone is more shocked at that and not the afterthought of like “Wait a second that means you and Captain Keyes…”

[sailorsanghelios]

Controversial Post Time

Things that are Issues With Halsey’s Portrayal in the Kilo 5 Trilogy

1. The use misogynist slurs WITHIN THIRD PERSON NARRATIVE to describe her.

2. Comparing her work to the Holocaust, (comparing her to Mengele, comparing her diary to Mein Kampf) which not only is unneccesary demonization, but also such comparisons are anti-semetic

3. The fact that half the dragging toward her was toward her personal life, up to the point where it was dragged out of her that she almost aborted Miranda. There was no reason for anyone to needle her about her daughter that no one, not even the audience, knows about her relationship with her.

4. The lack of mention of James Ackerson who was a man who did literally the same thing she did, (except with weaponizing orphans). As far as we know, he’s still considered a war hero.

5. The fact that  putting sole blame on Halsey erases the crimes of those who funded her and helped her, who could have probably done something, but instead were silent. 

6. Probably more things I can’t think of at the moment.

Things That are NOT a Problem with Kilo 5′s Potrayal of Her

1. That people are considering Halsey a war criminal for kidnapping young children and raising them to be soldiers

2. That Serin and Naomi especially, actual victims of this, show bitterness toward this.

3. That we’re now forced to think of exactly how fucked up the narrative basis of our fandom is, because it is, it legitimately is. The fact that people think its a problem at all she was narratively punished for this, honestly worries me. 

[dante-against-sjws-deactivated2]

If you make fun of Halsey it’s because deep down you want to make fun of women and this is giving you an outlet to do it. Just kidding, but that sounds like something someone would say huh

[biggestbitchdisease-deactivated]

I thought this meant Dr. Halsey

[jame7t]

don’t make fun of the one armed scientist lady