#sam-034

[opalwisp]

So I've been reading the Fall of Reach and honestly? Sam deserved a better death than plasma hole in suit, can't go into the vacuum of space, let me die a hero then.

[inaccurate-halo-quotes]

Spartan Teen Days XIV

Kelly-087: Do you think John's ok? Sam-034: I mean, he's Sick today, so he's- Kelly-087: (quickly) Maybe we could bring him some soup. I mean, what if he has a fever? We could drop off some blankets. Do you think he likes blankets? Sam-034: (gasp) You Like him. Kelly-087: (blushes) No! I mean, I (stammers) I...I like him... Sam-034: (smirks) Yeah, you do. Kelly-087: (scoffs) I meant professionally, Sam! I don't like-like him. Sam-034: Oh, Then text him. Kelly-087: I don't have his Chatter number. (vibration and Ring is heard) Sam-034: Now you do. Kelly-087: (looks at Chatter) I-I can't...Did you add hearts to his Contact name?

[bloodgulchblog]

Bro, here is your chance to sell me on blue team. Halo 5 was a shitty introduction to them.

Alright. Alright. Since you asked... :3c

Things to know about Blue Team:

"Blue Team" refers to John, Fred, Kelly, and Linda. (And Sam before he died and, for a little while, Kurt, but I'm not here to talk about him.) Blue Team being a set group is kind of a lategame thing because the S-IIs divided themselves up into color-based teams (Red and Green are also reused a lot, Grey Team and Black Team generally had fixed members tho) depending on how they needed to split up for whatever they were doing, but Blue is always the one John is leading personally. Blue Team as we know it is.... kind of a result of how John's team is one of the few groups of S-IIs left alive. 8,)

The first members of Blue Team (besides John, obviously) we're introduced to are Kelly-087 and Samuel-034, and this is on day one of Spartan training. The kids are split into teams and told they need to find their way through a jungle gym obstacle course, and the last team to make it through doesn't get dinner.

John is grouped with Kelly and Sam. John, age 6, was a cocky little shit and a playground bully. He takes off on his own and is the first to ring the bell, leaving Kelly and Sam to struggle along and come in last, which means they're the last team to finish. John sulks about this and studiously avoids Kelly and Sam until they have to do the same exercise again the next day.

It's a good little scene so I'll share it because I care about it.

Sam was strong, self-assured, and became John's usual second-in-command as John increasingly took on leadership roles. He was notably the tallest of them all.

Kelly was smart-mouthed and lightning fast, frequently scouting or acting as bait to draw out adversaries in training exercises. They called this job being the team's "rabbit" and there's a rabbit painted on Kelly's armor in some renditions of her, which is a fun detail.

The latter two members of Blue Team are Fred-104 and Linda-058.

I'll let Nylund introduce Blue Team as they were in John's eyes before their first op, not long after augmentation and not long before the introduction of MJOLNIR armor.

This is, of course, far more than Halo 5 bothered to give you:

Fred-104 I've been talking about a lot lately but: latent leadership potential, higher empathy than average for a Spartan-II, good with knives (as established).

Linda-058 is probably the least developed of the team, if I'm honest, and part of that is because she's quiet and focused and is probably the one that participates the least in Spartan Humor (TM). I think the cutest detail we have about her is that Spartan-IIs really are not much for awards and medals, and the only ones Linda prizes are the ones she's earned in target shooting competitions. (There's also a short comic series about Linda on a mission alone, but I haven't read it yet.)

"Okay, but what happened to Sam, isn't he dead or something?" you may ask. Yes, yes is the answer. While there were Spartan deaths in augmentation, Sam was the first one to die in the field.

Right after the young Spartans were first issued MJOLNIR, they were sent to take out a small Covenant ship. John, Kelly, and Sam made it on board and were working on blowing the thing up.

They succeeded, but something went wrong.

Welcome to one of the foundational traumatic experiences of John's life.

The Spartans were 14 when this happened.

Over the intervening years, Fred ended up taking Sam's old right-hand job.

The next emotionally significant material we get for Blue Team is, naturally, during the fall of Reach. All of the Spartan-IIs that are able to return to Reach are on deck for it. Most of them need to go into the ground fighting, but there's a ship parked in orbit with an unsecured navigation database that needs to be scrubbed and the Spartans also need to deal with that. John takes Linda and a third Spartan (James-005, who is mostly notable for having lost an arm at some point) and designates the three of them as Blue Team for the space op, because it's more dangerous. Fred takes the rest of the Spartans (Red Team) groundside.

All of them would rather go to space though.

(These bits from Fred are from First Strike, where it flashes back to the start of this mess so we can follow Red Team through it.)

Also, here's a good bit with Fred's nerves getting to him and Kelly being supportive. Important To Me.

Insertion gets befuckened and the groundside team ends up having to free fall a long way in just their armor, just about everyone is injured and four die straight up on impact.

Shit goes bad in space, too: James is knocked off into open space and cannot be recovered, and Linda is killed. Literally, Linda is killed. She's clinically dead. John manages to shove her in cryo fast enough there's a slim chance for her if she can get immediate medical help on thaw, but the odds for that are long.

Linda is, extremely technically, there in the first Halo. She's just unseen in a cryo pod for the whole thing. The novel that bridges Halo 1 and Halo 2, First Strike, has John manage to find and recover her cryo pod in an incredible stroke of luck at the very start. John has a lot of Big Emotions about the other Spartan-IIs in First Strike because he has every reason to believe he might be the only one left alive.

First Strike is great because there's a lot of John worrying about his team, desperately wanting a chance to get back to Reach and find out what happened to them, and his relief when they do manage to find some surviving Spartans that got out of that mess alive is great. (And, because they recovered Halsey too, they have a doctor in the house who can stabilize Linda.)

This quiet little moment of the Spartans together is actually one of my favorites in all of Halo. John loves them so much but is also isolated from them, and it just makes my heart hurt. (Also this scene touches on the "does John sacrifice Johnson by letting ONI know that Johnson was rejected by the Flood" subplot which is another important John thing in First Strike, but that's not what this post is about.)

(Also in relation to my complaining about how Troy Denning makes Fred a funnyman: hey, look, the Spartans do bullshit around with each other a little! They're very close! It's just... not the way Troy Denning does it at all.)

John is separated from his team again back on Earth because, you know, the attack on Earth is maximum chaos time and they end up fighting elsewhere. Also, Halsey stole Kelly and fucked off in the direction of Onyx with her, but that's a whole chunk of a whole book.

By the time the battle at the Ark happens, every other Spartan we see in these bits except for John, Fred, Kelly, and Linda is dead. (They're not the only Spartan-IIs left, I forget how many canonical surviving Spartan-IIs we have at that point, but the number is still tiny.)

I was glad to see Blue Team in Halo 5, but also it didn't really do anything to establish who these characters are for the audience besides including some brief dossiers on the Halo Waypoint website.

So, that's Blue Team. I care about them. ;;

[halopedia]

A formative member of Blue Team, Samuel-034 was the first Spartan-II to fall in combat. His sacrifice allowed the Spartans' first encounter with the Covenant to be a victory. He lives on in the minds of his comrades, especially John-117.

Samuel-034

Petty Officer, Second Class Samuel-034, often simply called Sam by his friends, was a Spartan-II supersoldier of the UNSC Navy's Special Wea

[ladyreclaimer]

Halo Characters as the 16 MBTI Personality Types

I’ve always wanted to see a Halo/MBTI breakdown but never seen one...so i put this together over the past few weeks, examining, books etc. I plan to do more Halo/MBTI content over the next few weeks, to provide a niche type of content that I see as something unique I could offer the Halo Community. This was my breakdown below, admittedly I had some difficulty, for instance, I don’t know KURT as well as I should, Fred seems more INFP in some books and more outgoing in others, Cortana starts off very ENTP but in her more emotional moments I could make an argument for ESFJ...Also, I couldn’t type Locke...help?!?! In short, this isn’t perfect and if you have criticisms or suggestions for change I’d love to see them. Otherwise this is the chart I’ll be operating under.

So here they are, and the descriptions are from the mini summary from the 16personalities website.

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INTJ- The Architect- Dr. Catherine Halsey

Imaginative and strategic thinkers with a plan for everything

INTP- The Logician- Dr. Glassman

Innovative inventors with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge..

ENTJ- The Commander- Kelly- 087

Bold, imaginative and strong willed leaders, always finding a way- or making one.

ENTP- The Debater- Cortana

Smart and curious thinkers who cannot resist an intellectual challenge

INFJ- The Advocate - Kurt - 051

Quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists

INFP- The Mediator- Fred-104

Poetic, kind and altruistic people, always eager to help a good cause.

ENFJ- The Protagonist - Thomas Lasky

Charismatic and inspiring leaders, able to mesmerize their listeners

ENFP- The Campaigner- Sgt. Buck

Enthusiastic, creative and sociable free spirits, who can always find a reason to smile

ISTJ- The Logistician- Thel Vadam

Practical and fact minded individuals, whose reliability cannot be doubted.

ISFJ- The Defender- Roland

Very dedicated and warm protectors, always ready to defend their loved ones

ESTJ- The Executive-Sarah Palmer

Excellent administrators, unsurpassed at managing things- or people

ESFJ- The Consul- Sam -034/Miranda Keyes

Extraordinarily caring, social and popular people, always eager to help.

ISTP- The Virtuoso- John -117

Bold and practical experimenters, masters of all kinds of tools

ISFP- The Adventurer- Linda-058

Flexible and charming artists, always ready to explore and experience something new

ESTP- The Entrepreneur - Veta Lopis

Smart, energetic and very perceptive people, who truly enjoy living on the edge.

ESFP- The Entertainer- Sgt. Avery Johnson

Spontaneous, energetic and enthusiastic people - life is never boring around them

[eternally-second-one]

Samuel-034 Headcanon

Sam-034 falls in love with Kelly but scares tell her about that. John-117 decides to help his best friend and arranges a Spartan date with knives instead roses and a running in forest as walking in the park.

There may be a funny situation, if Kelly thinks she'll come with John.

Or Sam won't say anything and will only stay and blush.

What will happen when Chief Mendez run into them? I don't know (but I want).

Please, don't tell me it's impossible.

[corey-067]

"I swear it won't happen again" for Corey and any of his Spartan siblings. (This one sounds like a mischief prompt to me :P )

The Spartans were scrubbed clean, at attention, parade-ready, despite the fact that they weren't attending one. Evidence had been erased, to ensure that nothing they'd done was left behind. 

Corey-067 had become adept at creating traps, sneaking into places that he wasn't supposed to be. Between himself and Linda, they'd hacked through the electronics of the Tango company barracks security system, allowing their compatriots inside. This wasn't revenge, they told themselves, but the Spartans wouldn't leave the situation alone, a situation that'd seen James - one of their brothers - in medbay for a week. 

Sneaking into the barracks, the group of them attached tripwires to paint powder canisters, ensuring that they were hidden among the neatly stowed possessions of the company. The Spartans were aware that Tango had an inspection the next day, and they intended to take full advantage of that situation to cause some chaos. Once the wires were connected, Corey and Linda bypassed the fire sprinkler system controls, putting the system into maintenance mode, with a delayed test set for 05:35 local, around five minutes after the marines would've been getting out of bed. 

Programming the computer to self-erase the data, they slipped back out, ensuring that all traces of their presence were scrubbed, no prints or DNA were on the containers as far as they knew, and the requisition order was authorized by Tango Company's CO, according to the paperwork. 

A roar of collective anger exploded from their barracks as the marines tripped the powder cans. Still, even that didn't compare to the sprinklers setting off barely two minutes later, just long enough for the paint to thicken, and slowly ooze across the previously polished surface. Whatever their pre-inspection plans had been, they were certainly null and void now.

There was a note of something approaching pride in Mendez's voice as he berated the Spartans before him. He had to maintain decorum, maintain authority over the teenagers before him, but he was proud. 

"Tango is fuming, and they'll likely take it out of your hides in the next exercise!" He roared, seeing the smirks die on several of the Spartans' faces.

"They'll try... Sir." Mendez's glare was enough to suppress the wave of sniggers that Sam's words elicited. 

"Which one of you is responsible for this?" He knew that the Spartans wouldn't rat one another out, but he was hardly surprised when Corey stepped forward. 

"Accidents happen, sir. Those paint canisters must've just slipped." He stood smartly to attention as Mendez glared down at him, his words echoing Tango Company's excuses over the injuries to one of their brethren, having caught him alone with no witnesses. 

"You baited them for revenge?" Corey's blue eyes met the Chief's as his gaze hardened. 

"No, sir. If this had been revenge..." He tailed off. "Well, you know better than anyone what we're capable of; you taught us most of it. A revenge attack would leave a number of them on one-way trips to the hospital, sir. You taught us to be better than that, so we ruined their day, rather than actually harming them." 

"Tango knows you did it, Spartan, and they told the General as much. I've had him bawling me out for the last three hours, before he commended the special forces level of evidence you left that could prove it was you."

"You taught us well, Chief," Jorge spoke from the rear line. 

"What am I, a bread roll?" Mendez shook his head. "Back to work, all of you!" 

[jate-kara]

if I say Sam-034 is alive, then Sam-034 is alive