I'm drunk as fuck, crying actual tears over fictional characters again.
Thinking about what Halo 5 could (and should) have been, specifically that scene from the trailer.
Sam's dog tag chain looped through Cortana's chip, the bookends of the greatest Spartan's career. Less than an ounce of aluminum and silicon, but the weight of John's entire life and the lives of the people he cared most about.
Something about smart AI in the Halo universe always gets me sentimental, everything about them just seems... tragic, I guess. Cortana especially, cause out of all of them, she's the only one who ever got to say a real goodbye.
Was doing research for a fic and I found out that Sam was originally from Harvest...
For those of you that don't know, Samuel-034 was the first Spartan casualty in the Human-Covenant war and Harvest was the first human colony planet to make contact with the Covenant, and also the first to be glassed.
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.
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.
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
Characters: John-117 | Master Chief, Samuel-034, Original Characters, Franklin Mendez
Additional Tags: Book 1: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Military Science Fiction, SPARTAN-II, Doomed Relationship, Sneaking Out, Fluff, Light Angst, Hanging Out, The Author Regrets Everything, I'm so sorry, Childhood Friends, Found Family, Spartans Have Feelings (Halo), John-117 | Master Chief is Bad at Feelings, Protective Samuel-034, Teenagers, Post-Spartan Augmentations, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Underage Drinking, References to Depression, First Kiss, No beta we die like Cal-141
Summary: Samuel-034 and John-117 aren't thinking about medbays, augmentations, or empty beds in the barracks- They're just running through a city and stealing a night that isn't theirs. Just one. Just this once.
Sam was born on Harvest and identified by Dr. Catherine Halsey as an ideal candidate for the SPARTAN-II program. Like the other candidates, he was kidnapped and brought to Reach for training and augmentation. Early in his training, he was paired up with John-117 and Kelly-087. They failed their first training exercise due to John running ahead of them and leaving them behind. They learned a lesson in teamwork and Sam asked to be friends, becoming the formative iteration of Blue Team. After augmentation, Sam emerged as the tallest and strongest of the SPARTAN-IIs.
On Eridanus Secundus, Blue Team grew, this time with the addition of Fred-104 and Linda-058. It was their first mission together and a success, but things would quickly change.
After the Covenant attack on Harvest--Sam's homeworld--the UNSC changed the priority of the SPARTAN program from Insurrectionists to the alien threat. The Spartans were debriefed and sent to retrieve their MJOLNIR armor on the Commonwealth immediately. However, the frigate was attacked by the Covenant, and Blue Team responded after donning their armor. Their plan was to plant Anvil missiles in the ship's engine room and detonate them, destroying the ship and its passengers.
There, they encountered their first Covenant combatants ever-- Kig-Yar soliders. A Kig-Yar fired a plasma bolt into Sam's armor as he attempted to protect John, breaching his vacuum suit. Realizing that Sam would not be able to retreat into space with the rupture in his suit, John ordered him to stay and defend the engine room. He remained, killing many Kig-Yar single-handedly before the ship exploded.
Sam's death devastated his team and the rest of the SPARTAN-IIs, marking the first death since augmentations. For Kelly, his death was a sobering reminder that the Spartans, while the best the UNSC had to offer, were not invincible. For John, it served as proof that the Covenant could be killed, although he blames himself for Sam's demise.
Years later, Blue Team still carries Sam's memory with them, and John would go on to use his name and number as the passwords to the Weapon's deletion routine, demonstrating that over three decades later, John's first friend is still fresh on his mind.
WHOOOLLLLEEE bunch of stuff from today’s con run as Battered Samuel-034. (Wasnt supposed to be wearing the hat so much but I kept forgetting to take it off and really it doesnt look that bad on).
Probably my best Halo cosplay so far...though, no surprise, no one got who I was. Though the Chief up above did when I mentioned it...
Featuring Srg. Stacker, various SG team members, a gamer, a PUBG player, Issac Clarke, the guy from Elysium, Rainbow Agents Ash, Pulse, and Mute, John-117, Oscar Pines, Wrench, Lord Shaxx, Rainbow Agent Thermite and another PUBG player.
