#OC: Kurt “Boot” Samson

[demon-of-side-quest-hell]

One of my halo OCs, Boot has an RVB AU version and it's so interesting to me that by accident I made him so mentally unwell in Halo that he's the perfect little guard dog but in RVB since he was able to actually get passed his issues he's just kinda a competent but not exceptional soldier while being generally dislikable.

Boot's big trauma is losing his twin brother in a Covenant attack. He had to grapple with seeing someone just like him die right in front of his eyes, and there was nothing he could do.

In halo after this he was scooped into the Spartan-III Program, and Spartans aren't meant to worry about their mortality so he's been pushing it down for over a decade, but it's why he's reconnaissance and scouting, he uses drones and ai to constantly be everywhere and know everything, because he can't bare to let anyone go down again. He refuses to lead or make plans because he fears what'd happen if he screws up, he just needs to be the perfect soldier because it'll mean that one day he won't have to fight for those he loves.

In rvb he got over that shit, he realized "Shit man, any of us can fuck up, even myself" and he decided "I'm gonna become the best me there is." So he did, he just got real good at doing everything by himself. He can't handle teams, he doesn't do orders, plans are "whatever I think will work". His AI is just meant to do the background parts of his plans, cover for things like hacking that he can't do but otherwise it stays silent and it stays outta the way. He'd make a great Mercenary if he didn't hold his allegiances close to the UNSC, and at the end of the day his loyalty and admiration is what keeps him in, he barely passed into ODST training because they knew it'd take an act of God or death for him to not work for the UNSC.