#ask a spartan

[maxbeta360]

How do you deal with people calling you fake

I draw them pregnant

[theosphobia]

Does ur boose have any othr body mods besides piercings like tattoos or scars n stuff ? :3

i usually avoid tattoos even though i think theyre awesome (i just hate detailing)

He has a lot of scars 2 me !!! mostly from bgc shit and misc events .

and since im a spartan!caboose believer, a vivisection scar for augmentations and a TON of stretch marks from accelerated growth

i dont mess w extreme body mods much unfortunately, but if i did i dont think id apply them to caboose specifically, simmons and tucker maybe tho

[empresskadia]

I feel like Spartans would also be attracted to someone who can give them competition. Like, if Kelly had her fastest time at the Infinity's track tied by a medic in full kit, or Linda having her high score at the firing range beaten by another sharpshooter with unorthodox firing positions.

Oh, 100% and no one can convince me otherwise. Like the Spartans love a good challenge and I believe this causes some of them to obsess because they get overly excited, especially since this is out of the norm. Granted for this to work and be true, that someone would have to be at least Spartan-IV or have augmentations.

The words 'oh no,' would come out of Fred's mouth when Linda saw the leaderboard and she had been bumped into second place for the third time that week. First, all of Blue team was surprised but none of them were prepared for how excited Linda got, someone had beaten her? At shooting? Her? For the first time in her life? None of the other Spartan IIs could come close to making the shots she could, but here her name was, right above Fred's and finally, finally below someone else's. Linda has to know who it is, she is grilling Roland for information; she wants this Spartan's mission record, she wants their full profile and I believe this might be where Linda's obsession starts. Linda herself makes shots from unorthodox firing positions and to find another person who does it? She'll be asking Captain Lasky to pull some strings to get onto a mission with this Spartan and their team. And for the first time in the UNSC Infinity's history, the number one spot keeps bouncing between Spartan-058 and Spartan [L/n].

The day Kelly sees her record time tied with someone else, she stands there for a solid minute unmoving. She even goes to grab John or Linda and points asking if she's finally going insane and seeing things. Kelly wants to race. Who is this person and where can she find them? Fred has to hold her back from sprinting around the ship to find who the hell this other Spartan is. The longer this question goes unanswered, the more unraveled she gets, she's always been the fastest, and no one in the Spartan II program could catch her but here someone was with the same speed as her? This has got to be a lie, and she doesn't believe it until she sees a spartan playing rabbit for their team on the field and she immediately knows this bitch person is them. And when she finds out that they're the team's medic, Kelly wants to know more. She'll ambush them in the middle of the hall or in the medical facility, Kelly has question and you will answer them. Honestly, a part of her is excited to run full speed with someone matching her pace.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Tarnished spardian and rusted knight wpuld parent ruby through her issues

Pyrrha: Ruby, What's wrong?

Ruby: What isn't! Atlas fell, Salem has two relics-

Pyrrha: No. What's wrong with you. Personally.

Ruby: I don't have to tell you anything.

Pyrrha: You don't. I didn't. So I didn't , not until it was too late. You need help, and I hope you know you can rely on me-

Ruby: How? How can I rely on you? You died! Penny's Dead, EVERYONE is following my lead! EVERYONE is counting on me to not fuck up! AN you know what

Ruby: OZPIN HAS BEEN AT THIS FOR LONGER THAN ANY OF US CAN IMAGINE!

Ruby: *Crying* Hell, my MOM met Salem! She's Gone! My MOM failed, the one everyone compares me to, and she had YEARS of experience over me! How the Hell can I do this!

Pyrrha: *Holding Ruby close* Hey, Hey ... Have you talked to your team about this?

Ruby: How could I? I'm their leader. I - I -

Ruby: I can't.

Jaune: Ruby, yes, you are their leader, but more importantly, you're a part of their team. Their Family. And, we're your family too. You have to be able to count on us. Because if the world's counting on you, then the world's counting on us as well.

Ruby: *Sniffle* Thanks guys ...

Jaune: Hey, thank us when you talk to your team.

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

lame seasonal moment aboard the UNSC's biggest boat

Two for the price of one! Sorry this took a minute, but I'm trying so hard to write again.

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Miller wakes with a start when a cacophony of noises roars from the speaker directly next to his bunk. Tinny sounds of water bubbling and chains rattling jostle him from what little unconscious peace he had found.

"I was working in the lab late one night-"

"Roland!" He groans, defeated and curling up into a smaller target with his pillow over his head. As if that would dissuade his tormentor.

"Happy Halloween, Spartan Miller!" Roland chimes from over the Monster Mash continuing to blast.

"It's 0400!"

"Not on Earth!"

"Roland!"

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The leaves in the Atrium Park are shades of fire as the skylight projects a pale autumn sky. Fall, synthesized or not, is here and Lasky can feel it in his bones.

Not the same as being planet-side and seeing a terraformed Martian autumn paint the landscape of Mare Erythaeum, but the complex systems maintaining the flora of the park did a damn good job mimicking morning dew and crisp fall air.

He breathes deep and exhales, watching the leaves rustle and dance before turning to his running partner.

Sarah's scowl is softer than usual, in part to the tiny gourd he knows is now sitting on her desk, and partly because Luna didn't have seasons. Cmdr. Palmer would never admit it, but Tom knew Sarah enjoyed the traditions that came with the seasons, even if he'd never call her festive.

"It's colder than usual." She observes in the face of changing leaves and Tom's own jacket on top of his PT gear.

"It's fall." He says back, nodding to the trees.

"Better than Requiem's heat."

"I heard that Mjolnir has pretty good climate control, if you wear a helmet." Tom grins as he says it and starts running.

He hears her snort and then heavy footsteps rapidly approaching. It's early and the path is wet with dew and dead leaves. It's his one saving grace as he slows and dives down a side path.

He hears her swear and skid as her momentum carries her past.

Leaves crunch underfoot as he jogs past piles of leaves and startled gardeners. He smiles and nods to them as they look at him in shock as Sarah closes in. He wonders distantly if the Mess Staff has broken out the cider yet.

[zonedallthewayout]

OK NERD TIME YALL I HAD A BRAIN CELL MOMENT

Leo's full first name is Leonidas, as you may know.

As you (maybe) DO NOT know, King Leonidas was the Spartan king who led the 300 in the Battle of Thermopylae. "Why do I care about some dead guy who happens to have the name Leonidas??" you may be wondering. Well, that's because before Thermopylae, King Leonidas consulted the Oracle. The prophecy he was given contained a line Leonidas thought foretold that his death would be a necessary sacrifice in order for Greece to win the war. The way he prepared/selected the 300 even suggests he was fully expecting to die in battle (like Leo did with Festus and telling Hazel & Frank)

Sound familiar? Good! because isn't that exactly how Leo interpreted the "to storm or fire the world must fall" line?????

if Rick did this on purpose that would be such a good detail come on

[dawn-selfships]

Curious! What's the relationship between Eos and Fear & Terror?

She of course loves her new sons (along with daughter Harmonia, my oc) with her whole heart!! :) And Fear and Terror really enjoy having a parental figure in their life who is a 100% polar opposite to their mega strict dad. Yes they're those kids who go and ask Eos instead, if Ares won't give them permission to go to the Orpheus concert LOL

[thecoolerliauditore]

could you elaborate on ur thoughts about jimmy getting that targeted question? i thought it was interesting too bc it was a rule that no one else would get questions about themselves so i think he was the only one who did

honestly nothing that coherent. just furthering my jimmy ecosystem agenda when people introduced to said ecosystem are literally instructed to mock jimmy, reflecting the wider ecosystem as a whole (e.g. that skizz/imp podcast episode with joel where he mentions jimmy is amazing to work with because he's always happy to be the butt of the joke, implying therefore other CCs are not and that Jimmy fills a natural role in the group's dynamics/humour, that creates this "ecosystem" when you start messing around with interpretative stuff)

I haven't really thought about it all that much, partially because once again I am pointing to the "the artimators are a level of fandom meta I refuse to touch" sign but yeah.

[pokemonwearingsportsmerch]

[bloodgulchblog]

Zita, can Spartan-IVs get sick? Like I know it's very unlike for an II or III but since the IVs got their augmentations later, they would still be susceptible to getting the common cold?

Spartan augs lore is weird.

On the one hand there is nothing in the text that described the augmentation to suggest that IIs and IIIs should heal faster than normal. BUT! Halo novels over the last 10 years seem to have decided that they do somehow so that means it's anybody's ball game and the only explanation is continued maintenance/adjustments to their bodies, which falls in line with what S-IVs are supposed to have.

ANYWAY. This was about reliability of the augmentation lists on the wiki (because Halo does whatever it wants and invents things I guess) and not a denial of the possibility of them being sick.

I don't remember any onscreen canon of a Spartan with a cold so we don't have a hard yes or no. I think it's your city and you can do literally whatever you want. If you want to follow the feel of lore about Spartans, it would be fitting to throw in a line about them getting over an illness much faster than typical.

...And if you want me to totally bullshit something I think is interesting (this is free real estate to use or ignore), I'd say IIs and IIIs are more likely to have a normal cold than a IV because the IVs have insane shit like "my digestive system could get nutritional value from eating wood" going on. I think a IV is more likely to be feeling under the weather due to periodic maintenance to their augmentations, because they have sooooo much more invasive cybernetic weird shit going on and they need regular checks and fiddling. (Especially when they're brand new, we have a canonical reference to new IVs having restricted food options and it's probably because of what's been done to their digestive system?)

.........Anyway anyway, go have fun. <3

[lilysafairy]

All I can imagine is the sparta kick

perfect visual omg

[maxbeta360]

youre cool as hell man wtf

Thanks man :] I try to be

[puckpocketed]

saw your tags on the “connor has to experience winter in chicago illinois” post and because i am also an artyom lover just wanted to see if you knew about spartan all-access to pull media from!! the msu socmed team also did a bunch of fun video content with him and i cannot WAIT to see him biking and busing around chicago (now that he’s healthy and doing well!!)

you know, i was so charmed by this anecdote back when the scouting combine interviews were happening and i've wanted to dig through media and find out what his deal was ever since:

everything i see about him says ouh! hes a fun guy :) and it's sooo far down on the list of priorities it's barely a twinkle in my eye but . all that high quality footage is hard to resist......... earmarking all of this! thank you very much for the heads up <3 had a peep (got. um. 6 videos deep before i snapped out of the media crawling trance) and HI arty!!!!

[empresskadia]

Hear me out:

If you're dating a Spartan, they're more than likely used to you as a member of active military, right? They're so used to you being a soldier that they tend to forget that before them, before the war, you were someone else. Like, Linda finding out you were a pianist, or Kelly finding out you were a gardener, or Naomi finding out you were in art school. Something like that.

OKAY I'M HAVING A FANGIRL MOMENT BECAUSE THE CHARACTER I HAVE IN MY HEAD WITH NAOMI IS AN ARTIST AND YOU READ MY MIND AND I'M SCREAMING

anyways-

I'm excited you brought this up and this whole prompt, because the Spartans would be more used to a more active military partner, whether it's being a Marine, ODST, a Spartan-IV, Scientist, Engineer, etc. They used to you fighting in a war, Spartans are antisocial by nature, so they most likely wouldn't hang out with your friends or other teammates, and most other branches of the Military view Spartans in awe, so they most likely never see you in a "normal" environment until way later on.

I'm sure they know you have hobbies, they've heard you talk about them and the Spartans delight in it for you but they've never seen you doing them. Most of the Spartans probably never thought of who their partner was before them.

So they are always pleasantly surprised to find out new things about their S/o, like, Linda would be scouting the ship looking for her partner after a mission, more likely than not, she's never heard someone play the piano before in person, sure, Deja played them music as children but Linda had never seen someone play in-person before, she didn't even know the Infinity had a piano. Imagine her surprise when she enters the empty bar and finds her partner lost in their own world playing a random song that might have significance to them. When you finish the song, she wants to hear it again, scaring you half to death when she silently appears at your side, "What song was that? Will you play it again for me?"

Or, Kelly going for a run around the Infinity's memorial park one early morning, say, maybe after breakfast, she knew you had plans after eating with Blue team. She respects her partner's space, choosing not to pry and going on with her business, of course, Kelly can spot her partner a mile away, it's second nature for her at this point. So when she sees you digging in the ground with flower pots all around, she goes to investigate. Her shadow towers over your hunch-over form and you just give her a smile over your shoulder before going back to business. Kelly observes for a while, remembering a conversation in which her partner said something about growing a garden again. "Is this what you mean by 'green thumb'? I don't think these flowers grow tomatoes."

Or, one night, Naomi finds you, Mal, Vaz, Dev, and Phillips, all slightly intoxicated in the staff room, chatting away about life before entering the military while her partner is tapping away at a datapad with a stylus. She's seen you use it before, assuming you were working on reports or reading in-time information. Naomi is about ready to drag her partner away before you've had too much when you start talking about a boarding school on earth that your parents sent you to before the war started, an art academy. Dev leans over, and gaps at the datapad before ripping it out of your hands to show the table and Naomi has to blink before she registers the sketches. Most of them were of...her? Different angles, her expressions that she often shows to you, some were even in armor and you had gotten all the pieces drawn correctly. There was one of BB, and the whole crew, another one of a previous unit you've served in and the last one was her laughing with stars and hearts drawn around her, the words 'the love of my life." written above her head.

I can even assume that John's heard his partner hum melodies, never a full song but humming to yourself while working on a project or even getting ready for bed. He's never questioned it, it's something you always did, he's aware some of the tunes you hum are from your grandmother. What he didn't expect was to return from a mission and being unable to find his S/o for a while until Roland directed him to the Infinity's bar, saying the Spartan-IVs convinced you to perform. It's your voice he's aware of first before seeing his partner on the small stage, singing away like nothing else mattered around you. John isn't surprised when you notice him right away after giving a bow as the room fills with cheers and 'encores'. You both slip away from the area knowing this wasn't John's crowd to be around. "I didn't know that was a song. Or that you sang."

[madmanwonder]

Type ask (crossover) Hey Jaune, is Pyra jealous that your dating Erza?

“I am in a polygamous relationship with Pyrrha and Erza.” He replied with a smile and blush to his cheeks.

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Tell me something Miller gave up

Do you ever think about media and stories reflecting the anxieties of the cultures that create them? Or how sci-fi sometimes predicts or inspires technology? Do you ever think about Halo and Aliens and Starship Troopers and disaster movies and real life and

I poured my brain out onto a page stream of consciousness style so it's a mess, but a fun, terrifying one I hope

hi

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There's a lot of buzzwords people throw around. People saying one thing but meaning seven different things. The difference between sacrificing and giving up. Victory at any cost, pyrrhic, hollow. A play for time.

Sacrificing something is good and noble and for the greater need of the many. Giving up is cowardly and shameful. These words are black and white, most of the time. Other words like risk, are more complicated. A risk can pay off or it can put everyone in danger. A risk can be a sacrifice or it can be worse than giving up.

Miller's from a generation that doesn't know what it's like to live without war. To live without the threat of surveillance, both foreign and domestic, enemies listening in or sacrificing privacy for the greater good. Some planets get labelled with the words too, once they're glassed. As a kid, Jared thought it was strange to think anyone gave up their planet, their home, or that somehow the planet gave up. It was the bad guys.

The bad guys are scary and if they find you they will kill you. They destroy your homes and your way of life. They might eat you! They speak a different language and have technology that can kill you before you can blink. That's why you need to be careful and a good citizen. The UNSC is doing its best to keep the colonies safe, but if they would just listen then the bad guys wouldn't get them. That's why you can help be a good citizen and fight the bad guys. All you have to do is sign up when you're 16! You can be a marine or a pilot or drive a tank or maybe even meet one of them. The UNSC needs you, but also it is doing great on its own! The war effort requires everyone! But do not panic, panicking is weak and cowardly and helps the bad guys.

The bad guys are unstoppable, but also weak and stupid. They can't stop the UNSC's greatest weapon.

The Master Chief is a hero and he stops the bad guys. There are other Spartans too and they always win. They never give up. They never die.

Miller enlists. He works hard. He's an asset, not a drain. He won't give up.

The war ends. The news around Master Chief quiets. Miller becomes a Spartan IV. There's always still more work to be done. There are different bad guys now. Some of them look like him.

Miller learns that not every alien is a bad guy. There are asylum seekers on multiple worlds, even Earth. Refugee is another word for asylum seeker.

Miller's in an early enough class of IVs to become a mission handler. He works intelligence and planning. He keeps his head down and ears open. He learns more than he wanted. Sacrificing children. Giving up homes? Childhoods? Giving up requires a choice in the matter. He thinks about it. Sacrificing also implies a choice.

IVs have a choice. He was an adult when he signed on. To be a Spartan. He was still under 18 when he joined the UNSC but that's okay. He knows other Spartans who are in the same boat. Other IVs are older. They have even more skin in the game, they've been fighting the bad guys longer.

The bad guys have changed but that's okay because while they're strong they're weaker than Spartans and Spartans never die. Except Miller has lost Spartans. He's seen whole Fireteams wiped out in an instant. He's heard people dying on worlds a million miles from home for no clear reason.

The bad guys are there because the good guys- the UNSC - are there. Spartans are the UNSC's gun they point at the bad guys. Some of the bad guys are humans again. Some of the aliens are good guys. Why is there still a war? Why do they need Spartans for this? Manufactured conflict.

Sacrifice or giving up? Wasted or Spent?