#dr Halsey

[helix-enterprises117]

Halo Reloaded: Halsey & Life In The Spartan Program

It's been a minute since I did a simple discussion about things in my AU, so here we go.

Halsey, like in-canon, is a brilliant scientist with a vision for the human-race, but isn't terribly interested in directing said vision; UNLIKE in-canon, Halsey didn't kidnap any of the kids to join her program (and any time I've said 'kidnap,' or any variation thereof, in the any past posts, you can ignore), NOR is the Spartan-Program her idea. The original Orion-Project was created shortly after the start of the Human-Covenant War and fell through not long before the Spartan-II Program/Project Orion-II, which had been around before Halsey's involvement, saw production. Halsey was merely the right woman for the job, and whole idea is ONI's; specifically, Admiral Parangosky's.

Halsey had visited various Outer-Rim planets and discussed with the parents of her future students about the school that they'll be taken to. A real (if VERY clandestine) military-academy that seeks to train these kids into future heroes, NOT SOLDIERS, HEROES, that'll stop The Covenant from destroying humanity; and she eases the parents' minds by telling them that they can see their kids (via video-call, since physical visits are prohibited on the basis that the location of the school is top secret) at anytime they'd like AND their children won't immediately be sent out to war, as training is a long 8-year process (further helped that Halsey, despite being more morally up-right than her canon-self, doesn't feel too good about this herself). John Downes, later designated as John-117, was the only kid she took in that was from Eridanus-II; everyone else came from other planets like Madrigal, Harvest and Jericho. No Flash-Clones or any kidnapping needed!

Basically, it's Ender's Game, that's what this is. These kids weren't taken against their will; it's why all of my Spartans in this AU are so much more well-adjusted than in-canon.

[whotookmytomato]

I'm not working on sick people, I'm working on hurt young people- Dr. Halsey after kidnapping 75 children, brainwashing them, pumping them full of drugs, and stuffing them into soldier suits

[empresskadia]

Alright m’dears, I’ve finished Halo: Fall of Reach and officially started Halo: Silent Strike, so prepare for spoilers.

Spoilers ahead

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First, had no idea Silent Strike was Fred’s point of view, I’m kicking my feet, I’m so excited. I’m only 2 chapters in and Fred’s so precious, he’s just a nervous big little guy that will get the job done. And Kelly, I swear she’s always ready to throw hands, 10/10.

Now, for Fall of Reach, buckle up, it’s a ride.

I won’t lie, it took me a good 4-5 days to read, I had a hard time getting into it. It was good, I loved the development of lore but it wasn’t keeping me on the edge of my seat till the end. Halsey was such an interesting character to read and seeing the way Cortana was later questioning the things her creator did was fascinating. Especially with the Spartan program, like it’s messed up but it did what Halsey said it was going to do. I love the way it explored moral wrong decisions vs the choice that had to be made. Halsey cares for her Spartans but they were made to die for humanity, so does that make her a monster? Or someone with a duty to complete? I can’t remember who said it in the book but they said something among the lines “someone who didn’t care for them, could’ve been in charge of the project instead of you.” I have thoughts about Halsey that go back and forth.

Sam’s death was sad, like I’m still upset about it. I understand why they killed him off but man, come on. The fact that John couldn’t look back or else he would’ve stayed to die with Sam made me close the book and let out a long sigh, I was so sad for them. But also a huge character development for John and Kelly, I never see anyone talking about Kelly’s character development after this. Personally, I feel like this is why Kelly’s always the first to volunteer, why she’s always thinking so fast and reacting before she fully thinks through some of her actions. I will revise this once I finish Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

The Keyes loop was interesting and smart as hell but after that I didn’t really care, I loved Keyes in the game and the beginning of the book, but I found him a little boring later. Like where’s Miranda? What about Halsey and Keyes’ love affair? The drama? The tea? Where is it? Like seriously, they got a kid together and nothing, I thought that was weird.

AND LINDA’S DEAD??? I’m sorry, what? I know she lives but I wasn’t really ready for it, I had to close my book and walk away. I did infact shout and hit my coworker with the book in disbelief when it happened. And poor John thinks he’s the only one left, this man’s going through it. Also hate the way James died, that was awful.

I have more thoughts that I can’t remember and will do a reread later with annotations, so there will be a part two when I finish reading all the books. A year later lol.

Thanks for joining my Ted Talk.

[genersones]

Baby, nothing's gonna stop us tonight

[luna-drinker]

This is literally how Cortana was made and look what she ended up doing

[sullenkat]

Living in shades of lilac

[samjakobo]

THEY USE PRONOUNS!!!!!!!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Btw guys literally EVERY character in Re-animator is transgender, they all told me individually, I wouldn't lie about this‼️‼️

Also, Herbert and Meg are mtf and ftm hostility, this is the kick in the stomach Herb deserved (lovingly)

[joe-spookyy]

finished the reanimator novelization and here are my notes.

stoner dan cain is real and true and he’s in my dream blunt rotation

in the comic his middle name was elston but in this it’s jonathan. what’s the truth…

canonically canadian herbert was shocking but not as shocking as the serum he used on his shitty roommate to turn his semen green forever.

also he’s 24. what a young fellow.

this book was not edited very carefully. not to be a dweeb but i haven’t seen anyone mention the amount of grammatical errors, incorrect references (looking at u larry talbot/tolbot), lack of attention paid to paragraph cuts in the reprint, and literal page by page contradictions on the lore. (claiming hill’s brain/head can feel every sensation that his body feels and then literally on the next page saying that there is no shared sensation)

meg gets a lot more character depth here and i love it i love her meg halsey you will always be famous

and yes she was a horse girl. this is very important to the lore in my opinion.

everyone’s seen the famous “dan cain tells a cop he has AIDS so he can sneak into the hospital scene” but i can tell you all with certainty that it doesn’t make any more sense in context. he could have lied about anything. how and why did he land on that.

they’re a lot clearer about how exactly the reagent works which i thought was neat, although they kept describing it as yellow. that shit is geen

herbert west canonically not Not queer (says nothing when accused of it, looks at floor awkwardly) and everyone in the hospital has clocked him.

way more in depth about how much of a freak dr hill is.

they named all the reanimated corpses which was nice cause even when i’m watching the movie there’s too much going on to recognize any of them so it cleared things up and i finally comprehended for the first time that it was hill’s intestines that strangled herbert and that it was because of the reagent overdose. or whatever. that was probably obvious but i missed it on every one of my watches.

herbert mentions saints and how he wishes gruber could be canonized. this fuels my raised catholic herbert vs raised protestant meg theory and adds to their already powerful beef.

the controversial laid to rest/plagiarist line is in the book sort of. and i’m sorry to say it’s laid to rest. they did swap up some other lines (side note: why did they mess with who’s going to believe a talking head get a job in a sideshow) so this could mean nothing it is just interesting.

this line was crazy.

TLDR: not the greatest piece of literature but pretty fun and adds some cool background information for the characters. would reccomended.

[jensen-frackles]

ok like I know it's right before he whips out Dan's dead ex's heart to sway him in his argument and get him to help him out but the way that Herbert softly says "Daniel... what was it about Meg that you loved?" is just so AAAHHHHHH

[babybluebanshee]

A lot of the tension between Herbert and Meg probably could have been avoided by them bonding over their mutual hatred of Dr. Hill. Herbert mutters something about Hill being a filthy plagiarist and hack when Meg is in earshot and her ears perk up like a bloodhound and she’s like “omg right he’s fucking awful”. Dan comes home to Meg telling Herbert about that time she caught Hill sniffing her hair over sodas and snacks. Rufus is asleep in Herbert’s lap. Meg forgets that she came over to see Dan and he ends up being the third wheel on his own date night because Meg finds out Herbert has never seen Terms of Endearment and oh my god he has to watch, it’s the best romance of all time and Dan never wants to watch it. Herbert gives him a stern look and merely says “Daniel!” in a mock scolding tone. Dan ends up going to bed halfway through the movie - partially because it’s almost midnight and he’s exhausted and partially because he can’t stand the snappiness of it - figuring Meg will head out after the movie ends. Instead she and Herbert go out and egg Hill’s car.

[heliojip]

time stamps for THAT (sa) scene in re-animator for when ur rewatching and want to skip 🕺

1:08:44 (meg is carried in by the dean and u get a gist of what happens next) - 1:12:08 (herbert distracting hill) stay safe everyone 💚

[n8tesoup]

coughs

[nighttimefangz]

HERBERT WEST!!

My favorite gay person

[twinktor-frankenstein]

My head canon for Bride for Reanimator was that Herbert wasn't trying to be symbolic when he gave him Meg's heart, in fact he was doing the exact opposite. At her funeral or something he over heard Dan saying he loved Meg's heart, in reference to her morals, determination, values whatever. And Herbert was like "What the fuck??? Her organs??? I was just gonna give him her boobs or something but I guess this works too."

[mrssylargray]

"What about the other teams on Reach?"

[koshkahhh]

MEGAN HALSEY'S HEART🫀 (prop part 1) (Re-Animator[Herbert West Cosplay])

I've been dying to cosplay Herbert West and therefore, i've decided to do it for this years Halloween! Couldn't find any fake hearts in the shops in my town and didn't feel like buying online, so i made this! It's not exactly anatomically correct and doesn't actually look like the prop used in the movie but i just thought it looked cooler than megs heart LOL. First time working with airdry clay or even making stuff like this but i feel like it turned out quite well! The imperfections will be covered by the plastic bag and tag anyway so yeah!❤️🫀

Prop 2 the little finger friend creature is coming soon...