#im gonna find dumb clips to share of my fav vidya game series

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

I’m trying to compare Doomguy’s military career to John’s because it would be hilarious if he outranked him, and also super helpful. Like John is old but also constantly in stasis and that’s fucked up but could be a bonding moment. in Doom 3 he’s a corporal but army and navy are different and john is master chief petty officer and I literally do my best to avoid military shit

John is a dog on a chain and if you were a part of his team he’d die for you and if you were his superior he’d get the job done, unless he thinks it’s wrong (see Halo 4).

Like John has “orders“ but he’s an asshole.

Master Chief gets the job done and saves who he can while also being an adrenaline junkie.

He jumps out of spaceships free-falling with a bomb, he crashes a banshee on purpose and almost plummets to his death for a joke right before blowing up Halo (installation 04), all he has is one-liners and combat training.

He even has to put up with a giant hivemind zombie plant talking like Shakespeare (not really it’s worse but I love the Gravemind, google that fucker) and he jokes about it, in front of its face, to his enemy.

He’s really jokey to Cortana and Johnson and fills his role well but when he loses that structure he loses himself.

And like I’m not big on the extra lore beyond the games (I’m lying a bit but it’s stupid and fun to look at) but Blue Team, other Spartans who are somehow alive despite Reach and everything, are like “bro you good” in Halo 5

and his visor gets cracked, A literal crack in his shell, like he is that armor and he gets betrayed by the one person who’s not even a person, but she’s been the one there every time he wakes up, every battle, every Halo

and oh did I mention he is either on a mission or in cryosleep, because he is a weapon only. No life beyond war. He’s old, man and people don’t care if he’s a war hero. Higher ups are waiting for him to come back so they can put him down like a dog

And like that’s fucked up! I think Cortana doing That in Halo 5 means John needs to move on from being a weapon controlled by an AI mom/girlfriend who is a clone of the brain of the lady who kidnapped and experimented on him and find some peace.

He needs to have structure to replace the routine of battle and i think it’d be neat if he could connect with Gordo and Mr. Doomguy

like the man is freezer-burned scar tissue, he needs to go live on a farm and raise some chickens. he’ll have a bunker and 19 contingency plans but it’ll be a start