#owen-b096

[aqg-arts]

Words themselves do not describe how upset I am that there aren't a lot of Spartan Owen B096 appreciation posts.

You're gonna leave it up to me, 343, to ensure our boy isn't forgotten? Me? Me, the one who has made a cult for a minor Spartan IV (#GriffinisGod #retcongriffin)? You ask too little of me, fools!

Well, guess what?

When I'm done doing all of my 420 WIPs, ima startinish my one for Owen.

SMT, 343

[bloodgulchblog]

Different anon. I really want Owen to have a reunion/encounter with Tom & Lucy. I imagine neither party knows the other is still alive.

I think that as of 2553 the surviving members of Beta company probably have some idea of who all is still alive. (You know. Before the Created thing blows up and all bets are off for everybody again.)

Owen was one of the two ambassador Spartans used for Outpost Discovery, so right then it at least would've been easy to know he was alive.

But back when things were still chaotic, oh absolutely. Because the survival of any other Beta company Spartans (because they got held back to use for other things) was a retcon, I kinda wonder if Tom and Lucy even knew that because it's not like they knew where literally every single person was in that mess anyway. It would've been really emotional when they met up again.

I don't think we know exactly how many Betas are still alive, but with these guys it's at least three?

Kinda haunts me a little that we never found out about what happened to Owen's team after he got separated from them. It never tells us they're dead, but also... Owen was where he was in Brume-sur-Mer because the dropship blew.

[coyotescribbles]

"We were friends, once."

"...I know."

"Jeanette-"

She was peripherally aware that he was reaching out to her, and she jerked away as if his hand were hot embers, baring her teeth in warning.

"Don't, Owen."

She was almost surprised when he withdrew, holding up his hands in a gesture of surrender as he stepped away.

A chaotic tangle of emotions churned in her chest and tangled around her throat; relief that he was alive, disbelief at the same, anger at what he'd become, and the bitter raging at why, why him, why was he here when her own team had long ago vanished into the echoing nothingness and would never come to her again...

"...it doesn't have to be like this," he said quietly after a long moment, "you're still a Spartan, Jeanette, you can still-"

She rounded on him at that, pale eyes flashing like ice in the winter sun.

"I am not!" She snarled through clenched teeth. "I am not, and I never will be! You may be happy to come when ONI calls and heel like an obedient little war dog, but I would slit my own throat before submitting to them again!"

Owen, to his credit, took another step back, a look of shock briefly crossing his face before he forced it back. But the tension in his jaw, the creasing of his brow...

He was confused by her outburst, and hurt, and even his stoic mask couldn't hide it.

His friend, his sister, had done the unthinkable in his eyes. Had turned her back on everything he'd been brought up to view as sacrosanct and now couldn't even be persuaded to return.

It was tempting to press the matter, to force him to continue retreating while she still had him on the back foot. But she knew that that would draw too much attention, and that would translate to a scene that the militia would never dare overlook. This was a matter of UNSC trespass, after all...

Drawing in a deep breath, Jeanette clenched her hands into fists and squeezed her eyes shut for a painful moment - then, with a jerk of her head, she stalked past him, shoving her shoulder into his to move him out of the way.

But after a few steps... she paused, and looked back over her shoulder.

"Tell your people to leave this place, Owen. The UNSC is not welcome here. You cause too much trouble."

"You know I can't do that."

"Oh, no? Then I would suggest finding a way to convince your ONI masters." She spat the words out like poison, but then her voice softened ever so slightly. "Either you leave before the militia gets wind of your presence, or someone is going to die. It could be you, or someone with you, or it could be these men and women who are only defending their home. I want neither outcome on my conscience, and you should not want this, either."

"What happened to you, Jeanette? I know you were angry before, but this is - it's different. You're different. You're angry at  - at us. Why?"

"Ask ONI." The sharpness returned to her voice, and she turned away once more. "...Goodbye, Owen."

And, with that, she pulled the hood of her jacket up and walked away, disappearing into the drizzle and the afternoon crowds.

[anaryo]

Got a new Favorite character from Halo, and I've only read about him in Battle Born.

Owen-B096

(searches tags, finds nothing) ;;;w;;;

[gamelpar]

Ah yes

“Spartan Owen And Some Numbers, reporting for duty!”

my favorite Spartan

[hurgablurg]

ya’ll remember that Halo ‘Outpost Discovery” promotional thing? it sounds like it was pretty cool, but I read up on it on the halopedia and like,

there were two walk-around characters, Hazel-A302 and Owen-B096, the brown and blue spartans who interacted with kids and posed for photos and stuff, basically mascots for the installation?

according to the Reach-era costume armour and the lore, apparently they were legitimate Spartan-IIIs. You know, the war-orphan child soldiers who were rapidly trained and sent out on what were basically suicide missions to act as an emergency buffer against larger Covenant invasions?

I’m amazed at that detail because

the UNSC canonically had traumatized veterans interact with families in a pseudo-theme park setting before returning them to active duty at the start of the Created Conflict

Owen actively fought alongside a literal child-soldier militia on Meridian which probably made interacting with non-combatant children weird

Hazel was a Headhunter, one of those high-stakes psychopaths who infiltrate alien bases with no electronics, shields, or support, and is now doing photo ops with people on vacation in like, LA.

If they were Spartan-IVs it wouldn’t be so weird, because that’s just like, the super-boot boy usmc showing up at a job fair today, but these characters were active-duty black-ops super-soldiers, their very existence a guarded secret, status mythical, at the tip of the spear against an existential threat.

Oh and also the AI tour guide at the outpost, Gabriela, was a military-grade Smart AI - brain-copied from a corpse - and was assigned to cataloguing the entirety of recorded human history in the event that the Covenant won the war and humanity was rendered extinct. ONI itself decided that her time would be better spent afterwards giving tours and promoting megabloks; before being isolated and exfiltrated at the Subjugation of Earth along with other HIGHCOM AI and both Admirals Serin-019 Osman and Lord Terrence Hood to keep all present from being compromised by Cortana, with her fate currently up in the air on whether she was allowed by Osman to join Cortana, stayed with the UNSC, or was destroyed.

That’s some heavy in-lore importance given to characters for what’s basically an arcade with some exhibits and walking tours. I kinda love it!

[chadillacboseman]

question: which spartans do you think would have breeding kinks?

I will go to my grave denying the bit that Spartans are infertile, because Halo lore is such a mess.

ANYWHO, HERE'S MY LIST:

1. Jorge (@jodtoad knows what I'm talking about)

2. Fred

3. Jun. This one might be controversial but I said what I said.

4. Robert (025). I have no evidence for this one I just think he's neat.

5. Owen (B096). His family was glassed and he was surviving on bugs when ONI found him. I just think that would breed (lol) a certain type of feelings.

6. Carlo (90302-89202-CH).

AND LASTLY, LET US NOT FORGET, THAT SERGEANT MAJOR AVERY JOHNSON IS TECHNICALLY A SPARTAN 1 AND I KNOW THAT MAN WOULD PUT A BABY IN YOU.

[halopedia]

Pulled out of Spartan-III Beta Company shortly before Operation: TORPEDO, Owen-B096 would go on to serve at the Battle of Meridian, and assist with Outpost Discovery, a post-war initiative to find and educate new recruits.

https://www.halopedia.org/Owen-B096

[rjbailey]

Reposted from @halo (@get_regrann) - In 2548, Spartan-III Owen-B096 was part of a UNSC defensive operation aimed at staving off a Covenant incursion on the colony of Meridian, setting in motion a series of events that would strongly impact the young super-soldier for years to come. #FictionFriday #halo #xbox #343industries - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B29PirxlIF0/?igshid=hoz3qq3gz450

[mbangelofdeath]

Spartan B096 “Owen” & Spartan A302 “Hazel”

A couple of weeks ago, I felt like taking some screenshots of the Spartans that will be featured on Halo: Outpost Discovery. I know I kinda messed up on Hazel, since I found out that she does not have a prosthetic arm but... oh well 🤷‍♂️. I am really excited for Halo’s future and I hope that I will be able to got to the Halo: Outpost Discovery event this summer in Anaheim, California!

[bloodgulchblog]

OP never came back so I guess it just has to be me talking about how my favorite S-III is probably Owen.

Props to 2022 Halo Encyclopedia for mentioning The Nonsense On Meridian and supporting my agenda of making everyone accept the YA novels as canon.

Hello would you like to vibrate about the SIIIs with me

Yes.

What are you feeling today, stranger?

[bloodgulchblog]

Okay here's an important Owen update

[bloodgulchblog]

This moment was good

[bloodgulchblog]

Good news everyone, YA Halo has One Of Those Scenes

Also here's a picture of our boy Owen

[bloodgulchblog]

Okay time for photographic evidence of my claims

(Context: The gang found out that the invasion has been going on for six months instead of the three they were previously told by Owen. Dorian, whose bandmates were killed in the Covenant attack on their home town, took it the hardest.)

I’ve been less on my bullshit than usual but let me assure you that my extremely slow consumption of the second Halo YA novel (20 minutes at a time via audiobook) continues apace.

Book 2 is still kinda weird but it goes hard on the found family vibes and that ONI is actually the most sinister thing in the Halo universe.

[gamelpar]

so it’s a canon fact that Spartans messes up your sleep schedule

goddamnit Owen