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I bought a master chief figurine last weekend so I've been taking some pictures woth him, most recently the beach

I will definitely do more stuff like this again :]

Yah ok but.... Halo.

It's energy sword Sunday y'all.

It's energy sword sunday on Valentine's Day!!!

Spartan ll's are just bigger and more dangerous cats change my mind

(also happy energy sword sunday)

Bad halo doodles :)

( Happy energy sword sunday :))

Happy birthday to John halo :)

Blue team shenanigans :)

So @infinityactual said that I gave Linda cake but not John

Your welcome:)

Idk I just think she deserves the galaxy 😳

Finally.

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I remember going FERAL when I discovered that chief could use the energy sword in Halo 2, i was so unreasonably hyped. I like to think John was just as excited

Control Brain, restraining Zim: This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded…

Control Brain, restraining Dib: This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded…

Listen, I would LITERALLY eat my socks for an Arbiter x OC roleplay right about now

Crossover between my 2 top favorite gaming franchises. I got the idea in April, didn't draw it for a bit

This art is one of my favorites. Best Chief and Arbiter I've drawn lmao

One day I might draw Banjo and Kazooie recreating Halo 2's cover art or something

(Shhhh, you don't see the mismatch of a Halo 2 menu background and a Halo 3 Arbiter)

NIИ / Pretty Hate Machine / Canadian re-release. Unusual presence of Nothing logo on item, indicating mint of 1992 or later. No TVT logo / Interscope / Nothing records 1989 / Sleeve design: Gary Talpas / Photography: Jeffrey Silverthorne

NIИ | Pretty Hate Machine (US Pressing) | Halo 2 | Sleeve designed by Gary Talpas

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

LOOK

LOOK AT IT

I FOUND THIS IN AN

ANTIQUE STORE

FOR JUST FIVE DOLLARS

F I V E

D O L L A R S

It wasn’t even in the video game section of the store! It was on a plate and underneath a doohickey! Left there, as though forgotten by the world!

I cannot even begin to express how truly happy it makes me feel to have found this gem of game!

Now I’ll be the first to say that I’ve never fully watched the halo tv show but I know a lot of how it differs from the games and the thing that I think that was important about master chiefs character that the show doesn’t get is that chief is hardly a person. Now please don’t get me wrong, he is a person by all means, but it’s no secret that chief was never meant to be a deep or interesting character originally, he was originally written to be a near-silent blank slate protagonist just for the sole purpose of having someone for the player to project themselves onto, but there’s still a reason he’s so personality-less, he never had the chance to develop one. From age 6 he was raised by the UNSC to be a soldier and nothing else, he had an extremely sheltered and doctored upbringing, he never experienced any typical coming of age problems or experienced art and culture, he only ever knew his purpose was to protect those who could experience those things. the man is fucking EMPTY, he isn’t personable because he almost doesn’t believe he is a person, to himself he’s nothing but a soldier, something separate from a person, and it’s not until halo 4 that he’s introduced to the POSSIBILITY that this mindset is toxic. To me what’s so fascinating about him (and is what I think a good direction for 343 to take his character) is that you take this man who never had a problem in his life that couldn’t be solved by putting a bullet in it, and suddenly give him a problem that isn’t so simple, that challenges who he is and what he should do, and then see what he does, and slowly but surely you see this man recognize that he is in fact human, not just a soldier. You get to see how he deals with regret, grief, and his sense of identity, and hopefully we get to see more of that cause it’s so powerful and I can’t think of any other media to my knowledge that really attempts that kind of unique character arc. Literally halo infinite made me cry because I got to see chief more embrace that he is human, that no matter how unstoppable and perfect he is, he has to recognize the fact that he has problems, and he needs more than just himself to fix them.

and then you got tv master chief who’s an amnesiac who had a former life who goes on to have a SEX SCENE WITH AN ALIEN DIPLOMAT

Edit: also for clarification, chief has sex with a HUMAN woman who works for the covenant, not like he had sex with an elite or some shit lmao

I’ve always loved this too, like how forerunner ais are always named using an adjective synonymous with “regretful” followed by a noun, driving home the theme of the forerunners being a civilization of powerful people overcome by regret of how they’ve led the galaxy astray with their leadership, with probably the best of these names being “mendicant bias”. Not to mention how the names of actual forerunners are pretty much short poems, like “Shadow of sundered star” and “born stellar makes eternal lasting” which reflects them being a very philosophic people (also a very egotistical people, especially at the peak of their civilization but I digress lol)

or like how the covenant is a fascist theocracy, so the names of its ships are always themed around faith, servitude, and the destruction of any and all who challenge them, like “enduring conviction”, “ascendant justice” and “breath of annihilation”.

and then the names of lots of human UNSC ships are named with the theme of strength, determination, and perseverance in mind, like “forward unto dawn”, “in amber clad”, and “spirit of fire”. This was probably done to drive home the hopeful theme of humanity having an unshakable spirit in the face of almost certain annihilation, and it’s a fitting contrast to how the names of covenant ships frame themselves AS the annihilation that humanity is persevering against.

I could go on and on but YES, the names of halo are very well written and decided upon, and they live in my mind rent free (especially when It comes to naming things myself lol)

all the names in halo are so good. from the ships to the planets to the characters… naming sci fi stuff is the worst but the halo writers really knocked it out of the park. everything feels distinct to the unique cultures. every once in a while i think about how most people’s idea of the halo franchise is just ‘green guy shoots aliens in vidya game’ and i want to make that ‘they don’t know about (x)’ meme but with ‘they don’t know about the rich world-building of the halo universe’.