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if suddenly this spartan and the idea of him they have in their heads were to show fear or sadness, what are the civilians supposed to think? not that their opinion of him would change, i'm talking that they would start feeling ten times more afraid of whatever is managing to make john afraid.

the social aspect of halo has always intrigued me, it's not like these spartans are unknown and especially john, i mean he has toys made of him, he's literally their living legend and their savior, documentaries have been made of him. so for the idea they've made of him to start slipping would be... scary to some if not most. to the people he isn't john, he's the master chief, the symbol, the unsc's greatest war weapon.

i'm actually sad he lost his lil ammo pouches and knife in his later designs, it made so much sense and looked so cute !! 😭💔 AHH AND HIS SPARTAN DIAPER LMFAO i love him he's so cute

Sure buddy, but even with everything humans know we sometimes don’t live as long as we wish.

Grace thinking boy it would be great if I make it past 60 considering all that has happened and the stress of another planet.

The main reason he failed to protect 04 was because the Prophet of Stewardship interrupted his defense plans and tried to get in a pissing contest with him.

Sesa 'Refumee and Thel 'Vadamee respected each other before the former was branded a heretic and the latter an Arbiter.

Thel's mentor, Lak 'Vadamee, taught him to be skeptical, and that it was okay to not worry too much about the Prophet's opinions on heresy. So, even though Thel cared about the religion, the person he most looked up to had planted seeds of "It's okay to meaningfully question your faith." in him.

The Prophet of Truth barred Rtas' backup from arriving, which resulted in Rtas failing to keep a Prophet from getting killed. Rtas is then blamed for this, in front of Thel.

He was still generally on the Covenant's side until the Jiralhanae turned on the Sangheili. At that point, his primary focus was to defend his brothers in arms.

So, it's more like "Religious guy has a skeptic for a mentor, then one of his religious leaders acts like a whiny toddler in front of him and ruins his military leader reputation, ruining his opinion on his religious leaders, then a guy he respects starts to seriously question their faith to him, then Satan captures him and goes, "Yo, your religious leaders are morons.", then another religious leader ruins his friend's military leader reputation, thus making him question if his similar experience with Stewardship was really his own fault or not, then the Prophets throw the Sangheili out of all respectable titles in general, then his own side starts shooting at him."

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.