#jacob keyes

it’s very funny to me that John and Jacob Keyes meet as a naval lieutenant and 6 year old child on the playground and end their relationship with John’s fist crawling through his brain matter

Reading the Halo novels has had a very unplanned effect on me in that now I really care about what happened to Captain Keyes. Don't get me wrong, what happened to him is horrific no matter how you spin it, even by Flood standards, but... getting snapshots of him throughout his life, getting to know him, seeing him develop as a person and grow into the leader we see in Combat Evolved. Knowing what he meant to Catherine Halsey, to his daughter Miranda, to his crew on the Iroquois. It makes you care about him, and then he suffers one of if not the worst fates in all of fiction, and there's nothing you can do to stop it because this is how it's always ended for him. Every piece of media that's brought back Jacob Keyes has only served to twist the knife a little deeper because he mattered so much to so many people and that list includes me.