#rvbocweek2025

Grif: Brick's the cook of Red Team so it'd make sense Grif would like him, especially cause he makes extra servings just for him. Sometimes as favors, most times just cause Brick thinks it's part of the job

Sarge: Sarge likes someone who follows orders, and Brick does so without any questioning (most times), even when it comes running into battle as a test of how dangerous it might be for him. He does as told, which makes him easy to like for Sarge.

Simmons: (Going after Sarge for context purposes) He's annoying, insufferable even! The only good thing is that taking orders extends to even Simmons too, which means he's not the only one cleaning around the base. But it doesn't make any of it better!

Donut: Roommates, they arrived on the same day and are kinda one-sided best friends (on Brick's part, Donut thinks of him as just a friend). Doesn't stop them from making mostly one-sided hangouts.

Lopez: (Text; The only other multilingual here and he can't even speak Spanish. Whats the point?) Least sufferable human on the team on account of barely talking unless spoken to. It's funny seeing other's react to his dirty looks, but that's about it.

Ari was born around 46-47 years before Blood Gulch and she was with Project Freelancer for around three years until it fell apart - originally he died in the MOI crash, but since Temple later on apparently 'imprisoned' her in the living armor room (and then THAT got retconned last year), I've kept his alive status more vague, Schödinger's cat style lol. (Timeline taken from the rvb guide book)

Anyway, small facts about him I guess; she was made Major/Battalion XO in her early thirties, she has a sister and 3 nieces/nephews that he sees once in a while, he's an inconsistent smoker, and she has a more southern(? if that's what it'd be called, I'm not American and it's not really like that Texan type so...) accent that she hides for several reasons. Also one of the few poor souls who finds Wyoming's knock knock jokes funny even if he pretends otherwise ...

Originally she was a LCDR but idk if PFL has navicom freelancers + tbh I based that position off of Mass Effect lol, so now he's an eq rank of O-4 but in the Marine Corps which I think PFL falls mostly under? Idk man. I think the background storyline still works tho so it's fine

In Project Freelancer, as one of the older and more experienced agents, he was often working as a team leader or a strategist of sorts which also aligns with her previous position - though now he's actually much more involved in the ops which she likes. His skillset is somewhat crowd control-esque (which includes tracking obv), combined with eliminating targets. (I have like a "guide" on how she should be played if he was in a hero shooter/moba/whatever but this is waaay too long already, you get the concept)

The armor design (halo5 ver) is largery taken from the Freelancer presumed to be Arizona in Battlescars - a Tracer helmet with an Achilles armor. Since rvb doesn't exactly follow Halo lore, I'm imagining this to mean it's largely "functions" as a Tracer armor, i.e. tactical and tracking focused, though maybe she was considered for Omega before Tex got him (since Achilles apparently comes with an aggressive AI in Halo lore but PFL only had Alpha + the fragments and Ari never received an AI). As a Major/XO, she wore the Halo Reach Commando helmet