After watching the prologue in Halo 4, one can understand that Cortana helped Chief keep his sanity throughout their time together. Well, that’s what I got from it any way.
With that said, Cortana is gone. Many say Chief will have to learn to move on. But I say that that won’t happen.
I predict that as time moves forward, Chief’s mind will grow increasingly unstable as a result of Cortana’s absence. His reasoning and judgement could begin to be challenged. We know that he can disobey direct orders from a superior in his right mind. There is no telling what he could do if his sanity begins to slip.
Could he become a fugitive of the UNSC while trying to save humanity? There are so many possibilities when given this prediction.
Does anybody else feel the same way? Could this be good for the story of future games or books?
He survived 20-30 years of service without Cortana without going nuts before.
> He survived 20-30 years of service without Cortana without going nuts before.
Yes but didn’t he have his friends? Blue team?
> > He survived 20-30 years of service without Cortana without going nuts before.
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> Yes but didn’t he have his friends? Blue team?
John-117 felt no remorse for personally slaughtering hundreds of thousands and to him it was justified for the billions of humans that were slaughtered.
IT POSSIBLE and i am not saying its true but perhaps with all that he has been through with the flood and forerunners intervening on his behalf alone, he must feel like a pawn and maybe insignificant to the grand scheme he does not yet comprehend (precursors and all). IDK just a thought…
I think if they reunite him with the other spartan II’s that survived the Human-Covenant war he will heal(a little) from the loss of cortana over time but still miss her tough . But if they don’t reunite him with them… Well … Lets just say that he’ll be a emotional bomb that could explowd at any time . But knowing how he is he will not show his loss when he is needed on the field. But if in the future a spartan like Kelly would die before his eyes at he hands of the covenant when he’s the leader of the team , I think he would never forgive himself or the covenant and just go beserk on the covenant.
While not directly tied to Cortana, though possibly triggered by her, is the possibility of wanting to be his own man. I’m speaking of the “who is really a machine” bit.
His life was destroyed to become a tool for the UNSC to fight its Innies, then the covenant, and now it turns out he’s some pawn in some bigger cosmic chess game.
I can see something breaking there, especially with 343’s goal of making him more human. I don’t think its triggered by lack of cortana.
Also, blue team is still alive, as much as I wish they’d die off so fans would stop begging for them to be in the games. I don’t see why they’d keep him seperated from his squad now.
Cortana’s death will have an impact on him in future stories, but it won’t drive him insane. If anything will, it will be the effects of Librarian unlocking his genetic potential and presumably all of the ancient humans hidden within him.
Losing all of his friends doesn’t help of course, but it won’t be the primary reason.
As others have said, he survived over 20 years of combat, watching men die and civilians slaughtered, the loss of his best friend Sam and then the slaughter of the majority of his Spartan brothers and sisters on Reach and he was just fine without Cortana. The loss of a machine he’d known for a few months won’t have THAT much of an effect on him.
I reckon he just saw her as a replacement mother-figure for his replacement mother-figure, Halsey; as Cortana’s personality was similar to Halsey’s because of the nature of her creation.
I just wonder how john will do alone completely alone no AI no spartan team. I say this because in the Flood he was kinda freaked out when Cortana wasn’t with him and he was alone.
But he has never really looked into himself, and judged whether or not he is human, or simple military hardware.
Methinks that when Chief begins to look at himself internally, I don’t think he’s going to like what he discovers.
> I just wonder how john will do alone completely alone no AI no spartan team. I say this because in the Flood he was kinda freaked out when Cortana wasn’t with him and he was alone.
As much as I hate it, Blue Team is still around, Chief is not necessarily alone.
He also has his Robin…I mean Lasky.
I think for a single or a few levels, the Chief should work with other badass Spartan-II’s like Fred, Linda, or Kelly. Kind of like how the G.I. Joe: Retaliation movie focuses and puts the “badass characters” together into one team.
Chief has lost Cortana, we’ve already seen Noble Team and Buck’s ODST squad, why not? It would be a perfect opportunity for 343 to introduce such awesome characters to the Halo games to newbies and players who have little knowledge of the Halo lore.
343 has stated that the next Halo titles will be “darker”. Presumably Chief will be up against stronger enemies, and against stronger enemies, he should be stronger himself and have stronger allies.
Halo 4 and the books have me feeling like Cortana keep Chief human. So to lose her seems like he’ll be even more mechanical than before?
I think the path 343i will take is John becoming more human through Halo 5 & 6 but to me it seems like Cortana was the more humane one.
Well, he still has (don’t quote me on this) Linda, Fred, and Will, right? Maybe Kelly (I’ve read Fall of Reach and First Strike, and I’m pretty sure Halsey ‘stole’ Kelly to go to Onyx) as well. Plus, he’s the strongest Spartan mentally. He’ll survive.
Um guys…how do we know Chief wasn’t broken and nuts before? Considering everything he has been through, it sure isn’t unlikely for him to be slowly descending into madness.
It’s important to remember that each and every Spartan had the potential to be agents of change and power on a global scale. With that trait comes the ability to stare into the abyss without allowing it to stare back into you.
> It’s important to remember that each and every Spartan had the potential to be agents of change and power on a global scale. With that trait comes the ability to stare into the abyss without allowing it to stare back into you.
That is a load of -Yoink-.
How so? It states they were picked not only for their physical prowess, but also their mental stability and intelligence. On top of that, Chief is one of the more intelligent and stable Spartans. Keeping all of this in mind, it seems highly unlikely that Chief will “go insane” or anything to that degree. Will he experience emotional turmoil? Most likely as emotions are generally unavoidable by your average human, but this won’t cause him to go insane.
> How so? It states they were picked not only for their physical prowess, but also their mental stability and intelligence. On top of that, Chief is one of the more intelligent and stable Spartans. Keeping all of this in mind, it seems highly unlikely that Chief will “go insane” or anything to that degree. Will he experience emotional turmoil? Most likely as emotions are generally unavoidable by your average human, but this won’t cause him to go insane.
Well considering his was downright terrified of the Flood and has over 20 years of watching his species slip into near-extinction and then witnesses the death of a being who he grew close too, I’m willing to say that his sanity isn’t very stable now. There is probably a reason he didn’t join the Infinity when it went back to Requiem.
I understand why you feel his sanity is not intact, but I’m not entirely sure that there is enough information to be anywhere near certain (though the same could be said for my perspective). Also, I’m sure there is a reason he wasn’t on the Infinity, but as it stands now we have absolutely -no- idea why that is. In the end, the only reason I feel I am correct is because the Spartans were said to have some of the best and most stable minds the galaxy. I just feel your interpretation leaves a bit more to be desire because you aren’t holding him to the standard of “super-human” but rather an average Joe. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
One last thing, having a fear doesn’t necessarily correlate to insanity or lack of stability. A lot of intelligent and “normal” people have a fear or two.