Link. I agree 100% with this post. What do you think about this?
Interesting actually. Seen from that angle… A bit hm"shrugs" in some places but interesting.
Its a very interesting read, over analysing or not it makes a degree of sense.
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> Its a very interesting read, over analysing or not it makes a degree of sense.
Yeah, it is telling during reach that Jorge seemed to be the one most capable of reigning him in, kinda like an older brother, so his death definitely affected him, and then before he even has time to really process it he has Kat die right in front of him, so it makes sense that the bravado went away.
Ok when I first saw your post I thought it was one of these how he can have survived post.But no its an post about the physiologally? view on Emile and this is good.Congratulations!
To the post it self it made sense for me.
Corrections and personnal views are welcome
Interesting look into a character that can mean different things to different people
Actually i think this post about Emile makes a lot of sense. Im not sure if Emile felt tremendous fear for his own death, but surely he used jokes and emotional distance to hide his actual feelings. In many of the Halo books John 117 the master chief appears to only fear the death of his teammates, not his own. (Except maybe the flood, I recall something about john feeling something akin to fear in the book when confronted by the flood.) But again I think Emile felt fear for his teammates, or being alone, or fear of showing attachment because that could lead to pain. Emile also showed how growing up with one mind set… finish a job… can emotionally hamper. I love Emile and i love all of noble team, they really had a personality. Except maybe for noble 6 whom had no personality because he was a conduit for the player to become part of the story.
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> Actually i think this post about Emile makes a lot of sense. Im not sure if Emile felt tremendous fear for his own death, but surely he used jokes and emotional distance to hide his actual feelings. In many of the Halo books John 117 the master chief appears to only fear the death of his teammates, not his own. (Except maybe the flood, I recall something about john feeling something akin to fear in the book when confronted by the flood.) But again I think Emile felt fear for his teammates, or being alone, or fear of showing attachment because that could lead to pain. Emile also showed how growing up with one mind set… finish a job… can emotionally hamper. I love Emile and i love all of noble team, they really had a personality. Except maybe for noble 6 whom had no personality because he was a conduit for the player to become part of the story.
You mean this:
“For the first time since parting company with the AI back in the Control Room, he wished that Cortana were with him. First, because she might understand what the hell was going on, but also because he had come to rely on her company, and suddenly felt very much alone.”
Anyway; wherter it is over analyzing or not, I like it very much. I always looked Emile as a Spartan who just running his mouth, try to being badass but he cannot prove anything. I say that because how he killed at the end, of course it was nice to take down the second Elite but still I thought it won’t happen so easy to kill him. But now, thanks for this analysis, I can look Emile from a different point of view, which makes him a better, likeable character. And I can understand if he felt these.
Thanks for the link OP it’s definitely an interesting read and it changed my view on good ol’ Emile…
Over-analysing or not, the author of that article makes a surprising amount of sense.
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> Over-analysing or not, the author of that article makes a surprising amount of sense.
Yeah man, I feel like the connections and character development is there, it’s just that Bungie made Reach too short to flesh them out. There’s a bunch of stuff you start thinking about after multiple playthroughs and see a bunch of potential that never really got capitalized on.
Like how Thom’s death in the Deliver Hope trailer made Kat indifferent to Six, his replacement. They should have explored her hostility to Six a bit more.
Easily one of the better character breakdowns I have seen for halo. While I don’t completely think he was written to be this way, I do think it comessage into its own by the end of the game.
Not sure I like this. Very interesting, but I love Emile so much for his badassery, I’m not sure I could handle him being a wimp. He is like Han Solo to me.
I think it should also be pointed out that on missions against human targets that they said Emile should be subbed for a different Spartan. Now we are meant to see this as “oh he is so crazy he may start scalping humans” something that if done to a jackal wouldn’t get too much backlash. However what if that plays into this; he can’t be used on human targets not because of being overly violent but his fears make him unable to kill humans.
Another note is much of what he does isn’t exceptionally badass or daring, after all he goes to shoot the mac gun as you cover him. Even the start with the “Sharpening” the knife on his armor would likely just damage the knife or have no effect (cause of whatever future alloy knives are made of), making it a pointless action unless he just wants to seem tough for the new guy. He also hides his real face/scared eyes behind his skull mask where the other members of noble all take off helmets throughout the game (not counting the player who is meant to be you rather than a set face). Even his combination of weapons are all about loud and showy rather than being exceptionally skilled armaments; shotgun and a grenade launcher.
Sounds like 343i has alot of work to do for Reach’s anniversary
Another note, emile never saw his company whiped out, c
Spartan III Alpha Company.
This is so spot on!! I always knew that there was more to him.
way too far-fetched for my taste. making a theory on such little evidence is almost unjust . There isn’t always more to everything, he’s just supposed to be the daredevil
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> Not sure I like this. Very interesting, but I love Emile so much for his badassery, I’m not sure I could handle him being a wimp. He is like Han Solo to me.
He’s not a whimp, he is insecure. Most people that appear “badass” are doing it to hide their feelings. Most comedians are actually the most depressed people. Just because you fear something doesn’t make you a whimp, not doing what you have to do I spite of that fear makes you a whimp. Emile was anything but a whimp, because he went forward in the face of his fear, making him all the more “badass”. Courage is not having fear, it is looking at your fear in the face and saying, “I’m ready! Are you?”
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> Not sure I like this. Very interesting, but I love Emile so much for his badassery, I’m not sure I could handle him being a wimp. He is like Han Solo to me.
Even hero’s get scared. Solo is no different.
The badasses just know how to hide their fear.