I always wondered this. When I read the books, there were always little snippets that the Spartans would act somewhat normal. The problem is that they could not be normal at all. The forced bootcamp at 6 should have washed away anything approaching a normal personality.
Watch the Kurt Russel movie, Soldier. That is what they would really be like. Only able to communicate with each other, and then only in terms of military communication. The ideas of fun, or recreation would be lost on them, as they were never taught those things.
There was a part of the Fall of Reach where on their way to the asteroid (the SPartan II’s first mission) and Linda or Kelly holds up the black suit saying: It doesn’t give a girl much to work with." Why would she have known about fashion? In reality she would have noted how the uniform allowed her to move and kill. That’s it.
Anyways, any of you halo experts got an answer for me?
You can’t remove humanity from a human not to mention it isn’t like they were completely shut out from the world. They were strong children and probably retained more of themselves than we give them credit for.
I have no reason why you would post this in the flood instead of the universe forum either.
Even as young as 6, many things are impressioned upon children. Simple things such as speech patterns and social standards would have easily been absorbed and retained. They show little emotion, but are, in-fact, very emotional soldiers. They have strong feelings of comradery, family, and others that overlap their own individual personalities. Even John has an interesting personality that bolsters a strong feeling of duty to his fellow Spartans after being deemed their leader.
Jorge, in particular, was born on Reach where much of the planet speaks Hungarian and he spent minimal time elsewhere. He lived and died on Reach, and it held a deep place in his heart.
Pretty much what’s already stated above, though I see where your question has validity. I remember watching Soldier way back years ago.
Thing is there’s a difference; Todd and his unit were requisitioned, raised and trained by the project from the moment they were born. They were conditioned as children to be the ultimate soldiers, where Spartans were more or less educated. You’ll recall that scene where the one crash survivor tried giving Todd a hug and he started to shake entirely out of fear because he’s never let anyone come that close to him, or the scene where he panicked and attacked the man that was coming up behind him trying to give him a gift, because he was coming out of a post-traumatic flashback. Despite all of his conditioning and training he still had the human equation.
While the similarities are visible, there are clear differences. I’m sure it’s possible that some Spartans acquired this mentality from their training, especially the youngest ones, but the individuality is still ever present.
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> I always wondered this. When I read the books, there were always little snippets that the Spartans would act somewhat normal. The problem is that they could not be normal at all. The forced bootcamp at 6 should have washed away anything approaching a normal personality.
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> Watch the Kurt Russel movie, Soldier. That is what they would really be like. Only able to communicate with each other, and then only in terms of military communication. The ideas of fun, or recreation would be lost on them, as they were never taught those things.
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> There was a part of the Fall of Reach where on their way to the asteroid (the SPartan II’s first mission) and Linda or Kelly holds up the black suit saying: It doesn’t give a girl much to work with." Why would she have known about fashion? In reality she would have noted how the uniform allowed her to move and kill. That’s it.
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> Anyways, any of you halo experts got an answer for me?
Good questions but you know what its a game story works for what it is. seen that film with Kurt Russel, very true it prob is more to what spartens would be like but they would be so boring then
They were all extraordinary children. Each with more potential then a planet full of ‘regular’ chilrden. They were able to heold onto their humanity and snipits of their childhood through this AND the fact that they grew up together. They made their training into competitions and games. Then couple this with the fact that the A.I. training them was motherly towards them as was Dr. Catherine Halsey through her over whelming guilt. Perhaps they were taught about fashion so that they would be able to blend in a little easier when required to seeing as their intended enemy was not the Covenant but the Rebel humans.
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> I always wondered this. When I read the books, there were always little snippets that the Spartans would act somewhat normal. The problem is that they could not be normal at all. The forced bootcamp at 6 should have washed away anything approaching a normal personality.
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> Watch the Kurt Russel movie, Soldier. That is what they would really be like. Only able to communicate with each other, and then only in terms of military communication. The ideas of fun, or recreation would be lost on them, as they were never taught those things.
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> There was a part of the Fall of Reach where on their way to the asteroid (the SPartan II’s first mission) and Linda or Kelly holds up the black suit saying: It doesn’t give a girl much to work with." Why would she have known about fashion? In reality she would have noted how the uniform allowed her to move and kill. That’s it.
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> Anyways, any of you halo experts got an answer for me?
> You can’t remove humanity from a human not to mention it isn’t like they were completely shut out from the world. They were strong children and probably retained more of themselves than we give them credit for.
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> I have no reason why you would post this in the flood instead of the universe forum either.
As Deva said, they’re human. Spartans aren’t robots - Even though they are good at hiding them, they still have emotions.
I don’t think the point was that Spartans wouldn’t have emotion but more that they would be completely out of touch with society and exceptionally socially impaired when it came to interacting with normal people.
There are behaviors and customs they just wouldn’t have picked up. The whole mention of “It doesn’t give a girl much to work with.” could imply some level of awareness of fashion, but considering when she would have been originally kidnapped her experience with fashion would more or less be “How to dress like a fairy princess”.
She honestly wouldn’t have had the sort of life that she would care or know much about clothes at all or even what the normal attitude a girl her age would have towards them, most Spartans have trouble even remembering their mothers so I doubt that they would have anything near a normal personality for people their own age.
Compared to normal people they would logically be socially and emotionally stunted and quite lost in an ordinary peaceful social environment. Their only experience with normality is that of a six year old.