Everybody seems to have a strong opinion about Karen Traviss’ foray into the Haloverse and having read the books doesn’t seem to be a prerequisite. Whether you loved our loathed the series there is certainly at least one character you’d prefer was cut in the rough draft. Who didn’t you like and why?
My vote easily goes to Parangosky for most unlikable character. In fact, she’s the only character in the trilogy that I truly despise. Not because she ruins the story in any way, but she is just a detestable person. She’s hypocritical, petty, and downright evil. In essence, she is the textbook definition of a -Yoink-.
I absolutely agree with you that Parangosky is a terrible human being and the universe will be a better place when she’s dead. But it is that detestability that makes her such a fun character to read about. Every great story needs a terrible villain and you can’t get more terrible that Parangosky. I love that she’s a frail old woman who’s more fearsome and terrifying than any elite. What I would like to know however is which character do you feel the series could do without, if any at all?
> What I would like to know however is which character do you feel the series could do without, if any at all?
There’s no one that I’d like to see vanish from the series. I enjoy all of their viewpoints and interactions with the other characters.
In the end, I’d have to go with Parangosky. As others have pointed out, she’s generally just a bad person.
Interesting. I could thought that Telcam wasn’t very believable as a general. I thought that everything we got from him came just as well from Jul. I’m just nitpicking I suppose. I enjoyed the series although mortal dictata isn’t a favorite.
I never really understood the hate for most of the character beyond the overall anti-halsey narrative. Of course, this narrative in-universe mostly springs from Parangosky so I’d probably say she’s my least likable.
Telcam served to represent the more “faithful” elites. Jul’s a stark contrast to him that he doesn’t believe in their faith anymore, but he’s willing to use it to his own ends.
> Interesting. I could thought that Telcam wasn’t very believable as a general. I thought that everything we got from him came just as well from Jul. I’m just nitpicking I suppose. I enjoyed the series although mortal dictata isn’t a favorite.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Telcam is, essentially, a clone of Jul. Their differences in motivation and methods make them unique from each other.
Gonna have to go with Avu Med 'Telcam. Not too fond of religious zealots of his extreme, even if it’s just his character personality…
I voted Devereaux, because she (in my opinion) is a really under-developed character.
But as for morally worst character, I’d agree on Parangosky. She or Osman.
I’m going to go with chol the shipmistress. Her sections of the mortal dictata are just very boring to me. Mostly cause I could care less for the jackals. But that’s just me.
It’s Paragonsky, mate! The bloodthirsty Dragon among the vicious wolves.
has to be Vaz for me. He just seemed like a guy with a chip on his shoulder in the morality sense. like he was the paragon of good and everyone else needed to measure up to his standard and those that didn’t were horrible people.
> has to be Vaz for me. He just seemed like a guy with a chip on his shoulder in the morality sense. like he was the paragon of good and everyone else needed to measure up to his standard and those that didn’t were horrible people.
Those are actually short-sighted traits of a renegade. Paragon heroes always see through the good that came from the necessary evil, and although they despise that evil, they don’t keep repeatedly enforcing the fact they everything that looks bad is necessarily evil.
Vaz is just a dumb and naive Marine who has been heavily influenced by talkings of corrupt ONI officials. Although he still has much goodness in his heart.
> Those are actually short-sighted traits of a renegade. Paragon heroes always see through the good that came from the necessary evil, and although they despise that evil, they don’t keep repeatedly enforcing the fact they everything that looks bad is necessarily evil.
> Vaz is just a dumb and naive Marine who has been heavily influenced by talkings of corrupt ONI officials. Although he still has much goodness in his heart.
He has goodness in his heart but he’s working for the devil. I like Vaz as a character because I can see him becoming a total monster in ten or fifteen years and hating himself for it.
I vote BB, just because he’s constantly making jokes that aren’t funny. I think Traviss would add a laugh track if she could.
Parangosky, easily. Constantly on her high horse, when she has done far worse than Halsey.
A tie between Parangosky and Vaz for me. Parangosky is obviously a bad person, but Vaz is a special kind of bad. Not outwardly evil, but his unwillingness to think acceptance of things he is told of others kinda is the reason people like Parangosky climb to power.
For me, all of them really. Either because of being poorly written and author soapboxes, behaving out of character (if they’re someone who already appeared in the series), under-developed, just plain being downright morally despicable and reprehensible, not holding my interest at all, or being a Mary Sue. So yeah, I’d have to say almost all of the characters in Kilo-5 are varying levels of least favorite, most of them I just don’t care about at all, with very few being characters I actually don’t like at all. They’d be Parangosky, Osman, Black Box, and Vaz, all the rest I just can’t really seem to care about at all, primarily due to a severe lack in development in the character department, almost all of them felt rather flat to me, or like copies of each other 
Going with Vaz, his black and white views on morality makes me wonder what happened to philosophy in the Halo universe.