In the start of the game when we’re introduced to the pilot, we see that he had to fix something in Pelican that was likely damaged from outside debris. After he struggles for a little bit he falls and a hologram projector of a woman and her daughter pop out and how he reacts intrigued me.
The projector seemed to be put in a strange spot, likely the owner wanted to hide it away so he can keep it safe with him in his Pelican, or away from the others on the Infinity. When it falls and activates, Fernando acts surprised that its there and doesn’t say anything like “hey baby or darling!” he just stares in disbelief as if that’s another man’s family. As if he wasn’t expecting that projector to be there and active.
You can also tell that the woman and her daughter are Americans with a New England-Appalachian accent while Fernando is from South America and has an extremely thick accent and look nothing like him.
And the last damning piece of evidence is that he admits to Chief of stealing Echo 216 during the assault on the Infinity. While chaos was happening he most likely ran and took off with it and refused every hail for help for 6 months which allowed him to survive on his own for half a year, but that doesn’t explain how he managed to get enough food, water, and clean oxygen to survive that long.
I had some sympathy for him at first, a little not much, but after I found out he stole the Pelican dooming the original crew and any soldier who needed a ride off the Infinity I really couldn’t care less about him as he was a very whiny snobby guy that does more harm than good.
Children are always with their mother. It’s normal for them to have the same accent.
“He is broken. You’ll break too.”
Esparza is very concerned about his family, otherwise Jega wouldn’t make fun of it.
My father and I have synonymous accents from the New Jersey-New Englander phonetics pool despite my parents being from Asia on one side and Spanish on the other.
Also are you just ignoring the fact that he was surprised at the projector like he didn’t know it was there? Or how he never talks about his “family” to anyone ingame?
I believe he was in shock throughout the fight to save him because he was being tortured by a giant monkey and a huge cyborg lizard with 2 energy swords made with Human and Brute blood. I doubt Chief knew about the projector since he never saw it personally until Jega’s fight. Jega must have sensed weakness and used the projector to mock both of them at the same time by using the mother and daughter as a way to humiliate the two of them, perceiving them as too weak to fight for Human females. I remember in Halo Wars Ripa mocked Forge’s fighting ability because Anders interrupted their duel which amused Ripa as Elites are against seeing women as warriors in their society according to the novels.
Sounds like an asspull theory to me. If you don’t like the character that’s fine, but pulling reasons like this out your butt is pretty daft.
Plus it kinda doesn’t explain why Esparza would keep looking at the recording to the point of running it’s battery down. That’s a lot of acting for an audience that isn’t there.
I don’t know dude. Stuck in a floating tin can by yourself for six months. Seems reasonable to want to hear anyone else’s voice regardless of whoever that may be.
Well, I didn’t know that people would really just hate a bloke that tried to survive when he was only given 4 minutes to live. He, if you didn’t tell, was remorseful of his actions. I guess that it’s waypoint and this is where everyone comes to complain so that’s why there is so much toxicity here to really anything. I thought he was a sweet character and I could empathise with him just being a normal bloody person trying to not die. I’m pretty sure that he wouldn’t have saved anyone else even if he tried. However, he did do good on the ring when he survived. I mean, he saved Chief for God’s sake!
I mean, he literally said so here. They are also actors and actresses. It may have been lazy on 343’s part to not take the accent into consideration but the framing of the situation most definitely shows that they are his family. I needn’t pull up all of the dialogue.
Your point on him just being a bad person for stealing a pelican, although more applicable, is very shallow as you are not taking into consideration what I said in a previous comment in this thread:
I kind of like this theory, but not because I think that the pilot is a bad character. I think it tells a better story to have a morally ambiguous character. Even if this theory is true, he still helped chief despite all the danger throughout the campaign (possibly because of remorse for his actions). I don’t think his flaws make him a bad character, in fact, I think the opposite. The early halo lore operated in that grey-area of morals. Take Dr Halsey for example: it’s pretty obvious that she was a psychopath who was perfectly fine with kidnapping children, training them to be soldiers, killing and maiming half of them in an experiment, and killing insurrectionists with them. But if not for her, the Spartans wouldn’t have existed and the covenant might have won. It makes an interesting story to have these moral dilemmas thrown in.
This seems more based on your own personal dislike of the character and less on concrete facts. We’re reading a lot into a pretty brief backstory. As for the family not looking or sounding the same as the pilot, who’s to say that the child wasn’t from a prior relationship?