This is something that has bugged me because all of us here know that isn’t correct. Even if you just play the game you’d quickly see that him and Johnson are extremely close. Just from Johnson giving him the double tap on his pod. For those of you who’ve served you certainly know that isn’t a small gesture, MC even responded back to Johnson as well, those two we’re extremely close just by that one motion.
Not to mention every Spartan II. While most died sadly MC still views Blue Team as his family even seeing Halsey as a mother figure. Thel has said it himself that MC and him we’re friends and as theorized by a few of The Archive members, they could of became more associated during the rid to The Lesser Ark.
People say that MC never showed any emotions but as DOOM (2016) has proven, an armored hulk can still express. Both Johnson and Miranda’s death clearly had an affect on him. You can quickly see him drop his guard when he spots a dead Miranda in Johnson’s arms then he quickly jolts over to Truth knowing he was the cause of her death. At Johnson’s death MC seemed stunned to believe like many fans, that Johnson was even killable. He actually didn’t even move from Johnson’s side or even at all until Cortana apologized for what happened and all he did was give her a small gesture forward. Why doesn’t anyone remember these moments?
Can people really watch the intro to Halo 2 and say that MC and Johnson weren’t friends or Halo 3 were Johnson personally lead to team to find MC and when he thought he was dead was prepared to blow the operations cover just to give him a proper burial? He was already in a hole, all Johnson had to do was push some dirt over him, have The Arbiter move that piece of metal on top and they we’re good.
While I wouldn’t say Lasky is a friend to MC he certainly cares for him but I’m not sure if that’s just out of respect.
I could understand the idea of Cortana being his breaking point if she was the last person in his life or he thought she was the last person and in that way I can understand his emotional truma in Halo 4 but I don’t see him being that way much longer after remeeting Blue Team, Thel, making friends with Lasky and any other surviving Spartan II’s. So in that way I understand that MC’s emotional journey had quickly stopped and why Halo 5 didn’t pick it up again because, he’s left with more to keep him stable after the events of Halo CE,2,3 and 4. If Cortana kept him stable in the original trilogy and Halo 4 then Blue team should be more then enough to keep each other from falling too far as they’ve always have.
P.S. This might seem out of left field but does anyone here remember why Cortana was important in Halo CE? I asked a quite a few people not too long ago and most we’re horribly wrong with two of them actually knowing the truth. At first I had assumed that most of the people had just gotten caught up in the whole Cortana thing with Halo 5, until a guy said that one of the people who was right didn’t know what he was talking about and insulted us both. I know it was one guy but I’m more then curios to see who knows since this might of been lost through time. If you see someone with the right answer please don’t spam the thread and kindly upvote them. Sorry for the side track just wanted to get a raise of faith.
Chief had quite a number of friends, even seen in H4, including Lasky. Not to mention blue team is like family to him
I think it’s more that he had a closer bond with Cortana than anyone else by far. They spent years literally connected to each other, something we can’t really comprehend as we don’t have a comparison
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> I think it’s more that he had a closer bond with Cortana than anyone else by far. They spent years literally connected to each other, something we can’t really comprehend as we don’t have a comparison
That’s just it though, MC only meet Cortana once before Halo CE and post CE he’d only knew her for about 2 months before they we’re separated half way thought Halo 2 until MC finally had to leave and weren’t reunited until the end of Halo 3. Even then MC was put in cryo for four years, he wasn’t interacting with Cortana at all. I could understand for her it’d be a crazy ride but MC only knew her for a few months.
I totally understand him making a bond with her in the time but it shouldn’t be nearly as strong as the bond between him and Blue.
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> That’s just it though, MC only meet Cortana once before Halo CE and post CE he’d only knew her for about a 2 months before they we’re separated half way thought Halo 2 until MC finally had to leave and weren’t reunited until the end of Halo 3. Even then MC was put in cryo for four years, he wasn’t interacting with Cortana at all. I could understand for her it’d be a crazy ride but MC only knew her for a few months.
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> I totally understand him making a bond with her in the time but it shouldn’t be nearly as strong as the bond between him and Blue.
I want to disagree with you but I can’t, I see what you mean. It was a short period, must just be because she’s so apparent throughout the first four main games, whereas Blue Team were only really in the extended fiction for a very long time.
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> I want to disagree with you but I can’t, I see what you mean. It was a short period, must just be because she’s so apparent throughout the first four main games, whereas Blue Team were only really in the extended fiction for a very long time.
This does remind me of a personal problem with Halo and that’s the incredibly small time frame. When I was a kid I thought Halo 2 took place years later. Mostly because my father was really sad at the end of Halo CE and told me that space travel takes a long time (understatement I know, I was 8 at the time) and he’d most likely never get home and I felt sad for MC too. Fighting to the good fight for a slow death. THEN HALO 2 and as I grew older and started getting into the lore and found out it’s only been like a month, my mind was pretty blown. I’m surprised that Bungie never added to the time line like the OG Star Wars films did. The time between making the movies was the time that had passed in lore. Not sure if that had been retconned.
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> That’s just it though, MC only meet Cortana once before Halo CE and post CE he’d only knew her for about 2 months before they we’re separated half way thought Halo 2 until MC finally had to leave and weren’t reunited until the end of Halo 3. Even then MC was put in cryo for four years, he wasn’t interacting with Cortana at all. I could understand for her it’d be a crazy ride but MC only knew her for a few months.
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> I totally understand him making a bond with her in the time but it shouldn’t be nearly as strong as the bond between him and Blue.
Chief had the responsibility to take care of her. Chief always tries his best to keep his promises. In halo 4 ending he says " it was my duty to take care of you " I believe thats the partial reason as to why he considered her close.
OP does have a point. I have met people who think that she is his only friend. I believe they think so because they dont play much attention to the lore or even the campaign themes and non linguistic events.
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> Chief had the responsibility to take care of her. Chief always tries his best to keep his promises. In halo 4 ending he says " it was my duty to take care of you " I believe thats the partial reason as to why he considered her close.
You make a good point. He could view her death as a failure and the loss of a friend but couldn’t that be said about every soldier who has fought under his command and died, especially the Spartans? While I’m sure he views Blue Team in a higher status then his other brothers and sisters it doesn’t change that many have died from his choices.
Actually not really his choices. I’ve said this before but most Spartans and soldiers mostly die from random unaccountable -Yoink-. A seemingly safe walk during patrol can turn into hide and seek from a sniper, a victory could be crushed by a counter attack from forces not previously in the conflict and a bomb could go off prematurely killing someone. These aren’t really MC’s fault but to counter that he didn’t really have control over the Didact blowing up the console Cortana was in.
Dude, you just blew my mind even though I knew cortana wasn’t chiefs only friend and as I’m kinda stunned I can’t add to the initial conversation as what I would have said has been said.