Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
Posted by: OrderedComa
Um, do you even remember First Strike? He went back to Reach found quite a few Spartans surviving there as well as Dr. Halsey. So he knows he not the last one, and Spartans don't get choked up the same way us normal humans do at loss. Being silent is just Chief's character, he is truly just a man of few words.
Until you procure proof he is silent just "because he is cool" as you so delightfully put it, and there really is no emotional impact on the things he has gone through, that of everything he is done, everything he has seen, everything that has happened to him in his fretfully war-torn life, has had absolutely no emotional impact on him what so ever, I'll take that as your personal opinion. Why that is your opinion I have no idea, because as I recall in Fall of Reach, as Master Chief watches the coffins of his Spartan brothers being jettisoned into space, he feels as though a part of him is being torn away, or something along those lines.
You see. He feels. He feels. He is not devoid of emotion. I am 100% convinced that by the end of Halo 3, he is not the same he was when the war started. I guarantee it. You don't come out of something like that without scars. Every soldier has scars. I'm tired of people treating Master Chief like an inhuman monster, he is not so, he is super-human, super-human, meaning he is still human, and he will still be emotionally effected by the deaths of his SPARTAN brothers, even if in First Strike he found others. It doesn't change the fact of Sam's death, Grace's death, and many others. Their images of them dying will be bored into his skull for the rest of his life. Soldiers are always effected by the deaths of their comrades. Just because he is conditioned, doesn't mean he is devoid of emotions.
Just as a "P.S.", if he were some inhumane killing machine, who's only goal in life was to take life, I would offer him no respect, no human sympathy, no emotional attachment, and I would not care if he were to die, should he die, but I would not give him his due, no matter how much he had done, because what is the point of protecting humanity if you lose your humanity in the process? There is none. You are no longer someone of value, and you are an inferior organism, no matter how many augmentations or genetic enhancements, or "luck" you may have.
I didn't describe him as "cool" in that post, I merely said that he is truly a man of few words, I was referring to it with finality, not that it made him cool. And I never said that he was devoid of emotions or unaffected by them. What I said was that Spartans are not affected the same way.
And also, if you remember, that event in TFoR (the funeral for the deceased washouts) that was the first time that any Spartan had died and the first time he had really encountered death, at least of people close to him anyway. And the first wounding with something like that is always the worst, but as time goes on you become calloused to it. Ask any soldier, the longer you are one and around death, the less affects you, yes you'll be saddened by the death of someone close, but it will not be as raw the more it happens. And yes, people change from experiencing war, but I think you are grossly overestimating the change that would occur in someone like a Spartan. They experience emotion, but they were taught to push a lot of it aside, that's part of what made them so affective
Yes, Spartans are still human beings, but they are also very inhuman. The Spartan training strips them of a lot of their humanity.
I don't believe that. I believe that it did its job of preparing them for insurrectionists, but could they really have been prepared for the Covenant?
When you are fighting for something, you have to have a degree of emotional attachment to it. To say Master Chief had no feelings towards the people he was saving is... well, stupid. No offense. And it is also so to say that he had no personality changes after watching a majority of his SPARTAN brethren die. No matter how much you are around death, if you suddenly saw somebody close to you die, you can't say you wouldn't have thoughts of revenge, anger, or sadness.
Again, what is the point of defending humanity if you lose your humanity in the process? All of your efforts and victories become in vain. Thus, I don't believe he lost most of his humanity. Surely BUNGIE wouldn't be that dense.
Fighting will have about the same affect on emotions, no matter what the enemy. Fighting the Covenant is not all that different from fighting other Humans emotionally, at least in regards to the Spartans.
I'm not saying he doesn't have emotions, what I'm saying is that he keeps his emotions restrained, he will feel sorrow, anger, fear, whatever, but he won't let it interfere with the mission and task at hand, nor would any Spartan.
I'm not saying he would, but I'm saying he is more human than you think. :)
I surely that Halsey bored into the SPARTANS' heads harder than any training is how important the lives they were fighting for were, and that they would be fighting, and dying, for a cause greater than any of them could dream.
And John was a good SPARTAN, yes, but he wasn't perfect, he had many flaws, and I'm positive he has scars, physically and emotionally.