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lonenobleNAME: Empyreal Dragon
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digitalringhals
AIM: rainstormdrake
WIKI NAME: Empyreal Dragon
CHARACTERS: Agent Washington
CHARACTER NAME: Noble Six (Apping as female gender permutation, as it was said to be acceptable when I asked.)
FANDOM: Halo Reach
CANON: End game. When Six is fighting the Elites off after covering the Pillar of Autumn's escape.
WHAT THEY LOST: Her given name
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Noble Six, also known as SPARTAN-B312, is a highly independent person, well known for her lone wolf tendencies and efficiency on the battlefield. However, there's a lot more to the person beneath that, as can be seen throughout the Reach campaign. While her past and her reputation might make it seem likely that she'd be a bad fit for a team like Noble, in fact the opposite is the truth. She's surprisingly social and caring among allies. Six has courage and devotion to duty to the point of willingly sacrificing herself to make sure it all works out.
SPARTAN-B312 is above all else, a Spartan. Specifically, a Spartan-III from Beta company: one of a number of orphans from planets destroyed by the Covenant, given a chance to strike back at the ones that killed her family. She is one of the few that managed to escape the slaughter of Operation: TORPEDO, due to her being considered too valuable to waste on what was essentially a suicide mission.
From there, she was used as an assassin, earning a reputation for being a lone wolf and a “hyper-lethal vector”. Entire militia groups were wiped out at her hands. She was only assigned to Noble as a replacement with great reluctance, as her superior was reluctant to give up his private grim reaper.
On joining Noble, it was made immediately clear by Carter, Noble Leader, that the majority of the group didn't exactly want a replacement, and that she might have some issues, but time and working together ends up changing that. In fact, Six seems to get along quite well with the others in Noble in the missions they end being assigned to throughout the Reach Campaign. It especially appears that she was fairly close to Noble Five, to the point where she didn't want to let him do it when he made the choice to sacrifice himself to destroy the Covenant Corvette. Jorge ended up giving her his dogtags and literally throwing her out of the ship to make sure that she survived to go back to Noble. And that was just the first death of a team member she saw on this mission.
It took some time for Six to be reunited with her team, and she assisted in the evacuation of New Alexandria on her way back to her team. The Covenant was making it near impossible to get the civilians to safety, and were blasting civilian transports out of the sky. Finally, she got back to her team. But it was a bitter reunion, as she was alone, bearing the news of what had happened. That Jorge hadn’t made it in the end. And the Covenant had begun glassing the city nearby. It was something that Six hadn’t seen before, especially not as close as they were....
From there, things just kept getting worse for the team. Noble lost Kat to a sniper not long after being reunited with Six, with Six being the one to catch her body and haul it to to bunker they were running to at the time, where the group spent several days with Kat's body. Even though there was no saving her, Six still insisted on pulling the body into the shelter. Even after the short time they’d been a team, she’d developed strong ties.
From there, they were called for a torch and burn operation that was nothing more than an excuse to return Noble to pick up what supposed to be the best hope for humanity. An AI named Cortana, and she had chosen Six to be her courier. There, the group lost another, though this time it was just sending Jun along with Halsey to get her to safety.
In transit to the shipyards to get the AI to safety, there was another loss. Noble One sacrificed himself to take out an obstacle between them and the shipyards they needed to get the AI to. Another painful loss, one that she wasn’t going to forget, or let be in vain. He told her the AI had chosen right. She was going to live up to that--which she and Emile managed, getting the AI to the Pillar of Autumn, though Emile went down to a group of Zealots manning the gun to help clear the area for the AI to be picked up. Seeing that, Six couldn’t have taken the chance for failure.
Emile died for this. The others died for this. The least she could have done was go man the gun and make sure that the losses of the team she’d gotten so close to meant something. This gave the Pillar of Autumn what it needed to escape. Even if, in the end, it resulted in her sacrificing her life, alone, surrounded by countless Covenant.
ABILITIES:
The Spartan-IIIs each went through a set of bio-augmentations with various effects. The end results of these various treatments is nearly unbreakable bones, increased muscle density and strength, improved vision, and highly increased reflexes. Spartans are human, but they are the very best humanity can make them.
Noble Six would also be bringing a damaged set of MJOLNIR Mark V armor.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
It was over. The Pillar of Autumn was safely away. She'd done her part to make sure of that. To make sure that their lives hadn't been sacrificed in vain. Jorge. Kat. Carter. And Emile.... She'd made sure that the package had made it off, in spite of the damn Zealots that took him out when he was manning the gun. They'd offered to take her with, but there was no way the Pillar would have made it without covering fire. She couldn't risk the chance of failure that going would have.
Besides, Six was a Spartan. As Jorge had said, they all make this trip one day. Knowing that her staying would mean the difference between humanity's best hope escaping or not...there really hadn't been a choice.
And now, Six was alone. Alone, except for the large number of Covenant soldiers that swarmed the area. But she was a Spartan, and damn it if she wasn't going to take as many of the bastards as she could possibly take with her in the end. She would go down fighting. It was what most of he team had done, so how could she have done any less. Kat didn't even get the chance to go down fighting, thanks to that damn sniper.
Six carefully aimed and fired, trying to make every shot count. She couldn't afford to waste ammunition. Couldn't afford to waste anything. Not if she wanted to keep going to keep taking down more of them. Another Grunt, a Skirmisher, and an Elite. And they just kept coming. But that was good. Bring it on. She wanted more. She didn't even notice the first cracks forming in her visor until it got to the point where it was more of a hindrance than a help.
Six pulled it off, leaving it on the ground. She wouldn't need it again. She picked up her gun again, but then they came. The Elites. Injured and tired... She kept fighting. Kept ignoring each new wound, intent on taking another one with her if she could. But there it was. She'd fallen. There was nothing she could have done but struggle as she watched the energy dagger fall. She wasn't going down quietly. Not by a long shot.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [This isn't been remotely what she'd been expecting to have happen. Not by a long shot. She knows it is only a matter of time before it finally happens. Alone, with all of the Covvies on Reach... It is just a matter of time before the deathblow finally falls. She knows death is coming. But she doesn't regret it.
She just watches on her back as what should be the deathblow starts to fall.
Suddenly, the scenery changes. The Elites vanish. She's indoors. And instead of Reach... It's an unfamiliar room. But she's injured. Her helmet is nearby on the floor. And she's gasping for breath as she tries to deal with the injuries from the Elites that she'd been trying to hold off. When she finally manages speech, it's rushed.]
How did I get here? What's going on?
INTENT: Honestly? No outright plans at the moment. Though it doesn't hurt that she'd be coming in with a nice castmate.
JOURNAL:
digitalringhalsAIM: rainstormdrake
WIKI NAME: Empyreal Dragon
CHARACTERS: Agent Washington
CHARACTER NAME: Noble Six (Apping as female gender permutation, as it was said to be acceptable when I asked.)
FANDOM: Halo Reach
CANON: End game. When Six is fighting the Elites off after covering the Pillar of Autumn's escape.
WHAT THEY LOST: Her given name
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Noble Six, also known as SPARTAN-B312, is a highly independent person, well known for her lone wolf tendencies and efficiency on the battlefield. However, there's a lot more to the person beneath that, as can be seen throughout the Reach campaign. While her past and her reputation might make it seem likely that she'd be a bad fit for a team like Noble, in fact the opposite is the truth. She's surprisingly social and caring among allies. Six has courage and devotion to duty to the point of willingly sacrificing herself to make sure it all works out.
SPARTAN-B312 is above all else, a Spartan. Specifically, a Spartan-III from Beta company: one of a number of orphans from planets destroyed by the Covenant, given a chance to strike back at the ones that killed her family. She is one of the few that managed to escape the slaughter of Operation: TORPEDO, due to her being considered too valuable to waste on what was essentially a suicide mission.
From there, she was used as an assassin, earning a reputation for being a lone wolf and a “hyper-lethal vector”. Entire militia groups were wiped out at her hands. She was only assigned to Noble as a replacement with great reluctance, as her superior was reluctant to give up his private grim reaper.
On joining Noble, it was made immediately clear by Carter, Noble Leader, that the majority of the group didn't exactly want a replacement, and that she might have some issues, but time and working together ends up changing that. In fact, Six seems to get along quite well with the others in Noble in the missions they end being assigned to throughout the Reach Campaign. It especially appears that she was fairly close to Noble Five, to the point where she didn't want to let him do it when he made the choice to sacrifice himself to destroy the Covenant Corvette. Jorge ended up giving her his dogtags and literally throwing her out of the ship to make sure that she survived to go back to Noble. And that was just the first death of a team member she saw on this mission.
It took some time for Six to be reunited with her team, and she assisted in the evacuation of New Alexandria on her way back to her team. The Covenant was making it near impossible to get the civilians to safety, and were blasting civilian transports out of the sky. Finally, she got back to her team. But it was a bitter reunion, as she was alone, bearing the news of what had happened. That Jorge hadn’t made it in the end. And the Covenant had begun glassing the city nearby. It was something that Six hadn’t seen before, especially not as close as they were....
From there, things just kept getting worse for the team. Noble lost Kat to a sniper not long after being reunited with Six, with Six being the one to catch her body and haul it to to bunker they were running to at the time, where the group spent several days with Kat's body. Even though there was no saving her, Six still insisted on pulling the body into the shelter. Even after the short time they’d been a team, she’d developed strong ties.
From there, they were called for a torch and burn operation that was nothing more than an excuse to return Noble to pick up what supposed to be the best hope for humanity. An AI named Cortana, and she had chosen Six to be her courier. There, the group lost another, though this time it was just sending Jun along with Halsey to get her to safety.
In transit to the shipyards to get the AI to safety, there was another loss. Noble One sacrificed himself to take out an obstacle between them and the shipyards they needed to get the AI to. Another painful loss, one that she wasn’t going to forget, or let be in vain. He told her the AI had chosen right. She was going to live up to that--which she and Emile managed, getting the AI to the Pillar of Autumn, though Emile went down to a group of Zealots manning the gun to help clear the area for the AI to be picked up. Seeing that, Six couldn’t have taken the chance for failure.
Emile died for this. The others died for this. The least she could have done was go man the gun and make sure that the losses of the team she’d gotten so close to meant something. This gave the Pillar of Autumn what it needed to escape. Even if, in the end, it resulted in her sacrificing her life, alone, surrounded by countless Covenant.
ABILITIES:
The Spartan-IIIs each went through a set of bio-augmentations with various effects. The end results of these various treatments is nearly unbreakable bones, increased muscle density and strength, improved vision, and highly increased reflexes. Spartans are human, but they are the very best humanity can make them.
Noble Six would also be bringing a damaged set of MJOLNIR Mark V armor.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
It was over. The Pillar of Autumn was safely away. She'd done her part to make sure of that. To make sure that their lives hadn't been sacrificed in vain. Jorge. Kat. Carter. And Emile.... She'd made sure that the package had made it off, in spite of the damn Zealots that took him out when he was manning the gun. They'd offered to take her with, but there was no way the Pillar would have made it without covering fire. She couldn't risk the chance of failure that going would have.
Besides, Six was a Spartan. As Jorge had said, they all make this trip one day. Knowing that her staying would mean the difference between humanity's best hope escaping or not...there really hadn't been a choice.
And now, Six was alone. Alone, except for the large number of Covenant soldiers that swarmed the area. But she was a Spartan, and damn it if she wasn't going to take as many of the bastards as she could possibly take with her in the end. She would go down fighting. It was what most of he team had done, so how could she have done any less. Kat didn't even get the chance to go down fighting, thanks to that damn sniper.
Six carefully aimed and fired, trying to make every shot count. She couldn't afford to waste ammunition. Couldn't afford to waste anything. Not if she wanted to keep going to keep taking down more of them. Another Grunt, a Skirmisher, and an Elite. And they just kept coming. But that was good. Bring it on. She wanted more. She didn't even notice the first cracks forming in her visor until it got to the point where it was more of a hindrance than a help.
Six pulled it off, leaving it on the ground. She wouldn't need it again. She picked up her gun again, but then they came. The Elites. Injured and tired... She kept fighting. Kept ignoring each new wound, intent on taking another one with her if she could. But there it was. She'd fallen. There was nothing she could have done but struggle as she watched the energy dagger fall. She wasn't going down quietly. Not by a long shot.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: [This isn't been remotely what she'd been expecting to have happen. Not by a long shot. She knows it is only a matter of time before it finally happens. Alone, with all of the Covvies on Reach... It is just a matter of time before the deathblow finally falls. She knows death is coming. But she doesn't regret it.
She just watches on her back as what should be the deathblow starts to fall.
Suddenly, the scenery changes. The Elites vanish. She's indoors. And instead of Reach... It's an unfamiliar room. But she's injured. Her helmet is nearby on the floor. And she's gasping for breath as she tries to deal with the injuries from the Elites that she'd been trying to hold off. When she finally manages speech, it's rushed.]
How did I get here? What's going on?
INTENT: Honestly? No outright plans at the moment. Though it doesn't hurt that she'd be coming in with a nice castmate.
