#alice-130

[halobirthdays]

Happy birthday to Spartan Alice-130!

Today is her -488th birthday!

Alice was not traumatized by her SPARTAN-II training--even as a child, she saw it as a welcome challenge. However, her body rejected the augmentations, leaving her incapacitated with the other "washouts" who survived but could not press on. She underwent rehabilitation, and was able to return to active duty. She was assigned to Red Team with Douglass-42 and Jerome-92--two other washouts.

Alice was deployed to Arcadia with Red Team to intervene in a Covenant seige. Afterward, Red Team joined the crew of the Spirit of Fire, where they were sent to the ruins of Harvest to investigate a Covenant dig site.

The relics at Harvest pointed them and the Covenant to the Forerunner shield world Trove (called Etran Harborage by the Forerunners). They mobilized to stop Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee and the Prophet of Regret from activating the Forerunner dreadnoughts contained within, and to save Professor Ellen Anders, who had been captured by 'Moramee.

In 2559, Alice and the rest of the crew were awakened, having been pulled into slipspace to the Ark. It was there that they learned of the threat of the Banished when Atriox confronted Red Team. After that, the mission changed to stop Atriox's forces on the Ark. Alice would help thin out the Banished presence on the Ark, while allowing Professor Anders to send a distress beacon to the UNSC. As of recent canon, she remains on the Ark.

The engagement on Trove was successful, but it would cost them the Spirit of Fire's slipspace drive. Without being able to enter slipspace, the Spirit of Fire's crew--including Alice--were put in cryosleep while the ship drifted, waiting for rescue.

In canon (~2560), she is turning 49!

I'm also including this pic implying that Alice is about to absolutely rock these Unggoys' shit with her bare hands bc??? Jfc girl.

[the-overanalyzer]

truly wild to think that thanks to cryosleep, red team not only slept through most of The Horrors™ (after their The Horrors Special VIP Advance Screening™, that is), but now all of their (surviving) peers are weary 50-somethings while they themselves have not yet reached drinking age

they are younger than the ferrets

[aqg-arts]

343, you do know what a 19 yr old looks like?

Srsly, these are the closest images we'll get to the cannon versions of them (imo).

Ya know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna make something with these guys. Maybe a lil... smth with art or writing.

Images by:

This amazing soul

[fiirekat]

Alice-130 commission!

[gamelpar]

drops my favorite character in water before pulling them out and flapping them repeatedly against the counter to dry them off

[empresskadia]

Not Everyone Survives [Blue Team| Red Team| Naomi-010]

Prompt: You didn't survive This is my treat for you all, I said, we're gonna be sad together~ I got some Red Team content for you @jackpot-library

Maybe after Cortana, it should've been easier but that was a delusional hope, John doesn't stop, John cannot stop. It's mission after mission for him, with or without Blue team. He gives himself no time to collect himself, John doesn't want to think because if he does, he'd have to accept you're gone. And if he doesn't stop, maybe somewhere, something will stop him and he might get to see his beloved partner again. There isn't a day where he doesn't hold your dog tags and run his thumb across your name or service number and he's so gently with them like it's the last piece of you he has.

For all the battles Kelly's been through, she thought she could handle this death well, especially after losing Sam and the other Spartans, but this was so different. Whenever someone says your name, she'll shuts down, and leave the room without another glance. It doesn't matter if there is an outranking officer on deck, Fred and Linda do their best to cover for her. Kelly's never fully able to let go and always makes it a point to visit your grave often, maybe if she was fast enough this would have never happened.

In his mind, it's his fault, and Fred continuously blames himself, he apologizes again and again while cradling your body until Kelly places a hand on his shoulder. Even then, Fred still feels like you're there with him. Sometimes he'll say something to you and when there's no response, he looks around for a moment before realization sinks in and he apologizes to you again, if only he would've been fast, more prepared and it's a constant cycle that claws at whatever humanity he has left.

It took hours for Linda to move as she sat with your body for a very long, letting the cloth wrap you up, that maybe, you were just asleep under the sheet. For once in her life, she doesn't have the courage, she had held you while you died and it took all her strength. Linda was quiet before but now she only spoke when necessary, and even then, using hand signals more often than not. She always keeps a reminder of you with her, not that she could ever forget, she never would do you the dishonor. It's just a way to keep your memory alive and every shot she makes from then on out is for her partner.

There is a single threat that snapped in Jerome's mind when he witnessed the life drain out of his partner. He held you till the end while you bled out, unable to stop the inevitable no matter how hard he tried, it wasn't enough, he wasn't enough to stop this. And the only answer that's clear in his head is revenge. He will not rest until everyone involved is dealt with and suffers the same fate as his beloved. His partner was the most precious thing to him, and now you were gone, so why shouldn't there be repercussions? Why shouldn't someone pay?

It's hard for Douglas to go on without you, every time he sees someone that even remotely resembles his partner or an object that remembers him of you, his heart stops for a second. He'll visit your grave often with flowers he personally collected and sits there for a long time before telling you about recent missions. He doesn't want his partner to feel lonely, so if no one needs him, that's where the other Spartans can find him. Douglas often tells himself he can handle this, that he has to for your sake because you would be so upset with him if he didn't.

To everyone's surprise, Alice refuses to accept it for the longest time, she saves a seat for you everywhere, even making comments about how she'll tell you about this mission later. No one dares correct her, she wouldn't forgive them. Any weapons her partner may have owned are cared for because she wants them to be perfect for your next use and no one else is allowed to use it. She can't process her grief, this wasn't a challenge, and this wasn't something she could fix, sooner than later her grief turns into anger and Alice can only take it out on the field, littering the ground with her enemies.

Missing her partner hurts like hell; Naomi finally understands the phrase 'a broken heart', it's a wound that will never heal, it's a hole in her chest that will never be content again. And she can only circle back to her thoughts of how lonely you must've felt, that she hadn't been there to die with you or even hold you against her while the light faded from your eyes. Naomi had always been surrounded by death but never believed it could take her partner till she saw your body and could never bring herself to quite look at the stars the same way again. Her star in the sky was no longer there. There is no amount of cheering up that BB or Mal or Vaz can do to bring her back, but she tries to find her partner in the little things, in the breeze kissing her face, in the water dancing against her skin but Naomi misses you and wants her partner back.

[biomecharnotaurus]

Yeah

[uglybumbo]

I miss them sometimes.

[wyrmwyrm]

The Gang's All Here!

[witchie-writings]

Y/N: *Screams* Jerome: *Screams louder to assert dominance* Alice: Should we do something?! Douglas, observing: No, I want to see who wins this.

Y/N: Listen, I can explain... Jerome: You’re making $500,000 and you’re only gonna pay me $30,000? Alice: You’re getting 30 grand? I’m getting $1,000! Douglas: You guys are getting paid?

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Alice: Why are Y/N and Jerome sitting with their backs to each other? Douglas: They had a fight. Alice: Then why are they holding hands? Douglas: They get sad when they fight.

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Y/N: I think we're missing something. Jerome: Teamwork? Alice: Cohesion? Douglas: A general sense of what we’re doing?

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Y/N, setting down a card: Ace of spades Jerome, pulling out an Uno card: +4 Alice, pulling out a Pokémon card: Jolteon, I choose you Douglas, trembling: What are we playing

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Y/N: You know those things will kill you, right? Jerome, pouring another glass of whiskey: That’s the point. Alice, smoking a cigarette: We’re trying to speed up the process. Douglas: *Nods while eating raw cookie dough*

[selfproclaimedunicorn]

Does your OC have a healthy sense of their own worth and value? Or do they see themselves as failing to live up to their original potential? Perhaps they are convinced of their own sinful or inadequate nature? for whichever oc has been on your mind lately!

Thank you for your service in letting me talk about my rancid woman, Aldreda

She has the worst, most bizarre sense of self.

She is Lord Alfric Farwynd’s last living child, she is the heir apparent of Lonely Light, she is a fearsome raider who has seen nothing but success: she is worth far more than you or me or most anyone who wants to try & compare themself to her. But she is also a woman & no matter how good at being The Most Ironborn she is, literally everything she does & is gets called into question & she was only ever acknowledged as a legitimate heir to her House's seat by someone who wanted to use her to take it for himself. Plus her dad is just, like, very visibly disappointed that she's his only kid left on top of having never paid the most attention to her.

If asked, Aldreda would immediately sing her own praises & tell you all her accomplishments & swear up & down that she's worth "ten mainland men," but she kind of doesn't believe herself. She's so convinced that she wouldn't have to work so hard if she'd been born a boy, that she'd be emotionally (& on some levels physically) safer were that the case. At the very least, no one would care when she does whatever she wants. Drinking & whoring & getting in fights & playing at politics with men are all well & good until you're a woman & then "you should be somebody's rock wife. You're 27, what are you doing with your life? Stop playing at The Farwynd’s heir & just settle down or something so we don't have to think about you as a person." But she likes being a woman, like, she wouldn't really trade for having been born a boy. She just wants to, like, switch the trappings out. Your classic Son Oldest Daughter ASOIAF type gender weird (exacerbated by the fact she was one girl among 20 boys of wildly varying ages, her youngest brother was 6).

So she's trapped in this weird "I am worth more than you, but less than him, & if I get delusional (& also hyper-comptetent) enough then I am also worth more than him too." She is full of potential she believes she hasn't reached, & that if she just gets there everyone will see her as the most suited for everything she wants, but the problem is she's already there & she's just playing along with everyone as they move the goalposts around. If someone she wants to have acknowledge her value would actually do so, I don't think it would immediately fix her, but it would do a lot to get her on track to thinking of herself in a healthier way. She's, like, she's almost there, but those Westersi gender politics got her fucked up.

[kessielrg]

when you fall in love with a verrrry specific Barbie face mold, but it was only used in two collector dolls back in 2006 so resale prices are super ridiculous now. 😭

[aqg-arts]

AQG Artist Report,

Dec 12, 2023

Six months. Six long months...

That's how long it took for me to finish Giga Alice.

First, the process was going smoothly...

Then, art projects after art projects...

Art block after art block...

Made what was going to be a relatively quick and funny shit post...

Into six months of hell.

Yes, everyone, you read that right...

GIGA ALICE is FINALLY done!!!!!

So, what took me so long?

Well, as the top half of the post states; Art blocks and other projects, mostly.

Butt, we're here now, and she is looking mighty fine.

For those wondering why some her looks off, welp, my app did backflips and what not whilst drawing her soooooooo

Anyways, here's a bonus Kelly pic for those still reading :3

And for added context:

Giga Alice is a part of a 2 collections of art titles 'Giga Red Team' and 'Giga Characters'.

Giga Alice is the 4th of 4 artworks I've previously completed, all based on my personal Jesus, Spartan Jerome 092.

Now, for those knowing that we're missing one more; be not afraid- Douglas and a few more are coming. Not soon, but they are gonna be sketched out at some point :p

Anyways, time for... something, ig :p

Love y'all!

[woohol]

The fact I turn 25 on Thursday feels a lil surreal…

[animusrox]

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[empresskadia]

I need to go to bed but the Spartan content be thriving in my thoughts tonight, it's John being a shithead with his partner and them having an inside joke that has his partner laughing themselves to tears, he's just so proud of himself, and Alice-130 sweeping her partner up in a tank with sunglasses on her helmet, no explanation given.

And Naomi star-gazing with her partners and they both have hot cocoa-

It's sleepy time