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Your Name:Niriall
OOC Journal: Niriall
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: nope
Email + IM: nirial.mf@gmail.com + niriall
Characters Played at Ataraxion: n/a
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: 479’er
Canon: Red vs Blue
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point:Season 10, Episode 15
Number: requesting 009, and if not that then 079
Setting:
Red Vs Blue (that actual canon): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue
Halo (The basics of RVB are based off this canon but its not necessary beyond the summary I put in the history section):http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
History:
Related Halo Canon (she’d be aware of this much):
Halo Canon: In the 26th century humans have spread to the stars, and as such have moved on to live in star systems much farther off— colonizing planets as they saw fit. As history has shown— the larger a human empire grows the more likely there is to be civil war. Many colonies did not want to be ruled by a government based far from where they were located. These colonies rebelled, and were known as insurrectionists.
Previously unknown to the humans, a group of aliens (urged by their leaders, the Prophets) began to attack and subsequently destroy planets found with human life— beginning the Human Covenant war which lasted from February 2525 until December 2552. (Niner’s canonpoint is most likely somewhere in between 2540 and 2546 but it’s never made clear. It’s easily handwaved.)
And that’s about all she’d know that isn’t explicitly stated in RVB canon so that’s that.
During seasons 9 and 10 of Red vs Blue there is much that goes on that is actually a prequel to season 1, and that’s where most of the information on Four Seven Niner comes from. During the period of time labeled as “many years ago” she was a pelican dropship pilot assigned to the UNSC Mother of Invention, who went by the callsign “Four Seven Niner”. She works for a project called Freelancer, that experiments with matching specialized soldiers with aggressive AI. Each agent was codenamed after one of the United States, is given power armor, an enhancement, and an AI. She was first introduced in the season 9 trailer but as that has been confirmed to be non—canon I will not discuss that. Instead I will go into the events of the season itself.
During the episode “Evacuation” Agents North and South sneak into an enemy oil drill facility to recover information from what we are later told are UNSC insurrectionists. South becomes reckless and causes a guard to alert the station of the Freelancer’s presence and Agent Carolina is forced to step in when the twins are cornered. After a battle in which North gets injured, Carolina grabs both the twins and jumps off the side rail of a platform onto a pelican driven by four seven niner. She and Carolina are very clearly the extraction team and once the three Freelancers are inside she drives off, though not without a sarcastic exchange with Carolina when told she’s late. The following episode is basically the equivalent of a car chase sequence where she pilots the dropship while under heavy fire from two swordships in an attempt to make it to the Rendezvous point before the entire team gets left behind. Thanks to her handiwork, and the bubbleshield armor enhancement of Agent North, they barely make it and the Mother of Invention shoots down the two fighter jets.
She appears next in the planning session for the following Freelancer mission to recover an object called “the Sarcophagus” as well as a briefcase with the security codes to open said object. The operatives, both Freelancer and regular staff such as herself, are given a symbol that will appear on the object but they are not told what it is or its exact size beyond said symbol. She informs the Freelancers that she has equipped the pelican for fast running only, which means that there will be no weapons onboard and none of the Freelancers themselves can bring any heavy equipment with them.
The Sarcophagus was located on a high level of a 101 story building, and on breaking in the Freelancers discover that lo and behold its big and heavy. Carolina gets an idea and they get it to the top of a building by using Agent Maine as a counter weight in a pully system and call for 479 as soon as they’ve done that. However, the Insurrectionists corner them on top of the building with the intent to keep them there. The Director has other plans, and provides a distraction of sorts. He fires the main cannon heavy artillery of the Mother Of Invention into the building and when Agent Texas knocks the objective off the building with the Freelancers following by jumping off of the building she is of course expected to be there to catch them. She pulls off the stunt by flying straight at the ground so that the Freelancers can line it up with the cargo bay and luckily Agent Texas knocks the objective in as well as Agent Washington. She proceeds to report the sucess to command and return to base. The overall mission ends up a success, with Agent Texas taking the credit, and Agent Maine being severely injured with multiple bullets taken to the neck rendering him mute for the rest of the series.
The next time we see her is in the next season, again in the first mission we see. The Insurrectionists have holed up in a space junkyard and the Freelancers are trying to capture the leader of the Insurrection. Once Agent York fails to open the doors for them, she and several other dropship pilots start taking in teams via dropship to engage the enemy. Hers is once again a team composed of high ranking Freelancers with Agent Carolina in charge. 479er’s job is to drive them as close to the main entrance and drop them off so they can take the rest of the route by jetpack. On arrival however, Agent Connecticut goes missing and as it turns out she’s a traitor. Connecticut assists the Rebel Leader to leave and goes with him, taking valuable information as well as a suit of armor and enhancements. The Rebels disappear and hide in their own baseship, the Staff of Charon, and only leave once the Freelancers start to wonder where they’ve disappeared to. They stop the Mother of Invention from following by dropping a nuclear device. 479er’s pelican picks up on the device, and she immediately sends an alarm to the Freelancer team who she then picks up and gets to safety.
Of course, Connecticut’s traitorism cannot go unpunished so the next mission is to go recover her equipment as well as being another attempt to capture the leader of the Insurrection. The next time we see 479er she’s prepping for the mission and stops the Freelancer team being sent to harass the AI Delta who she hasn’t met yet. She was not informed about the AI though in her canon Ai in general are common enough, and she does question it a little before allowing the Freelancers to board her ship.
On arrival at the enemy base she decides the best way to get the team inside is to go straight down, so she pulls another stunt and shuts the engines off. With Delta’s help she turns them on at the last possible second to prevent crashing and delivers the team. This mission is a complete and utter failure of the main objectives though the defeat of much of the Insurrectionist forces could be considered a victory. Texas sticks two axes into Connecticut’s abdomen and is stopped from finishing her off by Agent Carolina. The Insurrectionist leader takes Connecticut to an escape pod while the two argue and the escape pod does what it does best. Escape. Consequential to the two axes to the abdomen Connecticut dies, and the Insurrectionist leader takes her armor. 479er performs extraction, and a very defeated-feeling team goes home.
She actually doesn’t appear for the rest of the season but it’s been confirmed the nothing new happens to her until after the last prequel scene in season 10, thus the canonpoint I have chosen. However this does not mean that is all Canon has on her.
Four Seven Niner was in fact first introduced during the miniseries Recovery One under the callsign “Command”, running the Recovery Force for the UNSC program Project Freelancer. It has been confirmed by word of god (AKA Burnie Burns, who writes the series) and a joke in canon that she was promoted to this office. She was tasked with assigning orders and providing intelligence to Recovery Agents who recovered experimental AI units and prototype armor enhancements assigned to the various Project Freelancer agents in the field. Whenever an agent with an AI was injured or came under heavy fire a Recovery Beacon system built into their suits would go off and immediately notify the nearest Recovery Agents with an alarm, but only she was able to tell them which Agent it was and give exact coordinates. Recovery Beacons had several priority designations, with 0 being the highest known to most operatives.
During the events of Recovery One, Washington is sent to recover Agent York who was killed following the events of the Out of Mind miniseries, which results in Agent Washington recovering the Delta AI. Immediately after another Recovery Beacon comes in for Agent North Dakota, level zero due to his possession of Theta, and his twin sister Agent South Dakota. Washington comments that this is the fifth recovery beacon to go off during that month. Upon reaching the twins it is clear that North was killed and Theta was taken along with the Freelancer's enhancement. Agent South, on the other hand, was still alive. Agent Washington states that all the killed Freelancers besides York had their AI and/or enhancements taken. Apparently the Agents are being hunted.
So obviously the thing to do is order the remaining twin to be killed, which is exactly what Command does. She tells Agent Washington to kill Agent South, although she doesn't say it outright and simply says that they “need a full recovery of the current incident,” directly stating that on top of the Recovery Beacon being level 0 her orders are now level 0 as well (which implies that the Director of Project Freelancer himself is behind these orders.) Washington proceeds to pretend to comply, ordering Delta to lie and tell her that he has killed Agent South, but secretly keeps the other agent alive. The two then take Delta and face the unknown entity that is hunting down Freelancers and taking their stuff. Except once Delta is given to Agent South, she proceeds to shoot Washington in the back and it turns out that Command was given enough of a detailed psych profile that it was predicted exactly what Wash would do and South had been given orders of her own. She knew that Agent South was going to be left alive and that she would shoot Washington when it came down to the final confrontation and in fact pretty much ordered it to happen. Either way there would be one less Freelancer at the end of it. And of course, she also knew that South was Recovery Two and as much a Recovery Agent as Washington was. What she didn't realize was that South would take off in a ship and go rogue the moment the hunter took the bait of Washington bleeding out on the ground, and as it turns out thats exactly what happened. Command warns South that she will be found if she runs, but is told that its not the Project the agent was worried about.
The next time in the series Command pops up again is during the sixth season, Reconstruction. Due to the wounds inflicted by Agent South, Washington was put out of commission for a while. However he is returned to the field when his wounds have healed and once again we hear Command giving him instructions via radio. Apparently the hunter is calling itself the Meta, and it has aquired even more AI including the Omega AI which travels via radio as well as several others. Due to the Omega AI being obtained she orders Washington to a pair of old bases set in the middle of a Box Canyon called Blood Gulch. This of course is where the first five seasons took place, and he is ordered to start investigations there considering that was the last known location of the Omega AI. Notably she starts calling him “Wash” and “Agent Washington” instead of “Recovery One” during this time, and is also not quite as bitter-sounding during this period of time. Washington finds two simulation troopers who used to work in said Box Canyon familiar with the Omega AI and continues the search under her orders. Eventually a recovery beacon goes off, as the Meta has found Agent South who is still in possession of Delta. Another interesting note- she specifically says “she's in trouble Wash” rather than simply ordering her to the location. South ends up dead and Wash relays the information to her, but it isn't long until another Beacon goes off for Agent Maine. Apparently the thing hunting the Freelancer is a former Freelancer who is, as stated Maine. Communications get cut while she attempts to get Washington the coordinates however and that's the last we hear of her though it is later implied anyone working for Project Freelancer went to jail. So that's where she probably is, unfortunately.
Personality:
Niner is not exactly a large woman, being the second shortest human character in canon , but what she’s lacking in size she definitely makes up for in personality and force. She’s nowhere near as strong or intimidating as the Freelancers physically, but she demands respect from them and would demand the same of anyone else no matter who or what they are. In other words, she is a strong independant pilot woman who don’t need no one. You know, unless she does need something or someone in which case she asks. No issues with lone-wolfing here.
She’s one of the best cases of deadpan snarker in canon, tending to whip remarks out whenever she feels they’re deserved but she sticks to banter for the most part. Those who treat her respect tend to have hers, and she’s not likely to be verbally malicious though she’s probably capable of it if she wants to be.
Her sense of humor is also not for everyone. She stops Delta (one of the experimental Freelancer AI) from boarding her ship and says in a completely serious-sounding tone that she suspects it’s trying to take her job until it tells her it cannot fly a plane. Considering less than 5 minutes later she asks Delta for help pulling off a dangerous maneuver and seems to know what he is capable of doing already, and that AI are fairly well known in Halo universe, it can most likely be assumed she’s not actually AI-racist and was in fact joking.
One of her pet peeves is redundancy. She never responds well when someone states the obvious or repeats what she said back to her. Statements like “Thats bad” when she said the enemy has a missile aimed at them, or “thats high” when talking about flying 75000 feet directly above the enemy base tend to get annoyed and exasperated remarks in return. When Agent South tells continues to tell her to “try harder” in the middle of an escape sequence Niner even shuts the cabin door on the agent with barely any warning. Apparently distractions while she’s doing her job are also not something she likes either.
She’s bossy and has been seen making a grunt’s life miserable while trying to move a box in the hangar, repeatedly making the man move said box until the scene is over, but seems to have no issues following orders. She will comment on those orders, but she will follow them. As someone who works for a black-ops project and knows it, she seems aware of the amount of trouble that failure could possibly cause.
One of the reasons I did give a summary of season 6 and Recovery One in her history is because, while partially irrelevant to who she is at this canon point, it shows what she is capable of doing in the right circumstances. She can totally send former teammates to die and kill each other if it comes down to it. She did it because of orders, but she still was responsible for Wash getting shot and South’s death in the long run. She totally was bitter at a desk job that she clearly never wanted despite it technically being a promotion. And she definitely does adjust eventually and sound more at ease with said desk job as time goes on. She adapts because she has to, and appears to be a Freelancer loyalist when its clear many of her teammates have left for various reasons. It’s unclear why, but what is clear is that her loyalties don’t change easily.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
- She is an above-average pilot
-She has also displayed some strategic planning skills.
-She’s gone through basic training like any other UNSC operative. Therefore she knows how to properly use a gun, and is capable of basic hand to hand combat.
- Most likely she’s got slightly above average reflexes considering she was a pilot working for a super competitive group, but otherwise she’s 100% normal.
- On the flip side, she’s small. Therefore she’s got a disadvantage when to comes to physical combat.
Inventory:
- pistol and holster as shown here . Already loaded but no extra clips.
- Her canon armor as shown here. Unlike the Freelancers hers is nothing special, just black underarmor and some metal plating with a radio piece in the helmet.
Appearance:
In armor she looks like this. All we know in canon beyond her armor is that she’s short and small. Im using Grace Park as a PB, as seen here.
Age: Unknown beyond “late 20’s to early 30's” according to Word of God so Im going with 28 until I hear otherwise.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
She’s been through cryosleep before. Anyone working for the UNSC has to be trained for it, and it’s pretty standard stuff. Whatever the hell it is she just woke up in was far from standard. For one thing, the goo. And the thing jammed down her throat. And the fact that nothing she’s looking at looks remotely like UNSC technology. Also not remembering where she is tends to be a clear sign of this not being a standard op, and getting up with shaky legs she’s trying to find anything she recognizes at all.
“Son of a bitch”
Because there's about nothing else she can say right now that sufficiently states her confusion, the pain in her head not making it any easier either. She starts mentally going off a checklist of what the hell could have possibly happened to get her here- a failed mission, maybe. But they wouldn’t have just left her out without an armed guard then, and most likely she’s not valuable enough to keep alive. She’s just the pilot, after all. Might be something she volunteered for but again, she doesn’t remember that either.
She spots people moving, and after watching for a little she follows. No one seems to be paying her much attention so she doesn’t pay them attention either. She’ll start demanding answers as soon as she knows she’s not in trouble, but till then she’s staying focused on finding out where she is. By the time she’s through the showers and found her locker she hasn’t found much, though. And when she finds her armor in said locker, well. She’s ready to demand some answers from just about anyone.
Comms Sample:
[479er’s smart enough to wait five minutes until she checks what other people have said on the network before saying anything, and she’s pretty unhappy with what she finds. Lots of people seem to not know where they are, so she’s not alone. Enough look like civilians that she’s going to try and track down who’s in charge. Which is great because she’s definitely assuming everyone here is from her universe. And finding a captain or commander to report in to might solve more problems than whining on a network.]
As far as I can tell most of us are in the same boat so how about I try and ask something useful.
Is there anyone around here who works for the UNSC? Who’s in charge?
Your Name:Niriall
OOC Journal: Niriall
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: nope
Email + IM: nirial.mf@gmail.com + niriall
Characters Played at Ataraxion: n/a
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: 479’er
Canon: Red vs Blue
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point:Season 10, Episode 15
Number: requesting 009, and if not that then 079
Setting:
Red Vs Blue (that actual canon): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue
Halo (The basics of RVB are based off this canon but its not necessary beyond the summary I put in the history section):http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
History:
Related Halo Canon (she’d be aware of this much):
Halo Canon: In the 26th century humans have spread to the stars, and as such have moved on to live in star systems much farther off— colonizing planets as they saw fit. As history has shown— the larger a human empire grows the more likely there is to be civil war. Many colonies did not want to be ruled by a government based far from where they were located. These colonies rebelled, and were known as insurrectionists.
Previously unknown to the humans, a group of aliens (urged by their leaders, the Prophets) began to attack and subsequently destroy planets found with human life— beginning the Human Covenant war which lasted from February 2525 until December 2552. (Niner’s canonpoint is most likely somewhere in between 2540 and 2546 but it’s never made clear. It’s easily handwaved.)
And that’s about all she’d know that isn’t explicitly stated in RVB canon so that’s that.
During seasons 9 and 10 of Red vs Blue there is much that goes on that is actually a prequel to season 1, and that’s where most of the information on Four Seven Niner comes from. During the period of time labeled as “many years ago” she was a pelican dropship pilot assigned to the UNSC Mother of Invention, who went by the callsign “Four Seven Niner”. She works for a project called Freelancer, that experiments with matching specialized soldiers with aggressive AI. Each agent was codenamed after one of the United States, is given power armor, an enhancement, and an AI. She was first introduced in the season 9 trailer but as that has been confirmed to be non—canon I will not discuss that. Instead I will go into the events of the season itself.
During the episode “Evacuation” Agents North and South sneak into an enemy oil drill facility to recover information from what we are later told are UNSC insurrectionists. South becomes reckless and causes a guard to alert the station of the Freelancer’s presence and Agent Carolina is forced to step in when the twins are cornered. After a battle in which North gets injured, Carolina grabs both the twins and jumps off the side rail of a platform onto a pelican driven by four seven niner. She and Carolina are very clearly the extraction team and once the three Freelancers are inside she drives off, though not without a sarcastic exchange with Carolina when told she’s late. The following episode is basically the equivalent of a car chase sequence where she pilots the dropship while under heavy fire from two swordships in an attempt to make it to the Rendezvous point before the entire team gets left behind. Thanks to her handiwork, and the bubbleshield armor enhancement of Agent North, they barely make it and the Mother of Invention shoots down the two fighter jets.
She appears next in the planning session for the following Freelancer mission to recover an object called “the Sarcophagus” as well as a briefcase with the security codes to open said object. The operatives, both Freelancer and regular staff such as herself, are given a symbol that will appear on the object but they are not told what it is or its exact size beyond said symbol. She informs the Freelancers that she has equipped the pelican for fast running only, which means that there will be no weapons onboard and none of the Freelancers themselves can bring any heavy equipment with them.
The Sarcophagus was located on a high level of a 101 story building, and on breaking in the Freelancers discover that lo and behold its big and heavy. Carolina gets an idea and they get it to the top of a building by using Agent Maine as a counter weight in a pully system and call for 479 as soon as they’ve done that. However, the Insurrectionists corner them on top of the building with the intent to keep them there. The Director has other plans, and provides a distraction of sorts. He fires the
The next time we see her is in the next season, again in the first mission we see. The Insurrectionists have holed up in a space junkyard and the Freelancers are trying to capture the leader of the Insurrection. Once Agent York fails to open the doors for them, she and several other dropship pilots start taking in teams via dropship to engage the enemy. Hers is once again a team composed of high ranking Freelancers with Agent Carolina in charge. 479er’s job is to drive them as close to the main entrance and drop them off so they can take the rest of the route by jetpack. On arrival however, Agent Connecticut goes missing and as it turns out she’s a traitor. Connecticut assists the Rebel Leader to leave and goes with him, taking valuable information as well as a suit of armor and enhancements. The Rebels disappear and hide in their own baseship, the Staff of Charon, and only leave once the Freelancers start to wonder where they’ve disappeared to. They stop the Mother of Invention from following by dropping a nuclear device. 479er’s pelican picks up on the device, and she immediately sends an alarm to the Freelancer team who she then picks up and gets to safety.
Of course, Connecticut’s traitorism cannot go unpunished so the next mission is to go recover her equipment as well as being another attempt to capture the leader of the Insurrection. The next time we see 479er she’s prepping for the mission and stops the Freelancer team being sent to harass the AI Delta who she hasn’t met yet. She was not informed about the AI though in her canon Ai in general are common enough, and she does question it a little before allowing the Freelancers to board her ship.
On arrival at the enemy base she decides the best way to get the team inside is to go straight down, so she pulls another stunt and shuts the engines off. With Delta’s help she turns them on at the last possible second to prevent crashing and delivers the team. This mission is a complete and utter failure of the main objectives though the defeat of much of the Insurrectionist forces could be considered a victory. Texas sticks two axes into Connecticut’s abdomen and is stopped from finishing her off by Agent Carolina. The Insurrectionist leader takes Connecticut to an escape pod while the two argue and the escape pod does what it does best. Escape. Consequential to the two axes to the abdomen Connecticut dies, and the Insurrectionist leader takes her armor. 479er performs extraction, and a very defeated-feeling team goes home.
She actually doesn’t appear for the rest of the season but it’s been confirmed the nothing new happens to her until after the last prequel scene in season 10, thus the canonpoint I have chosen. However this does not mean that is all Canon has on her.
Four Seven Niner was in fact first introduced during the miniseries Recovery One under the callsign “Command”, running the Recovery Force for the UNSC program Project Freelancer. It has been confirmed by word of god (AKA Burnie Burns, who writes the series) and a joke in canon that she was promoted to this office. She was tasked with assigning orders and providing intelligence to Recovery Agents who recovered experimental AI units and prototype armor enhancements assigned to the various Project Freelancer agents in the field. Whenever an agent with an AI was injured or came under heavy fire a Recovery Beacon system built into their suits would go off and immediately notify the nearest Recovery Agents with an alarm, but only she was able to tell them which Agent it was and give exact coordinates. Recovery Beacons had several priority designations, with 0 being the highest known to most operatives.
During the events of Recovery One, Washington is sent to recover Agent York who was killed following the events of the Out of Mind miniseries, which results in Agent Washington recovering the Delta AI. Immediately after another Recovery Beacon comes in for Agent North Dakota, level zero due to his possession of Theta, and his twin sister Agent South Dakota. Washington comments that this is the fifth recovery beacon to go off during that month. Upon reaching the twins it is clear that North was killed and Theta was taken along with the Freelancer's enhancement. Agent South, on the other hand, was still alive. Agent Washington states that all the killed Freelancers besides York had their AI and/or enhancements taken. Apparently the Agents are being hunted.
So obviously the thing to do is order the remaining twin to be killed, which is exactly what Command does. She tells Agent Washington to kill Agent South, although she doesn't say it outright and simply says that they “need a full recovery of the current incident,” directly stating that on top of the Recovery Beacon being level 0 her orders are now level 0 as well (which implies that the Director of Project Freelancer himself is behind these orders.) Washington proceeds to pretend to comply, ordering Delta to lie and tell her that he has killed Agent South, but secretly keeps the other agent alive. The two then take Delta and face the unknown entity that is hunting down Freelancers and taking their stuff. Except once Delta is given to Agent South, she proceeds to shoot Washington in the back and it turns out that Command was given enough of a detailed psych profile that it was predicted exactly what Wash would do and South had been given orders of her own. She knew that Agent South was going to be left alive and that she would shoot Washington when it came down to the final confrontation and in fact pretty much ordered it to happen. Either way there would be one less Freelancer at the end of it. And of course, she also knew that South was Recovery Two and as much a Recovery Agent as Washington was. What she didn't realize was that South would take off in a ship and go rogue the moment the hunter took the bait of Washington bleeding out on the ground, and as it turns out thats exactly what happened. Command warns South that she will be found if she runs, but is told that its not the Project the agent was worried about.
The next time in the series Command pops up again is during the sixth season, Reconstruction. Due to the wounds inflicted by Agent South, Washington was put out of commission for a while. However he is returned to the field when his wounds have healed and once again we hear Command giving him instructions via radio. Apparently the hunter is calling itself the Meta, and it has aquired even more AI including the Omega AI which travels via radio as well as several others. Due to the Omega AI being obtained she orders Washington to a pair of old bases set in the middle of a Box Canyon called Blood Gulch. This of course is where the first five seasons took place, and he is ordered to start investigations there considering that was the last known location of the Omega AI. Notably she starts calling him “Wash” and “Agent Washington” instead of “Recovery One” during this time, and is also not quite as bitter-sounding during this period of time. Washington finds two simulation troopers who used to work in said Box Canyon familiar with the Omega AI and continues the search under her orders. Eventually a recovery beacon goes off, as the Meta has found Agent South who is still in possession of Delta. Another interesting note- she specifically says “she's in trouble Wash” rather than simply ordering her to the location. South ends up dead and Wash relays the information to her, but it isn't long until another Beacon goes off for Agent Maine. Apparently the thing hunting the Freelancer is a former Freelancer who is, as stated Maine. Communications get cut while she attempts to get Washington the coordinates however and that's the last we hear of her though it is later implied anyone working for Project Freelancer went to jail. So that's where she probably is, unfortunately.
Personality:
Niner is not exactly a large woman, being the second shortest human character in canon , but what she’s lacking in size she definitely makes up for in personality and force. She’s nowhere near as strong or intimidating as the Freelancers physically, but she demands respect from them and would demand the same of anyone else no matter who or what they are. In other words, she is a strong independant pilot woman who don’t need no one. You know, unless she does need something or someone in which case she asks. No issues with lone-wolfing here.
She’s one of the best cases of deadpan snarker in canon, tending to whip remarks out whenever she feels they’re deserved but she sticks to banter for the most part. Those who treat her respect tend to have hers, and she’s not likely to be verbally malicious though she’s probably capable of it if she wants to be.
Her sense of humor is also not for everyone. She stops Delta (one of the experimental Freelancer AI) from boarding her ship and says in a completely serious-sounding tone that she suspects it’s trying to take her job until it tells her it cannot fly a plane. Considering less than 5 minutes later she asks Delta for help pulling off a dangerous maneuver and seems to know what he is capable of doing already, and that AI are fairly well known in Halo universe, it can most likely be assumed she’s not actually AI-racist and was in fact joking.
One of her pet peeves is redundancy. She never responds well when someone states the obvious or repeats what she said back to her. Statements like “Thats bad” when she said the enemy has a missile aimed at them, or “thats high” when talking about flying 75000 feet directly above the enemy base tend to get annoyed and exasperated remarks in return. When Agent South tells continues to tell her to “try harder” in the middle of an escape sequence Niner even shuts the cabin door on the agent with barely any warning. Apparently distractions while she’s doing her job are also not something she likes either.
She’s bossy and has been seen making a grunt’s life miserable while trying to move a box in the hangar, repeatedly making the man move said box until the scene is over, but seems to have no issues following orders. She will comment on those orders, but she will follow them. As someone who works for a black-ops project and knows it, she seems aware of the amount of trouble that failure could possibly cause.
One of the reasons I did give a summary of season 6 and Recovery One in her history is because, while partially irrelevant to who she is at this canon point, it shows what she is capable of doing in the right circumstances. She can totally send former teammates to die and kill each other if it comes down to it. She did it because of orders, but she still was responsible for Wash getting shot and South’s death in the long run. She totally was bitter at a desk job that she clearly never wanted despite it technically being a promotion. And she definitely does adjust eventually and sound more at ease with said desk job as time goes on. She adapts because she has to, and appears to be a Freelancer loyalist when its clear many of her teammates have left for various reasons. It’s unclear why, but what is clear is that her loyalties don’t change easily.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
- She is an above-average pilot
-She has also displayed some strategic planning skills.
-She’s gone through basic training like any other UNSC operative. Therefore she knows how to properly use a gun, and is capable of basic hand to hand combat.
- Most likely she’s got slightly above average reflexes considering she was a pilot working for a super competitive group, but otherwise she’s 100% normal.
- On the flip side, she’s small. Therefore she’s got a disadvantage when to comes to physical combat.
Inventory:
- pistol and holster as shown here . Already loaded but no extra clips.
- Her canon armor as shown here. Unlike the Freelancers hers is nothing special, just black underarmor and some metal plating with a radio piece in the helmet.
Appearance:
In armor she looks like this. All we know in canon beyond her armor is that she’s short and small. Im using Grace Park as a PB, as seen here.
Age: Unknown beyond “late 20’s to early 30's” according to Word of God so Im going with 28 until I hear otherwise.
S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
She’s been through cryosleep before. Anyone working for the UNSC has to be trained for it, and it’s pretty standard stuff. Whatever the hell it is she just woke up in was far from standard. For one thing, the goo. And the thing jammed down her throat. And the fact that nothing she’s looking at looks remotely like UNSC technology. Also not remembering where she is tends to be a clear sign of this not being a standard op, and getting up with shaky legs she’s trying to find anything she recognizes at all.
“Son of a bitch”
Because there's about nothing else she can say right now that sufficiently states her confusion, the pain in her head not making it any easier either. She starts mentally going off a checklist of what the hell could have possibly happened to get her here- a failed mission, maybe. But they wouldn’t have just left her out without an armed guard then, and most likely she’s not valuable enough to keep alive. She’s just the pilot, after all. Might be something she volunteered for but again, she doesn’t remember that either.
She spots people moving, and after watching for a little she follows. No one seems to be paying her much attention so she doesn’t pay them attention either. She’ll start demanding answers as soon as she knows she’s not in trouble, but till then she’s staying focused on finding out where she is. By the time she’s through the showers and found her locker she hasn’t found much, though. And when she finds her armor in said locker, well. She’s ready to demand some answers from just about anyone.
Comms Sample:
[479er’s smart enough to wait five minutes until she checks what other people have said on the network before saying anything, and she’s pretty unhappy with what she finds. Lots of people seem to not know where they are, so she’s not alone. Enough look like civilians that she’s going to try and track down who’s in charge. Which is great because she’s definitely assuming everyone here is from her universe. And finding a captain or commander to report in to might solve more problems than whining on a network.]
As far as I can tell most of us are in the same boat so how about I try and ask something useful.
Is there anyone around here who works for the UNSC? Who’s in charge?
