User blog comment:The Pale Kestrl/Anton, Li and NCF Articles/@comment-1009967-20130721102305

Oh, boy, this is gonna start a whole 'nother round of listy points and counter-points, ain't it? I came up with that idea a while ago, and it's only because of the recent debate about B312 that I wonder about it. Because, upon reflection, Ajax's explanation of B312 surviving really is plausible. And at any rate, more plausible than Anton and Li surviving, with all the possibilities inherent with slipspace's handwavy mysteries. The reason I wouldn't have a problem with the latter two surviving while I do have a problem with B312 is their relative significance to Halo canon. Anton and Li are at best minor characters, and more bluntly, redshirt Spartans, and that I absolutely hate. If they're just taking up Spartan tags we need for expanded universes, they're as useless as the Halo: Legends Spartans (Ell's expansions aside, but really, Cal? The whole twist of Babysitter was the Spartan was a woman, are we not past--okay this sidebar's getting too long). B312 on the other hand is a main game character, whose death is led up to through the whole game and represents the final, metaphorical fall of Reach. So, what's to be done? Halo Fanon makes its living on loopholes and caveats that allow characters to survive ordeals like that, and to allow an Anton or Li expansion when B312 isn't allowed to survive (and have universes that completely ignore 343i canon) is a big double standard. But at the same time, we've prided ourselves on making choices that put us ahead of other fanficcers, and the survival of a main character when they were supposed to die is a fanfiction.net-quality move. I think in the end it's going to come down to a vote whether survivor Noble Sixes should be allowed, and abiding by the decision of the majority. But as I stated once before, neither side will be left completely satisfied, because being right ain't a democracy and neither choice will be vindicated as the right one, only that of the majority. I, for one, can be put down as a vote against allowing surviving Noble Sixes.