User:TheWakingDream/Jace-B278

{{TWD|Jack Carter| {{Writer|TheWakingDream}} {{Under_Construction}} {{Quote|Death was never an enemy of mine, we were bastard brothers, born of the same cloth, and avoided each other countless times, and we both know we'll meet again}} -- Jack Carter, Headhunter.

Jace Carter was a SPARTAN-III Headhunter, born on September 31st 2531. Unlike most SPARTAN-III cantidates, Jack was given up for adoption, to live a normal life. Born from a secretary of the Office of Naval intelligence, and from a soldier on the front lines. Conceived after meeting one another aboard the UNSC Ashes, the two wished for their son to live a normal life. Jace was an enthusiastic child, described as a trouble-maker, showing little interest in the world around him, locked into his own perfect existence. Blissfully unaware of the Human-Covenant War, and grew to the age of 6 in the St. Peter Orphanage in the North American Union. It was on the dawn of his 6th birthday that he was taken into ONI custody, directly breaking the conduct of the SPARTAN-III Program in a desperate search for additional trainees. Subject-B419 was taken from the world he knew, leaving behind his friends, his home, and his blissful ignorance and the weight of the world was placed upon his shoulders.

Exposed to the reality of his time, his spirit crushed, and his own personal world burned to the ground, Jace was deprived of a true childhood, and the life his parents wished for him to live. Jace's mother had uncovered files about Jace's abduction shortly after the flash-clone's death, her grief turned to anger, feeling betrayed by the same people she had laid down her lives for, she wrote one final diary entry:

{{Quote|''It was horrible, the blissful light in his eyes that kept me going looked long gone, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He was my son... and he never knew me so he could LIVE the life he deserved, and they even took that away from me... They took him away from us.''|Jane Carter}}.

Because Jace was never orphaned or had any reason to fight, he was an outsider to the rest of the SPARTAN-III's, despite displaying brilliant