User:DirgeOfCerberus111/Serge-011

Early Life and SPARTAN Training
"I knew you were dangerous. I could tell from the moment you spoke you were dangerous. What I didn’t know was how far I needed to run."

- Serge-011 to Dr. Halsey regarding their first meeting.

"I don’t hate you, you know. At first I was angry and I did, but I look a little more and see you’re not happy either. You’re actually sorry and you try your best. I don’t like you, but I don’t hate you. I could try, but it just won’t work."

- Serge-011 to Dr. Halsey.

Personality
Serge was brave, steadfast, and immensely loyal to his friends. Compassion, empathy. Despite being the largest and outwardly the most intimidating, Serge was very much ____. What few knew was that Serge possessed a volcanis temper. He was slow to anger and not easily offended but when provoked or triggered it was explosive.

Despite years of training and decades of warfare he was very much still connected to his emotions and could still empathize much easier than other Spartans. He possessed an incredible situational awareness and observational skills. He was excellent at reading people’s emotions and knowing how to support them. Serge was exceptionally protective of his Spartan-siblings, especially those of White Team.

Possessed a strong self-sacrificing nature. His concern for his friends bordered on unhealthy. Serge seemed determined to carry everyone else’s burdens on his own shoulders. Later psychological evaluations revealed that his mental health relied heavily to the well-being of his teammates. Serge’s empathetic nature was ill-suited to the horrors of war and continued presence and support of his teammates were what held him together. Slowly losing his teammates had put a huge toll on his mind and as the war progressed he became increasingly desperate to protect what few friends he had left.

By the end of the war Serge’s heart had become cold and had closed himself off from others. His kind and compassionate personality was now angry, bitter, and sullen. Nearly thirty years of war the loss of his teammates and the belief that he was the last Spartan-Il, however erroneous, had embittered him. At times, especially around the Spartan-IVs, he was harsh and short-fused, sometimes with barely contained fury and frustration. He suffered clear signs of post-traumatic stress as he rarely slept and suffered frequent nightmares.

In his time on the UNSC Infinity he was somewhat arrogant of his Spartan-II status and dismissive of the IVs, sometimes referred to as a “Spartan-supremacist” He hated the Spartan-IVs and what they represented along with their lack of discipline and professionalism. He did make an effort to keep his feelings to himself but several times he was provoked resulting in incidents. Interestingly, these “incidents” did not extend beyond the confines of the ship as conflicts during missions were almost zero. Coordination with orders and other fireteams was uneventful. When inquired about the difference his response was “On the ship they are insufferable second-rate imitations. But on the battlefield they are just fellow soldiers.” Ruled as the undefeated champion in the Saturday Night Cage Fights, soundly beating Fireteam Sydney. Never did he fight more fiercely than in those cage fights, believing that he was defending the memory of his siblings.

Eventually Serge began to show signs of healing and parts of his old persona shone through. Though he was at first disturbed by the Spartan-IIIs after the war he became protective of the young Spartans, especially of Adrian-G293 and Serissa–G107 and came to regard the IIIs as genuine Spartans and took almost a parental role in watching over them. On the Infinity Serge was somewhat of a celebrity among the Gamma Spartans who affectionately referred to him as the Old Man, a name made at his expense but one with a degree of respect. Serge spent most of his free time around them and they were the only ones he seemed to open up to. Certainly his mood was better around them.

Slowly his hatred of the IVs cooled into a more specific distain for those who squander the title of Spartan.