Amelia Hope

Corporal Amelia Hope (Service Number 83349-18422-AH) was a member of the ODST squad Delta-Three and died aboard the UNSC Arrow Flight. She was the daughter of former marine and squad leader Samuel Hope.

Early Life
Hope was born and raised in the URNA on Earth, while her father fought in the war. After her father died during the Battle of Alluvion in 2542, Hope made plans to join the marines.

Three years after her father's death, one of his men, Turner, was relieved of duty and brought home to Earth, where he met up with Hope. After talking about some of the battles he fought in alongside Samuel, he gave Hope her father's dog tags, stating that she "need[ed] them more than [him]."

Marine
Hope joined the marines the following year, eventually achieving the rank of Sergeant before transferring to the ODSTs.

ODST
As an ODST, Hope was a member of Delta-Three alongside Jet Thompson, Isaac Anderson, and four other ODSTs. Due to an incident in early 2551 resulting in then-Corporal Thompson being hurled into a holo-projector by Hope, she and Thompson were both demoted (with Hope demoted to Corporal and Thompson demoted to Lance Corporal). Hope and Thompson became great friends after the incident.

Dog Tags
"These tags... they belonged to your father, my squad leader. Take them, you need them more than me."

- Turner, to Amelia

Amelia carried a pair of dog tags under her right shoulder pad. Amelia's father, Samuel Hope, wore the dog tags around his neck, adding yet another means of identification atop his neural interface and the printed label on his shoulder pad. After he died during the Battle of Alluvion, one of Samuel's men, Turner, brought the tags back as a keepsake.

The dog tags were given to Amelia in 2545, when Turner was wounded in action and relieved of duty. The tags supposedly gave Samuel luck, and Amelia kept them when she joined the Marines.

The tags were recovered by Thompson shortly after Hope's death aboard the Arrow Flight.

Trivia

 * Unlike Thompson and Anderson, Hope's ODST helmet did not come equipped with a helmet camera. The reason for this is unknown.
 * She is the first main character to die in the roleplay The Hunted.

Behind the Scenes

 * Hope was originally created to be nothing more than a redshirt character in The Hunted. From her character's creation the author knew that she would die during the "Crash Post."
 * The original concept of the Crash Post was only going to be the fight in the hallway (which is now on its own as Post 16), where Hope would have died from a plasma shot to the heart. When the hangar scene took longer than expected, the Crash Post had to be rewritten, although Hope still died during it due to plot constraints.

Appearances

 * The Hunted