Devante Johnson

"Troopers—Earth is hanging by a thread. There's only one option left to go—and that's to Hell! How do we get there?"

- Dev rallying his fellow ODSTs during.

Devante "Dev" Johnson is a member of the and trained as a. He has participated in several special operations missions and large-scale campaigns during the later years of the. Devante is the son of and, and twin brother to Camilla Johnson, who both joined the UNSC Armed Forces around the same time, inspired by their parent's struggle and actions against the. Devante would survive the perilous campaigns across the Inner Colonies in the 2540s and fight at the, where he would later be acquainted with and fight alongside the fireteam, Spatha during. After Earth had been declared secure, the ODSTs and Spartans formed a strong camaraderie from having eliminating Covenant holdouts on Earth together, leading to both teams later being assigned to the UNSC Theseus in 2554.

Because of the chaos that engulfed the final years of the war, Devante had only received news of the deaths of his sister and father in January 2554 while on deployment away from Earth. Devastated, Devante returned to Earth following the successful seven month campaign to lift the siege of Cambridge against a splinter group. Back on Earth, Devante frantically searched for any family members to contact or notify, but to no avail. It would not be until the Remembrance Day ceremony on February 11, 2554 that he would have a bittersweet reunion with his mother after a decade with no contact.

Following the ceremony, Devante was redeployed aboard the UNSC Theseus as part of Task Force Heth, with the mission to reestablish communications or retake key Outer Colony worlds known, or believed to have avoided a Covenant invasion.