Doug-103

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Master Chief Petty Officer Douglas Baker-103, often shortened to just Doug, is a class 1 SPARTAN-II. Born to Australians on Earth and later moving to Reach, like all SPARTAN-IIs he was ripped from his family and conscripted into the program. During his training as a young SPARTAN, he discovered he had an affinity for heavier weapons, such as heavy machine guns and was exceptionally good at sabotage. When he was deployed, he found himself fighting against the Insurrection before being brought over to fight in the Human-Covenant War. He is one of the few SPARTAN-IIs to have survived the war, and showed no sign of faltering.

Early History
Douglas lived a rather peaceful life in the colony of Reach when his parents moved there. Originally born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, his family caught a ride to Reach when they could and lived in New Alexandria for several years. Three years after moving, the six-year-old Doug was abducted by ONI and brought into the SPARTAN-II program. As stated earlier, he discovered he had a penchant for heavier weaponry and was often used for escorting high importance targets. Even after his augmentations, Douglas showed a highly resistant fortitude. He had previously shown himself to be brave, but also to be almost unbreakable. His mental stature continued to show all through his career. It was this spark of nobility, this mental strength that after his deployment, he was explicitly requested by ONI as an enforcer and behind-the-lines saboteur. Once his training had ended and he was officially deployed, he found himself under the Office of Naval Intelligence's wing.

Time with ONI
"So. I'm conflicted on whether I should call her Eggbot, or Maddy."

- Doug-103 on Madeline.

Up into the following battle in 2539, Doug-103 would spend his time in ONI's employ for an extended period. His role as a saboteur and enforcer extended to all kinds of missions - going behind enemy lines, escorting high-importance personnel and gathering all sorts of information. In mid-2532, he was given possession of the "smart" Madeline. The two would spend the next nine years dismantling most Insurrectionist movements where-ever they could, before the situation with the Covenant started to worsen.

During this gloomy era of Doug's existence, he made quite a few bands of Insurrectionists disappear, and if it wasn't for him being diverted to assist the UNSC in the fight against the Covenant, he would have earned the status of "hyper-lethal vector". It was during this time he would earn his status as an expert of a wide variety of weaponry, and the toting of his almost iconic into battle.

Among one of his most successful missions was involvement in the Battle of New Harmony, where he piloted the UNSC Prowler (with Madeline's assistance) and launched a  to a retreating Covenant frigate, which lead to the discovery of, allowing  to take place. This feat was the reason for Doug-103 becoming present at the Battle of Kholo and several other conflicts.

Battle of Kholo and M.I.A
During the Battle of Kholo, Doug-103 was starting to suffer power failures in his armor due to Madeline slipping into rampancy. Originally, Doug planned to get off-world so he could have Madeline decommissioned, so she could no longer feel the pain of rampancy. However, this was sidetracked when a Covenant scouting party destroyed several mining vessels in orbit, halting Doug's original plan. With several other Spartans present at Kholo, they engaged in a ground-level defense.

While the UNSC forces including the SPARTAN-IIs and IIIs managed to hold off the Covenant for an extended period, they were only buying time. The main airbase was soon destroyed and Doug managed to lose his heavy machine gun turret in the middle of a partially collapsed building. During this, he encountered a an "orangey-reddish" armored Sangheili warrior and confronted him in hand-to-hand combat. Before Doug managed to beat him, however, the floor underneath his feet collapsed and he was trapped under rubble under the next few floors.

When he was awake again, he knew time was short. Once he found his machine gun again, he quickly managed to get the rest of the civilians off-world, and decided to establish a foothold on Kholo once he realized he would not be coming back. The Covenant succeeded in their mission and razed Kholo - or most of it - to the ground.

"Maddy, please! I'm sorry, I was planning to take you back to Reach for decommissioning!"

- Doug-103 during his time M.I.A, where Madeline began to slip into rampancy.

"M-m-make it...please, make it stop..."

- Madeline undergoing the effects. It had a traumatizing effect on both herself and Doug.

This time period was when Madeline truly started to feel the effects of rampancy, and this proved to be a problem due to them being away without any UNSC support. For six months, he was bunkered down on the planet with a miniscule human militia effort dedicated to cleaning up any Covenant forces still left on the half-glassed planet. For six months he laid upon a barren rock infested with squid lips, enemy midgets and hulking orange beasts with cannons mounted on where a hand should be. Kholo no doubt took a heavy toll on Doug, as he had to put Madeline to rest when was reunited with UNSC forces in 2540, once an ONI team finally picked him up.

Post-War (Demons of Hope)
Demons of Hope timeline continues here.

Post-War (AAO)
AAO timeline occurs here.

Personality
Doug is wildly regarded as being "irritable" by his peers. This is no more apparent when his brazen lack of seriousness and wisecracking in the middle of gunfights kicks in, which usually gets him shouted at when he's working with people "higher up" than himself. His seriousness can come into play if people are harmed or severely injured, even killed. In these times, he's shown himself to be protective and even noble. Another obvious trait of his is his optimistic outlook. Despite having lived through the entire Human-Covenant War, he still remains unbreakable as ever.

Trivia

 * Doug-103 is a partial insert of the author's personality. More specifically, the author's compassion and sarcastic demeanor.
 * Doug's original armor remains with him all through out Against All Odds, but changes to the new GEN2 armor in Demons of Hope.
 * Doug is not to be confused with the canon Spartan.
 * Doug scored a 20 on the Gary Stu test, classifying it as a not-Gary Stu.
 * Doug could be considered an embodiment of the trope Jerk with a Heart Of Gold. He can give others crap, or he can give them utmost loyalty.
 * Doug is four inches taller than, making him one of the tallest SPARTAN-IIs in the program.