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| Johan Helnwein
ᛃᛟᚺᚨᚾ ᚺᛖᛚᚾᚹᛖᛁᚾ | |
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Uppsala, Sedra |
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Male |
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Black |
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Blue |
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SPARTAN TAG |
HLWN |
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SERVICE NUMBER |
79811-56632-JH |
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Spartan-IV |
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- "I've learned many things in my years of service. I've learned what can inspire a soldier to fight. I've learned how to kill from miles away. I've learned how to survive in the worst situations possible. Even to do what is required no matter the deed, but my question is, how do I learn to accept what I've done?"
- ―Johan on PTSD
Johan Egger Helnwein (Old Norse: ᛃᛟᚺᚨᚾ ᛖᚷᚷᛖᚱ ᚺᛖᛚᚾᚹᛖᛁᚾ) is a Spartan-IV marksmen for Fireteam Bison. Born to Maja Helnwein and Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, Kaleb Gallagher, in the mountain city of Uppsala on the colony of to Sedra His father died before his birth and was given his mother's last name instead on his birth certificate. Johan grew up hearing stories of service members and their time in and during service leading him to wanting to become part of the UNSCDF, however, this was soon later on forgotten as he grew older. After passing high school and being unable to keep up with college Johan remembered the stories he was told and decided to enlist with the UNSC Marine Corps and later on joined the ODSTs as a sniper for both branches. After the ending of the war, he wondered if it was time to retire but was later approached and offered a spot within the Spartan Branch with the newly formed Spartan-IVs. He has since served within the UNSC as a Spartan since 2555 with Fireteam Bison under the callsign Bison-Two along with five other Spartans.
Service Record for 79811-56632-JH
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Earned Ranks
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Private (E-1) | November 6th, 2544 | Passed UCMBC |
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Private First Class (E-2) | November 6th, 2545 | Year spent in UNSCMC |
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Lance Corporal (E-3) | December 22nd, 2545 | Helping fellow marines and ODSTs in Operation: Knife Patch |
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Corporal (E-4) | TBA | TBA |
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Sergeant (E-5) | TBA | TBA |
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Spartan (S-IV) | TBA | TBA |
Childhood
The city of Uppsala in the Mountains of Sedra.
Max, Johan Grandfather
Born in the early hours of May 17th, 2526 Johan Egger Helnwein came into this world at the Mountains Touch hospital to only his mother, Maja Helnwein and older sister Kimberly, due to his father's death only three months prior. His Father, Kaleb Gallagher a British Inner Colonies ODST, was killed by accidental friendly fire during a planned raid gone wrong, however, it was blamed on the insurrectionists in the official letter sent to the Helnwein residence due to the UNSC wishing to not allow such an incident to be known to them. Johan grew up rather normally like most kids except for his mother working into the late nights and not getting to see neither him or Kimberly as often as she had liked too. Growing up Johan was close to his grandfather, Max, who became the father figure in his life due to the lack of his real father being around. Max owned a bar in the downtown district of Uppsala and owned an apartment above it, letting his daughter-in-law and her children live with him in it due to being unable to keep up with the bills, because of such spent Max spent much of his time outside of work with Johan. He would go on to teach Johan about the outdoors, spending much of his and his grandsons time hunting, fishing, and camping which would later go on and help Johan survive in wild environments during sniper operations that even boot camp hadn't taught him. as Johan continued to grow up in his hometown, soldiers would frequently visit his grandfather's bar and share the stories of their time on the field during their stationing in the city, Johan would overhear these stories whenever he was downstairs with his grandfather. Such stories had begun to fill his head of being a soldier for the UNSC, this dream, however, would die later on in his pre-teen years. Later on in his life, Johan began to struggle in school and found himself barely passing most of his classes, except for a few. Even after such troubles he still passed high school and attempted to go to the local community college only to drop out after his first semester, before he could worry about what to do next, he came across a military recruitment drive going on in the college's main office, as he went to just see what was there to offer he began talking to the Marine recruiter and the stories came flooding back to him, seeing he had no other choice he accepted the recruiters offer to join the Marines. His family was rather upset about his sudden decision, but seeing that he old enough to make his own decisions they still supported his actions. Johan was then sent to the Unified Combined Military Boot Camp in Sedras' capital where he would be assigned to Dog Company of the 21st Infantry Battalion.
- "When I finished signing the papers to drop out of college, I felt lost, or so I thought. There was a military recruitment event going on, and what started out as curiosity ended with me joining the Marines."
- ― Johan on starting in the military.
The Marine Corps Era
First Combat/Attack on Shield Wall Base
- "Most privates got to spend part of their first week learning everything about their new base. I, however, got to spend part of my first week fighting the enemy I was trained against."
- ―Johan
After thirteen weeks of training, Johan finally became a Marine for the UNSC and was soon shipped off to serve for the UEG. His first deployment sent him to the colony of Tyurbash, a planet known for both it's endless mountains and light but also endless winters. The base on the small planet, Shield Wall, was a massive armory and depot meant to resupply the front line on both equipment and soldiers in a short time. However, the war was about to come to the base itself as Covenant forces discovered Tyurbash's location and sent an invading army to it. On the afternoon of November 12th, 2544, three days after Johans' arrival. A Covenant CSO Class Supercarrier named Salvation from Heresy appeared from slipspace and began it's invasion. While many of its forces attacked the small villages and cities in the mountains. It focused most of them on the base, leading to an all-out attack on the base, cutting off not only support for the villages but access to get them evacuated, leaving only the occupants on the base a chance to escape. Johan, like many of the new arrivals on the base they had yet to taste real combat that wasn't simulations or practice, but still, they took to arms and went to fight the Covenant head-on. Armed with his standard issued MA5B ICWS Assault Rifle Johan was given the order, along with the rest of the 21st Infantry Battalion, to hold back the coming forces while both evacuations and reinforcements were prepared.
- "Sources claim the attack on the base was the first time a Norse God's name was uttered. "Týr" name was heard as the Covenant approached their position."
- ― Official statement on Johans presumed Norse Beliefs.
A young Pvt. Helnwein holds back Covenant forces.
After the Covenant made it onto the base perimeter, Johan was part of the first wave of defense that was recorded to have taken heavy casualties within five minutes but was capable of wiping out a good amount of the Covenant forces due to explosives artillery use authorized but was still forced to fall back to the base. Johan along with a few other survivors who made it back began to set up a defensive line in the north tunnel. Due to the bases, few tunnels being it's the only entrance and its anti-air weaponry keeping the skies clear for evacuations. Defending the inside of the base was easier for them as they were capable of collapsing all but one tunnel, forcing Covenant ground forces to move through the north tunnel and into a Killzone guarded by multiple M247H machine guns and small arms weapons, earning the short-lived nickname "Tunnel of Lead". The Tunnel held back covenant forces long enough for a majority of the base to be evacuated but was broken through in three days after other forces sent into the villages finished and went to join in the base assault. Johan was part of the Tunnel of Lead group and was back at the base gathering ammunition when they broke through. After hearing the base was lost, he was ordered to join the last evacuation squad and escaped on November 16th, 2544 over 60% of the personnel of the base were capable of evacuating into safe territory. UNSC Base Shield Wall and Tyurbash were fully glassed on the evening of that same day. Because of the events of Tyurbash Johan would begin his fall into the philosophy of "Survival of the Fittest" due to witnessing of experienced soldiers being killed after hesitating in certain actions and newly trained soldiers showing their worth on the field.
Operation: Knife Patch
- "I'm not allowed to talk about what happened during Operation: Knife Patch, but it's something I won't stop thinking about. If anything I learned how to always question loyalty even at the slightest crack."
- ―part of the log entry of Spartan Helnwein on the 9-year anniversary of Operation Knife Patch.
Operation: Knife Patch, or unofficially referred to as Betrayal Day by the surviving operators that were involved in the mission that was an off the record recovery turned demolition op on December 22nd, 2545 that was led by both ONI and FleetCOM.
The civilian space station turned habitat, Pioneer Station, found itself caught in the war against the Insurrectionist in 2499. In response to this Pioneer Station offered itself to the UNSC and allowed them to store both supplies and soldiers there in case they were ever needed within a quick amount of time, in reality, it was serving the Insurrectionists as many of the people on the station already held Anti-UNSC and UEG ideas. Because many new soldiers were sent to them, it was easy to convince most of them to join the Insurrectionist and act as double agents to help their cause from the inside, because of this they were able to gather inside knowledge of certain tactics and movements, however, in order to ensure that the UNSC wouldn't catch on they would purposely ignore valuable information if the outcome wouldn't damage their plans greatly. This had worked for decades until a poorly encrypted message was sent from the habitat informing the receiver that plans to disrupt the UNSC supply chain to and from Reach with a stolen nuclear device was about to be put into motion, how the Insurrectionists were capable of recovering such a device is still unknown. After the discovery of Pioneer Station's deception ONI was left furious and plans to siege the habitat began immediately to recover both the nuclear device and anyone tied to the plans of the bombing. Original plans had called for the Spartan-IIs but due to the Covenants' constant activity in other locations, they were instead forced to deploy ODSTs and marines that were carefully chosen for both secrecy and loyalty.
Pioneer Station was formed by hollowing out a asteroid close to the size of Ceres. in the outer colonies
- "...My highest concern here Lord Hood is not the innocents who will be caught in the crossfire, but my concern here is to remove these traitors and stop the plans that have been set. Heavy casualties will be no doubt expected on both ends, but it must be done. I will be expecting any evidence of such to stay out of the public eye. So we will be sending in those we see fit to handle this sort of task I understand we don't know who to trust at this moment, but if FleetCOM has faith in these operators, so I must too. I expect no mistakes."
- ―Part of the message sent from Margaret Parangosky to Lord Terrance Hood over Operation: Knife Patch.
The last photo taken from combat footage of Johan and the surviving marine was examined by ONI. Examination showed that Johan was capable of potentially joining the ODSTs.
After plans were made for the operation Johan and his platoon was sent to Pioneer Station with the 3rd ODST platoon of the 15th Shock Troops Battalion. A total of 65 men and women were picked by FleetCOM for this mission with only seven returning, three marines, and six ODSTs. Much of the files and after-action reports of this event are kept in high-level areas under the eyes of ONI, due to a fear of leakage. However, survivors have written in personal logs about their participation with some going into detail about their experiences.
The attack on Pioneer station began with the Strident class heavy frigate "O.K. Corral II", carrying modified pelicans with troop deployment pods, opened fire on the station to draw attention so that troopers along with their marine support could reach the insertion point to begin their assault. Insurrectionist forces attempting to evacuate important individuals, four station council members within the community along and two commanders, from the station clashed with deployed units inside the hangar erupting into a firefight. During the shoot out one of the council members personal ship that was planning to escape had it's left engine destroyed before it could escape. The ship, along with council members and one commander were killed when the ship crashed into the control deck, causing the system to open the hangar doors into open space forcing 37 UNSC operators and the surviving insurrectionist militia into space until the failsafe activated and closing the hangar off for evacuation.
- "What I once saw as the beauty of space was now the empty cold void of no mercy, the look I saw on Sgt. Gennie's face as she was taken by it through her helmet. Makes me wish I could have been ground side so I didn't have to look at her."
- ― part of Major William Heathfords personal log three days after Operation: Knife Patch
After the brief interruption in the hangar, a headcount was taken only to find twenty-seven soldiers had survived the incident, leaving them with only 55% of their team left. It was decided upon and reports of the O.K. Corral II being attacked by fighters returning from patrol that the survivors would separate into four groups and search the areas believed to house the nuke. The Marketplace, Engineer Bay, Armory, and the Councils chamber. Johan along with three marines and three ODSTs were sent to check the Marketplace. The area was considered the most dangerous area due to it's Favela like setting in the lower districts. As the group arrived in the area, the Marines were tasked with sweeping the houses and shops while the Troopers went to check the marketplace. Troopers soon found the nuke, but had walked into a trap as they were ambushed when they attempted to recover it. The Marines began to make their way back to the troopers but were soon attacked by a second squad of insurrectionists from the buildings, pinning them down. Seeing they need to move, Johan split away from his team without their knowledge and entered the houses on the left side of the alley they were attacked on and began to sweep the rooms in order to reach the other side. Before he could reach the vantage point Johan was jumped by an older and more experienced male in a living room stopping him from getting to his destination and kicking his rifle away from him.
- Innsurectionist: "You're a long way from your mommy, boy. Guess she'll have to learn her child died screaming."
- Johan: "the only screaming there'll be is the final breath leaving your slit throat"
- Innsurectionist: " Poor choice of words to die by."
- Johan: "'Til Valhöll."
- — Last words spoken between Johan and his attacker.
The two rushed at each other after their brief conversation and wrestled with each other for dominance over the other to land a killing blow, Johan, however, was losing the fight as he was being treated like a ragdoll, he began to struggle to get himself up and almost gave in to his defeat until he noticed a radiator running in the corner of the room, seeing no other choice he quickly lunged towards his attacker and began to focus on knocking the man off balance. Once he was able to do so and was able to knock the attacker onto his back Johan grabbed the man by his head and slammed it repeatedly into the wall. He was thrown off soon after and made his way to the corner of the room with the radiator, with his attacker disoriented and angry he lunged for Johan who jumped out of the way and came up from behind, kicking him off balance again and face-first into the radiator, where Johan quickly claimed dominance and forced the soldiers head against it, after a few seconds the man stopped struggling, wanting to finish the fight for good. Johan produced his knife and slit the man's throat. After catching his breath he gathered up his rifle and headed towards the balcony where he opened fire on the militia forces, opening the path up to reach the troopers.
Once they had regrouped with the ODSTs, Marines began to provide cover fire while the Troopers removed the device from the area. After being able to safely secure the device. Any attempts made to contact the other squads were left with no response, leading them to assume all squads were KIA. After learning the device had been secured, ONI forced a change of plans and ordered the nuke to be activated in order to wipe out the station along with giving them a chance to escape through a private hangar meant for the council members. while many still showed disagreement for activating the nuke, it was still followed through and the nuke was activated with a half-hour timer.
Once escaping Pioneer Station and seeing to its destruction, Johan was reprimanded for his actions during the Favela, for leaving his team without notice, but his actions had saved the life of his team and quite possibly allowed them to secure the nuclear device, in turn, he was promoted to Private First Class. Johan, however, questioned the promotion and continues to ask himself if the rank was worth the fact knowing he partook in the death of innocents who were never involved aboard the station.
- "We will be soldiers, so that our sons may be farmers, and that theirs may be artists."
- ―Thomas Jefferson
Battle of Sargasso
- "Sargasso, it wasn't like any other fight I had ever been in. It wasn't even a fight actually, it was evading and surviving. I had used everything I learned growing up about hunting and what I learned in the UNSC survival course. Fighting was suicide and there was no glory to be gained in suicide."
- ―Part of an entry in Johan's journal while recovering from a wound in the UNSC Infinity infirmary bay.
More than a year had passed since Johan joined the UNSCMC and during that time he was gaining more and more experience from battles and firefights against both the Covenant and Insurrection, however, he had never suffered a fatal injury other than the occasional plasma burn or a bullet wound. He had no real experience with coming close to death until the Battle of Sargasso where he was nearly killed. It began with the Covenant invasion on September 21, 2546.
In the first hour of the invasion, Johan's Company was deployed alongside armored teams to engage the invaders at the city of Uprance, a heavily populated tourist city that required assistance in getting evacuations underway, Dog Company along with many others would never reach Uprance as Covenant air forces were first to arrive and began shooting down any ships coming towards the city's border. Pelicans were either destroyed or forced to crash land.
Johan's pelican was shot down when a Banshee fired into the cockpit and forced it down into the untamed forests outside Uprance. The battle was lost before it began and instead forced survivors to regroup. Johan alongside with his Sergeant were the only survivors of their pelican as the others had died in the crash. After scavenging what they could from their fallen the two began planning to find other survivors and regroup, during the planning, however,
A pack eager to find their prey.
Covenant forces had begun dropping hunting parties by Spirits into the area to hunt down and kill the survivors to ensure total control of the area, to which Johan's sergeant was the first of many victims dying by a spiker round to the back. Seeing no reason to stand and fight, Johan ran into the forest with brutes closing in on him. He began dropping any equipment unnecessary for him and was able to escape after coming across a heavily muddy area and using it to cover himself and his scent. Johan watched in fear as the hunting party walked past him nearly less than 10 feet from him. After the party had passed over him. Johan found himself alone in the forest, not even knowing where the closest survivor was. Seeing that the area was clear, Johan began to crawl out of the mud and onto drier land.
(CHECK BACK LATER FOR MORE INFO!)
Personality
Beliefs
A traditional necklace of Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, given to the youths of Sedrans who follow the old path. as a symbol of protection of both them and their belongings.
- "Til Valhöll!"
- ―Sedra's offical warcry of both UNSC enlisted and Sedran Colonial Guard meaning "To Valhalla".
Like many others of Sedra, Johan is a follower and believer of the Norse faith and like many people, Johan chose a certain god to mostly follow and worship along with the others. His chosen God being Týr, the god of both justice and war. Johan is a firm believer in justice through proper means. Along with being a god of war, Johan seeks Týr to guide him through the warzone and deliver him to victory against both man and alien until it's his time to die. However, Johan's time in the war has caused him to develop a sense of justice through immoral means if necessary but still has great respect for the law and order.
- "You see all these people thinking they are one of us, but they know nothing of our history or beliefs. They just say it because they think it makes them stand out or they follow the wrong ideas. They are not one of us, and they never will be. It is just an insult to our faith in the end."
- ―Johan views on those who blindly call themself Norse.
Johan like many other warriors wish to find a spot in Valhalla upon their deaths with those who came before them, but Johan believes that a warrior who stumbles upon a worthy death shall surely enter the halls than those who purposely seek it. Because of this belief, Johan like many of his brothers and sisters in arms has no fear of death and instead are prepared to welcome it, Sedrans have a certain term they call each other while in service, "Shield-Brothers/Sisters". It is considered a great honor when an "outsider" is given this term. Along with that, Sedrans are referred to as "Pagans". It receives mixed reception as some find it to be insulting while others welcome it. Johan is part of the group that welcomes it, as he believes they are still considered such, but knows that people fear what they don't understand.
Trivia
Johan is indeed a remake of the now-deleted page, Blake Karmyn. This is due to finding much of the article was rather edgy and not too impressive, of course, some of the info that was worth scrapping was saved and brought back or is planning to come back into the remake.
The Japanese Proverb found in the Invasion of Fuyu means that the environment shall make our character.