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The Cultural Background Meme:
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How does your character's cultural background effect their experience on the meatship? Their thought patterns? Has it led to any hilarious misunderstandings? Basically this is the meme where you expound on the culture your character came from.

If your character is from the 20th/21st century "first" world and not otherwise a cultural minority then expound on how they percieve the cultural backgrounds of other characters too.

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[prettycoolguy]

John is a Spartan-II super soldier. He was scouted out as one of 150 candidates for the Spartan program via medical records due to a good genetic makeup and, when met in person, evident good health, raw intelligence, competitive drive, and luck. He was selected as one of the 75 to actually be used, and when he was six years old he was abducted from home as he slept one night and replaced with a flash clone. (his parents never found out, and the clone soon died from the numerous medical complications they're prone to.) After that he was immediately flung into a grueling training regimen designed from the first moments to hone him into an obedient fighting machine.

John really was robbed of his childhood, and lacks a lot of formative experiences that we take for granted. (He's had no real conventional schooling beyond early elementary, for example.) He's also not used to having any real freedom or being his own person. (He's never taken a real vacation and wouldn't know what to do with one if he did.) His life is pretty much unspokenly property of the UNSC, and not his own.

Chief tends to find civilians frustrating to work with and thinks that many of them have their priorities severely out of whack. He also does not place blind faith in his superiors, though it is possible to earn his respect. He tends to be uncomfortable on a person-to-person level as he's accustomed to, honestly, being treated more like a weapon than a man. At the same time, however, he's unused to being alone and doesn't like it, so he makes for rather odd, distant company. He's honestly rather socially awkward, it's just hard to draw him out of his shell enough to even find that.

As far as aliens go, he has an instinctive dislike for them. That kinda happens when you spend most of your life in and lose most of the people you consider your family to a war with them. However, he is doing his damnedest to get over it and set a solid example for others, especially Kelly.