Similarities: Darsint, Master Chief?

[Revan01]

having just re-read the mordants need series, oft times between games of halo 2, i realized that darsint seems like a prime candidate for an inspiration of the masterchief. not only does his armor give him superhuman abilities, and his weapons shoot a form of plasma at enemies, but he also seems to have, to a point a similar personality

also, the physical description of his armor and face correspond with that in the halo books

did anyone else think of this, or have i just been playing too much halo?>

[matrixman]

Darsint as the Master Chief from Halo? Cool idea! (Though admittedly I haven't played much of Halo. Haven't done any serious gaming for a while, but the itch is starting to come back.)

That's it: One of these days, SRD should write a novel starring Darsint set in the Halo universe!

[danlo]

Never seen Halo but my students love it. That's a "godrotting" cool idea! I've always wanted Darsint in his own book-similar(ish) thread about to be bumped!

[Usivius]

That's funny. Never thought of it before, but my visual interpretation of Darsint is almost exactly how the Halo character later appears ...

[Revan01]

for those of you unfarmilliar with halo, this is the masterchief

[MsMary]

Your picture doesn't show up for me.

[Revan01]

yeah, it was for a moment, but then something interferred with it

anyway, just link to it and you can check it out, or just google search for master chief or halo

[MsMary]

You're right, he does look like a good image of what Darsint might look like.

[Nav]

I imagined Darsibt's armour to be white, for no good reason I can think of, so MC's drab olive throws me off a little bit. Otherwise the look of the suit is very close to what I'd imagined. MC's also a bit more gruff than I thought Darsint would be.

[matrixman]

I also imagined Darsint's armour to be a different color: a kind of metallic silver--sort of, but not quite, like the armour of King Arthur and his knights as depicted in John Boorman's movie Excalibur.

[danlo]

I used to think it was red-but I confused it with Angus' spacesuit over the years until I reread.

[Revan01]

angus' spacesuit is red? i always thought it was white, like the nasa suits

[Nav]

I seem to remember that Bright Beauty's suits were red, not sure about the one he'd have been given at UMCPHQ though.

[Rincewind]

so- red like the russian suits, or really red?

[Nav]

Oh hang on, I think I'm mixing up Angus' shipsuit and EVA suits. Bright Beauty's shipsuits (jumpsuit type things, presumably) were red, with Angus' one also being very dirty.

I don't remember what colour the EVA suits were, though Angus wears a few different ones. I'm thinking that Trumpet's suits wouldn't have been white though: too easy to pick out against a starfield/hull/the surface of Thantos Minor. I'd expect them to be matt black for that reason, though I've an inkling they were silver.

[Quiss]

I've ALWAYS had the picture of Master cheif when I think of Darsint. Also, I have always envisioned his armour as a really deep silvery metallic blue.

[Cambo]

Yeah, the picture's definitely right, but the characters are kinda different. Darsint's like a more eloquent, foul mouthed Master Chief. Chief's almost the Wild West man-of-few-words trope. In a spacesuit .