Displeased muse is so very displeased

[spartancommander]

Let me see if I have this correctly. You're not only a civilian who has absolutely no military training whatsoever but you've also never actually played the GAME that I'm from? No, I don't care that you don't 'have the correct console' to play my source material from.

I don't think reading the books and watching the damned gameplay on youtube counts as TRAINING to play a SPARTAN. Even worse, you know jack shit about the military. Have you ever even held a gun before? Do you know which end to point at the bad guy? Because somehow I suspect with an untrained dilettante like yourself, I'll end up shooting myself in the foot or something equally embarrassing.

Here's a heads-up, mundane. You can't learn a dense canon such as mine through just reading some books and watching some videos online. If anyone could field strip a gun or learn to take down some Covenant grunts by reading a manual then we would have won the war twenty years ago.

Look, we're not going to be a good mix. How do I put in for a transfer around here because I've worked way too hard to get where I am only to watch a civilian like yourself completely ruin my reputation or flush my career down the toilet.

Seriously, why don't you run along and go do something more productive and leave the fighting to the real warriors.

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[one_one_se7en]

Nylund wasn't a grunt.

[Using the term regarding military infantrymen. And he's one of the goddamn fathers of the Halo canon.]

She could be accurate. If she makes her research.

[And even then it's possible to mess up... God bless Army Field Manuals.]

[spartancommander]

If being the operative term there, Chief. And it's a really big 'if'. [Palmer just has no time or patience for civilians, is the problem.]

Having seen how she treats those fake sim troopers from that other franchise however? [Referring to Red vs Blue muses.] I don't trust her to make her bones.

[one_one_se7en]

[The Blood Gulchers. Most hopes for their sanity come unfulfilled.]

That's a low bar.

[Most episodes make John facepalm. The AI operating that Mantis in that series has to be rampant.]

[spartancommander]

That's so low it barely even qualifies as a bar.

[She had to agree, the whole series does not agree with Palmer. Go figure, watching your whole life and life's work being used as a parody.]

My point is, she's going about this all bass ackwards. First that mockery of a show came out and then she gets interested in the original canon? I don't hold out much hope for her abilities, Chief.

[one_one_se7en]

[The Master Chief partly comes to understand that, however, he also remembers his first days... His mun was a disaster when he first played John.]

She'll make mistakes. But it's like everything. [Training, training, training.] Some get interest through here.

[Good Omens, Slayers, Paprika...]

[spartancommander]

[The doubting expression on Palmer's face really said it all.] I'm not in the business of accepting mistakes lightly, Chief. If this lazy civilian thinks for one moment she can just phone in things in a half-assed manner, she's got another thing coming.

[She'd always been like that, demanding perfection from those around her and it had only gotten worse since the run-in with Halsey and the clusterfuck on Requiem. There were marked similarities between the two women though Palmer wouldn't thank anyone for pointing that out.]