History Characters / TheWormholeChronicles

!!Retz

* AnythingThatMoves: She has expressed interest in both Liara and Wrex. She likewise trolls Vik with the possibility of sex shortly before a raid on a Batarian bioweapons facility.

* HurtingHero: He's clearly hurt from all the losses he's faced over his career (such as Kaiden).

* WidowWoman: Her husband lead the charge to take over the UNSC freighter so they could escape Apekis V. He and most of his militiamen died taking down the crew, leaving her in charge of the survivors.

* AscendedExtra: He only had a single scene to himself in ''Halo: The Flood'', but here, he is much more involved in the events of the story and is a major member of the BigBadEnsamble of ''Guilty Sparks''.

[[folder:Joker]]
!!Flight Lieutenant Jeff "Joker" Moreau
The pilot of the ''Normandy''. While he is handicapped by Vrolik's Syndrome, he's an essential member of the team, serving as MissionControl and all-around piloting badass.

A notorious Kig-Yar pirate lord who seeks the Astral Cutlass, a Forerunner artifact of great power.

* BigBad: Of ''Remnants''.

* KnifeNut: She makes frequent use of a combat knife, especially when she makes stealth kills using her cloaking.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: A quick piece of dialogue reveals that she was the one Shepard rescued on Virmire. However, three doorstopper-length fics and she has yet to make an appearance. According to the author, she is around, doing reconnaissance work on the Covenant presence in the Terminus Systems for the Systems Alliance.

* TheDragon: While he is the ''Normandy'' crew's primary adversary in their adventures through the ''Halo'' universe, the Inquisitor ultimately answers to [[BiggerBad Harbinger]].

[[folder:Major Silva]]
!!Major Antonio Silva
A UNSC Field Grade officer and the leader of the Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST) contingent on the ''Pillar of Autumn'' that travels to Installation 04.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Silva was never exactly a nice guy, but in canon he stayed true to the UNSC up until his death in spite of his idiotic decisions concerning the Flood. [[spoiler:Here, he and several other [=ODSTs=] stage a mutiny against Colonel Holland when he accepts the alliance with the kig-yar and batarians. This effectively puts him against the main characters.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: He gets at least one moment of heroism in ''Guilty Sparks'' when he fires a rocket barrage that wipes out a large amount of the Covenant forces guarding the ''Pillar of Autumn''.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: To the TroubledSympatheticBigot -- while Silva has [[FreudianExcuse a bunch of completely understandable reasons to dislike aliens and the SPARTAN-IIS]], it's also made clear that many of his issues come down to {{Pride}}. Additionally, unlike most examples of this trope from ''Franchise/MassEffect'', he ''never'' gets better from interacting with [[MagneticHero Shepherd]] and actually get's ''worse'' due to having to constantly interact with someone who is totally antithetical to his views. [[spoiler:He ends up launching a mutiny precisely because of this]].
* FantasticRacism: Owing to the war with the Covenant, Silva loathes aliens and openly treats them, even the ones of the ''Normandy'' who are allies, with scorn. [[spoiler:Coupled with his hatred of Spartans, this provokes him into staging a mutiny when Holland goes with Shepard's plan to ally with Varvok and Zek.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: Probably Silva's only admirable trait. He and [=McKay=] are very well liked by the [=ODSTs=] under their command, and he is absolutely consumed with guilt when [[spoiler:his mutiny]] causes the deaths of dozens of [=ODSTs=] by the Flood.
* {{Foil}}: To both Shepard and Holland.
* GloryHound: Staying faithful to his portrayal in ''Halo: The Flood'', Silva is very much this. It escalates to the point of him trying to bring live Flood forms back to Earth for study, and when [[spoiler:Colonel Holland goes with Chief and Shepard's plan that would ensure that no Flood would be able escape the ring, Silva declares that Holland is a traitor unfit to lead and mutinies.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: After he launches the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' from Halo, the Flood almost immediately overrun the ship, wiping out most of the [=ODSTs=] still loyal to him. He's badly wounded and although the infection form that attacked him failed to burrow into him, the flesh on his injury is visibly mutating. Realizing the magnitude of his screwup, Silva orders his men to abandon ship while he stays behind to slow the ship's ascension so the survivors can escape before they destroy it.
* TooDumbToLive: He refuses to believe that the Flood are anything more than simple-minded animals that can be contained and cured. [[spoiler:And he plans to show this by bringing live Flood to Earth, an act of arrogance that leaves even [=McKay=] utterly shocked.]]

!The Covenant
A coalition of alien races who believe the destruction of mankind is the will of their gods.
[[folder:In General]]
* AntiHumanAlliance: They believe the destruction of mankind to be the will of their gods.
* FantasticRacism: This is rampant in the Covenant hierarchy. The lowest races in the caste system are treated like cannon fodder at best and slaves at worst. The Sangheili and the Jiralhanae, the empire's two primary military enforcers, hate each other ''immensely''. A number of Covenant characters in the series make it clear that they think little of the ''Mass Effect'' races that they are allied with, including the Batarians. And then of course there is the genocidal war they are waging against humanity.
* NotBrainwashed: The Inquisitor pointedly ''did not'' use Indoctrination on the Covenant, implicitly not even the ones with Reaper body modifications. Simply claiming to be a Forerunner A.I. was more than sufficient to earn their loyalty.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: At least some of them don't like working with the Reapers ''at all''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thel 'Vadamee]]
!!Shipmaster Thel 'Vadamee
The Sangheili shipmaster overseeing the Fleet of Particular Justice.
* AdaptationalJerkass: He doesn't get [[BreakTheHaughty knocked off his high horse]] until the end when Halo practically blows up in his face. Until then, he's much [[BadBoss nastier]] to Varvok and Zek than he is to anyone else in canon.
* BeleagueredBoss: He tries very, very hard to keep things under control in ''Guilty Sparks''. But with Zek and Varvok rebelling, Orna and Empathy repeatedly making unauthorized orders behind his back, and the Flood infestation escalating out of control, things quickly fall apart for him.
* BreakTheHaughty: His last scene in ''Guilty Sparks'' has him despairing over his loss, knowing quite well that he will be blamed severely for the destruction of Halo.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He shows disgust at Varvok and the Batarians' institutionalized slavery, despite the Covenant not treating the unggoy any better. When Varvok himself points out this hypocrisy, Thel effortlessly rationalizes it as leading the unggoy on a path to enlightenment and salvation to the Forerunner faith.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He's a Sangheili. It's kind of a given.
* OnlySaneMan: While he makes some bad decisions of his own, he is the only person in the Fleet of Particular Justice that is taking the whole situation involving the Flood seriously. But with Orna, Zek, Varvok, and the Prophet of Empathy repeatedly overriding his orders, things escalate badly for him.
* WideEyedIdealist: As he has not yet become the Arbiter, Thel is still a firm believer in the Covenant dogma to the point where he denies the obvious flaws in their hierarchy, including the enslavement of the Unggoy and the lack of logical reasoning behind the war against humanity. Varvok calls him out on this in ''Guilty Sparks''.

[[folder:Zek]]
!!Zek
Shipmaster of the ''Fallen Serpent''.
A Kig-Yar pirate initially under the employ of the Fleet of Particular Justice. [[spoiler:He turns against the Covenant and joins up with Shepard's crew]].
* AFatherToHisMen: He cares deeply for his crew, and its the Covenant's mistreatment of them that prompts him to go rogue.
* AffablyEvil: When we first meet him, he is rather boorish and working against the protagonists. He is shown to care for his crew, though, and he develops a close friendship with Varvok.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: During his time with the humans, Zek comes to love a large number of human media, including ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', and the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise. However, he ''strongly'' dislikes Shakespeare's works.
* CanonForeigner: He and everyone aboard the ''Fallen Serpent'' are original characters created specifically for the story.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: An (anti-)heroic example. Zek is sincere about helping the humans and batarians escape to UNSC space but is not above taking the time to turn a profit or three along the way, often roping them into his schemes without sharing his ulterior motives.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not evil, really. But Zek is as racist as any Kig-Yar towards the Unggoy. He is, however, quite unsettled by the lengths that certain Kig-Yar, like Snarlbeak, take their prejudice towards the lesser race.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Well, not ''evil'' so much as cynically self-serving, but when he first hears the word "altruism" he assumes it's some sort of human STD, and scoffs at its actual definition, simply assuming EveryManHasHisPrice.
* FantasticRacism: Towards the Unggoy, typical of all Kig-Yar. He seems to slowly be growing out of it, and even lets a number of Unggoy join his crew.

[[folder:Retz]]
!!Retz
Zek's first mate and second-in-command of the ''Fallen Serpent''.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He's ''much'' more sensible than his impulsive, alcoholic boss, and keeps Zek on task whenever he falls prey to SkewedPriorities or lets his impulses get the better of him.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: He was originally sent by the Pirate Queens to spy on Zek, but genuinely befriended him, to the point where he told Zek point blank who and what he really was. Zek didn't mind and kept him around, and ultimately, Retz betrayed the Queens when they tried to assassinate Zek]].
* OnlySaneMan: He's seemingly the only Kig-Yar on the ''Fallen Serpent'' with considerable self-control and the ability to drink in moderation, which is probably why Zek made him his First Mate.

[[folder:The Prophet of Empathy]]
!!The Prophet of Empathy
The Prophet in charge of The Fleet Of Particular Justice and Thel's immediate superior.
* IronicName: Like all Prophets, he's named after the one virtue he pointedly ''lacks.''
* LackOfEmpathy: [[ThemeNaming Befitting]] [[IronicName his title]], he's incredibly callous in his disregard of the lives of his subordinates, especially if they're outsiders like Varvok's. When he, Thel, and Orna show Varvok just how in over his head he is by telling him about Balak selling them out, Empathy is the one who revels the most in breaking his spirit.
* NonActionBigBad: As a frail San'Shyuum, he's strictly a spiritual leader in the Covenant and usually leaves military matters to Thel. When he ''tries'' to exert any authority over dire military matters, Thel [[TalkToTheFist reminds him of his place]].
* SmugSnake: He takes ''far'' too much pleasure in disabusing Varvok of the notion that Balak would side with him over selling out their men to the Covenant.

[[folder:Varvok]]
!!Lieutenant Commander Varvok
A senior officer of the Batarian terrorist group, ''Swords of Khar'Shan,'' assigned to the Fleet of Particular Justice, and is partnered with Zek.
* BrokenPedestal: He's utterly [[HeroicBSOD broken]] when he learns that Balak sent his men to their deaths in exchange for more Covenant weapons tech and manpower.
* CanonForeigner: Somewhat. The author based him specifically on a batarian character who briefly appears in ''Mass Effect 3'' as the leader of the batarian refugees on the Citadel if Balak was killed in ''Bringing Down the Sky''. That character was never named, however.
* CoDragons: He starts out partnered with Zek, and they operate as equals.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Played with, he sneers at anti-slavery sentiments, but his plan to [[EnemyMine recruit Shepard into helping him save his men]] hinges on Shepard's ideals about interspecies cooperation being more than just talk, which he brings up when they meet in person.
* AFatherToHisMen: Finding out that the Covenant had sent some of his men to their deaths is enough to get him to desert the Covenant.
* HazyFeelTurn: He defects from the Covenant when he realizes their callous disregard for his men and Balak enabling it. He's still racist towards humans and an unrepentant supporter of slavery, but grudgingly works with Shepard to get his men out of harm's way.
* OddFriendship: With Zek, due to their very different outlooks on the world, and Zek's comparatively less serious attitude.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: When Retz isn't filling the Straight Man role for Zek, Varvok tends to be one.

[[folder:Balak]]
!!Commander Ka'hairal Balak
A batarian extremist and old nemesis of Shepard's who is leading the Swords of Khar'Shan, a batarian paramilitary organization seeking to establish batarian dominance over the other ''Mass Effect'' races through an institutional alliance with the Covenant.
* FantasticRacism: It's his defining attribute. He despises humans with every fiber of his being. As stated by Retz, it has overridden any morals he may have had, so much that he cares little for the soldiers under his command or the way the Covenant thinks of their alliance.
* AFatherToHisMen: Completely averted. His desire to bring down humanity has left him indifferent to lives of the batarian soldiers under his control. [[spoiler:Varvok, who saw Balak as a father figure, does not take this well at all when he finds out, resulting in his defection]].
* UsingYouAllAlong: Balak does not seem to realize or care that his alliance with the Covenant is extremely one-sided. It is heavily implied that once the war is over, the Covenant will forcefully induct the batarians into the Covenant caste system whether they like it or not.

[[folder:Vorsa 'Judamai]]
!!Vorsa 'Judamai
A sangheili warrior leading a contingent of Covenant military personal operating in the ''Mass Effect'' universe.
* BigBad: While Liara's arc in ''Guilty Sparks'' features more of a BigBadEnsemble comprising various shady figureheads associated with the Covenant, Vorsa is the antagonist that she and the ''Lucen'' encounter the most, and after he is humiliated in battle by them, [[ItsPersonal he becomes obsessed with killing them]].
* FantasticRacism: Aside from the Covenant's usual hatred of humans, Vorsa holds the unggoy in the utmost contempt, seeing them as weak, cowardly, and worthless.
* ItIsDehumanizing: He refers to the unggoy and humans with dehumanizing terms like "it".
* ItsPersonal: He wants to kill Liara and her crew after he failed to kill them in their first encounter.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: While this is typical of all sangheili, Vorsa is this to an utmost fault.

[[folder:Kreave]]
!!Kreave
A krogan mercenary who has taken up a contract with the Covenant.
* BloodKnight: His only reason for joining up with the Covenant is so he can experience an actual galactic war... and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou kill Shepard]].
* DyingTruce: In the epilogue after their DuelToTheDeath ends, [[spoiler:Noble Six looks down at Kreave, who is lamenting that he failed and now no one will remember him at all. Six tells him that as long as people remember what happened on Reach, they will remember them as well. Kreave accepts this, telling Six to kill many Sangheili when they arrive.]]
* {{Fanboy}}: As much as a krogan can be in regards to Shepard. Unfortunately, this manifests as wanting to best and kill him in single combat. Case in point: when he learned Shepard was on Reach, he dedicated every moment to finding the Commander, and even trained his own [[MagicKnight Krogan Vanguards]] to emulate Shepard's fighting style.
* HamToHamCombat: When Kreave, piloting a [[CoolPlane Vampire]] fights Shepard, who is on foot, all of their dialogue is a continuous stream of [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]], [[HannibalLecture Hannibal Lectures]], [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech talking each other down]] and [[ShutUpHannibal and telling each other where to stick it]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Holds this mentality regarding Shepard. So much that he attacks Sword Base not for the chance to recover the artifact underneath it, but to get the chance to capture Shepard and face him one-on-one.
* SurroundedByIdiots: He feels about the Covenant. Mind you, he has his own hangups like his obsession with Shepard, but he points out that at least he is trying to fight the war against the humans like an actual war, instead of going off and doing whatever he feels like in an attempt to find some old pieces of technology (as the Covenant are want to do when Forerunner artifacts are involved).
* VillainousBreakdown: Noble Six reduces him to this after both taking away his chance of challenging Shepard and gruesomely mutilating him in physical combat.
[[/folder]]

!The Reapers
An omnicidal race of machine/organic hybrids that purge the ''Mass Effect'' galaxy of sapient life every 50,000 years.
[[folder:In General]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: While they are technically organic hybrids, they are partly mechanical and seek to wipe out all organic life.
* GreaterScopeVillain: All of the problems in the series can be rooted to their manipulations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Inquisitor]]
!!The Inquisitor
A lone Reaper that is manipulating the Human-Covenant War in the ''Halo'' universe in order to benefit the cycle.
* BigBad: He is shaping up to be this for the entire series.
* CanonForeigner: Is a completely original character who never appears canon. Or at least, never ''named''. There are ''so'' many Reapers.
* TheChessmaster: He is behind every major alteration that has occurred in the ''Halo'' universe, including bartering the alliance between the Covenant and the Batarians and supplying the Covenant with Reaper technology.
* TheDragon: While he is the ''Normandy'' crew's primary adversary in their adventures through the ''Halo'' universe, the Inquisitor ultimately answers to [[BiggerBad Harbinger]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: Under the guise of a Forerunner entity, the Inquisitor is believed to be directly manipulating the Covenant hierarchs through the war.

!The Flood
A malevolent parasitic creature native to the ''Halo'' universe.
[[folder:In General]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:A Precursor (the true form of the Flood) shows up in ''Fanfic/{{Remnants}}'', where it tries to MindRape Tali. Canonically, with the exception of the Gravemind, no precursor has appeared in the 'present day' plot of ''Halo'' - all appearances they have as Precursors have been relegated to ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'']].
* EvilVersusEvil: They have no loyalty except to themselves.
* EvilerThanThou: Their actions in ''Remmants'' cement that they are far worse than ''all'' of the other villains in the story, as the MindRape they inflict on [[spoiler:Tali]] is ''incredibly'' personal and vicious - far more so than anything the Reapers and the Illusive Man have do so far. [[spoiler:Anyone familiar with ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'' knows they are '''infinitely''' more evil than all of the other factions ''combined'']].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:The first major encounter between the Flood and Husks ends with the former readily destroying the latter. And the Flood aren't even ''remotely'' fighting at full power here]].

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[[folder:The Chronicler]]
!!The Chronicler
[[spoiler:The preserved essence of a Precursor that the ''Normandy'' unwittingly frees from a Forerunner artifact in ''Remnants''.]]
* ArcVillain: It is the central antagonist of the first act of ''Remnants''.
* CanonForeigner: It never appears in ''Halo'' canon.
* MindRape: It tries to corrupt and drive Tali to insanity by assaulting her mind with visions, causing her to act aggressively and turn against the crew. [[spoiler:Cortana is able to get through to her.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: The Forerunners sealed its consciousness away in one of their artifacts, but Tali accidentally releases it upon making contact with the device.
* WordOfGod: It is never stated in the text, but the author confirmed that it had been planning on [[spoiler:rerouting the characters to the Gravemind on Installation 05.]]

!Cerberus
A human supremacist organization from the ''Mass Effect'' universe.
[[folder:In General]]
* TheBusCameBack: They do not make a proper appearance in the series until the end of Liara's story arc in ''Guilty Sparks'', and play a much larger role in ''Remnants''. Before their return in the former, they were only ever mentianed in ''When There Was A Tomorrow''.
* KnightTemplar: Desiring only to protect and advance humanity, Cerberus' motives and intentions are far less malicious than that of the Covenant, Reapers, or Flood. Ultimately, however, their means to achieve their goals are hardly tolerable.
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler:In what is easily the biggest twist in the series so far, they are revealed in ''Remnants'' to have already established a presence in the ''Halo'' universe twenty years before Shepard and his crew arrived due to a time disrepency with the wormhole. Since then, their agents have infiltrated ONI and have more than likely influenced it heavily over the course of the Human-Covenant war.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: They are completely absent from ''When There Was a Tommorrow'', limited to only a few mentions here and there. The same goes for much of ''Guilty Sparks'', [[spoiler:at least until the Illusive Man makes a surprise appearance at the end of Liara's arc]].

!New Teteocan

A settlement made of former human colonists of the planet Apekis V, which was glassed by the Covenant.

[[folder: In General]]
* TheRemnant: The only people to escape a colony glassed by the Covenant. They came to Apekis V to start their own colony independent of the UNSC and hopefully safe from The Covenant.
* TheResenter: The UNSC would have left them to die had it not been for the quick thinking of their militia. As a result they're not happy to see an alliance of UNSC and former Covenant aliens on their doorstep.

[[folder: Maisey]]
One of the leaders of the New Teteocan colony.

* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: She's ''extremely'' skeptical of the Rag-tag fleet's intentions since most of them are made of UNSC military.
* WidowWoman: Her husband lead the charge to take over the UNSC freighter so they could escape Apekis V. He and most of his militiamen died taking down the crew, leaving her in charge of the survivors.

[[folder: Caleb]]
One of the leaders of New Teteocan.

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Finding out that he was an ONI spy working for Cerberus causes a considerable kerfuffle among the New Teteocan colonists]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: It turns out he was part of a Cerberus Cell The Illusive Man sent through the Wormhole, but got sent twenty years back in time first. His role in ONI gave him the idea to send the Apekis survivors to found New Teteocan near the Forerunner Ruins]].
* RetiredMonster: [[spoiler: He worked as a Cerberus mole in ONI, but decided to "retire" from the job after helping found the isolated New Teteocan colony]].

[[folder: Rowan]]
A technologically gifted girl who has been working hard to decipher the secrets of the Forerunner Ruins New Teteocan is built around.

* AmbiguousDisorder: WordOfGod explicitly puts her on The Autism Spectrum. He admits to having NoSocialSkills and having a hard time reading people. [[spoiler: When caught in [[LotusEaterMachine The Mind's Eyes]] area of influence, she spends most of her time reliving her interactions with Caleb searching for hints about his status as TheMole, ashamed of herself for not picking up on it sooner]].
* {{Expy}}: Heavily inspired by Entrapta from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower.'' Both are technologically adept young women with NoSocialSkills and are something of an Outsider in their own communities [[spoiler: And have a strong bond with a villainous figure]].
* LikeASonToMe: Like a daughter to Caleb.

!Other characters
[[folder:Taq]]
!!Taq
A renegade Kig-Yar archeologist and former flame of Zek's, who helps the survivors of Halo search for the Astral Cutlass.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: She's basically the Kig-Yar version of Indiana Jones.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In the ActionPrologue of ''Remnants'', Taq is the central character. By this point, she is a completely OriginalCharacter that readers are unfamiliar with.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Zek. Or at least, he thinks there is. During his GroundhogDayLoop, she lays it down just how ridiculous that notion is.
* HotBlooded: She has a very short temper, and the two things that ''really'' set it off are Zek, and anything that puts her research or findings in jeopardy.
* LoveableRogue: She makes friends with the ''Normandy'' very quickly, and is arguably the easiest Kig-Yar to get along with in the series.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Taq gets the honor of delivering two of these in ''Remnants'': the first one is against a xenophobic ODST in Chapter 11 who is unhappy with her leading the team aboard the ''Dauntless'', and the second is aimed at Zek in Chapter 19, where she brutally and honestly explains just why their relationship can't be rekindled.

[[folder:343 Guilty Spark]]
!!343 Guilty Spark
The robotic monitor of Halo Installation 04.
* AdaptationalVillainy: His final scene in ''Guilty Sparks'' implies that he is not going to undergo the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor that he has in canon [[spoiler:before finally staying a Face]] and is going to stay a villain here.
* AIIsACrapshoot: He's over one-hundred thousand years past the general life expectancy of what's normal of a human AI, and has [[GoMadFromTheIsolation spent virtually all of that time completely alone]]. As a result, he's very unstable.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Much like Major Silva, Spark is noteworthy for becoming worse rather than better upon meeting Commander Shepard. Shepard makes a ton of very good arguments against Spark's devotion to his protocol, one such being that if the Halos were to be refired again, life would not proceed the way it has because the Forerunners and all of the constructs they used to reseed the galaxy the first time it happened no longer exist. But Spark, being the malfunctioning little idiot he is, does not listen.
* HatedByAll: He earns the ire of almost every character he interacts with in the story, most notably EDI, Miranda, and Cortana.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Shepard ''tries'' to convince Spark that activating the Halos again would only cause more problems, citing that with the Forerunners dead, there aren't any fail safes or contingincies in place this time to ensure that life would continue on afterward. Spark actually seems to consider this... only to brush it aside, because he simply cannot comprehend any directive that exists outside of his programming.

[[folder:Snarlbeak]]
!!Zhoc / Snarlbeak
A notorious Kig-Yar pirate lord who seeks the Astral Cutlass, a Forerunner artifact of great power.
* AfraidOfBlood: He has this as a result of witnessing the death of his sister and the horrific injuries he received trying to avenge her.
* BigBad: Of ''Remnants''.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Thel 'Vadamee in ''Guilty Sparks''. Both are leaders of their own military factions that are menacing the characters in their respective stories, Thel leading the Fleet of Particular Justice and Snarlbeak his pirate army. However, Thel was a character taken from canon who was a Proud Warrior Race Guy devoted to the Covenant dogma and never once acted in his own personal interests. He also never directly encountered any of the main characters except for Zek and Varvok. Snarlbeak, by contrast, is a CanonForeigner and self-serving pirate warlord who shows open contempt for the Covenant but is willing to get on their good graces for his own benefit. He also has multiple in-person confrontations with multiple members of the cast.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite all his pettiness, greed, and cruelty, it is clear that Snarlbeak genuinely loved his sister.
* FantasticRacism: His hatred for the Unggoy is shown to be far more extreme than what Zek would consider necessary, as he regularly has the ones in his employ brutally beaten and even murdered over the slightest screwups.
* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler: After seeing what a ReasonableAuthorityFigure his sister was, and that she believed in more than just glory and power, he dismisses it as The Mind's Eye trying to gaslight him, and clings to his [[SelfServingMemory deeply flawed]] image of his sister as a truly bloodthirsty pirate with ambitions who was denied what she was owed.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Snarlbeak has been in a position of power for so long that he cannot fathom the idea of not getting what he wants. [[spoiler:When he attempts to broker a deal with the colonists in Chapter 27 of ''Remnants'' so that he can get his hands on the Forerunner artifact they have acquired, he is shot down almost immediately, and promptly loses his shit.]]
* NonActionBigBad: He absolutely abhors violence due to his fear of blood brought on by events that led to the death of his sister.
* SuddenlySHOUTING: He has a very short temper, and thus is prone to this.
* VisionaryVillain: His plan is to [[spoiler:use the Forerunner artifacts that lead to the location of the Astral Cutlass to wrestle control from the Kig-Yar Pirate Queens and become the first Pirate King. Then, he hopes to drag the Kig-Yar into privateer status with the Covenant, intending to take advantage of the power vacuum he recognizes is quickly forming with the destruction of Installation 04 shaking the Prophets' faith in the Sangheili to put his race on top.]]

The ''Normandy''{{s}} shipboard artificial intelligence. She co-pilots the ship with Joker, whom she shares a strong emotional bond with.

The leader of the ''Lucen'', Liara is an asari scientist who once helped Shepard save the galaxy from the Reapers, and then overthrew the Shadow Broker and took his place. She now works to keep the ''Mass Effect'' galaxy safe in Shepard's absence, which is easier said than done.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's a paranoid, deranged conspiracy theorist. However, when Sangheili assassins attempt to murder him, he responds by deploying combat drones and his holdout shotgun, and then flees though a well-devised escape system. But then [[Subverted curls up in a little ball once he reaches relative safety, because he's still a scared little quarian]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ignores Ackerson's orders to retreat so that he can save the ''Normandy''. Could also be counted as 'Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What ''Works''' as Ackerson's objections are partially due to wanting Gravelston's ship to be used in Operation: RED FLAG, even though, by this point, ''virtually every other asset needed to initiate said operation has been lost''.

* TheStoic: He's not nearly as emotive as Noble Team, or Jorge, for that matter. Granted, Jorge is explicitly noted to be far more social than most Spartan-IIs.

A colonel of the UNSC Army.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He proves himself to be this in ''Guilty Sparks'', listening to the available facts and options [[spoiler:regarding allying with the Covenant deserters to get off of Halo without letting the Flood escape]] calmly without allowing his personal opinions to get in the way and promising to convene with his staff to quickly make a decision. [[spoiler:Once Kat reveals Silva's blatant disregard for the Flood's threat with his intention of taking live Flood samples back to Earth in the infested Truth and Reconciliation, he almost immediately confronts Silva over comms and makes it clear, Covenant deserters or not, the Flood are too great a threat to be allowed any chance to leave Halo, noting that the worst scenario with the deserters leaves them all betrayed and dead, but Earth safe, while the Flood will wipe everything out and doom humanity faster than the Covenant. When Silva calls his mutiny, Holland orders the heroes to get as many of their men as possible off the Truth and Reconciliation and prevent its lift-off no matter what, even if they have to fire on their fellow humans, and escape the ring safely.]]

A UNSC Field Grade officer and the leader of the ODST contingent that travels to Installation 04.

Zek's first mate and second-in-command of the ''Fallen Serpent.''

* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler: After seeing what a ReasonableAuthorityFigure his sister was, and that she believed in more than just glory and power, he dismisses it as The Mind's Eye trying to gaslight him, and clings to his [[SelfServingMemory deeply flawed]] image of his sister as a truly bloodthirsty pirate.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: He's over one-hundred thousand years past the general life expectancy of what's normal of AI. As a result, he's very unstable.