History Fanfic / ASpartanInWesteros

* VillainousBreakdown: Tyrion, even if he's more of a devil's advocate out of familial pride than a villain. [[spoiler:When Master Chief accuses Jaime of pitching off Brandon from the tower, he leaps to his siblings' defense as a Lannister. As the Spartan guides him through the evidence, he remains flippant, confident that he can wave off the accusations... until he's told Brandon's awoken and gave the Starks damning testimony dooming Jaime and Cersei. At this, he sinks and desperately begins wondering what he can do to buy the Spartan's silence.]]

** Robert, too. [[spoiler:When Mance reveals himself at Winterfell, Robert is very courteous to him and even offers to go hunting with him. WordOfGod implies this is partly because he doesn't want to provoke the Wildlings and partially because Mance is the only person who could even remotely be considered his equal]].

* AscendedExtra: Thanks to being SparedByTheAdaptation, Will, the deserter, ends up becoming The Master Chief's apprentice and nominal sidekick. He died within minutes of the first episode's beginning.

* BullyingADragon: The Lord of Bones should have shut his mouth before threatening Master Chief and the Night's Watch.

** The Spartan vs three Kingsguards. He knocks Meryn Trant and Boros Blount out of the fight by just pushing Trant with his ''finger'', and then ''destroys'' Jaime in close quarters, bending his armor and breaking his sword. ''And he wasn't wearing the [=SPARTAN=] armor''.

* GagPenis: Chief is very big, and not only in frame, apparently. Robb, Jon and Theon get to see him without his suit and feel very much lacking in manhood afterwards.

** Not only that. While John is able to [[spoiler: find forensic evidence that implicates Cersei and Jaime in Bran's fall, he can't do anything with it. As Tyrion points out, outing them will set forth a chain of events that will lead to their children being murdered and Westeros erupting into a Civil War. The best John can do is threaten Jaime into leaving Bran alone with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]

* PragmaticHero: Master Chief is willing to let the matter of who tried to kill Bran drop, because if he tells Robert the truth then he will kill Cersei and Jaime and then there will be civil war at the worst possible moment. However, he warns Tyrion that, if any of the Starks dies in suspicious circumstances, then consequences be damned, he will speak up.

* PragmaticHero: Master Chief is willing to let the matter of who tried to kill Bran drop, because if he does it then there will be civil war at the worst possible moment, but tells Tyrion that, if he ever finds out the Lannisters tried to kill another of the Starks, then consequences be damned, he's going to tell.

* IdenticalStranger: Cortana greatly resembles Lyanna Stark, which causes Robert Baratheon a great deal of grief and confusion when they meet.

* VillainousBreakdown: Tyrion, even if he's more of a devil's advocate out of familial pride than a villain. [[spoiler:When Master Chief accuses Jaime of pitching off Brandon from the tower, he leaps to his siblings' defense as a Lannister. As the Spartan guides him through the evidence, he remains flippant, confident that he can wave off the accusations... until he's told Brandon's awoken and gave the Starks damning testimony. At this, he sinks and desperately begins wondering what he can do to buy the Spartan's silence.]]

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Cersei hates Master Chief for the high crime of ''not kneeling before her''.

** The fairy tales Cortana tells to the Stark children are about [[Disney/{{Frozen}} a princess with ice powers]], [[Disney/{{Brave}} a red-haired princess that uses a bow]], [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone a boy who pulled a sword out of a stone]] and [[Disney/MonstersInc the monsters behind all the doors]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Will, the Night's Watch deserter who was executed by Ned in episode one, is saved when John is able to prove his claims of the White Walkers.

* LuminiscentBlush: When Luwin jokes that the Spartan and Cortana argue LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, Cortana momentarily turns red and pink. The Spartan is left worried because TurningRed is usually a sign of [[AIIsACrapshoot impeding rampancy]].

* CultureClash: As noted under YMMV, the people of Westeros consider the idea of putting aside old hatreds to face a common foe to be mind-boggling. On the flipside, John considers the feudal system both morally wrong and monumentally inefficient (with heavier emphasis on the latter, though probably just because he hasn't seen the scale of suffering the smallfolk face daily).

** However, both Chief and Cortana are aware that they can't just give the people of Westeros [=UNSC=] technology, as they have no way to repair or replicate said technology. The only advances they can give them are ones that could be replicated with the relative level of technology aviable to Westeros right now.
* HiddenDepths: Chief ends up showing philosophical and societal insights that you wouldn't normally expect from a SuperSoldier. Additionally, while he does muse about the [=UNSC=] occupying and uplifting Planetos, he isn't condescending about it. He also treats the Freefolk with respect, even though they are essentially barbarians by ''Plaentos'' standards. WordOfGod is that this comes from the exclusive education he received from Halsey that none of the other Spartans had.

* NotSoDifferent: the Night's Watch and the Wildlings. As one of the black brothers tells his partner, the only difference between them is that the former are south of the Wall and the latter are north of the Wall, while both are stuck in a frozen wasteland.

* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: Not so much, but when Eddard asks why not to give gunpowder to the smallfolk, so that they will stop being used as fodder by knights and nobles, Cortana points out what would most likely happen: such a decision would completely negate the one thing that keeps the Seven Kingdoms' society from totally falling apart - the superiority of the noble over the vassal. With gunpowder weapons - relatively easy to make, train for and use, as opposed to the many years required to train crossbowmen and knights - readily available, a noble with enough money could decide to buy himself an army and try to take power by force, other nobles could decide to fight over petty struggles, and large-scale rebellions by common people could take place, which would suddenly leave everyone bereft of the relative protection of the feudal society that they've had for their entire lives, causing great chaos and strong-preying-on-weak anarchy.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 12: [[spoiler:Mance Ryder is revealed to be present at the feast for Robert's arrival in Winterfell, while Tyrion ends up learning about Cortana]].

* GenreSavvy: The first thing Chief does after [[spoiler:Mance reveals himself? Suggest that bread and salt be brought for both Robert and Mance, reminding everyone that Mance is still under protection of Guest Right]].

A Spartan In Westeros is a Franchise/Halo Series/GameOfThrones crossover fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1684724/Agailius Agailius]] (also known as [=Avalor0n=]) on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: For all of his ability in fighting, John is quite not good when it comes to socialize with others.

* OutsideContextProblem: The Master Chief, Cortana, and the crashed wreck of the ''Dawn'', for Westeros. Well, for those inclined to cross them or the Starks - in other words, scheming, ambitious, ruthless, power-grabbing bastards - anyway. Varys is a notable exception, however: this new development could very well throw all of his plans into jeopardy, but he immediately acknowledges that he must and ''should'' adapt to any new factor that is game-changing enough to be such a concern in the first place.

* CultureClash: As noted under YMMV, the people of Westeros consider the idea of putting aside old hatreds to face a common foe to be mind-boggling. On the flipside, John considers the feudal system both morally wrong and monumentally inefficient (with heavier emphasis on the later, though probably just because he hasn't seen the scale of suffering the smallfolk face daily).

A Spartan In Westeros is a Franchise/Halo Series/GameOfThrones crossover fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1684724/Agailius Agailius]] (also known as [=Avalor0n=]) on SpaceBattles.

The fanfic can be read [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-spartan-in-westeros-halo-game-of-thrones-crossover.322529/ here]] at Website/SpaceBattles and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10411221/1/ here]] at Website/FanFiction.

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Cortana helps Maester Luwin make the lives of the Northerners better by giving him plans like the printing press.

* CelibateHero: Master Chief. JustifiedTrope, because of the treatments he underwent a he became a Spartan. Naturally, every noble in the North immediately tries to rope him into a political marriage.