Theodore-A399

SPARTAN-III Alpha Three-Nine-Nine, nicknamed Taser-A399, was a member of who washed out during training and remained on to serve as a drill instructor to both Beta and Gamma Companies. Born Theodore Serrano on to a pair of urban infrastructure managers, he grew up in close contact with the city's artificial intelligence program and started learning the fundamentals of computer science from a young age. At five years old, Theodore's parents were killed by the during their attack on the planet, and he was taken to an orphanage on where he was recruited a year later for the first iteration of the SPARTAN-III Program.
During the course of his training, Candidate-A399 earned his nickname for his skill with electronics and once nearly electrocuting one of their drill instructors with a stolen shock baton. Sorted into Team Wasp under Valerie-A391, Taser looked forward to repaying the Covenant for the deaths of his family, but the opportunity was taken from him when the team strayed into a minefield near . Taser attempted to disarm a mine which another trainee had activated, but made a mistake and was lucky to survive, though he lost both of his arms in the explosion. When limbs proved inviable for him, Taser was forced to accept robotic prosthetics, which at the time were not powerful or durable enough to serve a SPARTAN on active duty, and he was cut from the program as a washout, replaced on Team Wasp by the trainee whose life he'd saved. Though his first artificial arms were later replaced by THERMOPYLAE-grade prosthetics, Taser was left embittered by the loss of his chance to avenge his family, despite the opportunity he was given to stay on Onyx helping instruct future SPARTAN-IIIs.
Like the other washout instructors of Alpha Company, Taser made for a cruel and impatient mentor, and was twice confined to quarters over incidents. After the graduation of Beta Company, he befriended Aspen-B145, one of their medical specialists who'd washed out, and worked together training the members of Gamma Company. Thanks to Aspen's research into the augmentations of , many of the former washouts were able to be augmented by the time of Gamma's graduation, and were brought aboard the alongside them to be completely or partially augmented, and given an accelerated recovery schedule.
==Personality and Traits==
Early in his training, Taser was an excitable recruit, eager about his training and the chance to fight against the Covenant. After his accident, however, the opportunity he'd lost felt like a false hope, and he was disgusted by most of the younger Spartans who would go on in his place. While some of the other instructors from Alpha and Beta shared the sentiment, it was the much calmer Aspen whom he would befriend, becoming his only friend as the rest were either dead or driven away by Taser himself.
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