Trisha Gale

Trisha Gale is a Spartan-IV supersoldier assigned as a headhunter by ONI and mother of Kyle Halsey. Prior to becoming a Spartan, Trisha was an ODST that specialized in demolitions.
== Biography ==
=== Childhood and early career ===
Trisha Gale was born on December 9, 2512 in Luna to former firefighter Anthony Gale and baker Claire Gale alongside her twin brother Roger. The two often got into fights most of the time due to Trisha's daredevil attitude while even pulling a prank on an ONI agent who was Claire's sister but the agent pardoned the young Trisha seeing her potential one day in the field when the time is ready. In middle and high school, Trisha was known to be exceptionally skilled with chemistry even knowing how to make a cherry bomb that she planted into a school bully's locker after they picked on her twin brother. She then graduated high school with high honors and went to study at the Luna OCS Academy where she signed up for the marines soon after.
But Trisha wanted more to life and the marine life wasn't enough for her-she wanted danger and test her skills. She soon signed up for the ODST's and became a demolitions expert of her team with her first assignment being deployed on Kholo helping civilians evacuate giving them cover in the process. Trisha planned accordingly by using what she calls layers to the battle for when the Covenant forces were attacking, IED's would explode while the UNSC forces retreated and by the time they would reach the evacuation sight-they would be destroyed due to heavy casualties. Trisha was part of the ambush of an incoming Covenant party as her team ambushed them with the woman shooting an elite with a battle rifle but they would suffer their first casualty in the form of a friend of hers since basic much to her shock and sadness. When they became overwhelmed, Trisha detonated the bombs while they retreated causing massive casualties to Covenant forces. The squad's number began to shrink as Trisha began to notice more marines than ODST's with more detonations once they began to be overwhelmed. When Trisha fell back to the last point, she realized she was the last survivor of her team as she got on a pelican to be extracted.
She soon began working with an ONI agent named Michael networking with him and working in classified missions when it came to taking down high value targets even some Insurrectionist and raiding a ranch that belonged to a rich yet dying cult called the Church Of The Stars who's beliefs were demoralizing by the time Harvest started and were losing members ever since due to the fact their religion was based around aliens being in human souls. She soon retired due to an explosion costing her leg which had to be replaced by a prosthetic. 
=== Marriage to Nathan Halsey and family life ===
Trisha soon met Nathan Halsey at a party with Roger who became an engineer working for ships with herself as an assistant while falling to alcoholism. Trisha and Nathan became very close friends because of their line of work with Nathan being among the people in her intervention where she finally got clean then got married then moved to Tilamook Bay, Oregon and gave birth to Kyle Halsey then got a job as a gym teacher while regaling Kyle about her stories in the war. She often went with Kyle to a junkyard where she would let him shoot her M6C/SOCOM pistol at cans. Trisha later purchased an M7S from a gun store and kept it hidden within the walls of her and Nathan's room. 
=== On the run ===
The idyllic life Trisha imagined soon came to an end when Nathan Halsey was being investigated for giving medical aid to Insurrectionists by accident and the mounting pressure on the family made him become paranoid but Trisha opted to stay with him. He soon suffered a full mental breakdown upon seeing his wife's relation with ONI and began thinking his son was a flash clone resulting in him opening the gun cabinet and grabbed a shotgun but Trisha saw what was happening resulting in her telling Kyle to hide in his room and lock his door while she went to retrieve her weapon then waited for him to arrive where she shot him without any hesitation before grabbing Kyle and leaving the house.
The two went on the run as Trisha told Kyle the rules like no talking nor eye contact with others and always wear shades too. They slept in motels for weeks using the money she got from her job at ONI and ate in fast food joints or restaurants and also slept in homeless shelters because she wanted to keep a low profile. One day, Trisha bought an RV so they can rest better at night as they watched the stars together. Trisha soon met with her old war buddy in the form of Cynthia Anderson who offered the two a home where they can stay in as she realized that she was ruining his life despite the fun they had and said her goodbyes to him after dinner to turn herself in. But due to great reluctance-Trisha simply continued running away and began working in jobs under different identities. 
ONI soon caught up to her and found the woman working at a marijuana farm in Humboldt County where they offered to give her job back working as a Spartan headhunter to which she sadly accepted knowing she has nowhere to go. 
=== Integration into the Spartan-IV Program ===
Trisha was soon given her augmentations and became a solo Spartan headhunter even working with Jameson Locke and Naiya Ray in classified missions either hunting down high ranking Covenant remnant forces or Insurrectionist officials and even corrupt CEO's.
== Personality and traits ==
Trisha in her youth was a kind yet cocky young woman who was also a daredevil alongside a risk taker which were attributes to what her son would have. She was known to want action everyday leading to a rather carefree attitude leading her to join the ODST's imagining a romanticized idea of what fighting the Covenant would be like which was a tail of heroes like the sci-fi movies she watched. Trisha soon got her first taste in war and was left shell shocked seeing that she was the only survivor of her squad. When she met ONI agent Michael, she decided to join him as a black ops assassin due to her precise attention to detail when it comes to making things look like an accident. Trisha turned into a broken woman when she was discharged and even though she had a good paying job as her brother's assistant-she was still broken and resorted to alcoholism until her brother and Nathan helped her past that.
She had a loving relationship with Kyle ever since he was born like all mothers have even telling him her war stories albeit the good ones and not the ones where it had an unhappy ending. But there was something in her leaving the woman to yearn for the drifter life in seeing the world because she felt her life was fading away. This wish became a monkey's paw when she killed her husband and went on the run with her son for weeks until they ran into her friend who offered to care of Kyle. Trisha also felt like she wasn't suited for the civilian life despite being an effective gym teacher hence her reason for joining ONI feeling like it was the only thing she can do.
Trisha was also known to be tall compared to her ODST team with some thinking she was a Spartan and is known to be athletic and fast.
== Trivia ==
* Trisha was known to have a good singing voice which Kyle remembers her singing Stars from Les Miserable.
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