April-G182

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April-G182 (born April Lindgren; April 1, 2537) is a and a of the . Originally a member of Team Dao, April-G182 joined the Headhunters after proving herself to possess the necessary skills for exceedingly dangerous covert operations. Always completing her missions with ruthless efficiency, April-G182 has gained a reputation as a peerless assassin among the personnel who are aware of her existence.
April-G182, through Operation: SNAKE HEAD, is most notable for preventing the complete devastation of , , which is the capital of the and contains the very headquarters of the , .
==Biography==
===Early childhood===
April Lindgren was born on April 1st, 2537 in , and lived with her parents and two older siblings. In May, 2545, when the attacked the colony, its forces killed April’s entire family. arrived in time to rescue April herself, and she was later given the choice to become a . Presented with an opportunity to avenge her family, April accepted the proposal without a second thought. She was therefore conscripted into the as "April-G182." 
===SPARTAN-III training===
April was taken to , where she was assigned to Team Dao and trained by , , and and . With vengeance as her ultimate goal, April worked tirelessly to improve her military skills, and her diligence eventually showed in practice. Despite having been traumatized by the death of her family, April enjoyed the presence of her teammates, even if she did not speak to them much.
Shortly after the , representatives of the of the were impressed with April-G182's abilities and considered her for induction into the . To ensure that April indeed possessed the necessary qualities, ONI put her through exceedingly difficult training exercises. April accomplished all of these challenges without fail, enabling her to become a Headhunter.
Two weeks after receiving her augmentations, April-G182 was taken out of Team Dao to be trained on the other side of Onyx. Although she was receiving Headhunter training, her peers were told that her body rejected the enhancements despite what appeared to be an initial success and that she could therefore no longer join them as a fellow Spartan.
===Operation: SNAKE HEAD===
April-G182's superiors partnered her with Omar-G056, a fellow Headhunter, and sent the partnership to . On November 19, 2552, the Headhunters arrived at , in order to prevent the Covenant from destroying the city, lest the UNSC lose , their most important structure. ONI had discovered that the local Covenant forces were led by a named Drusus, but have only been able to devastate the city as a result of the chieftain’s leadership. Killing Drusus would enable the UNSC to drive off the Covenant infantry, thus preventing complete destruction of the capital. ONI was able to locate the building where Drusus was giving his commands from, and sent the two Headhunters to assassinate the chieftain.
April and Omar each brought an and took up separate positions to snipe the Covenant forces that were on the path between themselves and the building. Once both Spartans ran out of , they discarded their anti-materiel rifles and proceeded into the structure. The Headhunters made effective use of their , maintaining their stealth as they advanced through the building. Many of the were asleep, and so the Spartans specifically targeted the brutes and that patrolled doorways, eliminating them in the most silent ways possible. Both April and Omar agreed that should one of them be revealed, the other should continue to stick to the shadows and not aid his/her partner in order to complete the mission.
With many of his forces having mysteriously disappeared, Drusus began to suspect that something was wrong and was on full alert. Carefully monitoring his surroundings and having already prepared for the likely avenues of attack, the Chieftain spotted the shimmer of Omar's active camouflage and threw a at the Headhunter's direction, forcing him to evade and reveal his presence. Drusus’s immediately went after Omar, who succeeded in killing most his attackers in self-defense. April, having made the agreement with Omar, used the distracted brutes to get closer to the chieftain.
When his bodyguards proved to be unable to take out their enemy, Drusus personally lunged at the Headhunter. Overwhelmed, Omar found himself in the clutches of the chieftain. Before Drusus could land the finishing blow, however, the Headhunter activated a he had collected from a previous fallen foe. The ensuing explosion drained Drusus’ and knocked off his helmet while vaporizing all other nearby brutes as well as Omar himself.
Using this opportunity of Drusus' vulnerability, April jumped onto the chieftain’s back, climbed up to his shoulders, and then impaled the top of his skull with her . After accomplishing her mission, April retrieved the Chieftain's , a heavily-modified , and proceeded to vengefully slaughter most of the remaining Covenant forces still stationed in the building; having assassinated almost all of the brutes beforehand, she mostly only had grunts and jackals left to kill, allowing for her successful yet violent escape. With Drusus dead and the at , the local Covenant forces had lost their cohesion. All remaining UNSC forces in Sydney were then able to finish off the disorganized Covenant, thus saving the capital from destruction.
===Raid on Talitsa===
Following the , April-G182 was among the Spartans selected by ONI’s to field test the new of . Delta-6 sent April-G182 and several to the of in order to assassinate some of the leaders of the . The mission was successful, and the Wetwork armor was approved for continued use.
===Battle of Brasil===
In the year 2558, April-G182 was attached to Battle Group Frigg and was stationed aboard the UNSC Ziz.
==Personality and traits==
Of those who know of April-G182's existence, almost all would regard her as a stone-cold assassin. April-G182 always completes her objectives exactly how they are presented to her and never deviates beyond what she is ordered to do. Because of April-G182's reliability, professionalism, and efficiency, typically tasks her with covertly eliminating important targets, confident that virtually nothing can go wrong; in this regard, she has been compared to . An individual of few words, April-G182 speaks only when absolutely necessary and never leaves any traces of emotion in the way she presents herself. Several have likened speaking with her to speaking with a , and April-G182's seemingly complete lack of humanity often leaves an unsettling impression on those who hold no authority over her.
Despite April-G182's reputation as being nothing more than ONI's instrument of death, she, in truth, keeps many feelings to herself that she never confesses to her superiors or coworkers. April most notably holds a deep hatred for the for murdering her entire family. As a trainee, she used this hatred to fuel her determination in becoming the best warrior she could possibly be.
Being one of the few to be recruited into the , April-G182 is among the top-performing individuals of the , having taken her training more seriously than nearly all of her fellow recruits had. April is perhaps most well-known for being one of the Gamma Company's best marksman, rivaling in this particular field of combat. April is also notable for being able to resist the side-effects of the Gamma-Company-exclusive better than most of her peers can, allowing her to remain calm during stressful situations with some semblance of consistency.
When it comes to her methodology in how to accomplish a task, April-G182 prioritizes reliability over "high-risk-high-reward." April is also one to approach her missions with deeply thought-out plans in order to minimize how often she would need to improvise. This can work against her in the event that she is faced with a situation she happened to not account for, due to her relative lack of experience in being in scenarios of which she would have to improvise. 
===Relationships===
During April-G182’s time on before the , the rest of Team Dao was very friendly towards her. Seung-ah-G218 often approached April for casual conversations, and the constant energy given off by the combination of the three brothers would lighten April’s mood. To this day, April considers her former teammates to be the closest friends she has ever had, with all of them having deeply cared for her during their time together. Even though becoming a Headhunter and accomplishing the missions she has are a testament to April’s skills as a result of perseverance, she takes little enjoyment in her present line of work, especially with the Covenant defeated much sooner than she had expected. April often reflects to herself on whether trying so hard was worth her current position, and misses her time spent with the rest of Team Dao, regretting not opening up to them as much as she believes she should have.
April's relationship with her first Headhunter partner, Omar-G056, was not as close as her friendships with the Team Dao members, but the two deeply respected each other and had very good synergy in the field, largely thanks to being very similar in personality; both were straight-to-the-point individuals who favored reliable methods in accomplishing tasks. April possesses a degree of survivor guilt over Omar's death, even though there was little she could have done to prevent it.
April also appears to work well with her current partner, Leonard Butcher, but in reality, both possess a mutual dislike for each other. While April does not ever show her distaste for her partner, Butcher often makes it clear that he is annoyed by April's "unnecessarily" strict adhesion to orders.
==Physical characteristics==
April-G182 possesses green eyes and blond hair. Like the rest of the , April wore her hair close-cropped during her days as a trainee; since the end of the , she has grown out some of her hair but keeps it fairly short. Standing at 196 cm (6'5") and weighing 97 kg (214 lb.) out of armor, April towers over most humans but is considered to be somewhat average in overall stature when compared to other SPARTAN-IIIs.
==Equipment==
As a in the , April-G182 wore the experimental variant of given to all Headhunters of the time; this variant of SPI armor was equipped with a , , a , and that could be sustained for up to four minutes and required power from other systems of the suit to recharge. April-G182's specific SPI suit superficially resembled the of the , possessing a vision-enhancing module that could be slid up to the helmet's parietal plate when not in use. This module granted her the ability to digitally label individual targets with that could be seen by allies that also possessed .
Following the war, assigned April as one of the several s to field test the against on . By 2558, April was given the option to select components for a personally-tailored suit of armor, and she chose to wear and a with a . April's helmet not only aids her stealth and marksmanship capabilities but also possesses a built-in laser designator that allows her to direct launched from orbit or an on-planet . April's new armor is also fitted with a .
As of 2558, April-G182 most frequently goes into the field with an and an with a 25×74mm grenade upper receiver loaded with high-explosive anti-tank rounds.
==Trivia==
*April-G182's relationship with Leonard Butcher is loosely inspired by that of Locus and Felix from the Red vs. Blue web series, with April herself showing traits more similar to those of the former. Ironically, April wears the -inspired helmet, and Felix wears a Scout helmet, while Butcher and Locus each wear .
*April-G182 shares the same numerals in her tag as her former teammate Seung-ah-G218. This is entirely coincidental, as Hyper Zergling came up with the number 182 completely out of random and was not thinking of Seung-ah-G218's tag during his creation of April-G182.
*An alternate-timeline version of April-G182 exists in the Onyx Chronicles, which possesses continuity conflicts with the Platinum Annals Universe that April-G182 officially resides in.
==List of appearances==
*Survival of the Fittest: Season Seven (Non-canonical appearance)
*Halo: Child Soldiers (First appearance)
*Halo: The Platinum Annals
Category:SPARTAN-IIIs
Category:Gamma Company
Category:Headhunter