Gwen-B161

Chief Petty Officer Gwen-B161, born Gwen Ayako Takahashi, is a Spartan-III Commando of the United Nations Space Command's Naval Special Warfare Command. Pulled from Beta Company as a Category-II Commando, she would serve as a member of Team Gustav as Gustav Four. Following the merger of the Alpha and Beta company commando teams in 2547, Gwen would transfer to the cross-company Brimstone Team initially as Brimstone Four, later becoming Brimstone Three after the death of Beth-A173 during the Fall of Reach.
Possessing a natural gift for medicine, Gwen would initially graduate from Beta Company as one of its most qualified . Later she would become a fully qualified combat surgeon after the efforts of Ayrton-A384 to get permission for her to undergo this specialized training course. This was despite the efforts of her then team leader, Kaitlyn-B237, who saw these efforts as a waste of time. However, Ayrton's actions would prove to be a wise decision, as it revealed the full extent of Gwen's skills as a talented surgeon, whose efforts would save a number of lives in the following years.
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==Biography==
===Early Life===
Gwen Ayako Takahashi was born on , in the city of Bainbridge on the of New Kearsarge to Kenzo and Julia Takahashi, who were a medical surgeon at Bainbridge Central Hospital, and a respectively. Due to holding a desk posting in a New Kearsarge's UNSC recruitment office which offered a lighter work load than her husband's hectic job, Gwen's mother would be her primary caregiver for the first few years of her life. Despite her military background, Julia Takahashi was a devoted and loving mother who cared greatly for her daughters' wellbeing, often coordinating the families infrequent camping trips into New Kearsarge's forests that Gwen loved.
However, this status quo would suddenly end when due to serious food riots having broken out on the Outer Colony of , her mother was temporarily transferred to the former training ship, the . Unfortunately, Do You Feel Lucky? was subsequently caught up in the despite the best efforts of the ship and its crew, the destroyer was boarded and destroyed by the Covenant, being lost with all hands, including Gwen's mother. Following the death of her mother, Gwen was now left to be raised solely by her father, who struggled to find the time necessary to care for his daughter.
Due to a combination of wartime pressures increasing his already busy job, and a recent promotion to head of cardiothoracic surgery, which had occurred just before his wife's death. As a result, Gwen's father had her enrolled in the Lakewood Private Academy school, located in Bainbridge's wealthiest district at the edge of the city. Despite his new well-paid position, Kenzo was barely able to afford the tuition fees that Lakewood demanded, which left Gwen as being the school's poorest students. This led to her being bullied heavily by her wealthier classmates, who all came from more affluent backgrounds, for her cheap clothes and lack of things that many of her classmates took for granted. As a result, Gwen was effectively ostracised from the rest of the school, with her teachers noting that the young girl lacked any real friends at Lakewood.
In retaliation at the misery that her classmates made her time at the school, Gwen devoted herself to embarrassing her classmates, using her intelligence to outperform them academically. Whilst, her family's frequent camping trips meant that she was fitter than most other students, which she used to great advantage when playing school . These efforts only making her more unpopular among the other students in her year group. Despite her suffering at school, Gwen never blamed her father for sending her there, as she knew that he was only trying to do his best for her. This had been helped by her mother, who had gone to great lengths to explain that the importance of his job meant that it consumed the majority of his time to explain his many absences from Gwen's childhood. Despite his busy schedule, her father would always spend any free time that he could find with Gwen, which she would savour, especially when he was occasionally able to bring her back home to be with him on a weekend. With him always finding time for the two to go on a camping trip during Gwen's summer break, exactly as her mother had always prided herself on managing to organise before her death.
However, in early 2538 New Kearsarge was attacked by the Covenant, who immediately laid siege to Bainbridge by deploying shock troops into the city centre. Owing to Lakewood being located at the edge of the city, Gwen was not caught up in the initial Covenant assault and was evacuated from the planet's surface within the first hours of the attack. Due to leaving before the Covenant could lay siege to the entire planet, Gwen and the other members of her evacuation group which was made up of her classmates, their families, and any of the schools staff who wished to come with them were able to escape the system without harassment by the enemy. Unfortunately, her father was not as fortunate as Gwen, as Bainbridge Central Hospital was obliterated by a direct hit during a plasma bombardment from an orbiting enemy destroyer. Eventually being declared dead after the Covenant began to glass the planet.
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