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[[File:JohnBeach.png|thumb|right|300px|Eridanus II, once famous for its beautiful landscapes, was catastrophically [[glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] in [[2530]].<ref name="HTTS11"/><ref name="HWF22">''[[Halo Warfleet]]'', ''page 22''</ref>]] | [[File:JohnBeach.png|thumb|right|300px|Eridanus II, once famous for its beautiful landscapes, was catastrophically [[glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] in [[2530]].<ref name="HTTS11"/><ref name="HWF22">''[[Halo Warfleet]]'', ''page 22''</ref>]] | ||
{{Quote|Well, he was a little younger than me, but, let me tell you, that boy did not look like a kindergartner. He was a big kid. My friend, Katrina, and I used to meet him in this vacant lot in the neighborhood. The three of us would build these obstacle courses out of random junk and then race. Ya' know, just kid stuff. On warm nights, sometimes our parents would let us go out to the green space and lie in the grass. And we'd just lie there, stare up at the stars.|Ellie Bloom recalls her childhood with John to journalist [[Benjamin Giraud]] in [[2558]].}}<ref name="HTTS11"/> | {{Quote|Well, he was a little younger than me, but, let me tell you, that boy did not look like a kindergartner. He was a big kid. My friend, Katrina, and I used to meet him in this vacant lot in the neighborhood. The three of us would build these obstacle courses out of random junk and then race. Ya' know, just kid stuff. On warm nights, sometimes our parents would let us go out to the green space and lie in the grass. And we'd just lie there, stare up at the stars.|Ellie Bloom recalls her childhood with John to journalist [[Benjamin Giraud]] in [[2558]].}}<ref name="HTTS11"/> | ||
John was born on [[2511|March 7, 2511]] in [[Elysium City]] on [[Eridanus II]] an [[Outer Colony]] planet .<ref name="WaypointMasterChief"/> He was raised by his [[John-117's mother|mother]] and father and by the age of six he attended school at [[Elysium City]]'s [[Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 119|Primary Education Facility 119]].<ref name="HTFOR2">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 2''</ref> Decades after he last saw her, John could still remember his mother as being very kind and smelling of soap.<ref name="HTF1">''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref> She sometimes took him down to the beach where he would play in the sand.<ref name="Scanned">''[[Scanned]]''</ref> John's closest childhood friends were girls: [[Katrina]], [[Parisa]], and [[Ellie Bloom]].<ref name="HTTS11"/><ref name="HEPH"/> John, Ellie, and Katrina would often compete against one another in obstacle courses they built out of random bits of junk in a vacant lot in their neighborhood.<ref name="HTTS11"/> He and Ellie, who lived just a few houses down on the same street as his family, would be permitted by their parents to go out to a green space on warm nights to lie in the grass and stargaze.<ref name="HTTS11">''[[Hunt the Truth]]'', ''[[Hunt the Truth Season 1|Season 1]] Episode 01''</ref> On one of these nights as they lay next to one another John asked Ellie if she ever wondered about aliens and when she in turn asked if he thought they'd ever meet them, he said that he hoped so.<ref name="SN">''[[Starry Night]]''</ref> At school, John was known for being competitive and for being particularly good at winning games of king of the hill that took place on a grassy hill at the end of Primary Education Facility 119's playground. He considered chess to be boring and too easy. By the time Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] met John, he reportedly was not allowed to play [[gravball]] anymore due to his always winning.<ref name="HTFOR2"/> When John wasn't playing various games, [[Wikipedia:Bowling|bowling]] among them, he spent the rest of his free time watching vids.<ref name="HTFOR5">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 5''</ref><ref name="HTFORTAS"/> In [[2517#April|April of 2517]] John had his picture taken and it was the resulting image which the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] later provided to Catherine Halsey.<ref name="HTFOR2"/> On [[2517#August|August 3, 2517]], John and Parisa were playing with one another at [[Lake Gusev]]. Parisa walked too far out into the lake and might have drowned but John saved her life. Afterward, he promised to marry her and always keep her safe.<ref name="HEPH">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', ''[[Palace Hotel (short story)|Palace Hotel]]''</ref> Parisa's father took a photograph of the two friends as they laughed hysterically at John's father's antics. Parisa would keep the photo with her long after she thought John had died.<ref name="HEPH"/> Over the next two weeks following the incident at the lake, John went on to score forty-five victories in king of the hill at school, leaving his opponents with a dozen broken bones, be they arms, clavicles, or fingers, and himself with a chipped tooth.<ref name="HJ91517">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''September 15, 2517''</ref> | John was born on [[2511|March 7, 2511]] in [[Elysium City]] on [[Eridanus II]], an [[Outer Colony]] planet .<ref name="WaypointMasterChief"/> He was raised by his [[John-117's mother|mother]] and father and by the age of six he attended school at [[Elysium City]]'s [[Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 119|Primary Education Facility 119]].<ref name="HTFOR2">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 2''</ref> Decades after he last saw her, John could still remember his mother as being very kind and smelling of soap.<ref name="HTF1">''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref> She sometimes took him down to the beach where he would play in the sand.<ref name="Scanned">''[[Scanned]]''</ref> John's closest childhood friends were girls: [[Katrina]], [[Parisa]], and [[Ellie Bloom]].<ref name="HTTS11"/><ref name="HEPH"/> John, Ellie, and Katrina would often compete against one another in obstacle courses they built out of random bits of junk in a vacant lot in their neighborhood.<ref name="HTTS11"/> He and Ellie, who lived just a few houses down on the same street as his family, would be permitted by their parents to go out to a green space on warm nights to lie in the grass and stargaze.<ref name="HTTS11">''[[Hunt the Truth]]'', ''[[Hunt the Truth Season 1|Season 1]] Episode 01''</ref> On one of these nights as they lay next to one another John asked Ellie if she ever wondered about aliens and when she in turn asked if he thought they'd ever meet them, he said that he hoped so.<ref name="SN">''[[Starry Night]]''</ref> At school, John was known for being competitive and for being particularly good at winning games of king of the hill that took place on a grassy hill at the end of Primary Education Facility 119's playground. He considered chess to be boring and too easy. By the time Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] met John, he reportedly was not allowed to play [[gravball]] anymore due to his always winning.<ref name="HTFOR2"/> When John wasn't playing various games, [[Wikipedia:Bowling|bowling]] among them, he spent the rest of his free time watching vids.<ref name="HTFOR5">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 5''</ref><ref name="HTFORTAS"/> In [[2517#April|April of 2517]] John had his picture taken and it was the resulting image which the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] later provided to Catherine Halsey.<ref name="HTFOR2"/> On [[2517#August|August 3, 2517]], John and Parisa were playing with one another at [[Lake Gusev]]. Parisa walked too far out into the lake and might have drowned but John saved her life. Afterward, he promised to marry her and always keep her safe.<ref name="HEPH">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', ''[[Palace Hotel (short story)|Palace Hotel]]''</ref> Parisa's father took a photograph of the two friends as they laughed hysterically at John's father's antics. Parisa would keep the photo with her long after she thought John had died.<ref name="HEPH"/> Over the next two weeks following the incident at the lake, John went on to score forty-five victories in king of the hill at school, leaving his opponents with a dozen broken bones, be they arms, clavicles, or fingers, and himself with a chipped tooth.<ref name="HJ91517">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''September 15, 2517''</ref> | ||
===Abduction and conscription=== | ===Abduction and conscription=== | ||