: To me, it seems like they wanted to make a Spartan character who would be on
: level with Master Chief for players to enjoy. And they didn't want to use
: one of the existing Spartan-IIs or IIIs, because they could do whatever
: they want to with a new character. Maybe they felt like there were already
: too many males in the Halo 4 storyline, so they decided to make the
: character a she. But maybe the mostly male audience wouldn't connect with
: her, so they decided to make her gung-ho and wreckless.

Agreed.

: She definitely seems like a thought-out character, that's for sure. And I
: really do see how she represents the new, rather than the old. If the
: visual and story changes between Bungie-era and 343-era weren't as
: drastic, I don't think as many people who necessarily have a problem with
: her.

Yeah, I think it's because it was her role that was thought-out and not actually WHO she is. If you try to puppet your characters to the next act, you don't really have actual characters, you just have vehicles. You have to discover a character, and then figure out what that person would do in the scenarios heading towards him or her.

At least, this is what I did in my Gundam Wing fanfics in middle school...