Linda Kelen
Corporal Linda Kelen is a soldier stationed on Outpost High Ground, voiced by Syp The Mighty.
Personality
Kelen dislikes her coworkers greatly, but did ultimately believe in them despite their ineptitude.
Role in Plot
Events of Season 1
At the end of Machine, after Frank Collins claims to have seen a warthog on the beach of Outpost High Ground, Kelen criticizes Jack O'Brien for supposedly changing his armor to a captain's uniform in the absence of Cayde Jasper, but O'Brien dismisses Collins and Diego Jones agree with him and insisting he had always been captain. Kelen simply exclaims that she hates her coworkers.
She is later taken prisoner along with Jones and Collins, guarded by Riel, during Overture after other members of The Damned had already killed O'Brien and Jasper. She and Jones are then mentioned as having been killed by the raiders during Corvus' interrogation of Collins in Retrograde.
Classic
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 Immediately after driving out of Outpost High Ground in her mongoose, in the opening flashback of Ambush, Kelen and O'Brien are shot in the head by a plasma blast. Later, in Deception, Spartan Louie Vargas and five repurposed protocol robots investigate the attack and discover Kelen and O'Brien's dead bodies before Louie is shot and killed in a similar manner. |
Gallery
Kelen shortly before her demise during WarGames
Kelen during Major Malfunction
Kelen during Major Malfunction after obtaining a rocket launcher
Appearances
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Trivia
- She was voiced by LizDanceTV in Major Malfunction, with Syp The Mighty taking over the role in Season 1.
- She does not speak in WarGames, despite being planned to for the cold open of Ambush, due to her line being cut for time. To make up for her lack of dialogue, Syp The Mighty made sure to have Kelen drive in a Mongoose with a rocket launcher as she did in the finale of Major Malfunction to signal the episode occurred after that series.
- Her first name is never stated in-series, with Syp coming up with it after the release of WarGames. During the production of Major Malfunction, its creators considered her first name to be Ember.