For one thing John S-117 is both personal and a mode of emotionless mechanics. He was trained not feel but act *** a death reaping pleague to their enemies from the time he was six. To show his face would make it all personal and negate all other aspects of his character that make him also just a badass unkillable killing machine. On that subject in halo 4 he is 57. If you the math from the date of when he was abducted by Catherine and Jacob all the way to the last date entry before reaching earth he would have been 53 in halo 3, then he got frozen for not quite 5 years