Cat Ears in Halo?

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I enjoy my face burning off during combat!

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Gilly suits. Entirely self made. Your skills decide your specialty. Customization from there is likely expected.

I could do without holographic bunny ears but the cat ears fit the aesthetic of the rest of the armor. Really is funny trying to imagine what the covenant would think seeing a Spartan hot dropping like that

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Captain:Do you mind telling me what you’re doing with your armor?
Chief:Putting on my Cat ears it’s essential for striking fear in their hearts!

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I mean in all fairness, some folks like myself point out that Spartans really wouldn’t be able to customize their gear in non-utilitarian ways. I mean… they’re Spartans. One of the biggest beefs I had with Halo reach was that realistically no spartan would impede their vision (Emile,) or wear bright colors (Carter, Jorge, Kat.)

It’s not that I don’t believe in personal expression, its just that as they were described in the Universe (specifically in Fall of Reach,) Spartans would just never do most of this stuff.

I’m glad folks enjoy doing that kind of thing. Maybe in the long run there should be non-canon multiplayer Halo that lets folks express however they feel, and perhaps the canon Spartans could remain Spartan.

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For nearly 13 years Spartans have been unique and expressive. Please get over it.

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Well now I don’t like cat ears

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Those were spartan IIs

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People are entitled to theirbown style.
Cat ears are fine, just like fart clouds and goofy skulls were before them.
Or ninjas were before them.
And tea bagging super serious realistic “military super soldiers.” Have always been.
Or the totally realistic not goofy pirouette OOFs were in the beginning.
Personally I like to rock an SO54 look when possible.
But let cats be cats it doesnt hurt anyone. And if they annoy you so much git good and drop all 9 of their lives?
The mecha inspired power suits where never about realism.
Hell, shikai wang aint against them dunno why so many so uppity about them tbh.

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Though honestly though I just thought about this. The cat ears could technically be slightly cannon. You see Halo 4 and 5 made it clear the multiplayer is clearly a sport spartans participate in. So maybe some of the players or contestants (whatever you want to call the competing spartans) do wear the cat ears. The point I was trying to make earlier though is no spartan would wear them in real combat but I do think they may wear them in the spartan games.

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They don’t really provide a disadvantage.

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So the cat ears weren’t on sale in the shop and I’m a little disappointed

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Arent they literally enhanced hearing devices?

Like do they not provide a tangible in universe reason for spartans being equipped with them?
Cant check rn.

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Actually they are called puurfect audio so maybe they are…

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Gotta say that sounds perfectly acceptable to me.

I mean metal gear has octocamo, modern day quadrupedal robotics designs are based on big cats.
Camo in sea and land warfare in the past and modern times are inspired by animals.
Technology often replicates nature.

Cat ears are as plausible as any nuclear powered gel layered, lechatelierite coated, energy shielded power armour based on gundam to me.
And the ears are not much of a departure from antenna housing’s either.

Lucky for us that we have ninja suits (that noone complains about) to sneak up on spartans with puuurfect hearing lol.

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Now that you say that I want to see a cannon spartan using the cat ears in a mission.

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Well, that’s always been my assumption, they do seem to be implied to be enhanced audio receptors. Personal headcanon is that they filter-down stuff outside of our hearing range, into stuff we can make sense of.

But that’s my headcanon, not direct canon. So that’s why I don’t mention that often. It’s a valid reason to have them though.

they’re also cute.

Now this is the sense I like seeing talked.

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Affirmative spartan shot confirmed on target

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I wear would wear them more for the meme but I can see why you think that.

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All armor in the game is considered cannon because when looking at the description is says item lore so it does have story implications.

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So this is what pro armor like car ears people either fail to understand or willfully ignore.

We don’t not want cat ears (and other armors like Eagle Strike, this is not just some arbitrary dig at cat ears specifically, rather all armors that don’t fit Halo’s tone) because they are cute, they just simply don’t match Halo’s tone. Cat ears being “cute” is only part the problem. Eagle Strike looking “industrial” like Fallout power armor is part of the problem.

That is not Halo’s tone. I saw a Halo CE video that described its art tone with a phrase i liked i.e. “Cassette Future” and Halo CE-3 kept to this for the most part. Along with this Halo generally followed a “cool” art tone. Cute and Industrial looking for example don’t fall under that.

In Halo 4 and 5, 343 really tried to change Halo into their view of it instead or continuing with part of what made Halo great. Infinite promised a return to norm and the armors in question break that promise.

That is what is irritating about them and why Hayabusa and Yoroi fit but cat ears and Eagle Strike don’t. Just because something fits the art style doesn’t mean it belongs in Halo or matches Halo’s art tone and direction.

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