I’m a transgender furry. That I exist at all annoys people. I might as well look cute and be immutable while I do it.
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That is a question with no good answer.
I wanted a pony for Christmas… 
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Nobody looks cute when they are bitter. I have no issues with expression - it is what it is you were probably related to one of those Egyptian Pharos or something, they like their cats.
However there is no culture myth or design with what 343 has done. The cat ears and Crimbo are just lazy Epic greed.
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It’s a question we should ask ourselves. We must frustrate 343 every single day…. Hahaha
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Because I dont main the Mark VII core.
You could for two weeks a year. 
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Obviously, i dont have a choice. lol
But I was thinking about keeping it on permanently
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When it comes to customisation people on these forums complain so much over something that doesn’t really matter much. It amuses me.
A pony would be awesome for Christmas!
Sure. But why would they even include it at all if they’re going to half -Yoink!- it.
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So?
They’re cute on my Spartan and make me happy. I don’t care what their origin is.
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Your half is their full.
Like I said - devalues the game.
I don’t really care. I’m having fun.
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That’s cool! I’ve wore the Santa hat all week.
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Honestly, i’m fed up with this common misconception that Halo players just like toggles when all people have asked for is a Legacy Visuals toggle and a Fractures toggle.
In MCC, the Legacy Visuals toggle was originally just to prevent 343 from callously removing entire legacy assets, however the horrendous amount of overreach the current toggle has; both by including restored legacy assets and blocking any chances of restoring/recreating assets using legacy sources for the legacy models, has left many people rightfully upset and desperately trying to find some way to make everyone happy.
And for both, the proposed Fractures Toggle is so that people can still enjoy the Halo universe to its full extent being Halo, both good and bad, without stepping on the toes of the people who like the AU and Crossover stuff, however Fractures fans seem to take it as a personal attack that not everyone enjoys fractures.
Also:
Imo, Cat Ears aren’t even a fracture or silly, they’re the tamest variant I’ve ever seen for that style of Helmet vent (and on some sets look better than the “normal” attachments, I personally wish they weren’t a pay-for-money attachment)
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and yet, people ask for them to be included under silly.
That particular one isn’t a very good option, no.
I can’t imagine why people being told, “I don’t want to see you in public, you disrupt my experience and make me uncomfortable” would make them feel bad!
Let me tell you, that as an LGBT+ individual? That is the daily reality I live with offline. You think I want to see it here, too? Is it exactly the same? No, not precisely. But it’s close enough that it gets the same heel dig-in from me.
“I want to force you to present in a way I deep acceptable and ignore your expression/existence in favor of my reality, not one we share, MY reality,”
That is what having such a toggle enables. I do not want anyone to have that.
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Okay, that provides a lot of context for your responses and I can actually understand some of your hostility around this topic. I still can’t say that I agree and I think you should try and focus on some of the reasons why the scenarios are not the same but I understand that it’s probably not that easy.
At the end of the day games are escapism and mean different things to different people. People want different things from them and games have the ability to cater to many different people, with different desires, without affecting other people. Most importantly in this instance, we aren’t asking for you to change or go away.
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But I am being asked to be unseen, for my visage - should I wear something, “too silly” is “impure” for someone else’s experience. Let me tell you a funny thing.
Sometimes I wear a collar out. We’re talking name and pronouns, bought-from-pet-store, laser engraded collar and tag. For some people that’s freaky. For other people it’s whatever. Hel, some people think it’s cool and compliment me on it. It is, however, not a fashion collar. It is a straight up nylon large dog collar. It’s a personal statement and, if you can believe it, not something I wear for any thing or sense of bizarre satisfaction, you might think of, it’s genuinely just a form of expression.
But there are 100% people who’d prefer I do not, wholly because it would infringe on their ideas of what someone should or shouldn’t be allowed to wear in public. Something they’d rather not see. And it’s, like, kind of innocuous, you know? It’s some fabric, plastic and a little metal. In the broad scheme it’s not all that offensive.
Yeah, this isn’t necessarily Halo, but the relation is there. It is affirming to me experience as a person, as myself, and how I express specific parts of my persona. An expression of loyalty, containment, a denotation of me. There’s not even a leash or anything.
and ultimately, I know someone looks at it and it makes them uncomfortable. You may find this terrible, but a part of me wants that reaction. I want people to feel strongly about it, about me. I want people to see something about me and confront a bias of theirs, or embrace it. It’s an unspoken social dynamic.
The point is polarization. “Why would you want someone to think poorly of you? Why expose your heart in such a way that you want someone to hate it?” - because I’m true to myself and unapologetic in who I am.
And if someone hates that, that’s not my problem. But it is also something that they should have to deal with.
But I really gotta’ highlight this.
That’s just it though, right?
How many times have you seen someone say black history month getting a mention, doesn’t belong in Halo?
How many times have you seen someone say diverse body types don’t belong in Halo? (People were SO mad in 2010 about the female bodytype! I REMEMBER!)
How many times have you seen someone say even women, don’t belong in Halo? (An older complaint! But it happened!)
How many times have you seen someone say pride flags don’t belong in Halo?
So many little things that don’t “Belong” in Halo that ultimately, harm nobody. “Silly cosmetics” is a smokescreen for what some people really want. Not everyone holds that same opinion.
But when someone gets the option to turn you into a gunmetal grey, default armor spartan with a green visor… That person has succeeded in muting your expression. And it’s not even people asking for the muting of like, harmful expression.
I see slurs in gamertags and service tags way, way too often. I don’t get to filter those out. I get harassment sometimes, and I don’t get to decide whether or not it happens.
So until I can filter something like that, I sure don’t want someone filtering attachments that I find much joy in wearing and expressing myself with, but also paid good money for.
For what it’s worth I sincerely appreciate your willingness to understand my position. It is genuinely nice to see, because it’s not even a crazy position. But, y’know? I’ll put it this way.
If we’re going to value escapism?
One person’s escapism is playing as Spartans in a military space shooter with fire drills and competitive scoring.
Another person’s escapism is coming home from their job and getting to dress up their roided out Spartan in funny, weird, out of place cosmetics, next to a bunch of other Spartans that look so -Yoink!- serious, the disconnect is funny.
Are either of those more valuable than the other, honestly?
I really do need to point out that when DOOM Eternal launched that goofy unicorn skin that I think looks terrible, nobody hardly batted an eye at it. It was over the top, completely silly and absolutely slays the tone the game goes for. And people love it.
I think Halo fans could learn something from that.
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