How are we feeling about Calus canonically having a marsupial pouch?
It's just how Cabal biology works! I think it's incredibly interesting. One of the reasons why I adore scifi: when you're making aliens, make them biologically interesting and different, not just repainted humans. Bungie is very good at this.
For those who don't know, the lore is on the Duality dungeon gear (Deep Explorer set) and it's broken into parts and has to be put together by going through all the pieces. The lore is about Calus and his feelings for Caiatl when she was born, as well as how his focus changed when she was born and then again how it changed when she grew up. Full transcript in order (question marks added by me, possibly typos?)
When I was young, I dreamt of a greater life. Grand aspirations, grand imaginings. I looked back to the myths of our people's past to draw inspiration and shape a future that was yet unwritten—I saw possibility, boundless and unending. My focus was wide, beyond the horizon, to tomorrow's tomorrow.
I held the tiny hands of my newborn daughter for the first time. She crawled into my brood pouch, smaller than a finger, helpless and blind. I was her entire world for eight extraordinary weeks, as her skin hardened and her eyes developed. She nursed, grew strong, and slept to the sound of my hearts beating in time with hers.
I did not see her mother for those eight weeks; she stood wh (?) outside of my nursing chamber, and her ceremonial vigil honored our atc (?) family and house, the old ways made manifest in tusk and steel. It was a pride unlike any other. None would threaten me, our newborn daughter, or her future's future.
My focus changed over those weeks, and with it my dreams, narrowed down to the size of my thumb. My grandest inspiration. I needed no other.
But… my momentum faltered over time. I first noticed it when my daughter was old enough to walk on her own; then again, when her tusks were sharp enough to defend herself. Day by day, she grew, and piece by piece, I lost myself.
And when she was no longer there, I felt a great absence, greater than the sum of her parts. I indulged myself in this sensation, until the day I became lost in such a hollow feeling.
And I let the void in my chest consume me.
Helmet, arms, chest, legs, class item.
It's a really interesting look into the Cabal customs and biology. Apparently they have multiple hearts! Females have tusks and are by custom appointed as guards while the males hold and nurse the newborn in their "brood pouch" for eight weeks. I am absolutely fascinated by this.
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