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💰 ⇒ sly’s cane .                                        DO NOT REBLOG .

     THE COOPER CANE has been in Sly’s family for generations. Every member of the Cooper Clan has had their own identifiable version of the cane, the design being adjusted and modifications being added for every member’s needs and preferences with their unique skills in mind. This is an exclusion from Sly, as Sly inherited his cane from his father Conner Cooper and since has not made any changes to it.

     The cane includes a distinctive gold “C” shape, this being a consistent appearance of the cane from ancestor to ancestor. Sly’s cane has a long dark wooden staff with gold at the end of it. The cane throughout generations has been used for pick pocketing, melee combat, climbing and so on. "Tennessee Kid" Cooper’s cane, though, was modified into a gun.

     Sly uses the cane as his weapon of choice and often has it by his side during heists in case plans go south or when he needs to climb something. Otherwise, it’s usually kept safe in the gang’s hideout, since the sight of a young man carrying a stick around would likely raise suspicion when he’s at the grocery store or anywhere else off duty. In disguise, he likely will not be carrying it around either. The cane is a very special, important, and prized possession of Sly’s as it is a symbol of his father, his ancestors, and his legacy.

     * NOTE : as a kid playing the games, I always imagined that it’s all the same cane but each ancestor had just modified it. In canon, though, this is not the case and in fact, every ancestor possessed their own original cane that still exists today and that they had made from scratch, just following the Clan’s design. I am disregarding canon and on this blog I will keep it as my original belief that it has been the same cane passed down and modified throughout the generations of Coopers.

sly 3 ‘ honor among thieves ’

sly 2 ‘ band of thieves ’