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Never did get around to drawing Arbiter Thel 'Vadam in his new armor so been working on a little wish fulfillment illustration involving the Swords of Sanghelios on Zeta Halo.

Headconnon about my own OC’s? Conceptually flawed, but that’s just how it feels, y’know?

My elite character, Ves M’Sakai, the one who goes on to become the Kaidon if his own clan, and turns the tides against the Covenant in the Great War on Tharsis, regularly says “Yee Haw”.

Here’s how it happens.

Ivan, First Commabder of the Dapartment of the Special Warfare, basically hailed by a small, but notable portion of the native species as a God of all things Military, and general badass big boi, is the first notable human person to be cool with fighting alongside the Sangheili. So, after leaving the Covenant, Ves works with Ivan while in the field.

Important: Ivan, especially at this point, is an actual future version of cowboy gunslinger. He loves the Wild West, many western stories helping him find himself in the absence of his father, who died in the war as ODST (Well, “died” as in ONI did some shit). Among all the other things one would associate with a cowboy gunslinger that Ivan had adopted, he did in fact say “Yee Haw” when the situation required it. Not often, in fact it was quite rare, but if was known to happen.

Now, once he starts working with Ves, he has before him an opportunity.

Ves is very willing to adopt some aspects of human culture, for the sake of his own survival, as well as to work better with humans and lessen the perceived chasm between Human and Sangheili cultures.

Ivan can use this. He increases his use of “Yee Haw” around Ves, as well as other Elites. It takes weeks.

They’re hitting an enemy convoy, and Ves is using Personalised Ghost. He activates his boost while going off a sick jump. He says it. “Yee Haw!” cries the massive, 8-foot tall alien, as his vehicle smashes through the enemy.

Ivan smiles, almost shedding a tear. He is proud, like a father would be if his son. He’s done it.

Of course, the year is 2553, nobody says “Yee Haw” Everyone finds it fucking nuts that the absolute unit of an alien says “Yee Haw”.

It eventually becomes the battle cry for many units in the M’Sakai Clan, which officially establishes itself in 2554, as another means of distancing itself from the Covenant, and post-Covenant groups, and more closely associating with Humanity.

A perfect crowd