Honestly I’m so tired with how everyone goes after Cortana. “Oooh she’s just there to be sexy booby AI” like fuck you she’s possibly the most important character in the halo universe. Without her the entire galaxy’d be devoid of life for who knows how long. She’s gone up against a fucking omniscient, omnipotent monstrosity of lovecraftian proportions and fucking outsmarted it. She mustered enough strength and willpower to channel a hardlight bridge into a physical presence to chain down one of the most physically powerful people in the known universe, while slowly going insane and being fragmented. Hell, the number of times she’s saved chief, they should just stick her in a mechanized suit and hand her a gun, she’d have the entire galaxy locked down in a week. She’s literally the first of her kind, an AI based off a living human, Dr. Katherine “Take no prisoners, fuck all your shit” Halsey, the most brilliant mind of her time. Hell, Cortana chose that form, and it’s not even sexualized, it’s a basic, anatomically correct, well proportioned female body.
Fuck y’all for dumbing down a powerful woman for the sake of your argument. She ain’t helpless, and she ain’t there to oggle. She’ll fuck you up.