Headcanon: Insulting Cloaks

drexodthegunslinger:

So, we all know the importance of a hunter’s cloak. Each Hunter’s cloak has a meaning, a story behind it. It’s a key part of a hunter’s identity.

And this got me wondering.

In Shakespearean English (particularly in Romeo and Juliet) there was the whole thumb biting thing. We probably are all aware of the “I bite my thumb at thee” thing.

I can imagine some of the older Hunters or Hunter’s that learn of this incorporating it into modern (by Modern I mean with regards to the Destiny universe) times.

This develops into a thing of pulling or tugging at one’s cloak. It’s not literally pulling a hunters cloak, but more of a metaphorical thing, just like how the phrase “I bite my thumb at thee” didn’t involve actual thumb biting.

I can see the phrase “Do you pull at my cloak?” or some variant of that being brought into mainstream hunter vocabulary as a way of asking someone if they said something insulting. For example:

Hunter 1: *says something rude about Hunter 2*
Hunter 2: Are you pulling at my cloak?
Hunter 1: Me? I would never pull at a cloth like that.

I can also see calling or referring to a cloak as a cloth as an insulting term in hunter lingo. Partially because it is disrespectful to pretty much what the cloak means to its owner, and partially because I feel it would be like a hunter comparing a cloak to a Titan’s butt towel.

But yes, I can imagine some of the more dramatic hunters using the variants of the “Do you pull at my cloak” and then it becoming a mainstream hunter thing to say when someone talks shit about them.