Tsavo@YeetTsavo
Furgonomics gripe post:
I don't get why so many artists depict anthros with helmets and other protective gear with ear holes or ear protrusions.
1: If you have a helmet with ears sticking out, I instantly have a direct route to your brain. Hell, I could just spit inside of your exposed ear canal and ruin your day. Regardless, it compromised the purpose of the helmet. To protect your furry noggin and thoughts-jello that lies inside it.
"Well, I might want to pivot my ears and hear things." Well, humans have less acute hearing than anthros and manage just fine having theirs covered. Better, cause nobody is spitting into them in a brawl. Cause they are covered.
2: Ear protrusions. Why? Fold your long, flexible ears back and don that skull saver like the orange-peel helmet your cat puts up with. It looks cute, but you can compensate for that by spilling the guts of your enemy.
Having ear protrusions just makes a helmet way more complicated to manufacture, adds another failure point, makes you way more noticable and worst of all: lets your opponent grab you by your ears and bend your head back like a goober.
Ackshually, I was lying, the worst part is when a bullet hits your helmet and deflects right into your ear. Penetrates, instead of going off into someone else's dome, and goes right inside yours. Through those convenient, extra-large ear canals. Now your thought jello is lead posioned and you instantly become obsessed with spending all your money before you die, rather than leave anything for the next generation.
And an arrow sticking through an ear protrusion in a medieval setting, would just make you look silly. Everyone will point and laugh, even your friends. You know this to be true.
Big ears are for catching sounds, but they have this remarkable ability to fold back so they don't catch unwanted danger and grabby hands and teeth. Animals with them do so reflexively to better protect themselves. I don't see actual anthros designing serious protective equipment for themselves with their ears being forced to do the contrary. Or just sticking out because it might be uncomfortable. Its armor. Not a fancy hat.
Last thing a serious anthro warrior would want is to look like this goober in the image below right before getting run through, because he left his ears sticking out like handlebars for his opponents friend who was behind him. Just saying.
