Late one night, a random Twitter poll did the rounds circulated by Bungie’s DM dmg04 community manager wherein guardians where going at one another on helmet aesthetics as though Trials was being contested over the weekend. The succinct 9-to-5 Pacific tweet read: “Vote. Picking at 9 pm Pacific,” presenting amazingly crazy options that in our world would never become helmet names: Head-blast 7, Cryin’ Gold, Open Cranium, and Antennae. No context. No explanation. Pure fashion warfare.
The replies had blossomed faster than a Well of Radiance popping off in a GM Nightfall, with players vehemently defending their choices while simultaneously deriding others. SkeetsPlaysYT championed Cryin’ Gold, saying, “kinda dope ngl,” while Frisko4one5 went edgy af with “My pick is 3” plus a skull emoji. Then DJ_wukong slandered everybody with the classiest insult possible: “man how can I say they’re all horrible with respect?”
Then things heated up—a bunch of guardians used the opportunity to ask for a full overhaul of character customization. ShadowSICK_66 asked, “Could we get a revamp?” while Facelauss added that the system is “bare bones.” Ouch; that probably hurt as much as shoulder charging someone off the map.
The voting results were quite funny. Head-blast 7 had a lot of fan love from ArkticRaven (“1 without a doubt”) and Mex (“1 feels on brand”), while Antennae had LunarWraith23 pitching color coordination arguments like some kind of Guardian Fashion Week judge. Meanwhile, goku1144 was out here psychoanalyzing while saying that option 3 fits “bc your guardian has been through some shit in its life.”
Then had to sit in rage… Like CBergs_ completely missed the timezone memo and started panicking about being late to the fashion party. The exchange between CBergs_ and dmg04 fairly reeked of “dad joking with his kids” energy, given that dmg04 had been told he should have made a proper poll before replying, “Where’s the fun in that.” Classic community manager move.
The wildest takes came from Zanghuayin_, who saw “Antennae” and immediately jumped to “ANTI CHEAT??????????” Which… what? How? Why? But also mood. Destiny players see conspiracy theories in everything from error codes to shader names.
Meanwhile, SpicyDisco was having a life-day, saying: “Man, I haven’t seen my guardian’s face since I created them at the beginning of D2.” Brother, same. Helmets stay on during… well, pretty much everything. The Tower, the Crucible, even those awkward emotional cutscenes where you probably should have shown your face.
Come decision time, the verbal tirade would surpass Mayhem matches. Open Cranium owners like David Gentry were claiming it “goes hard” with certain color combos while Cryin’ Gold reps RedYoungTYR and Sersun were campaigning overtime; NXDzzz even compared number 2 to war paint, which really does fit Destiny vibes.
The real question is – what is this actually for? Are they Eververse new items? Some secret community event? Or dmg04 just messing with everyone before some big reveal? You know Bungie; it could mean anything from a simple Twitter poll to definite foreshadowing for a soon-to-be-announced raid exotic. Either way, Destiny players yet again demonstrated that they’ll argue about fashion as passionately as any meta build.
So let’s sidetrack for a moment to address whether it is worthy of being built or not. No matter which helmet wins, the whole Year 1 run-about is something we’ll all do anyway for the simple fact transmog is mad expensive! Though, this upset was worth it enough. Destiny community!
