fans have spotted a cat in with rather distinctive fur that appears to be a reference to one cat's real-life feline with the same pattern on its face.
While most triple-A games nowadays seem to have an obsession with dogs and letting you pet them, . Although the cats might be a little smaller than they were in Valhalla, that trend continues in Mirage as Basim can play with a wide variety of feline friends, including one that appears to be a cameo from a fan's cat that sadly passed away.
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Over on the Assassin's Creed subreddit, whose fur has a pattern that resembles the Assassin's Creed logo. While sharing the photo, they asked other Assassin's Creed fans if they were "reaching at straws", or if it was something that purposefully added to the game.
While most of the comments already agreed that the pattern on the cat's fur was far too similar to the assassin's order logo to be a coincidence, one of the subreddit's moderators, Treviso, revealed that the cat's pattern was not only a purposeful choice from Unisoft, but that it was also a reference to a fan's cat that they asked the developers to put in the game.
. In the comment, Alanna Sas shared a picture of their friend's IRL cat that has the exact same markings as the one that can be found in Mirage. Alongside sharing the picture of the cat, Sas said, "Please add this cat whose face has the AC logo on his precious snout to the game. He belonged to my family and he recently crossed the rainbow bridge. I will happily pay with coffee and Timbits to any team members willing to pull overtime to put him in there".
Although it hasn't been officially confirmed by anyone who worked on Mirage that the cat in the game is indeed based on Alanna Sas' sadly-departed kitty, the markings on the face do match up perfectly, so it does appear to be the case. , who shared the same post from Alanna Sas alongside some in-development images of the "Catassin".