Monster Hunter Palico Entry

My concept entry for the palico contest for capcom's monster hunter. We were given the cat as a template to use and asked to create a weapon and armor set with the template.
The armor and weapon are my design and the smaller cat above the armor dyes was my original concept art used as a reference to make the rest.
The theme was iceborne. First thing I did was go through the monster hunter concept books to notice that the feet and tail are are always left untouched. I designed the staff first using a combination of a snowflake and the sapphire star logo they used throughout monster hunter world. Then I designed an outfit that would be practical enough for the cat to move around, protect the ears from cold, and use elements I had created from the weapon to make it feel like they fit together. Monster hunter world allows for dyes to be used on the armor so I added the different color concepts.
The finalist has been chosen and that allows posting from what I understood of the rules.