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Glatorian/Agori will punch you for throwing an orange
I was thinking about the after-reformation Bara Magna, and somehow the thought of food crossed my mind. Hear me out! Bara Magna was basically a desert for however-thousand-many years, and even if they had food, there probably wasn't much of it, or wasn't very varied. The Glatorian and Agori probably were ecstatic when Mata Nui repaired their world and many new fruits appeared! Cue the inhabitants of the Matoran Universe! They had all the food they could want! They didn't have to worry about that, like... ever. So their relationships with food must be very different. While residents of MU wouldn't think much about it, Glatorian and Agori could be very harsh about waste of food. And now that I came to that conclusion, I can't get the scene out of my head of some Toa throwing some fruit at their sibling, a Glatorian seeing this, and it's turning into an hours long lecture because STOP WASTING FOOD YOU FOOL!!!!! , and the Toa is just like: Huh?????, not fully comprehending why they are being yelled at...
So basically this:
Glatorina/Agori will punch you for throwing an orange
I was thinking about the after-reformation Bara Magna, and somehow the thought of food crossed my mind. Hear me out! Bara Magna was basically a desert for however-thousand-many years, and even if they had food, there probably wasn’t much of it, or wasn’t very varied. The Glatorian and Agori probably were ecstatic when Mata Nui repaired their world and many new fruits appeared! Cue the inhabitants of the Matoran Universe! They had all the food they could want! They didn’t have to worry about that, like… ever. So their relationships with food must be very different. While residents of MU wouldn’t think much about it, Glatorian and Agori could be very harsh about waste of food. And now that I came to that conclusion, I can’t get the scene out of my head of some Toa throwing some fruit at their sibling, a Glatorian seeing this, and it’s turning into an hours long lecture because STOP WASTING FOOD YOU FOOL!!!!! , and the Toa is just like: Huh?????, not fully comprehending why they are being yelled at…
So basically this:
I had to dig through Tumblr for half an hour to find this, but here it is!
This post is amazing, phenomenal, OUTSTANDING! (Like most of the posts from Bionicle community :D)
But this made me think: how would Av-Matoran hidden in different tribes try to relate to the Matoran of each element?
So I propose this is how Av-Matoran would relate to different elements:
Ta-Matoran: Already explained in the post Ga-Matoran: They like how light reflects in water Ko-Matoran: They like how shiny ice is in the light Vo-Matoran: They like how bright the lightning is Su-Matoran: They like how plasma emits light Fe-Matoran: They like how light reflects on iron
Onu-Matoran and Bo-Matoran were a bit harder for me to connect with light, but I did come up with something! Av-Matoran hidden in an earth tribe could be obsessed with light stones, and one hidden in a plantlife tribe... Could like how plants absorbs the light??? A bit of a stretch on the last one to be honest lol
As for the rest of the elements (air, stone, magnetism, gravity, sonics, psionics, sand)... I have no idea. Probably shouldn’t hide your Av-Matoran in those tribes
Thinking about Takua trying to relate to the Ta-Matoran
We know Takua always felt ostracized and out of place among the Ta-Matoran, and he was probably a little self-conscious about not feeling like a “proper” Ta-Matoran. I wonder if he ever tried to relate to them over their element, Fire.
I don’t think Takua would’ve liked Fire for its heat, he could never seem to tolerate high temperatures like the other Ta-Matoran (another thing he was self-conscious of). But he would love Fire for how bright is was. For the Light it gave off. He could stare into the Light of the Fire for longer than any of the other Ta-Matoran. And when they would talk about their love of their element, he could join in too, for they would agree with how wonderfully bright their element was.
Do you think that before he knew he was Light, before he knew Light was even an option, that he comforted himself with the thought that at least he liked Fire for how bright it was. That it was a little bit of validation, that maybe he could be a “proper” Ta-Matoran and that he wasn’t totally out of place in the element he’d been assigned to for as long as he can remember.
Man, the trans allegory really is right there isn’t it. Happy pride month y’all
Glatorians and Agori probably know that not all fruits explode, because they most likely had normal fruit before The Shattering. But Toa and Matoran might not even think that exploding fruits could exist! So yeah, they would be angry about them just chucking random fruit not knowing what it is too
Glatorina/Agori will punch you for throwing an orange
I was thinking about the after-reformation Bara Magna, and somehow the thought of food crossed my mind. Hear me out! Bara Magna was basically a desert for however-thousand-many years, and even if they had food, there probably wasn’t much of it, or wasn’t very varied. The Glatorian and Agori probably were ecstatic when Mata Nui repaired their world and many new fruits appeared! Cue the inhabitants of the Matoran Universe! They had all the food they could want! They didn’t have to worry about that, like… ever. So their relationships with food must be very different. While residents of MU wouldn’t think much about it, Glatorian and Agori could be very harsh about waste of food. And now that I came to that conclusion, I can’t get the scene out of my head of some Toa throwing some fruit at their sibling, a Glatorian seeing this, and it’s turning into an hours long lecture because STOP WASTING FOOD YOU FOOL!!!!! , and the Toa is just like: Huh?????, not fully comprehending why they are being yelled at…
So basically this:
I should not be given creative freedom
Hello. I came to send into the void more of my ideas
I saw someone posting about pink Bionicle element (don't feel like finding that post), and the other night I was struck by a brilliant idea! If there is no pink tribe, I SHALL MAKE ONE!!! >:D
But don't expect any wise ideas from me. I thrive on chaos! xD
So I began brainstorming what a pink element could possibly be. I thought about crystals, but it was too obvious. I was about to give up and just go to sleep, but on the brink of falling into unconsciousness, my brain served me this thought: Salt is pink sometimes... AND SO IT WAS DECIDED!!!! >:D
(And salt is a crystal, so...)
So now that I've settled on an element, it's time to create the lore!
Matoran Prefix: Ne-
Associated Colours: shades of pink
I couldn't decide whether my tribe should be all male or all female, and I was leaning more toward female, but in the end I compromised, and decided they should all be nonbinary, but they don't care what pronouns you use with them, and some might prefer one pronoun over the other
Matoran and Toa of Salt are very rare. There's actually only one village in the Matoran universe, and It's because their creation was an accident. When Great Beings were creating the MU, one of them accidentally found a way to control salt when he was working on the tribe of stone. They were intrigued, and so he created a few Ne-Matoran, and two Toa of salt: Salina and Nelios. But not much more came of it. In the end, the element of salt was deemed useless by other great beings, and they were forbidden from creating any more of Matoran or Toa of salt. They never got a chance to create any Turaga either. So the whole tribe was put on a small island, unmarked on any map, and very hard to stumble upon. They had no role in the destiny of their world, and weren't even aware that there was anything beyond their island. Well, up until the robot they were living in was WRECKED by a moon. Yes, they were inside the robot when it was destroyed, and the two Toa bearly managed to save everyone, but their island was destroyed, and they kinda had to finally get off their piece of rock and salt floating in the ocean :V
That's when they emerge from the great robot, much to the confusion of everyone from the Matoran Universe and Spherus Magna! :D
The salt element is kinda an offshoot of the element of stone... Idk, they seemed similar enough to make it that way.
All users of this element were passively stronger than other beings, but a bit weaker than stone and earth element users, and passively more resistant to cold, but less resistant than ice element users.
My explanation for why I chose those traits is simple: since I made it an offshoot of the stone element, it made sense to make them strong, but just not as much. And I wouldn't have added the ''resistant to cold'' part, if not for the video I watched when researching salt. And, apparently, adding salt to water lowers the temperature at which the water can freeze. So yeah, can't freeze a salt Toa that easily hehe
I wanted to add something about healing or something along those lines, looking at the meat preservative properties of salt... But honestly, my mind is blank at the moment. If I get any ideas, I'll add them, but that's all their abilities right now.
Oh, and they can't be assigned any personality stereotype, because some users of this element will be very chill and nice, and some will just be feral gremlins
And I've decided that this tribe only eats with their mouths (and not with their hands), and has teeth, because the image of a Matoran or Toa of salt casually crunching on a salt crystal and other Matoran or Toa, or even Glatorian and Agori, just looking at them like: "???? *visible confusion*
So yeah, I believe I have written everything that my half-asleep mind conjured!
If you have any questions, ask right away!
Oh, and I'll definitely draw Salina and Nelios when I have free time :)
Lewa was EXACTLY the VERY FIRST one I thought about when writing this!
Glatorian/Agori will punch you for throwing an orange
I was thinking about the after-reformation Bara Magna, and somehow the thought of food crossed my mind. Hear me out! Bara Magna was basically a desert for however-thousand-many years, and even if they had food, there probably wasn’t much of it, or wasn’t very varied. The Glatorian and Agori probably were ecstatic when Mata Nui repaired their world and many new fruits appeared! Cue the inhabitants of the Matoran Universe! They had all the food they could want! They didn’t have to worry about that, like… ever. So their relationships with food must be very different. While residents of MU wouldn’t think much about it, Glatorian and Agori could be very harsh about waste of food. And now that I came to that conclusion, I can’t get the scene out of my head of some Toa throwing some fruit at their sibling, a Glatorian seeing this, and it’s turning into an hours long lecture because STOP WASTING FOOD YOU FOOL!!!!! , and the Toa is just like: Huh?????, not fully comprehending why they are being yelled at…
So basically this:
I’ve been watching Bionicle movies, and noticed that Glatorian and Agori have eyelids and blink normally, but Toa and Matoran have no eyelids and blink with those lights in their eyes. Now... Do you think that Toa/Matoran freaked out when they noticed Glatorian/Agori blink that way? Or maybe the other way around? To be hones, I imagine both sides being like:
Bionicle dream
Some time ago I had a dream about Bionicle, and wanted to draw it. To be clear, it wasn't '’the’’ dream, I never had one of those. In this dream, I went into the world of Bionicle.
So have a drawing of me and Nokama just walking :)
In that dream, I woke up in some ruined building in I’m guessing Ga-Metru. I think there was a hole in the ceiling, so maybe I fell through there? I for some reason was wearing clothes similar to those I drew in the picture, and had a wooden mask that was painted to resemble Kanohi Pakari.
Anyway, as I was laying confused in the rubble, Nokama came in. She stopped in her tracks when she saw me. We stared at each other confused for a few seconds, and then she finally asked ‘’What are you doing here???’’ And I was like ‘’Girl, I have noooo idea :I’’ My mind kinda skipped a few scenes, but I assume she asked me a lot more questions, and questioned who or what I am... ANYWAY, she ended up taking me on a trip to see Ga-Metru :] And she held my hand the whole dream. I, an almost 20 years old person, was led around like a child on a school trip by matoran Nokama 😭 lol
So I’m listening to Nokama talking about the city, and we’re stopped by no other than Whenua! He explained that he heard about a new weird Rahi in Ga-Metru and came to check it out. Well, I was that weird Rahi turns out lol. Nokama argued with him for a while since I can speak, understand everything they say, and I’m friendly and stuff... In the end he agreed that I’m not a threat or anything BUT WOOPS, someone called vahki on me :] And since both Nokama and Whenua were seen with me, and don’t really want me to be locked up, we raaan awaaaay We ran all the way to Ta-Metru, and ended up bumping into Vakama. So I made three people from the metru team meet prematurely somehow. He, of course, showered us with types of questions like ‘‘what the hell is that thing’' and, ‘‘what are you doing here, and why are you being chased’'. So we roped him in into that mess against his will, and let me tell you he was not happy xD
At some point we got cornered and were hiding behind some building. The three argued how they are supposed to hide me, and what would they even do with me after, and i just kinda stood there and looked at them. But while they argued, I think the floor beneath me broke, and I fell down. They tried to catch me but were too late, and as they screamed after me, I woke up :I If you’re wondering how I remembered all of this, the second I woke up, I lunged for my phone and noted all of this down. No way in hell am I forgetting this >:0 But yeah, it was a wild ride :v I worked on the drawing for a few weeks (university is to blame, I have no time for anything), and I don’t know if it’s presentable or not, but I don’t really care, it’s good enough for me.
I based the height difference on what I found on the internet, and the chart below. The proportions may look a little wonky, because the matoran have funny proportions, and it kinda doesn’t mesh well with my artstyle.
But hopefully it’s not that bad from your perspective 💀
Eyo, listen! So... I often create fake scenarios in my head. And the one I like the most is ''a human gets teleported to a different world (often from some series), what do they do?'' And like, there are millions of variations of this scenario. And I do this with Bionicle too. I have a version where a human just wakes up in Bionicle world totally unchanged, a version where they are reincarnated as a Glatorian or a Toa, or even Matoran or Agori... In some versions they understand language spoken, but the versions where they don't get really interesting lol But in all those scenarios the human keeps all the knowledge about Bionicle that they remembered from our world.
(Wow, the amount of fanfiction I could have written basing them on this concept alone is astronomical)
And recently, I found a new scenario to run. What if you were reincarnated into Bionicle world... As a Rahi! While a humanoid has pretty clear options: stay hidden, don't interfere, just live your life until someone reads your mind and finds out all the knowledge you possess about our world and Bionicle history, or actively try to change things with either keeping the knowledge to yourself (until someone reads your mind, this is pretty inevitable at some point) or telling everyone the truth. Unless you just wake up as a normal human there. Then you have a lot of explaining to do either way.
But as a Rahi? What would you do? Only a certain few could understand you, and even then, would they believe an animal? What could you even change? There are very intelligent Rahi like Keetongu, but I would imagine a human would be reincarnated as some wolf or cat Rahi in this scenario, and not a legendary being.
Normally I don't talk about the scenarios I create in my head, but I'm really curious, what would you do if you suddenly woke up in Bionicle world, with all the knowledge you possess about it, but as a Rahi?
(By the way: I wrote it at 1AM, so if what I wrote sounds weird [or like I'm a lunatic lol] that's why. In the morning I would have only check the grammar mistakes and sent it as it is Xd)
the Ko-Matoran get really sleep-deprived in the first few months on Spherus Magna and everyone gets worried that the area is too hot for them to be able to sleep well and they're like building cooler shelters for them when Takanuva stays up with them one night and realizes they're all not sleeping because they're too obsessed with charting and interpreting all the new stars and constellations. meanwhile Toa keep having to stand guard just to stop Onu-Matoran from trying to sneak back into the (unstable, dangerous) robot body because the ARTIFACTS, TOA. THE EXHIBITS. RELEASE ME
I love this thread! I was thinking about disabled Bionicles a few days ago, because I wanted to create a Toa who uses a wheelchair.
Actually, when I first joined the Bionicle fandom a few years ago, I had an oc who couldn't form any memories, so I was happy to see that here! Her name was Nikimaru, and she had to write everything down, because she would forget everything the next day, even her own name sometimes. Maybe I should actually write about her...
These headcanons are very cool, and can be useful. They can add more diversity to the Bionicle world! I love them <3
some disabilities that I think could exist in the Bionicle universe for character and world-building reasons:
under-active cooling systems that lead to fatigue and illness. these beings have to limit their physical activity or they will overheat and could cause serious damage to their other internal systems. some of them may go live in Ko-Matoran districts or other cold areas even if they wouldn't live there traditionally. Matoran with this condition may be more likely to use crabs or small personal vehicles to get around
since I headcanon that most beings are mass-printed or otherwise mass-produced, you can occasionally find someone who was simply printed wrong in some way, a production line error causing a deformity. some of these deformities would have been weeded out by quality control before everyone gained sentience, but not all
memory loss seems to be a built-in feature for many beings in the MU. some beings have this to an even greater degree than others, however, and they might lose their memories very frequently or even lack the ability to form memories
if a Toa is interrupted while in the middle of passing his power on to another Toa and becoming a Turaga, the new Toa can become trapped halfway between Matoran and Toa, sometimes not reaching the typical height or physical power of an average Toa, and possibly having limited control of their elemental powers
the different culture of the MU would create different possible mental illnesses. for instance, some Matoran could become overly-obsessed with the ideals of duty to the point that they almost seem at times to have lost their sentience again and only be capable of work. the existence of physic powers also means that there are a lot of ways in which someone's mind could be damaged by psionic powers like repeated hypnotism, confusion, or memory tampering
not to mention all the different ways mutation could cause disabilities and chronic pain
disabilities related to control over powers: these could be particularly common in Skakdi, who are given unprecedented and experimental powers by Spiriah. many Skakdi are permanently damaged by his experiments and may have extremely faulty control of their abilities
if the glass or plastic that makes up the eyepiece is damaged, that can be replaced, but if the wiring that connects the eyes to the brain is damaged, someone could have blindness or vision loss. the same goes for a lot of parts - maybe an audio receptor can be removed and replaced, but if the internal systems are damaged, it might not be possible to replace or repair those parts. it's similar to humans in that way
there could also be intellectual or cognitive disabilities similar to those of humans
damaged joints that have to be permanently locked or braced so they will not break... looking at you, lime-greens
I also think that there are already disabilities in the text! We know there's a concept of muteness because the Makuta wonder if Vamprah has mutism or if he chooses not to speak, there's the concept of being "cross-wired," and the Rahaga, Zaktan, and Nidhiki's mutations alter their powers and change their physical abilities in ways meant to be debilitating and horrifying. we have references to insanity, broken arms, amnesia, amputees, and more.
feel free to add on!
Tiny matoran team based on the GWP style lol
Matoro, Jaller and Hahli
Rebuilt one of my oldest sets i had lol
Matoran Balta
Big sword guy
I unironically love solek sm lmao
He looks so silly with those big ass cheeks and tiny swords
Also him being just a giant nerd about anything toa related is great lol
