#Akaku

[fish-berry24]

HxH Character Headcanons According to AI

(These were lwk accurate...)

-Gon: Gon Freccs tells dad jokes.

-Killua: Killua Zoldyck is the gay cousin.

-Kurapika: Kurapika is going to heaven. (LMAO major Kurapika cult flashbacks, Akaku fr.)

-Leorio: Leorio watched the sonic movie.

-Hisoka: Hisoka can't sit in a chair correctly.

-Chrollo: Chrollo Lucifer can't make the voices go away.

-Feitan: Feitan is a dog person.

[pyrorptrs]

Awhile back I did my own redesign of the Toa Mata from Bionicle. Mostly just trying to find a way to draw them without having to keep the toys permanently on hand for reference and a bit more streamlined to make them easier to draw in general. As far as universal details go, I gave them a segmented body template to lean into the biomechanical aspect of them, I also tried to find a consistent way to draw some of the more common limbs they had. I also tried to play with the gears on the back by giving each of them something unique and tried to give them unique kneeguards. I also tried to incorporate the orbs they had their chest by incorporating their elements matoran symbols into them

Tahu - Tahu served as kind of the template for the others, so he's probably the most standard out of them. I wanted to stick primarily with his original colors so made the bright red and orange the most prominent colors on him, but I also used the dark red he sported later as an accent color for more color blocking. His sword is based more on the Bionicle Heroes interpretation of it, though I may change that if I ever redraw this design. His left arm was never really stated to be anything, so I tried to purpose it as a sort of Aegis; it still matches his more aggressive personality, but also gives it a more utility. I also modeled his back gear after exhaust pipes to relate towards his element. Though it probably won't be seen that much, I did try to define his head too, making it kinda broad; specifically basing the heads off a combination of the originals, the glatorian heads from the end of the original line, and the heads from the reboot.

Kopaka - Since Toa of Ice tend to stick around cold places, I incorporated a bit of a coat into his armor for insulation. His sword also draws some inspiration from the Heroes version, but it also still works like his toy. His left arm was a bit awkward so I limited the armor to mostly just his bicep, I also tried to make the shield look like a snowflake on top of the radar dish look it obviously was piece wise. Kopaka was also one of the few toa consistently depicted is hauling around the McGuffins for whatever saga they're directly involved in, so I gave him a satchel to call back to that. His back gear is directly modeled after a snowflake like his shield, but a bit more obviously. I also tried to make his kneeguards resemble icicles. I tried to give his head a sharper look to call back to his cold and distant personality.

Lewa - Tried to make Lewa look a bit more lanky compared to the others since he's supposed to be the resident tree swinger. His axe leans more towards the original, but I still tried to incorporate aspects of the heroes version for fun. I tried to make his left arm a big grabby arm since most people turn it into a gun or something, but BlazeTBW thought it looked like a machete so I incorporated a fold-our arm blade to help him cut up vines and foliage as he swings around. His kneeguards are supposed to look like palm leaves but I'm not satisfied with how they turned out. I also gave him a few pouches since I figured he's want to keep a few snacks on hand or maybe even swipe a souvenir here and there.

Onua - Tried to make Onua look pretty broad since he's supposed to be strong even without his mask buffing him. Unfortunately his monochromatic color scheme can make things hard to color block, so I threw in some purple from his G2 version in order to help highlight some parts of his body. obviously made his claws his actual hands. I also did something a bit different with his legs sinw his original toy had them flipped around to bulk them, so I tried leaning into that while also making it look like a heavy duty hinge. I also tried to make his head particularly broad too.

Pohatu - Pohatu was pretty different from the original toa in that his torso was flipped around to make him more bottom heavy, so I tried to call back to that with his body shape. I also took inspiration from the toys arms to make them bigger than the others. I did include the two orbs on his shoulders, but recolored them to make them different from the chest one and included the extra pins on the leg. Since Toa of Stone live in the dessert I gave him a scarf to wrap around his head for sandstorms and gave him a decently sized backpack since he's also been happy to regale his own adventures (so it works for holding souvenirs). His kneeguards are based on boulders. I also inlcluded the orange his Phnatoka version sported to highlight parts of his armor

Gali - Obviously Gali's body is mostly just a female version of the standard one I came up with. I did call back to the pins her original toy had in her hips and I incorporated the mata hand into the chest orb I try to include on all of them. Her hooks are intended to slip onto her hands more-so than replace them. Her back-gear and kneeguards are also based on a bunch of bubbles. finally I incorporated her Mistaka colors as a highlight to add more color blocking.

[systemsearcher]

Random Bionicle headcanon

Unscoped Akakus have a rather undeserved reputation of being worn by peeping toms and overall nosy people.

Obviously, Toa generally have more important things to do, as do Turaga, meanwhile Matoran cannot actually make use of the Akaku's power, but because of a combination of the nature of the mask, a few select incidents, and a few scandals based on fake "Matoran figured out how to activate the power of their mask!!!! Heres how!" news, the reputation ended up becoming so ingrained and cultivated that nobody manufactures unscoped Akakus anymore.

That's why even Matoran who have precisely zero use for scopes end up always getting a scoped Akaku.

[asexualcloud]

i-

i just made a joke abt kurtaism in a yt comment section, and someone asked what "akaku" meant

how do i explain to this random stranger that its a cult based off a anime femboy and the word "red" in japanese

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

And putting this year's kanohi-o-lantern in the reblog chain:

So, I was in a Bionicle mood this Halloween:

[mallardducksaysquack]

You’re going through everything that happened in a given game.

[problematic-yuri-poll]

Problematic Yuri Tournament - Round One

Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii vs. Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru

Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii (manga by Hanasaki Manio)

Mod submission; they're in love! they're mutually toxic and abusive! they're kinky! they would die for each other. truly this is one of the yuri manga of all time. quick content warnings: abuse, noncon/dubcon, severe bullying, surveillance, and plenty of girl vomit.

Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru (visual novel by Bug System)

Submitted problematic elements: kanzaki emotionally manipulates honjou using the latters inexperience in relationships in order to keep her "pure," even to the point of removing parts of her anatomy to retain that purity.

Submitted content warnings: rape, mutilation, emotional manipulation, gaslighting, abuse, incest, lolisho, transphobia(? the way they handle a specific character in the vn is kind of transphobic)

Submitted propaganda: really good VN that explores purity culture and the idea of "gold star lesbians" through guro!

[randomwriteronline]

"I have something for you," Vakama announced when he arrived, hands fumbling with something wrapped in a cloth. He was very quick to warn them as he began to pull the fabric away: "Don't get your hopes up now, though - I'm rather rusty and there are still prototypes, too, so be careful."

They leaned towards him, curiosity piqued, eager to catch a glimpse of whatever mysterious gift he'd brought them.

It took less than a second for Pohatu to recognize the long sockets stretching vertically across brown protodermis: ignoring the Turaga's heed to caution, he enveloped the much shorter being in a tight hug that seemed bent on crushing him between his awfully frail arms, even smacking his face against the Huna - not hard enough to make his nose explode into a fountain of ichor or blood or whatever that was like he'd done with Lewa when he'd first tested out this "kiss" thing he'd seen the Agori do, but still producing a horrifying SDOCK! sound that frightened the other two out of their minds for a moment.

His dark hands shot down to grab the mask, but to his great surprise he found himself grasping the air instead.

"Careful, I said!" Vakama reprimanded him from the two bio of distance he'd put between himself and the not-Toa-looking Toa in barely the half of a moment.

Takua had once described Kapura's uncanny ability to teleport by achieving a tardiness so incomprehensibly slow that it wrapped back around to being impossibly fast, but to see such a thing in action so close to oneself was really something else. No wonder Jaller had always seemed a little disoriented whenever he had to deal with the overly calm Ta-Matoran.

The Turaga held both masks a little closer, giving the other two beings a stern look to make sure they would follow his warnings.

Pohatu instantly pulled his hands back in his lap, trying to make a show of how patient and cautious he would be while his legs couldn't stop fluttering in excitement.

He was trying, at least.

Perhaps that convinced Vakama to approach them again.

"They are only Great kanohi," he told them almost embarrassedly as he handed them over (he had to hold the Kakama at a slight distance so that the Toa of Stone wouldn't rush to catch it once more, while the Akaku almost had to be nudged in his brother's palm): "I had Nuhrii's help, but we couldn't hope to replicate anything close to what comes from the forges of Artakha himself..."

"Is fine, Tulaga," Pohatu was quick to reassure him with eyes still shining and a smile that split his face in two.

As soon as he had it in his grasp he began running his fingers all over the protodermis, reacquainting himself with his first identity, its smooth texture, its hollows and edges, its color and weight; he clicked his tongue over and over, thanking the mask maker in what little of the poor facsimile of their mechanical language his now organic body allowed him to reproduce.

Kopaka held his own mask, not saying a word.

It was nostalgic, for certain - although it felt like he'd worn that same kanohi just yesterday, when he'd first met his siblings. Time passed so quickly, and the mind could only catch up to it so much.

His digits ghosted over the upper scope. He fiddled with it thoughtlessly by reflex; the small familiar motions brought to his mind the slight annoyance of trying to adjust its focus on his Akaku Nuva or its adaptive counterpart and pinching the air instead, finding only one in place of three.

His innards coiled hard around themselves within walls of flesh.

His fingers tensed.

He parted his lips, but a sudden heaviness in his lungs held back any words he would have liked to pronounce.

So, instead, he placed the mask in his lap and extended one arm towards the Turaga; he dipped his other thumb into a tin full of water near his bedside, and fighting the shivers that painfully seized his muscles as he tried to use an inkling of his elemental power he dragged it over the soft skin, willing the droplets left upon it to freeze in the shape of Matoric letters: you are a splendid mask maker still.

Vakama gave a short laugh: "You flatter me, Kopaka," he replied, his voice softened by a sort of small smile. "They're only a first attempt, I told you... Definitely not my best work."

Pohatu chimed in with something spoken far too fast to be comprehensible but in an undeniably positive tone, kanohi held flush against his chest like a prized childhood doll, still grinning in delight. Lightning quick he reached out his hand, grabbed the Turaga for a second time (not violently or forcefully, but suddenly enough that he found himself befuddled if not outright paralyzed by the surprise) and pressed his face against the side of the Huna with a little more regard for him own safety to gratefully kiss him again.

The poor mask maker huffed, flustered, but did not reprimand him. If his straightened shoulders were any indication, some part of him still reveled in his skills being recognized.

Sitting properly once more, the Toa of Stone squirmed and held up his mask: "Can we?" he asked.

"Oh, of course, of course! I've brought them for that, for you to try," Vakama nodded eagerly, invitingly, gesturing as though he would gently push them on their faces himself: "Put them on, I need to see how they work for your new heads - but do be careful with them."

Kopaka watched his brother try his best not to spontaneously blow up with excitement.

For someone whose body had been changed into something for which the chance of sudden self-combustion seemed highly improbable, he made it look like a grueling task.

The protodermis was a deeper color than his skin, darker, richer - a shade of brown closer to his hair, which in his haste he struggled to pull away from his face as it kept stubbornly curling around it so it wouldn't get caught up in the internal ridges and vents of the mask, ending up in his eyes or nose or mouth. With his mane at least somewhat domesticated, his unnatural appearance finally faded into a comforting shadow as the kanohi covered it, hiding his monstrous metamorphosis completely.

The long slits of its sockets allowed little light within themselves. They waited for an orange glow to fill them.

Vakama's warm digits brushing his knuckles shook Kopaka out of his musings. He flinched away for the surprise and nodded stiffly, almost annoyed, before turning his gaze back on the Akaku.

It was stark white in his dark hands, like the last patch of snow that still refuses to yield to the spring's warmer sun.

His innards coiled hard around themselves within walls of flesh.

He turned the mask around so that the scopes would face his lap, raised it up to his head, and shut his eyes tight as he carefully placed it on his face. Before any part of it could hit the metal his lips found something round and flat, a magnetic stud: familiarity taking over any other thoughts he might have had, he parted his mouth just enough to welcome it - as naturally as a gear slots upon a screw.

He kept his eyes closed, and waited.

He felt nothing.

No, that wasn't right. He felt the mask.

It was disquieting. Grotesque, really. There was no surge of power (not that he'd expected it, and frankly it was a relief), only an onslaught of tactile sensations. He could feel a light pressure against the tip of his nose, a naked space across his forehead where the vents opened, a long stretch of matter flattening his hair beneath it, the shape of the scope's internal ridge encircling his eye, the familiar circle fitting between his lips, the magnet's acrid taste slowly seeping into his mouth, the smooth protodermis grazing his temples; his fingers were carefully wrapped around the cheeks of the mask, but he could not feel them on his skin.

Wearing a kanohi wasn't supposed to be like that. The difference between it and the skull was only perceivable so long as the former was visible to the bearer: with a click that lasted only the fraction of a second it became an organ or bone like any other, indistinguishable from the body it was attached to. It wasn't supposed to sit on him; it was supposed to be a part of him. A natural continuation.

From behind his tightly closed eyes he heard a strangled sound, some sort of sputter followed by an awkward fumbling.

"Ah," Vakama's voice came to his ears: "So they don't stick."

"No, no, I holdit rong," Pohatu quickly replied. Kopaka could imagine him clearly as he clearly tried to fit the mask back on himself: he heard him hum something, mouth completely clogged by the protodermis, before his grip slipped again and he had to catch the kanohi as it fell off for a second time.

"And you cannot talk like that, either..."

"No! I holdit rong, I just-"

"You're holding it the only way it's designed to be held, and it simply doesn't work," the Turaga cut him off gently. "I should have figured... I still hoped - ah, no, no, it's just can't adapt to a face like yours. It's the same for you, isn't it?"

The Toa of Ice took a few moments to realize the question was meant for him. He did not bother trying - the mask was unstable enough in his hands: he just placed it in his lap again and nodded stiffly.

Vakama collected it with a saddened sigh, fingertips ghosting gently over the scopes; his face scrunched up beneath his Huna as he murmured under his breath about new designs, different schematics, maybe closer to helmets, asking for help from the Agori, would they be even considered Kanohi at that point, and what about the powers, could they still be used, but how would that work, how could he make it work?...

Caught up in his sprawling thoughts he walked out of the room with the prototype Akaku, still muttering to himself.

Fifteen minutes later he hurried back in: "The Kakama-"

"I lostit." Pohatu replied instantly.

Kopaka, who was trying to regain his mastery over ice without having every fiber of his being seize painfully to get his mind off of the previous unpleasant interaction, continued to pluck misshapen ice pieces from his tin of water with one hand; the other lifted up to his brother's soft face to carefully pinch his cheek and pull, pull, pull--

No smackings or whines could move him. In the end, the Toa of Stone had to fish the mask from the pillow he'd hidden it beneath and hand it over to the Turaga before his friend managed to yank the skin right off his skull.

[sharkbytestudio]

I’m on a nostalgia binge run.

[space-heat3r]

Akaku 🛐🛐

My Spotify wrapped was a tad disappointing this year, I could've done better 😔

But I was in the top 2% of Toby Fox Listeners so that was pretty cool

[aceacebabes]

MadameWeb.MP4

Oh boy howdy here comes another one... this time the victim of my ire and revenge is Just_as_Gray's itsy bitsy Arakia. I'm a sucker for a gloomy gothic vibe if you couldn't tell

This song was definitely not playing in my head on loop the entire time haha what I don't know what you're talking about

[siren-darkocean]

So we all know that one chapter in Tales of the Masks, the first chapter that screamed Kotahu energy

How come Kopaka didn't think to use his Kanoi Akaku Nuva to find Pohatu?

This has been on my mind for a while and I'm genuinely curious, like yeah I get panic and all but come on Kopaka

[the-witch-of-one-piece]

@thunderbaal 🤭

Akaku akaku akaku yurete Yume no yume no hate e Hanarerarenai🎵

[asexualcloud]

hi everyone, i just discovered kurtaism.🛐 akaku 🛐

[kudzu-san]

I'm so stupid. It had just occured to me that the Kurta clan is based off of Indian culture??? I just learned about the Kurta clothing and it's just so uncanny. I'm so stupid what it's been years since I saw HxH how come no one told me this is so cool??? Someone draw brown Kurapika right now.

[mallardducksaysquack]

Aaaaaaaand the multifandom captor poll results are in!!!

Let’s analyse them one by one before we head out to our designated basements ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

(obviously, major spoilers for Slow Damage, Sweet Pool, Togainu no Chi, Boyfriend to Death and Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru as well as descriptions of extreme violence)

(if you are a minor and somehow came across this post, please do NOT proceed)

I recalculated the percentages after excluding the “see answers” votes. Enjoy the MS Excel conditional formatting I had learnt for all the jobs I didn’t get.

Here's the sorted ranking with recalculated percentages:

Let’s now go through the ranking from last to first place.

8. Yuuko (Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru) - 0% (0 votes)

No one voted for Yuuko. Very good. FUCK YUUKO.

The snuff-to-necrophilia skullfucking scene might as well have been the vilest shit I have ever seen in my life. I literally had to look away from the screen while censoring this screenshot.

6/7. (tie) - Masami Toono (Slow Damage), Manami Kanzaki (Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru) - 2.6% (3 votes)

While I didn’t end up voting for Toono, I actually seriously considered choosing him (alongside Madarame and Taku).

To the three people who did vote for him – you got the ugliest waifu. But hey! You now live in a villa! All of your orifices are safe! Congrats!

Barely anyone has played Manakashi, so I'm positively surprised to see that a couple of Manami enjoyers have showed up.

She might seem very sadistic, but in fact she’s just a pure maiden who will do anything and everything in the name of love. And no matter whether you’ll get choked until you end up in a vegetative state or let her amputate all your limbs with a chainsaw, you’ll always have the pleasure to marry her in the end, or at least have her start planning your wedding. Long live the bride and bride!

4/5. (tie) - Strade (Boyfriend to Death), Zenya Okinaga (Sweet Pool) - 8.6% (10 votes)

Looks like the Strade voters want the hammer AND the drill.

I couldn’t understand why anyone would vote for him considering such a low chance of survival until I saw @pesikoshka reblog the poll with a tag saying “strade because he would kill me fast lmao”. Seems like the fast imminent death was in fact an effective selling point!

Genuinely trying to figure out whether the ten of you are such hardcore Zenya simps or just haven’t played the other games. Getting fucked and forced to give birth in a basement until the end of my life does not seem very appealing to me, but I mean, you do you, I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3. Kei Madarame (Slow Damage) - 14.7% (17 votes)

My personal choice – at least at the time of voting. Sure, he’ll beat the shit out of me, but at least he’ll also grant me relative freedom? I swear I did not vote for Madarame just because I’m so horny for him. This is not a waifu contest. I just like the idea of not spending the rest of my life in a basement.

@mahnati I saw your tags

and let me just say… “as it should have been”. But the nation has spoken, and we have to accept the verdict.

2. Shiki (Togainu no Chi) - 19% (20 votes)

Voting for him has never once crossed my mind. I think I must have been blinded by the fact that I don’t like him. I played TnC about 13 years ago, so my memory is very fuzzy, but I guess you were right about him being a relatively safe option?

1. Taku Murase (Slow Damage) - 44% (51 votes)

What a landslide victory! While I did not end up voting for Taku myself, I truly approve of your choice. After all, he is the literal only character on this list who doesn’t want to hurt you. He’s keeping you imprisoned for your own good. It’s just his lil silly way to protect you ;> It’s time for you to become a guinea pig for his drug research. Enjoy spending the rest of your days in Taku's basement, making sweet love while picking at each other's skin, so that the hallucinatory bugs crawling underneath it can emerge as beautiful butterflies.

That's all for today. Assembly dissolved.

Now go to your basement.

See you never ~ヾ(＾∇＾)

(unless you've voted for Madarame or Shiki - in this case we might bump into each other while roaming around some dilapidated squats and maybe pick a fight)