#Real Galis

[whatudottu]

What better way to practice new prosthetics then to piss of the bitch that got you to need them in the first place!

In other news, my pirate ocs Gali and Ido (with a third Meridi not present) who are the two sides of the fulmini cult escapees :P

A bit of backstory under the cut since they're the only fuckers I have WITH a backstory! Which btw does detail cult shit so :P big fat warning for that-

The inciting incident on Petropia that introduced it's modern underground population to the surface named the Surface Craze was in all due part because of fulmini interference at the behest of the High Override, who saw what was initially just a planet entirely made of quartz-like crystal the Override Fleet could use as a power source. Having instead found that the planet was not only populated but by a species of the living variant of that same quartz-like material - electrical properties and all - but that additionally they can regenerate their crystalline body so long as they have the energy to pull from.

Seeing this as a solution to the fulmini's energy crisis - a perpetual machine at it's finest - the High Override sought to heh... acquire some petrosapiens for themselves. To their collective benefit, a community of petrosapiens had found their faith and world shattered, previously having been extremely devoted to the Sugi religion (derived from the ancient texts of Thuugi back when their tongues were long enough to be bitten off). Instead of needing to drag away dissenters who fought tooth and nail against the invaders, this community had already shifted their faith onto the false prophet of the High Override, which already had them fall into the Coupled Override head over heels.

The cult has now expanded it's pool of prey, and like the unwilling fulmini who gives the High Override their tithe (their minds, their central colony), the petrosapien cultists pay with their arms.

50 years (or the closest equivalent) into this arrangement, 50 years Petropia spent experiencing the surface for the first time in generations, Ido was born into the cult far away from the planet she should have known as home. Any doctor worth their salt had enough brains and stubbornness to not fall into faith-based trust of the Coupled Override, so between the lack of those and the remainder pseudoscience physicians left to echo chamber themselves, when Ido began developing Excessive Compression Disorder (ECD, a nerve-equivalent disorder that causes tension fractures throughout a petrosapien's crystalline structure) despite the rather obvious visible signed she went undiagnosed and improperly treated. At the age of 200 - a petrosapien's coming of age, and 50 years after Petropia's destruction - it was Ido's time to pay her tithe and begin her offerings to the High Override.

Gali - her sacrifricant - was to sever her arms below the elbow, as was procedure. What wasn't was the near explosive response from external pressure, or the last compressive force needed to completely shatter what had already started to break.

Cutting people's arms off is technically already a violent act however, though the lower arms survived the procedure as expected, the elbow and even upper arm had scattered shards of glass-fragile crystal in a visceral radius and physically severed through the sacrificant's central colony; then Gali was abruptly severed from the High Override after they felt as if a limb began necrotising. Sacrificants nor executioners really need an active memory to do their jobs, so Gali didn't need to have memory for however long their colony was one with the High Override's. Forcefully amputated from the larger system like an infection without any of the memories of being apart of said system however, kind of rewinds a colony back to the people they remember being long before any interference.

While Ido was caught staring wide-eyed, fearful, and newly lacking the limbs she thought she could regenerate easily - her arms try and try but they shatter like glass, crumble like sand, and she violently shudders like gravel grinding into each other - Gali regained access of their long unused senses and found a sea of hostile enemy combatants staring back. With all the training of a military general with none of the present self-awareness to realise they were the cause of the currently very panicky rock's lack of arms, Gali almost like a flick of a switch reverted to the many rules of engagement regardless of the fact that they were sporting exposed central colony that may or may not have been another's with their own collection of memories.

Seeing to rescue someone who had all their rights to fear them, Gali and Ido fled to the stars.

With a few language barriers mixed with someones learning they haven't spoken much longer then anyone thought they did, discovering how planets that were meant to be each other's home have been destroyed and irrecoverable, and learning the before and after to the horror story that is the High Override and their cultist network of external nerves and collective colony, Gali and Ido may or may not have gotten arrested :P

And they probably would have been tried for crimes neither of them could particularly understand not having learnt any of the common universal languages, up until the point the prison ship was raided by a collective of pirates only working together for equal cuts of the profits (the Plumbers used a prison ship to transport the Annihilargh while they still thought it to be a threat, what's to say they wouldn't simultaneaously transport prisoners - aka, the fucking point - with some high sought-after McGuffin). The pair would meet Meridi, a galvan with a penchant for mechanics and especially the kind that deceives an observer like - for instance - an android suit.

Meridi isn't here but gist is, she pilots both her own ship and an android resembling a human, and spies a pretty prize of walking talking taydenite. Instead of scoring a deal, she takes into consideration (perhaps with a cold calculation rather than a warm sympathy) the condition of ECD affected crystals and how much effort it would take to actually refine it and deems turning Ido into pocket change isn't worth it. In fact, further taking note of the explosive volatile footwork of crystallokinesis with the additional muscle of a fulmini veteran, actively helping Ido (and Gali by proxy) would potentially turn out more of a profit.

Gali isn't in dire need for hiding, but Ido uses shadow and a human-mouth jaw mask as tools to conceal what price her skin costs, while Meridi attempts to make prosthetics for a species that doesn't have nerves that also takes into account the unstable electrical currents produced by the compression of crystalline motor functions.

A bit of a tangent in a very long not-even-bothering-to-summarize backstory, I want to talk about petrosapien prosthetics, at least ones that can have 'motors' like Ido's arms (not like Chio's leg). With no external muscles to help strap in and extend the remnant of tendons humans have running through limbs, petrosapien exoskeletons do not offer the same interconnectivity and do not have easy ways to extend what had been cut off. Myoelectric limbs again by human standards also do not fit petrosapien nervous systems either, especially since the only nerves they have are in their equivalent of the central nervous system which also interacts with internal organs, the peripheral nervous system of a petrosapien operates with the highly structured yet individually unique non-standardised crystalline formations and compression. What Meridi does however is take material from Ido's crystal to create the joints in a conductive copper rod prosthetic (insulated in rubber to prevent harm to others), where Ido's compression triggers electricity to run down to remotely compress the crystal joints, which compress under the pressures of electricity and send the signal to be compressed again until motility is achieved.

And that is a lot of context :P woops- I either make no backstory or I make this convoluted piece of moving puzzle pieces, the duality of man I suppose :P

[galiccfinds]

why so many empty blogs/bots are following me these days???!(?! i’m so doneeee!!! i had a peaceful time last month where almost none of these blogs were following me and i was getting only real followers but the last week they’re all back again WHYYYY

[titanic-toa]

⏬ make Gali matoran height.

This remote was really starting to control Gali in strange ways, if Gali knew this all being done by one thing she'd probably be pretty upset about it. Still, this change would be quite rapid and quite drastic, plummeting downwards from her amazonian height of nine feet, to her normal height of six, to the diminished height of three feet tall. However, this did nothing to remove all the access weight she had accumulated, leaving her a incredibly fat matoran sized Toa.

"W-what's going on here? What's happening to me!?"

[today-in-knps]

🗓 Monday, January 6th, 2025

Kopaka runs into Gali on the way into work and helps her carry some things to her classroom. She asks him how he feels about the Takua situation, since she has a pretty good idea about how the others feel, but not him. He says he doesn't like it, but also feels they would have wound up telling him anyway with how involved he's insisting on making himself. Takua needs to take a break almost immediately as soon as school starts, and hangs around outside the kindergarten classroom, agonizing about talking to Gali. Vakama encourages him to, but he bolts and decides to come back later. Gali, Tahu, and Onewa talk about Takua in the staff room at recess, Onewa revealing that Takua did something weird with the light in the gym that day with the fox, and that he's probably got something weird going on anyway. At lunch, Takua goes to see Gali and Lewa, revealing that he can control light. They take him to see Nokama and Vakama, where he has a vision of Tahu and Kopaka fighting. Vakama realizes Takua is the Toa of Light that Kualus told them about. He's upset that Takua is getting visions like him, but tells him about Toa and everything. The staff are all upset that a student has gotten involved, but resolve to help him any way they can.

Relevant chapter:

[galidisawar]

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[plumdale]

Galia met up w Lia and Olivia for some ballet practice + coffee after! That quickly turned sour tho bc Lia got shady w Gali after she told her ab her current situation w Johnny 😭😭 I thought Lia was a real one lmao guess not

[magicalgirlmascot]

YEEHEEHEEHHEEE

Onewa don't be fucking rude

I LOVE Pohatu and Gali being buds like this. It's sweet 💙💖

Fancomic of @magicalgirlartist's teacher AU (Not an actual scene from the fic, but something that could plausibly happen in that universe, since Lewa does indeed get distracted by both kinds of bear.)

T-shirt inspired by this one.

[sad-leon]

What is Gali's backstory? Like was she created by draxum along with the rest of the turtles or does she have something else going for her :0

HEHEHEEHHEH GALILEO MY BELOVED!!

She was mutated about 5 years before Leo and the rest of them were. Unlike the other turtles, she was originally a human!

Draxum, seeing humans as the ultimate threat, wanted to take on, mutate it to be stronger, and make if kill the rest of the human race. Unfortunately, his plan didn't work very well because, while Gali is very strong, the mutation caused her a lot of pain. When she recovered, she wasn't as strong or fast as she previously was, and while she built up her strength again by becoming Big Mama's assistant (and she fought in the Nexus occassionally), she still faces a daily battle against chronic pain.

As a human, she was very good in sports (she played volleyball for her school), but her social and home life were very rough. Draxum found her sneaing out and promised her that she'd never have to go back to her house, and she'd get stronger, if she went with him.

After a brief attempt at a fight, Gali realized she wasn't going to win and realized that anything this weird Goatman (or eccentric cosplayer) could offer her wouldn't be worse than going back to her house. When she realized what was going to happen to her, she was knocked out before she could fight.

The mutation process was rough and nearly killed her. A lot of her memories, as well as her previous sense of self, were completely destroyed. She couldn't remember her name, not most of her human life. Draxum started to address her as a boy, but when he realized she couldn't fight like he'd hoped, he stopped referring to her altogether.

Big Mama caught wind of Draxum's experiment and showed interest. Without any real use for Gali, Draxum solder her off to Big Mama. BM, under the impression Galileo was a guy, gave her the name Leonardo, after one of Lou Jitsu's favorite human historical figures. When Gali expressed discontent with that name, and with being referred to as masculine, BM was open to letting her choose her own name. Without any other ideas, BM vaguely recalled Lou Jitsu talking about another old human named "Galileo", so BM suggested that name and it stuck.

When Galileo first saw Leo, she assumed he was also previously human, but realized that if he really was that young, he would have died, so she assumed he was created by a different method. She later asked BM and Draxum about it, which they gave her a real answer. They also breifly mentioned the 3 turtles that were lost (but Draxum assumed they all died).

Another thing along the track of Gali remembering only bits of her human life: she does retain a bit of her empathy. That's why she didn't fight in the Nexus for very long. She also teaches Leo to have empathy, that he doesn't have to kill everyone he fights. (If it wasn't for Gali, he would be much more villain-like).

Also, Gali wasn't sure how to feel about Leo for a long time. She was kind to him, but he often annoyed her, but she grew to love him anyways.

When Galileo first meets Leo, when Leo is about 2 or 3 (he was only a year or two old when mutated, so it's still pretty soon after his mutation), and Gali is around 18-19 ish.

Currently, in FH, Leo is 14 and Gali is 30 ish

Because of Gali's mutation method, she doesn't physically change compared to how big the others end up growing.

[whiteheartlight]

Alright, your header Hypothetical, of Tahu being rash and then seeing Kopaka and Gali giving him the same exact look

but consider, a look of approval?

oh he LIVES for that. he starts yelling at someone who was being a jackass, or he just smashes something that was pissing everyone off, or he says something way too sharp to Dume or Helryx or someone, and it takes about half a second for him to realize Gali and Kopaka are both watching.... he winces and turns around slowly..... OH THEY'RE NODDING AT HIM. HELL YES. HE JUST LOVES RIGHTEOUS ANGER AND MISCHIEF WITH HIS SIBLINGS.

sometimes even if one of them is looking disapproving but the other looks approving or impressed he gets a high. in truth we all know Gali and Kopaka have pretty dangerous tempers of their own, so the real problem is when the three of them all do something rash and Onua, Lewa, and Pohatu are the ones who have to reign them in (rare but there have been a couple notorious incidents)

Tahu mostly just dreads the idea of them being mad, and has really gotten much better at self-control without making anyone responsible for correcting him over the years... mostly. but every now and then it's like this

[magicalgirlmascot]

I was wondering, do you have any “cutting room floor” knps scenes you’d be wiling to share? I know you said there were some werebeast summer bits you didn’t end up using…

I've been holding off on answering this one until I had some time to sit at my computer surrounded by slush files and notebooks but THE TIME IS NOW here we go

Warning: long post is long

Full disclosure: many of these are a) incomplete, b) very much first drafts, or c) both. So. Just keep that in mind.

~~~

Onewa and Krahka Hordika meeting

“Wow, it sure is dark out here.”

Onewa perched on a fallen tree and scratched behind his new rounded cat ears. They were so itchy all the time. He’d better not have fleas. He cleared his throat. “Boy,” he said loudly to no one, “it sure would be a shame if someone found me all alone like this. Out here by myself. In the woods. A real tragedy. Someone strong and powerful and—”

A clawed hand wrapped around his throat from behind and he stopped talking. It didn’t constrict his breathing, but the claws dug into his fur-covered skin just enough for the promise of pain. “What do you want?” a voice growled in his ear. It was low and rough and sent a shudder down Onewa’s back. She could take him apart in seconds like this. He didn’t have access to any of his powers right now. His new beast form might have been a predator, but to her he’d always be prey.

Onewa didn’t have the capacity to worry about why he found that so hot.

“Kind of rude for a hello,” he said.

The hand tightened at his neck, another hand grabbing his wrist and forcing it behind his back. Onewa swallowed, feeling his throat press against her hand as it did. He couldn’t turn his head. He wanted to see what she looked like right now. She probably had a mouth full of sharp teeth and all of them would show when she snarled. “I found you wandering my forest alone, clearly wanting to be noticed. This is my territory, Toa. If that even is what you are anymore.”

A snarl ripped out of his throat and he pulled against her grip. “You don’t know a goddamn thing.”

“You’re the one who came looking for me. If you have something to say, talk.” Teeth grazed his ear. “Quickly.”

His breath caught, but he pushed past it. “You’ve probably noticed the spiders.”

A breath huffed by his face. “It would be impossible not to.”

“We’re trying to stop them, but our first attempt went, well.” He gestured to himself with his free hand. “Badly.”

“And you want my help.” There was another huff that might have been a laugh. “Why should I help you?”

~~~

This one is from the chapter where Takua learns about Toa stuff. The scene where Vakama explains things to him originally also had Tahu in it, but I decided it was a bit too cluttered and cut him.

“We don’t have a choice anymore.”

The staff were all crowded around the hallway in front of the office, crammed together like sardines. Vakama stood tall and stubborn in the middle, an intense frown on his face. “Takua needs to be told. This can’t go on. I won’t let it.”

Onewa groaned. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but for once I agree with you.”

Matau’s head whipped around to stare at him. “Really? You?”

“Shut up,” Onewa said with no real heat. He sounded tired. “I know what I saw in the gym that day before break, while you were all off dealing with that fox. Kid’s got something weird going on.” He shrugged. “It’s our job to help out our students when they’re struggling with something. Are we teachers or not?”

“I’m not,” Lewa piped up helpfully.

Onewa bared his teeth at him as Matau laughed. “You know what the hell I mean.” He jabbed a finger down the hall, towards where Takua was sitting unsupervised in Tahu’s classroom. “That kid is our responsibility.”

“My responsibility,” Tahu said.

“Ours,” Onewa insisted. “Weren’t you listening to Vakama last week? This shit is a joint effort. It takes a village or whatever.”

Gali cleared her throat. “Alright, but when? How? We can’t just drop all this on him and then expect him to go back to class like nothing’s wrong. You specifically chose a PA day to talk to us so that we’d have the whole day plus an entire weekend to work through things. And who’s going to talk to him?”

“I am,” Vakama and Tahu said at the same time. Tahu frowned, and Vakama looked surprised.

Nokama held up both hands. “Maybe you both should. Tahu, you’re his teacher. He trusts you. You’ll be a solid rock for him in turbulent waters.”

“No, that’s Pohatu,” Matau said.

She sighed as he snickered at his own joke. “And Vakama—are you sure?”

Everyone looked at him, standing straight and confident in the middle of them all. “Yes. Takua needs to know what’s going on—and that we’re here for him. All of us.”

~~~

From a cut "first meeting" of Krahka's new persona with Tahu's class. Please understand this was written before "goons" had its current slang meaning.

“Alright, you goons,” Tahu shouted over the noise of his classroom as he hung up the phone. “Math can wait a minute.” He had them doing math puzzles in groups for a warm-up before getting into a full lesson. This week they were knuckling down on long division. When most of them were quiet, he continued. “Ms. Nokama is bringing the new youth worker to meet everyone in a second.” Vakama had just called to let him know that, as well as that “Ahrakk” was Krahka’s newest alias. He was grateful for the heads up this time. Finding out their school therapist was actually a shapeshifting monster through her shifting into Kopaka mid-conversation was funny now, but it had freaked the hell out of him at the time. “Best behaviour, okay? We’re going to show her the best class in the school so she’ll want to spend all her time here.”

Takua snickered. Jaller elbowed him.

There was a knock at the door. Tahu went to open it, looking out over the class, pointing at his eyes and then around at all of them. There was scattered giggling, and Tahu was grinning when he opened the door.

Next to Nokama was a woman Tahu had never seen before, but it wasn’t like he knew all of Krahka’s forms. Ahrakk was shorter and stockier than Harkak had been, but when she smiled she had sharp teeth. Nokama elbowed her. “Stop that.”

“What?” Krahka said, but the next time she opened her mouth it was a regular human one. “Nice to meet you, guy,” she said. She paused, taking a deep breath through her nose and frowning. “Huh.”

Tahu held the door open. “Yeah, welcome to the preteen wing. Smells like teen spirit in here.”

“That is not what that song is about,” Nokama said.

Krahka stepped into the room, and she didn’t change anything about her appearance, but there was still a kind of transformation. Just by standing up a little straighter and smiling disarmingly, suddenly she was the picture of a friendly but slightly out of touch educator. Tahu kind of got how she’d managed to pass unnoticed for so long now.

~~~

Contextless line from Krahka about trying to find out what Takua knows about Toa

"I tried to get him to tell me what he knew every day for two months and he stayed sealed up tighter than Nuju's ass." Nuju signed something that even Gali recognized as rude, and Krahka flipped him off right back before shifting into a ferret again.

~~~

Originally, Lewa wasn't going to outwardly forgive Gali after she'd told everyone about the Takua situation. However, that night, all of them except Kopaka wound up staying over at Pohatu's house. The idea was for it to deliberately mirror the scene at the end of chapter 45, where he and Gali are lying awake and she's worried about what his reaction will be when she tells them all about Takua.

Lewa lay on his side on Pohatu's pull-out couch and listened to the fire dying in the wood stove. Talking about everything that had happened--the New Year's fear dreams, Gali's confession--it had taken a long time. They'd wound up talking for hours, well into the night, and Pohatu had insisted that everyone stay over. Onua, traitor that he was, had been the one to suggest that he and Gali take the couch together, and now here he was, flat on his back and not looking at her.

He didn't like being mad at Gali. It sucked. And she'd apologized,and explained, and it made sense, he got why she did it. But it still hurt.

Lewa rolled onto his stomach and smushed his face into the throw pillow he was stuck using. Maybe if he could just fall asleep, it would all be fine in the morning.

The bed shifted. "Are you awake?" Gali whispered.

"No," he mumbled into the pillow.

Gali moved again and Lewa looked over at her. She was lying on her side, facing him, clearly half asleep. "I didn't want to hurt you," she said.

"I know."

"I'm sorry."

"I know." Lewa scooted a little closer, tucked a strand of hair out of her face. "I was ragemad that you did the one thing you always remembertold me not to do."

She smiled a little. "I know." She turned her head away for a minute. "Lewa," she said, "we're going to be okay, right?"

Something in him broke. Yes, he was still upset, and yes, he still thought he had every right to be. But he wanted his best friend back. "I truthknow so," he said, playing with the hair still between his fingers. "You're heartfamily, sisterfriend. I deepwant us to work out, too." He hesitated, then scooted closer and tucked her into his arms. "Sadsorry I ran off this morning. I should've staylistened."

"No." She tucked her head under his chin and squeezed him tight. "You were right to be mad at me. I was a huge hypocrite, and--"

"And I should've staylistened," he insisted. It was nice to hear her say he was justified to be mad, though. "What's overdone is overdone. You're my sisterfriend. That's that."

Her next breath was shaky. "Thank you," she said, her voice just as shaky. "I'll never do anything like that again. And I promise I'll tell you if anything big happens again."

Lewa was starting to get sleepy, so he snuggled down and shut his eyes. "We'll be just fineright," he mumbled before sleep took him.

~~~

From a cut chapter. Originally, Kopaka didn't come to the meetup at New Year's after running away, and the Shadow Kopaka chapter happened between New Year's and the start of school. His main concern since then has been reconciling with Pohatu, so he's in the staff room at lunch, waiting for him to show up.

The distinctive tap-step of Onewa and his cane got closer. Kopaka lowered his book to look up at him with an eyebrow raised. He was smirking. "Well well," he said. "Waiting for someone?"

Kopaka buried his nose in his book again. "Nah, don't be like that," Onewa said. He tapped his cane against the foot of the armchair. "Listen, a little birdie told me you and Pohatu had a bit of a falling out."

"We didn't argue," Kopaka said. Everything in him was tense. He didn't want to discuss this with Onewa. He didn't want to discuss it at all.

"That's not how he tells it." When Kopaka raised his head again, Onewa's face was solemn, leaning towards him slightly. "I think," he said, voice low, "the last thing any of us here wants is to see Pohatu hurt. And if someone did hurt him, well." He shrugged, the gesture carefully dismissive. "They'd have to work pretty hard to make up for it, wouldn't they?"

Kopaka stared him down. Onewa thought he was more threatening than he was. "You know why I'm waiting here," he said.

There was a long moment while Onewa studied him. A thin smile cracked his face. "He's not coming up here," he said, turning away. "He's in the library."

Wordlessly, Kopaka stood, gathered his things, and walked out of the room.

~~~

A short cut chapter about Matoro. The bit about Whenua's family is referencing another cut chapter that I'm not including here because it's likely to resurface as a oneshot side story someday.

"Absolutely not. It's a school night."

"It's not even eight thirty," Matoro argued. "It's only going to be for, like, an hour."

"I said no," said Ren, folding their arms. "We can watch it another night. The recording isn't going anywhere."

Dad stuck his head into the living room. "Matoro, I could use a hand with the chickens."

Matoro turned on his heel, stomping downstairs and slamming the door to his bedroom before flopping face first onto his bed. It was stupid. It wasn't fair. He was thirteen--fourteen in a week--he shouldn't have a stupid nine o'clock bedtime. He was dead sure no one else in his class did.

Someone knocked on the door. "No," he told them.

The door opened anyway. "Matoro," Dad said, "what's wrong?"

"Nothing." He rolled onto his back and stared up at the ceiling, at the plastic glow in the dark stars he'd put up there when he was a kid. Uncle Nuju had helped him pick out constellations to put up out of a book he and Uncle Whenua had given him. Some of them were falling down now, but Orion was still all there.

The bed dipped as Dad sat down. "Ren said you were upset that they wouldn't let you stay up to watch your show with them."

"If you know what the problem is, why did you ask?" Matoro mumbled. He refused to look at Dad. He always did this. He could never just leave Matoro alone. If Matoro wanted to talk to someone, he'd go text Uncle Nuju.

Dad patted Matoro's knee. "Maybe it's time we changed up some of the house rules. You're almost in high school."

Matoro hesitated, then sat up, squinting at him suspiciously. "What's the catch?"

"No catch." Dad had his outside jacket on, but no hat or mittens as usual. He smiled down at Matoro. It was almost sad. "Ren and I just keep forgetting that you're growing up, that's all. You're not our little boy anymore."

Matoro pulled his legs up, curling in on himself. He was so tightly wound. Everything felt like it was stretched thin, like he would snap if something else happened.

"What's really worrying," Dad said, "is that you push us away when you're upset. Talk to me, Matoro. What's really bothering you?"

Takua had superpowers and he couldn't tell anybody. Uncle Whenua's family hated him for being gay and he had to act like he didn't know. He had a crush on half the boys in his class and the only person who even knew he liked boys in the first place was Uncle Nuju. "I want to go feed the chickens," he said.

There was a long silence. "Okay," Dad said. He stood up, holding out a hand for Matoro to help him off the bed. "Come get your coat."

Matoro ignored the hand, sliding off the bed himself. He could keep it all in. He'd be just fine.

~~~

I think that's all that I can share without spoilers? There's more, but a lot of it wound up getting recycled into other scenes or sections of the fic, or I'm planning on using in the future (like in the Metru prequel) so I don't want to put it out here.

[danceswithswords]

Been thinking a lot about about Macku post-canon lately. At first the "you don't have a toa to be a hero" thematic does go against her transforming, but the more I thought about it she seems like a matoran with that "slightly off" vibe of a matoran that is destined to be a toa. She was rebellious, a great sense of exploration, and always trying to be the hero doing anything to save her koro and fellow matoran. The deciding factor was the DRAMA that would occur with her trying to fit in as the Mahri's new 6th member.

Jaller 100% accidentally calls her Matoro once or twice or asks for an ice power instead of a water one. Which doesn't do great for feeling like a poor substitute for the friend that saved a universe.

I think the real problem starts when the Mahri get sent out on an underwater mission and a Toa of Water is the one who struggles the most, because while she's a better swimmer than 4 of them. She can't breathe underwater like her amphibious teammates. I can't imagine worse imposter syndrome especially with Hahli there who excels completely and makes Macku feel like an inferior Water Toa. After the mission the Mahri find out just how hard it is to find a toa with a great Huna that doesn't want to be found.

Hahli and Hewkii are the ones who find her. Macku's dedication, outgoingness, and general positive attitude are very important for letting the team heal and move on. The Mahri have been warriors since the moment they stepped out of the canisters on Voya Nui. A Toa is more than just a warrior, and Macku helps them all relearn this she brings a fresh perspective on Toa, one they forgot. Finally Hewkii then hands her a newly forged mask of water breathing. Gali was the first toa of water any of the Mahri remember, and being able to wear her mask would be a fantastic way of saying that you do deserve to be a toa.

[magicalgirlartist]

[ID: digital drawing of a young woman with short wavy blue hair, glowing orange eyes, an open dark blue jacket over a light blue swim top and pants, a blue visor and blue breathing device. She's got both arms up over her head, and behind her rises a wave of water. End ID.]

DEJ Day 8: Gali

POV you fucked up real bad and Gali is about to powerwash your whole situation

[Commissions open!]

[fingerprint-insurance]

the real truth is that all Forbie fanfiction was indeed written by Nigel Colbie himself and not by anyone else and that does also technically mean that the accounts @laurelwen and @gali-in-distress are also secretly being run by Nigel Colbie as well

[channoticedmeuwu]

TXT IF THEY WERE . . . THE DESI BOYS(Z) !?

#— “oh teri” . . . maine exam paper khola, aur uss ne meri khol di ・⁠・⁠・🥭﹏. ๑：(❛⁠ 🪔

p — DESI!OT5 × (FEM) DESI!READER | g — crack, fluff, desi!au, reader is implied to be desi but it's more on the members, just headcanons | w — lingo used is tailored towards a desi audience

A/N — y'all I needed to. call me cringe. but I need to get beomgyu as a desi out of my head okay. I'm sorry. I love this sm. so please, make some noise for the desi boys guys.

THIS DRABBLE IS TARGETTED TOWARDS A FEM!DESI READER. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE INCLUSIVE TO EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE LINGO USED.

🎧 — “MAKE SOME NOISE FOR THE DESI BOYZ”

CHOI YEONJUN

openly unshareef but a bit gullible. probably gets in a lot of trouble solely because he can't cover himself up. he'd freeze up anytime he's confronted about any of his shenanigans. you'd definitely see him playing cricket with the maila boys in the galis, and would probably do a dramatic dive towards the side walk when a car passes by, honking. screams “Y/N, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!” and terribly misses the chakka, then screams “THAT WAS SO OBVIOUSLY WHITE!!!” to hide his embarrassment.

hates chai tho, thinks hating it gives him personality. sucks at math, always in the principal's office for “talking back” to the old teacher. is actually really smart, so his grades aren't really slipping that much.

would tell you he's planning to play cricket professionally, but we all know he's a bit all talk. brings you ghajras and tells you it was from his mom so he doesn't get in trouble with your dad. speaking of which, he goes around claiming “l/n chachu is my best friend!!!!” but can't look the man in his eyes and say hello.

CHOI SOOBIN

he looks shareef as hell— isn't. doesn't really do much to get in trouble, just steals his brother's car and takes it out for a drive at 3 am. texts you really late at night asking if you want to drive around. when you refuse and absolutely “BREAK HIS HEART” (he'll be fine), he takes yeonjun with him. and because you weren't there to smack the back of his head, he doesn't see the big ass depression in the road and gets stuck. calls you AGAIN, crying at 3:30 am, freaking out and going “THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!!!” you can hear yeonjun trying to calm him down in the back but both of them are scared they'll get caught by the police and then will be detained overnight. soobin's very dramatic.

is really annoying sometimes. bold asf tho, definitely looks your dad in the eyes and shakes his hand whenever he's around. your dad would say “stay away from soobin I don't like him,” and then proceed to immediately befriend him when they realize they watch the same drama serial that's trending.

big foodie too, calls you and tells you he's bringing home crates of mangos with his friends and gives you an extra one whenever summer hits. his friend would ask him, “dude, where do we keep these crates?” and soobin, who's never been to your house EVER, goes, “tsk— follow me.” and walks into your house unannounced and unaware. wears a white kurta with gold accents because white represents, “purity, y/n. I'm a pure boy.” drops stew on his clothes moments after.

CHOI BEOMGYU

the real “stay away from him” wala boy. he's the talk of the town. no one knows how he manages to do it.

acing school, really fucking street smart, barely home most of the time. probably listens to a lot of punjabi. probably also curses in purely just punjabi. he's the kid that would probably post stories of driving in the rain or something 😭

all the girls in the shaadi hall have eyes on him. really good with kids too, but super fucking annoying, so you'd probably see a kid every few hours running up to their mama and crying, “BHAI HIT ME!!!!!”

acts really chichora because he thinks it's funny. would steal flowers from the bouquets in shaadi halls for all the younger kids in his fam, but save you the best one. gives you his aalu when you eat biryani together. super sentimental too, would randomly break into a poetry during a random conversation that has nothing to do with poetry.

cracks a lot of dirty jokes too, again, because he thinks it's funny. eyes you shockingly when you eat the paani puri with one whole bite after he struggles to. asks how you're better with your mouth than him, and gets a smack right on his nose. on a related note, starts a “paani puri or gol gappe?” debate with you, and picks the side you're against solely because you're against it. can't have you winning, now can he?

loves it when it rains. calls it relatable. you'd probably get a call when the sky starts getting darker and asks if he can dance in the rain with you. wears his best black kurta (he has 5) whenever you two hang out. looks very attentively into your hands when you get mehendi done, and ask if you had his name written somewhere in the designs. gets disappointed when you don't.

KANG TAEHYUN

probably the most religious out of the 5. the annoying type in group hang outs that threatens he'll snitch, but never does. a cute geek. probably studies computer sciences.

ironically also a gym rat. gym buddies with beomgyu. has abs but you can't see it until beomgyu dumps a bucket of water on him from the balcony and drenches him completely. and you're like, “oh.” gets shy when beomgyu forces him to wear a compression shirt for the gram 🔥💪 is the Athlete Of The Year 3 years in a row. sports captain, too.

always visiting the principal's office, but not because he's in trouble. knows the principal &staff really fucking well because he's an athlete. fist bumps the principal in the halls, gets shot weird looks before the principal eventually returns his fist bump.

the kid who probably has a lot of writing on his t-shirt on the last day of school. areas of his face smeared with ink from a pen soobin accidentally broke. all 5 take a picture with the principal on the last day of school. forces the photographer to take an extra silly one of just the principal and him. refuses to give his sports captain sash back.

helps you study during the winter break. complains when you don't understand it immediately. threatens that he'll tell “l/n aunty you're constantly on your phone.” but really rewarding & generous once you begin to ace the topic. promises you he'll treat you to food (and keeps his word.)

HUENINGKAI

called kamal a lot. is a sweetheart. grew up bringing flowers for his teachers every morning. really good at language arts. writes the poetry beomgyu randomly starts reciting.

plays basketball because “the body needs varzish.” forces you to play with him after he misses many hoops on purpose. goes easy on you until you piss him off for “being bad.”

your parents absolutely love him and start internally crying when they realize he may be in the friendzone. brings fruits for your mom and a pirated video game for your brother everytime he visits. loves to tease you for losing in a video game you've never played before.

accidentally walks on you when you're adjusting your clothes. screams so loud mama thinks he slipped in the bathroom. apologizes a lot even though he saw like nothing. tries to make it up to you while you're making chai— ends up distracting you so bad it spills over the pot. absolutely dizzy and doesn't know what to do.

to make it up to you (and maybe to spend some extra time with just you), takes you to those local malls where it reeks of chalia and fresh cloth, and there's a million tailors stitching clothes. would probably get scammed so fucking fast before you start yelling that they're going way off price. confused asf, realizes maybe he should just let you do the talking, while he carries all the stuff the two of you buy for the wedding coming up.

probably hears a lot of, “wow, he's so pretty,” from a million aunties whispering to each other there. gets shy super fast.

begs you to buy something that he wants to pay for because he feels so guilty for the chai and walking in on you, even though you're absolutely refusing. sneaks away while you're arguing with a tailor, buys a pair of gold baliyaan for you.

then gives the jewelry to you while you two are sitting in the car, and proceeds to earn another affectionate smack when you realize he got scammed bad for them.

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[ctrl-alt-tahu]

Thoughts of Akamai and Wairuha

"You shouldn't talk about the Great Spirit like that," said Pohatu, as they continued to cross Ko-Metru. The wan lights above the dome were at their zenith, providing a pale glow over the ruined city. As they climbed around the exterior of one of the largest (or least-ruined) towers of the Metru, they could see at a distance other portions of the city.

"I believed in Mata Nui, once," said Voriki. "I even thought I met him… but what Great Being would claim to watch over the Matoran and leave us with this." He paused, looking out over the city. They were on a landing of sorts, a flat place that opened where the broad tower below them turned to a much narrower spire. They could see north, east, and south, and Voriki waved a hand over them all.

"You should have seen Metru Nui then, when I first came here: the Coliseum there"--he pointed north east at the most ruinous area they could see: the centre island broken and cracked--"the Temple of Mata Nui in Ga-Metru, the chute system, the great forge of Ta-Metru. It was the envy of the world, and envy it the Makuta did. I don't know all the centuries of war and scheming before my time, but they weren't without effect: Metru Nui no longer ruled its empire, and only one Toa still stood with Turaga Dume, who ruled this city: Toa Lhikan, Toa of Fire.

"I don't know where he got the Toa Stones that transformed us. I don't know why he waited until he was the last Toa left and the sea-gates were on the verge of being breached. I don't know why he picked the seven of us--but he did, and we became Toa: me, and the six you say you know as Turaga: Vakama, Nokama, Matau, Onewa, Nuju, and Whenua."

"A seventh Toa!" Lewa whispered. Onua nodded, but gestured for silence. Kopaka and Tahu shared a cryptic nod.

"We weren't enough," said Voriki. "While we tried to learn how to control our powers, how to control our masks, we sought the great Kanoka disks, drove back the Morbuzakh--and missed how much we were needed at the sea-gates. Important as our little quests might have been in peacetime, they were distractions when the city was threatened from without. What did it matter if the Morbuzakh was choking off the Great Forge when the Matoran were vanishing and the Visorak were invading?"

"What are Visor--" Lewa began even as Gali asked "why were the Matoran vanishing?"

"Visorak are a sort of swarming, insectoid Rahi," said Voriki. "There were thousands of them, directed by Sidorak, a mighty servant of the Brotherhood of Makuta."

"And the Matoran?" asked Kopaka.

"We didn't realise it until much later," said Voriki, "but Turaga Dume was long gone. He was being impersonated by the Makuta himself, and it was all his plan: the Matoran were being put in stasis even as the city fell to the Visorak. Metru Nui fell to attacks from both within and without. Only the seven of us were left free in the city--well, and the five Matoran we stole away with us. Whenua, Nuju, and Onewa stayed behind in the Coliseum to buy the rest of us time to escape, and while we were on the run in Po-Metru, Vakama collapsed and Matau and I learned that he had been keeping a secret from us--visions, or so Nokama called them."

There no hiding the looks that the six Toa gave each other. So Vakama is still associated with them, then, Voriki thought.

"He said he had seen the Great Beings in council, and that they had told him that Mata Nui was asleep and we must wake him, and that Valour and Wisdom would guide us. At the time, I believed this was a sign, and that we had to save Metru Nui by waking the Great Spirit, and I believed that Akamai and Wairuha would come and help us--but though we found a Mata Nui of sorts, in the end, no Great Beings came and guided us. If Vakama's vision meant anything, it must have been metaphorical: wisdom and valour, not personified beings."

"They are true-real," said Lewa. "Takua told us."

The wind seemed to pick up, and the already chilly ledge was far from comfortable to any save Kopaka, but no one moved as Voriki stared at them.

"You mentioned him--Takua," said Voriki at last, "in your tale the other night: he is your chronicler."

"Yes," said Tahu.

"And he claims to have seen Akamai and Wairuha," said Voriki.

"Yes," said Pohatu.

"Not 'claimed'," said Gali. "He did see them. I have felt what he has seen."

"Was this before you came to the island?" asked Voriki.

"No, this was the first great battle with Makuta," said Gali. "As we said in our tale: after scouring the island for the Golden Kanohi and being united at last, we faced the Makuta beneath the temple of Kini Nui and defeated him, for a time."

"You said nothing of Akamai and Wairuha," said Voriki.

"We didn't exactly tell you every kick and blow," said Pohatu. "To be honest, most of that battle is a blur. We entered the cave, encountered the Manas and… returned later, victorious. Takua remembers more than we do."

Voriki said nothing, but it was plain that he wanted to dismiss the idea, and why not: if they remembered so little and if the Makuta hadn't even been truly vanquished, then perhaps they hadn't been victorious at all. Yet if their chronicler claimed to have seen Akamai and Wairuha…

"We should get going again," said Voriki. "We're almost there. If the Pituita Nui is still functioning, we can close the sea-gate. I'll have Tehutti see what we can do to close them permanently, and we need to find Nidhiki and Krekka, but that can wait till tomorrow."

He tapped a door that opened onto the ledge with the slightest jolt of electricity, and the door popped open, not quite chest-height.

"An access point for Matoran technicians, not Toa, I'm afraid."

"So, what happened next?" asked Pohatu, "in your story? You went from Po-Metru to find Mata Nui?"

"No, not right away," said Voriki. "First, we encountered more Toa."

[today-in-knps]

📆 Wednesday, January 1st, 2025

Takua blows out his birthday candles. There's a thundersnowstorm brewing outside, which makes him uneasy when he remembers his vision about that, but he brushes it off. The Toa all wake up separately in their own private nightmares, taunted about their innermost fears by their Shadow Toa counterparts. Lewa manages to realize it's not real and wake himself up, then helps the others break out as well. Kopaka takes the whole thing extremely badly, pushing even Pohatu away and running home. The other Toa go their separate ways for the night, all miserable.

Onua turns up at Whenua and Nuju's immediately after, unable to face his basement apartment. Takua can't sleep, instead going to his room to check and see what he wrote down about his vision. The light from his nightlight suddenly glows brighter, and when he reaches for it, it reaches back. Matoro walks in on him holding a ball of pure light in his hands, and Takua swears him to secrecy. Makuta makes Ahkmou his Toa of Shadow, promising him power in exchange for finding the Toa of Light.

In the morning, Tahu makes breakfast for him and Pohatu, and they talk a bit about what happened. Whenua goes with Onua to his apartment for moral support, and apologizes for not warning the Toa about Vakama's most recent vision. Lewa slept at Gali's, and he gets upset and leaves when she bites the bullet and tells him about Takua. He goes to Onua's, where they hold each other and Lewa confides about his mixed feelings about Gali. Kopaka spends the morning in bed. Pohatu tries to contact him several times, but gets no answer, and tries to be okay with that.

Gali calls Krahka, who comes to give some advice. Gali explains what happened and her fears of pushing the others apart. Krahka tells her to rip off the bandage and tell the others, and says she'll handle telling the Turaga about the Takua situation. Gali and Tahu check in on the school, and he asks her out again. She says if he's okay with what she has to say later, they can try. The Toa (and Krahka) meet up at Pohatu's. Even Kopaka is convinced to go on the condition that he doesn't have to talk about his feelings. Before they start talking about what happened with the Shadow Toa, Gali tells everyone what happened with Takua and apologizes. Lewa, sick of being mad at her, clings to her. The six of them talk about what happened while Tahu bangs around the kitchen making food. Krahka drags Kopaka outside to talk when he won't talk in front of the others. He says he wants to work through his problems alone, but admits that he doesn't know how to handle that he hurt Pohatu when he ran. Krahka encourages him to talk to Pohatu.

It's a messy, awkward night, but everyone feels better after eating and talking about their feelings. Before he leaves, Kopaka pulls Pohatu aside and apologizes for running away, promising not to do that again. Everyone eventually leaves, with Tahu taking Gali home. They talk about Takua some more, Tahu saying that him finding out was inevitable. He's not happy about Gali telling him, but he's not angry either. The two of them kiss, and Gali invites him up. Meanwhile, the Turaga discuss what to talk about with the Toa, Onewa saying he doesn't want to tell them about the Visorak.

Relevant chapters:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39922968/chapters/134554717#workskin