#Real dume

[conjuremanj]

What IS Real D.U.M.E. POWDER + Workings.

In this post I'm going to speak on what is and the different ways to use Dume Powder.

What Does Dume Mean? D.U.M.E means Death Unto My Enemies.

What Is The Difference Between Goofer Dust & Dume Powder? This type of powder I would say is a step below Goofer Dust. Dume Powder is fairly newish and has lighter ingredients, where Goofer Dust has been around for over a hundred years and has more potent ingredients and takes longer to make.

Is The Store Bought Dume The Real? Don't know, I can say Goofer dust Is Not The Real Deal in stores. Dume I want to say can be in some places. But i can say this. I think the southern hoodoo communities stop telling outsiders how to make goofer dust to keep it from being sold because of how dangerous it can be.

How Can It Be Used? There are many ways to use this depending on what results your looking for.

Dume powder works well with a person's natural tendencies.

(Example) If I know that a person's is constantly getting sick or think that they are you can play off that and actually make them sick.

Spells: Here are two spells useing a photo if you done have your targets photo use their name and burn that to ash.

Burn a photo of the target to ash & mix in hospital dirt and dume powder. Now this will make them sick.

You can burn a photo of a person to ash then mix dume powder and put it in a little bottle or pill bottle the it will make them shake constantly.

There are other ways it can be used like putting it a persons foot track or of you pick up their tracks.

It can be used to to keep a man from getting a erection.

[revanisadumbass]

While we're on the subject though:

Desmond Sivan as young Caleb Dume

Amar Chadha-Patel as Kanan Jarrus

[tiredspacedragon]

Makuta: Dume's mask has proved useful

Greg: The Noble Kiril Teridax wore while disguised as Dume was a completely separate mask

[stealingpotatoes]

In tl4j does cal know that Ezra’s dad I mean master was Caleb dume because the only person in rebels who knew his real name was Hera ( I don’t think Ezra ever found out ) has he been able to put the pieces together that his best friend from school had a son I mean a padawan

someones gotta tell them

(commission info // kofi support!)

[lothalnyx]

Reasons for why Kanan Jarrus/Caleb Dume and Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert are one and the same.

they're both brown haired men with goatees and a nose that's hard to get right (kanan's nose is hard for me to draw ok)

Both changed their names and their true loves were the first to know their true birth names

Kanan: Flynn: Caleb Eugene

Kanan and Eugene were alone at a young age Kanan: Eugene: order 66 orphan

after they became these cocky scoundrels and ladies men (idk about eugene i think they implied it??)

they both met and fell in love with 18 yr old women with beautiful voices and green eyes

said women did not take any of their “charm”

ahem

Kanan and Eugene were hopelessly in love with them while Hera/Rapunzel took more time Hera - rebels s4 says it all Rapunzel - Eugene asking to marry her a bunch of times

These women were on a mission and Kanan (in A New Dawn) and Eugene were just along for the ride (oh but it became more)

Hera: Rapunzel: Empire stuff lanterns

Hera and Rapunzel are both optimistic and able to see the good in others

Kanan and Eugene both left their previous ways of life to be with these women

Kanan and Eugene went on a lil adventure with Hera/Rapunzel after meeting them!

They both revealed something about themselves to Hera/Rapunzel in times of peril

Kanan - being a jedi, stopping falling catwalk front crushing Hera Eugene - his real name, when the cave was filling up with water

Kanan and Eugene both come to rescue Hera/Rapunzel when they were kidnapped and proceeded to die/almost die (close enough) oh if only Hera had magic tears

Kanan Jarrus and Eugene Fitzherbert were lost for a long time, and then they found something and someone to live for

the only difference between these two is that Kanan and Hera didn't kiss after their adventure in A New Dawn like Eugene and Rapunzel and Kanan is in Star Wars so naturally he died before he and Hera could have the happily ever after Eugene got

[legend-as-old-as-time]

I have another mean plotbunny around the Turaga Metru.

On Spherus Magna, one or more of the Turaga Metru argue with Dume. The discussion dissolves into an argument dissolves into a shouting match. Everybody's composure is shattered. The toa being present upon their insistence - like the Toa Mahri - watch it tensely.

The whole room freezes when Dume says this,

"I can't believe that Mata Nui chose you! If the vahki were still active, I'd order them here to teach you some respect of your elders-"

And the other turaga flinch. Flinch.

Dume didn't mean it. He realizes instantly what he said was out of line, especially after having had time to reflect after the fall of Metru Nui and rebuilding it. He appreciates the other turaga's presence and work.

But he doesn't understand the ramifications. He doesn't know how to respect them when he still perceives them as his matoran, and they defer to him. He doesn't know how to treat somebody as an equal when he had been the sole leader for longer that many present alive. And how he relates to them differs greatly between how the Turaga Metru relate to their matoran and vice versa.

It has been centuries and more since Dume felt powerless under a system, if he ever did at all.

He doesn't quite remember what his own turaga was like, if he ever had one at all.

He never faced the constant, underlying dread of being watched by the vahki and not knowing if they'd attack you or your friends for a perceived broken law. If they'd hunt you, brainwash you in some form, or ignore you.

He doesn't know the turmoil the Toa Metru went through, made to believe for a time that Makuta had stolen Destiny from Mata Nui's 'real' chosen and put onto them. He doesn't understand how much it hurt to have their leader brand them as criminals in front of the entirety of Metru Nui, even if they later learned that was Makuta.

The Turaga Metru leave the meeting upset and angry and overwhelmed. The toa don't know how to help them because nobody else remembers or was never present.

[strigeart]

Thank you very much, I'm not colour blind. My colours sensibility is 99% (I have just some problem whit some pale shade of green).

You say there are no signs of tanning on in the skin in the comic. There are not even signs of the almost deadly wound he received in the comic, there are any at all, and you know why?

Because, unless it is not specifically required in the screenwriting, the artist will do everything omogeneous to avoid mistakes in the future panels. It's very easy to forget a scar or a brush. You don't know how many times I forgot to draw something in a page and had to open the file to add it later.

Usually, you don't have the time to do so, so you draw it the simpler and omogeneous you can, to make the work simpler and faster.

The palette in the comic is very dark and desaturated, and Kanan has black hair!!!!

You can't use it as an example. Take the covers, maybe, but not certainly the panels, where the colours are all that relevant.

In Rebels Kanan, hairs are chestnut, not black. In the comic, they are black. That should close the case of the affidability of the comic as proof.

In The BB Caleb hair are the same colour of Kanan in Rebels.

The models don't show signs of tanning because, when you do a model, you use texture to color them, also, they literally wear always the same clothes. Kanan don't even have scars or bruises after 3 weeks (supposed) of tortures on Tarking Destroyer.

The colour of Kanan skin is one of a mild tanning. Is the same colour my husband gets in summer, and he's really pale.

Why I assumed you are American ? Because only Americans call people POC, to divide humans in races is something only them and other very racist populations do.

I have a friend from Tunisia who's the most pale person you can imagine. One of my classmate at art school had almost a transparent skin, natural p,atinum hair and very pale blue eyes, another have a pale rose skin, hair the colour of honey and ice grey eye. I'm often mistaken as Arabic in summer.

You say you are Mediterranean, but you remember me a girl who said "I'm Greek because my grandmother was from Greece and I can assure you Greek population is black!"

Ancient Greek, as already told you, define themselves as white, do did the Romans. All the Indo-European populations are white, and they are so since the beginning of history (that canonical starts from the invention of cuneiform writing).

There is a significant raise in pigmentation that only passed the equator. Up the equator, around the Mediterranean basin, you just find people who tan.

There may be some case of people who had darker pigmentation because of the South Saharian ancestor, but they are not the norm.

There aren’t such things as a brown person in the Mediterranean basin. That's just a racist concept that aims to create differences where there are none.

Caleb in TBB, in the winter environments of Kaller, is perfectly coherent with the Kanan who pass most of his time in the Middle East like planet of Lothal, where the sun is stronger!

You are just searching racism where there are none, proving to be racist yourself, classifying people regarding the shade of their skin.

Please, come to Italy and take a look at a foundation shelf. You'll find an amount of shade to drive you mad, and they're almost all for white skin. Just lately you can find some for black skin because immigrations during the last decades.

i will never get over this

[byz-was-here]

Okay but

When the Mata Nui matoran returned to metru nui

Did any of them actually listen to Dume? Or did they just treat him like an old man yelling at clouds and just go ask their real turaga instead.

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

The Last Toa

I have a not-quite-100% finished thought rolling around my head about the legacy of the Toa Metru, and in attempt to get it complete, I'm trying to write it down.

So, the Toa Metru are the final stop in a line of Toa going back to the foundation of Metru Nui, right? They were made Toa by Lhikan, the last of the Toa Mangai, and as his heirs and mentees, they are the last Toa of Metru Nui.

Indeed, the GSR generally, they come awfully close to being the last Toa--period. Not the last Toa in existence, obviously, but the Mata/Nuva, Takanuva, and the Inika/Mahri are all Toa in some other special way: Artahka originals, the Mask of Light, and intervention by the Red Star. None of them represent the passage of energy from Toa to Stone to Matoran: that lineage, which I assume goes back all the way to the earliest days of the GSR.

I think Krakua is the only real monkey-wrench in the idea that the Metru were the last Toa made in the conventional way. I'm pretty sure he's the only non-Inika example we know of in canon definitely after the Cataclysm.

There's something wistfully sad about the Metru being the Last Toa Ever™ and yielding their own Toa power to revive the Matoran, with no new Toa to follow them. When the Toa Mata arrive on Mata Nui, it becomes something like an Arthurian return, but it's also a supplanting: "the line of Dume and Lhikan and those even before them has failed" and a better thing takes their place.

Some basic Googling/BioSector01ing seems to suggest that there's not a lot of canonical detail in HOW Krakua becomes a Toa--so even if we accept that he's a fairly recent Toa, we can allow ourselves some speculation that he ALSO might not have been an old-school Toa-Stone-made Toa.

Why does any of this matter--other than poignancy, which is a consideration of its own? Well, I was thinking about Matoro (as one does) and the unique way in which he could carry on the legacy of the Toa Metru: he's the one Matoran (and thus the one transformed Toa) who knows their tale before the reveal at the end of MoL. Alone of the amnesiac Matoran, he has knowledge--though not memory--of Metru Nui, and while he kept the Turagas' secrets, he can't have helped being shaped by them in the 1000 years of doing so.

Destiny is the will of Mata Nui (well, destiny is a thorny subject, but let's call it that here). The Toa Mata, Takanuva, Krakua--what if they were all attempts in some way or other to supply the "needed" Toa to save the Great Spirit? But, though he is dying, the Great Spirit doesn't want any of these: he doesn't want to saved by Artahka's demiurgic Toa, or the Avokhii-wearing saviour, or any of the washed-up leftovers (Lesovikk, "the forty living Toa," the Hagah): instead, when the Red Star intervenes--the Red Star that echoes his will in a way the Order of Mata Nui can never hope to--he chooses one of them, and he chooses the one of their number who is the truest heir of the Toa Metru--his Toa.

Destiny is a big theme of the Metru in a way that was never true of the Mata (unity is their theme), and this really comes to the fore with the dancing back and forth between who was destined: them or the Mask Matoran. Destiny also comes up big with Matoro--and perhaps their destinies are the same.

[whiteheartlight]

I'm wondering what you think of the idea of Nidhiki and Lhikan somehow surviving the end of Legends of Metru Nui, Nidhiki redeeming himself somehow, and they go off and hang out somewhere. I'm just way too amused by the idea of cockroach Nidhiki with Turaga Lhikan, because they never met in the film and it's just hilarious, the two old guys with an extreme height difference constantly snapping at each other.

Whenua and Nuju. "Mata Nui I thought we were bad."

"No, we're worse."

"Do you have to make everything into a competition?"

"I don't know, do YOU?!"

poor Lhikan lol. personally I struggle to see Nidhiki as very redeemable because his reasons for nearly getting hundreds of other Toa killed are soooo petty (no soft Nidhiki Dark Hunter content here plz), but in a scenario where he redeems himself - well, yes, there would be some funny banter lol. but really I think Lhikan would be so happy to have his brother back. Lhikan never wanted to believe Nidhiki was a traitor, and he had already lost Tuyet to that fate, and by the time we get to the Toa Metru, all of Lhikan's siblings are gone and Dume isn't himself and... it would be a hard time. I'm sure he would always have wished to save Nidhiki, but you can't save someone like that from his own cruelty.

it's interesting because in canon, Nidhiki actually does want to go back to Metru Nui and being a real Toa. now I think this is again for selfish reasons, but what if he felt real regret and grief over what he did? when the Shadowed One transforms him to stop him from leaving, he gives up on the idea of being a Toa again. but imagine him coming to Lhikan, mutated and horrified by himself, begging for mercy from this person who used to be his brother. and I think Lhikan would come to him and grab him and call him his brother. and not be scared or disgusted. and tell him of course he could come home. Lhikan would protect Nidhiki from the Shadowed One if he sent Hunters to get him back. he would keep him safe and forgive him.

then, who knows? maybe Nidhiki could have one day met Keetongu with the Toa Metru and be transformed back into a Toa. or maybe instead of Lhikan sacrificing himself for Vakama, Nidhiki could do so and have some redemption in that. it would be better still if there was a universe like you said, where Nidhiki and Lhikan are together in Mata Nui, annoying each other sometimes, but not alone. as monsters or Turaga, wouldn't matter anymore. I think Lhikan would forgive a truly sorry Nidhiki in a heartbeat.

[kanerallels]

My submission for the @swprequels-big-bang! I had a lot of fun writing this and working with the artist, it was so fun!!

First lines under the cut!

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It was pouring rain over the province of Lothal, and it had been for the past three days. At times, it would slow to a lighter drizzle, but by now the roads were turned to thick troughs of mud, and the skies seemed almost permanently gray. Anyone out in this weather would be soaked through and chilled to the bone in minutes, even with a proper coat.

The citizens of Lothal seemed to recognize this, as there was no one out on the streets. No one, that is, with the exception of one figure, huddled in a doorway, trying to stay out of the wind if not the rain.

Shaking a few droplets of water off of his face, Ezra gritted his teeth, trying to keep them from chattering together. There wasn’t any real way to stay warm—his clothing was thoroughly drenched, clinging to him heavily. Still, he kept his arms wrapped around him, trying to at least preserve some illusion of warmth.

He had a spot to hide from the rain, and had planned on staying there until it stopped. But his tower was miles from town, and he’d been out of food. Perilously so. So Ezra had pocketed his tools, a knife, and a few other essentials, and snuck onto an Imperial transport heading into the nearby town.

That was the first day, before the roads had become impassable. Now, Ezra didn’t have a way home, and he was running out of places to hide. He’d stolen some fruit from a vendor on the first day, and the man running the shop had promptly sent the Empire’s soldiers after him. So Ezra had spent all his time and energy avoiding them—hiding on rooftops and in barns until the owners found him and chased him out, sneaking around and barely finding time to sleep.

He’d almost nodded off in the doorway when he heard the tramp of boots through mud, and shrank back into the shadows, praying he wouldn’t be noticed.

Sure enough, two soldiers appeared around the corner, both wearing heavy cloaks to keep the rain out. “Can’t believe we’re still looking for this thief,” one grumbled in disgust. “If he’s out in this, he’s either long gone or long dead. Good riddance either way.”

“At least we’re not with the patrol near the Dume Library,” the other said. “That place gives me the creeps. They say the guy running went blind fighting a wizard who burned his eyes out with a magic blade.”

The first soldier scoffed. “No such thing as wizards. He’s just a washed up old warrior from a forgotten time.”

“Yeah, well, at least he’s warm. You think Kallus is gonna let up on this thief and let us rest?”

“Not a chance.”

The rest of their conversation was lost to the wind as they carried on, not even glancing Ezra’s way. But he’d heard enough.

The Dume Library. He’d never been—a street rat didn’t really have time or a reason to read, especially not Ezra—but he’d heard the stories, too. The ones about the madman who lived there. But the Imperials avoided it, it would be dry, and it was closer than his tower.Good enough for me. Reluctantly, Ezra stood up, wincing at the chill of the air around him. Glancing back over his shoulder to make sure the soldiers weren’t turning back, he took a deep breath, then darted out into the street.

[greydepa]

Why Depa Billaba & Captain Grey are my ship?

To me the most underrated Jedi Master is Depa Billaba. It's because she wasn't in the battle scene at Geonosis in AOTC, wasn't in ROTS and only had a cameo in Season 7 of the The Clones Wars. It wasn't until the Kanan comic book and the 1st episode of The Bad Batch that we learn of her death when her clones (including Captain Grey) turned on her and her Padawan Caleb Dume (Kanan Jarrus). It is one of the best Order 66 death scenes and saddest. You see her blasted by the clones a couple of times as she screams to Caleb to run. You never see her death, just Caleb running and hearing her screams and this makes this the saddest for me.

In the Kanan comic book her death is shown more as Grey shoots her in the back.

Now everyone has a favorite Jedi besides the main characters like Obi-Wan and Anakin. Mine happens to be Depa Billaba. Like Obi-Wan who treats Anakin as a brother, she treats her padawan, Caleb almost as a son but she still comes over as a badass.

Everyone has a clone ship, like Rex & Ahsoka, Bly & Aayla, etc. Mine is Depa Billaba & Captain Grey. Your going to ask why, after he just gunned her down in the back. Well many love the Bly Aayla ship even though he gunned Aayla down in the back too. Many feel Bly kept firing on Aayla to give her a quick death. For me it's different with Depa and Grey. They had been together from the beginning of the Clone Wars and he was one of the only survivors of a battle with General Grievous but had stuck with her when after she healed from her battle with Grievous and helped create a new Battalion with her. But it is in the Kanan comics, when the clones are hunting Caleb and Grey shows his real regret for what he has done and blasts the Imperial ship's control panel to save Depa's padawan Caleb.

So this is my reason, saving Caleb, it's almost like a mother and father saving their child. It also makes me feel that because Grey saved Caleb there might have been more between Depa & Grey and that's why they are my ship. They would also have made a great couple Post Order 66 AU ship.

[the-canadian-nerd]

Try not to think about the fact that, throughout the entire four seasons of Rebels there is not a single on-screen hug between Hera and Ezra.

Try not to imagine their reunion. Hera holding Ezra tight, telling him how proud she is of him and that she isn't letting him out of her sight for a long time.

Don't think about her reaching out to him every time they pass each other, making sure that he is real and there and not her imagination.

Don’t think about her checking up on Ezra at night and seeing Jacen curled up in bed with him because they fell asleep telling each other stories.

Don’t see Ezra teaching Jacen recipes that Kanan taught him (recipes only Ezra knew by heart, recipes passed on from Depa and Mace).

Don’t think about Jacen asking when his dad will come back; because Ezra was gone and now he’s back, so surely his dad will come back too.

Don’t think about Ezra seeing Kanan’s eyes in Jacen; eyes that he hadn’t seen for so long (eyes that he blamed himself for blinding for so long), that he thought he saw once more that night but was never really sure.

(Why did they give him Dume’s eyes and not Kanan’s I low key do not like it at all)

[constellation-skirmishes]

BURSTS DOWN DOOR KANERA TANGELED AU

dont ask me how hera as rapunzel works. it just does. trust me guys.

BECAUSE KANAN AS FLYNN IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SO-

BECUASE BECAUE GUYS BECAUSE ---

the tunnel

'im so sorry kanan' 'caleb' 'what?' 'my real name is caleb dume. someone might as well know'

SCREMAING

IT WOULD BE.

hi guys tangeled (2010) is my favorite disney movie and i WILL make it everyones problem.

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Toa Metru headcanon

Makuta’s claim in the books that he chose the six most stubborn, strongwilled, and argumentative matoran (the Toa Metru) has been on my mind. I like the idea he knew of them by reputation and as center of appeals as Dume. So he’d have also known people’s less favorable opinions of them (which there is a lot of basis for in canon), which he used to justify why he chose them to foil Mata Nui’s plan:

- Nokama used to be a nuisance in academic circles. (Inspired by @crystaltoa.) If she disagreed with a point or a thesis and thought differently, she’d ignore it or try to argue it down. With her renown as excellent teacher and academic both, her words carried a lot of weight. Arguments got heated regularly because her peers got on edge. Students were much less likely to be bulldozed. But they often didn’t have the skill to argue back with Nokama or the experience to realize that she was wrong or that there existed other valid points.

- Onewa was both famous as an artist and for his scathing demeanor. He had an insult for almost anybody famous in the city - except for Dume and Lhikan -, the other Metru, and everybody he met face to face. He liked to get a rise out of people. The only reason he got so many commissions was because a) the reputation about his excellent and meticulous work was true and b) there were enough matoran willing to deal with him or have others deal with him to get one of his pieces.

- Vakama’s temper was always a terrifying thing. He argued back when somebody harassed him, real or perceived. Some of his work colleagues tried to pick on him when he started as Nuhrii’s apprentice, envious of his skill. They dropped it when he became enraged... Until one notable case that escalated to the point that the vahki were called. He debated with Nuhrii a lot about techniques. He debated with his colleagues. He argued against throwing away faulty products that could be repaired. Repeatedly, heatedly.

- Matau was infamous as a test driver. Nobody could deny his skills. Many agreed that the ban on racing for fun even on designated tracks sucked. And many of his colleagues were annoyed by him. He showboated his skills in driving, hogged the schedule, and complained when he didn’t like a vehicle. He argued a lot about designs and repeatedly proposed changes that were ingenious, but that couldn’t be implimented because of restrictions which he didn’t want to hear about.

- Whenua is the type to be passionate about teaching, no matter who they are. He’s the type to use scathing wit and words on anybody that earns his ire, no matter who they are. He was cautious. He was likely to bulldoze ahead in situations - shouldering aside colleagues, arguing with them, etc. - when he saw a solution and was going to do it no matter the naysayers. And Whenua was stuck in the past. He saw little worthwhile in the present or the future even when he knew proposed changes were necessary. Even when other archivists agreed.

- Nuju was among the best seers, and being Ihu’s apprentice made his word carry even more weight. Ehrye wasn’t the only matoran he denied becoming a scholar. What made him so unpopular among the worker ranks of Ko-Metru was his dismissal of their physical work which maintained the Knowledge Towers’ integrity, made his own work possible in the first place, and carried his information to where it was needed. This arrogance and lack of grounding made him a decisive figure among his peers. Nuju’s tendency to argue instantly rather than ignore others or leave a conversation added to that reputation.

[bionicle-ramblings]

So since Matau is growing on me and I understand his character a little more, I saw somewhere that he, like Vakama, also has a bit of anxiety and self-worth/confidence issues. Where Vakama's anxieties come from his not feeling good enough to be a Toa due to not wanting to have ever been one in the first place, and from his guilt at Lhikan's capture, Matau's anxiety is more about keeping up "appearances"

This is more interpretation and personal experience(I may need to reread the books some more later), but Matau always doing reckless things in the name of "bravery" is an example of an "appearance," as he's trying to be a Toa the way he's SEEN Toa be: Brave, strong, always doing something dangerous, but still doing it while smiling. Add to that Matau is the wisecracking, comic relief of the group, always throwing jokes and keeping things upbeat, he's more or less set up an image of the Toa he wants to be seen as even if we or the Toa Metru don't know it:

The Toa Matau wants to be seen as someone brave, someone who sees danger and laughs, someone who can keep spirits high in the team. He also mainly just wants to be seen, noticed, KNOWN by all who see him, and he wants to be seen, noticed, and known as the image of himself he's trying to live up to

We don't know if Matau has ever WANTED to be a Toa, but I can imagine that seeing how loved and how much attention the Toa Mangai most likely received, Matau may have gotten a certain image of what a Toa is, HOW a Toa is. Upon becoming a Toa, he goes straight into making sure he IS that very image, that he fits the mold he made for himself

The way I can best put the type /version of "anxiety" Matau has is this:

Imagine having to ensure you are the one in the group that smiles, the one everyone knows as the "ray of sunshine," or the one that picks everyone else up. No one put this role or expectation on you. You put it on yourself and it's something that soon becomes second nature as you adapt and begin to really "live" in even if it's not really living

I'm not saying that we're not seeing the real Matau(if anything we see him more because this is his ideal version of himself, so to speak), but I can imagine that most of what we see of Matau is the image he's made for himself and a lot of his pride and vanity comes from this image

It's small moments where the "real" Matau starts to show, or more specifically how Matau reacts when he is not recognized as a Toa, or as the image of a Toa he made for himself. One such moment in question comes in the Coliseum scene in Legends of Metru Nui, when the false Dume turns the crowd against the Toa:

When Vakama tries to tell the crowd that the Dark Hunters took Toa Lhikan rather than the Toa, we see most of the Toa react, especially Matau, who has nothing to say and can only back away from the crowd as they call turn against him, believing the lie told about him

No quips

No trying to back Vakama and say they're innocent

Just silence

And other quiet moment is when we see him for a moment in the Vahki transport, as he, Nokama, and Vakama go to Po-Metru. As Nokama tells Vakama to have faith in being a Toa, Matau simply watches, not saying anything. It may be a "nothing" moment, but from looking at the scene again, Matau appears to be sitting in a similar position to Vakama, just with one knee up, and he only looks at Nokama and Vakama when Nokama says, "You will. Have faith," to Vakama having doubts about his being a Toa.

We don't know if Nokama and Matau even had a conversation before Nokama spoke with Vakama, but knowing Matau's little reaction in the scene happens and he's more or less back to himself after, I think that maybe Matau might have been dealing with feelings of, "If I can't be what I imagine a Toa to be, then am I even a Toa at all?" Maybe hearing what Nokama said and hearing Vakama's insecurities boosted him a little and helped pull him out of those feelings because he is more or less back to himself when in the crafter's village in Po-Metru

Am I saying Matau is also an anxiety coded character? A little bit. It isn't like Vakama, where it's easy to see and connect with. Where we know Vakama's anxiety very easily, Matau's is pretty masked, and I think it's meant to be like that because for Matau, acknowledging his own anxiety, or his feeling like he can't live up to the expectation he set yp for himself, is something he can't and probably doesn't want to do. It's a lot like a feeling of, "If I something right now or if I fall apart now, I won't be able to put myself back together again." I don't think it's that extreme in Matau's case, but I imagine it close to be

And that's been my TED talk on Matau. Sorry if some bits don't make sense. I'm beginning to realize I have something in common with Matau and I don't know how I feel about it😅