#Toa team

[c0simo9]

Finished version of Tahu and Onua. Inspired by the issue 3 cover of the 2001 comic.

[fang-feraligatr-blog]

Good news Bionicle Fans that follow me!

I have finally both finished my entire toa team, AND I have names and lore for them!! It took WAY longer than I thought it would, but the end result will be worth it, trust me guys!

I put a lot of hard work into each and every character, and I threw 1 or 2 curveballs into the mix as well that I think you will all enjoy.

For now though I need a moment to breath and rest. I'll be posting them soon though so don't miss it!

[buggernaut-kal]

Got my final batch of parts in, so now I’m pleased to present my custom Toa team, the Toa Tonga!

Broke out my old slap-dash light-box for some photos! So we’ve got:

Zejbek, grizzled Toa of Stone and leader of the team

Garehu, impulsive Toa of Fire

Kubu, jolly Toa of Plantlife

Neru, stalwart Toa of Earth

Tioka, bashful Toa of Ice

Both Garehu and Zejbek lost a limb in a previous battle, and both later acquired prosthetic limbs thanks to a group of Fe-Matoran. While Garehu opted for a standard leg, Zejbek decided to make his new arm a dedicated Toa Tool and was gifted the Wire Claw. It acts as a grappling hook, and Zejbek makes use of his Matatu to navigate it around obstacles and enemies. While intended as a climbing tool it can be used in combat as a long range punch or as a means to yank enemies closer.

Both Zejbek and Garehu carry a Kanohi Paraki as a secondary mask. Zejbek acts as a mentor to Garehu, reigning in his hot-blooded nature, but when the going gets rough these two are the front of the charge.

Tioka was a nomad wandering the snowy wastes before coming across the Toa Tonga, and is the newest member of the team. He seems distant, but really he’s just shy. Neru’s love of research and scholarly nature allowed the two to become quick friends, and Kubu’s out-going nature has helped Tioka come out of his shell around the team. For as long as the team has known Neru, he’s had specialty armor around his waist and legs that emits a low-light in darkness.

I took my lightbox down so I don’t have a photo of it but Tioka’s pavise also doubles as a snowboard, and Kubu tends to channel her plantlife powers as a vine blast from the tip of her staff.

This is the first time I’ve made a dedicated Toa team and I’m quite proud of the results! I’m particularly proud of Neru’s pickaxe, Zejbek’s Wire Claw, and Tioka’s pavise. Thanks for reading!

[deerh3r3]

The Toa Morehu finally assembled. In order of presentation:

Tayluu, strict and fiery Toa of psionics. Also team leader.

Thode, cold and callous Toa of plasma. Functions as the 2nd in command for the group. Character was created by BobTheDoctor27.

Kualus, compassionate yet socially awkward Toa of ice. Fulfills the role of scout for the team. His bird's name is Kinu.

Gorta, shy yet determined Toa of water. Team healer. Character was created by BobTheDoctor27.

Sygmus, arrogant and inventive Toa of sonics. Performs as the team's engineer.

Lythwin, sadistic and animalistic Toa of plantlife. Operates as the tank.

All members have a functional gear system created by SubParFauxPas.

Five of them are using bicep parts created by KINGSIDORAK on Shapeways, whereas Gorta uses parts made by Protoa Toys on the same site. Both variants of the piece were based off of designs by Lehvak Nuva.

Lythwin's Mask of Growth and Sygmus' Kakatu were both created by Galva.

Gorta's Zatth and Tayluu's Volitak were made by KhingK, with the latter being based off of KluuchArt's design.

Kualus' Mask of Rahi Control was created by 00dude00 on Shapeways.

[fredpickle01]

Toa team more or less complete

Hey all, I finished off my Toa today, and I wanted to share.

This is Takitahi, Toa of fire. He is a veteran Toa, with many years of solo work under his belt. It is only recently that he has joined the team, where he acts as deputy and as a voice of experience. His mask of choice is a Great Isima, Mask of Possibilities.

This is Rakau, Toa of Plantlife. He is generally an easygoing sort, but please don’t comment on his height - he is a bit insecure about it. His mask of choice is the Great Faxon.

This is Ceana, Toa of Psionics. She is a kindly soul, and is especially protective of Rakau, who served with her on their previous team. Her mask of choice is the Great Kiril.

This is Delos, Toa of Sonics. She is incredibly loyal to her companions, often acting to draw enemy attacks away from the others. Her mask of choice is the Great Arthron.

These are Maunga and Toka, Toa of Stone. Before becoming Toa, they worked in the same carving shop, where they helped create the blades they each use. Maunga’s mask of choice is the Great Sanok, and Toka’s is the Great Garai.

Last but not least, here is Ahi, Toa of Plasma, and the team’s leader. She is hot-blooded, but strives to lead the team as best as she can in their duty to protect the Matoran. Her mask of choice is the Great Hau.

[legend-as-old-as-time]

The Toa Teams have different understandings and thresholds of “weird” from each other. What one group deems as workable or usual in their plans, they get stunned reactions for from other groups.

Miscommunication ensues. A lot.

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

(A live-updating list of stuff I use can be found here, feel free to suggest anything not on that list via my askbox.)

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[poppitron360]

Jason Grace, consistently telling Leo he is awesome.

Name one other character that does that. I dare you.

[shorlinesorrows]

Give me a Percy Jackson who hates swim team. Who went to a public pool for swim lessons once when he was five and started to sob the second his skin hit the water

give me a Percy Jackson who is always just the slightest bit unsettled at pools because water is never meant to have the life sucked out of it and be divided into lanes or put in boxes in the ground

Water isn’t meant to be contained.

a percy jackson whose skin feels like it’s slowly beginning to burn when he tries to swim in chlorinated water, who hates any set swim stroke with a passion and can’t stick to one for the life of him

who doesn’t understand why you’d want to keep only to the surface of the water, when being cradled under the surface is everything

because swimming is supposed to be like the tides, maybe patterned, but never identical, it’s supposed to be flowing with the world around you as you please

Give me a Percy Jackson who loves the sheer nature of water so much that he can’t help but quietly despise our “pools” and their dead water with their constricted sides and restrictions on what it means to change with the world around you

A Percy Jackson who is the child of water in its most natural state, and who can hardly bear to see the way society has attempted to contain it and sterilize it and strip away its power

He hates swim team, but that’s only the half of it

[teamleo1029]

Percy: What scares you the most? Frank: Monsters Leo: Women Nico: The unstoppable marching of time that is slowly guiding us all towards an inevitable death. Annabeth: Nico.

[ryuusei-niu]

I want to talk about Leo and spanish, because I see a lot of "bilingual Leo" that doesn't make much sense.

Soooo, let me start with this: Leo was not born in a country that speaks Spanish. And only his family talked Spanish. Therefore he would know what the language is like.

But let's not forget that he lives in a place where people speak English.

Well, let me explain this theory based on my life:

I'm argentinian but my mother is Brasilian. Since I was little, Portuguese was spoken in my house. Portuguese was my first language because we were moving to Brazil and I spoke fluent Portuguese until I was 6 years old. But then we stayed at Argentina. So, I had a lot of problems because I did understand Spanish, but I had a lot of mispronunciation and I mixed words between Spanish and Portugues. Over time I had to adapt to speaking Spanish full time, almost completely forgetting Portuguese. Nowadays I'm almost 19 and I haven't spoken Portuguese for years, but there are a lot of words that I thought my whole life were Spanish and weren't.

Based on Leo's story, he might be similar to me in this stuff.

Having said this, let me tell you situations that happen to me with Portuguese that I think would happen to Leo with Spanish:

He forgot how to form complete sentences in Spanish. And even when he tries to relearn Spanish, it is difficult for him and he can't speak or write things in Spanish.

He almost completely understands if someone speaks Spanish to him, though. Maybe he would miss some words but he understands a lot reading or hearing.

He has Spanish words that he always thought were English.

"And then we went to the ferretería and... Why are you looking at me like that... I said something in Spanish again, didn't I?" "Yeah, you did."

Piper and Jason got used to it and know the words he always gets confused.

And there are other words that he refuses to say in English, probably the most common ones, just because he likes how it sound at Spanish.

So whenever he needs to talk about it, he asks Jason or Piper to do it for him.

"I want the... Jason, fresa" "Strawberry flavor, please" "Thank u so much, man"

There are a lot of words that sound funny in English because they resemble words in Spanish

"I'm embarrassed." "You're embarazaste?" "...Yes?" "Wow, Frank, what are you going to name the baby?" "I hate you very much."

Mispronunciations everywhere. But it's something that happens some days. But when it happens it is horribly noticeable.

I mean, he does speak English very well. But sometimes...

SOME LETTERS ARE REALLY DIFFICULT TO HIM SOMETIMES.

People bullied him when he started school because he mispronounced some letters. Like R.

(I think he would have the opposite problem than me, since I was pronouncing the r very soft or as a j without meaning to because in some Portuguese words it sounds like that. So I guess he would have a very strong R.)

Sometimes he would get angry with his mother for instilling Spanish in him so much and that's why the kids make fun of him for talk like that.

Now he miss that his mother speak in Spanish to him.

"DIOS MÍO.", "POR DIOS, JASON", "CHIN", "CARAJO", "JESÚS, MARÍA Y TODOS LOS SANTOS".

Sometimes he says a lot of things in Spanish and makes it seem like he knows how to say them but in reality he used the translator.

"is that a Spanish dictionary...?" "*Kick it under the bed* No, of course not, why would I have one? I know Spanish, muy bueno. Mucho."

"It's very plane." "What? It is not a plane, Leo." "Yeah it is? Like, It is not curved, it has no disturbances. Plane surface." "FLAT, LEO." "NO WAY IT IS THAT. THEN WHAT DOES PLANE MEAN?!#@+$-1(?!"

Now he understands why people looked weirdly at him when he said plane.

He also forget words in Spanish and remember them in English. When this happens he stares at the space and feels his whole soul had lost its essence.

'espanish'

As Spanish speaker, it's very difficult to say 'isn't'. #Team It is not.

"Taired. Terid. Teerid. Tarid. Tæ—" "Tired." "That thing."

"you know, the— the thing. El coso. The coso of the cosito of the cosa—" "You forgot in Spanish too, right?" "Shut up."

SONGS. MEXICAN SONGS THAT HIS MOTHER LISTENED BECAUSE HIS GRANDFATHER LISTENED BECAUSE THEM MAKE HIM REMEMBER HIS HOME.

He doesn't know most of this song, he never listen to this song like, wanting to. They were on the radio, or a CD that his mother was playing while working. But he has those songs on his soul and he recognizes most of them. He even knows how to sing them even if he didn't read the lyrics.

(I'm not Mexican, so please I want Mexican people to make a playlist of which songs he would know. Please I need to know)

He sometimes hears Nico speaking in Italian and for a moment he is there processing because he thought it was Spanish.

(also, this whole thing could apply to Nico and Italian).

[thebadboysuprememcshizzle]

Okay actually like why does nobody talk about Leo and Echo bc that chapter is gonna make me cry.

“Leo closed his eyes, but the memory of her smile was already fading”

why don’t you just kill me now actually

[buggernaut-kal]

I’m building a team…

I’ve got five Toa built for this team, and I think that’s what I’m gonna work with. We’ve got

Zejbek, Toa of Stone

Tioka, Toa of Ice

Garehu, Toa of Fire

Ruta, Toa of Plantlife

and a presently unnamed Toa of Earth

I’ve got some vague ideas for their personalities but nothing concrete. Just wanted to pose them being goobers together.

[lavenderfairiez]

valgrace reunion since rick robbed us

idk who told you Jason died, but I have proof he’s alive: see, here he is reuniting with Leo at the end of the burning maze after Jason DIDN’T die! Remember that part in tbm where Leo’s like “where’s Jason.” And then Jason comes running around the corner and hugs him? I certainly do.

[green-tea217]

whatever you do don’t think about the fact that Esperanza is buried in Texas and Leo was in Arizona, New York, California and in a bunch of foster homes and probably couldn’t visit his mothers grave whenever he wanted