#bionicle emergency services

[thereadingaddic7]

What do the Matoran Guard forces do when there's no external threat to fight? Drill, train, prepare, patrol in all likelyhood, but do they have any roles beyond "defend from threats?" Do they also fulfill the role of police forces, like how the Vahki were both Police and Army? If we take Vakama's thoughts in Maze of Shadows as directly how he implemented the Ta Koro Guard, that might hold true for them but it almost certainly was different on a Koro to Koro basis, nevermind non-Mata/Metru Nui guard forces.

And speaking of, what about other emergency services? Police/Army is a pretty simple marriage, especially when you're at war, but what about healers, or firefighters for the non fire retardant parts of the MU? Search-and-Rescue, wildfire suppression, non Makuta related Rahi control, etc? Are there offscreen organizations dedicated to handling that, or is it all rolled in with the Guard?

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Sometimes I think about how Bionicle G2 came out in 2015, and then I remember that I was 13 at the time and have a minor existential panic as I realise that being 13 seems like ages ago but Bionicle G2 seems more recent, which gets worse when I realise that I only got into Bionicle G1 two years before it ended but it seemed longer because I was a lot younger and a year seemed longer because I hadn't been alive for that long at the time, and the chorus of Once in a Lifetime starts playing in my head as I start thinking about the fleeting nature of life, and I panic even more despite the fact that time still Feels Long to me.

[intergalactic-nimrod]

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So this is also actually something that I think is really great about Bionicle: a lot of those contradictions seem intentional. The three virtues are wonderfully paradoxical and complex. Unity is continually tested and broken throughout the series, especially with the earlier toa constantly breaking up and having in-fighting; Duty is critiqued as the toa's actions are revealed to have been not only futile, but essential to their own undoing when Makuta takes over the Great Spirit Robot.

Similarly pessimistically, Destiny is often presented as a kind of deterministic force where it is always fortold; certain matoran are pre-determined be toa, energized protodermis literally knows the destiny of all objects it touches (Also, energized protodermis is an incredibly beautiful concept: literally liquid destiny!).

The limitations of free will, however, also simultaneously exist alongside a more emergent conception of destiny. This conception makes destiny out to be something malleable, something that comes from and can be found in the will of people determined to make change of some kind in the universe. This will exists in service to the first two virtues--Unity and Duty--in order to achieve something greater than the self, to become a part of a higher purpose.

This critique is affirmed by the later conclusion where Mata-Nui, the legendary God, is humbled as a man and then gives their power back to the people. Sacrifice is a powerful theme in Bionicle, both Mata-Nui and Matoro's sacrifices echo the version of destiny that calls to a higher purpose. To end your own life in order to save another's is an affirmation of not just your own life, but of life itself as a force. It demonstrates a powerful form of faith that believes in the worthiness of existence and in people as agents of possibility--and where there is possibility, there is the hope for change.

So Destiny is a magnificent paradox; it's a scientific, deterministic force written into seemingly the very laws of the Bionicle universe, and also a spiritual power that taps into a higher, emergent truth about the beautiful potential of people and civilization.

The conclusion to Bionicle ends on a new world (after multiple false starts in "new worlds") with an open landscape--an invitation to start something new and to break from mistakes of the past. I think this ending gives credence to the idea that Bionicle serves as a critique of the "destiny-as-determinism" theme. After all, the consciousness of the energized protodermis turns out to be somewhat of a villain, in fact actually, the single most powerful and important figure in the Bionicle universe, even above the Great Beings! Fighting destiny itself... now if that's not a worthy purpose, I don't know what is!

Bionicle is a story about finding hope after hope is lost, and this conception of Destiny confirms that for me. The choice of the song "Move Along" to usher in the start of the Ignition era that would lead to the tragic and disastrous Makuta regime at its end is inspired. It's not just about hope, it's about finding a purpose and a will to live, "even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through."

The purpose is to make it through--to make it through the paradoxes that plague our principles, through trauma and disaster, through hopelessness and loss, and through a villain called Destiny, all to find its better half, both in defiance and in service of our deepest convictions.

Thinking about how fucked up the idea of Destiny in Bionicle is.

Like several of the characters were destined to just...die. In order for the universe to function and others doing their part they had to freaking die.

Like, the Cordiak had to die so Lesovikk would survive and become a viligante. The toa Mangai had to die (or go rogue and get imprisoned in another dimension/turn into insectoid monsters) so the toa Metru could fullfill their destiny of saving the Metru Nui matoran. Matoro had to die so Mata Nui could live.

Its all just so messed up. To think your life is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things, that your whole purpose in the world i just to die. It truly sells that these characters we know and love are literally just cogs in machine, cells in an organism. They fulfill their purpose and then are discarded.

Its sad, really.

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This post crossed my vision again so I might as well include the stuff in the tags as part of the main post-body, so:

#for those who care i got into bionicle because a teacher at primary school gave me the VHS of Mask of Light because her son didn't want it

#the first set i got was mantax

#before that my parents got me these weird megabloks things that were essentially just double scale bonks with an emergency services theme

#i got a police one‚ a hospital one and *maybe* a firefighter one

#they also did some ones that came with dogs and i think i remember one that either had two heads (one human one dog) or a two headed dog

Sometimes I think about how Bionicle G2 came out in 2015, and then I remember that I was 13 at the time and have a minor existential panic as I realise that being 13 seems like ages ago but Bionicle G2 seems more recent, which gets worse when I realise that I only got into Bionicle G1 two years before it ended but it seemed longer because I was a lot younger and a year seemed longer because I hadn't been alive for that long at the time, and the chorus of Once in a Lifetime starts playing in my head as I start thinking about the fleeting nature of life, and I panic even more despite the fact that time still Feels Long to me.