#bionicle fantasy au

[crystaltoa]

Because I couldn't stop thinking about this idea, have a silly fantasy AU! A certain elf is NOT enjoying his first time in the dungeon...

[bionicle-ramblings]

Writing a little something for @crystaltoa for their fantasy AU. It's also been on my head a lot😅

Matau was not the type to exactly go to other regions, as his own was perfectly fine. He only ever left it because something he needed for trading or work was there. Being outside of his region and traveling was also benefit he enjoyed.

What he did not particularly enjoy were the knights, both in and out of Le-Metru.

By all means, Matau could outrun a knight; they wore their heavy armor and sometimes ran slowly to stay in groups. He wore no armor, or at least armor that slowed him down, and he was a gnome. One of the smaller beings that existed in the land, but that only made him harder to catch.

He reasoned as such when he vaulted off a wall before a knight could grab him, leaping upward until he was racing across rooftop after rooftop.

"Ha!" He proclaimed. "Nice work-try, pesky knights!"

One of the knights growled. "Follow him! Don't let that thief get away!"

Matau climbed onto a chimney to catch his breath. "Thief? Sneak-thief? ME!?"

While it was true Matau had a precious stone in his satchel, he didn't think it was stolen.

How could I steal something if no one was around to claim it?

An arrow flew past him, barely grazing his ear.

As more knights reloaded their bows and crossbows, Matau sprang off the chimney and leapt from building to building, ducking and dodging arrows as they were fired at him.

Matau looked over his shoulder to see if any more knights were around him, if they were either behind him or rounding buildings to try cutting him off.

It cost him when his foot slipped off of the roof and sent him tumbling downward and into a large chimney.

Smoke and heat met him as he fell.

It was followed by a harsh landing on cold charcoals and a scream, and then the clattering of metal falling to the floor.

And the man who screamed, a blacksmith, remained where he stood, only picking up the tools he dropped even as Matau pushed himself up and cringed at the dust he was covered in.

"Ugh. Gross-nasty." Matau saw the human and cleared his throat. "Someone forgot to brush-clean that."

The man's brow furrowed, either from confusion or from finally processing what was happening in the moment.

The door to the shop was banged on, making both Matau and the human jump.

"Royal guards! We need to search your shop!"

"Stupid, pesky knights," Matau hissed under his breath.

The human looked around the shop and quickly scooped Matau off of the ground.

"Hey!"

"Stay quiet!" The human murmured before practically throwing Matau into a large vase that held bars and rods of metal. "Stay down."

Matau glanced at the door and nodded, shimmying to hide himself more.

The human quickly tidied up his shop and took a breath before opening the door.

The knights stood on the other side, along with the dwarf he had been the apprentice to.

"Sirs," he greeted with a nod. "Nuhrii."

"Good day," one of the knights greeted back. "So sorry to you and your mentor, but we need to check your shop."

Hopefully just for rats and not a gnome.

He gave the knights a confused, albeit cautious nod as he stepped out of the way and opened the door wider.

The knights filed in and began searching the shop, alarmingly careful in their search so nothing would be damaged.

Many simply pulled open any drawers that they could, opened cabinets, boxes, even looked up the chimney Matau had fallen down, taking note of the scattered coals and dust.

One of them stood by Nuhrii, examining one of the swords that needed a guard and hilt. "Impressive work," he noted. "Yours?"

"My apprentice's, actually," the dwarf said grudgingly.

One of the knights searched behind a shelf of tools and gear, close to the vase.

Nuhrii nudged him. "Show some manners. Introduce yourself."

One of the knights turned their attention to the vase.

"Vakama," the human said, trying to remain calm. "My name is Vakama."

The knight examined the blade closely, checking for any warping or damage- not that he would find any. "You've learned well from your mentor."

Vakama bit his tongue as he saw the knight dig through the vase, waiting for the moment they would find and drag out the gnome hiding inside, and then arrest Vakama with him for "harboring a criminal."

Instead, the knight stood straight. "Nothing," they reported.

Around the room, the other knights echoed, "Nothing."

The knight standing by Nuhrii huffed. "Damn."

Vakama hid a sigh.

"Thank you, both, for your time," the knight said as his group marched out of the shop. "If either of you see anything, be sure to report it to us."

"Yes, sir," Nuhrii replied.

"What were you looking for?" Vakama asked, feigning ignorance.

Nuhrii glared at him as the knight answered, "That's none of your concern. Just a thief we've been having trouble with."

"We'll keep an eye out," Nuhrii said before Vakama could think of responding.

"Much obliged. Good day, you two." With a nod, the knight turned and left the shop.

Nuhrii wheeled around to face Vakama. "Do you know anything of this thief?"

Vakama shook his head. "No, sir."

"Are you lying to me?" The dwarf asked sharply. "I'll know of you are, and having your apprenticeship stripped would be the least of your worries, boy!"

"Of course I'm not!" Vakama protested. "What reason would I have for lying to you or knights?"

Nuhrii glared at him for a long moment before sighing. "Fine. I'll take your word for it." He turned to the door of the shop. "Get back to work," he said, opening the door to let himself out, and then slamming it shut behind him.

Vakama took a deep breath and ran his fingers through his hair. "That went well."

"It went sure-fine."

The human jumped and quickly turned.

There was Matau, sitting on the mantle above the fireplace and examining a dagger.

Did he teleport there? Turn himself invisible?

Vakama only picked up the sword he'd been working on, now cooled from being out of the forge, and a hammer. "I wouldn't stay long, if I was in your place. They might come back."

The gnome gave him a doubtful look. "Might. I'll be far-gone by the time those stupid knights look here again."

"Let's hope you are, when that happens, Matau."

Matau blinked before standing, beaming with pride. "My reputation precedes me! Yes, I am Matau! Have you heard of me thanks to talk-stories from Le-Metru?"

"Not exactly," Vakama admitted. "You wouldn't believe me, if I told you."

"Try me." Matau vaulted off the mantle and landed in Vakama's shoulder. "I've been far and wide on ever-great adventures! I would believe anything you say."

"Even if I was lying?"

Matau froze, smile gone for a moment before he smirked, sitting down.

"I think I like you, human," he said, eyes narrow and on Vakama's face.

Vakama carefully moved Matau off of him. "What were they after you for anyway?"

"I'm not sure," Matau said with a shrug. "But they're not cheer-happy that I have this."

The gnome reached into the satchel he wore and pulled out a stone, one that glowed green from within and was translucent as if it was carved from glass or a gem.

Vakama crouched down to get a closer look, brow furrowed. "Where did you get this?"

"The street."

Vakama eyed him dubious.

"What? I did!" Matau barked. "Someone must've dropped it and they didn't come back for it!"

"And you didn't think to try and return it?"

"I didn't see who dropped it."

Vakama stood and walked to one of the drawer sets in the shop. "You wouldn't happen to know someone named Lhikan, would you?"

Matau screwed his face for a moment. "I know OF him, but I don't KNOW him. Why?"

Vakama turned back to him, holding something in his hand:

A stone, similar to the one Matau had in his possession, only it glowed red from within.

"He gave this to me and told me to keep it safe."

[elaho]

An incomplete piece of concept art I found in my 2018 folder of Jalka [Jaller] and the different military ranks for fire villagers ["Toronaita"].

The notes at the bottom is me trying to divide military personnel into different ranks and see how many people would be needed, at minimum, for a semi-functioning military organization.

Lore/Worldbuilding: Fire Village + Military

All fire villagers are trained in military combat, with each citizen needing to complete a tour of duty for 2/3 of the year on a rotating schedule [with some exceptions]:

4 months of farming [various foods grown throughout the year]

4 months of stationary/reserve duty at the village,

4 months of scouting/island/"military for hire" duty across the region

Hairstyle determines the social position and/or military rank of citizens in Toronaita civilization. Those with more complex and/or lengthy hairstyles have been awarded specific honours in combat or military service, and as such, they are not required to shave their heads after their annual duty is complete.

Hairstyle 1: Civilian/Farmer hair

Hairstyle 2: Shaved head at the end of annual service [i.e. transition back to civilian duties]

Hairstyle 3: Traditional military service hairstyle, low rank

Hairstyles 4, 5, 6: Various military awards, honours, or rankings given in service [incomplete]

However, wearing braids, twists, or dreads in the hair without being given the right by a superior officer is a major offence and is akin to plagiarism or self-awarding badges of honour.

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Bionicle x Final Fantasy 10 fusion AU

An old AU, a bit reworked.

The Pilgrimage is the attempt to wake Mata Nui from his slumber and stop the Scourge - a giant monster that regularly devastes the islands like a catastrophe of nature. The ghosts of friends and heroes past help them on the journey.

What nobody knows: Rather than only his face lying above the ocean, he fell on Aqua Magna so that several parts of his body stayed above and got covered as islands and almost-continents.

Spoilers for Final Fantasy X below because of the fusion aspects:

The Pilgrimage?

A lie to keep the population calm. The ones who oversee the system believe that it'd cause chaos if everybody knew that they were living on Mata Nui's body and used to live inside him as his maintenance workers.

The strongest factor is, however, that they don't believe that Mata Nui can be awakened. The Scourge keeps him asleep and each time its incarnation is killed, it WILL possess one of the present pilgrims to grow a new body. It siphons energy off from Mata Nui's dreams to keep going, but also feeds from other people's feelings. Killing it gives only a short time of reprieve before it reforms.

Is the Scourge a Makuta? Is it Teridax? I don't know yet.

The only way to stop the Scourge is to enter its body - which contains a pocket dimension - and contact Mata Nui directly. Stop the Scourge from feeding on his dreams.

Working from Final Fantasy X, I'm trying to think what is the consequences when he stops dreaming? What do Mata Nui's dream do on the outside?

We know he's become aware of his people on Spherus Magna the latest. He knows some details that I assume happened because of his connection to his inner world once he paid attention - able to recall specific details. And he's at least a minor reality warper, as seen as when he restores Spherus Magna. So, what if his dreams are partly reviewing memories of his people?

And those memories / dreams plus his reality warping keep people's spirit anchored.

So to wake him up, the protagonists have to give up their connection to their loved ones and let them go. Accept that death is final.

[siren-darkocean]

I just remembered I have an AU of a medieval/fantasy au of The Ice Toa series AU but it's more pulled from The Sims Medieval due to adding the characters as hero Sims to the game

The only reason why I consider it an AU is because at a few points I actually had storyfied the quests and events in my head (as any fanfic author does) and honestly I wanna post it onto either AO3 and or Wattpad to share of writing it because holy fuck it's coming back to bite me in ass again and I forgot how much I loved it

[musurvivalistguide]

So in my attempt to better grasp how to write the Bionicle fantasy!AU I'd brainstormed before, I decided to fiddle around with a classic case of "the Toa Metru get Isekai'd into a fantasy AU and meet fantasy versions of themselves and need to find a way home". 😂

Still working on this fic, but decided to share this little snippet I had! Will probably explore more aspects of this AU when they're on Mata Nui itself as well, but otherwise I'm gonna have fun with it. Enjoy while I continue hammering away at things/remember how to write these characters again!

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“What happened to my Metru?!”

These were not the words any of the Toa Metru wished to hear, yet it was hard not to share in the confusion and worry as they looked around Le-Metru…or what appeared to be Le-Metru. All around them they saw Le-Matoran chattering as they continued their tasks, a sight that would be considered normal…save for the blatantly obvious differences. Each Matoran wore cloth or leather material over their armor, goggles and other odd accessories decorating their masks and body. Most carried normal tools the Toa recognized, yet others held weapons like daggers, bows, and short blades. Perhaps the biggest difference that unnerved them, however, were the rahi.

The strange organic beasts mixed in with the normal biomechanical ones.

“Uh…any idea what that rahi is, Whenua?” Onewa asked, pointing out the Toa-sized two-legged bird tromping by. It possessed a wickedly razor sharp beak, its wing-arms tucked close to its body yet showing just enough to reveal what looked like barbs hidden beneath the feathers. Yet strangely enough, the terrifying looking rahi seemed unbothered by the fact it was being led by a Matoran with a rope lead, carrying saddlebags and packs worth of unusual wares towards what looked like a bustling marketplace.

“Honestly? Not a clue,” came the response, though it was hard to tell if he was excited or worried as he looked around at the other creatures around them. “It looks like an organic rock raptor, but…I’ve never seen anything like it—like any of these before!”

“Great. Just great!” Throwing up his arms, Onewa said, “First, we fight a giant plant in a giant forge, and now we’re in some weird version of Le-Metru with no clue how we got here from Ta-Metru? With rahi beasts even our resident librarian hasn’t seen before? What’s next? Flying razor whales?”

A low, melodic cry echoed above them as a shadow fell over the group, looking up to see a tri-horned organic whale floating leisurely by with a large cargo-carrying platform on its back.

“……you know, when I said that, I didn’t actually mean literally.”

“This must be some illusion or trick of the Morbuzakh,” Nokama uttered. “Did the Great Disks not work?”

“No, they did what they were supposed to do. The Morbuzakh was defeated,” Vakama said, pulling out his own disk as he examined it. The disk was whole, looking just as it had when he first found it. And yet…he felt something off about the disk. The tips of his fingers tingled with energy—different than it had been during their last battle. “…something’s not right. We’re not in Metru Nui anymore—at least, not the Metru Nui we know.”

“Oh really? What was your first clue?” Onewa asked. “The fluffy rock raptor bird or the giant flying razor whale?”

“Vakama’s right,” Nuju said, surprising the others as he frowned and tapped the side of his scope. “Outside the obvious, there’s something…different about this place. My scope goes haywire every time I use it, but what I can see is that everything is…glowing.”

“Glowing?” Matau repeated, looking around in confusion. “I don’t see any bright-glow.”

“That’s because you’re not seeing it through the scope,” came the retort as the device in question clicked and whirred. “When I look at the Matoran, they appear to be glowing from within. When I look at these…these…monsters…the light is so blinding that I can barely tell them apart from a lightstone! There is no mass, just…light. It’s almost as if they were made of-“

“Magic,” Whenua rumbled, his eyes wide in either shock or disbelief.

“Don’t be ridiculous. Magic doesn’t exi-“

“No, look!” the Toa of Earth said, pointing towards a group of Matoran near the chute. “Magic!”

Surrounding a large chunk of broken protodermis, a group of Le-Matoran—with palms glowing a mysterious blue-green light—chanted unfamiliar words in unison. To their utter shock and amazement, the broken pieces rose from the ground, rising higher and higher as the Le-Matoran raised their hands palm-out. Following the path, the Toa Metru spotted another group of Le-Matoran standing on what looked like glowing disks or puffy clouds, their palms also glowing as the protodermis floated in place. The glow flickered on their palms before the structure began to mend, melding together until there was no sign that the chute had ever been broken.

“…huh…”

[analog-kidd]

Franchises I have to avoid due to my autism:

Super Sentai / Power Rangers

I was obsessed with power rangers as a kid and now as an adult, that rabbit hole would be deeper due to having more knowledge about it being a Japanese property. I can’t go back man.

Large casts and interesting robot designs and costumes are my weakness.

Kamen Rider

It’s basically Super Sentai (minus the giant robots) with a bug theme.

Touhou Project

Again, large casts (especially them all being women).

The fandom basically keeping the franchise afloat with aus and fanon, makes it really appealing to me. It’s basically Japanese undertale and I was an undertale kid.

Any MMO

There are actual studies that say World of Warcraft is one of most addicting games and I have an addictive personality.

Animal Jam has shown me I would spend more time in an MMO than in real life.

I’m already a final fantasy fan and ff14 would appeal to me but I know I would not have any irl friends if I started playing this.

And as I’ve said before, large casts.

Warhammer

Wow it has a large cast, who would’ve thunk it?

The deep lore would have me in its tight grip.

I would waste so much money buying those miniatures.

Listen, I’m already obsessed with fire emblem, digimon, bionicle, megami tensei, pokemon, and transformers, I can’t have more things occupying my brain space.

[iamthelowercase]

I am dealing with a lot of localized stress right now, and what I want to do about it is read a whole bunch of fanfic for escapism.  So I am requesting recommendations: both fic recs, and recommendations of tags or combinations-of-tags to search on Ao3.

For fic recs: I will read your fandom, if it's a stand-alone capable fic!  Also, I will probably read Bionicle fics regardless, and I'll have a list of fandoms below.

In addition to Ao3, I'm willing to read stories on the SB/SV/QQ trifecta or Royal Road.

I would like fics that are complete with a happy ending, and/or are written as fluffy/happy/feel-good.

I would particularly appreciate fics with a trans and/or plural protagonist.  These don't have to be the plot, but there's no point here if they're not relevant to the plot.  (Eg Babylon 5: Copilots on SV, AlexSeanchai's t4t Miraculous Ladybug fic that I was looking for earlier.)

I massively prefer speculative fiction/SFF.  So everything from Pacific Rim, to superheroes, to Star Wars/Star Trek, to LotR style fantasy.  If you give me a mundane AU, that will ruin the interest for me; but if you give me SFF characters doing mundane things in an unambiguously SFF setting, I'll probably eat it up.  (Like the coffee shop scenes and skateboarding scene in this fic.)

Moderate adventure (more Star Wars original trilogy than LotR) or relationship focus & development, please.  If you've read The Course Of Honor or Winters Orbit, that does a delightful job of balancing both.

Nobody dies is not necessary, but I don't want protagonist death unless they also explicitly get better.  Friendly vampires etc count as "getting better".

Hard "no"s for the purpose of this request:

S/M

mind control

dubcon

humiliation

A/B/O

"Ao3 explicit"-worthy gore

I am not looking for porn here.  I don't mind sex scenes if I see them coming and think they fit, but if I don't they can (and have!) ruin stories for me in a way that's counter-productive to what I'm after here.

Bonus points for stories which take a "mainstream" trope, invert it somehow, and then play the inverted version completely straight.  (Eg, "smol shy nerd/tol jock" is cute and fun if it's gender-flipped and written for tenderness and feel-good fluff [login required][explicit][archive warnings would apply].)

Bonus points if it's queer somehow.  Mentioning this feels like it might be redundant, but it is worth saying. Bonus points if it’s leftish.  No, further left than that.  Look, unless Star Trek is way off to the right, there’s still a lot of room to go further left.

Bonus points if fics you rec are available as podfic!

Fandoms I know I'm down for reading:

Bionicle

Worm

Miraculous Ladybug

Pacific Rim

The Host (Stephanie Myers, book)

RWBY

The Murderbot Diaries

Good Omens

Where The Stars Fell

Anything by Cliffc999 if it has a complete arc and I feel it meets the key vibes goals, regardless of if it meets other criteria or if I've ever heard of the fandom before.

Marvel superheroes (various -- broad-strokes comicsverse, MCU (movies up to approximately Civil War/Black Panther), and Into The Spider-Verse movie are all welcome, as are original spins on any of those.  Eg, the Spider-Liv series on SV is great, but too recent for a re-read.)

Teen Titans (similar in spirit, but I'm only really familiar with the core 5 and the early 1980s "introduction of Raven and Starfire" era comics)

I fully expect to love Sense8 and Babylon 5 if I ever get around to watching them.  As such, entry-friendly fics that don't spoil the main experience too much are welcome in those fandoms.

Comfort movies:

Apollo 13

The Princess Bride.

Anticipated (but unconfirmed) additions to that list:

Pacific Rim

Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension

Mad Max: Fury Road

Grease Monkey fills a similar niche in comic books.  Also if you're reccing from RR, you should know that I'm loving Sovereign of Wrath.

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Some more!

Matoran Galaxy (space-based Sci-Fi AU where all the MU locations are various space phenomena, e.g Mata Nui is a moon, the Southern Continent is a star system (Mahri Nui is an ocean world that fell into a black hole), Karda Nui is a mining-platform orbiting a sun. The Red Star is essentially a cross between V'Ger from Star Trek, the Ishimura from Dead Space and the Event Horizon from Event Horizon. Spherus Magna is its own separate galaxy.)

YA Urban Fantasy ("what if Bionicle was a late 2000s-mid 2010s Young-Adult hidden-world Urban Fantasy novel, where all the Magnan characters are humans and the MU characters are weird fantasy-creature dudes?")

Gameshow (everyone is on a game-show hosted by Ahkmou. That's it. That's the AU.)

Biowestern (Wild West AU, but with Bionicle's aesthetics and technology mixed in, and also some Steampunk and Gothic Horror elements in some places (especially with regards to Artakha and Karzahni respectively, with the former being a rich factory-owner and the latter essentially being a cross between the book and film versions of Frankenstein).)

The Zyglak Universe (species-swap AU where Zyglak are the primary species in the GSR, while the Matoran/Toa/Turaga are banished to its darkest corners; the Zyglak in this universe look less creepy and more like biomechanical anthropomorphic crocodillians, while the Matoran/Toa/Turaga species are more patched-together, and somewhat ape-like in terms of proportions and movement. Instead of masks, the Zyglak wear armour that has the same effects. They also lack the protodermis-destroying infection.)

The Six Robots (essentially an AU multiverse, inspired by the Bionicle story-bible; rather than one GSR, the Great Beings created six, all of which failed and crash-landed on different parts of Aqua Magna. Each one is a different level of technological and aesthetic advancement, with the "canon" GSR being the fourth one sent. Once they're all activated, they work together to fix Spherus Magna, which is split into more parts with more diverse biome-themes.)

Documentary (the premise is that it's a documentary miniseries about the "real" versions of each character (who are actors portraying their canon selves), as well as the (in-universe) behind-the-scenes drama of each arc. Axonn and Brutaka were going through a rough divorce during production of the 2006 arc.)

Random small-scale Bionicle AU ideas; feel free to ask what your blorboes (or canon-set OCs, provided you explain what their Thing™ is) are doing in each:

Golf (Turaga-centric AU where they all play golf; side-stuff features the Toa Mahri working at a Crazy/Mini-Golf place.)

Bowling-alley (I think I already posted about this ages ago, but I'm bringing it up again to add some context; it's set in a pseudo-80s world, but everyone's still a biomechanical thing. The Metru and Hagah are the staff, Helryx is the manager, and everybody else are the regular bowlers.)

Age of Sail (technically-a-morality-swap pirate AU; the Makuta are further towards the "lawful" edge of the morality-grid, the (non-evil) Toa are more like Robin Hood figures, and the Dark Hunters and Piraka are more traditional pirates. The Red Star is a ghost-ship crewed by the dead, and Spherus Magna is basically Atlantis.)

Superhero (Human AU offshoot where all the regions are modern-day cities and everyone wears modern clothing; the Toa, Order Of Mata Nui etc. are superheroes, and the various antagonists are supervillains.)

Battle of the Bands (another Human AU offshoot, where the Toa Teams and other factions are bands in a mundane setting, and all the major conflicts are formatted as the eponymous style of contest; the main story is set contemporarily to the respective story-arc's out-of-universe storyline, with relevant musical genres (e.g the Inika are an indie-rock band in 2006, facing off against the Piraka, who are a rap-metal band), and the Metru Nui flashbacks take place in the mid-1980s (with the Toa Metru being a New wave act).)

Reversal (AU where the Magnans live in the GSR and the MU characters live on Bara Magna.)

Broken Mirror (basically just Transformers: Shattered Glass but Bonkle,)

Steam-Age (Bionicle, but in a world where the Magnan society was in the aesthetic and technological equivalent of the mid-to-late 1800s; Bota Magna is a large industrialised city, and Bara Magna is essentially the Wild West. Metus is a literal snake-oil salesman. Some areas of the Matoran Universe has progressed past this a bit, with Metru Nui being Art Deco and having Dieselpunk technology.)

MMORPG (yet another Human-AU spinoff, this time with the characters playing characters resembling their canon selves in a popular MMORPG.)

YA Dystopia ("what if Bionicle was an early-mid 2010s Young-Adult dystopian novel?")

Detective Takua (Takua but as a Poirot-meets-Columbo detective in an early-mid 20th century-flavoured world that coincidentally happens to be shaped like a jumbled-up version of the Matoran Universe; showing up unannounced/coincidentally happening to be at the Big Isolated Mansion™, Large Isolated Boat® or Vaguely-Mediterranean Island©, being very friendly to literally everyone there while also using his... Takua-ness(?) to disarm potential subjects and try to catch them out. Also Kapura is there sometimes.)

[eorzeanflowers]

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I don't mind doing them at all Mimble! :D (Honestly I keep spawning more interesting facts about myself that I barely recall lol)

🌻 Back in the day, I loved loved loved Lego (still do actually), but I especially loved loved loved loved the bionicle series. I still recall all the important names of the first generation. (Tahu, Kopaka, Lewa, Gali, Onua, Pohatu.) Those were such cool sets it is a shame it stopped being profitable for them and they stopped making them. I have at least one figure from each generation.

🌻 I have struggled (and still struggle tbh) with gatcha addiction in the past. I was playing a mobile game callled Final Fantasy: Record Keeper. It hit me greatly in the nostalgia with the ATB gameplay and the VI styled sprites. But man did I spend waaaaaay too much money on it. I am much healthier now with what I spend on Genshin, but I honestly should stop spending money there too.

🌻All but one of my characters in my FFXIV roster spawned pretty much fully formed when I decided to play them. The only one that didn't was The Archeologist. She was actually a foil to another player's character and was an Au Ra before she was completely reworked! I am much happier with what she is now, not that the previous one was bad, but the other player and I didn't end on the best of terms sadly.

[crystaltoa]

From the Toa Metru fantasy/DND AU

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

Ctrl-Shift-Magic!

If the general tenor of all the previous posts hasn’t made it clear, I lean more toward the fantasy end of the fantasy/sci-fi blend that is the original Bionicle recipe. This may or may not make complete sense (we’re talking about characters who are at least 50% robot), but I am decidedly on the Star Wars side of the Star Wars/Star Trek debate, so even if it doesn’t make perfect sense, it is at least a consistent position.

Mind you, you can’t really remove the sci-fi aspects of Bionicle while leaving it recognisably Bionicle (not without really going full AU--like teenagers in highschool AU), but the balance on the continuum can be skewed like the Brightness-Contrast on a photo to a fair extent before things really become unrecognisable.

The Makuta are, in general, something I find easy to put on the magical end of the scale. Somehow, antidermis seems like a less science-y magic substance than protodermis. While there’s definitely a mad scientist element to the Makuta, it doesn’t take much to nudge that in the direction of evil sorcerers.

As for the Makuta himself, as a 2001-era fan, I obviously encountered him in a more primordial form (”brother of the Great Spirit” and all), and for as much as I’m willing to buy his clever machinations of the later Teridax characterization, I don’t see that as incompatible with the almost Melkor-esque presentation of the MNOG era.

The elemental powers of the Toa--and Turaga--are also magic in my eyes, rather than science-fiction. Indeed, I think this is one area where the “well, it’s actually all a lot more sci-fi than you thought” bit doesn’t wear as well, especially if you say their powers are still active outside the GSR.

Masks are a bit more plausible, in-universe, and as the artefacts of someone’s craft do have some sci-fi overtones, but I find it easier, for my alt-canon anyway, to describe them as magic. Granting that “extra hardware for a robot” is fairly sci-fi in its overtones, magically-crafted items are a good fantasy staple too, even if the crafted items in question are liable to be swords or armour rather than masks.

[elaho]

---Viewing Music - "Please Don't Be" by Hazlett--- "May the Skies Speak forth Your Will, Oh Spirit, As we Seekers of Divine Knowledge encapsulate Our essence in Sacred Ice, Forsaking All and Pursuing None But the Great Eye of Enlightenment" - Sacred Prayer of the Seekers

A WIP illustration for my long-term project (The Halfway Series), loosely based on the G1 Bionicle series. This was my first time doing a full illustration with background details and framing, but it turned out better than expected. For now, it's just the flats/tone blocking, but I plan to add colour and rendering at some point.

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More about this Illustration:

I always liked the idea of Nokama representing the moon. The moon and water are interconnected, with the tides directly influenced by the moon's gravity. Its presence in the sky is calming, persistent, gentle, and comforting. It shifts and changes through its phases yet still remains present.

Not so the stars. Stars in the night sky are constantly in flux and change. New ones light up the night sky while old ones collapse into oblivion and die. The Earth rotates and shifts with the seasons, the planets change their alignments, and what was once visible becomes hidden and vice versa. The stars appear cold and distant, their nature indifferent and inconsistent.

Wouldn't one whose sole purpose was to pursue them slowly become like them?

The Man Nolokai (Nuju) is a prestigious religious astronomer ("Seeker") who had spent his life in solitude searching for answers written in the stars. His fear of making uninformed and inaccurate choices in life, which would ultimately cause harm to those closest to him, causes him to become obsessively consumed by his work. His dedication to predicting and preventing fatal disasters leads him to radical self-isolation and physical harm; however, he's so blinded by his pursuit of knowledge that he fails to see how his own inaction is causing the destruction he is so desperately trying to prevent. (Bleeding eyes and falling stars)

The Woman

Noeli (Nokama) is a Blessed Vessel, High Priestess, and accomplished religious alchemist who has always been a guiding, stable, emotional support for Nolokai, even amidst his chronic self-isolating tendencies (she represents the moon, dressed in a sea of stars).

However, the pain and grief Nolo has caused her from his emotional abandonment and self-destruction in the name of knowledge will become too much for Noeli to bear, and she will eventually fade from his life. (Her see-through arms, star tears, and inability to touch him.) She reaches down to him, melting the cage of ice he surrounds himself in once more. The question is: Will he return to reality -- return to her -- before it's too late?

[kanohivolitakk]

Okay! For the fandom Merge ask! Let's doooooo.... Bionicle aaaaaannnnnddddd My Hero Academia.

OOH interesting choice. I'm not the most familiar with BNHA as I only read a few chapters, but I will try my best to writing as authentic and respectful ideas as possible.

When I think of crossover AUs, I often approach them in four different ways: Either as a fandom fusion AU where the series always existed with the same universe, a fandom fusion AU where the series essentially clash through dimensional shenanigans, an Isekai style AU where a character goes to the other world and has to survive in it, or an AU that puts characters of another series into another as if they've always been there.

When it comes to Bionicle and BNHA I feel the most appealing type of crossover would either be a dimensional clash fandom fusion AU or an Isekai AU transferring either BNHA characters to Bionicle universe or vice versa. I don't think fandom fusions where series always existed works for Bionicle due to how DIFFERENT it is compared to pretty much everything, and I don't really find the idea of Bonkle characters always existing in BNHA setting (or vice versa) that interesting because you had to make BNHA characters MU species and frankly... I think that doesn't really work-

For me, the reason a "clash between worlds"/isekailike AU works best is because the two canons are pretty different from each other aesthetically. Bionicle is very much a high concept fantasy/scifi that completely lacks a human cast, while BNHA is essentially more...urban fantasy/urban superhero story. Like your Marvels or Dcs, but anime. As such having a story where the characters interact with the other series world, that really highlights the differences of the series both aesthetically and narratively is really engaging.

As for specific scenarios, something I thought of is putting Toa (or any MU inhabitant really) into the BNHA setting. Given how the animes world is heavily driven of this hero-society, having this unknown heroes that come from another world/realm just suddenly appear could just break the status quo of the world in an interesting way. In a sense the Toa appearing all of sudden kinda feels like the appearance of Quirks, in the sense that it's another large changing event.

Altenratively, isekai All-Might into MU. Given that he is the "perfect ideal hero and the posterboy of heroism", having him in MU, a setting that both fixates on heroism yet is very flawed would be super interesting. Another possibility is just thrusting him int the cynical world of Bara Magna, I would love that type of story tbh.

So yeah that's all I got. Sorry if it isn't as detailed, again BNHA isn't something I'm too familiar with, but I tried my best

Give me two fandoms and I’ll tell you how I’d combine them in a fusion or an AU and what sort of fic I’d write for it!

[siren-darkocean]

Flufftober 2024

Prompt 15 of 31

Prompt - Fantasy AU/Mundane AU

Fandom - G1 Bionicle (Mata Kids AU Human Rendition)

Ships - Nothing but a family of seven kids and their mom who's a guy

Characters - Mata Nui, Toa Mata/Nuva, Takua/Takanuva

Rating - Teen & Up

Extra - Single Mom of Seven Kids, Mata is stressed and needs a break, he loves his kids but God damn he's stressed, Headcanons galore

Mata sighed as he rubbed his temples. “Headache?” Onua asked his mother as Tahu jumped and sat on the island counter and grabbed an apple from a fruit bowl to shine against his graphic shirt while Kopaka grabbed a cup from the cupboard.

“Migraine is a more correct term of my condition at the moment, Tahu please do not sit on the island.” He answered then told Tahu who immediately jumped down with the apple in his teeth.

Kopaka grimaced as he filled his cup he grabbed with ice. “Are you sure you don’t need a break for a day?” He asked his mother. Mata let out an amused laugh, “There’s no break from being a parent.” He told his middle child as he pushed his golden blonde hair from his face.

I am slowly but surely but getting these @flufftober prompts done and caught up (at this point I might as well finish them before the month ends man)

But have some family fluff of these dorks

[musurvivalistguide]

Me: *listening to character in an anime sing for the hundredth time as he forges a weapon for the MC* "This song is so cool, I love it!"

My imagination: *imagines Vakama as a Toa in a fantasy setting forging weapons for his team while singing the same song*

Me: "......dangit, I'm trying to rewrite old ideas for Bionicle, not create another AU for it!"

Song in question that inspired the idea