#bionicle ramblings

[biocrafthero]

Talking about Bionicle lore is so funny because you can say shit like "Yeah the Piraka kidnapped the All American Rejects" and that's somehow one of the least confusing things you can discuss

[muaka-safari]

Idk if I've ever mentioned this outside of tags, but anyway, I think it's really neat that the vahki's staffs almost perfectly pair up

The staffs of suggestion and command teach the Matoran: do not trust your body. Do not presume you have autonomy. Yes, you have tools that could become weapons, but what good are they when you can't be sure if you'll still be in control after you've raised them in anger?

The staffs of confusion and erasing teach the Matoran: do not trust your mind. It can be lost, or taken, or just as easily fooled. All the better to trust only what your superiors tell you is real. Plan, sure, but don't plan too actively. Or don't plan beyond the now. Either way, always be aware your mind - and all those plans - can be eradicated in a second.

The staffs of loyalty and presence teach the Matoran: do not trust your friends. They can be made to betray you, to turn on you, to act as unwitting ears to malicious forces. Better keep your mouth shut. Better keep your distance. Better yet, trust only the powers that be.

Anyway, I think that pairs up the metrus & toa pretty interestingly

in the respective threats the metrus posed that the staffs were required (camaraderie in Ga- & Onu-Metru; physical threats from the builders and furnace workers of Po- & Ta-Metru; the foresight and quick reactions of Ko- & Le-Metru)

in the ways the Metrus adapted in opposite ways (Matoran of Onu-Metru seem pretty isolated, while Ga-Metru seems more social, for example) (Le-Matoran focus on the immediate now, while Ko-Matoran predict the future)

and in the ways the Toa Metru (and even their masks sometimes) reflect that (Onewa literally gets a mask of command (a fight back response) while Vakama gets a mask of invisibility (reflecting his "keeping his head down" time as a mask maker))

[bionicle-ramblings]

We were robbed

This would've been an awesome creature for the Metru to deal with

(Image: Concept art from Bionicle Legends of Metru Nui of an aquatic creature called a lohrok, slightly out of focus)

And imagine if there was a PACK of them like sharks or squids!!

[arr-jim-lad]

:)

[boobonicle]

but if a monocle is one eye glass then...

[dykef1sh-splatoon]

I’ve been watching the bionicle movies with my partner and slowly getting into it via osmosis. The third movie is really good but holy shit the sexual tension. Roodaka and Vakama have some crazy master/pet shit going on I was fully expecting to see that man on a leash

[nyaskitten]

Arc Dragon of Focus ... welcome back Mask Makers...

[noi-dev]

Did it really take me this long to realize Takanuva's entire arc is basically a Masking Allegory???

How have I not put that together before now?

[fvaleraye]

We want the estrogen that makes us look like Gali. Specifically Toa Mata Gali

Look at her. Her tgirl swag. We want what she has.

[themadauthorshatter]

I'll reblog this, but Bionicle x Kingdom Hearts

You play as Sora(duh) and you're in Metru Nui. You have Vakama as a party member, mostly

Kh1: Find the Great Disks and help defeat the Morbuzakh. Meet back up with Vakama later in the have, find Toa Lhikan and the other Metru, and defeat the Makuta

Kh2: Hordika arc, baby. This time you have Matau as your party member, after Vakama leaves, and Vakama is a boss battle, like a more intense Beast battle in Enchanted Castle

Kh3: Time Trap. For added affect, you are separated from Donald and Goofy and get lots of introspection and heart talk with Vakama, who found his way through his own darkness, and also just tells Sora that if he really wants to keep his friends safe by any means, that should mean ANY, even if those means put everything on the line

I had this on my head a lot last night. Just had to get it out there

[communicore]

oh.

[biocrafthero]

What the fuck happens in Bionicle?

Okay so the guy made of bugs is the least of your worries rn there’s guys made out of vapor. And then the bug guy turns the main bad guy (who is currently vapor) into balls and shoots them at people to control them with a ball launcher. They keep the evil vapor guy in a big tube and while he’s in there the two most handsome muscular men you’ve ever seen fight and have a divorce in front of it. The bug guy and his gang members kidnapped the All American Rejects. This isn’t even what the main plot is about

[muaka-safari]

Last rambling post for now about the millennium spent on Mata Nui, I promise, but it's just as well the system for triggering new Matoran to be built was (presumably) manual. Otherwise there's a not-zero chance the Matoran would have returned to Metru Nui to discover they'd been replaced by a new generation of workers

[bionicle-ramblings]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Just Takua running over to Toa Vakama and only being tall enough to hug Vakama's arm. Vakama just lifts his arm and is just astonished because, "How did you find me, and how are you staying on?"

Jaller, on the other hand, is just telling Takua to get down and asks Vakama how he even became a Toa

Been missing the Ta-Metru Trio lately

[arr-jim-lad]

Something i really like about 2001-2003 Bionicle is how, within the context of the full story, it has such a comfortable but bittersweet layer of separation. It has its own unique mythology that the turaga made up after their civilization was literally rebooted, and it has its own separate physical place of existence after said civilization was removed from it's original universe.

The Mata Nui matorans lived in a peaceful culture and resided in primitive huts, in tune with nature on their beautiful island, with a simple creation story as the core of their beliefs. They lived in a utopia, blissfully ignorant of what was and what's to come.

The Mata Nui arc is nostalgic and favoured by many Bionicle fans, myself included, and coincidentally its story almost reflects how we often look back on our childhood as a simpler time, but in truth times were never simple.

[voidaspects]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and that's valid, but I continue to be absolutely perplexed by the sheer hatred some people have for the canonized contest models and whatnot. How are there so many of them. why do they hate it so passionately. like... for context, my hyperfixation for this series didn't really become active until after they came and went. I wasn't there for any of that. And let me tell you, the amount of excitement that the existence of these designs brought me was insane. I adore them. I think at this point I have a hyperfixation with them specifically in addition to the series as a whole. They're a fun and in depth project to make, and they're honestly the pride and joy of my entire collection when they're done. it feels special just to see them in person to me. Seeing these designs get established in universe ignited an enthusiasm for the characters in themselves; just seeing the toa hagah together makes me love them infinitely more, they went from a fun footnote to something I intensely crave more story content for. they might be my favourite team at this point. I was sad to see that the contests had to end, just imagining the possibilities for the new things I could've collected and seen established properly in the universe gets me excited. and like don't get me wrong! I get that not everyone is going to love this stuff as intensely as me! and that's okay! but like... whenever I see someone absolutely despising the very concept of them, I just... I don't understand. and like... a lotta the rationale I've seen seems to be focused around the idea that it removes the freedom to see and design them as you want, but like... when has having an established design for something ever stopped anyone from doing that?

if you're not a fan, that's fair and you're valid. But if you actively hate them, I'm just... so... so thoroughly confused.