#dont worry if your ne-matoran is a bit salty

[skylinx2o]

I should not be given creative freedom

Hello. I came to send into the void more of my ideas

I saw someone posting about pink Bionicle element (don't feel like finding that post), and the other night I was struck by a brilliant idea! If there is no pink tribe, I SHALL MAKE ONE!!! >:D

But don't expect any wise ideas from me. I thrive on chaos! xD

So I began brainstorming what a pink element could possibly be. I thought about crystals, but it was too obvious. I was about to give up and just go to sleep, but on the brink of falling into unconsciousness, my brain served me this thought: Salt is pink sometimes... AND SO IT WAS DECIDED!!!! >:D

(And salt is a crystal, so...)

So now that I've settled on an element, it's time to create the lore!

Matoran Prefix: Ne-

Associated Colours: shades of pink

I couldn't decide whether my tribe should be all male or all female, and I was leaning more toward female, but in the end I compromised, and decided they should all be nonbinary, but they don't care what pronouns you use with them, and some might prefer one pronoun over the other

Matoran and Toa of Salt are very rare. There's actually only one village in the Matoran universe, and It's because their creation was an accident. When Great Beings were creating the MU, one of them accidentally found a way to control salt when he was working on the tribe of stone. They were intrigued, and so he created a few Ne-Matoran, and two Toa of salt: Salina and Nelios. But not much more came of it. In the end, the element of salt was deemed useless by other great beings, and they were forbidden from creating any more of Matoran or Toa of salt. They never got a chance to create any Turaga either. So the whole tribe was put on a small island, unmarked on any map, and very hard to stumble upon. They had no role in the destiny of their world, and weren't even aware that there was anything beyond their island. Well, up until the robot they were living in was WRECKED by a moon. Yes, they were inside the robot when it was destroyed, and the two Toa bearly managed to save everyone, but their island was destroyed, and they kinda had to finally get off their piece of rock and salt floating in the ocean :V

That's when they emerge from the great robot, much to the confusion of everyone from the Matoran Universe and Spherus Magna! :D

The salt element is kinda an offshoot of the element of stone... Idk, they seemed similar enough to make it that way.

All users of this element were passively stronger than other beings, but a bit weaker than stone and earth element users, and passively more resistant to cold, but less resistant than ice element users.

My explanation for why I chose those traits is simple: since I made it an offshoot of the stone element, it made sense to make them strong, but just not as much. And I wouldn't have added the ''resistant to cold'' part, if not for the video I watched when researching salt. And, apparently, adding salt to water lowers the temperature at which the water can freeze. So yeah, can't freeze a salt Toa that easily hehe

I wanted to add something about healing or something along those lines, looking at the meat preservative properties of salt... But honestly, my mind is blank at the moment. If I get any ideas, I'll add them, but that's all their abilities right now.

Oh, and they can't be assigned any personality stereotype, because some users of this element will be very chill and nice, and some will just be feral gremlins

And I've decided that this tribe only eats with their mouths (and not with their hands), and has teeth, because the image of a Matoran or Toa of salt casually crunching on a salt crystal and other Matoran or Toa, or even Glatorian and Agori, just looking at them like: "???? *visible confusion*

So yeah, I believe I have written everything that my half-asleep mind conjured! 

If you have any questions, ask right away!

Oh, and I'll definitely draw Salina and Nelios when I have free time :)