#the makuta

[dappercritter]

Not to drag a Bionicle hot take out of the blue on y'all but maybe Makuta should have stayed an eldritch yet natural force of entropy and darkness instead of Satanic Archetype #663.

[brotoman-exe]

Love how much of Bionicle lore is just someone creating something and that creation going wrong and/or fucking the creator over.

[makiruz]

I asked about Season 1 Bionicle, Makuta being Mata Nui's brother, and was told that he probably wasn't meant to be a literal sibling but a disease (the Biological Chronicle is about cancer) and called himself "brother" in a spiritual way; and now I feel stupid because I have been thinking about the Toa calling each other brother/sister in a world where sexual reproduction doesn't exist so siblinghood must have a different meaning and I did not make the connection

Like, if the Turaga are calling Makuta Mata Nui's "brother" they cannot mean actual brother in the biological sense because that's not a concept they have

[bioniclechicken]

"I will lead us all into the future! I... am... MAKUTA!"

"ARISE... Mata Nui."

[ariartaccount]

The Makuta

[kumatajdg]

It's #810NICLEDay! Here's my second of two artworks centred around the 2004 BIONICLE storyline, made for the #DisksZine art collab.

At the climax, Makuta confronts the Toa Metru after they escape the city. He has absorbed his former minions and taken on a monstrous new form...

[firedragon04]

Makuta sends his regards

[toacody]

Makuta Spleco

He took the name Silver Fish literally.

Source

Creator: DerpSpawn

[feliusdax]

Makuta Fish 57 pcs/pzs

[turaga-maxil]

In another world…

[notblazedenough]

What an epic moment this was! I'm sure I'm not the only one who reacted this way, as if time itself had stood still.

[crystaltoa]

Teridax's fatal flaw is that he's too evil.

Literally.

He doesn't take the most direct route to his goals and kill any enemy that could threaten him, simply because he enjoys watching them suffer too much.

Contrast this with Melding Teridax, who does not hesitate at all to smash a bunch of alternate Takanuvas to pieces. There's no satisfaction in it, it's just removing a threat, a means to an end.

This makes me think that Teridax might have taken over the universe more efficiently, and perhaps without even being detected by the Toa, had he focused on his main goal and not being obsessed with making all "lesser beings" miserable. So, the most threatening hypothetical version of Teridax might be one that hadn't leeched out his light to become a shadow being, didn't get his kicks out of being evil, and instead pursued his plan with a ruthless efficiency that the canon Teridax could only dream of.

Or, at least a version that found a way to kick that unfortunate monologuing habit...

[tiredspacedragon]

The Mask of Light and Shadow

Takutanuva's mask (and for that matter, the rest of him too) has looked different in nearly every single piece of media in which it has appeared.

In the sets and comics, it is represented by the Kraahkan. In BIONICLE: The Game, it appears identical to the Avohkii. And perhaps most fittingly, in the Mask of Light movie, it is a mixture between the two.

And I don't know about anyone else, but this baffles me. Because in my opinion at least, none of these are the intended appearance of the fused Mask of Light and Shadow, which in fact came packaged in the Takutanuva combo set and one of its separate components.

Like:

Makuta

Takanuva

Takutanuva

The extra face on top of the Kraahkan has the same eyes, concave and ridged "mouth," and the three cheek holes of the Avohkii. It looks like it was molded specifically to combine traits of the masks of Light and Shadows to serve as the Kanohi of the merged form of Takanuva and Makuta...and yet it was never used as such, not even in the actual combination model. So what happened?

[makutaservaela]

My Christmas tree is up, adorned with the traditional star.

[guttergator]

[ariartaccount]

4 more Bionicle MOC commissions