#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

[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...

[toacody]

Makuta Spleco

He took the name Silver Fish literally.

Source

Creator: DerpSpawn

[feliusdax]

Makuta Fish 57 pcs/pzs

[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...

[turaga-maxil]

In another world…

[firebellytoa]

[bioniclechicken]

Anybody remember that one time they tried to make BIONICLE into a shonen manga/anime

Pretty sure it's lost media now since you'd think it'd show up on wikipedia or tvtropes or something but I guess it's just that obscure

Ah well

[2stepadmiral]

After arriving in Metru Nui, the Turaga began to occasionally call each of the Toa ‘brother’ or ‘sister’, partially an acknowledgment of their past lives, partially to acknowledge the success that the Toa Nuva have earned, and largely as camaraderie in the bond that they share as Toa or former Toa.

Tahu outwardly acts like it’s only right that he’d be addressed as such, trying to make others believe that he accepts it in stride, but inwardly, he is humbled by the acknowledgment. The Turaga see through his bluster and appreciate his humility.

Onua is outwardly quite humble and appreciative when it happens, but inwardly, he doesn’t quite see himself as being worthy of being addressed by such wise beings as the Turaga, who he holds in high esteem, so he usually comes off as a little bashful when he responds in kind.

The Turaga started being reluctant to call Gali ‘sister,’ largely because she reacts to the title, by pushing herself a little too hard to prove that she is worthy of the acknowledgment. She once to stayed up all night for two days while repairing an aqueduct in Ga-Metru, and when she could barely keep awake during a meeting with the Turaga, everyone immediately decided that Nokama should not call Gali sister anymore.

Kopaka typically glances at whoever called him this and slightly nods, sort of a polite acknowledgment, but those who know him best, especially Nuju, know that he is actually quite touched by the endearment, and he has to be stoic to keep up appearances. Whenua, having the best hearing, has multiple times heard Kopaka whisper ‘thank you, brother’ in response to Nuju or Vakama.

Takanuva started out being quite flustered when he was called brother by any of the elders, still being unused to being called brother even by the other Toa, but as he grew used to his powers and his responsibilities, he began to accept it in stride. He still won’t return the title, since he still uncomfortable with the idea of calling any of the Turaga by that term, but he is still moved by the respect they show him.

Lewa was delighted when they started calling him brother, But he’s also somewhat amused, often laughing when they call him that. To Lewa, it’s still difficult to imagine these wise old beings as Toa heroes, so he can’t always keep himself from laughing. Even so, he never fails to respectfully return the honorific.

The Toa Mahri have varying degrees of acceptance of the honorific. Jaller is proud to carry the title, and Hahli is eager to prove herself worthy of the honorific (though not as much as Gali). Kongo is a bit smug about it, Nuparu takes it in stride, and Hewkii tends to get sort of ‘aw, shucks’ about it. All of them are somewhat muted in their response, mostly because Nuju was the first to call them brother and sister. They all understand that Nuju calls them that as much as he does in memory of Matoro, and his regret that he never got to see his friend as a Toa and call him ‘brother’ in person. The Mahri learned the bird speak for Brother and Sister, and they always call Nuju brother right back.

And the Turaga universally agreed never to call Pohatu ‘brother’ again shortly after the first few times. After then, he began exclusively referring to the Turaga as brother or sister, always with extreme enthusiasm that the elders often find exasperating and often demanding fist bumps from any Turaga he encounters for days after. Most of them just quietly stopped calling him that, except for Onewa, who continued occasionally calling him brother when he felt he had earned it, but after Pohatu found out that Turaga Dume had been a Toa, the seven had an official meeting where they unanimously voted not to call Pohatu brother anymore. Matau still occasionally calls him that, though, because he personally thinks it’s fucking hilarious when Pohatu tries to fist bump Nuju.

[cha5otic]

Pixiv

Was debating on whether to put Tahu or Takanuva, eventually decided for the latter. Since if you think about it they share many things, like:

-Former friends got turned into mindless drones destroying everything

-Both got stranded into foreign lands and always felt like an outsider

-Both wear a piece of equipment(s) created by a presumably more powerful being

-Both was given power of the dark/shadow lord at some point in time

-Both got flinged across dimensions

-Both fight world-ending colossal enemy

Edit:

-Both got their most trusty armament confiscated

-Both fight their "evil counterpart"

[tiredspacedragon]

This is lightvine, a plant that grew in certain places in the MU that emitted Light that was harmful to beings of Shadow like Makuta. The above image comes from the 2008 comics, where it was used to encircle the last surviving Karda Nui stalactite village, and was apparently successful in deterring the Phantoka Makuta and Shadow Matoran from invading the village.

It does seem a little unbelievable to me that a simple luminescent plant could so successfully repel Makuta, but taking it at face value for a moment, assuming it really is that effective, it gets me wondering about the only other place we see lightvine during Bionicle's run, though we didn't know that's what it was at the time:

The Onu-Metru Archives. Now, it's possible this variety of lightvine simply grows naturally beneath Metru Nui, but the way it's spread along the wall and around that door does leave some room for the possibility that it was placed there deliberately. It certainly makes for an effective light source. But I'm just wondering. If it was put there deliberately, might it have been intended not only as a light source, but again as a Makuta deterrent? They may not have yet known the extent of his evil, but after the Archives Massacre, I can see the Matoran of Metru Nui being all too keen to keep Teridax out of the Archives.

[ariartaccount]

4 more Bionicle MOC commissions

[ethandoesathing]

Teridax doodle, quite happy with this one