#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

[winntir]

I love every single one of these replies.

thinking about how takanuva has sort of been embedded in the minds of quite a few bionicle fans as an unintentional allegory for trans experiences, with this particular character being specifically associated with transfem experiences

makes me wonder if there are any other bionicle characters who might stand out as being particularly viable for fan interpretations as being trans or nonbinary

[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

[turaga-maxil]

In another world…

[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...

[guttergator]

[dannyfen]

BionicleXDBZA

[foggydistance]

She...

[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

[ariartaccount]

4 more Bionicle MOC commissions

[makutaservaela]

Just got a new set :)

I modified it slightly for stability or because I couldn't get a few of the pieces.