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randomwriteronline · 1 year ago

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Do the matoran even know what the difference between male and female is. Did the great beings ever instil the knowledge in them or is it just something that they like. Picked up from other species like the vortixx and skakdi. And makuta i guess. Do they assume female and male are an oversemplification of the elemental thing. So like you have female which is Water and then all the other elements just get funneled into male which instead of a specific element is just Not-Water.

How do they rationalize lightning matoran then. Like are they a subkind of ga-matoran? Because water is a good conductor for lightning? And what about Orde and the psionics. Great Beings go well we cant have you be male now bc youre too destructive, lets make the next ones all female, and Orde is just like what the fuck is a male. Or a female. Never heard of that in my life.

#bionicle #random talks #honestly its very fun to think abt these things and using them to make the matoran even more distanced from the audience #really let them be their own weird n fucked up lil species #i like the hc that their element is their gender which however in turn causes Great Confusion abt the use of male and female distinctions #so i imagine they Did jus pick that up from other species and used it in a really simplified way. but also the dont know what it means #like they mightve assumed that Vezok n Vamprah and Tarix n Berix were female bc they were blue. which. is baffling to everybody else #but makes Perfect Sense for them #edit didnt include nonbinary/genderqueer identities bc based on the elemental gender hc theyd literally go 'oh yeah' and not question that #theyve got at least 12 genders probably so they can understand the idea of a spectrum #its SPECIFICALLY the male/female distinction thats Weird for them to have bc theyve got Absolutely Nothing to base it on

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