#wairuha

[bonkled]

The earth writhes under the hand of Makuta. This is not the island I know.

My people have turned to the ways of brutal, superstitious nomads. They are not the Matoran I remember.

My brother, reduced to war hound of the Dark Lord...

but he is not lost.

I will follow Akamai to any pit Makuta drags him to. I will pry that corrupting mask off of my comrade if it kills me.

[tourneys-by-me]

Multiple Elements Character Tournament - Round 1 (B) 9/12

Wairuha: Air, Water, and Ice

Mirabelle Chevalier: Paper and Scissors

Propaganda under the cut

Wairuha: They're a fusion between an air person, water person, and an ice person. Also, technically they are one-third woman because the water person was a woman and that is very gender. The fusion of three powerful Toa warriors, Wairuha can summon powerful storms to vanquish enemies.

Mirabelle Chevalier: although she's not the POV protagonist of the game, she's the "chosen one" of her story in an unconventional way - everyone believes she was chosen by the God of the religion she follows, but she was really chosen by another person and feels like a Fake Hero because of it. she has a personal character arc where she struggles with her religion and realizes she's aro/ace at the end of it too!! her cute little head is full of Anxiety and Care For Everyone and i lobve her. her dual-element-ness isn't all that integral to the story but she's just so good we think she deserves a W anyway

[demitsorou]

Kini Wairuha, the Temple of the Stormcaller. 2020

featuring very tiny Kikao @mugbearerscorner

[rrbobani]

Just a quick doodle of how maybe Wairuha and Akamai look humanized~

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

Thoughts of Akamai and Wairuha

"You shouldn't talk about the Great Spirit like that," said Pohatu, as they continued to cross Ko-Metru. The wan lights above the dome were at their zenith, providing a pale glow over the ruined city. As they climbed around the exterior of one of the largest (or least-ruined) towers of the Metru, they could see at a distance other portions of the city.

"I believed in Mata Nui, once," said Voriki. "I even thought I met him… but what Great Being would claim to watch over the Matoran and leave us with this." He paused, looking out over the city. They were on a landing of sorts, a flat place that opened where the broad tower below them turned to a much narrower spire. They could see north, east, and south, and Voriki waved a hand over them all.

"You should have seen Metru Nui then, when I first came here: the Coliseum there"--he pointed north east at the most ruinous area they could see: the centre island broken and cracked--"the Temple of Mata Nui in Ga-Metru, the chute system, the great forge of Ta-Metru. It was the envy of the world, and envy it the Makuta did. I don't know all the centuries of war and scheming before my time, but they weren't without effect: Metru Nui no longer ruled its empire, and only one Toa still stood with Turaga Dume, who ruled this city: Toa Lhikan, Toa of Fire.

"I don't know where he got the Toa Stones that transformed us. I don't know why he waited until he was the last Toa left and the sea-gates were on the verge of being breached. I don't know why he picked the seven of us--but he did, and we became Toa: me, and the six you say you know as Turaga: Vakama, Nokama, Matau, Onewa, Nuju, and Whenua."

"A seventh Toa!" Lewa whispered. Onua nodded, but gestured for silence. Kopaka and Tahu shared a cryptic nod.

"We weren't enough," said Voriki. "While we tried to learn how to control our powers, how to control our masks, we sought the great Kanoka disks, drove back the Morbuzakh--and missed how much we were needed at the sea-gates. Important as our little quests might have been in peacetime, they were distractions when the city was threatened from without. What did it matter if the Morbuzakh was choking off the Great Forge when the Matoran were vanishing and the Visorak were invading?"

"What are Visor--" Lewa began even as Gali asked "why were the Matoran vanishing?"

"Visorak are a sort of swarming, insectoid Rahi," said Voriki. "There were thousands of them, directed by Sidorak, a mighty servant of the Brotherhood of Makuta."

"And the Matoran?" asked Kopaka.

"We didn't realise it until much later," said Voriki, "but Turaga Dume was long gone. He was being impersonated by the Makuta himself, and it was all his plan: the Matoran were being put in stasis even as the city fell to the Visorak. Metru Nui fell to attacks from both within and without. Only the seven of us were left free in the city--well, and the five Matoran we stole away with us. Whenua, Nuju, and Onewa stayed behind in the Coliseum to buy the rest of us time to escape, and while we were on the run in Po-Metru, Vakama collapsed and Matau and I learned that he had been keeping a secret from us--visions, or so Nokama called them."

There no hiding the looks that the six Toa gave each other. So Vakama is still associated with them, then, Voriki thought.

"He said he had seen the Great Beings in council, and that they had told him that Mata Nui was asleep and we must wake him, and that Valour and Wisdom would guide us. At the time, I believed this was a sign, and that we had to save Metru Nui by waking the Great Spirit, and I believed that Akamai and Wairuha would come and help us--but though we found a Mata Nui of sorts, in the end, no Great Beings came and guided us. If Vakama's vision meant anything, it must have been metaphorical: wisdom and valour, not personified beings."

"They are true-real," said Lewa. "Takua told us."

The wind seemed to pick up, and the already chilly ledge was far from comfortable to any save Kopaka, but no one moved as Voriki stared at them.

"You mentioned him--Takua," said Voriki at last, "in your tale the other night: he is your chronicler."

"Yes," said Tahu.

"And he claims to have seen Akamai and Wairuha," said Voriki.

"Yes," said Pohatu.

"Not 'claimed'," said Gali. "He did see them. I have felt what he has seen."

"Was this before you came to the island?" asked Voriki.

"No, this was the first great battle with Makuta," said Gali. "As we said in our tale: after scouring the island for the Golden Kanohi and being united at last, we faced the Makuta beneath the temple of Kini Nui and defeated him, for a time."

"You said nothing of Akamai and Wairuha," said Voriki.

"We didn't exactly tell you every kick and blow," said Pohatu. "To be honest, most of that battle is a blur. We entered the cave, encountered the Manas and… returned later, victorious. Takua remembers more than we do."

Voriki said nothing, but it was plain that he wanted to dismiss the idea, and why not: if they remembered so little and if the Makuta hadn't even been truly vanquished, then perhaps they hadn't been victorious at all. Yet if their chronicler claimed to have seen Akamai and Wairuha…

"We should get going again," said Voriki. "We're almost there. If the Pituita Nui is still functioning, we can close the sea-gate. I'll have Tehutti see what we can do to close them permanently, and we need to find Nidhiki and Krekka, but that can wait till tomorrow."

He tapped a door that opened onto the ledge with the slightest jolt of electricity, and the door popped open, not quite chest-height.

"An access point for Matoran technicians, not Toa, I'm afraid."

"So, what happened next?" asked Pohatu, "in your story? You went from Po-Metru to find Mata Nui?"

"No, not right away," said Voriki. "First, we encountered more Toa."

[randomwriteronline]

The Storm may be wise - but that does not make it gentle.

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Thinking about it, I think I have an idea how the Toa Mata / Nuva shape their respective Kaita / which traits their Kaita draw from:

- I think @crystaltoa was it who pointed out that Kopaka calms the energy and mischief the combination of Gali and Lewa brings. And as severe Kopaka is, he's very soft and kind to people as he grows as person. Patting matoran on the head, giving comfort to Lewa, helping heal Tahu and worrying for him.

Not to say that the other three toa don't show softer feelings. But in my opinion, Gali and Lewa are more likely to openly show that they're sad or be a softly comforting presense. (Pohatu, for example, rather offers comfort in a jovial manner.) This fits well with Kopaka, as well as with Wairuha's overall personality.

- Onua's reluctant to show vulnerability and is quite ready to fight even smaller rahi at first. He also steps in for some hard choices later, like ordering the Bohrok to destroy the island Mata Nui that Mata Nui their God can awaken. Tahu's intense and dedicated to their duty. Pohatu, for better and for worse, decides quickly on a course, which includes battles.

[byz-was-here]

The Chronicler’s Co as Toa AU, meet the Kaita edition.

Akamai: Good to be me again. Oh, hello Wairuha.

Wairuha: Greetings, Brother. It seems we have company.

Both look down

The Entire Chronicler's Company:

6 kinds of internal screaming

[manmisplace]

Do you know how to draw Onua(mata) doesn't looks like grown up Takua?(shit)

[driver270]

"You know what'd be fun? Rebuilding the two Toa Kaita combined sets from the first year Bionicle sets."

In the 20+ years that I had these, I'm only now seeing that Wairuha looks like they're wearing a bow tie. I can't unsee this now.

Is it that obvious I've watched too many Emgo videos? 😅

[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

[demitsorou]

Akamai Nuva x Wairuha Nuva, 2021

they're gay and in love (they/them for both please)

[randomwriteronline]

some Very Peculiar Lads

some notes :) bc im proud of these hehe

That's of course not Krahka's actual appearance :)

She stole traits from all the Metru! Her hair is most obvious since she has all of their styles at once (short, braid, twist, ponytail, buzzcut) but she also has Matau's large mouth, Whenua's nose, and Nokama's lips

She also has cheetah-like "tear" marks, a long neck and long ears to make her a lil bit less human

Akamai and Wairuha share respectively Tahu/Lewa's face shape, Onua/Kopaka's hair texture, and Pohatu/Gali's hairstyle

The Ignika forgot living beings have a face. whoops

Maxilos, on the other hand, is a robot! He don't got a real face!

Nektann has seen some battles. Maybe more than a few. His hair got thinned from stress and it will get thinner after Tahu beats his ass into the sands of Bara Magna

Irnakk has no scars because I concluded that the one thing that would make a Skakdi shake uncontrollably in fear would be the image of a clearly veteran but pristine warrior, skin completely unmarred by wounds - which means that nobody ever managed to lay a finger on them before dying by their hand

He's also the only character whose hair isn't colored! For the golden spine and face he has

Umbra came to me in a vision. I don't know why he looks like that

Akamai, Wairuha, Irnakk and Umbra's eyes lack pupils to emphasize that they are not fully "natural"

[legend-as-old-as-time]

AU in which Wairuha, in very specific situations, can burn. Cracks and groans like rock. Grows earth under their feet. They become the eruption, the magma and lava their sibling represents.

And Akamai can freeze; flow like water; rush like wind.

They're born from nature. They manifest from protodermis. Protodermis - the material that everything is created from in the Great Spirit Robot. That can made into beings of different elements, even if each one only has one.

Each of these two kaita already wields three. They are able to break the barrier to their counterparts.

They hope that the day that they have to use this in the physical world never comes. Because then something terrible would've happened.

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Once people have calmed down about the Rahi Nui, the whole discussion what kind of Hordika Creature Wairuha would be starts anew between the three of them. (And they wonder what a Toa Mata Nui would become.)

Because a fish, a newt, a mountain lion, a badger, a snowy owl, and a wolf apparently make a dragon.

*looking at myself in the bathroom mirror while gripping the sink* I will not make Lewa say kittypet as treespeak

[byz-was-here]

Chapters: 31/? Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hewkii/Macku (Bionicle), Takua & The Chronicler's Company, The Chronicler's Company & Turaga Metru, The Chronicler's Company & Toa Nuva Characters: Takua | Takanuva (Bionicle), Kapura (Bionicle), Macku (Bionicle), Tamaru (Bionicle), Hafu (Bionicle), Taipu (Bionicle), Kopeke (Bionicle), Jaller (Bionicle), Matoro (Bionicle), Turaga (Bionicle), Hewkii (Bionicle), Nuparu (Bionicle), Kongu (Bionicle), Hahli (Bionicle), Toa Nuva (Bionicle), Bohrok-Kal (Bionicle) Additional Tags: Bionicle G1, Mata Nui (Island), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Turaga have some explaining to do, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Jaller deserves a vacation, Trans Tamaru (Bionicle), Taipu is a cinnamon roll, Nonverbal Kopeke, Pohatu: he's everyone's friend, Treespeak/Chutespeak, Kongu's accent is nigh incomprehensible., Now slightly more beta read, Vakama has the gift of prophesy and it's everyone's problem Summary:

Takua's chronicle winds to the jungles of Le-Wahi, where the toa once more clash with the Bohrok-Kal, and their unity is tested to its limits....