#what if the other turaga aren't with the Toa Inika and Vakama?

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Yes, and then Piraka transforming into the GSB makes everything worse! Leading to Ignika somehow being dropped in Lake Naho. Maybe even out of sight, leaving the toa and turaga without information where she is, because the Piraka refuse to say.

I remembered suggesting Vakama in that previous ask because of the parallels between him and Matoro in canon. There's hints that the writers patterned part of Matoro's arc after Vakama's journey in Time Trap and adapted specific plot points. It feels thematically fitting for the AU that Vakama's near-death parallels Mata Nui's death and resuscitation, and whatever happens to Matoro when he revive the latter with the Ignika.

If Tien helps in the fight with the Golden-Skinned Being as we've been speculating, that means the fusion happened a relatively short time before Vakama's vision. The mental link is even stronger than usual - so the already huge, hurting emptiness where he should be becomes a tear cutting into the other five turaga's very being. They're heightened like in an echo chamber. Maybe they even experience, like a vision, the moment his heart stops.

I've remembered a plot point I suggested - how the toa and turaga learn that the Toa Inika (somehow) must dive into Lake Naho to the Ignika.

This has shifted significantly with the brainstorming we've done since then, but I think Vakama still could have that lethal vision containing significant information. (And his heart stopping because Mata Nui dies temporarily and the feedback plus the terror is so strong that Vakama experiences the same thing as Mata Nui.)

Also. Tien is a thing now. They add another complication because of their physical, metaphysical, and emotional connection to the turaga.

This is at least a few months old sorry Shauni

I think definitely that can still be how they figure out that Mata Nui is dying! Ignika doesn't really have a full memory, and his Swiss cheese brain is struggling to fill in the gaps. On top of that, it's not until a little ways in that the gang actually meets up with Ignika, so they might not be in the picture yet and even if they are they'd be a fairly faulty source of information.

And yessss the addition of Tien really makes this hurt. There's almost an emotional feedback loop of shock/grief/pain/anger going around all five of them, and then relief/joy/anger (but different this time) when Hahli and Kongu revive him.

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Portraits for various Bionicle characters in the style of the Toa Disks from 2004! Most of them were traced from Studio screenshots (credits for any custom masks used are below)

More information below.

Image 1

Apart from Vakama's (which is a recreation of the print from the set, based on a picture from Bricklink), all the Metru disks are traced from on their respective Gold Canister designs from Bionicle Heroes, hence their shoulders connecting to the corner circles at different heights and some having sloped shoulders. Their background colours are based on their Turaga designs' primary colour.

@nattarthetimedragon suggested I do the Metrutoran disks, so I did. I decided to give Ehrye's mask a scope and remove Orkahm's.

The Mata were actually the second ones I did; I moved them down to accommodate the Metrutoran. The scratches around their icons are all the same ones, just rotated slightly. I couldn't be bothered to draw new ones, and I didn't put the scratches on any of the other ones.

I was going to do the Inika and the Mahri, but I couldn't get the set-accurate Inika masks to look good in this style, so I scrapped them. Remember this for later.

And by later, I mean now; instead of doing 1:1 adaptations of the Kadin and Suletu, I messed with the layout and design of their features to create my own personal "inorganic" designs for them; the Kadin's "mouth" is replaced with a pair of horizontal lines next to a mouth-hole, and the Suletu is symmetrical and has several Matatu-style mouth-lines angled to resemble the original mask's teeth. Their eyes have also been moved slightly. Originally, Varian's Calix was the same, but it didn't look good so I replaced it with Galva's Inorganic Calix Redux.

Image 2

The masks used as references for Gaaki, Bomonga, Pouks and Kualus are Rothanak's most recent interpretation of Gaaki's mask (which isn't actually meant to be what a Mask of Clairvoyance looks like, like it's canon that it's a Mask of Clairvoyance, but one in the shape of a different, unspecified mask), Galva's non-aquatic Faxon and champion Kakama, and Bigphan's Mask of Sensory Aptitude, respectively.

I wanted to do Nidhiki's mutated form, but I couldn't figure out how it would work in this style so instead I did an alternate version based on Rothanak's Kualsi/Volitak hybrid. Also Tuyet's designs are based on both of Galva's Mask of Intangibility designs (normal Tuyet is the original one, while Empress!Tuyet is the updated version).

I don't really have any notes for the third row. Moving on,

I worked on the fourth row simultaneously with the one below it. Also trying to differentiate Icarax from Teridax was pretty hard to figure out.

I'm not massively proud with how Gorast turned out, but otherwise. Yeah this is fine.

Image 3

For the Chronicler's Company, I went with their MNOG II masks and colour schemes.

@nattarthetimedragon also suggested that I do Turaga versions of the Metru Disks, so I did that. The boxy parts next to the "shoulders" are meant to evoke the way the Turaga robes look in the Miramax movies, as well as the Turaga's rectangular bodies in their sets.

Artakha's mask is based on Galva's canon Mask of Creation, and Karzahni's Olisi is based on Godfyr's Olisi (with elements of the original illustration). Tren Krom's icon is inspired by his description on Biosector, along with how I personally imagine him looking; also, unlike all the other icons, his colours aren't sampled from Studio. At this point I ran out of ideas, hence why the third image only has like two and a half rows instead of five.