Goddddddd thinking about that narrative moment when something horrible is happening and the character who has been frantically trying to come up with a way to fix it and getting more and more frantic and panicky just—stops. Because. Oh. There’s the solution. They’re not getting out of this alive but like. It’s a solution for everyone else. Okay. Okay.

Why would you do this to me.

and!!!! like!!!! obviously this is delicious when you hit your Self Sacrifice Archetype with it, but honestly I think it's even chewier when you give it to, like. someone with a selfish streak. The one with some arrogance who's maybe not quite a team player. leans more towards loner. Give this moment to the one party member who has been shown to prioritize their own survival over everything else.

And then the eye-of-the-storm realization of "Oh. Huh. I am not making it to the end of the story. but everyone else is going to. Isn't it strange, that I'm not more upset?"

"Faster girl! faster!"

I always love how Takua was able to create a bond with a ussal crab. The fact that a matoran can ride a large rideable and crab is amazing. #Bionicle #810NICLEDay #Bioniclefan

Did photographs exist on Metru Nui? The billboard of Dume implies that they did. Some locations in the Metru games seem to show photographs as well. But paper didn’t exist, so perhaps photographs were only kept in digital form, or occasionally printed onto small tablets, which would be expensive for the average Matoran.

But imagine the Matoran returning to Metru Nui and discovering old photos of themselves and their friends. Takanuva finds a hard drive in his old hut that’s full of them and he’s just showing them to everyone who’ll listen. He gets worried though, when there’s a picture of a Ta-Matoran he doesn’t immediately recognise.

“Jaller... there’s this guy in the photos with us, and he wasn’t among the Matoran in Ta-Koro! Do you think something... happened to him?”

”Are you sure it’s not somebody we know in a different mask? He looks kind of familiar...”

“I don’t think so, I guess I should go ask Turaga Vaka.... OH.”

”Is that-?”

“ It is!”

Cue Takanuva getting hold of a camera and dragging Jaller and Vakama around trying to recreate the old pictures.

@bionicle-ramblings

Do with these what you will

Pohatu's dreams are messy.

Anybody's would be, if they had been alive and conscious for nearly one hundred thousand years without ever losing their memory.

In his nightmares he hears the howls of many Av-Matoran as the storm descends upon them far too fast for him to drag them away in in time, and he feels Hydraxon's hand yank him from the shoulder where it hurts most to set him back on his feet because training isn't done yet, it never is, not for a failure like him; he sees his siblings, and that's enough to make him squirm.

In his dreams, most often, he sees the Makuta.

me:

brain: Jaller follows through with his mask's power (shielding) when he defends Takua with his body in order to let him then become Takanuva, and in a sense manages to protect and ensure the survival of his friends through his mask of Fate - which we see actively i.e. when saving Hahli from falling into the chasm, as well as passively through the survival of all the Inika and Nuva. His mask of Sonar is however a preventative measure instead of a protective one and has a fairly large range, which translates in his attempt to protect Matoro and the known universe by obliterating all obstacles in his way via nova blast. You can see a somewhat similar pattern in Takua and Matoro as well: the Pakari represents fortitude of character and perseverance, both of which begin to wane with doubt once Takua begins his journey, culminating in the replacement with the mask of Light; meanwhile, ignoring the massive death flags that are his later masks, Matoro's Akaku hints at his greater awareness of history, since his role as Nuju's aide allowed him to see through the Turaga's tales and learn the truth much sooner than his fellow Matoran.

me:

brain: isnt that fucked up

bathe in your true colors

Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure.

These images in the caption remind me of a story that I wrote, which diverged when Takua didn’t just take the Vahi from Tahu, but used it in his fight against Makuta Teridax and made the same threat as Vakama.

Makuta Teridax didn’t believe him obviously, but Takua wasn’t bluffing and did break the mask, sending times spiraling into chaos. He ended up becoming Toa Takua when his transformation into a Toa got overlaid with the rest of his life.

(It ended up spiraling off to be its own thing unconnected from Bionicle, but Toa Takua was a big part of it.)

Takanuva genuinely looks like he’s wearing pants.

You had to know these lil' guys would be next... right?

takanuva and mata nui

Toa Takanuva

TAKUA!!!!!

Trans flag colorpicked from Takua

In Bionicle, elements are analogous to gender!

⭐🙏⭐ Toa of Light ⭐🙏⭐