i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
Junior Gorg is important because he normalizes the idea for children of realizing that your parents are Wrong and standing in your kindness even when you've been taught otherwise
Since I'm still on my Adaptive Armour brainrot, it occurs to me that while, conceptually speaking, the AA is firmly entrenched in Bionicle's sci-fi aspects, in practice, it actually does lean pretty far back into the mystical side of things.
Like, imagine you're an Agori going for a walk in the woods on the newly reformed Spherus Magna, and you see Lewa drop from the sky into the trees, shifting out of his flight form into his forest form and then darting off into the green. Unless you're familiar with the Toa Nuva and their equipment, your first thought isn't going to be "Ah, high-tech armour that adapts to its cyborg wearer's surroundings," it's going to be something more along the lines of "SHAPESHIFTING NATURE SPIRT FAE-DEMON-THING"
And I don't know about the rest of you, but I adore the concept of the Toa Nuva being perceived by the Spherus Magnan population as shapeshifting nature spirits
i saw generic horny anime girl art of marcille and it was so fucking jarring. i'm used to any thirsty art of her involving her being like, covered in blood and kissing girls with tongue. seeing that elf posed seductively in lingerie is like seeing a polar bear in oklahoma. she doesn't belong there!