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The Yo-Yo bois

Drew these as part of a fun collab with Amaja Nui Tales! Check out their video here! Happy April Fools!

#bionicle #piraka #youtube #Youtube

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Given it’s the 1st of April, I figured I would draw my manic Ko-Matoran Biotuber avatar from the Knowledge Tower in the Bionicle Circulation style by @bioniclechicken. Be sure to check out their stuff if you haven’t already, their comics / art are excellent.

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I disagree actually, mostly because I’ve talked to newer fans, and they have much the same depth of reaction that we had. Especially with reading the books, those are just as powerful for newer fans as old. Some of the web based content is harder to recreate, and the set releases even harder, but with fan sites like Wall of History compiling the whole canon story in one place, the Bionicle story is more accessible than ever, and the new fans have been having many of the same experiences we did.

So I’ve been getting back into Bionicle lately, I loved it as a kid and I’m on a whole nostalgia trip right now, rebuilding my Toa and Bohrok and rereading the comics/watching the movies, and as much as I still love it, it makes me sad for anyone who didn’t get to experience it as it was coming out.

Like take the MCU, for example. If you weren’t old enough to start watching the MCU before the first Avengers came out, you could still experience the MCU in its golden times. And if you have young kids, who are just getting to the age, where they can start the MCU, they can still kind of experience that by watching the movies in order and building up to Endgame. It obviously won’t be the same, but I feel like if you do it the right way and paste it right, you can kind of re-create that experience in a reasonable proximity.

The same goes for Star Wars, you can have your kids, watch the original trilogy, then show them trailers for each of the prequels before letting them watch those to get them. Excited, then let them go back and watch clone wars and rebels, and let them read the expanded universe books at their own pace. It won’t be the same as growing up with the prequels coming out and being excited to see new Star Wars movies after seeing the original trilogy when you were little, but it’s still a fairly decent facsimile.

But with Bionicle, that feeling cannot possibly be re-created.

You can’t recreate the feeling of being 11 years old and finding out that Mata Nui is dying, and that the Toa Nuva, your traditional heroes, were defeated by the new villains, and that the six Matoran you grew up with since the franchise started are the new Toa who have to pick up where the Nuva left off.

You can’t recreate the shock of finding out that the eccentric village elders who have advised your heroes for three years were once Matoran themselves who became a team of Toa a thousand years earlier, defeated the main antagonist, went through a Jekyll and Hyde mutant phase, and then turned into the Yoda type elders.

You can’t recreate the horror at finding out that Makuta won in the end, his convoluted, millennia long plot resulting in himself gaining control of the universe. You can’t recreate the disbelief that the story abandoned the Matoran on that dark note to explore an entirely new planet with entirely different characters, species, and culture. You can’t recreate the relief when Mata Nui showed up, his presence, carrying the promise that the original storyline would tie into the new one sooner later, and the grim ending was only a temporary pause. You cannot re-create the excitement at seeing the story climax with the final showdown between Mata Nui and Makuta. A final battle that you had never imagined possible, but one that only feels right and full circle.

You cannot re-create the horror and sorrow when Matoro failed to reach Mata Nui with the Mask of Life in time to save him. You can’t re-create the disbelief and terror at wondering where the story can possibly go after that point. You can’t re-create the disbelief and sorrow and morning as you read the pages of that comic, as you see Matoro put on the mask and start to become part of its energy. You can’t re-create the stunned, heartbreaking silence that you felt as the death of Matoro, who you would known for six years, who you had at least peripherally grown up with, whose journey you had watched unfold as he went from a simple but well-known and even iconic Matoran, to a new Toa of Ice, unfolded on the pages of that comic in that curious new art style that you would never quite gotten used to. You can’t recreate the feeling of mourning you share with his friends as they learn that Matoro has died, that feeling of almost being part of this universe as you share in the sorrow of the characters (Matoro’s sacrifice was way better than Tony Stark’s, sorry but not sorry).

And above all, you can’t re-create the feeling of having to wait two months for the next comic or the next book, or the movie to find out what happens next, and filling that time by making up your own storyline, and acting it out with your own toys.

Largely because the story unfolded through books and comics, and through the new wave of toys, and through the movies in some years, trying to re-create, even a close facsimile of that feeling just isn’t possible. And it breaks my heart for any kids I might have one day that I’ll never truly get to share this wonderful franchise with them.

#bionicle

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Oh hey it’s the concept of Destiny in Bionicle!

Which one you say? Well it’s so fascinating, because you could make strong arguments for any of these 3! And there have been many fandom debates about destiny that essentially come down to people being in different camps.

But it’s so cool because there’s deliberate ambiguity, which is really cool for a concept like destiny and free will

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

#I’m literally doing a deep dive on destiny #and I identified the 3 main interpretations of it in the fandom #and they map pretty well on to this #the secret is it’s all 3 simultaneously 🤫 #bionicle #destiny #free will

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OP is Makuta

the flesh putrefies, the machine rusts, and the divine corrupts, and so the rot remains supreme

#bionicle #makuta #flesh machine divine #I can and have written an entire thesis on how these are the core themes of Bionicle and Makuta represents corruption in them all

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I've wanted to make this fanart for a long time and I was finally able to do it, I love these three so much, I hope you like it! ^^

#the golden trio #jaller #hahli #takua #takanuva #love this art its so cute

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Who wrote the Bionicle books? (in-universe)

When talking about the Bionicle books with fans, Greg Farshtey (the real world author) would sometimes take a page from J.R.R. Tolkien and say that the stories were actually texts from the Bionicle universe that he "translated" into English. Which got me thinking, if these were stories that were written in the Bionicle universe, who wrote them?

And I thought the cutest answer would be, it was the Chroniclers who wrote them! And the more I thought about it, the more I realized this theory works surprisingly well! There were 3 main Chroniclers (Takua, Hahli, and Kopeke) corresponding to the 3 series of Bionicle books (Chronicles, Adventures, and Legends)

Takua was Cathy Hapka, and the primary author of the Chronicles series, relating the adventures of the Toa Mata to the island of Mata Nui. In some cases it was implied that he was either there in background of the events, or simply heard of them from the Toa themselves during his many conversations with them. The exception was Tales of the Masks, written by Greg Farshtey Hahli. The Tales are included in the Chronicles as they take place during that time, though as they are the story of how the Turaga decided to reveal Metru Nui just before the Kohlii Tournament, they were only revealed and published after Takua ascended to the ranks of Toa, and are the first events she recorded. Mask of Light was also written by Takanuva as a final chronicle relating his own journey to find the Seventh Toa. It is often grouped with the Chronicles, though as he was no longer officially the Chronicler, it is sometimes considered separately.

Next is the Adventures, written by Hahli, translated by Greg Farshtey. You can really see the distinct writing styles between Hahli and Takua emerge here. She recorded the Adventures as she was canonically there for almost all of the Turaga's council sessions where they told the Toa Nuva.

The Legends series was written by Kopeke, who became Chronicler after it was discovered Hahli had also been transformed into a Toa. Kopeke learned of many of the events that took place second hand from Hahli, who canonically told him of the events in the Pit, and probably told him of the adventures on Voya Nui. Having been given his stories from the previous Chronicler, Kopeke's writing style is noted fro being highly similar Hahli's both written by Greg Farshtey. Kopeke also later learned of the events in Karda Nui when the Toa Nuva returned home. Much of these Legends had to be written in secret during the Reign of Shadows, as a hope to keep the stories of the Toa heroes alive during the dark times.

But then of course there are the Bara Magna books, and I believe these were recorded by Berix, who took on the role of Chronicler in Mata Nui's band of Glatorian in their adventures. After the Reformation, he worked closely with Kopeke to recount the events of the Battle of Bara Magna, leading to his style being heavily influenced by Kopeke's and Hahli's Farshtey styles.

And so there you have it! Those are the true authors of the Bionicle books in my headcanon! Let me know what you guys think about this

#bionicle #books #chronicler #takua #hahli #kopeke #berix #cathy hapka #greg farshtey

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Cween it aww it muwst be cweened!

BOwOhwok

I-If yowou wake owonye, yowou'ww wake them aww

#bionicle #bohrok #OwO #pov: your island is unclean

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Oh hey, it's Bionicle!

theyre in a polycule

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Since the last one is already a landslide, may as well do the full gang

#bionicle #twerk off #shitpost #toa mata #my rankings are #pohatu #lewa #gali #tahu #onua #kopaka #in that order

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A horrible idea has entered my mind

#Lewa is a better dancer overall #but Pohatu's ass clapping could shake mountains #bionicle #twerking #Lewa could probably do a really good fast twerk like he's not out of the running #But Pohatu is LITERALLY Built Different #Toa of Dumptruck

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100% babey!!!! 💪🏾😤

please take this quiz i made

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Nuju actually did this sometimes as a Toa too, even when unconscious! Once during the journey from Metru Nui to Mata Nui, Nokama noticed that the river water suddenly turned cold, and looked over to see Nuju's limp body floating in the current (he got his mask stolen by a seaweed monster, it was a whole thing). So Toa of Ice just Do That, which is hilarious

Also @toabastignika I absolutely love this art, Gaaki looks so cute, and the scene is so funny great job XD

"Gaaki created a gentle rain to cool herself down. The drops were colder than she expected and Gaaki actually shivered. She turned and saw the reason for the temperature change. Kopaka, Toa Nuva of Ice, was approaching." — The Powers That Be

#bionicle #fan art #gaaki #kopaka #toa of ice

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Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

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Silly game concept for a Bionicle fangame: a visual novel esq adventure game (think something like Phoenix Wright) involving two Matoran solving seemingly unrelated mysteries on Metru Nui across a span of time which would culminate in the two accidentally unveiling the conspiracy behind Turaga Dume and disappearance of Toa Mangai.

The game would essentially be talking to different characters, investigating evidence and presenting evidence to different characteers to try to solve the mystery. And it'd explore Metru Nui and show the day to day life of Matoran there up to Great Cataclysm. Somewhat conflicted on who the two leads would be. I'd absolutely want Nuparu to be one of them, but the other I am torn between Jaller, Kongu, Hafu, Taipu and Onepu. MAYBE Whenua assuming the game doesnt end in LOMN (thus hed be a toa at that point) but I digress.

#bionicle #metru nui #I would love this

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Bionicle is like. What if Pinocchio became a real boy. And he's been a real boy for so long, he forgot he was ever a puppet. No one ever told him he was a puppet, and frankly, he's never really met anyone who wasn't also puppet-turned-real boy. He just assumed all real boys had strings, though no one knew what the strings were for. Sometimes he and the other puppet-boys would make their own puppets out of wood. They would never see the irony.

Bionicle asks: what if after a long and arduous journey to save his friends, Pinocchio discovered that he was made as a puppet. But what does that really mean when he's been a real boy for longer than he can remember?

And what if Pinocchio finds some real boys who were born real boys, and they find that they're not so different in any of the ways that matter. They both have lingering scars from the puppet-makers.

So together they resolve to find the puppet-makers, to find Geppetto, and tell them all that happened. Only to find that Geppetto turned himself into a puppet a long time ago and lived among them. A real boy turned himself into a puppet, and along the way made the other puppets real boys.

In his time among the puppets, Geppetto learned that real boys and puppets were not so different. But Geppetto did not come to see the puppets as real boys. He began to see all real boys, born or turned, as nothing more than puppets.

Bionicle is a reverse-Pinocchio story, in that it's about an entire species of artificial beings who are sentient, but one of their creators (who is also the being that gave them said sentience in the first place) wants to reverse that.

#bionicle #velika #pinocchio #this is why I love this series #you can spend so much time thinking about it

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My argument for why they are a perfect OT3

#bionicle #hahli #takua #jaller #ot3 #shipping #memes