#bionicle fantasy au

[crystaltoa]

Because I couldn't stop thinking about this idea, have a silly fantasy AU! A certain elf is NOT enjoying his first time in the dungeon...

#bionicle #whenua #nuju #human bionicle #bionicle humanization #(Ok not technically human but close enough to warrant the tags anyway) #bionicle au #bionicle fantasy au

[elaho]

---Viewing Music - "Please Don't Be" by Hazlett--- "May the Skies Speak forth Your Will, Oh Spirit, As we Seekers of Divine Knowledge encapsulate Our essence in Sacred Ice, Forsaking All and Pursuing None But the Great Eye of Enlightenment" - Sacred Prayer of the Seekers

A WIP illustration for my long-term project (The Halfway Series), loosely based on the G1 Bionicle series. This was my first time doing a full illustration with background details and framing, but it turned out better than expected. For now, it's just the flats/tone blocking, but I plan to add colour and rendering at some point.

(Click here for a full view of the illustration)

More about this Illustration:

I always liked the idea of Nokama representing the moon. The moon and water are interconnected, with the tides directly influenced by the moon's gravity. Its presence in the sky is calming, persistent, gentle, and comforting. It shifts and changes through its phases yet still remains present.

Not so the stars. Stars in the night sky are constantly in flux and change. New ones light up the night sky while old ones collapse into oblivion and die. The Earth rotates and shifts with the seasons, the planets change their alignments, and what was once visible becomes hidden and vice versa. The stars appear cold and distant, their nature indifferent and inconsistent.

Wouldn't one whose sole purpose was to pursue them slowly become like them?

The Man Nolokai (Nuju) is a prestigious religious astronomer ("Seeker") who had spent his life in solitude searching for answers written in the stars. His fear of making uninformed and inaccurate choices in life, which would ultimately cause harm to those closest to him, causes him to become obsessively consumed by his work. His dedication to predicting and preventing fatal disasters leads him to radical self-isolation and physical harm; however, he's so blinded by his pursuit of knowledge that he fails to see how his own inaction is causing the destruction he is so desperately trying to prevent. (Bleeding eyes and falling stars)

The Woman

Noeli (Nokama) is a Blessed Vessel, High Priestess, and accomplished religious alchemist who has always been a guiding, stable, emotional support for Nolokai, even amidst his chronic self-isolating tendencies (she represents the moon, dressed in a sea of stars).

However, the pain and grief Nolo has caused her from his emotional abandonment and self-destruction in the name of knowledge will become too much for Noeli to bear, and she will eventually fade from his life. (Her see-through arms, star tears, and inability to touch him.) She reaches down to him, melting the cage of ice he surrounds himself in once more. The question is: Will he return to reality -- return to her -- before it's too late?

#bionicle #bionicle au #character design #concept art #art nouveau #the halfway #the halfway project #humanized bionicle #water and ice #moon and stars #fantasy religion #portfolio 2023 #colour flats #star crossed lovers #nokama #nuju

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Bionicle x Final Fantasy 10 fusion AU

An old AU, a bit reworked.

The Pilgrimage is the attempt to wake Mata Nui from his slumber and stop the Scourge - a giant monster that regularly devastes the islands like a catastrophe of nature. The ghosts of friends and heroes past help them on the journey.

What nobody knows: Rather than only his face lying above the ocean, he fell on Aqua Magna so that several parts of his body stayed above and got covered as islands and almost-continents.

Spoilers for Final Fantasy X below because of the fusion aspects:

The Pilgrimage?

A lie to keep the population calm. The ones who oversee the system believe that it'd cause chaos if everybody knew that they were living on Mata Nui's body and used to live inside him as his maintenance workers.

The strongest factor is, however, that they don't believe that Mata Nui can be awakened. The Scourge keeps him asleep and each time its incarnation is killed, it WILL possess one of the present pilgrims to grow a new body. It siphons energy off from Mata Nui's dreams to keep going, but also feeds from other people's feelings. Killing it gives only a short time of reprieve before it reforms.

Is the Scourge a Makuta? Is it Teridax? I don't know yet.

The only way to stop the Scourge is to enter its body - which contains a pocket dimension - and contact Mata Nui directly. Stop the Scourge from feeding on his dreams.

Working from Final Fantasy X, I'm trying to think what is the consequences when he stops dreaming? What do Mata Nui's dream do on the outside?

We know he's become aware of his people on Spherus Magna the latest. He knows some details that I assume happened because of his connection to his inner world once he paid attention - able to recall specific details. And he's at least a minor reality warper, as seen as when he restores Spherus Magna. So, what if his dreams are partly reviewing memories of his people?

And those memories / dreams plus his reality warping keep people's spirit anchored.

So to wake him up, the protagonists have to give up their connection to their loved ones and let them go. Accept that death is final.

#bionicle #bionicle AU #Final Fantasy X #Final Fantasy 10

[siren-darkocean]

I just remembered I have an AU of a medieval/fantasy au of The Ice Toa series AU but it's more pulled from The Sims Medieval due to adding the characters as hero Sims to the game

The only reason why I consider it an AU is because at a few points I actually had storyfied the quests and events in my head (as any fanfic author does) and honestly I wanna post it onto either AO3 and or Wattpad to share of writing it because holy fuck it's coming back to bite me in ass again and I forgot how much I loved it

#bionicle #g1 bionicle #lego bionicle #bionicle the legend reborn #the legend reborn #bionicle fanfiction #bionicle au #ice toa series #ice toa series au #medieval/fantasy au #ficblogging #sims medieval #the sims medieval #sims medieval pirates and nobles

[musurvivalistguide]

Me: *listening to character in an anime sing for the hundredth time as he forges a weapon for the MC* "This song is so cool, I love it!"

My imagination: *imagines Vakama as a Toa in a fantasy setting forging weapons for his team while singing the same song*

Me: "......dangit, I'm trying to rewrite old ideas for Bionicle, not create another AU for it!"

Song in question that inspired the idea

#bionicle #matoran universe #vakama #I swear my imagination runs wild with any scrap of an idea that seems interesting and turns it into a story 😂 #not sure if it will be like Bionicle D&D or if it'll be more like the other fantasy MMORPG style isekai animes #but either way please enjoy the mental image of Vakama singing a tune as he forges to keep time

[yanderes-galore]

Fandoms

All the fandoms I'm doing and taking a break from. Always up to date, check often :)

Last Edited: 2/1/24

Bold -> Written Before

Not Bold -> Hasn't been written before.

🔪Fandoms I am currently writing for🔪

Movies/Shows

- Adventure Time

- Arcane

- Assassination Classroom

- Attack on Titan

- Avatar (Movies)

- Beastars (Season 1 + 2 of the anime)

- Bionicle: The Journey To One

- Black Clover

- Blue Exorcist

- The Boys

- Carmen Sandiego (Netflix show)

- Death Note

- The Devil is a Part-Timer!

- Ducktales 2017

- Fire Force

- Game of Thrones

- Gravity Falls

- Halo RvB/Red vs Blue (All seasons)

- Happy Tree Friends (Anthro Animals or Hybrids/Humans [Like my OCs])

- Haikyu!

- Hazbin Hotel

- How To Train Your Dragon

- Invader Zim (Original series and Enter the Florpus)

- House of the Dragon

- Monkie Kid (Lego)

- My Hero Academia

- My Little Pony (FiM and a New Generation)

- Murder Drones

- Naruto

- Ninjago

- Noragami

- One Piece

- One Punch Man

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- Puss in Boots

- Rick & Morty

- Saiki K

- Spooky Month

- Star Wars (Movies + Clone Wars)

- Steven Universe

- Solar Opposites

- Terminator (All movies)

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Media (2003, 2007 movie, 2012, 2014/Bayverse, 2018/ROTTMNT)

- Tokyo Ghoul

- Toilet Bound Hanako Kun

- Treasure Planet

- Trigun Stampede

- Umbrella Academy

- Voltron: Legendary Defender

- Walking Dead

- Watchmen

- Wednesday

- The Witcher (Show)

- X-men Evolution

Games

- Apex Legends

- Arknights

- Assassin's Creed

- Bendy and the Ink Machine

- Bioshock (All games)

- Borderlands (Including 1, 2, Pre-sequel, and 3)

- Call of Duty

- Criminal Case

- Cookie Run

- Cult of The Lamb

- Danganronpa (Games only)

- Dauntless (Creatures will all be pet-like)

- Darksiders

- Dark Deception

- Dark Souls/Souls-Like games

- Dead By Daylight (All Survivors and Killers along with costumes)

- Dead Space (1-3)

- Detroit: Become Human

- Devil May Cry

- Deltarune (Both Chapters)

- Disney Mirrorverse

- Don’t Starve (All Survivors and Costumes)

- DOOM

- Dying Light

- Evil Within

- Evolve (Creatures will all be pet-like)

- Fallout

- Far Cry

- Fear and Hunger

- Five Nights at Freddy’s (All Games, Books, Fluffy AU) (Animatronic or Android)

- Friday Night Funkin (Base game)(?)

- Final Fantasy (Primarily anything past 7)

- Gears/Gears of War (Yandere Fics)

- Genshin Impact

- God of War

- Half-Life

- Halo (Reach, CE, 2, 3, 3 ODST, 4, 5, Infinite, Wars 1+2)

- Hollow Knight

- Honkai Impact

- Human Animal Crossing

- Identity V (All Survivors/Killers and their costumes except Hastur and younger characters are depicted as Platonic)

- Killer Frequency

- The Last of Us

- League of Legends

- Left 4 Dead (1 and 2)

- Legend of Zelda

- Lobotomy Corporation

- Mario Franchise

- Metal Gear Solid (All games, although I like Revengeance the most)

- Metroid

- Minecraft (Experimenting)

- Mortal Kombat (9 through 11)

- Mystic Messenger

- No More Heroes

- No Straight Roads

- Obey Me!

- OFF

- Outlast

- The Outer Worlds

- Overwatch (All characters/Costumes)

- Payday 2

- Persona (3-5)

- Portal (1 and 2)

- Pokemon (Just Trainers Right Now) (All games)

- PvZ Garden Warfare (Mostly Platonic but we'll see)

- Ratchet and Clank

- Rainbow Six Siege

- Resident Evil (All Games)

- Red Dead Redemption (Mostly 2)

- Roblox DOORS (?)

- Silent Hill

- Skyrim

- Street Fighter

- Team Fortress 2 (All Classes and characters like Miss Pauling and Saxton Hale)

- Twisted Wonderland

- Undertale

- Warframe

- We Happy Few

- Xcom

Books

- Halo Books (Fall of Reach, The Flood, Contact Harvest, The Cole Protocol, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Cryptum, Broken Circle, Hunters In The Dark, Last Light, New Blood, Envoy, Retribution, Smoke and Shadow, Bad Blood, Renegade, Point of Light, Divine Wind)

- Jujutsu Kaisen (I read the manga)

- Bungou Stray Dogs (I read the manga)

Fits in more than one category

- Alien vs Predator (Just Alien movies or Predator movies are also included. Also books and games.)

- Black Butler

- Creepypasta/Gaming Creepypasta (Not everyone, it depends)

- Cuphead (Game/Show)

- Cyberpunk 2077 (Anime/Game)

- DC Comics (Comics, Games, Movies) [Injustice and Arkhamverse mainly, but let's discuss]

- Demon Slayer

- Hiveswap

- Homestuck

- Madness Combat (Game and Series)

- Marvel Cinematic Universe (Up to Endgame)/Marvel Comic Universe (SPECIFY WHAT COMIC PLEASE-)

- SCP (Not everyone, it depends)

- Slashers/Horror in general (Please say what movie your slasher is from)

- Sonic (All games + The Paramount Movies + IDW Comics. All characters are aged up except characters Classic! Tails, Movie! Tails, Cream the Rabbit, Ray the Flying Squirrel, and Classic Amy, which are Platonic as I can't see them as aged up.)

- South Park (All aged up of course, Show and games)

- Splatoon (Manga/Games)

- Transformers (Animated, Cyberverse, Earthspark, Generation 1, IDW comics, Prime, Robots In Disguise, War for Cybertron)

- Yandere OCs I have (Look at this list)

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🚫Fandoms I am taking a break from🚫

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#yandere x reader #yandere fandoms #panther fandoms

[analog-kidd]

Franchises I have to avoid due to my autism:

Super Sentai / Power Rangers

I was obsessed with power rangers as a kid and now as an adult, that rabbit hole would be deeper due to having more knowledge about it being a Japanese property. I can’t go back man.

Large casts and interesting robot designs and costumes are my weakness.

Kamen Rider

It’s basically Super Sentai (minus the giant robots) with a bug theme.

Touhou Project

Again, large casts (especially them all being women).

The fandom basically keeping the franchise afloat with aus and fanon, makes it really appealing to me. It’s basically Japanese undertale and I was an undertale kid.

Any MMO

There are actual studies that say World of Warcraft is one of most addicting games and I have an addictive personality.

Animal Jam has shown me I would spend more time in an MMO than in real life.

I’m already a final fantasy fan and ff14 would appeal to me but I know I would not have any irl friends if I started playing this.

And as I’ve said before, large casts.

Warhammer

Wow it has a large cast, who would’ve thunk it?

The deep lore would have me in its tight grip.

I would waste so much money buying those miniatures.

Listen, I’m already obsessed with fire emblem, digimon, bionicle, megami tensei, pokemon, and transformers, I can’t have more things occupying my brain space.

#analog’s logs #super sentai #power rangers #kamen rider #touhou project #mmo #warhammer

[iamthelowercase]

I am dealing with a lot of localized stress right now, and what I want to do about it is read a whole bunch of fanfic for escapism.  So I am requesting recommendations: both fic recs, and recommendations of tags or combinations-of-tags to search on Ao3.

For fic recs: I will read your fandom, if it's a stand-alone capable fic!  Also, I will probably read Bionicle fics regardless, and I'll have a list of fandoms below.

In addition to Ao3, I'm willing to read stories on the SB/SV/QQ trifecta or Royal Road.

I would like fics that are complete with a happy ending, and/or are written as fluffy/happy/feel-good.

I would particularly appreciate fics with a trans and/or plural protagonist.  These don't have to be the plot, but there's no point here if they're not relevant to the plot.  (Eg Babylon 5: Copilots on SV, AlexSeanchai's t4t Miraculous Ladybug fic that I was looking for earlier.)

I massively prefer speculative fiction/SFF.  So everything from Pacific Rim, to superheroes, to Star Wars/Star Trek, to LotR style fantasy.  If you give me a mundane AU, that will ruin the interest for me; but if you give me SFF characters doing mundane things in an unambiguously SFF setting, I'll probably eat it up.  (Like the coffee shop scenes and skateboarding scene in this fic.)

Moderate adventure (more Star Wars original trilogy than LotR) or relationship focus & development, please.  If you've read The Course Of Honor or Winters Orbit, that does a delightful job of balancing both.

Nobody dies is not necessary, but I don't want protagonist death unless they also explicitly get better.  Friendly vampires etc count as "getting better".

Hard "no"s for the purpose of this request:

S/M

mind control

dubcon

humiliation

A/B/O

"Ao3 explicit"-worthy gore

I am not looking for porn here.  I don't mind sex scenes if I see them coming and think they fit, but if I don't they can (and have!) ruin stories for me in a way that's counter-productive to what I'm after here.

Bonus points for stories which take a "mainstream" trope, invert it somehow, and then play the inverted version completely straight.  (Eg, "smol shy nerd/tol jock" is cute and fun if it's gender-flipped and written for tenderness and feel-good fluff [login required][explicit][archive warnings would apply].)

Bonus points if it's queer somehow.  Mentioning this feels like it might be redundant, but it is worth saying. Bonus points if it’s leftish.  No, further left than that.  Look, unless Star Trek is way off to the right, there’s still a lot of room to go further left.

Bonus points if fics you rec are available as podfic!

Fandoms I know I'm down for reading:

Bionicle

Worm

Miraculous Ladybug

Pacific Rim

The Host (Stephanie Myers, book)

RWBY

The Murderbot Diaries

Good Omens

Where The Stars Fell

Anything by Cliffc999 if it has a complete arc and I feel it meets the key vibes goals, regardless of if it meets other criteria or if I've ever heard of the fandom before.

Marvel superheroes (various -- broad-strokes comicsverse, MCU (movies up to approximately Civil War/Black Panther), and Into The Spider-Verse movie are all welcome, as are original spins on any of those.  Eg, the Spider-Liv series on SV is great, but too recent for a re-read.)

Teen Titans (similar in spirit, but I'm only really familiar with the core 5 and the early 1980s "introduction of Raven and Starfire" era comics)

I fully expect to love Sense8 and Babylon 5 if I ever get around to watching them.  As such, entry-friendly fics that don't spoil the main experience too much are welcome in those fandoms.

Comfort movies:

Apollo 13

The Princess Bride.

Anticipated (but unconfirmed) additions to that list:

Pacific Rim

Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension

Mad Max: Fury Road

Grease Monkey fills a similar niche in comic books.  Also if you're reccing from RR, you should know that I'm loving Sovereign of Wrath.

#recommendation request

[eorzeanflowers]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻 (It can also be IC if you prefer!)

(Please ignore if you've done this too many times already or you are otherwise disinclined to do it!)

I don't mind doing them at all Mimble! :D (Honestly I keep spawning more interesting facts about myself that I barely recall lol)

🌻 Back in the day, I loved loved loved Lego (still do actually), but I especially loved loved loved loved the bionicle series. I still recall all the important names of the first generation. (Tahu, Kopaka, Lewa, Gali, Onua, Pohatu.) Those were such cool sets it is a shame it stopped being profitable for them and they stopped making them. I have at least one figure from each generation.

🌻 I have struggled (and still struggle tbh) with gatcha addiction in the past. I was playing a mobile game callled Final Fantasy: Record Keeper. It hit me greatly in the nostalgia with the ATB gameplay and the VI styled sprites. But man did I spend waaaaaay too much money on it. I am much healthier now with what I spend on Genshin, but I honestly should stop spending money there too.

🌻All but one of my characters in my FFXIV roster spawned pretty much fully formed when I decided to play them. The only one that didn't was The Archeologist. She was actually a foil to another player's character and was an Au Ra before she was completely reworked! I am much happier with what she is now, not that the previous one was bad, but the other player and I didn't end on the best of terms sadly.

#the rare leigh #3 random facts #I love doing these honestly #they are a lot of fun and make me realize I'm a little more interesting than I realize

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

Ctrl-Shift-Magic!

If the general tenor of all the previous posts hasn’t made it clear, I lean more toward the fantasy end of the fantasy/sci-fi blend that is the original Bionicle recipe. This may or may not make complete sense (we’re talking about characters who are at least 50% robot), but I am decidedly on the Star Wars side of the Star Wars/Star Trek debate, so even if it doesn’t make perfect sense, it is at least a consistent position.

Mind you, you can’t really remove the sci-fi aspects of Bionicle while leaving it recognisably Bionicle (not without really going full AU--like teenagers in highschool AU), but the balance on the continuum can be skewed like the Brightness-Contrast on a photo to a fair extent before things really become unrecognisable.

The Makuta are, in general, something I find easy to put on the magical end of the scale. Somehow, antidermis seems like a less science-y magic substance than protodermis. While there’s definitely a mad scientist element to the Makuta, it doesn’t take much to nudge that in the direction of evil sorcerers.

As for the Makuta himself, as a 2001-era fan, I obviously encountered him in a more primordial form (”brother of the Great Spirit” and all), and for as much as I’m willing to buy his clever machinations of the later Teridax characterization, I don’t see that as incompatible with the almost Melkor-esque presentation of the MNOG era.

The elemental powers of the Toa--and Turaga--are also magic in my eyes, rather than science-fiction. Indeed, I think this is one area where the “well, it’s actually all a lot more sci-fi than you thought” bit doesn’t wear as well, especially if you say their powers are still active outside the GSR.

Masks are a bit more plausible, in-universe, and as the artefacts of someone’s craft do have some sci-fi overtones, but I find it easier, for my alt-canon anyway, to describe them as magic. Granting that “extra hardware for a robot” is fairly sci-fi in its overtones, magically-crafted items are a good fantasy staple too, even if the crafted items in question are liable to be swords or armour rather than masks.

#Bionicle #alt-canon

[kanohivolitakk]

Okay! For the fandom Merge ask! Let's doooooo.... Bionicle aaaaaannnnnddddd My Hero Academia.

OOH interesting choice. I'm not the most familiar with BNHA as I only read a few chapters, but I will try my best to writing as authentic and respectful ideas as possible.

When I think of crossover AUs, I often approach them in four different ways: Either as a fandom fusion AU where the series always existed with the same universe, a fandom fusion AU where the series essentially clash through dimensional shenanigans, an Isekai style AU where a character goes to the other world and has to survive in it, or an AU that puts characters of another series into another as if they've always been there.

When it comes to Bionicle and BNHA I feel the most appealing type of crossover would either be a dimensional clash fandom fusion AU or an Isekai AU transferring either BNHA characters to Bionicle universe or vice versa. I don't think fandom fusions where series always existed works for Bionicle due to how DIFFERENT it is compared to pretty much everything, and I don't really find the idea of Bonkle characters always existing in BNHA setting (or vice versa) that interesting because you had to make BNHA characters MU species and frankly... I think that doesn't really work-

For me, the reason a "clash between worlds"/isekailike AU works best is because the two canons are pretty different from each other aesthetically. Bionicle is very much a high concept fantasy/scifi that completely lacks a human cast, while BNHA is essentially more...urban fantasy/urban superhero story. Like your Marvels or Dcs, but anime. As such having a story where the characters interact with the other series world, that really highlights the differences of the series both aesthetically and narratively is really engaging.

As for specific scenarios, something I thought of is putting Toa (or any MU inhabitant really) into the BNHA setting. Given how the animes world is heavily driven of this hero-society, having this unknown heroes that come from another world/realm just suddenly appear could just break the status quo of the world in an interesting way. In a sense the Toa appearing all of sudden kinda feels like the appearance of Quirks, in the sense that it's another large changing event.

Altenratively, isekai All-Might into MU. Given that he is the "perfect ideal hero and the posterboy of heroism", having him in MU, a setting that both fixates on heroism yet is very flawed would be super interesting. Another possibility is just thrusting him int the cynical world of Bara Magna, I would love that type of story tbh.

So yeah that's all I got. Sorry if it isn't as detailed, again BNHA isn't something I'm too familiar with, but I tried my best

Give me two fandoms and I’ll tell you how I’d combine them in a fusion or an AU and what sort of fic I’d write for it!

#Asks #mothnem #Bionicle #My Hero Academia

[withered-tears]

I've had a pretty shitty case of the writer's block lately, so I've decided to at least properly organize my WIPs and my completed works.

So here they are:

Completed one shots:

Warm thoughts. Original work, based on/inspired by the tumblr post "candles are how we keep fire as pets" 628 words.

Sword bound. Original work, rpg fantasy inspired. 2114 words.

The Mute King. The legend of zelda AU, Link remembers his past lives. 1000 words.

Not yet completed multi-chapters:

It's the will of the fire. Avatar the last Airbender AU, Agni manifest during Ozai and Zuko's Agni Kai, and he's pissed. 3383 words so far. Chapters 3/?

The Boogeyman and the tin soldiers. Rise of the guardians x Five nights at Freddy's crossover, Pitch Black stumbles across the animatronics. 12.256 words so far. Chapters 8/?

Tanzanite, accidental free will. Steven Universe, OC-Sona centric, with some minor interaction of canon characters, a gem scout ends up stranded in an uninhabited planet and develops a sense of self. 32.342 words so far. Chapters 20/?

Not yet published WIPs:

Untitled Batman angst-hurt/comfort one shot, the Joker finally did it, he pushed Bats too far.

Untitled Justice League friendship/found family fic, the League gets a scary reminder that Batman is in fact, quite human, and become slightly over protective of him.

Untitled My hero academia friendship/humor/wholesome fic, the Deku protection squad gains a lot new members, that happen to be villains, no one is quite certain how this happened.

Untitled (look, I suck at tittles ok?? I avoid them until the last minute nfafjsk) Transformers x Portal crossover, on Megatron's orders, Soundwave investigates an intriguing piece of human technology, and ends up connecting to Aperture, both him and GLaDOS find this interesting.

Untitled Avengers x Bionicle crossover, the Kanohi Ignika, the mask of life, makes it way to earth, and the Iron man suit reacts quite strongly to it, or more accurately, Jarvis does.

Untitled Silent Hill, Silent Hill inspired x My little Pony fic, that I started literally years ago but never finished it.

And a few more that are mostly just vague ideas, I'll add them later if I ever expand on them.

#my writing #my fics #fic #writing #ao3

[elaho]

An incomplete piece of concept art I found in my 2018 folder of Jalka [Jaller] and the different military ranks for fire villagers ["Toronaita"].

The notes at the bottom is me trying to divide military personnel into different ranks and see how many people would be needed, at minimum, for a semi-functioning military organization.

Lore/Worldbuilding: Fire Village + Military

All fire villagers are trained in military combat, with each citizen needing to complete a tour of duty for 2/3 of the year on a rotating schedule [with some exceptions]:

4 months of farming [various foods grown throughout the year]

4 months of stationary/reserve duty at the village,

4 months of scouting/island/"military for hire" duty across the region

Hairstyle determines the social position and/or military rank of citizens in Toronaita civilization. Those with more complex and/or lengthy hairstyles have been awarded specific honours in combat or military service, and as such, they are not required to shave their heads after their annual duty is complete.

Hairstyle 1: Civilian/Farmer hair

Hairstyle 2: Shaved head at the end of annual service [i.e. transition back to civilian duties]

Hairstyle 3: Traditional military service hairstyle, low rank

Hairstyles 4, 5, 6: Various military awards, honours, or rankings given in service [incomplete]

However, wearing braids, twists, or dreads in the hair without being given the right by a superior officer is a major offence and is akin to plagiarism or self-awarding badges of honour.

#bionicle #character design #concept art #matoran #humanized bionicle #the halfway project #bionicle jaller #toa jaller #matoran jaller #portfolio 2018 #ta-matoran #jaller #island military #military society #bonkle #worldbuilding #fantasy writing #bionicle au #ta-koro #toronaita #old artwork

[sroloc--elbisivni]

Your TF fic got me into fandom. This isnt what I wanted to use my already limited free time on, but interest is a has no mercy and I am already halfway through MTMTE. I got forcefully yeeted from my returning MHA interest directly into TF instead. Thank you for that and how dare you. I will now go reread "Intelligence or vision or the truth" cause it became a comfort fic and I go feral for the way you worldbuilt it and feel despair as I realised this is the only fic of such fascinating au.

one, sorry, two, welcome to alien robot hell 2: electric boogaloo. alien robot hell one being bionicle. MTMTE IS EXCELLENT AND I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING FUN. since I only go here in the first place because I read astolat’s fic I’m thrilled to continue the tradition of hitting people over the head with transformers. I recommend transformers animated and/or G1 next.

sorry also for getting you dragged into my extremely niche fantasy cyberpunk au, i should maybe put a warning on that XD you probably didn’t mean this as an excuse for me to ramble about this fic and my thoughts behind it but I had so much fun doing this so I’m TAKING IT. spoilers ahead.

I keep calling it a ‘fantasy cyberpunk’ because when i first wrote the first scene I was thinking a weird blend of classical sword-and-sorcery fantasy with tech elements and the whole thing took place in a tent. then I decided no actually it’s going to be full tech and I had to change the flavor text but the fantasy elements—the king as the land, the band of righteous rebels, the secret prince, the palace wizard, good vs. evil—are still very much there, as opposed to the corporate world of more traditional cyberpunk. the worldbuilding is then by necessity very economical and tailored to the story, and a mix of balancing transformers lore and integrating fantasy tropes into cyberpunk. rung as an android is balancing transformers lore. optimus and rodimus as sentinel’s clones is both to pull in TF lore and kind of poke fun at the fantasies that are all a king and his sons with no mention of a queen. also because it was a fun twist.

so, since it’s not exactly traditional corporate cyberpunk, there are a couple different things i went in knowing very clearly I wanted to do. one was to get into cyberpunk’s potential for assistive devices. Ratchet has a wheelchair, Soundwave is low vision, Bumblebee is deaf. And that’s just what I could make explicit in the text. They all have both specific devices to adjust to their environments, and their environments also adapt to them—the map table was initially holographic, and then I realized, oh, hang on, this is fantasy tech, I can make it project something that can be navigated by touch.

another thing I wanted to do was to make a fantasy in the ‘if i could have anything’ sense—in the information age, where the internet is dominated by people buying and selling your data the opposite of that isn’t lack of communication—it’s connection, it's privacy, it's control, it’s being able to reach out to the people you love. the Matrix is an information and data network. chips and brain implants aren’t inherently malicious tracking devices or mind control—the chips are signifiers of affiliation. the brain implants are about taking control, not losing it. how far removed from swapping memes is swapping memories? how much do you value the freedom to communicate when it’s been kept from you your whole life?

and in a meta level, the entire fic is built on miscommunication and concealed information. i would love to say i did all of this on purpose.

anything that isn’t one of those two things is me frantically trying to hold the story together with as few plot holes as possible. the medical stuff was the worst. i was cackling writing the jazz-slaughters-the-guards scene and then i paused, googled neurosurgery operating rooms, and went ‘ah, fuck, sanitation.’ so now there’s a sanitized surgery box and surgeons operate with tools inside of it. that will not save me from all the anesthesiologists who are probably out for my blood. (I almost had jazz actually drug optimus, and then have him get a stimulant shot so he’d be awake for sentinel, and then have him drugged again, and then the family friend who was an anesthesiologist for 40 years manifested in my house physically and smacked me over the head. not literally. social distancing!) originally, megatron was going to go down to the server banks and get read into the matrix in a very finding-the-magic-mcguffin but the coronation tropes took precedence.

this is all i can remember off the top of my head but I’m glad to know someone else rereads this fic because i do too and that makes me feel better about posing what is also my comfort fic.

#talky talk #is this transformers #ask #draconicpenartastic #there will probably not be another fic in this verse because i am currently distracted by ostensible trying to wrap up a red vs blue fic and #actually by a new niche au for a jazz/prowl fic. but they’re all actually robots there. #sroloc writes stuff #fic talk

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What if the story of ryjkacze was silly enough to allow drastic transformations so that getting all the powers would make Podkop elongate? (But only when the powers are active)

See I was never a fan of rapid big-scale transformations in works that pretend to be serious (it makes me wonder whether the author wants to tell a story or is just having fun with their imagination), but watching Netflix’s Bionicle miniseries reminded me that this is actually a staple in action/adventure fantasy works, especially in games: that getting a lot of new magical power makes the character bigger. (Of course Bionicle did this long before the miniseries with both gaining and losing power, see Takua or Toa Metru)

So this is just for fun, but come on, is it the first AU I created for this... this story that wasn’t even written yet... sigh.

Yeah yeah I know a power-up transformation usually means MUSCLES but honestly, muscles are meaningless for using elemental powers so I’d like to avoid such a cliche. Still some additional arm span would absolutely be advantageous for a magic user. And also Rajmund would surely feel more at ease when negotiating a pay rise if Podkop was a bit bigger lol.

Sometimes you will get an explanation for the apparent deviation from the law of conservation of mass, but most works simply depict the character as disappearing in bright light and the new form emerging. I thought that since the mass comes out of nowhere anyway, why not make the form change just happen within one frame, accompanied with the sound of uncorking a bottle? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#im. enjoying drawing long hair #heh #as you can see today i am having fun with my imagination #silly #bazgroły #ryjkacze #shitpost #art by op #own art #hrabia Podkop #but long #hoffa #rajmund #hmm this might actually count as #long post #elongated au

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Bionicle: Dungeons and Shadows (Fantasy AU) Worldbuilding Thoughts

Because I have no self-control when it comes to the plot bunnies that bite me, here’s a brain dump of ideas for a Fantasy AU inspired by the various Isekai manga/anime I’ve watched and various tabletop games. If anyone has any ideas to contribute to this AU or help flesh it out more or have any questions that'll help me think on how to develop it better, I’d love to hear it!

Also, if it feels like it’s all over the place, blame the fact that I wrote all this on a Monday when my brain was fried from work and I didn’t want to lose the thoughts I had. Things are bound to change the next time I look at this idea. 😂

In this AU, Mata Nui is considered a deity, but is actually a Titan created by the Great Beings. The Great Beings are a pantheon of mortals known as Glatorian who rose to godhood status, though they prefer not to trifle with petty squabbles and focus on creating. Another name to refer to the Great Beings is “the Divines”.

Energized protodermis is a great source of magic that transformed Spherus Magna, imbuing organic and inorganic materials with powerful magic. These very materials were used to create the beings of the Matoran Universe, with many non-Toa possessing the capability to perform magic to varying degrees. (Note: Conjurer may or may not possess actual magic and may be using an enchanted weapon in this AU, though he claims he does like in the Prime Universe)

Toa—alongside their element—can either learn magic to augment their natural element or may learn other classes of magic to increase the range of their capabilities. Typically some classes are chosen based on a Toa’s element, such as a Toa of Plantlife choosing the druid class specialty while a Toa of Water chooses the cleric or priest class or a Toa of Stone chooses the paladin class. However, it’s not unheard of for a Toa to choose a different class outside their typical range, such as a Toa of Fire learning the druid class while a Toa of Water learns the barbarian/destructive “warlock” class. *cough*JallerandHahli*cough*

Note: Undecided if the warlock class would actually involve summoning demons or if demons would even be a thing in the Matoran Universe’s AU here. If demons are a thing, it’s possible that they may closely resemble the concept of the Skakdi myth Irnakk, or they may be more monstrous. Again, up for debate and may focus more on the destructive capabilities. The summoning aspect of being a warlock may only be for those who prefer subservient pawns like the Shadowed One/anyone from the Makuta species.

Aside from rahi that were created by the Makuta, monsters also exist in this AU that take on quite a few familiar concepts that we’re familiar with in MMORPGs or typical isekai stories. These monsters were not created by the Makuta nor the Great Beings, but were formed by the amount of magic that was stored and built up by the Mata Nui robot as he traveled the galaxy. Some places possess more magic than others, noted by many inhabitants to make the air “heavy and dense yet charged like an impending storm”.

To a degree, these monsters are more “organic” than their rahi and Matoran neighbors, being creatures made of pure magic or “energy” given mass. (The complete opposite of the Makuta species now that I think about it!)

Compared to the Prime Universe, the Toa Code’s “no kill” rule is more lax on a case-by-case basis. For particularly problematic monsters that can’t be captured or deterred, a Toa may destroy its form and release the magic back into the environment. After a while, the creature will return and it will be like a blank slate from which the residents of the nearest village/city may deter them from repeating past aggressive behaviors. If too many monsters are in one area, a dungeon will form until someone conquers it and claims the treasure hidden within.

Dungeons in the Bionicle Universe’s AU are unique in that they come in two forms: natural and unnatural. Natural dungeons are places that are a natural part of the environment that anyone can enter and train or harvest materials from within, while unnatural ones are those formed by the density of magic of monster hordes congregating in one space. For example, Metru Nui’s districts each have one or two natural dungeons spread across each Metru, with Matoran being able to venture in and harvest materials to craft with or study the formations. Higher level dungeons reset their maps after a certain period of time has passed, while lower leveled dungeons meant for Matoran remain the same. The number of floors each dungeon possesses varies based on the danger levels and the quality of treasures or materials that can be harvested within.

When an unnatural dungeon forms, it creates a “dungeon master” that must be defeated in order to dispel it or make it “safe” for Matoran to enter. The more floors a dungeon has as noted by the number of stars outside the entrance of each floor (ie: 1 star equals 4 floors, 7 stars equals 28+ floors. Considering how often the number “seven” seems to follow chaos or darkness in the Bionicle Universe, I think it’s safe to say that seven stars means this dungeon is going to be very dangerous!). The higher ranking the dungeon, the more Toa are required to complete the dungeon, but the greater the reward and materials to be found and brought back, including Great Kanohi and powerful enchanted artifacts and weapons.

Random musing: should the dungeon master be transformed from the Toa Mata’s Great Masks/Toa Metru’s Great Kanoka Disks? Or should they just be intelligent monsters that are simply guarding the them as treasure?

Time magic does exist in this AU, but it is incredibly difficult to learn or wield even for a Makuta, leading many to believe it’s near impossible. Typically this magic can only be found within dungeons, used in traps or by boss monsters. Very, very few beings outside the dungeons (such as Voporak) can utilize it in some form or another, but not very well. Vakama is the only notable Toa who learned to wield it, which initially began as visions when he was a Matoran and became an unlocked ability after he became a Toa. He was initially limited to being able to rewind time by a few seconds at a time (think Prince of Persia and the Sands of Time), though using this too often will drain his mana faster than normal spells and runs the risk of suffering from mana drainage and possibly dying. He keeps this in reserve as a last resort, but he cannot alter specific instances that are unavoidable (such as Turaga Lhikan's death).

The Mask of Time is a legendary item that must be crafted, and wearing it will grant others mastery over time or act as a focus for those with time magic. Note that Vakama only uses it as a last resort to avoid damaging the timelines.

Monster parts can be used to forge equipment or enhance armor and weapons for Toa, the quality needing to be higher and higher as they progress and face stronger monsters and beings. Depending on the type of monster, these materials can grant enhancements to a Toa’s abilities such as increasing their speed or strength—though nowhere near the same extent as a Pakari or a Kakama.

Vakama was well known as a Matoran for being able to craft weapons and armor for Toa. When he became a Toa himself, the others relied on him to upgrade their armor and weapons using the materials they farmed from dungeons. Unlike crafting regular tools and masks from protodermis or disks, monster materials require a special technique that follows a certain rhythm, meaning Vakama (and any other Matoran crafter) must sing songs to keep time with each hammer strike. (Inspiration comes from this song here, which inspired this whole AU idea).

#bionicle #matoran universe #vakama #matoran #makuta #jaller #hahli