#mask of time

[sepublic]

The Vahi's orange coloration being retconned as rust is low key kinda funny. Like I perfectly understand why, it was originally orange, but they made the Vahi golden in 2004 because it's a more dramatic color, and Greg had to once again provide a Watsonian explanation for someone else's Doylist decisions.

But it's also making me imagine Vakama solemnly present a chunk of rust to Tahu and warning him that it could destroy the universe and is low key a bigger threat than Makuta himself. And meanwhile Tahu's just staring at this thing that's been overgrown with corrosion and looks like it's been dragged up from the bottom of a river, and is like "I am... NOT putting that on my face."

Vakama concurs because of how dangerous Time is, and Tahu clarifies it's because it's really grody (I imagine rust is particularly visceral to beings made of metal) and might give him an infection. They should give the Vahi a restoration video. Vakama declares that if the rust will make Tahu hesitate, then he's even more motivated to keep it that way.

There should be more fanart of the Vahi depicting it as completely covered in an obnoxious shade of orange crust, and not just a sleek, glistening orange. The Mask of Time suitably looks as old as time (despite being fairly young in the grand scheme of things). Voporak opts to give the Vahi its long-awaited restoration as he waits out G1’s infinite hiatus and hopes to use the Vahi to skip past it.

#bionicle #vahi #mask of time

[xtarart]

i know im slightly late on this but... HAPPY 810NICLE DAY!!! To celebrate i decided to continue my Bionicle G3 system mini figure concepts! This time with the Great Spirits who were sent by the great beings to create the world the Matoran call their home, and the one who was cast aside and now seeks retribution.

#my art #xtarart #bionicle #mata nui #ekimu #artakha #karzahni #vahi #helryx #makuta #teridax #mask of life #mask of time #810nicle day #there are also other great spirits who were made by the great beings #but they reside on other worlds #maybe we will see them one day...

[driver270]

Instructions Not Included

Don't ask me how Brainstorm stole the Mask Of Time to begin with.

#Plastic Robots #Toy Photography #Transformers #Transformers Generations #G1 Brainstorm #MTMTE Brainstorm #MTMTE #Lost Light #Lego #Bionicle #Toa Metru #Toa Vakama #Vakama #Mask Of Time #Maccadam #IDW Transformers #Transformers IDW

[archus7]

#810NICLEDay observance! Though you may be gone, for now, that means nothing to all the memories & new experiences us fans are always making that pull the legacy thru time itself & on to our newer generations.

Wearable Vahi Mask of Time built from sheet metal around a wearable cloth mask.

#bionicle #810nicle day #810nicle #lego90years #Lego #artists on tumblr #Mask of Time #Kanohi #afol

[writerfromtheshore]

Possible Greater Purpose of the Vahi

Forgive me if this has already been covered, but I have been thinking about the true purpose of the Vahi. The Ignika was created to save Mata Nui, the Mask of Creation was created to help inventions in the MU/the brothers repair the Matoran (It probably should have gone to Karz to help him with that, but I think that one is my speculation), but what about the third legendary mask?

I think Mata Nui was the intended user for the Mask of Time, to use it to stop the planetary rotation from passing. I also think that the Great Beings knew that in case the timing somehow got screwed up, the Great Spirit— and somehow the robot— would need to use some sort of time altering device to stop the flow of time and rotation of Bara, Aqua, and Bota Magna from going past the points that would allow the rejoining to happen in a safe way.

What we know:

Biosector claims that the mask “allows its user to filter this sheer power to speed up or slow down time around a target”

It has been used to slow down the Bohrok Kal from unleashing the swarms again, and by Toa Vakama to slow down a shadow hand by Makuta Teridax and passed hands by Vorporak, Metru Nui safekeeping, all that jazz. Makuta Teridax intended to use the power of the mask to speed up time with the Matoran pods in Metru Nui, in order to speed up the memory loss process so they would forget him.

Unless it has been stated elsewhere, I think that a mask so powerful and “Legendary” would be intended for more than just that.

Elsewhere:

Mata Nui was supposed to make his journey in X amount of time (I think it was 100k years, and was on fact back to Bara Magne when the Great Cataclysm/Teridax’s plan was put into large scale play (this ended up putting the journey at 101,000 years and change I believe) The journey was supposed to be made in 100k years because the Great Beings calculated that year being the next time the 3 planetoids were in perfect alignment. However, 101k years— if you take our time scale and how our planets in the Milky way align— are different in a year’s time (hence certain eclipses happening once in a certain 100 years or blue moon or whenever. @rahiwatching, I feel like you would be better versed in talking about this)

Around the time that Mata Nui fell to the Aqua Magna floorbed, Vakama completed and used the Vahi.

On the surface, 1000 years later, Tahu used the Vahi to stop the Bohrok Kal.

I am thinking that the use of that mask, and the energies it contained, somehow leaked past the robot, spread to the other planetoids out in outer space, and somehow either corrected the flow of time or slowed it down so Mata Nui could complete his mission.

Other notes: 

Mata Nui purposely intervened with destiny in order to make sure Vakama became a Toa. 

We do not know how old Vakama actually is. 

Vakama as a Toa within the Toa Metru has a destiny of the Great Rescue, but I think he has individual destiny being to create the Vahi. Perhaps knowing that either something was going to delay him from his mission, or that the Great Being’s timetables might get screwed up, Mata Nui created Vakama as a failsafe in order to stop the timetable or speed it up in case the timing of his mission went awry. 

Flaws/Holes in the theory:

—How could the robot— a 40 million foot behemoth— use a mask that is —compared to us— a speck of dust? That one I am still working on. But I think that for some reason, the robot itself didn’t need to use the mask

> Tahu using outside the robot could have been enough

> The mask’s energy is so powerful that it can permeate through the robot, as stated earlier

>It could have somehow been linked up to the core processor

>Depending on how canon certain scenes of the Legend Reborn are canon, when Makuta shoots off the Ignika into space— could that hole have been where Mata Nui was supposed to project time energy?

—This theory would also mean— as my rudimentary knowledge of science and physics works— that gravitational pull and rotation and the power of gravity would be simply the same as time power. Not sure how to pull myself out of this one.

Welp, that is all I’ve got. This has been sitting in my brain all day, and I just wanted to get it out to you.

#bionicle #vahi #mask of time #bonkle #Spherus Magna #Mata Nui #crack theory

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Taking a break from the current thing I'm working on to make a Mask of Time variant for my main AU.

#bionicle #bionicle au #vahi #mask of time

[ash-and-starlight]

taking the crumbs of venetian agna qel’a chewing biting gnashing on them until there aren’t even bones left and then spitting out. carnevale northern water tribe style

#id in alt text #plus lil zukkini kissini bonus bc this year carnival fell the day before valentine's day #aaand posting it at almost midnight so we get the Perfect meeting point of the two dates #not bc i drew everything in a rabid frenzy & finished it NOW #anyway venetian carnival in the nwt. hi. is this thing on can anyone hear me. #and when i start talking about the marriage to the sea ceremony- [gunshot] #ough i wish i had more time to draw more masks in sakha-venice fusion style but alas. only had time & brain space for the blorbos 😔 #hope this is enough to send the Vision Wavelenghts #yue #sokka #katara #zuko #zukka #my art

[gayestcowboy]

this might be a hot take but i think we should still be required to wear masks on airplanes

#my parents got covid for the first time from flying back in february :/ #i still haven’t gotten it but i fly a lot and i flew today and there was barely anyone masked #covid hasn’t stopped happening lol #yeehaws

[official-time-loop-posts]

Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

#polls #time loop #(do i dare tag every one of the fandoms here?) #(yes. i do.) #groundhog day #majora's mask #supernatural #madoka magica #edge of tomorrow #happy death day #russian doll #outer wilds #palm springs #chonnys charming chaos compendium #in stars and time #(…one of these is definitely on here because of personal bias rather than it being popular among the Time Loop Community) #(but how could we not put our favorite on here :)

[ultimatedirk]

i hope the world allows me to be kind, navi

#legend of zelda #ocarina of time #linked universe #lu time #lu mask #navi #mini comic #nailed this drawing out in like an hour and a half #oot

[cozylittleartblog]

what if there was a plague doctor that was so so so cute (and was also secretly a bird themself)

#art #plague doctor #posie #pastel #kawaii #cute #captioned #artists on tumblr #character design #oc #original character #oops! no name yet #halloween #spooky #i made them for merch reasons but i will draw them like i draw my other characters #i worked so hard i got Brainsick from Stress and i had to stop and then also i was busy in Not art ways for once #GIRL I NEED MORE HOURS IN THE DAY #oh uhh character facts. i love skulls and flowers and plague doctors and crows/ravens so i jammed them together #they are an anthro white raven disguised as a plague doctor. bird disguised as bird. nice. you can see their tail though #they use they them. the nonbinary urge to wear a full face mask at all times #that little bird is their Familiar of sorts and it can turn into things. usually a staff or a walking cane i think #the little bird also doesnt have a name. neither of them have names #not from lack of trying i just haven't had time to look yet #edit - THEIR NAME IS POSIE #YKNOW LIKE THE NURSERY RHYME

[angryraptor13]

I think it would be Fun if the Mask of Time got itself a body somehow (maybe gifted by the Mask of Life, maybe Vakama becomes the Toa of Time, etc.) and just went popping in and out of the time stream, helping people and putting wrecking balls through Evil Plots like the Doctor in Doctor Who.

#bionicle #headcanon #Mask of time #writing prompt #Vahi

[tsukinoshinjiu]

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

#my art #artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #art #link #legend of zelda #lu time #time linked universe #majoras mask #zelda #had zero faith id finish this one #kinda glad i did #not used to drawing darker/moody things #scopophobia

[nausnian]

Link in mystic armor

#link #linked universe #tears of the kingdom #loz totk #totk #loz botw #botw #totk link #botw link #zelda totk #totk fanart #botw fanart #legend of zelda #the legend of zelda #skyward sword #twilight princess #ocarina of time #majoras mask #wind waker #hyrule warriors #loz link #nintendo

[yutaan]

A papercraft commission of Zelda from Breath of the Wild/Age of Calamity, featured here with the Bow of Light! I had enormous fun cutting out both her swirling hair and the swirling shapes of the bow's decoration - extra-detailed shapes like that take a long time, but the end result is very satisfying. ^_^ And, of course, I'm always excited to make Legend of Zelda art!

#the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #age of calamity #princess zelda #bow and arrow #papercraft #papercutting #paper art #traditional art #my art #I grew up on Ocarina of Time and then Majora's Mask #so those will always have a special place in my heart #but everything I've seen of BOTW and AOC is absolutely gorgeous

[say0ranarts]

some joker + black mask akechi drawings :3c

#persona #persona 5 #shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #just art #every time i draw black mask akechi i go through a crisis drawing his silly little outfit