#vahi

[bioniclechicken]

Obligatory because of course

Logo was created by @jampotstudios

#bionicle #art #my art #bc #vezon #vahi #vezok #loki

[tiredspacedragon]

Don't mind me, just thinking about how Vakama created the G1 Mask of Time and also had the powers of the G2 Mask of Time as an innate ability, and what the heck that might mean.

And also about how Kapura's innate ability seems to work suspiciously similarly to the G1 Mask of Time and how that plays into all this.

#bionicle #bonkle #vahi #vakama #kapura #why do these ta-matoran have time powers #what is happening #what kind of multiversal chicanery is this

[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

[rahiwatching]

One big missed opportunity in Bionicle in my opinion is that they didn’t explore Vakama’s connection to the Vahi more. I mean, he has visions of the future! And he forged the mask of time! Surely there was something there about maybe the mask was reaching out to him his whole life, helping him, guiding its creator down the right path that led to its own forging.

I remember reading once that Greg said that Vakama had visions due to “a glitch in his programming” which never sat right with me, he has a clear connection to the very embodyment of the concept of time right there, why not use it if you are going to give a source for the visions?

This kind of connection would also help with the feeling that the Vahi is strangely underpowered compared to the other legendary kanohi. I’m not saying the Vahi needed to be sentient like the mask of life, but it’s powerset does seem limited compared to the others.

The mask of creation can create pretty much anything that isn’t alive, and the mask of life can manipulate life to a massive degree, and yet there are normal great masks lying around that can do things with time that the mask of time itself can’t do.

There are masks that can give visions of the past or the future, there is a mask that can literally pull a past version of the user to the present, and yet the mask of time can only slow down or speed up time around a target? That just doesn’t seem right. I think a connection to Vakama, an ability to gift time related powers to beings before it was even created, these could show that this was truly a legendary kanohi, not just an unusually powerful great mask that it feels like now.

#bionicle #lego bionicle #Vahi #kanohi #Vakama #that’s my little rant over #I’m sure other people on here will have headcannoned something similar before

[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...

[krtart]

Art Fight 2023 | 05 - Twilight Meeting

Oscar is going to be so sad that he slept through this encounter, but Lilly wouldn't want to risk scaring Vahi away.

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An attack on @ausp-ice featuring their esk character Vahi! (As well as my own characters Oscar and Lilly. ^_^)

Revenge Chain: (1: You are here) | (2) | (3) | (4)

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[Image description: On the bank of a mountain lake lit by the last light of sunset, a small rat looks up at a floating ethereal spirit as an old man dozes nearby with a book resting on his stomach. The nature spirit is an esk, Vahi, with glowing white eyes, two front legs and no rear legs despite a quadrupedal body plan, horns, flowers and ferns growing from their body and floating around them, and a long tail with the appearance of a dark night sky with moonlit clouds. The rat is Lilly, a fae familiar. The man is Oscar, a fat white man with dwarfism, a receding hairline, and a long beard that joins with his curly hair to form a wild ginger mane. End ID.]

#those who went missing #fantasy creature #mountains #sunset #art fight #art fight 2023 #art #digital art #krtart #finished art #gift art #Auspice #Vahi #Oscar #Oscar Roseflare #Lilly #rp art

[legend-as-old-as-time]

Going from speculation why the Great Beings wanted the Vahi to exist-

(My hypothesis: it was meant as a failsafe if the Spirit Robot became damaged enough that even the Inika wouldn’t be able to repair the damage. So the Vahi was meant to enforce a ‘factory reset’ to several years before the Robot was last undamaged, undoing time. This would sap most of the Vahi’s energy.

Only the carrier / meant user of the Vahi would remember what caused the damage. The Vahi’s last function would be to upload their memory into Mata Nui’s mind before self-destructing.

Both to ensure that the knowledge of the danger would be passed on where it was most needed - so that Mata Nui could avoid it - and that the user couldn’t accidentally use the Vahi any further to become actually powerful.)

I wonder if Vakama was meant to have a destiny related to, but ultimately independent from the Toa Metru if he ever had to use the Vahi?

Like Matoro with the Toa Inika / Mahri.

I’m unsure if this was intended by the writers, but in-universe and narratively it just makes so much sense.

They were connected in some way to Legendary Masks.

Both Matoro and Vakama were sort of the outsiders in their respective teams.

They had single adventures related to their respective Legendary Masks.

Makuta Teridax wanted these masks and had to team up with both toa to retrieve them.

Said Legendary Masks can destroy all life inside the Spirit Robot in some way. The Inika by killing everybody; the Vahi by undoing everything and everybody’s existence.

#bionicle #vakama #the vahi #vahi #toa metru #matoro #the inika #inika #toa inika #toa mahri

[kanohi-kualsi]

Gold

#bionicle #pixel art #kanohi #takanuva #vahi #lhikan #iruni #artakha #brutaka #mata nui #tahu

[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

[toaarcan]

Bionicle Ask (with no heed to what you've answered before):

A33

B22

C11

A33: Favourite element?

I'm a secondary-elements guy myself, with Gravity, Magnetism, and Psionics all rating pretty highly, but I think the overall winner is (unsurprisingly) Plasma.

I like the idea of star-nuke-Toa that shoot lasers and wield lightsabers.

B22: Favourite soundtrack?

Can't go wrong with Movie 2. While I listen to the vocal tracks from later years more, they don't really form a coherent soundtrack without some proper visual media to tie it all together. But Legends of Metru Nui's soundtrack gets me right from the Miramax logo all the way to the credits.

C11: What character should have been given (another) physical set?

I have two answers for this, one for an ideal world, and one for the world we got.

Ideal World example: Teridax. The only set of him we have post in 2006-2009 scale is a possessed robot rather than actually being him, and IMO he deserved something on the scale of 2008 Takanuva and Titan Mata Nui.

On the other hand, it always bothered me that 2004-5 got zero representation in 2010, while we got two 09 sets (both of whom were still on shelves in some places). I recognise that almost every major character from those years was out of action by then, but excuses could've been made. They already had the Ignika devolve Tahu back to a Toa Mata for a 2001 reference, they can have it turn one of the Turaga back into a Toa Metru, or have the Vahi do it with time-wimey bullshit. Or fuck, finally pull the trigger on Toa Ahkmou being a thing after all these years.

#Bionicle #Bonkles #Legends of Metru Nui #Takanuva #Toa Takanuva #Mata Nui #Toa Mata Nui #Teridax #Makuta Teridax #Makuta #Ignika #Toa Ignika #Ahkmou #Toa Ahkmou #Vahi

[herora-nuva]

New video up! This is a headcanon/speculation theory type essay exploring the 3 Legendary Masks of G1. My theory is that the true purpose of the masks was to be used to heal Spherus Magna, by restoring life, creativity, and the flow of time, which had been lost by the explosion of energized protodermis at The Shattering. Lots of personal speculation, but surprisingly backed up by canon, and fixes some issues I’ve personally had with some of the lore. Check it out and let me know what you think!

#bionicle #my videos #youtube #legendary masks #vahi #ignika #mask of creation #kanohi

[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

[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

[sepublic]

I discussed a few ideas briefly, but I want to dive more into the idea of Bitil as the Makuta of the Western Chain of Southern Islands (AKA Mata Nui’s right leg), and how we could work with what we have on him and his domain in canon to reimagine the character as the quintessential Makuta of HIS story, in another reimagining of the Bionicle mythos.

Something I noticed about Bitil is that he is one of the few Makuta whom we know regarding the Rahi he creates; He specializes in insects, which makes him unique since he’s the only Makuta whose appearance in Karda Nui is relevant outside of there. Gorast and Krika aren’t known to make insects, nor are Antroz or Chirox reputed for constructing bats; But Bitil is an insect.

What are insects? Things of many; Many eyes, limbs, eggs, in other words themselves. Small and puny and insignificant on their own, but we know plenty of how insects can swarm to become much more than the sum of their parts. Bitil is also like this; He’s a fairly puny Makuta compared to the rest, but his Mohtrek allows him to summon several of his past selves to even the odds. On his own, Bitil isn’t much, but with himself...!

And his domain also continues that motif; It’s a bunch of small islands, considered barren and worthless by Kalmah and Bitil. A bunch of smaller things coming together to be more; Isn’t that what Lego is all about? So just as Teridax represents the parts bin, Bitil and his story may be about the nature of Lego as a building element that combines... This can go hand-in-hand with the concept of Kaita and other combiners, which was more prevalent in the early years of Bionicle that these reimaginings are aiming to take cues from.

Additionally, Bitil’s domain is an island chain; A bunch of smaller landmasses in a larger ocean, just like the region Polynesian and Maori culture originated from. And since those cultures influenced Bionicle’s early years a lot, one could return to that vibe, with consultation from actual Polynesian writers and artists. Bitil’s bug motif may not just be for the sake of “more than the sum of its parts” either, we could also take it literally and make the protagonists and bestiary bug-themed, like Hollow Knight for example! 

Again, the Vahi plays a bigger role here; It was one of the first masks ever designed for Bionicle, in fact it may have even been THE first (that was brought into the final product) I believe... Our big bad, Makuta, is a being who uses the power of time to summon echoes of his past selves, creating a clear line of progression for the audience to keep track of. He may want the Vahi to boost his powers, and/or it’s a way to counteract Makuta’s time-bending abilities.

In addition to Hollow Knight vibes, we might also take a bit from, say, Pikmin; Again, another game about lots of tiny little guys coming together to defeat their larger foe. The protagonists encourage the Southern Islands, normally disparate and minding their own business, to band together to rise against Makuta; On their own, maybe they ARE nothing. But together they’re so much more than Makuta! And Makuta, his group solidarity is really just himself; An echo chamber that is unequipped against a far more diverse group.

I also think it’d be cool to explore another post I brought up, involving Bitil’s past self being horrified by the person he becomes... Imagine a storyline where Makuta has this prisoner named Bitil, whom he tries to impress and convince. Bitil, who is isolated from the rest of the world, reflects on his own past and history... And the big twist comes when the viewer finds out that Bitil was summoned from the distant past, and Makuta is in fact the being he will become. 

Bitil in G1 has a major inferiority complex and thinks everyone’s out to get him, hence his bad lot in life, when in reality it’s because he’s incompetent and there isn’t much to him. So we can play up the jealousy angle for Makuta here, and how he still wants approval even from himself in a sense.

As I said, the Mohtrek showing successive versions of Bitil could also connect to the idea of the evolution of Lego and a MoC, how you upgrade and change it constantly; So there can be a discussion of transformation, which is topical to bugs who are known for their pretty extensive metamorphosis. Perhaps Makuta is a being who regularly undergoes metamorphosis, indecisive about the form he takes; But this just makes him stronger, since when summoning past selves, he has even more to choose from!

He’s constantly evolving, hoping to reach a perfect version… but maybe there isn’t a perfect version, maybe creativity, diversity, is the spice of life! Makuta’s group is monotonous, the protagonists’ are different. There is no end goal or right way, things keep going, just as time marches on.

Change is probably a big theme, because Lego constantly transforms. Makuta reassembles himself, and since the Vahi has such prevalence, let’s thrown in some time shenanigans too; Like time travel or time loops, temporal distortions bring echoes of the past that haunt the setting, so perhaps past versions of Makuta each terrorize their own island, tempt people with the nostalgic past or a bright future. The Vahi is necessary to seal the holes in time that allow Makuta to summon long-extinct monsters and other threats, sending them back to where they belong, fixing events left unfulfilled, and repair time before it collapses.

Makuta may hope to exploit the stream of time to summon from the future, too… Eventually reaching the ‘end of time’ he believes in. And there’s a time limit for our heroes, since the longer Makuta exists, the more past selves he has to summon. In the end, Makuta puts up a big fight by combining all of his past selves into a massive kaita, necessitating our protagonists to form their most ambitious one yet. There could be a twist about time travel akin to the Masks of Power: Legacy fan game, like maybe the Toa were summoned from the past or future, and the Turaga are themselves from another point in time.

I don’t think we’d have the Great Spirit Robot twist, but maybe there’s an homage such as… A giant mountain island that resembles the bent knee of a Titan, referencing Bitil’s domain in G1 being the right leg of Mata Nui. This could be Makuta’s lair.

I guess the story could be described as… Ocarina of Time x Hollow Knight x Pokemon Gen 7. Maybe Pokemon Gen 8 too, based on what I’ve heard about Paradox pokemon.

#bionicle #Bitil #Makuta #brotherhood of makuta #Mohtrek #vahi #kanohi

[matau-the-228th]

The red figure seen watching the Matoran from atop the hills and mountains of Mata Nui has been present since we first set foot on the island.

I have often seen him on the cliff above the Hall of Records in Po-Koro. I swear his armor looks shinier each time I see him, like it's slowly getting newer, somehow.

At first, some of us thought him to be one of the strange new types of Rahi that we have encountered here. Others thought that he was One of the Six Spirit Toa from the stories the Rahaga tell around the meeting-fire.

Rahaga Nokama has assured us that we would know when the Six Toa destined for our Island would arrive, and that this being was not one of them.

The Kai-Wahi Guard were never able to catch up to him. It was Kapura, of all people, who got the closest to him, but the red being still got away from him. Vakama just said Kapura had to practice more, whatever that means.

Whoever he is, he has not reappeared recently, ever since our newest Matoran, Takua, had been named my assistant and the new Chronicler.

Still, I feel as if he is here, watching us. Watching me.

...Even though I know he is not.

#Toa Kapura #bionicle #my art #bionicle au #kapura #mahiano #Kanohi Kakama #Kanohi Vahi

[krsnaradhika]

Quick note : Hindus did not demolish the Babri masjid. We deconstructed it. There's a difference in there. The report of KK Mohammad Sir and he himself in multiple interviews say that he stands with the OGness of Rama Lalaa on his birthplace. The mosque very much did have temple remains and the appearance of Rama Lalaa in there wasn't a right-wing move. The supreme court of India has anyway given land for the mosque at some distance from the janmabhoomi so it's a win-win for both the communities now ig. All the butthurt people crying over the deconstruction should also note that Rama Lalaa isn't some non-violence icon of our religion so kindly shut up. Saying that - "He wouldn't have wanted the temple because a mosque stood there once and y'all broke it" is plain stupidity because he himself said - "Janani janmabhoomishcha swargaadapi gariyasi." Both his mother and his motherland are more dear to him than any heaven. Shri Rama did hold up weapons in the favour of what is right when fighting numerous demons and proceeded to threaten the ocean into drying it lest it doesn't heed to him, after a three day penance. The prev governments here were very minority appeasing. One of them even got as far as to saying Shri Rama was fictional when we have plenty evidences of him being a venerated ancestor of ours. All of them fell on their fours when Rama Lalaa won his case in the supreme court. They don't give a shit about the majority sentiments here being oppressed (Hindus have a history of being oppressed even when we're in majority, in our homeland. Are we debating on that now? Oml). Babar should not have done what he did, so yeah like Hindus were just taking back what is rightfully ours. (For the sake of secularism and brotherhood, shouldn't they be understanding our sentiments as well? It has to go both ways, no?) We have been waiting for around 500 years for our god to come back to a palace from a tent and the pseudo-liberal meltdowns are personally very enjoyable to me. You should prolly save those tears for Mathura and Kashi case too. Ram mandir kisi ke baap ke paison se bana nahi hai. Hindus contributed to it. Temple towns were a thing in ancient India, still many of them exist in the south because the north has suffered voraciously due to invasions, never forget. No tax money has been used in the construction of the Rama temple. Hope that helps.

#hindublr #ramablr #i love seeing the left having meltdowns lmao #cry all you want #par mandir toh vahi bana hai 😊