And since this is a Bionicle headcanon topic, I’ve come up with a headcanon of my own to explain his existence.
This Ga-Matoran hails from the Matoran Civil War. Because it was the MU belief that females were of more gentle kind, Ga-Metru decided to produce few Ga-Matoran with male programming. This was done to avoid being at a disadvantage as the only 100% female faction in the otherwise all-male war conflict. These male Ga-Matoran were intended as fighters, but after the war was over, they turned to study in hopes of integrating into the traditional science-oriented Ga-Metru society.
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That would be amazing to see in the story.
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What if Tuyet didn’t kill those three Matoran in The Many Deaths Of Toa Tuyet? My idea is that the Order Of Mata Nui framed Tuyet for the murders as an excuse to imprison her without drawing suspicion from anyone else interested in the Nui Stone. Keep in mind that the Order interrogated Tuyet about the Stone even after they removed the shards; she knew something about its origins, so the Order would have been interested in her even before the shards ended up in her armour.
This isn’t a “theory”, so much as an alternate exanation, since it explicitly contradicts Tuyet’s internal flashback in Reign Of Shadows in which she admits (to the reader) that she killed those Matoran, but this internal monologue is the only thing that would need to be changed to make my theory canon compliant (as far as I know).
The advantage I see in my explanation is that it makes Tuyet’s character much more complex. As it stands with current canon, she has potential to be a great anti-hero/morally gray character who does questionable things for good reasons, but that complexity kind of goes out the window when the first thing she does is murder three completely innocent Matoran for no one’s benefit but her own (and I would argue that even she didn’t benefit from the murders; she could have easily just said the Dark Hunters were after her without manufacturing the “countdown”. At that point, she was just killing for fun which, again, kind of ruins the potential moral complexity of her character).
The other advantage is that it makes the Order’s actions make more sense; as I said above, they were clearly interested in Tuyet even before the events in Metru Nui, so why did they wait until she murdered Matoran to do something about it? In fact, why did they care that she murdered those Matoran at all? There are characters that have done far worse without being sent to The Pit. The only rational explanation is that they used the murders as a cover for their true intentions behind imprisoning her, so I’m just going one step further and suggesting that they were proactive about getting that excuse.
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Jerbraz turned invisible after the OOMN started a program aimed at giving members the ability to use kanohi powers without the need to wear a mask
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an interesting topic, i do have a few of my own;
-hewkii and macku are indeed a romantic relationship, and try like hell to make it work after he became a toa.
-some makuta who died before their evolution into gas forms, including the 5 who stood with miserix, were indeed revived on the red star.
-the design of the melding universe teridax is what the main reality teridax looked like when the makuta were still biomechanical
-the golden armor was originally meant for the toa of light, but was redubbed for tahu after the Avohkii was stolen
-the alternate tuyet the order kidnapped from another reality was a heroic version and taking her led that MU to catastrophe
-in the toa empire universe, the rebellion succeeded to overthrow the toa with tuyets death. teridax went rogue again but krika became one of its new leaders
-roodaka was in fact universally hated by all the other vortixx, even before she allied with makuta
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This. This I really like. I would love to see some stories based on this.
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Maybe she once again managed to take over the universe with the Nui Stone, but this time without resorting to killing anyone that looked at her funny.
Basically the same setup as the Toa Empire universe, except without the explicitly evil stuff. I’m thinking she convinced both Lhikan and Nidhiki to join her cause, and then it all falls apart under Nidhiki’s rule after Tuyet disappears.
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its stuff like this that reminds you how messed up and morally questionable the order of mata nui really was, i mean helryx was ready to kill the entire MU just to thwart teridax
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It wasn’t just “Matoran Universe” vs. “screwing over Teridax”. She was also concerned about the actual universe; from Reign Of Shadows:
As leader of the Order of Mata Nui, Helryx had often had to make decisions that sent agents to their deaths. It came with the job. But could she make a decision that would send an entire universe to its grave?
Yes, as it turned out. She could.
Teridax had to be stopped before he killed or enslaved billions of innocents in the universe beyond. She wasn’t certain she could bring him down, but she had to try.
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Premises: almost every time rubber is used in a BIONICLE set, it is used to indicate an organic component. This is true of krana, kraata, Skakdi spines, the Toa Inika’s organic Kanohi, the sea squid, and Thornax fruit. This is not true in the cases of rubber bands (like on the Bohrok), the Zamor launchers, and Jovan’s Kanohi (Jovan’s set appearance is not fully canonical anyways). EDIT: also not true of the Stars Rahkshi spine, but it is clear already that the visual appearance of the Stars is not fully canon.
Headcanon: what if the rubber part of the Zamor launcher does indicate an organic component? Perhaps the launcher uses muscle harvested from a Rahi to actuate the trigger mechanism.
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What if the Piraka were using pieces of their spines to make their launchers
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Or using parts of Zaktan’s spines?
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I’ll raise you one by suggesting that, aside from the absence of Jovan himself, these sets depict Jovan’s team. I also might suggest there was an eighth member who bore the Olmak and wore this mask:
It’s also common community lore that there was a Toa of Plasma on Jovan’s team, so I suggest that this Toa was a Toa of Plasma.
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Is it? I never heard of it, although I do have my own headcanon about a Toa of Plasma being the original Ignika bearer.
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It’s just something I hear a lot.
While I’m here, let me leave another Inika-related headcanon. I think we can accept it as necessarily true that if Matoran transform into their ideal of a Toa when transforming, then it must be the case that the “default” body plan of a Toa evolves over time. Taking this, it must be true that the way that the Toa Metru look, for example, is not necessarily the way the first Toa would have looked. It is also true that when the Toa Inika transformed, they did not transform according to their ideal as Toa, but were transformed according to what was essentially the will of the red star.
My headcanon, then, is that the Toa Inika were transformed according to a more “basal” (to use an evolutionary biology term) blueprint of a Toa. The red star’s Toa creation failsafe would have been programmed directly by the Great Beings (the Kestora could not have programmed it), so it likely would have been designed to create Toa as they were designed by the Great Beings, rather than a more “derived” Toa form. We also know that the original Toa were based on Glatorian, so it makes sense that Inika-style Toa would have the similar long-armed proportions of the Glatorian species. One more piece of evidence comes in the form of Lesovikk - he is a very old Toa whose body is an Inika build. The Toa Mata and Toa Helryx do not have Inika builds because they were essentially prototype Toa. Lesovikk is among the oldest known Toa to have a physical appearance, and would have had a more “standard” creation than Helryx or the Mata. All of that taken together, then, mostly serves to justify the weird long-armed proportions of the Inika build.
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I agree, I think that’s a given.
As to the basal body plan hypothesis, I would like to direct you to this excerpt from the Chronicles of Hahli:
As you can see, it says the Inika armor is unlike any Toa armor seen before them. It is also purposefully designed (presumably by the Great Beings) to contain the “energies of the star” coursing through their new bodies.
Personally, I have never seen any similarities between original Inika and subsequent sets to be literal similar appearances, but a more “free” building style.
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My issue with that is that a) it’s basically the same armor as what Lesovikk (and Jovan, though I conceded his appearance is not fully canon) wore, who came before them and b) how could Hahli have seen the armor of Toa she had never met? To me, because this is a magazine spot, it’s clear that this nod to the armor being unlike any seen before is marketing, emphasizing this all-new look of BIONICLE. In-universe, it’s easily explained as just being outside of her sphere of knowledge.
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Of course it’s part marketing - all of Bionicle story is. But the magazine spot is From the Chronicles of Hahli which is a direct continuation of From the Chronicles of Takua. That is a pure story material, thanks to which we got the Origin of the Rahaga; Beware infected masks and Origin of the Bohrok-Kal. All important sources of information. Like I said the similarity is due to more varied building style, it is not reflected in the story. Otherwise Axonn would be related to the Toa Nuva - another unique armored Toa team.
PS: As a sidenote I never understood why people were saying the designs became repetitive after Inika, when they in fact became more varied than ever before…
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Lesovikk was mutated by the Pit water.
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