Helryx, the Disturbingly Frail (Canon Contest #1 | The First)

And I was having fun too, I voted for Hoseryx in the earlier polls, because it was funny, but I could never think that it was gonna win

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I thought it was lowered to 30 minutes?

He doesnā€™t even have 30. I said 35 because thatā€™s the number he posted.

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Ah, no worries. I was just a bit confused is all.

In my opinion, many people who claim that Hoseryx is the one that ā€œfits the description the mostā€ are wrong. Sheā€™s described as fragile, not thin. Something fragile is something easily breakable, like a very damaged armor, not something necessarely thin, and something thin is not always fragile (for example a knife or a flexible tube). To me, she doesnā€™t appear fragile, but just thin and flexible. However, thatā€™s just a personal opinion.

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My problem with that reasoning though is that a lot of the time when people were complaining about frail not meaning thin, they then turned around and insisted that she had to look like a seasoned/imposing warrior, which of course had to look like X. It works the same way in both directions, and hell to me something unusual like hoseryx fits the theme exactly. Sheā€™s frail, interesting, and the art has certainly made her disturbing and imposing, but not in those traditional ways per se.

Each to their own as always, but the Bionicle fandom Iā€™ve felt for a while has a similar issue to the Transformers one, where odder and more interesting takes on designs are disliked because this other one is larger and more built out so it must be cooler!

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I think she is interesting as a concept, not as a MOC. Iā€™d rather see @Risebellā€™s revamp (for example) of Hoseryx than the originalā€¦ thing

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I swear to god, these audits better bring the numbers down to below #2

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I voted for this a few days ago and now it seems like my access to the poll is gone. Anyone have the same thing happen??? I donā€™t know if it means my vote is rescinded.

dude, chill. thereā€™s no need to bring the salt into the MOCā€™s topic.

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Donā€™t act like people were not also making alt accounts to vote for #2

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Congrats. Well deserved. Have you seen some of the fanart you inspired? This is my favorite.

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Dude this is really rude and off topic. Youā€™ve had exceedingly poor behavior about this whole thing : (

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It really is unfortunate how many people here are so desperate to reassure themselves it didnā€™t or canā€™t actually win. Itā€™s poor sport.

Anyways, Iā€™m really looking forward to all of the new fanart that comes from this. A lot of it is already really killer.

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I canā€™t tell whether this post aged poorly or aged well.

They closed the polls at 1am this morning

Yes but I came back to this today, I voted on this like Thursday or Friday I think, and I canā€™t find the poll now. Shouldnā€™t it show up still if I voted in it?

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https://board.ttvchannel.com/t/poll-doce/53527/776

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also, to give my 2 cents on the MOC here,

I unironically really like it as an abstract art piece. the level of emaciation given to the moc, along with the unorthodox use of the zamor launcher hoses is nice and feels like an intentional design choice.

It feels like this thing had intent behind it, as opposed to just being a ā– ā– ā– ā–  post MOC done as a meme.

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unironically Iā€™ve never seen a MOC built like this, most ā€œjokeā€ MOCs Iā€™ve seen are like unarmored CCBS skeletons

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