Wait wait wait - you figured out an elbow construction with that piece this quickly? 
Took me months to think of using it.
(Upper arm is not final)
(Upper arm is not final)
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I really like your Moc but I must emphasise that Lariska is described as having teal armour not teal skin. Your moc by including teal in the “antlers” etc and having black on top of the teal parts makes it seem like teal skin. Still a fantastic moc though!
Edit: panda mentioned a good point, isn’t Lariska supposed to look “normal” faced? Idk.
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I dunno why, but that MOC’s head just spells HORSE to me. I still like it though!
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Actually, lifted it from someone else’s Lariska from years ago xD:
Side note: I love the head design you’ve gone for. I’m not sure why so many of us collectively decided Lariska should have a snout, but it works.
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In the Bionicle story, these two are basically interchangeable. Basically any hard outer covering is referred to as armour.
It gets tricky because this armour is part of their construction.
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Yeah, basically this. Skin doesn’t really exist in Bionicle, everything that’s not organic tissue is basically armor to some degree. Also, of course, large teal parts are scarce and distributing the colour over the entire MOC adds to the overall look, in my opinion.
Personally I imagine her body-armor colour to be teal and black, and over that she wears a bit of additional black armor for stealth purposes.
Well, I’m coming from the direction of for the longest time automatically imagining Lariska as a “not-Vortixx”. So I kinda wanted to get a rough resemblance in, while at the same time making her look noticeably different. Vortixx have a snout, so my Lariska got one, too. Also helps making her look unique. The last thing I want is a teal Toa without a mask.
I should probably at some point take a picture of the head next to a Vahki head in profile. The resemblance is there.
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