The Kanohi that the Toa Mahri wear are pretty cool. Well, except for those weird silver tubes, considering they aren’t necessary for water breathing. As part of my “Build-a-Toa” project, I made my own stylized variants of the Mahri masks. So, without further ado, here they are!
These are just drafts, so constructive criticism is encouraged! (Also, sorry no Tryna. Being a mask that normal toa wouldn’t wear it’s not included in the “Build-a-Toa” project.)
Well, they aren’t supposed to look too terribly different, the idea would be to keep their identity while removing those annoying tubes, and making them a tad more metal looking instead of plastic.
Yeah, and it made the Kaukau irrelevant too. I like to think of the Kaukau allowing you to breathe with no oxygen around, not just underwater, to compensate for that story change. That way wearing a Kaukau could let you survive poisonous gas, which honestly fits better than just being able to breathe underwater.
Apparently, the tubes weren’t what made them able to breathe underwater, it was their biology. The tubes were literally just there because they looked cool (well, SOMEONE thought they did, I sure don’t).
Well, they do look cool. My gripe is that they kinda get in the way and seem unnecessary, and when it was revealed that they were, in fact, unnecessary, it sorta cemented my dislike of them.
These do look good, but if you wanna remove the tubing, then some of the apparatus looking stuff shoulda left as well, most notable on the Volitak.
…Unless you’re looking for some sort of breathing mask-look like Psycho Mantis, in that case it’s cool.
I wanted to keep their silhouettes while changing their aesthetics. The Volitak kinda looks lame without the distinct parts jutting off from the left and bottom right. Being a mask of stealth, and therefore allowing you to be silent, the whole gas-mask thing just seemed to fit the aesthetic.
