This is my bionicle OC. After conceiving the character for a few years I finally typed out a biography for them. They were originally conceived as a toa of lightning but that evolved to psyonics. She exist in an alternate reality of G1, with the main difference of the universe being that the great golden armor was designed for and wielded by takanuva in the battle of bara magna.
I really wish I could do a MOC of her eventually but getting your hands on individual pieces is to tedious and time consuming.
Rinnu was an inquisitive, spirited and passionate individual with a fiery soul. She was known for initial nervousness that soon wore away with familiarity. Even as a matoran she was ever curious, as she actually sought to learn the trades of other matoran tribes; from forging and crafting from the Ta-matoran and Po-matoran to the swimming and translations of ga-matoran and even the ko-matorans charting and sign scouting. While she was not as accustomed to being a toa, or its guidelines, she held her own similar beliefs. Like all toa of psionics, she originally bore yellow and blue armor, though after her hibernation it was left in a rusted, greyed state. Her mask of power, which had been left unfazed, was a silver Kanohi Kakama, granting her great speed. Her unusual situation left her with greatly magnified psionic abilities much greater than others of her kind. Her toa tools were a bladed staff and shield, though in her time with the order of mata nui she had also been trained on many other types of weapons.
Riinu was a matoran of Psionics in the matoran universe, her home being an island between the northern and southern continents. She was secretly spirited away by the order of mata nui and drafted to aid them in their war with the brotherhood of makuta. As they needed her innate skills, she was quickly transformed into a toa and forced through rigorous training. As she was still unaccustomed to the change and her powers, she was put into a hibernation chamber to sleep and subconsciously attune her psionic abilities for when the order needed them.
As the order was busy with their war with the brotherhood, she was forgotten and left unattended for many years. Her hibernation chamber, in that time, was damaged, resulting in her bright armor slipping into a faded and rusted state. Eventually she was freed on Helryx’s order to aid in their war. Though still youthful in personality, her powers had indeed grown powerful and she was thrust into the role of a warrior to use them. However, she quickly grew disillusioned with the orders’ extremism and more underhanded methods, primarily helryx’s morally grey views.
This all came to breaking point after a disastrous mission, in which a matoran life was lost. Helryx wrongly blamed Riinu for the failure, and worse, marked the matoran as a necessary loss. Denouncing the order and their arrogance, she announced her leaving their ranks. Helryx, considering this an insult after how she had chosen riinu and made her a toa, challenged her to a duel. Though helryx was the more skilled and dominated the battle, riinu’s abnormally powerful psionic abilities proved her trump card and overwhelmed her former leader. Denouncing helryx as “an insult and opposite to true toa”, she left the order.
For some time she was left a wandering warrior, doing good and fighting evil where she could. She crossed blades with both the dark hunters and brotherhood many times. She also became known for taking a lone Kikanalo as her steed and companion. She earned a name as a well-regarded toa hero for stationing a force of vahki to protect the matoran settlement after having purged makutas influence from them. She also met the makuta krika in secret multiple times, recognizing his more honorable spirit and urging him to side against the other makuta. She was the only being in the matoran universe saddened by the makuta’s death after learning of it from the toa mata. After Teridax took over the matoran universe, she joined a resistance cell led by Takanuva. Becoming his second in command, they formed a close partnership and friendship through their trials. She did develop something more than admiration for him, possible romantic feelings, but was well aware that their duty forbade it, as well as him being oblivious to them.
She fought at his side loyally through the resistance and later at the battle of bara magna. She fought valiantly, dueling many rahkshi and the skrall warrior Branar in the chaos. Though she was victorious, it was at a cost as her adversary had managed to cleave her mask in half. Left weakened, she still bore witness to takanuva using the golden armor to turn the tide, as well as teridax’s defeat and the reunification of spheres magna. Out of loyalty and friendship, takanuva gave riinu his original Kanohi Avohkii to replace her lost mask, as he now bore the golden Avohkii. Riinu continued to stand by and fight at takanuvas side forever on. After Takanuva was voted the leader of spheres magna, she served as his right hand and council.
Her most notable deed on the new spheres magna was a lone pilgrimage she and her kikanalo took to see the vorox reunited with the larger matoran/agori populace. She succeeded after initiating negotiations with the exiled glatorian malum. She would then go on to form a newer, purer iteration of the order of mata nui, which included malum, the toa mahri, makku and many others to protect peace when and where the toa mata could not, primarily in combatting the rising threat of Velika. Perhaps her only darker impulse was her desire to undermine and thwart any and all ambitions or plans of Helryx on the new world.