Hello I was wondering about the applications of the Kanohi Tryna and I wonder what is your opinions on these application ideas I have.
First is a Tryna user animating dead plants. While plants don’t normally move we have seen some plants in the MU do move and even it is just a plant corpse it was alive at some point in the past so it should qualify as a target for this mask’s power.
Next is Rahkshi armor. While it is armor it did used to be a living kraata so that should count.
Next are the Bohrok. Yes they are robots but once again they did used to be alive. Also due to how they work now technically this could possibly the only kind of reanimated entity that can use their elemental powers since their power isn’t derived from their spirit since they don’t have one anymore.
Next is combining the dead and reanimating it. I do not mean like a kaita but more like adding or switching pieces. I am not sure if the pieces need to be connected before being reanimated, touching each other, or simply being in a close proximity to each other but since Matoro’s use of the mask showed corpses reassembling themselves this alternative use should be possible.
So what do you think of these possible applications of the Kanohi Tryna?
A Tryna animating dead plants is theoretically possible. It’s hard to tell exactly how the Tryna reanimates the dead, and the method used would determine what else can be done with it. If it resurrects the organic matter, then yes; if it resurrects only the mechanical components, then no.
Rahkshi armor is a different story. Protodermis is a weird and wacky thing, but when it changes forms it does so decidedly. Insomuch as the Bohrok are no longer Av-Matoran despite their origin as such, the Rahkshi armor are no longer Kraata. This is not so much death in expiring of life As it is death by transformation, and it seems unlikely a Tryna user could wrestle control away from the Kraata piloting it.
As for combining the dead, it’s not that simple. Bionicle characters in the story do not snap together with a universally interchangeable system like they do in the sets, and what works for Tahu likely does not work exactly the same way for Gali or Kopaka. If beings could mix and match their limbs at the joint, we probably would’ve seen it happen in canon at some point, but that’s much more a Galidor thing and less a Bionicle one.
That is true but remember these are corpses being connected together not pieces of living characters so factors such as biological function or how it would affect their powers are no longer issues that need to be considered.
In 03 Takua renoved his yellow feet and replaced them with blue ones. Kopeke and Piatra also change colours.
I think mixing limbs with a tryna would work, but it wouldn’t be as simple as “revive this dead guy with no arms, and give him the arms of this other dead guy”. You would still need to attach the arms somehow, and unless you can reconnect the muscle tissue, you’ll have to control the arms individually. Though we see that Matoro is able to revive a bunch of beings at once, so it would be doable.
Edit: just noticed this from Into the Darkness:
“Other pieces of armor were rising up through the layers of mud, struggling to rejoin the rest.”
It seems the tryna is capable of reassembling the body. Whether that means you could reassemble it with other parts is unclear.
While this is true, it is comparable to trying to randomly connect pieces of real world machinery together. You’d need to redesign the attachment points if you wanted them to actually adhere to one another, and there’s no guarantee that any two beings in the MU have joints that operate the same way, given the extremely wide variations in body size, limb type, and proportional anatomy.
That was the Turaga’s doing, and they mechanically upgraded all the Matoran. This is more comparable to the Glatorians augmenting their bodies over time, except the Matoran are mostly mechanical and as such can augment their bodies to a much greater extent.
The Tryna is capable of reassembling the body in the same capacity that the Toa Mata reassembled themselves. Even without structural muscle, they mentally controlled their detached limbs to return to their bodies; it’s likely Matoro was simply triggering the same function in the alternate Tuyet’s corpse.