Alright, here’s a side-view of the head. Without the whips, you could basically look through it above the front of the eyes.
Aside from that - tools.
Options are either a cane or a wicked sword at this point, I guess. Though I’d probably modify the sword handle a bit. He can barely hold it.
Opinions?
You could always have the cane as his main tool and then have the sword attached to his leg under the cloak like Zhun’s daggers.
Canes seem a bit out of place in Bionicle, even though the fit goes hard. But that blade looks really good with him. I’d go with the sword.
Maybe, in fact, both:
But I don’t think I’ll include a storage position for the sword. On Zhun it works because his blades are rather small and his cloak very voluminous. Here, I’m not sure if it would look good. And with the updated sword build, I don’t have a good connection point on it, either.
So, continuing with staking out Mangiru. Making the four arms work will be a bit of trouble, because due to the large hands I feel like the upper pair should be usable, i.e. they need to be poseable downwards without messing with the lower pair.
And the blue on the legs does stick out quite a bit. Maybe I’ll use light gray pinaxles there. Those would still stick out, but not as bad.
For quick comparison, @darkbrick999 's MoC:
This was a wild and wacky one for sure. The original proportions feel like some sort of ancient god you would sacrifice the neighbor’s children to in order to ensure your crops prospered. I don’t know how I feel about the Mata feet embedded in the wings, but the position of the wings does look good.
Best way to counteract the light grey pinaxles would be to scatter some other small light grey pieces throughout the moc, like how the original uses spacers of various sizes in the legs and hips.
You could also replace the blue pinaxles with a 2l axle and a thin 2l liftarm, though that would leave a gap between the liftarm and the ball socket.
Edit: Something like this?
Honestly, I might actually just go for the axles and let those stick out a bit. Looking at the leg build again, the parts are not actually holding anything that would otherwise not be attached, so a pin hole-axle connection should do the job.
the yearly check in has not disappointed. fantastic work as per usual!
Very nice! The builds also seem to be pretty accurate. Great job there.
It already looks like there are so many of them, but in fact it’s just over a quarter of the total number. I really want to see all 100 in one spot some day…
I’m planning to take a group shot next summer as well. Then I’ll have at least 25 of them in the same spot (my MOC storage is still at my parents’ house)
The first shot is also real nice (although Kraiden’s eyes are not glowing 
).
It also sticks out to me, though, that with the glowing eye effect (especially on the second shot), the custom heads do not look quite as good in several cases. Makes me wonder if I should put some more thought especially into brows in the future
Technically they are, I just messed up and forgot to make the visor piece inside the mask transparent so you can’t see them.
Looking forward to adding Mangiru once he’s done!
Progress on Mangiru - presently not happy with the colour distribution. I think it’s either too much yellow on the torso or not enough on the limbs. But I’m inclined to say it’s the former.
Those Mata necks come in yellow too, so that’s a potential option for the thighs and wings.
Yeah, I have… 2. But I think I’ll reduce the yellow here. On Mangiru, it’s an accent colour. And if memory serves, I have at least 3 Makuta up ahead that use yellow as a primary/secondary colour. I need to save some yellow parts in preparation 
CANE SWORD!
I actually have one of those..
So, I spent a lot of time redoing Mangiru’s upper torso a couple times. I think I like it now. But gotta see again in a week or so.
My current thought is that the upper arms (of the upper pair) need something more. Not yet sure what.
Hm… just a few switcharounds, but the arm on the right looks better with more black, right? I think I’ll switch out the blue pinaxle for a grey one, though.
I also think some yellow minifig hands in the pinholes of the Mata foot might not look bad. Unfortunately, I don’t have any here, so I guess this is it until I buy some parts again.
If memory serves you can clip them onto the piston on the foot piece as well.
