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Turaga Onewa: "We know nothing of this illness, how long it might last, or where it comes from. Left unattended, I fear the Madness..."

Takua: Is that why the Agori are fighting over toilet paper?

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Keeping the Faith

Prior to the Core War the Elemental Lords were essentially the god-kings of the various Agori tribes. The entire planet went to war on the orders of these few beings and there was no indication in the lore that they shared power or even received council from their own people. Their power over their respective kingdoms was, in all likelihood, absolute.

Chances are, they began to believe their own hype and demanded tribute, or even worship from their people. Food, artwork, precious metals, and even the blood and lives of their own people, or their enemies. These were brutal old gods, their favor and access to their element and powers could only be bought by fear and worship.

Even when they largely retreated to fight over the power of the maze after the shattering, they probably still demanded and received tribute from what remained of their people. Most of the Agori and Glatorian were hanging on to life by a thread, and investing what little they had curring the favor to someone who could bring water or quell the sandstorms would be an attractive option.

After Mata Nui swiped power from under the noses of the Elemental Lords, battled an evil god in a giant robot body, and fixed the world. His broken body leaks out millions of new people, some of whom have all the powers of the elemental lords. New religions have been started on far less...

Most of the Elemental Lord cults begin transferring worship to the sleeping Mata Nui, and to his saints/servants/acolytes the Toa. While used to being beloved by their Matoran, the Toa are probably very confused and uncomfortable with the thought of being religious icons or lesser gods.

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Agori Cult: “Oh great Toa, please accept our tribute and spare us from your holy wrath for another season.”

Bo-Toa: *Opening door and shaking fist.* “You guys again? Seriously, stop bringing me all these goats! You could just ask me if you need help with your crops, I already told you I’d help you, it’s my job. And stop jamming my Suva full of gold and jewels! Do you know how long it takes me to clean it out? And you! With the liquor bottle! Don’t even think about pouring it out on my garden again, it’s killing all my flowers!”

#bionicle #vakama #mata nui #headcanon #silly headcanon #new atero #onewa #glatorian #agori

Self Care is Getting Bitch Slapped by God

Vakama is a worrier by nature, from his time as a mask maker through his Turaga years. He’s an anxious mess even after his ego and confidence even out a bit after the Visorak debacle. It only gets worse during his time as a Turaga, he’s just spent too many years on the defensive, keeping his people going on the very brink of ruin and death at the hands of Teridax. That anxiety, coupled with his raging case of untreated PTSD did him no favors.

Keeping Toa (Death-Wish) Tahu alive and steering the walking chaos factory that is Takua in the right direction just about did him in.

Sleep, food, everything not devoted to keeping his people safe was thrown by the wayside for over a thousand years. Now he has to help direct and care for not only all the residents evacuated from the GSR, but all the Spherus Magna residents that moved into New Atero.

They have so little time to organize and build a city, and the initial shortage of infrastructure and food puts everyone at risk of growing ill or starving. The rising threat of the Skakdi, Bone Hunters, Skrall, Dark Hunters, and even rogue Great Beings weighs heavily on him as well.

No Pressure

By week six Vakama is a wreck, running from meeting to meeting running on nothing but the Matoran equivalent of coffee and a continual panic attack. It’s gotten so bad that even Onewa’s Komau can’t cut through the fog and force him to lie down and rest. No amount of convincing from his fellow Turaga, the Toa, or the Agori and Glatorian officials can get him to slow down and rest.

Things get worse and worse, and Vakama looks like he’s going to drop dead from the biomech equivalent of a heart attack. That is until Kiina hears about his previous visions that she has the bright idea to poke a certain sleeping mask with a stick and make some demands.

That week, many new Toa Teams rise suddenly from the ranks of very surprised Matoran, (and a few exceptionally surprised Glatorian!) Shelters go up very quickly with so many new Fe and Po Toa on hand. The first round of planted crops mysteriously mature overnight and new Bo Toa call forth edible vegetation everywhere around the city.

Later that same week Vakama has a vision wherein he meets his maker.

Mata Nui appears in all his golden glory and promptly tells Vakama that his god commands him to go and get some f@#*ing sleep. And maybe eat something. And have a bath. Look, just, take care of yourself for once. Seriously, we’re all worried about you, yes, even me. Yes, I’ll let you know if something is going to happen, just go lie down me dammit.

Vakama wakes up a day later in bed, slightly bewildered and much more rested. The others, including Mata Nui, do more to take more of the work and regularly force their favorite Turaga to take it a bit easy.

#bionicle #headcanon #agori #glatorian #toa #ehlek #the order of mata nui

Merfolk

Agori and Glatorian sailors used to travel the seas on living ships. Doubtless like any sailing culture they would have developed legends of a people living under the waves, living in a wondrous undersea kingdom. Some may have told legends of friendly merfolk who aided lost sailors, and others of deadly and beautiful creatures luring sailors to their doom.

And with the formation of new Spherus Magna, those people suddenly exist!

Certainly Gali and the other Ga-Matoran and Toa (and Toa Mahri) dwell on the ocean as sailors do, and a few can breath underwater. But none of the beautiful water maidens live under the sea full time as the sailors dreamed.

However, Ehlek’s species now dwelling in the oceans, and probably building that aquatic utopia. No one mistakes them for beautiful sea maidens, The Order “upgraded” their species with wicked claws, super strength, and a predisposition for killing Makuta, but they’re probably friendly or neutral with the sailors that pass through their waters. As long as no-one overfishes their territory or out-and-out hunts them they’re probably good neighbors of the sea.

Clever sailors probably start trading relationships with them, bringing items like fruit and tools that they can’t normally get in the sea. In return, they’ll trade fish or rarer items like pearls and pretty shells. Some of them might even announce their presence to sailors by singing, though their voices aren’t so lovely or deadly as that of a siren.

And many of the pit prisoners who are now amphibious might have fled back to the oceans to hide from potential jailers. Sailors quickly learn to be wary of any seafolk that appear that aren’t covered in spines and whistling a friendly tune. These outlaws will often raid ships, rising up from the ocean without warning to kill and steal whatever goods they can before diving back into the ocean without a trace. Until The Order of Mata Nui can hunt them down, sailors may encourage the friendly merfolk or a local Toa to accompany their ships on voyages.

After all, who among us wouldn’t like to pass a long voyage trading sea shanties with a mermaid?

Anonymous asked:

i'm not sure if we know of any actual mechanism controlling what qualifies as "destiny" in the great spirit robot, but if the great spirit robot is destroyed does that mean all toa on spherus magna (mahri, nuva, hagah, lesovikk, etc) can never fulfill their destinies and thus can never become turaga?

The best headcanons by the fandom that I’ve seen on this site postulate that Destiny is a predetermined programmed directive imparted to beings in the GSR either by the Great Beings or by the Great Spirit. Essentially the overarching programming directive/destiny was to reform Spherus Magna but the Great Spirit could program in specific short and long term directives/destiny into individual beings as needed.

However, post Awakening everyone became sentient and didn’t necessarily fulfill their destiny due to free will. Vakama said that Destiny was not set in stone, which can mean either that a being could chose their own Destiny or they could chose one of many paths to achieve the one they were programmed with.

You’re right in that the true nature of Destiny is probably going to change or be shut down post-migration. What we do know is that Mata Nui downloaded what is essentially a huge software (everyone from the GSR now speaks Agori) and hardware update (for those beings who became amphibious or unmutated).

Because Mata Nui was aware of how damned dangerous things still were for everyone, he’d probably use the final update to rewrite each Toa’s Destiny, and that of Matoran who will likely become Toa accordingly. Instead of an end goal, he might have programmed in that a Toa should protect all people until they were too old or too wounded to continue, or that after after a particularly epic or stressful battle they could chose Turaga retirement.

Even though Mata Nui is now “dormant”, he might actually be semi-aware enough to check on things now and again and release Destiny patch updates as needed. He’s playing possum to make sure no one try’s to put him in charge again, since that was a bit of a disaster the first go around. However, he’s going to keep tabs on things to help the new mixed society flourish.

#bionicle #ask #destiny #mata nui #matoran #toa #agori #spherus magna

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inspired by a post i saw somewhere but cant find :V

#bionicle #ussal #matoran #agori #art #awww

#bionicle #headcanon #agori #new atero #forensics is a tough gig #trigger warning

Detective and forensic investigator must have been the worst jobs to have in the GSR robot. No-one leaves fingerprints, most bodies seem to be transported to the Red Star shortly after death (AKA claimed by or returned to the Great Beings), and while there is apparently a protodermic version of DNA there does not seem to be the technology to read it. By the time any investigator can get on scene the body is usually gone and the only evidence of any deceased Matoran is the mask they left behind.

The fact that Agori don’t disappear when they die means that the Matoran detective community is in for a bit of a shock when they start work in New Atero.

Agori Detective: “The body is over there. It looks like it might have been a mob hit, he was one of our informants.”

Matoran Detective: “What do you mean there’s a body?”

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Who ended up teaching Lewa the Agori language

Probably Onua, now that I think about it. But Lewa probably showed off to his teammates, because they learned it the bogus magic way and he was learning it the hard way, so it’s way more impressive

I get the feeling Lewa would love some parts of Agori culture, such as the whole children thing. They’re like the Le-Koro villagers but without jobs, so they can play all day :uuuuuuuuu

I bet he works in some manner of childcare in his off time, and he is great at it

Him learning the language the hard way probably left him with an atrocious accent. Between that, the speed at which he speaks, and his tendency to add in tree-speak, Agori hard time understanding him.

The Agori and Glatorian parents catch on quickly to the notion of free childcare by a being fully capable of curb stomping an army. He’s probably not good with infants and toddlers, but as soon as the kids are old enough to keep up they’re allowed to stay with Uncle Lewa when their parents are at work.

I disagree about him not being good with infants and toddlers, because I can think of no other Toa more qualified for playing peekaboo for nine hours straight with a constant level of enthusiasm throughout

Napping might be an issue until you consider Le-Koro was big on music, and maybe he knows some quiet songs/tunes to play on some kind of instrument. Or, he could probably get Onua to deal with all the rocking cribs and boring stuff like that

The finest babysitting duo the world has ever seen

Lewa may be the undisputed peakaboo king, but I can’t imagine him willingly changing diapers or keeping the babies on any sort of coherent feeding or sleep schedule. Though if Onua is there to help then without doubt they are the finest babysitting duo on all of Spherus Magna.

#bionicle #lewa #onua #agori #glatorian #babies #headcanon

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After Journey’s End, how long do you think it took to convince the Matoran that destined Agori don’t become Glatorian, and there really are no Agori equivalents to a Turaga, just old people and Agori that are leaders of villages

Maybe no one thought to tell them until after the first search for the Turaga-Agori was conducted, or after someone asked Ackar when was he going to become a Turaga

#bionicle #headcanon #agori #glatorian #interesting

Rumors spread among the Agori that anyone who can get past the Order guards and touch his mask will be granted their own Toa powers. Over the millenia a few do sneak in close enough to touch the Mask of Life, and always to disastrous results. Still, the rumors persists and there are always those who seek power...

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Who ended up teaching Lewa the Agori language

I get the feeling Lewa would love some parts of Agori culture, such as the whole children thing. They’re like the Le-Koro villagers but without jobs, so they can play all day :uuuuuuuuu

I bet he works in some manner of childcare in his off time, and he is great at it

#bionicle #headcanon #agori #children #lewa #awwww

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Berix was apparently at some point aspiring to fight in the arena one day. I wonder what became of that

There’s also the fact he had to “patch himself up a few times” after people beat him up for stealing, which according to BS01 was often just him scavenging and people suspecting him of stealing. Maybe he figured fighting in the arena would either help him learn to defend himself or get him some respect so they stop picking on him. Poor guy

I hope that, while Ackar was training everyone in TLR, he trained Berix too. Though it seems like Agori aren’t often taught combat stuff without being backed up by a Glatorian or with the use of a vehicle (from what I can remember, there were no Agori matches, only Agori in vehicles or Agori teamed with Glatorian). Let him fight

I’d like to see him applying some of his medical knowledge to mess somebody up.

Berix becomes a master fighter who specializes in nerve blows. He knows just which gaps in the armor to jab to render a larger opponent immobile and in screaming agony. He ends up being one of the few beings to beat Skrall warriors in combat, and the only one to do it in a single blow, but since that fight took place away from the villages during one of his scavenging trips no one believes him.

He probably helps his Glatorian friends recover from combat with acupuncture and physical therapy. Ackar swears his old joints have never been better but Kiina refuses to try it.

#bionicle #berix #agori #ackar #kiina

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#bionicle #agori #smol hero

Berix was apparently at some point aspiring to fight in the arena one day. I wonder what became of that

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Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

This post is talking about death and babies. The information presented is not graphic or sensational but consider yourselves warned. The first half of this post is death, the second half is happy babies.

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Kopaka’s scientific curiosity means he takes something of an interest in Agori biology, but not to the point where he’d actually bother to talk to an expert or ask questions or try to find out anything he couldn’t teach himself by observation.

Kopaka initially not understanding why it might not always be appropriate to use the Akaku for these observations.

Kopaka causing a very awkward incident when he -very bluntly and very publically- tried to warn an Agori that she had a repulsive parasitic organism growing inside her.

Kopkaka’s helpfulness being rewarded by him being dragged along to one of Gali’s midwifery classes.

#bionicle #the RBBB post #agori #babies #headcanon #toa nuva

Kopaka’s face when he has to watch a birthing video! And as punishment for his callous actions he is forced to learn to change diapers.

Honestly, I would pay good money for a fanfiction where all the Toa have to go through midwife and child care classes. As first responders to emergency situations they would need this kind of training.

Lewa, just pawns off the kids on Onua when they need a diaper change.

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#bionicle #awesome art #omfg #headcanon accepted #ignika #axonn #brutaka #agori

I was thinking about, after the reformation of Spherus Magna, Matoran Universe species adopting children so there are all these kids with loving cyborg families

Then I wondered whether or not anyone felt the need to have a Very Serious Conversation with their child to let them know they were adopted. Thanks parent, I had no idea that I, a squishy flesh creature, was biologically unrelated to you, a giant mostly mechanical being who can shoot flames from their hands

This is a sort of continuation of this, wherein immediately after Mata Nui went back to sleep the Ignika took over again to make new friends and eat burgers, and Axonn and Brutaka are tasked with guarding him. Also in that old picture I forgot Mata Nui fixed up Brutaka so he’s amphibious now and thus does not need the water helmet. Whoops