#Hypothesis

[justpretendygood]

Now I've joined this party really, very, awfully late, so I'm sure this has been said before. But I need to say it nonetheless.

Their outfirst are essentially made up of the same elements.

I mean, let's see.

• Jacket ✔️

• Waistcoat ✔️

• Shirt thingy ✔️

• Trousers ✔️

• A tie of some sort ✔️

• Belt ❌ – oh but wait. What is a belt maid for? To hold up trousers. So can suspenders be the equivalent of a belt? I think so ✔️

• AND while Azi is sporting a pocket watch, Crowley's got a wristwatch ✔️

Crowley's glasses should probably be mentioned. Other than hiding those serpentine eyes, they're also very good at hiding feelings, eh?

Well, here's Aziraphale's take on that:

Again, somebody probably already posted about this before, or it might just be obvious. Wasn't obvious for me, so enjoy.

[boxturret]

One Tenth Scale Mata Nui

Mata Nui is a cool place, but did you ever feel that it was a bit...big for what it was?

The official maps put the island at 357 kio long, which if you take to be a stand in for kilometres¹, would make the island 357 kilometres long.

This lines up roughly with what we can see in the concept art: they say that Mata Nui is around the size of Denmark, the real measurement being 368km, and it matches with what we see in the Mata Nui Rising cgi video.

So that's all well and good, Mata Nui is 357km long, the GSR itself is 3300km tall, all hunky-dory, as long as you ignore some guy named Greggory yelling about how the robot is actually much bigger, but its fine to ignore him.

But now, actually consider what this means. Denmark is by no means a small country, it has a population of 6 million and would take hours to drive across by car on modern roads. Now that isn't an issue really, but in most media depicting the island its shown to be a place that can be traversed by foot or on animal back in a reasonable time frame.

But now let us look at this earlier map:

Initially the most interesting thing to me on this map was the 3rd measurement: the height of the Mangai volcano²

Now on the one hand, this was cool, now I know how tall to make the volcano, on the other hand... 23km seems pretty big.

It is. 23km is higher than Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system, standing at only 21.9km. So that's pretty big. This made me start thinking about how far various things are apart and how long it would actually take and using some very VERY generous numbers I started plotting out how long it would take to actually get from place to place.

It wasn't very pretty. In the Mata Nui Online Game it would have taken Takua roughly 5 hours to walk from the beach to Ta-Koro, and another 18 to get to Onu-Koro using the highway. Now this would be fine in an epic like Lord of the Rings, but in Bionicle Mata Nui is consistently treated as a place people can pretty quickly get around on.

The Toa are running all over the place and bumping in to each other. Kopaka getting in to the Caldera at the top of the Mangai volcano isn't the equivalent of climbing 3 Mt Everests in a row, its just something he does [correction: It wasn't the caldera, but a lava pool half way up the mountain, so just 1.5 Mt Everests]. Takua travels all over the island in a pretty small amount of time, unless we're supposed to insert day long journeys in between every screen transition.

But then I noticed something. Something very interesting.

Now lets look at the two keys for the sizes on the released and the early map:

Seems pretty consistent, the sizes of the island are the same, a Toa is 1.6 bio on both (incidentally a real Toa figure is approximately 16cm tall), everything seems to match.

But then I counted the zeroes.

The old map has a kio being not 1000 bio, but 100!

You can even see it on the other version of the map.

Now this is incredibly interesting! This shrinks Mata Nui to 1/10th of its commonly accepted size! It goes from being the size of Denmark to being the size of the Isle of Man.

Which....really works a lot better! This turns Takua's trip from the beach from a 5 hour hike to a short half hour walk. This turns the cable car to Mt Ihu from a massive 70km mega structure to something that's dwarfed by real world constructions.

I don't think this is a mistake either, looking at the details of the map.

You have much finer details, such as these ice shelves collapsing in to small icebergs, whereas on the full sized map some of the larger chunks of ice are kilometres across.

One of the major things it includes are the mesas that can bee seen in many of the promotional renders set in Le-Wahi which are nowhere to be seen on the final map. At this 1/10 scale the plateaus seen would match up well with the massive mesas seen in monument valley in terms of size, but with the final size they would be absolutely massive (10 times as big if you can believe it!)

So suffice to say, I don't think this is just a case of a zero being dropped, it really seems to line up with the level of detail on this earlier map.

But what does this do to the GSR? I hear you cry, well it varies. Going by the earlier numbers it would simply be 1/10th the size, so 330km tall instead of 3300km, so still very large, but depending on the size relationship between the robot and the island it could be as "small" as 180km

The island in this picture is roughly the same size as normal, just covers more of the GSR. The final GSR's head is so proportionately tiny compared to its body that the Mata Nui island had to be very small to cover it. But in any case, a robot "only" 180km tall standing up is still going to tower over anything, its many times higher than airplanes fly, its taller than most clouds, really it would be quite consistent with this render:

So, in conclusion, an earlier concept of the island of Mata Nui has it being 1/10 of the size of the final, and that size seems to work better with what we see in various media from the time, and works better with the story.

Personally this is what I'll be going with in terms of the scale of the island going forward, as it really fits with my vision of the setting and works well with all the story and media from that time.

¹-I don't care about someone saying a bio is 4.375966487787¾ feet, feet aren't real and neither are you. ²-Mt Ihu is NOT the highest point on the island, the GSR isn't Pinocchio with a big pointy nose, this has never been reflected in any visual media.

thank you for reading/have a nice day

Update: I have made a companion post with many renders of George visiting places on the island to hopefully better illustrate the scale.

[applysome]

Alex Turner and a Vest

Hypothesis - Alex’s behaviour is wilder in TLSP when he is wearing a vest. I’ve had reason to believe this is the case for a while. So, I did what any good student (and insane person) would do, and set out on a fact finding mission with help from @sophaeros ‘s wonderful outfit guide (it made things so much easier, thank you so much 💕)

There are more sources than images, due to Tumblr limits.

Studio Coast, Tokyo

Here we have whatever this chair thing is, crawling around showing off, a photo I’m fairly sure did the rounds on a soft porn website, and of course - the licking game

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Olympia, Dublin

Here we have a very normal amount of staring, crawling between Miles’s legs, whatever that is with the mic stand, and of course, the bandana squat in Calm Like You - bonus lyric change “I was young, in the frost, no regard for the cost of sharing my feelings”

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Radio One’s Big Weekend

Here we have rolling around on the floor, doing bicycle kicks, ninja kicks - things he would blatantly lie about not doing years later to Annie Mac, when she witnessed it with her own eyes. Not to mention the ridiculous flirting in the post show interview.

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Europavox Festival, Clermont Ferrand

Here we have diving on top of Miles, pressing the mic into his chest and angling for a kiss, forehead nuzzling and of course, the infamous tie pull.

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Primavera Sound

Here we have the notorious nuzzle and lean, unspecified wiggling and of course, bowing down to Miles’s greatness (as he should)

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Bristol Summer Series

Here he just looks like an absolute menace to be honest, jacket on or off, but link 3 is the squatting Dracula Teeth performance… (too big to embed sadly)

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Ferrara Sotto le Stelle

Here we have another photo I’m pretty sure did the rounds on soft porn websites - speaks for itself - wiggling around during Moonage Daydream, moaning during Bad Habits and looking like an absolute life ruiner (though that could speak for every show though, let’s be honest…)

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Cleveland

Here…. We all know what happened here. But apart from that… giving an impromptu performance outside and carrying Miles away (presumably for a long nap, to rest after an exhausting show…)

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Fillmore, Detroit

Here we have the infamous (I seem to be saying that a lot) “I’ll give you the D - I wish you would…”, straddling Miles playing guitar, and the Miracle Aligner secret verse

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So, what conclusion did I draw, if any? Without doing a blind study against a random selection of shows where he wasn’t wearing a vest, I’m not sure that this is a fair test. But, it did seem there was a higher instance of wild behaviour when Alex was wearing a vest. In fact, what prompted me to investigate this was that most of the insane moments that instantly came to mind, he was indeed wearing a vest. Whether this was due to body confidence and feeling himself, or simply being later on in the show (feeling the heat and needing to remove jackets etc, possibly with more alcohol consumed) we may never know. But I feel that there is sufficient evidence for my hypothesis to stand.

Bonus: Yellow Suit

Apparently Alex only wore the yellow suit twice (it felt like a lot more to me, but I am biased, it’s one of my all time favourite outfits). So I didn’t feel like I had enough data to try and prove or disprove, but just for fun:

Rock Werchter

Here we have whatever on earth that is, suggestive singing to Miles and of course wearing his jacket on his head because reasons?

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Coachella

Here… Again, we all know what happened here. But apart from that, attention seeking twirl, a very dramatic clinch during The Dream Synopsis and one of my all time favourite photos, again of him looking like an absolute menace.

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Should I have spent my time doing literally anything else other than this? Undoubtedly yes, but I am nothing if not a conscientious student and lover of science.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Theory & Hypothesis

Hypothesis - a proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon.

In other words, a scientific hypothesis is an educated guess about the relationship between multiple variables.

It is a fresh, unchallenged idea that a scientist proposes prior to research.

Its purpose is to provide a tentative explanation for an occurrence, an explanation that scientists can either support or disprove through experimentation

Theory - an explanation for a natural phenomenon that is widely accepted among the scientific community and supported by data.

Scientific theories are confirmed by many tests and experiments, meaning theories are unlikely to change.

While the word “theory” is commonly used outside the scientific world to describe a simple hunch, scientists use the term to describe a broadly accepted explanation for an occurrence.

The purpose of a theory is to establish a general principle that clearly explains certain phenomena.

While a theory is not a prediction, scientists may use theories to help make a prediction about an unexplained aspect of the natural world.

A Basic Example of a Hypothesis

Forming a hypothesis is a key component of the scientific method. Consider an everyday example of how you might create a new hypothesis and test it using the steps of the scientific method:

Observation: Your car won’t start.

Question: Is the battery dead?

Hypothesis: If the battery is dead, then jumper cables will help it to charge, and the car will start.

Experiment: You hook jumper cables up to the battery.

Result: The car starts.

Conclusion: Your battery was dead, and your hypothesis was correct.

Examples of Scientific Theories

Below are a few of history's most revolutionary theories. Remember, what makes these claims theories is that they are backed by scientific evidence.

The Big Bang Theory: The Big Bang Theory claims that the universe started as a small singularity 13.8 billion years ago and expanded suddenly.

The Heliocentric Theory: Nicolaus Copernicus' theory demonstrates that Earth travels around the Sun.

The Theory of General Relativity: Albert Einstein's theory claims that massive objects (like the Earth) cause a distortion in space-time, which is experienced as gravity. This theory actually supplanted one of the most famous scientific laws, Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.

The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection: Charles Darwin's theory—most succinctly summarized as ��survival of the fittest”—explains how gradual changes in populations of organisms over time leads to the emergence of traits that allow those organisms to survive.

Theory vs. Hypothesis

A hypothesis proposes a tentative explanation or prediction.

A scientist bases their hypothesis on a specific observed event, making an educated guess as to how or why that event occurs.

Their hypothesis may be proven true or false by testing and experimentation.

A theory, on the other hand, is a substantiated explanation for an occurrence.

Theories rely on tested and verified data, and scientists widely accepted theories to be true, though not unimpeachable.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[cosmonautroger]

Angus McKie, Interstellar Queen

[angadgautama]

Years-old relationships ended over a very minor issue. However, it is a good thing that some people were recognised.

[landonbevell]

Ok, Win or Lose Theory/idea...

"Steph's" ( @astrangeghost came up with that name) is the daughter of the hook-up woman from ep 2

(just realizing after posting this the "hook-up woman's" name is maddie)

This idea popped in my head and i think it could work...

1. Similar appearance

- both have dark hair, brown skin, red lips (very likely to be lipstick, i know but still), and both seem to have some sort of "sass-like" energy to them, even if hook-up girls more of a seductive kind of sass

2. Story wise

I thought this all out in my head

- Steph said that "my mom doesnt even care where i am", This either means that her mom is neglectful or its just her teenager mind being grouchy and assuming she is when shes probably just busy at work or something.

But if it is neglect, then this woman being her mom could maybe explain why, since shes clearly a hook-up woman (considering her profile, the pose she makes when giving a heart back to frank when he tries matching with her, the first thing she asks Frank is "what are you doing this weekend?", and that she immediantly ghosts him when he says hes super busy, safe to say she was looking for a "good time") she probably doesnt intend to have a child, but with all the hook-ups she probably accidently got pregnant. And when she had Steph (maybe not being able to afford terminating the baby?), she ignored her to have more hook-ups.

And her not caring about where her daughter is could work as well. With her wanting nothing more than to hook-up and bang with people on bumble, she probably wouldnt want anything to do with Steph cause taking care of a child would get in the way of hooking up and banging. But since she legally has to take care of her, she has no choice but to keep her. But she could still be like "just do whatever you want, i dont care, just let me bang."

(Its like the willoughbys movie where the parents let the kids live in the house as long as they dont bother them at all.)

Or maybe... (had this idea while texting this) she had Steph and later on in her life started hooking-up and completely forgot she had a child to take care of.

I think thats everything, hopefully

Theres not alot to this theory and like, 72% of it is just speculation, i know. So all this is most likely just complete nonsense, but i had the idea for this today and i think its pretty decent for a mini-theory on a very short show.

I mostly just wanted to get my thoughts out on this to see what other people think of it.

If you have any ideas or possible evidence to support or disprove this, comment it below. I wanna know your thoughts on this dumb idea i had on 2 brief characters that show up once in again, a very short show.

Also if theres an actual term for "hook-up woman" please tell me, if its just "hooker" please correct me. Im dumb and forget words and sometimes.

[genius-of-women]

Hmmm robot girl who gets dumber the fuller she is because her processor is taken up by all the digestion tasks, like having too many chrome tabs open

[neerons]

Midnight hypothesis about Kazuomi's "true nature"

Kazuomi mentions in his PoV that "Kazuomi Shido" is who people want him to be, and implies that under all that public facade/mask lies a man who's different. And he wonders how the MC would react to the "real him".

I think what he's hinting at is his deep desire for revenge. Against those who wronged him, mainly his father. We often saw how observant Kazuomi was with others, and how calm and carefree he seemed when troubles knocked at his door.

However, this unbothered behavior must be his way of hiding his true feelings, thoughts and motivation. He knows what it'll mean to show his true colors and hatred for the MC to see, when he had promised to not do anything she wouldn't like before.

That could be what scares him the most. His reaction to the man he seeks revenge against and becoming feral, and how the woman he so deeply loves (and realized is the only one for him) will react to the real him.

[churchofnix]

Hypothesis of Indeterminacy

No Quantum of Reality

Reality is not quantized; it's infinitely divisible. There is no fundamental "smallest" unit of space, time, or any other physical quantity.

Infinite Reality

The universe, at its core, is infinite. This could mean infinite in extent or infinitely divisible, or both.

Emergent Reality

Macroscopic properties and phenomena emerge from the interactions of infinite underlying components.

Statistical Probability

Due to the infinite nature of reality, every outcome is ultimately a statistical probability, leading to indeterminism.

Potential Criticisms and Counterarguments

- Criticism: Even if reality is infinitely divisible, couldn't it still be deterministic? If the laws of physics governing the infinitesimal components are deterministic, the overall system would also be deterministic.

- Counterargument: This assumes a "bottom-up" causality where the behavior of infinitesimal components rigidly determines macroscopic events. In an emergent system, the infinite interactions and complexity could lead to unpredictable outcomes. Think of it like this: even with deterministic rules (e.g., the laws of physics), if you have an infinite number of "players" (infinitesimal components) interacting in an infinite space, predicting the overall outcome with certainty becomes impossible. This is analogous to chaos theory, where even simple deterministic systems can exhibit unpredictable behavior due to their sensitivity to initial conditions.

- Criticism: Quantum mechanics already incorporates indeterminism. Your theory seems to just "push the problem down" to a sub-quantum level.

- Counterargument: Quantum mechanics introduces indeterminism at the Planck scale, but it still assumes a quantized reality at that level. This theory goes further, suggesting that even the Planck scale is not the fundamental limit. This leads to a deeper level of indeterminacy where the very concept of definite states and fixed laws may break down.

- Criticism: How can we make any predictions or have any scientific understanding in a completely indeterminate universe?

- Counterargument: Even in an indeterminate universe, patterns and probabilities can emerge. While specific events might be unpredictable, overall trends and statistical distributions can still be observed and studied. This is similar to how we understand weather patterns: we can't predict the exact path of a single raindrop, but we can make probabilistic forecasts about overall weather conditions.

- Criticism: Is there any evidence to support the idea of an infinitely divisible reality?

- Counterargument: Currently, there is no direct empirical evidence for or against the infinite divisibility of reality. However, the concept has a long history in philosophy and mathematics (e.g., Zeno's paradoxes). Furthermore, some theoretical frameworks, like certain interpretations of string theory or loop quantum gravity, hint at the possibility of a reality without a fundamental quantum.

The Infinity of a Circle

A circle is a continuous curve, meaning that there are no gaps or breaks in its path. Mathematically, we say it contains an infinite number of points.

Here's why:

- Divisibility: You can divide any arc of a circle into two smaller arcs. You can then divide those arcs again, and again, and again, infinitely. There's no limit to how small you can make the arcs.

- No "Smallest" Unit: Unlike a pixelated image on a screen, a perfect mathematical circle doesn't have a smallest unit. There's no "circle pixel" or smallest possible arc length.

The Challenge of Specifying Points

While a circle has infinitely many points, it's surprisingly difficult to precisely specify the location of any individual point. Here's the catch:

- Irrational Numbers: The coordinates of most points on a circle involve irrational numbers like pi (π). Irrational numbers have decimal representations that go on forever without repeating. This means you can never write down their exact value.

- Approximations: In practice, we use approximations for pi and other irrational numbers. This means any point we specify on a circle is actually an approximation, not its exact location.

Four Special Points

There are only four points on a circle that we can specify precisely:

- (1, 0): The point where the circle intersects the positive x-axis.

- (0, 1): The point where the circle intersects the positive y-axis.

- (-1, 0): The point where the circle intersects the negative x-axis.

- (0, -1): The point where the circle intersects the negative y-axis.

These points have coordinates that are whole numbers, making them easy to define.

Even though the circle is a well-defined mathematical object, the precise location of most of its points remains elusive due to the nature of infinity and irrational numbers.

This could suggest that even in a seemingly well-defined system (like a circle or, perhaps, the universe), the infinite nature of reality might introduce a fundamental level of indeterminacy due to the approximation required at the point of determination.

In other words, at the point of any decision, there are infinite approximations of reality statistically coalescing/emerging into a decisive result.

This fundamental indeterminacy could extend to the neural processes underlying decision-making.

That is the basis of free will.

Past experiences, beliefs, and values shape the probability distribution of potential decisions, but don’t determine the outcome. And events are even influenced by conscious intention, allowing for agency in decision-making. Moreover, this ability to shape decision probabilities can be developed over time, supporting the idea of moral growth and education.

[liminghin]

Hypothetical Characters of The Pink Corruption

Characters from The Pink Corruption whose status and details are unconfirmed or probably doesn't exist, but are thought to exist for certain reasons or created to determine whether the character could or could've been, these reasons are used to explain the events of The Pink Corruption that has not been explained yet

Currently, there are two hypothetical characters of The Pink Corruption as of now:

Barracuda

Reason hypothesized: To explain the creation of the Pink Corruption Virus and the spread of the virus around the Paradise

Explanation: According to Pyrare from "Season 1, Episode 5," he explains the origins of how Dub used to be a beige monster before accompanying Barracuda, Pyrare's son, and start to work together on The Pink Corruption Virus. While Dub is creating the virus, Barracuda thoughts to how to spread the virus in different areas across the Paradise on any land before he dies for an unknown reason. After Barracuda's unexplained death, Dub has to continue to try to finish Barracuda's plan ever since to take control and tak over the Paradise

Pentellow's mother

Reason hypothesized: To explain the birth of Pentellow

Explanation: According to Cintagon from "Season 1, Episode 10," he mentions in the past about his life before The Pink Corruption Virus existed, he mention to Pentellow that his wife, presumably the mother of Pentellow, died as a result of childbirth to Pentellow, which made Cintagon upset about her demise

[boxturret]

Voya-Nui: An Overview

Hello,

This will be somewhat similar to my 1/10th scale Mata Nui posts, discussing the floating island of Voya-Nui based upon recently revealed information, mainly dealing with its size and role in the initial story.

Warning, this post is embarrassingly long.

Any who have the misfortune of knowing me know I have a rather selective view of what constitutes Bionicle. Essentially I consider Bionicle to have run from 1998 to mid 2002. As a kid I was a die hard fan until 06, where a combination of the marketing and the sets just not being very good caused me to gradually lose interest until I just got one set in 07 and never again bought a Bionicle.

All this preamble is to say that for the longest time I never really knew all that much about Voya-Nui, apart from it being the namesake of a terrible game. Later on, as I got back in to the hobby I heard rumors, dark, twisted rumors. They spoke of a stick making the island fly underwater through a hole, that the island itself was ejected from the body of the robot and left a Voya-Nui sized hole in a continent. Just the ravings of a mad man, so I threw it in the bin along with everything in Bionicle after the Toa go in to the Bohrok hives in 02 and moved on with my life.

Fast forward to now, and Christian Faber starts releasing some development materials through a humanoid water fowl, and this very interesting image is among what's released

This image made everything click for me and I fell in love with Voya-Nui as a concept.

But I think before revealing the original intent, its important to explain the "canon" sequence of events surrounding the so called "Island of Doom"

ISLAND OF DOOM, A PRIMER

Okay so there's a big robot sleeping in an ocean, one day its heart pops and a chunk of land that was on top of the heart breaks out of its chest and starts floating in the ocean. The island, I must add, survived this event, as the hole it left is the same shape and size as the final island.

Now the island floats around for a bit, the volcanic crater on it eventually builds up a large land mass in the middle of the bay, the people on it (yes there were people on the island when it got ejected, and they survived the event) decide that this is the best place to build a city.

It turns out that wasn't the best place to build a city as the new land mass breaks off and somehow anchors it to the sea floor.

Eventually some guys show up and break the anchor cord and the island, inexplicably, sinks down under the water, and manages to go right back in to the hole it made and everything returns to normal.

In some blog post it was explained that there was a magic wand that fixed everything that was used at the same moment.

This is the canonical sequence of events.

More like island of dumb¹.

THE ORIGINAL CONCEPTS

Okay now that all that unpleasantness is out of the way, we can start with the actually interesting things.

There are so many details to cover here, I think the best way to organise them would be to present everything roughly chronologically.

The scenario is the same, a massive robot crash lands in a large ocean, its completely under the water outside of its face, upon which the larger island of Mata Nui forms.

From the beginning its very different, there's no large landmass over the heart (in fact the very idea of the robot itself being full of various domes with islands in them is very suspect but this post is already long enough). The heart is a reactor, and consists of a massive spherical cavity in the chest. Something occurs and the heart pops open, a small panel or valve on the perimeter of the reactor core's wall bursts out of the chest of the robot. Through this hole sea water begins to flood in-this is important!

The ejected panel floats, and some sort of system within it cools it down, causing the sea water to freeze, essentially turning it in to a massive iceberg. There's also mentions of it being magnetic, the final island is described as looking somewhat like a magnet run over a factory floor. It probably also attracted debris from the sea bed as it floated through the seas. As you can see in that diagram the core is filled with massive long cables and the island eventually gets anchored by a long cable, so that's possibly where that came from!

Over years the island grows and grows as it floats around the oceans, being buffeted around by the currents. Eventually part of it becomes unstable and breaks off, sinking to the ocean floor, and since a large cable was attached to both pieces, it anchors the island in place.

Now we get to the crucial part. In the canon depiction of events the most baffling thing is why does breaking the anchor rope make it sink? Now we come back to this image:

When the panel popped out it left a hole. Water is pouring back in to the hole, forming a giant whirlpool. The robot is so massive that even after all these years of constant flooding the cavity on the inside is still not even half full. Voya-Nui was caught in the whirlpool's strong currents when the island broke up. This impromptu anchor stopped it just as it was about be pulled in! Then the super strong currents from the whirlpool gave it the distinctive curved shape.

So now we know why destroying the cable holding it in place causes the floating island to sink: once untethered its free to be pulled in to the whirlpool! The island that formed around the panel would break off and the panel would basically be a giant plug and stop the flow of water flooding in to the reactor.

Figuring this all out was such a revelation, taking one of the most nonsensical sequences of events in the series and transforming it in to this completely logical scenario which, from the point of view of the characters involved, is still quite mysterious and oblique, but when looked at from the perspective of repairing this giant robot it makes perfect sense.

And we were robbed. Imagine the Mata Nui rising sequence of animations starting off with a whole island being pulled in to a whirlpool.

THE CORE

This is getting a bit beyond the main focus of the island, but I just want to talk about the core itself because there were a few interesting tidbits there as well. Its a very evocative setting which I feel suffered greatly and few of the interesting parts were conveyed well in the story.

The water streaming through the hole is described as having some sort of light emitting reaction to the part of the reactor its hitting, lighting the whole chamber. Steam from the reaction swirls upwards and vaporised materials from the heat of the reaction collect on the roof, forming massive stalactites that eventually fall, creating this jagged forest of stone needles within the massive pool of water, water which's temperature varies depending on how close it is to the reaction.

Really seems a shame that in the final story it was simplified down to "sky" and "swamp". Just imagine, this forest of stone, shrouded in fog, lit by this flickering unearthly light emanating from the centre. You have the added aspect of once Voya-Nui has returned to its rightful place the water fall would cease, leading to the light dwindling until the whole area is pitch black.

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER NOTES

One major feature of the island that was missing from the earlier ice and rock version is the massive lava crater, supposedly from the mask of life². I had been toying with the idea that the volcano formed the rest of the island around the panel, but with how much larger the island was it just didn't make sense, so the ice and magnetism really helped out there!

Its said that the ice formed as some sort of self defence mechanism, like an organ freezing itself to preserve itself in an emergency. Personally though I have this little idea that the panel was actually something like the cooling system for the reactor, and without it the reactor was going to over heat, but luckily it was kept just cool enough by the falling water. The cooling system, being linked somehow to the main robot, detects that the reactor was over heating and starts working over time to cool it, leading to it freezing the surrounding ocean and making itself in to a massive iceberg, but as it wasn't connected to the robot's core and nothing it did had any effect, it ends up overheating itself, causing the pool of lava on the top. But that's just a little fan idea.

Another one I have is that the island, when it was floating freely, may have passed next to Mata Nui, close enough to be sailed too, at some point far in the past. Explaining how there would be inhabitants on it despite it getting shot out of the robot like a bullet.

Also it would be remiss of me to not mention that even though the canon depiction of events makes no sense, the whirlpool is briefly seen in the 100% ending of the torture device Bionicle Heroes.

But this is much smaller, and seems to only have just opened up in the bay. Rather than being something to do with the hole it made it seems this is more about how the mask they were seeking went underwater.

SCALE!

Time to talk sizes!³

This drawing is especially useful here, as it shows all 3 major objects in question all relative to each other. Yes Voya-Nui is there, its the tiny little dot on the bottom right. So I simply took the height maps for Voya-Nui, used them to make a quick little model in the same fashion as my Mata Nui, and brought in my old GSR model. I scaled them all to the Mata Nui from my last posts, and guess what! It all lines up perfectly.

The Voya-Nui Model is the exact right size it should be, according to this map:

And what was more impressive, was that the GSR turned out to be pretty much bang on with this even older concept art:

Scaling the GSR was a more bit awkward, as the final design is more gangly compared to this drawing, but lining up the torsos worked really well!

And now let us visit the 1/10th scale Mata Nui and meet Geroge. A new island has floated up off Ta-Wahi beach and he want's to explore a bit!

Excuse the monochrome island, the height maps I'm using are actually quite different from the final island.

There is a height map more accurate to the final island, but that one didn't have an underside. The little islets in the bay were also neat.

The large lava lake in the centre is roughly 250 metres across. Its nothing compared to Mata Nui's caldera, but its still very huge when you get down to the ground level.

The panel that forms the centre of the island is massive as well.

Approximately 550m wide, and 900m tall. Just think of the massive reactor core this thing popped out of!

Seeing it separate from the island really puts it in perspective.

Imagine this thing shooting out of the robot's chest like a bullet.

I'll just quickly mention, earlier on I posted that map of all the internal islands. If you use the size of metru nui on there you can scale Voya-Nui appropriately, and you end up with this.

Its less a small panel popping out of the heart and more the scene from Alien at this point.

CONCLUSION

This has been quite a rambly post, but there was just so much information to cover. I left out a lot of details. This whole thing just makes me very excited, sorry.

I just think its such a beautifully elegant scenario that really adds a lot to the setting and story, rather than just having yet another new island, but this time the island is mean. I find it quite interesting how everything would have sorted itself out, if not for the island breaking in half. There's no Machiavellian plots, no scheming, no betrayal, just an unfortunate occurrence that makes a bad situation worse, and everyone has to work to fix it. It was utterly butchered in the final story. It makes me quite sad for what could have been. Just picture it, this floating island getting pulled towards a massive whirlpool, the outer island breaking off as it spirals deep down underwater until this long, tarnished metal plug is revealed to have been at the centre. With a huge impact it closes up the hole, fitting back perfectly where it came from, managing to avert the disaster of the flood waters growing ever higher inside the core of this robot.

But in any case, really the important take away is, Voya-Nui is just a rip off of Noah's Island when you get down to it.

I'll leave you with a photograph of George waving hello to his large friend.

Have a nice day/night[delete whichever is inappropriate]!

¹-You know its true. ²-Not to be confused with the Mask o' Flight, the film staring a swarm of Tahnok. ³-Please note, I am using 1 kio = .1 km as per my previous posts, if this offends you simply multiply every number in this post by 43.75966487787¾⁴ ⁴-Yes even this one.

While I was working on this I made some more revelations about the core which will probably need its own post. ;_; This thing already took 3 days to make....

[midileduwang]

What is bullfrog’s height?

let’s find out shall we?

So According to Fandom.com’s character profile wikia, Jade is 5’4” or roughly 165 CM.

if Bullfrog stands up to half her height then he’s about uh…idk 3 feet??? Idk I got something wrong with the calculator or what? I thought they were 4 foot something though.

Rayman is canonically something like 149 centimeters so 150-151 could fit here too.

& I didn’t pull that height out of my ass, Here’s a chart someone here made!

Credit to @raygirlramblings for figuring out this out.

that means that if Bullfrog is canonically slightly taller than he’s about 5 foot sharp. Meaning whoever pulled 5 foot 4 for Jade was wrong? Idk.

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Avatar brain worms are moving around like it just rained for a week. I'm bout to reblog SOOOOO MANY THINGS

[therisingfog]

-Paul Tran

[ashblooddragons]

How would Aelys’ life be if she was the daughter of Rhaenyra and Daemon (like from the brothel? Idk?)! Would she still marry Aemond or claim Cannibal?

Oooh love this so let's dive in like RIGHT NOW!

Firstly I have never thought he Aelys being Rhaenyra’s kid as she hates her so much so I had to do some thinking lol.

First I think she and Rhaenyra would butt heads, she's too much like Daemon. Rhaenyra is a free sprit but I think having a daughter so much like Daemon hurts so she avoids Aelys which leads Aelys to search for a mother figure else where.

Though I do think her and Daemon would get along. She's so much like him, from the temper to the wild personality, they would just click. And yet again a reason for her and Rhaenyra not to be that close. Rhaenyra would feel rejected by her daughter and now husband, they want to spend time together and not with her.

Now onto dragons, yeah there is no other dragon for Aelys other than the Cannibal (or Canny boy if your Aelys baby talking this beast). Though Caraxes is a close second but he's not a option. He has this wild aspet that Aelys has too, both are quick to anger, trigger happy, and a "bit" psychotic. Is there really any other dragon that matches that? I think not.

Now onto Aemond, if I'm honest I don't know? I don't think she would want to fight for either faction. She doesn't like her mom, I dont see her liking Aegon much, but i also don't see her wanting to make her own. So where does this leave her? I think she and Aemond exchanged letters during their years apart, but when they saw each other again they didn't even get a chance to really talk or meet this new them before a war was happening. I think they would love each other, they are doomed to be apart and not be together.

Thank you so much for the ask this was really fun! I hope more send them!