#just some thoughts about the masks in g2 and how they work compared to g1 '^^

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Anyway, I was thinking about Bionicle G2 again, as one does, and I realized something about how the masks work in it. Unlike G1, there aren’t specific types of masks with specific types of powers, the only masks with powers seem to be the golden ones. The rest of the masks are just masks, and don’t seem to serve any other function than as decoration or armor for the Toa and Okotans.

There’s also the fact that everyone on Okoto seems to have the same mask in different colors, which is interesting. The only characters who have unique masks are the Toa and the villains(and even then most of the villains share masks and most of them only have “masks” in terms of the sets, in every other media they are shown to just have faces that look like the masks the sets have). The Toas masks look like their respective golden masks, so which are the masks of their elements, so I think that their original masks were made in the image of their golden masks to represent their elements. The golden masks are shown in the legends about the Toa, so the Okotans would recognize the designs of the Toas masks as representative of their elements probably ‘^^