#takadox

[arr-jim-lad]

(places these pictures gently into your hands)

[crystaltoa]

I like to think that in the universe where our fandom is much larger , this paragraph has inspired thousands of fanfics. about the tragic romance of two evil mutant crustacean men.

[bioniclechicken]

In the Toa Empire universe, the renegade Toa Nidhiki is finally found to be hiding on Daxia. Empress Tuyet conscripts a quartet of dangerous criminals to assassinate the Toa of Air before he reveals the truth behind Lhikan's death.

[thewoollyviking]

I’ve shared these on Discord but decided I wanna share them here too. I know that most of my blog is SU/Paleontology related but I’m also a huge fan of Bionicle. And the Barraki are one of if not my favorite wave of sets from the entire theme. So a while back I wanted to rework them to highlight how bizarre and wonderful they were. Also some size comparisons between them and my Nocturn set!

Pridak is my fav of this bunch but I’m honestly proud of all of them. Tell me which is your fav!

[impulseimpact]

So last year there was a contest to adapt fictional characters into prehistoric animals, i was on a bionicle mood so i decided to adapt my favorite set of villains

so i present to you, the barraki, creeps from the devonian

[rrbobani]

Ok admittedly I might have lead you guys astray with that WIP I showed off... but-

BADABOOM!!

I'm excited with how Takadox turned out here. I wouldn't say I'm happy with the design overall, but the face (on mutated Takadox) makes me really happy~

But as you can see though, I've decided to put in his form before his mutation. Wanted to make him and the rest of his group look like old kings in faded away paintings. These Barraki are going to challenge me, but with how Takadox turned out, I'm kind of confident how things will go here! 

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This post on Ani's Blog

[arguntaab]

My favourite barraki - Takadox 🩵

[jdrider02]

Takadox use Confusion!? 6-3-2023

[kanohi-kualsi]

Creeps from the Deep

[noddytheornithopod]

So with the Barraki undersea armies, Pridak had Takea sharks, Kalmah had giant squids and was in charge of the sea squids they used for ammunition, Carapar had Keras crabs and Pit War Tortoises, Ehlek had mostly venom eels and I think some other similar creatures like electric eels if I recall the books correctly, Mantax had an army of rays, and Takadox had... “underwater insects”.

Granted, you could argue that Mantax is vague with the ray army, but I always found it interesting how Takadox’s army was described very vaguely as just “uh, insects, I guess”. So that begs the question, what exact species COULD be in Takadox’s army?

I guess to start, like how the playsets have those weird ray looking mounts and I assume those could be some of the ray variants in Mantax’s forces, I think some of the arthropods could answer to Takadox in them? Like, there’s this one insect looking one in the Toa Undersea Attack set, but also with the Barraki Deepsea Patrol, the spider crab thing could maybe be Takadox’s? Like, maybe it being a “crab” could make it fit into Carapar’s forces, but his army seemed clearly defined while Takadox’s is incredibly vague.

So yeah, if anyone knows any specific Rahi that Takadox may have used that isn’t just me making vague guesses based on playsets.

Also weird thought on the side: imagine if some Visorak ended up in The Pit and were mutated, and being arthropods or whatever the Bionicle equivalent is, they serve Takadox. Like sure, the insect-like appearance is a thing, but also, the Visorak were servants of the Brotherhood of Makuta, and it could be a fun little way to hint at Takadox’s connections to them and how he was the one to betray the League of Six Kingdoms.

[azazelleviathan]

[old art still from backlog]

Takadox

[the-wolf-fiendling]

Some OLD art projects of mine, from back in highschool. I was just a LITTLE bit of a bionicle kid.

[kanohivolitakk]

One thing I noticed is that while most fans have drastically different ideas on voice claims for various Bionicle characters lacking canon voices, the idea of Mark Hamil and Steve Blum being the voice claims for Vezon and Takadox respectively seems to be a nearly universally agreed upon headcanon.

[randomwriteronline]

(Before Y'all Read: HEAVILY SUGGESTIVE CONTENT AHEAD)

The jolts of electricity running through his organic tissue were the only thing keeping him fully conscious at this point.

Very painfully, of course; but he'd take that over drowning.

It burned terribly, maddeningly, and his muscles tensed and jerked without him having any say over it. To admit the excitement the sensation stirred in him would have been mortifying, once, many years ago; but everybody had gotten their turn at it, and he could read in their faces the truth of the matter, and while a hilarious sense of decor still dictated nobody mention a word of it he knew his pleasured reaction was not an exception, but the rule.

Just enough time to get a gasp of air, and water was again washing over his face.

The voice came garbled near his head, strange and distorted by the liquid. The muffled sound couldn't hide the desperate snarling want within it, and the lack of air against his neck couldn't hide the intensity of those groans and pants.

One could have almost said it was nuzzling, what Ehlek was doing against his chin; one could have almost said there was something amorous about all of this.

One could have said his sharp teeth itching to bite his throat was a sign of love.

Clearly, one had never met the Barraki before.

He grasped the water dweller's wrist as tight as he could the very moment his lungs began burning from lack of air, hastily requesting to break through the surface before he passed out - which would have certainly caused the encounter to take on a disturbing necrophilic tone he wasn't particularly keen on allowing.

A clawed hand grasped the back of his neck as its twin did the same for his hip: just as the cold air met the creases in his armor again and his mouth opened wide to greedily take in as much of that sweet venom as he could, a lightning bolt lurched through him with a loud guttural shriek, tearing any last remnants of oxygen from his body as he let out a strangled sound nothing short of absolutely obscene.

He remained held up like that, by that trembling hand that so easily could have crushed his throat, dazed and stunned by the terrifyingly effective concoction brewed from electricity and coital bliss like a Gukko hit by a rock, for an amount of time that would have certainly put his life at risk.

But nothing struck to kill him.

He was laid down gently by that trembling limb on a thinner torso, face ever so slightly out of the water, just enough to be submerged, and allowed to slowly regain his breath. His entire body ached; warmth pooled inside him.

Claws sank into his flesh.

"The sea," Ehlek murmured, exhausted.

He gave a questioning grunt, still incapable of properly speaking beyond a hiss.

Ehlek rubbed his nose against the strong neck, submerged just enough so that he wouldn't need to leave any part of his face above the water; his fangs scraped against the exposed muscle, opening ever so slightly as though he were still looking to leave a mark, to tear him into submission, to taste his blood, the blood of a peer, the blood of a conqueror, the blood of a being perfect enough to deserve near total control over the known universe.

"I want the sea," he whispered; his gills gurgled lightly as he breathed deeply through them. "I want the seas, and everything within them... All mine... All mine..."

The claws digging deeper into his leg made his partner hiss in a pain close enough to ecstasy. An equally bloodthirsty hand reached to cup the water dweller's nape within it - pressing enough to pierce through what little flesh it could find to repay him with the same delectable anguish, making the other shudder and growl and hold onto the body in his arms tighter.

It might have been a surprise, that to convince a warlord into joining a revolution to seize power over everything they'd had to resort to a frankly astronomical dosage of such delightful torture; but then again, what else could sway a creature as anxious as him? And what else could make him lightheaded enough to request such a vast yet barren thing as his prize, one that barely amounted to anything to his allies in such an enormous playground only theirs for the taking...

"It can be arranged," he panted quietly, satisfied.

Ehlek gave a grumbling sound and nuzzled against him in a grotesque parody of affection.

[chancetimespace]

I’m bored, here’s a Bionicle Poll

[quartings]

Dear God, it's almost like there's creeps in this deep.