#toa helryx

[voidaspects]

Breaking my inactivity on this blog with a random post. Hyperfixations go!

Every… single… toa of water… in bionicle (G1) has been collected :D

I am… so proud…

Been looking at these two nonstop I’m so proud.

My collection of cool robotic water ladies is complete…

[musurvivalistguide]

I was working on a bit of writing when something occurred to me. We know how Teridax communicated with the residents in the Matoran Universe by using the stars and telepathy (I think?). But...

How did Mata Nui communicate with the Brotherhood of Makuta and the Order of Mata Nui?

Did he communicate the exact same way Teridax did and that's how Teridax chose to do it too, or was it more or less similar to that scene from Megamind about presentation as a villain?

Or did he simply manipulate the environment around whoever he was communicating with to write messages to the intended audience? Like Helryx is working at her desk when suddenly large Matoran text appears and it's a message from Mata Nui telling her that they need to do this task? Or an impression of his face suddenly appears from the wall or on a door and starts speaking (not to mention absolutely terrifying the person by accident the first dozen times it happens)?

I think I remember reading before how he would use the stars to communicate prophesies and the like, but what would stop someone else from seeing the same stars and not figuring out something was up? How did he manage to keep it so hyper focused in one area that no one else with a telescope could see it?

Honestly, that part of the lore in how Mata Nui communicated with the others makes me wonder. How did he do it without freaking those (Matoran, Toa, and Turaga, etc) who aren't aware of this being a normal thing for the BoM or OoMN?

[sandiaheadonline]

Boy he's frustrated. And ever since then Helryx was the one training him.

Continuation to this post:

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

Anyway here's the Toa Mata in my roleswap AU, where they swap with the Chronicler's Company, and also Helryx, who swaps with Takua/Takanuva.

Roles here, stuff I use in my renders here.

(yes I know the poses are kinda static-looking, this design is kinda hard to work with)

[tempelbeast]

Star-ish Toa nuva featuring Toa Helryx and Jerbraz

In order, the Matoran here are: Keahi, Kailani, Azibo, Gadjati, Vira, Kantai.

[noodelzmop]

THE FIRST TOA

Helryx, toa of water

[squared-m]

MAKE A TOA OUT OF YOU

In which the Toa Kaidra learn how to be proper Toa… They're learning, be patient.

[bioniclechicken]

Higher. Further. Faster. WATER.

(non-canon version)

[ctrl-alt-tahu]

The Last Toa

I have a not-quite-100% finished thought rolling around my head about the legacy of the Toa Metru, and in attempt to get it complete, I'm trying to write it down.

So, the Toa Metru are the final stop in a line of Toa going back to the foundation of Metru Nui, right? They were made Toa by Lhikan, the last of the Toa Mangai, and as his heirs and mentees, they are the last Toa of Metru Nui.

Indeed, the GSR generally, they come awfully close to being the last Toa--period. Not the last Toa in existence, obviously, but the Mata/Nuva, Takanuva, and the Inika/Mahri are all Toa in some other special way: Artahka originals, the Mask of Light, and intervention by the Red Star. None of them represent the passage of energy from Toa to Stone to Matoran: that lineage, which I assume goes back all the way to the earliest days of the GSR.

I think Krakua is the only real monkey-wrench in the idea that the Metru were the last Toa made in the conventional way. I'm pretty sure he's the only non-Inika example we know of in canon definitely after the Cataclysm.

There's something wistfully sad about the Metru being the Last Toa Ever™ and yielding their own Toa power to revive the Matoran, with no new Toa to follow them. When the Toa Mata arrive on Mata Nui, it becomes something like an Arthurian return, but it's also a supplanting: "the line of Dume and Lhikan and those even before them has failed" and a better thing takes their place.

Some basic Googling/BioSector01ing seems to suggest that there's not a lot of canonical detail in HOW Krakua becomes a Toa--so even if we accept that he's a fairly recent Toa, we can allow ourselves some speculation that he ALSO might not have been an old-school Toa-Stone-made Toa.

Why does any of this matter--other than poignancy, which is a consideration of its own? Well, I was thinking about Matoro (as one does) and the unique way in which he could carry on the legacy of the Toa Metru: he's the one Matoran (and thus the one transformed Toa) who knows their tale before the reveal at the end of MoL. Alone of the amnesiac Matoran, he has knowledge--though not memory--of Metru Nui, and while he kept the Turagas' secrets, he can't have helped being shaped by them in the 1000 years of doing so.

Destiny is the will of Mata Nui (well, destiny is a thorny subject, but let's call it that here). The Toa Mata, Takanuva, Krakua--what if they were all attempts in some way or other to supply the "needed" Toa to save the Great Spirit? But, though he is dying, the Great Spirit doesn't want any of these: he doesn't want to saved by Artahka's demiurgic Toa, or the Avokhii-wearing saviour, or any of the washed-up leftovers (Lesovikk, "the forty living Toa," the Hagah): instead, when the Red Star intervenes--the Red Star that echoes his will in a way the Order of Mata Nui can never hope to--he chooses one of them, and he chooses the one of their number who is the truest heir of the Toa Metru--his Toa.

Destiny is a big theme of the Metru in a way that was never true of the Mata (unity is their theme), and this really comes to the fore with the dancing back and forth between who was destined: them or the Mask Matoran. Destiny also comes up big with Matoro--and perhaps their destinies are the same.

[invader39]

Helryx, the first Toa. Based on @bioniclechicken's interpretation.

[alic0rez]

Smth silly maybe

[minirigby]

Helryx, The First Toa. Here's my interpretation of what Toa Helryx might have looked like at the beginning of her life, before becoming the worn & battle-hardened leader of the Order of Mata Nui we know today. I imagine that in her early days Helryx would have made use of a Toa Suva, allowing her to swap between a number of masks including her Mask of Psychometry, this classic blue Pakari, and a few others she might have found useful. Her mace, while of a similar design, is also much newer, and still has a silver-y sheen to it. This moc is built around the same general body design as my Orde, and a Toa of Sonics, but was actually the first of the three to be built with it, which explains why it's basically a souped-up version of canon Helryx's body. #lego #legomoc #legomocs #bionicle #bioniclemoc #bioniclemocs #toa #toaofwater #helryx #toahelryx #oomn #orderofmatanui https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_kjkarmR_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[byz-was-here]

Question

Does Mata Nui know about the toa code?

Because I'm 90% sure that was never programmed in and Helryx just made it up as she went along.

[nattarthetimedragon]

Its my birthday so I made my self MOC receiving the Axalara T5 from Artakha and Helryx

[tempelbeast]

Some random renders of Airwatcher revamp, Matoran Rakovi, Spiriah revamp with only parts in the sets and Helryx revamp. I don't have the og mask for Spiriah.

[tiredspacedragon]

18 and 19 for the ask game

18 - It's absolutely criminal the fandom has been sleeping on: Rhotuka Spinners. Rhotuka Spinners are such a fascinating concept. Every being in the Matoran Universe possesses the ability to generate a Rhotuka, but can't do so without a launcher. The launcher is just an externalization method for a power latent in its wielder. That's such a bizarre concept and I love it. And then there's the fact that every sapient character has a unique power. It's like Mask Powers 2.0. And quite frankly I'm shocked that I haven't seen more discussion or theorizing about what various characters' Rhotuka powers might be. I get that we only know a handful of characters' spinner powers and that makes it hard to determine a pattern, but I still feel like it leaves a lot of room for imagination and fun fan-talk.

19 - You're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like: Okay, look. Just. Hear me out, okay. That post, the other day. The one about the Toa Mata's many parents. Where we all kinda established that Artakha is effectively their father, while the closest thing they have to a mother is Helryx. A very distant, work-obsessed mother, but she did still welcome them into the world and arranged their training and saw to it that they had everything they needed. Yeah, now I kind of...ship Helryx and Artakha. Like. Just a little bit. In a weird, semi-platonic, semi-not way. Like, the precursor to the Order of Mata Nui was the Hand of Artakha, but Artakha himself had nothing to do with the organization, it was just named after him. And I can see him mentioning it to Helryx at some point and her actually getting a little flustered because sure, it happened millennia ago, but at the time, she and the rest of the grew were big fans of Artakha, so to speak. She's basically meeting the closest thing she's ever had to an idol or a role model when he shows up in the Core Processor. I don't know, something about two ancient workaholic recluses finding kindred spirits in each other appeals to me. I can see them sharing a drink, or standing together very stoically watching over their shared superhero children. Barely exchanging more than a handful of words but sharing a mutual understanding of safety and comfort in each other's presence. Yeah, I don't know why I'm like this either.