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*chuckles in Ascending Depths*

(Intense Russian crab sounds)

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Trinuma finally gets a glow up 😃

Trinuma (He/They)

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I am told that Dume and his team were the only Toa Team during the Cataclysm who all survived, eventually becoming the ruling council of Tekoa as their Toa power dissipated or was passed on. Whenua held Turaga Taarkus in especially high regard, and that's saying something.

We, of course, know what Dume did to the council many, many years later.

It's bizarre to think that even before the six strangers came to our shore, and our own Rahaga, there were far, far more Toa.

Thankfully, Rahaga Nuju delivered an intact Knowledge Crystal to me before he succumbed to one of his fits and destroyed it. It doesn't contain much, but does have an incomplete roster of a few Toa who tried to stop the Cataclysm, and this image, presumably captured from somewhere underwater.

Takua suggested that we should commit their names to the wall of memory in the Grand Mausoleum.

I don't foresee Vakama disagreeing, or anyone else for that matter.

-------BEGIN ECHO-------

Matoro's thoughts trailed away as he saw the light dim further within the chamber. Crystalline shapes, holding each other, formed a sort of rising half-circle atop which the Ignika sat, faintly pulsing.

Another quake rocked through his icy dome, fresh fractures having to be sealed rapidly with his elemental powers before the precious air escaped and he drowned.

Something was wrong. Karda Nui didn’t have this much water around the Codrex, and if this stalactite fell, then the others- If Matoro could swim to the surface, he could get the Matoran to safely, and then come back and-

Out of the corner of his eye, the mask pulsed weakly.

Matoro winced, facing the far-away sky and squeezing his eyes shut, as if to wake himself from a bad dream. He had been a Matoran just weeks before.

Don't ask me to make this choice. He pleaded. They need me. If I don't go, I'm letting everyone in Karda Nui die. But... if I leave-

"They all will die anyway," Jaller's words echoed in his mind. “You can’t save anyone if they don’t have a Universe to live in.”

Matoro opened the seal on the Chamber, the air warm and comforting as he stepped inside.

The Mask was a slightly different shape than when Jaller had carried it, and it even seemed to move as Matoro approached it.

He picked up the mask and moved to the other end of the Chamber, sitting down to complete the circle with the vaguely hand-shaped outcroppings set perfectly on his shoulders.

As if they were the whole of the universe resting upon him.

It was just his imagination, but he almost felt them… move, gripping him tighter. Reassuring him.

With a deep breath, Matoro put on the Mask of Life.

Far within the mangled machine-god corpse above, within the cold, flooded chamber of the Codrex, within the Ignition Core, and within the Ignika set upon a light-crystal that was once the body of a Toa of Ice, The Great Spirit breathed life into what remained of the Universe.

And the Great Spirit fell into a deep slumber.

And he dreamt of an Island far above.

Songs: Emil/Sacrifice (NieR:Replicant), Closer to the Truth/ Dark Ambient (Cryoshell/Essenger), Contact Redux (Trocadero & David Levy)

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This is a beautiful image of screamer damn

why i keep going.

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I could easily see this being a set in 03

Bionicle Anomalocaris V.2

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RAGGAGAGAGGAGAGAGAGAG

DEM QUEERS

and snurno snail.0

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daily koss 36: they can’t all be winners #2 🫠

Wanting to commit to a long-term project when you have a chronic pain disability and ouch-not-even-taking-hormones-for-it-every-day-can-amend-severity blood curse is hard but I am fighting for my life to cook (TOMORROW’S ART WILL BE MORE EFFORTFUL, I’M SURE… I HOPE). Drawing them lying on top of each other is my guilty pleasure 😭

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I feel this at a spiritual level

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horrifying bionicle moc progress

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BEHOLD Lemony 3.5! Featuring more sparkles, glow in the dark areas, minor bumpmapping, repaired geometry, reworked expressions, and more effective spring/dynamic bones! Let me know what you think!

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alright back to catching up on mechtober... four months later. ack.

day 25: Hahli Mahri from Bionicle!

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YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH ME, YOU'LL NEVER EVER WALK ALONE.

A gift for my beloved @hewkii for Valentine's Day!! :D

Time Taken: 3 hours, 12 minutes Program: Procreate.

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Mmm Liquid Protodermis in my tum tum 😋

bionicle soup warms the soul in trying times

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-Lost while looking for the mask-

pewku's design is a combination for the mata nui online game and the first movie

finding out more information about pewku, got me inspired to make this little comic

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me 6 hours after announcing my biggest post release project yet:

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The Astrolik & The Cobo

The first issue is now available to download over at AscendingDepths.etsy.com!

This Web series will showcase a snapshot of the world from the perspective of the Astrolik who has stuck around from the very beginning of this toy-line. 4 years worth of development and world building.

Trying to separate from a world of friction from various factions, Terex's life is forced to change. With his choices in the cycle bearing weight for those around him in... The Time After Time (P.S. the first page is void of dialogue as to avoid spoilers)