#miserix

[bagea]

makuta miserix

[makutaservaela]

Just got a new set :)

I modified it slightly for stability or because I couldn't get a few of the pieces.

[bradsmindbrain]

I know a lot of people say that Miserix and Zaria would get along well given both of them fuckin’ hate the Brotherhood, but a part of me says Pohatu was probably the Toa who tried to reach out to him first. I mean, this is the same guy who looked at Kopaka who was Mr. “I work alone” for a good portion of 2001-2003 and said “Is anyone gonna be friends with him?”

Like, to me, the moment he finds out Miserix is actually pretty decent for a Makuta and is probably sulking around somewhere on Spherus Magna after Teridax’s death, he’s probably the first one aside from maybe Melding!Teridax to try and get Miserix to open up.

I dunno, just a thought I had, I just think Pohatu should be able to have a Makuta friend.

[godrizza]

The idea popped in my head and I audibly laughed, so 15 minutes later…

[toomanyinterestsart]

DAILY BIONICLE MEME

I know it’s Teridax but in my AU is different

[sepublic]

What if we reimagined all of the other non-Teridax Makuta as eldritch horrors, just as Teridax was initially presented in the early years of Bionicle? What if we used each Makuta as a prompt of sorts; What if THEY were the big villain terrorizing an island, their individual name unknown so they’re just THE Makuta to the local Toa and Matoran? Make each one feel worthy of the title of Makuta, with their depictions in Karda Nui being akin to physical, humanoid avatars meant to interact with others, just as the scheming Teridax is like for the vortex from MNOG?

Like for example, Chirox! You have this swarm of spiders known as the Visorak, led by one massive spider, known as Makuta. The Visorak mutate their victims, before dragging them back to their master.

Makuta is a spider-like entity that emerges from a cave, using his spindly limbs to grapple with and analyze his victims... Potentially drawing upon them for inspiration, before tearing and prying them apart into their base pieces, adding them to his massive collection. From these recycled parts, Makuta creates more Visorak, or dreaded Rahi creatures that wreak havoc on the ecosystem. Like Makuta, they are poison, destruction incarnate; They always inherit his twisted spirit that destroys.

That’s all Makuta does, even when he does create; He inevitably just destroys. Instead of coming up with new things on his own, he relies on Fate to mutate the living into something random, hoping chance will eventually grant him a working design for Makuta to copy. You could say Makuta has no real ideas of his own, and is a gambler, a parasite, betting something will come along for him to take. 

But isn’t destruction the same as creation, isn’t destroying his victims necessary to make things? That’s where the imagery of the spider comes into play; Its long, spindly limbs? They’re fingers. Makuta is not just a spider, he is a hand; The same hand that reaches into the parts bin to make new creations, plays with MoCs before tearing them apart to make something new. Just as Teridax represents the parts bin, Chirox is the builder’s hand, like in the Lego Movie, or Super Smash Bros. 

Each Visorak is like a hand of its own, grabbing victims, reassembling them randomly with mutation. Dragging them back to Chirox, whose hand motif is also inspired from the fact that he is the only Makuta who can fully control his Shadow Hand. And Makuta’s spider-like form? It’s attached to something much, MUCH bigger... It is not just a hand metaphorically, it is a literal hand and when Makuta’s lair collapses around him, it reveals the massive figure he is attached to; His whole, true self, a titan more resembling the Chirox we are familiar with.

The others are different angles and facets to approach the myth, the legend of the Makuta; Different re-imaginings, just as people came up with their own G3 and their own take on Makuta. Just like the Makuta contest we had for G2. Vamprah can represent the animalistic side of Makuta; The raging, kicking, screaming beast he was once described as by Vakama. The apex predator, for if his minions are the Rahi beasts, he is the greatest of them all.

Or Bitil! A temporal entity, haunted by his past selves, constantly summoned by his future self. Always going through different iterations, just as a MoC is frequently edited, redone, rebuilt; You can track his transformation, his evolution across his many selves; Makuta represents the existential horror of the timeline, of the way things change. A ghost of the past, and also a vision of the future. If the Vahi is central to the tale of Bionicle as the Mask of Time, what about Makuta as someone who constantly exploits and distorts this force?

Those are some of my initial ideas. Makuta needn’t always be this faceless force of nature, they can be a humanized figure, like Krika, who can be a sympathetic, tragic villain doomed by the narrative, consigned to his role and aware of it as part of a meta discussion; Miserix is the mighty dragon our knights must slay; The Makuta of Stelt, a land of merchants and commerce, the all-consuming force of corporatism that stifles creativity, or a bargaining devil. Gorast is a fanatical priestess hoping to bring in a new age, Mutran the quintessential mad scientist who played god and flew too close to the sun in his obsession.

Spiriah is a corrupt lord seething over his failures, who transformed and resents his people the Skakdi and must be rebelled against; Tridax is a multiversal collector providing commentary on adaptations; The Vortixx hope to harness the ultimate weapon that is Antroz; Kojol is the arcane keeper of knowledge like Lucifer, who stole the Light of enlightenment from the land of thinkers and is burned for it; And Icarax? A completely straightforward dark lord to conquer, as he always intended to be. Each plays the role of Makuta, as the final villain, the ultimate evil who started this conflict, whom our protagonists must rise to eventually vanquish.

[makutas-chronicle]

I'm putting Miserix on Fraudwatch

There's a bit of a to-do about Miserix needing three Makuta to take down, they don't make a super big deal about it, but you're supposed to be impressed when they mention it. But if you look at the crew sent to do the job, a different picture begins to emerge.

We've got Antroz, the only of Teridax' Makuta that refuses to kill anyone, for... personal, reasons.

Krika, local sadboy, will kill but hates doing it, not really jazzed about The Revolution, only here because he's rightly terrified of what the Brotherhood(read: Gorast) will do to him if he refuses.

And Gorast, a vicious opponent, fully willing to die if you go down with her, does not take prisoners, Teridax' #1 fangirl, responsible for at least one genocide- I'd be willing to bet two because Bionicle Cthulhu used to have a faction and she is directly cited as the reason that this is no longer the case.

Taking that into account, the narrative quickly and violently shifts from "it took three Makuta to take Miserix down" to "It took two Makuta to make Gorast stop mauling him long enough to get him in the cell."

[bionic-baby]

Here’s the finished drawing! I finally finished my fanart of Miserix!

Take a good sniff of him. Just a big whiff. What does he smell like?