Foundational list of headcanons that all of my Bionicle fics are written under.
1: Before being placed into the Mask of Life, Mata-Nui was the only component of the Matoran Universe that was functioning as intended. Fully machine, not awake in the slightest.
2: The moral frameworks of the Matoran Universe are mainly constructed around and guided by the fact that every living thing within it were all supposed to be components in a machine. This caused many problems that no one wanted or wants to acknowledge. See: Where Bohrok Shells Come From.
3: Fulfilling one's Destiny is meant to either end your life, or cause a transformation into a non-threatening, unobtrusive form so you can dedicate yourself to providing council and guidance to those who have yet to complete their Tasks.
4: Neither of these things happened to the Makuta, which is what ultimately leads the other races of the Matoran Universe to distrust them so intensely, even long before their turn. They fulfilled their Destiny- balancing Mata-Nui's ecosystems- and now they are unbound by any Task. This state is known as being "Fateless" and there's an uncanny valley sort of wrongness that being around it causes Matoran Universe natives to feel.
5: The Makuta of the prime Matoran Universe were created as beings of shadow, they did not forsake a literal internal light so much as they turned from the guiding light of Mata-Nui's purpose.
6: After the Matoran Civil War got the Makuta assigned more-or-less fiefdoms, most of those Makuta actually took those posts and those under their protection seriously. Even many who would eventually side with Teridax.
7: The Makuta didn't just flip on Miserix at Teridax' whim. Miserix was a legitimately horrible leader and someone was going to get that ball rolling eventually. Teridax is just the one who grabbed the opportunity first.
8: Miserix understood what Mata-Nui was better than anyone else living inside it. It terrified him.
9: The timeline is confusing because every major character being functionally immortal means everybody's got a long time to scheme at each other, so there are long stretches where basically nothing happens between big events. Yet at the same time, the timescale is so huge that anything that happens in the same thousand years might as well have happened in the same week as far as anyone's concerned.
10: The War of Six Kingdoms(Barraki war) was an actual war for everyone involved, even the Makuta, with all that entails. It was not a single scheme or battle.
11: Even in war, for a Toa to kill is a break from the Toa Code, and as such was not socially tolerated.(Yes, this does mean Gali and Onua were fully willing to be ostracized to kill Gorast and Bitil that one time.)
12: Odina was a prison settlement before the Shadowed One conquered it. Think more leper colony than jail.
13: Never gonna be relevant, but just because this plot point pisses me off, the thing about Mata-Nui tricking Teridax into tricking Lhikan into picking the right Matoran to make into Toa didn't happen. Teridax just tricked Lhikan into picking the wrong guys. The Toa Metru weren't Destined to be Toa, and they won anyways. Yes, I know the alternative guys would have been horrible, see headcanons one and two.
14: The stuff about the Red Star being a respawn point didn't happen either. The Red Star is a satellite where- under normal conditions- the Mask of Life is meant to be activated, and can be used as a relay for its power by the Ignika if it decides it needs to do something remotely. Kopaka and Pohatu are fine.
There are tons of other character-specific, location-specific, culture-specific, and event-specific headcanons I've got rattling around, but these are the ones that are the bedrock I build my version of the Bionicle world around.
hi :D I had a question about "You Came Back", do you think Adora is the kind of person to get mad at Catra when she discovers that Catra is a double agent? Or do you think Adora would just immediately forgive her with no hesitation, like she did in canon on the spaceship :0 xxx
It’s all going to depend on how and when she finds out, now isn’t it? No spoilers~
I need. I need people to understand something important about Gavla. They say about her- SEVERAL TIMES- that she doesn't believe in Unity, or anything else, really.
And yet. And yet! When Takua came to "free" her from the Makuta's control she fought, she ran. And once it was over and she'd been freed, she said she belonged there, in the dark, with the Makuta.
She didn't believe in Unity before them. She found hers with them.
And in saving her, the Toa took her away from the only thing she'd ever believed in.
How my Tarnished started her journey: I'm here to kick ass and take names, and I don't care what your name is.
How it's going: I may have just realized that I was a shock trooper for a tyrannical theocratic regime where the only thing separating Holy Battle and Blasphemous Atrocity is who the perpetrator was. So yeah... processing that...
Catra, definitely testing her again, totally not just stressed and lonely: "Can I hang out in your office?"
Angella, passing the test with flying colours: I remember when Glimmer used to come to me like this when she got lonely. "Of course. Want me to talk about nothing to fill the quiet?"
I’d intended to spend all day working on the next chapter, but instead i spent like four hours playing chess against myself to make sure I knew how to get Catra and Angella’s match(which isn’t even going to be described move for move) to play out the way I want it to.
